Andrew Campbell

“You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete” Kalanithi

@Oom_Rugby @CaptSpringbok Absolutely nailed it with calmness, situational awareness, and accuracy 👌 All young players start with trying too hard to make things happen, and appear frantic and error prone. Top players become ruthlessly efficient, and have time on the ball.

@CaptSpringbok I don’t think it is the big stuff , it is more the small stuff. not so much penalties as it is errors. a aggressive inaccurate clean… running with passion but carrying too high.. going for a big shot but biting in on a decoy.. calmness , situational awareness, accuracy.

Question for everyone out there that seriously doubts or dislikes Evan Roos. Does someone like Jan-Hendrik Wessels deserve less game time as a Bok after his recent ban? Jasper Wiese seems to have regular brain farts and can be a penalty machine at times, yet he’s a Bok regular. Then you’ve got Eben, who recently nearly ended his own career with the eye gouge incident. How do you view those players, and why is the standard different for Evan? He’s played every game for the Stormers this season, often close to a full 80 across the URC and Champions Cup. People say his penalty count is high, but last time I checked, his average penalties conceded was still under one per game. Without bringing Hanekom or Trokkie into it, what exactly makes Evan different?

@grok is it possible to provide a conclusive answer that is accurate and unbiased, supported by irrefutable sources, to the question of whether current Israel has a historical right to inhabit the land, or is this debate a do-loop of debatable facts and fiction that will never satisfy either sides?

@grok is this accurate? Please correct and expand on the description. Core historical periods when the region was called Judea - Iron Age (c. 10th century BCE – 586 BCE) — The term originates with the Kingdom of Judah, centered in Jerusalem. This is the earliest political entity associated with the name. - Persian Period (538–332 BCE) — After the Babylonian exile, the Persians administered the area as the Yehud Province, a form of the same name that later evolved into “Judea.” - Hellenistic Period (332–63 BCE) — Under Greek rule (Ptolemies, then Seleucids), the Greek form Ioudaia became standard, referring to both the people and the territory. - Hasmonean Kingdom (140–63 BCE) — An independent Jewish state that expanded the territory still known as Judea. - Roman Period (63 BCE – 135 CE) — Rome used Judaea as the official provincial name, especially after 6 CE when it became a directly governed province. This is the period of Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the New Testament. When the name stopped being used officially - After the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132–136 CE), Rome renamed the province Syria Palaestina to weaken Jewish territorial identity. This marks the end of official use of “Judea” as a provincial name.

Hey @Grok, what was Israel called before it was established in 1948? One word only.

@r0ck3t23 @grok summarise the essence of this so it can be applied to a specific industry and business case

Terence Tao has won every award mathematics can give a human being. Fields Medal. Breakthrough Prize. MacArthur Genius Grant. He is widely regarded as the greatest living mathematician. Not one of. The greatest. He just said something that should terrify every university on Earth. Tao: “We live in a particularly unpredictable era. I think things that we’ve taken for granted for centuries may not hold anymore.” Not years. Not decades. Centuries. The assumptions governing who gets to contribute to knowledge have been in place longer than most nations have existed. Tao just told you those assumptions are dissolving. Tao: “The way we do everything, not just mathematics, will change.” This is not a man who deals in hyperbole. He builds arguments the way he builds proofs. Piece by piece. Nothing unverified. When he says everything, he means everything. Tao: “In math, you previously had to basically go through years and years of education, be a math PhD before you could contribute to the frontier of math research.” That was the contract. You give a decade of your life to an institution. You grind through coursework, committees, dissertation reviews, postdoc rotations. Then maybe you get to touch the boundary of what’s known. The entire system was built on that bottleneck. Time was the gate. Credentials were the key. Tao: “Now it’s quite possible at the high school level that you could get involved in a math project and actually make a real contribution because of all these AI tools.” A high schooler. Contributing to frontier mathematics. The same frontier that used to require a decade of institutional obedience to even approach. He said this about math. He already told you this applies to everything. AI didn’t just speed up the path. It removed the path entirely. The university sold you a ten-year toll road. AI just paved around it overnight. The toll booth operators haven’t realized yet that no one’s coming. Tao: “In many ways, I would prefer the much more boring, quiet era where things are much the same as they were ten years ago, 20 years ago.” This is the line that should haunt you. The smartest mathematician on the planet would rather this wasn’t happening. He is not selling this. He is not positioning himself for a funding round. The acceleration is so violent that even the mind best equipped to process it would prefer it stopped. If Tao is uncomfortable, you should be paying very close attention to your own assumptions about what’s coming. Tao: “The things that you study, some of them may become obsolete or revolutionized, but some things will be retained.” That word “some” is doing enormous work in that sentence. It means the rest won’t be. Entire fields that people spent their careers building will collapse. Not slowly. Not politely. And Tao is telling you he can’t predict which ones survive. Tao: “You should be open to very, very different ways of doing science, some of which don’t exist yet.” Most people will scroll past this. It’s the most important line in the entire clip. He’s not saying learn new tools. He’s not saying adapt your workflow. He’s saying the methods themselves haven’t been invented yet. The frameworks don’t exist. You cannot prepare for what hasn’t been created. You can only build the kind of mind that doesn’t break when the ground shifts beneath it. Tao: “It’s a scary time, but also very exciting.” He said scary first. Every tech founder says exciting first and mentions risk as a footnote. Tao reversed it. When the most brilliant mind of a generation leads with fear and follows with possibility, that is not optimism. That is a man telling you the truth about what’s coming while still choosing to walk toward it. The people who survive the next decade won’t be the ones with the best credentials. They’ll be the ones who stopped mourning the world that was and started building for the one that doesn’t exist yet.

US offers capital, technology and market access but demands geopolitical alignment. China offers infrastructure and investment with no ideological conditions attached. For the ANC, the Chinese model is structurally and politically easier to accept

Will SA be willing to change? the ANC’s ideological core is non-alignment and Global South solidarity, and distancing from China or dropping the ICJ case carries enormous internal political cost Will SA be able to deliver even if willing? This is harder

The US State Dept published its “America First in Africa” policy this week. Worth reading, because it is less a strategy document and more a set of conditions. Question is: will South Africa pay attention state.gov/releases/burea…

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@aplantema @ChalynRugby 🤣

@ChalynRugby Dave Rennie or Jamie Joseph.

Let’s have some fun !! Springboks fans, if Rassie Erasmus decided to step away tomorrow, who’s your first call to take over the Springboks ? *You can pick any current coach in the world, doesn’t matter who they’re coaching right now. 👀 #Springboks #Rugby #SouthAfrica

@KeithKandrews @JeremyClarkson Keith, Looking serious! Enjoy the 30th. Incredible how time flies

⁦@JeremyClarkson⁩ Not a kak beer Jeremy! Cheers to Hawkstone Lager

@MikeZaccardi What site/data service are these?

10yr yields under control this morning

Reporter Tom to Gregor Townsend: ‘can’t remember the crowd booing the team off the pitch… not even in the Matt Williams era.’ Williams furiously preparing next statement that Rassie is the devil & Scottish rugby was actually world-class under his visionary leadership in 2004-05

@Slipcatch I toured Argentina with WP Defence U20 in 1984, while SA Defence also toured, with Naas Botha at flyhalf, reintegrating after playing US NFL for Dallas Cowboys

Now I've learnt something new. Thank you Andrew!!

@stephenjones9 @Slipcatch the Pampas XV won the Currie Cup First Division in 2019. Over 20 SA-led tours, countless coaching exchanges, and deliberate integration into elite structures - all ignored by a “rugby scribe blinded by bias. South Africa didn’t just play Argentina; it worked with them to grow

@stephenjones9 @Slipcatch South African rugby has been instrumental in Argentina’s rise for over 50 years. In 1965, legendary coach Izak van Heerden was sent by Danie Craven to Buenos Aires, where he lived for years, learned Spanish, and invented the “tight loose” forward play that defined the Pumas

No-one ever lifted a finger to help Argentine rugby. Kicked out of Super Rugby. None of their players based at home. They must be exhausted. But they play great and stylish rugby. Sporting nobility.

@stephenjones9 @meaniepants_Esq SA invited Argentine sides into Currie Cup and SA Cup competitions, and in 2012 SARU actively lobbied for Argentina’s inclusion in The Rugby Championship—a move that professionalised the Pumas. The Jaguares joined Super Rugby with SA support, reaching the 2019 final

@meaniepants_Esq Rubbish

@stephenjones9 From the 1930s to 1970s, Junior Springboks and Gazelles toured Argentina repeatedly, providing high-level opposition when few others would. In the 1980s, amid global isolation, South Africa hosted the South American Jaguars (90% Argentine) three times, giving them test experience