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What happens when technology is applied in environments with tough challenges?...we will soon find out when the #SmartTownship becomes a reality in #Stellies....fastcompany.co.za/inspiration/in…

MY VIEW IN DUBAI RIGHT NOW 💥 #Dubai I’ve 1000% never seen anything like this, wtf.

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@phakie101 @mncanem Congratulations Phakie, can’t wait to read….

The cat is out of the bag. This book uses a case study to show: 1) Entrepreneurship & B-BBEE aren't strange bed fellows 2) B-BBEE adds value to the economy (skills, jobs, profits) 3) B-BBEE firms can be influential & control without being passive. 4) Weaknesses highlighted too.

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.@emirates has resumed flights to #SouthAfrica🇿🇦....Cape Town and JHB (today and tomorrow). Hopefully they'll add more flights in the coming days. Please alert others in the UAE (Dubai).

I’ve just watched the #AfricanRenaissance podcast interview with Trevor Manuel hosted by @MbuyiseniNdlozi …it’s filled with important SA history, Economics and leadership insights … Worth A Watch if you are into understanding stuff

Currently attending the DID: UNCONF AFRICA where the Digital Identity Gap in Africa will be discussed at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS) - #DIDUNCOFAFRICA

AI can now generate images more beautiful than anything most humans could make. Sam Altman just explained why nobody cares. Altman: “The value that people put on that effectively rounds to zero.” Not less valuable. Zero. A flawlessly generated AI image, technically superior to almost anything a human could produce, valued at nothing. When visual perfection becomes instantly available to everyone, it stops being scarce. And when it stops being scarce, it stops being valuable. The scarcity that gave art its worth was never the beauty. It was the human who made it. Altman: “Without the person effectively signing their name to it, we seem to not care.” That sentence is the entire shift compressed into one line. We don’t consume art. We consume the person behind it. The struggle. The intention. The specific human consciousness that decided this particular thing should exist. AI can replicate the output. It cannot replicate the origin. Altman points out that if an artist uses AI as a tool but still has something they were trying to express, the work retains its value. The human intention is the product. The image is just how it arrives. Remove the person and the beauty becomes noise. This is what nobody building AI art tools fully absorbed. They optimized for the output and assumed the output was what people valued. It wasn’t. It was never the pixels. It was always the person. AI isn’t going to replace human artists. It’s going to do something more disorienting. It’s going to make technical skill irrelevant and force the entire market to pay for something that was always there but never had to be named. Presence. Intention. Proof that a human consciousness cared enough to make this particular thing. Abundance makes perfection free. Meaning becomes the only scarcity worth paying for. And meaning can’t be automated. Because meaning requires a consciousness choosing to say something specific to someone specific for reasons that matter. The artists who survive won’t be the most technically gifted. They’ll be the most undeniably human. AI gave the world infinite art and proved that what we actually want is irreplaceable.

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#Upscrolled is the most powerful answer to the TikTok takeover

@aycawe @MbuyiseniNdlozi @TMPublishers Halala, ndiyavuyisana nawe mfowethu

Today we go to print. ‘New’ Settler or ‘Old’ Tenant? will be available in a bookstore near you, in the next few weeks.

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