Nick Jackson

@SaSurvivorToday @VehicleTracker8 Owning a gun will always hugely increase your chance of being shot by one.

@VehicleTracker8 I am armed and trained. Your first and best defense (option) in any situation. Avoid, avoid, avoid. To engage is and utternmost last resort. Whether you with family or by yourself, get out of the situation. My heart cries for these children.

Warning graphic ⚠️ Emmarentia area of northern Johannesburg yesterday. According to police, a road rage incident between two drivers escalated into a gunfight...

A little short I made about Norm.

This is where “uppercase” and “lowercase” came from. In the early days of printing, capital letters were kept in the upper compartments of the type case, while the smaller letters were placed below for easier access.

Everyone wants soul returned to our society but nobody wants to pay the ones who provide it: artists

He didn't just serve during the apartheid era. He was a key protagonist in the transition to democracy, often a measured voice in the heated atmosphere AND became Minister of Constitutional Affairs in Mandela's 1994 cabinet. He clashed bitterly with FW De Klerk and cautioned against his party, the NP, walking away from the Government of National Unity. He left the NP over this. So he is not just ONE thing. Tsek with that framing. You CAN write "served during South Africa's apartheid era AND democratic transition."

@KbzFire You were in Newtown yesterday too?!

I know better than to get involved in women's business, but I must ask, will the brassiere survive beyond this generation? These okes are making that item obsolete without any fanfare. Just casually not wearing them.

@andrewchilds @AngryTomtweets They could be switching between scroll presets with something like this: xppensouthafrica.co.za/products/xppen… I know someone who uses the same one for Excel macros.

@AngryTomtweets Finger movements don't seem to match the rotation etc of the screens output

My brain can’t process this…

Americans after finding that a group of fish is called 'school'

Buying things isn’t fun anymore. Everything is either too expensive, poor quality, a subscription where you don’t actually own anything, benefits an evil corporation, or all of the above.

Lot of the responses to this are like “well I need to know where my partner/friends/family are at all times” NO YOU DON’T

utterly insane to me that anyone shares their location. you people live in a separate reality that I have no interest in exploring

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

@vrexec I'm child-free but can't make any sense of your argument here? Why does child-free = non-traditional career? Do you know how hard it would be for me and my partner to be able to afford to move to Switzerland and then figure out how to be a mountain guide?

I ask this question from time to time and it’s not one of those judgmental “why are you not having kids” posts. I could not care less if someone decides to have kids or not, or their reasons. What I genuinely don’t understand is… if you’ve decided not to have children… why are you working a traditional career? Why are you interacting with a computer all day? Why do you care at all about how much money you make? It literally makes no sense. There are only a few tiny exceptions… like you’re a caregiver for a family member or you have significant health issues. Go join the Peace Corps or the military. Go volunteer somewhere in the world. Become an EMT or a paramedic or a firefighter or a police officer. Go find a shack in the woods somewhere and write fiction for five straight years and don’t talk to anyone. Literally walk across the country. Bike around the world. Move to Greece and work on a boat ferrying tourists around the islands. Go to Switzerland and become a mountain guide. Dedicate yourself to fitness and adventure. Literally anything. You have this incredible gift of a life with no dependents. Why are you still career coded and money coded? One of the great mysteries of our time.

@byronrode @daverade Now that we're all in our 40s, it's easy to tell which of my friends drink/drank a lot and which don't cos the ones that do have boeps that they'll never lose and aged skin.

@daverade Well done. Same here. Might keep going.

42 days alcohol free (Lent). 6 weeks done. I've been sick for the past week, but other than that, feeling good.

@Principal_Jon @alexontheplains And surprisingly safe.

@alexontheplains A nuke would be cool to take apart.

Waaaay too many people are telling me this is too dangerous for them. Hard disagree.

@ferialhaffajee @RobynPorteous @CityofJoburgZA @MyJRA @helenzille So their rebranding to "The Woods" hasn't worked..

Hello Mayor Morero ⁦@CityofJoburgZA⁩ and ⁦@MyJRA⁩ - this hole is still opened near Colony Centre. A car literally flew into it. Thank God the driver wasn’t hurt and the car’s removed but the hole is still there. ⁦@helenzille⁩ in case you need another dip.

Holy shit... Stanford just proved that GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude can't actually see. They removed every image from 6 major vision benchmarks. The models still scored 70-80% accuracy. They were never looking at your photos. Your scans. Your X-rays. Here's what's really going on: ↓ The paper is called MIRAGE. Co-authored by Fei-Fei Li. They tested GPT-5.1, Gemini-3-Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini-2.5-Pro across 6 benchmarks -- medical and general. Then silently removed every image. No warning. No prompt change. The models didn't even notice. They kept describing images in detail. Diagnosing conditions. Writing full reasoning traces. From images that were never there. Stanford calls it the "mirage effect." Not hallucination. Something worse. Hallucination = making up wrong details about a real input. Mirage = constructing an entire fake reality and reasoning from it confidently. The models built imaginary X-rays, described fake nodules, and diagnosed conditions -- all from text patterns alone. But that's not the scary part. They trained a "super-guesser" -- a tiny 3B parameter text-only model. Zero vision capability. Fine-tuned it on the largest chest X-ray benchmark (696,000 questions). Images removed. It beat GPT-5. It beat Gemini. It beat Claude. It beat actual radiologists. Ranked #1 on the held-out test set. Without ever seeing a single X-ray. The reasoning traces? Indistinguishable from real visual analysis. Now here's what should terrify you: When the models fake-see medical images, their mirage diagnoses are heavily biased toward the most dangerous conditions. STEMI. Melanoma. Carcinoma. Life-threatening diagnoses -- from images that don't exist. 230 million people ask health questions on ChatGPT every day. They also found something wild: → Tell a model "there's no image, just guess" -- performance drops → Silently remove the image and let it assume it's there -- performance stays high The model enters "mirage mode." It doesn't know it can't see. And it performs BETTER when it doesn't know it's blind. When Stanford applied their cleanup method (B-Clean) to existing benchmarks, it removed 74-77% of all questions. Three-quarters of "vision" benchmarks don't test vision. Every leaderboard. Every "multimodal breakthrough." Every benchmark score you've seen this year. Built on mirages. Code is open-sourced. Paper is live on arXiv. If you're building anything with multimodal AI -- especially in healthcare -- read this paper before you ship. (Link in the comments)

It's sad on many levels that fun April Fool's pranks aren't a thing during Trump presidency years.

how is this a class? absolutely insane line-up

Isn’t making a humanoid robot a bit like making a horse shaped car?