Lebeko Sello

[Biometric Update @BiometricUpdate]

Jordan and Rwanda have signed an agreement to share expertise on digital ID and public services. Their planned cooperation also covers AI, cybersecurity, digital payments and interoperability.

#DigitalIdentity #DigitalGovernment

https://t.co/SOuOeUtiQ9

[Kananelo Boloetse @YourKayBol]

The High Court has ruled that the LEWA and the Lesotho LEC were not required to make available the audited financial statements for the financial year ending 31 March 2023 during the public consultations held in February 2024.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink V3 satellites have >10X bandwidth of V2 and there’ll be >10X launched, which means >100X more bandwidth.

Also, altitude will be 350km vs 550km, so min latency can be cut in half.

Light travels 300km/ms in space, so physics round trip min latency drops to <5ms.

[Yasir Ai @AiwithYasir]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

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[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@Smongana Yes!

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@SaadatNajafova @Wealth_Pill Grok

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@FitFusion__ China

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@niccruzpatane This is not novel, been done before. First time with automobiles though.

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@Longevity_EDU Cookbook

[Tebalo Lebajoa🇱🇸 @LebajoaTebalo]

I am proud of this multi-talented fellow Ngoana Nkhono Mapoho. I have known Mr. Seisa Mohapi as a brilliant student in class and one of the best midfielders to ever play for CKHS. Joale hake 'mona a bapalisa Gusheshe tjena ke hlomoha pelo.. Keep up the good work bro..🩷🇱🇸

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@Ntate_Lenkoe @Kay405Kay @grok kena kelellong ea @Ntate_Lenkoe qapa pina ea strike.

[Michael Jordaan @MichaelJordaan]

So Eskom prices will go up 8,8% in both 2026 and 2027. Creates more incentive to install solar. Especially for daytime power users. https://t.co/whSo5cIqdQ

[Rapelang Radebe @ntateRaps]

Been playing around with the ⁦@Starlink⁩ mini. I’m going to say this again… the concept of experiencing download speeds of more than 300mbp/s in the Maluti Range is mind blowing!!! Looking forward to streaming the arrival of 2nd #TBM on Saturday. ⁦@Sophie_Mokoena⁩

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink now available in Lesotho!

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records https://t.co/IbP3PfPX7u

[Kenny Kunene @Kenny_T_Kunene]

I hear that this is called THE GREAT TSEK. They will want to come back in less than a year. The question is, should they be allowed to come back after embarrassing our country?

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@SAfmRadio @kzncogta Did I hear him say “ I'm not a sangoma..” when being asked about relocating people to a flood plain?

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@RealDoctorC @KhosiMalie The issue is not to create a privilege for MPs. Its about leverage. I want to demonstrate taking parliament and senate off-grid. It makes the conversation about schools easier. Especially when it comes to budgeting and approving which schools. Start with the end in mind.

[Lebeko Sello @lsello]

@KhosiMalie @RealDoctorC Does not immediately lead to changes in mindset. This the bitter pill that facilitates policy coherence.