Lance Witten

@JoyfulChronicle @BlueSkye0000 @IOL_Lifestyle @SAPoliceService @lee_rondganger @reneemoodie Thanks for bringing this to my attention. We will investigate these claims.

@BlueSkye0000 @IOL_Lifestyle @SAPoliceService @lee_rondganger @reneemoodie @LanceTheWitten why post about an unscrupulous business man. I saw his complaints on fb too and Google reviews from staff

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This just isn’t rugby. Come to South Africa 🫡 #NFLonNetflix

The fact that White people in New Zealand and Australia are constantly irritated by White South Africans will forever be funny 🤣🤣

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

Join us tomorrow for the @INMAorg #Africa Audience Development Summit. Register here: inma.org/modules/event/…

Wow… 150,000 views in under 48 hours. I’m speechless. ❄️❤️ Thank you all for the incredible support of Snow Bear. This hand-drawn film was a true labor of love, and seeing it connect with so many people around the world is a dream. If you haven’t watched it yet, here it is: 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=xOXolS… Grateful beyond words. - Aaron #animation #indiefilm #family #handdrawn #snowbear #2DAnimation #Artnose

I want to be able to praise @abbydphillip for dunking on this ignorant racism. But we all know that the man spouting this stuff doesn’t truly believe it and knows nothing about South Africa. CNN knows this as well. This man is cynically put on for the racial mud wrestling that gets clicks.

@Tammy_Nonganga @DavidMashabela The point is to highlight the ability they have to spin their good governance narrative - if this is not the leadership/government we want, we need to urge voters to go out and prove me wrong 🫡

@DavidMashabela @LanceTheWitten His crazy, 5/8 metros?, they will be lucky to even retain cape town with the PA taking all the colored votes

SA's politics sit on layers of unhealed trauma and today we dive into how that affects our voting patterns. At 12PM, @LanceTheWitten unpacks why the DA continues to attract black voters and what this reveals about our democracy. Watch the episode here 👇 youtu.be/BE0u9cjiSWY?si…

@S_Gwiliza If it’s not the leadership or government we want, we need to urge voters to go out and prove me wrong 🫡

Are you predicting that the DA will win 5 metros ? @LanceTheWitten

Track this motherfucker down. Not because this is my Aunty he knocked down, but because he needs to face justice.

As in “rugby lite”?

The #G20 controls most of the world’s wealth – yet its corporations still profit from child labour in agriculture, mining and manufacturing iol.co.za/news/opinion/2… #G20SouthAfrica cc @carienduplessis @Trevornoah @ferialhaffajee @MaxduPreez @adriaanbasson @Poplak @BBCAfrica

The shift of SA politics continues. Tomorrow on #KingDavidStudio, @LanceTheWitten explores how historic trauma shapes voter behaviour & how the DA uses it to its advantage. Why do so many Black voters back the DA? Premieres 19 Nov, 11AM 🔔: @kingdavidstudio1?si=u5Huuu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@kingdavidstud…

Voetsek Errol Musk.

Congratulations, Mr Mayor @ZohranKMamdani, my cousin from another auntie

Sasha is King 👑

Go get your @TheCapeArgus today!