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@FedixM @rodcampsbay Think about it. The 2022 census says whites are 7.3% of the population and IEC says 16 ,290,760 people voted in 2024. That's ~1,189,760 whites. Deduct the 455,657 for FF+ (likely all white) and we get ~733,568 white voters and ~10% of the 6,961,361 votes for DA. Who's the 90%?

One of the best examples I’ve ever seen of an interviewer knowing when to say nothing at all. Beautifully played by @piersmorgan.

It took me almost 20 years, but I finally found some time to begin turning my computer history series into a book, well, more than one is the plan. Volume (Byte) 01 is out now as an eBook in SA. Print is on Amazon in the US, UK and other places.

@MbuyiseniNdlozi I expected better than a nonsensical word salad from you Mbuyiseni. Your "liberal right-wing forces" a total non sequitur.

This country & society benefits NOTHING with Malema in prison. NOTHING! Not on those charges! His voice is crucial right inside Parliament. We can’t give way to liberal right-wing forces to dominate. AfriForum must NOT WIN! Ngxa!

@otokyo__ 19. We didn't have Blockbuster in my country but we did have video rental and I did use our local ones. But as a good friend keeps telling me: I'm fucking old.

6 for me!! I feel confident nobody Has all 20 How many for you?

Singapore’s Foreign Minister on why he cannot accept negotiating with Iran for safe passage of ships. Definitely worth listening to:

maybe they didn't recognize each other with their clothes on

For years, Canada sent 70 cents of every defence dollar straight to the United States. Mark Carney just told Parliament that stops now. The room gave him a standing ovation. It is a striking thing to get a standing ovation for announcing that your country will stop subsidising someone else’s arms industry. But that is where Canada is in 2025. Carney’s case is blunt: the United States is “beginning to monetize its hegemony, charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contributions to collective security.”   And MAGA is celebrating. Winning. Always winning. USA, USA. Somewhere a man in a red hat is pumping his fist. Let me explain what is actually happening, because clearly no one has bothered. In ten months, the United States has torched eighty years of alliance architecture that its own soldiers, diplomats and taxpayers built from the rubble of the Second World War. Eighty years. Gone. Detonated, with a smile, by people who genuinely believe this is genius. Canada is not drifting away. Canada is leaving. Europe is not hedging. Europe is building a defence industry specifically designed to cut Washington out. Allies are not quietly grumbling over dinner. They are signing contracts with other people. And the MAGA faithful are cheering every single step of it, because someone told them this is what dominance looks like. It is not dominance. It is a man burning down his own house and whooping at the flames. The saddest part is not that America is losing its allies. The saddest part is that half the country thinks that is the point.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

What do you think? 😎

@misumuzi_4 "First to deplete English data bundles."

🎈‼️🔥 Sergeant Fannie Nkosi now holds multiple all-time records at the Madlanga Commission: 1. Longest-testifying witness 2. First to switch from virtual to in-person proceedings 3. First to deplete English data bundles 4. First to drink less and take more bathroom breaks 5. First to “destroy” Tshwane Metro #MadlangaCommission

The Spreadsheet and Infographic that Advocate Chaskalson prepared and sent to Carrim's lawyers, which is causing all this drama from his legal team, reveals a breakdown of amounts of R336 million transactions of payments from Municipalities in which Carrim is ANC Treasurer, to various companies owned by him. Advocate said they can take the time to go through it with him, every single transaction if they so wish. Then he must come and answer. My God these people are corrupt!! 😭 #MadlangaCommision

Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Imagine calling readers of The Lord of the Rings, Paradise Lost, or Leviathan extremists. That would mean the real threat is people who still read. At that point you might as well add The Iliad, The Divine Comedy, and The Republic to the list. Because when a civilization starts treating its greatest books as suspicious, it’s declaring a war on its own memory.

@RomanCabanac Wife been smacking you around again, has she?

Feminism has been so co-opted by capital that feminists argue women should spend more time with their work colleagues than their own children. Nothing new of course but still.

Americans: We have the most advanced country in the world. Also Americans:

dailyfriend.co.za/2026/03/02/a-r… Great column by @IvoVegter today. We all have friends who're politically foolish (or stupid).

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

It’s cool that Salman Rushdie has outlived 2 Ayatollahs.

Dario Amodei just gave his first interview since the Pentagon blacklisted his company. The toll is visible on his face. He was asked one question. What would you say to the President right now? He didn’t hesitate. Amodei: “We are patriotic Americans. Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country.” Anthropic built their models to defend America. They were the first AI lab cleared for classified military systems. They wanted to help the warfighter. But the Pentagon demanded unrestricted access to fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens. Amodei drew the line. The government responded with emergency Cold War powers. A supply chain designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries. A six-month federal phaseout ordered from Truth Social. Amodei: “When we were threatened with supply chain designation and Defense Production Act, which are unprecedented intrusions into the private economy, we exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government.” The administration framed Anthropic’s refusal as anti-American. Amodei’s response dismantled that framing in one sentence. Amodei: “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.” Here is the deeper paradox nobody in Washington wants to say out loud. We are in a geopolitical race against autocratic adversaries who use AI for mass surveillance of their own citizens and autonomous weapons with no human oversight. The Pentagon demanded that Anthropic build those exact capabilities for America. Amodei: “The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values.” You cannot defeat authoritarianism by adopting its methods. You cannot defend the open society by forcing private companies to build its antithesis under threat of wartime emergency powers. Anthropic held the line. Got blacklisted for it. And came out the other side saying the same thing they said going in. That is what it actually looks like to mean it.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.