Chris Roper

@skelmkeys on who has the power to decide what is real. “The machine has learned. It has eaten the textbooks, ingested the syllabi, processed the case law and diagnostic manuals and source code, and it is now capable of performing, at speed and without error, the codified knowledge that an entire generation of Black and brown families was told was the path to safety. Doctor. Lawyer. Engineer. Computer scientist. The credentialed. The ones who made it through the narrow door of a knowledge economy built by one civilisation to serve itself — always contingent, it turns out, on that civilisation’s continued authority to define what knowledge was.” open.substack.com/pub/nkhensanim…

@TamboerZA Unfortunately, AI slop has entered the equation. Not everyone can become a journalist, but anyone can pretend to be one.

@ChrisRoper The influence is very bad but the greed that caused it is equally frightning. Don't journalists get paid for writing articles? 42 articles. Are editors obsolete? Can anyone become a journalist this way?

@cathjenkin @DasenThathiah @AlsParamedics @eNCA That’s a lot of stupidity!

@ChrisRoper @DasenThathiah @AlsParamedics @eNCA Please? I will buy 7.

A man has been shot dead while allegedly trying to rob an SAPS member in Durban.  According to @AlsParamedics , the suspect, in his twenties, sustained a gunshot wound to the head. The scene on Botanic Gardens Road is still active.  @eNCA

@cathjenkin @DasenThathiah @AlsParamedics @eNCA I need to make t-shirts.

@DasenThathiah @AlsParamedics @eNCA He was trying to rob a policeman?! In KZN? Stupidity is its own reward, as @ChrisRoper taught me.

@zakareeee And this one. I wrote about her recent lecture on “fake news” at UCT. financialmail.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026-0…

oh it’s this paula slier

@WildPasts_ @Dplanet @louistheroux Genius.

@Dplanet Dying to watch the Myron riposte as a doccie *he* makes to correct @louistheroux . Suggested title: Mansplairosphere

Myron acting like he uncovered some grand conspiracy because a documentary was edited is hilarious. Yes mate, that’s how documentaries work. Nobody had to set you up. You opened your mouth and did the job yourself.

The strategic importance of Dubai cannot be underestimated… It’s a concentrated holding pen for 98% of the world’s fucking idiots.

What this ruling means is that Afriforum, Solidarity, Saai etc. cannot lie anymore with their chests out. Journalism did that for this country. Akkerland: ‘No inaccuracy and no contravention of the press code,’ says Judge Ngoepe news24.com/investigations… via @news24

East Africa's richest man has just bought East Africa’s biggest media company sparking real fears for the future of press independence in the subregion semafor.com/article/03/13/… via @SemaforAfrica

@HenriettaRI @dbbovey Amazing.

@dbbovey Thanks Darrel xx

I'm not posting on here much now & not sure how many people will see this, but: 5 years cancer checkup all clear. It's good.

I wrote about this photo of the graves being dug for the over 168 people, mostly 7-12 yr-old schoolgirls, killed in the US bombing in Iran. We're fed pre-Islamic photos of freedom, and post '79 photos of oppression. This is a photo of a narrative unmoored, of evil as an economy. (Possible paywall) financialmail.businessday.co.za/features/2026-…

“At least $2 billion has been spent by 11 African governments on Chinese-built surveillance technology that recognises faces and monitors movements.” theguardian.com/global-develop…

🚨We’ve launched the africanDRONE World Drone Map, a new platform designed to make the global drone ecosystem easier to navigate. Regulations, verified contacts, companies, resources, and news, all in one place. ✈️worlddronemap.com

📢Are you a journalist based in Southern Africa and want to strengthen your capacity to conduct open-source investigations? Apply for the African Academy for Open Source Investigation Fellowship. ENG:cfa.fyi/nXdhWnr FR:cfa.fyi/iuTnSEO 🗓️Closing date: 12 March

I spent the last few weeks analyzing a network of dating profiles featuring attractive senior women, wealthy singles, and niche romance communities. There’s just one problem. Most of the people in the images don’t exist. 🧵 A thread on our latest @Graphika report:

@spopalzai I send you one Slack message after 5 years of silence, and suddenly you’re back on my X timeline. Truly, we live in strange times.

Is this the wildest top artists of the month or what

Jesse Welles.“Bomb ’em to hell, beat all the thugs / That Palantir’s one hell of a drug / Government contractors salivating / There’s real good money in a liberation / Same playbook as two thousand and three / Looks familiar to you, looks familiar to me / Sometimes you get out your B-2s / And go bomb Iran.”

When Messi and Son came to MLS, they brought their many followers with them. Meet the player you (might not) have heard of who boosted the Chicago Fire's social media following by more than half a million people. The Mbokazi Effect. nytimes.com/athletic/70760…

The smell of napalm in the morning currencynews.co.za/the-smell-of-n… via @currencynewsza