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@Mufasa0062 Biggest problem is Public Works not repairing broken equipment.

South Africans are praising Minister Dr Pieter Groenewald and the Department of Correctional Services after new images showed inmates actively involved in farming, livestock production and rehabilitation programs inside correctional facilities.

@CTMarathon What mobile app can we use to track the athletes?

MARATHON ENTRIES ARE SOLD OUT! ✨ All 24,000 spots for the 2025 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon distance are officially taken, marking our third sell-out in a row and our biggest yet.

@runningmann100 The number collection setup is very impressive this year. Lots of pleasant young people serving us.

FEEL FREE TO BUG A BOARD MEMBER Lovely article covering the 5 board members who will be running the ultra on Saturday: twooceansmarathon.org.za/leading-by-exa… Feel free to chat to any of us along the route with your questions/improvement ideas (just hold your thoughts up Constantia Nek please).

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This is wild. MIT researchers proved you can make ChatGPT review and improve its own work using self-critique prompting. I've been using it for 3 months and it completely changed my results. Here are 8 prompts that actually work:

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In 2018, Stanford professor Matt Abrahams gave a masterclass on why most people fail to communicate well. He broke down: - The structure every message needs - Why audiences stop listening - The psychology of attention 15 lessons that'll make your communication unforgettable:

@Simon_Ingari Poor planning, incompetent management expecting to be rescued by unpaid overtime.

A friend of mine hired a young employee in her department, 21 years old. Yesterday he told me: “Can you imagine—it's the end of the month, reports are due, everything is hectic, and this young girl stands up exactly at 6:00 PM and starts getting ready to leave. When I told her it would be good to finish the report since it has to be submitted tomorrow, she replied: ‘My working day is until six, and I plan my personal matters accordingly. I’m not obligated to stay late. Organize the work properly so that people don’t have to sit in the office in the evenings.’ She turned around and left. I’m in SHOCK! Is this what the so-called “healthy boundaries” of Generation Z look like now, or is it just immaturity and unwillingness to work?”

@SamanthaTaghoy @grok do they normally sing

The Iranian women’s national football team refused to sing the anthem of the Islamic Regime. Tonight. At the opening match of the Asian Cup. In front of the entire world. So, to all liberal Western women: Watch and learn. THIS is what real feminism looks like.

Again, Islamists are mass reporting my account for posting about the killing of Christians, for refusing to convert to Islam and other Christian persecution. They can’t silence my voice. Please drop a heart, or say something & RT to revive my page

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I’ve reviewed hundreds of blood panels where the doctor said: “Your liver’s fine.” It wasn’t. Your liver is where metabolic disease starts. Here’s how to know whether yours is burning fat or storing it:

According to Devyn Cousineau of the BC Human Rights Tribunal, this is hate speech and I am violating the BC Human Rights Code by posting this. You will be too, if you repost this. Will you let Cousineau's implicit threat of a massive fine scare you into silence?

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NEW: “I’ve been covering this controversy for about a decade from a left-of-center perspective, and I’ve found that anyone who questions these treatments, even mildly, is invariably accused of bigotry.” 🧵on @jessesingal’s important new piece in the New York Times this morning.

Spilling the AGP t ☕️ We launched a week ago today! We would love to get to 400 followers by tonight Please share one of our posts and help us reach our target! Transwomen are men and most are autogynephiles Stay Alert 👀

@Sosie2 You have the right to walk naked down the street, but would you? You have the right to be refused service also. And the right to walk out empty-handed.

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🚨 SHOCKING Scientists just proved that you have never touched anything in your entire life What you feel as "touch" is a lie your brain tells you At atomic level, physical contact is impossible Implications? Terrifying A thread on perception, control, and reality:🧵

@KrisztinaMaria Sounds like the omnibus bills in the US Congress

EU Follow-up❗️ The recent vote in the EU, which included wording about gender and biological definitions, and where a majority voted against the position that only biological women can become pregnant, has sparked debate… with good reason! But it is not only the result of the vote that raises questions. It is the way it takes place. In the EU, large comprehensive packages are often voted on. Several very different issues are gathered into one single text, and you can only vote yes or no to the entire thing. You cannot vote point by point. This means widely accepted elements and highly controversial ideological changes can be bundled together. Even if many disagree with one specific point, it can still pass because the majority supports the rest of the package. It does not feel like transparency, but rather like a political tactic. When fundamental questions about gender, biology and definitions are embedded in larger compromises, they do not receive the independent and open debate they deserve. This is where, in my view, it begins to resemble manipulation. Because the consequence is that normative changes happen without clear and isolated decision-making. When, for example, gender in official documents and political texts is gradually loosened from biological definitions and made more flexible or linguistically neutral, it changes the way we talk about reality. Language matters. Words carry great power. If biological categories are downplayed or replaced with broader formulations, it affects public debate and the framework within which we understand society. This is not about denying that people experience themselves differently. It is about whether biological realities should continue to be the foundation of legislation and official texts. When that debate is not taken openly and directly, but instead packaged into broad agreements, it creates a slippery slope. Not because the world collapses tomorrow, but because norms change gradually and without voters being given a clear opportunity to take a position on that specific issue. We see it as well in climate and energy packages, economic relief packages, immigration and asylum reforms, digital regulations and surveillance issues, military or security agreements, and so on. And I believe this is a huge problem, because it slowly but surely undermines and dissolves everything our strong foundation is built upon. The only way to stop all of this is for the majority across Europe to raise their voices and create the necessary counter-pressure - the kind that cannot simply be ignored. In the end, the people hold the power. But that requires them to take responsibility, instead of sitting at home binge-watching Netflix with their hand in a bag of chips, silently watching while the world falls apart around them. Get up.🦍💃🪽❤️‍🔥

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BREAKING: You can now fact-check anything in real time using AI. Here are 10 Perplexity prompts that verify claims, check sources, and find the truth faster than anyone: (Save for later):

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Google Gemini is the smartest AI right now. But 90% of people prompt it like ChatGPT. That's why I made the Gemini Mastery Guide: → How Gemini thinks differently → Prompts built for Gemini → 2000+ AI Prompts Comment "Gemini" and I'll DM it free.