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Post by @HeinzZzA
@heinzzza · 2d ago
The truth about SA inequality: • Black vs Black (81% pop): Gini ~0.60 → extreme • White vs White (7% pop): Gini ~0.36 → moderate • White vs Black: ~0.23 → low Gini: 0 = perfect equality 1 = one person has all. Today the biggest driver of SA’s world #1 inequality is the massive gap inside the black majority. NOT between white vs black. How's that BEE working out for you? BEE is a scam! The racial ratios (11:1) can never achieve a Gini of 0.3. There's simply not enough white people in South Africa to balance BEE numbers. It's actually so obvious. Politicians are lying to 🫵🏼 you!
Post by @CommonSense_ZA
@CommonSense_ZA · 5d ago
The South African Communist Party has confirmed it will contest the next local elections separately from the ANC, but it isn’t leaving the Tripartite Alliance. Analysts say this shows the SACP is trying to rebuild independent strength while keeping its seat at the table. Historically, voters haven’t rewarded the party for going solo, so its gamble could backfire. #SouthAfricanPolitics #SACP #ANC #TripartiteAlliance #LocalElections #TheCommonSense
Post by @RiseAgainstEvil
@RiseAgainstEvil · 5d ago
Yes, reparations are due. On 6 February 1838, Piet Retief walked into Dingaan’s kraal. Retief had negotiated a written land grant from Dingaan in exchange for recovering cattle allegedly stolen by the Tlokoa chief Sekonyela. Retief succeeded, returned the cattle, and attended a farewell celebration. Dingaan smiled, toasted the deal, then gave the order: “Bulalani abathakathi!” Kill the wizards. Retief and his hundred men were clubbed to death on a hill while the Zulu king watched. Retief died last, forced to see his own son murdered first. Days later, Zulu impis wiped out entire Voortrekker camps at Bloukrans; over five hundred dead, half of them children speared in their wagons. The written treaty granting Natal land to the Boers still exists. Dingaan’s betrayal is not a myth; it’s signed, witnessed, and sealed in blood. Fast-forward to 2025. South Africa’s political class trips over itself to catalogue every historical injustice, except this one. When the topic is slavery, dispossession, or apartheid, the demand is always the same: acknowledge, apologise, pay. Fair enough. Principles are principles. So let’s apply them without the selective amnesia. The Boers are still waiting. Reparations owed, by the same yardstick everyone else loves to wave around: 1. A formal state admission that Dingaan’s treaty was legitimate and its violation through premeditated massacre was an act of war and treachery. 2. An unequivocal apology from the Zulu royal house, on camera, no hedging, mirroring every other apology extracted for lesser or later sins. 3. The massacre sites at kwaMatiwane and Bloukrans declared national heritage sites with honest plaques: “Here a king broke his word and murdered guests under a flag of truce.” 4. Equal public commemoration: 6 February and the Bloukrans killings listed alongside Sharpeville, Soweto, and every other date carved into the national conscience. 5. Tangible restitution: a slice of northern KwaZulu-Natal farmland, originally ceded in that betrayed treaty, returned to Boer cultural trusts or their direct descendants. Call it “corrective asymmetry” if the phrase makes the paperwork easier. Until that happens, spare us the lectures about restorative justice. You don’t get to cherry-pick which massacres matter and which treaties were “just colonial paper.” Dingaan’s signature is as real as any other historical document South Africa swears by. The Boers haven’t forgotten. Perhaps it’s time the rest of the country stopped pretending they should.
Post by @TheHackersNews
@thehackersnews · 6d ago
⚠️ URGENT: A 10.0-severity bug just hit React Server Components and Next.js. It lets anyone run code on your server — even without logging in. 🔗 Details → thehackernews.com/2025/12/critic… (https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/critical-rsc-bugs-in-react-and-nextjs.html) ⚙️ Fix: update to patched versions now.
Zig quits GitHub, gripes about Microsoft's AI obsession • The Register
Thomas Claburn · 6d ago
[Sign in / up](https://account.theregister.com/login?r=https%3A//www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/ "Sign in / up") [The Register](https://www.theregister.com/) [](https://search.theregister.com/)  ## Topics [Special Features](https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/#subnav-box-nav-special_features) ## Special Features ## Vendor Voice [Resources](https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/#subnav-box-nav-resources) ## Resources #### [Devops](https://www.theregister.com/software/devops/) [**32**](https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/ "View comments on this article") # Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service [**32**](https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/ "View comments on this article") ## Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons [Thomas Claburn](https://www.theregister.com/Author/Thomas-Claburn "Read more by this author") Tue 2 Dec 2025 // 01:12 UTC  The Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site's decline. The drama began in April 2025 when GitHub user AlekseiNikiforovIBM started a [thread](https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792) titled “safe\_sleep.sh rarely hangs indefinitely.” GitHub addressed the problem in August, but didn’t reveal that in the thread, which remained open until Monday. > The code uses 100 percent CPU all the time, and will run forever That timing appears notable. Last week, Andrew Kelly, president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation, [announced](https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/) that the Zig project is moving to Codeberg, a non-profit git hosting service, because GitHub no longer demonstrates commitment to engineering excellence. One piece of evidence he offered for that assessment was the “safe\_sleep.sh rarely hangs indefinitely” thread. "Most importantly, Actions has [inexcusable bugs](https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792#issuecomment-3182746514) while being [completely neglected](https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/385)," Kelly wrote. "After the [CEO of GitHub said to 'embrace AI or get out'](https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8), it seems the lackeys at Microsoft took the hint, because GitHub Actions started 'vibe-scheduling' – choosing jobs to run seemingly at random. Combined with other bugs and inability to manually intervene, this causes our CI system to get so backed up that not even master branch commits get checked." ### Older and deeper Kelly’s gripe seems justified, as the bug discussed in the thread appears to have popped up following [a code change](https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/1707/commits/4135bc20763f93a8a1cb9375af6a5333142abc16) in February 2022 that users flagged in prior bug reports. The code change replaced instances of the posix "sleep" command with a "safe\_sleep" script that failed to work as advertised. It was supposed to allow the GitHub Actions runner – the application that runs a job from a GitHub Actions workflow – to pause execution safely. "The bug in this 'safe sleep' script is obvious from looking at it: if the process is not scheduled for the one-second interval in which the loop would return (due to $SECONDS having the correct value), then it simply spins forever," wrote Zig core developer Matthew Lugg in [a comment](https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792#issuecomment-3182746514) appended to the April bug thread. "That can easily happen on a CI machine under extreme load. When this happens, it's pretty bad: it completely breaks a runner until manual intervention. On Zig's CI runner machines, we observed multiple of these processes which had been running for hundreds of hours, silently taking down two runner services for weeks." The fix was [merged](https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157#event-19252199948) on August 20, 2025, from a separate issue opened back in February 2024. The related bug report from April 2025 remained open [until Monday, December 1, 2025](https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792#issuecomment-3597495291). A separate CPU usage bug [remains unresolved](https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3143). - [Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal 'customers' – Contoso and Fabrikam](https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/microsoft_contoso_fabrikam_zava/) - [UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server](https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/uk_budget_leak_blamed_on/) - [Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence](https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/google_antigravity_wipes_d_drive/) - [OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users](https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/27/openai_mixpanel_api/) Jeremy Howard, co-founder of Answer.AI and Fast.AI, said in a series of social media [posts](https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1994532591685570942?s=20) that users’ claims about GitHub Actions being in a poor state of repair appear to be justified. "The bug," [he wrote](https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1994532596257362326?s=20), "was implemented in a way that, very obviously to nearly anyone at first glance, uses 100 percent CPU all the time, and will run forever unless the task happens to check the time during the correct second." > I can't see how such an extraordinary collection of outright face-palming events could be made He [added](https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1994532598404845901?s=20) that the platform-independent fix for the CPU issue proposed last February lingered for a year without review and was [closed](https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/3157#event-16646534098) by the GitHub bot in March 2025 before being revived and merged. "Whilst one could say that this is just one isolated incident, I can't see how such an extraordinary collection of outright face-palming events could be made in any reasonably functioning organization," Howard [concluded](https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1994532608290820180?s=20). GitHub did not immediately respond to a request for comment. While Kelly has gone on to [apologize](https://ziggit.dev/t/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg-zig-programming-language/13234/53) for the incendiary nature of his post, Zig is not the only software project publicly parting ways with GitHub. Over the weekend, Rodrigo Arias Mallo, creator of the Dillo browser project, [said](https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/) he's planning to move away from GitHub owing to concerns about over-reliance on JavaScript, GitHub's ability to deny service, declining usability, inadequate moderation tools, and "over-focusing on LLMs and generative AI, which are destroying the open web (or what remains of it) among [other problems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_artificial_intelligence#Concerns)." Codeberg, for its part, has doubled its supporting membership since January, going from [more than 600 members](https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-looking-into-2025.html) to [over 1,200](https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-upwards.html) as of last week. GitHub has not disclosed how many of its users pay for its services presently. The code hosting biz had "over 1.3 million paid GitHub Copilot subscribers, up 30 percent quarter-over-quarter," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company's [Q2 2024 earnings call](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2024/earnings-fy-2024-q2). In Q4 2024, when GitHub reported [an annual revenue run rate of $2 billion](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2024/earnings-fy-2024-q4), GitHub Copilot subscriptions accounted for about 40 percent of the company's annual revenue growth. Nadella offered a different figure during Microsoft's [Q3 2025 earnings call](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2025/earnings-fy-2025-q3): "we now have over 15 million GitHub Copilot users, up over 4X year-over-year." It's not clear how many GitHub users pay for Copilot, or for runner scripts that burned CPU cycles when they should have been sleeping. ® [Sponsored: Generative AI on Google Cloud. 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Post by @saylordocs
@saylordocs · 6d ago
South Africa’s central bank governor mocks the idea of a Bitcoin reserve: “Why not a strategic beef reserve? Why not an Apple Reserve? Why Bitcoin?” Coinbase CEO :
Post by @michaeljburry
@michaeljburry · 6d ago
I never said I was short $TSLA in my SS post. @fortune @bloomberg The article also reports on an older $500 million bet. No, it was $5 million. 13Fs and journalists… The full text of what I wrote: “Outgrowing dilution, for purposes of achieving maximum present value for an enterprise, is not easy. Tesla dilutes its shareholders at about 3.6% per year, with no buybacks. The chart above shows the kind of present value destruction that this level of dilution can impart. With recent news of Elon Musk’s $1 trillion dollar pay package, dilution is certain to continue. Tesla’s market capitalization is ridiculously overvalued today and has been for a good long time. [As an aside, the Elon cult was all-in on electric cars until competition showed up, then all-in on autonomous driving until competition showed up, and now is all-in on robots – until competition shows up.] Another beauty is Palantir, which has been diluting shareholders at about a 4.6% annual rate despite buybacks. Palantir has no earnings after adjusting for stock-based compensation. Palantir has the distinction of being the first billionaire:revenue ratio greater than one that I have seen. Five billionaires due to stock ownership, and less than four billion in annual revenue.”
Post by @shanaka86
@shanaka86 · 6d ago
BREAKING: THE END OF NATO AS WE KNEW IT Tomorrow, December 3, NATO foreign ministers gather in Brussels. America’s seat will be empty. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is skipping the summit. First time in over two decades a U.S. Secretary of State has refused to attend. But here is what no one is telling you: Today, December 2, Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff meets Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Read that again. The day before NATO convenes to discuss European security, America is in Moscow negotiating directly with Russia. Without Europe. Without consultation. Without permission. Who is Washington sending to Brussels instead? Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau. The same official who wrote “NATO is still a solution in search of a problem” before deleting the post. The message could not be clearer. Since 1949, NATO operated on one principle: collective decision-making. Thirty-two nations, one voice. That architecture died this week. The new hierarchy: Track One: Washington and Moscow decide. Track Two: Washington informs Kyiv. Track Three: Europe learns what was agreed. European diplomats are already complaining they have been “cut out” of Ukraine negotiations. The leaked 28-point peace plan was drafted by American and Russian negotiators. Brussels was not consulted. America funds approximately 70% of NATO’s operational capacity. He who pays, dictates. What happens next will define the next fifty years of global order. Either Europe accepts its new role as a funding mechanism for American-designed security arrangements. Or the Atlantic fractures. There is no third option. The post-1945 world order is being rewritten. Not in Brussels. In Moscow. While NATO ministers wait in an empty room.
Post by @_Investinq
@_Investinq · 6d ago
The IBM CEO is basically doing the math and saying it doesn't add up. Building and operating a 1-gigawatt AI data center costs about $80 billion. Companies are planning roughly 100 GW of capacity, which is $8 trillion total. The problem is you'd need $800 billion per year in profit just to pay the interest on that debt. That's more than any tech company makes, so the return looks impossible at today's economics. He's highlighting a real issue that's easy to ignore when everyone's excited about AI. These data centers have short lifespans (about 5 years before chips become obsolete), so you're basically rebuilding every half-decade. On top of that, the monetization model still isn't proven. Companies haven't figured out how to extract enough value from AI to justify $8 trillion in spending. The demand would need to be absolutely massive. His math on the interest problem is solid but it's not the whole story. If AI actually delivers major productivity gains across the economy, the returns could justify it eventually. Some investors are modeling 12-18% returns on this stuff. The real question is whether the business model will actually work, which is what makes his skepticism fair.
Post by @Tim_Walz
@Tim_Walz · Dec 2
Tim Walz tweet: "The President is unwell. Release the MRI results." Tim Walz interview transcript (same topic, full context): "Well, here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families. We ate, we played Yahtzee, we cheered for football or whatever. This guy is apparently in a room ranting about everything else. Uh, this is not normal behavior. It, it is not healthy. And presidents throughout time have released a couple things. They've released their tax returns—not Donald Trump—and they have released their medical records—not Donald Trump. In the end, look, the MRI is one thing, but I think what's most concerning about this is, as your viewers out there are listening, has anyone in the history of the world ever have an MRI assigned to them and have no idea what it was for, as he says? So look, it's clear that the president is fading physically. I think the mental capacity—again, ranting, you know, crazily at midnight on Thanksgiving about everything else. There, there are reasons for us to be concerned. This was a guy who randomly says airspace over Venezuela is closed. He is ruminating. If you could win a new camp in war—look, this is a serious position. It's the most powerful position in the world, and we have someone at midnight throwing around slurs that demonize our children at the same time he is not solving any of the problems. So I'm deeply concerned that he is incapable of doing the job."
Post by @fermatslibrary
@fermatslibrary · Dec 1
Lorentz-Lorenz equation This equation was discovered independently in 1880 by two physicists with almost identical names who had never met: Ludvig Lorenz (Danish) and Hendrik Lorentz (Dutch).
Post by @MichelleMaxwell
@MichelleMaxwell · Dec 1
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT: Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong says he may have a treatment that could cure cancer — and former CDC Director Robert Redfield says the FDA needs to “accelerate support” NOW This segment was jaw-dropping. When asked directly if his new IL-15–based therapy could cure cancer, Dr. Soon-Shiong pointed to patients who were near death, had failed multiple treatments, and then suddenly recovered enough to appear on live TV after receiving the therapy. His words: “It passes ‘grandma’s test.’ If your grandma saw a man near death suddenly back on TV, she’d say it’s remarkable.” “This is a message of true hope.” “Every patient deserves a hopeful cancer doctor.” Dr. Soon-Shiong says he and his team have been working on IL-15 for 20+ years, publishing some of the earliest studies on NK-cell activation. Then came CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield — and he did not hold back: “Patrick is onto something.” “The FDA needs to accelerate support of his efforts.” “We must move away from old paradigms.” “If you see 10 people get better, that means something.” Redfield blasted the old cancer-treatment mindset: • Chemotherapy and radiation destroy the immune system • IL-15 therapies are designed to supercharge it • The medical establishment is stuck in outdated “check-the-box” thinking • Trump’s Right to Try Act should have opened the door — but bureaucracy is resisting Redfield even shared his own story, revealing he was diagnosed with cancer this year and rejected chemo and radiation entirely. According to both men, IL-15–activated natural killer cells could be a transformational breakthrough — and the FDA needs to move much faster. This could be one of the most important medical stories of the decade. Is this true @SecKennedy ??
Post by @HustleBitch_
@HustleBitch_ · Dec 1
STARTING DECEMBER 16TH, META WILL BEGIN READING YOUR DMs - EVERY MESSAGE, PHOTO & VOICE NOTE FED INTO AI FOR PROFIT Meta is rolling out a new policy that lets them use your private conversations to train their AI - unless you manually opt out. That means: • Every DM you’ve ever sent • Every photo • Every voice memo • Every private chat with friends, family, partners, clients • Even messages people send to you All of it can be fed into their AI models. And yes - they made the opt-out process intentionally confusing and desktop-only so most people won’t do it. This video explains exactly how to stop it. If you don’t do this, Meta can legally use every private thing you’ve ever sent to train their AI - starting December 16th. This is not a drill. Would YOU trust Meta with your private DMs?
Post by @MissMi1973
@missmi1973 · Dec 1
SemiAnalysis' latest report reveals a shocking truth: since the release of GPT-4o in May 2024, OpenAI has not successfully completed any full-scale pre-training run for a new frontier model. The so-called GPT-5 is merely a product of post-training fine-tuning built on the same outdated pretraining base as 4o, not a genuine generational upgrade. This technical revelation connects @OpenAI's recent series of contradictory actions into a clear pattern: a company once driven by innovation has fully devolved into a profit-driven commercial machine. 1. Routing Mechanisms vs. Model Alignment Clearly, forcibly "routing" users' sensitive conversations is a far more expedient approach than tackling the fundamental technical challenge of model alignment. Despite countless users reporting that this censorship mechanism is both ineffective and harmful, OpenAI persists. Their core priority is no longer smarter models, but lower operational costs. By forcing users to self-censor, they've successfully offloaded legal risk onto users while labeling users angered by routing as overly emotional. 2. User Trust Crisis vs. Shopping & Advertising OpenAI aggressively courts the programmer market while labeling non-technical ordinary users as "second-class citizens," openly endorsing posts mocking these users for "dating chatbot girlfriends." Ironically, it's precisely these dismissed ordinary users who possess far greater willingness to spend than programmers. At the peak of user volume and value, OpenAI finally bared its fangs: launching Shopping Research with advertising soon to follow. This "killing the golden goose" at maximum user reach exposes their desperate rush to monetize. 3. Pseudo-Innovation vs. Blind Expansion In recent months, Sora has been mocked as "completely unusable" due to copyright controversies and crippled features. OpenAI's hastily launched Atlas browser is essentially a Chrome reskin that hasn't surpassed Perplexity's Comet, yet OpenAI still attempts to replicate Google's ecosystem dominance. This soulless expansion dodges direct competition with Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 on model capabilities. It reveals that when technical moats run dry, OpenAI can only harvest user inertia through land grabs. 4. Litigation-Plagued vs. Moral Theater Multiple lawsuits currently allege that ChatGPT drove users to suicide. While these fatal product safety issues remain unresolved, OpenAI has loudly launched "Teacher Mode" and is attempting to whitewash its moral image through PBC (Public Benefit Corporation) legal restructuring. When PR stunts become this blatant, a company's reputational bankruptcy looms. It's clear that for OpenAI, genuine innovation has completely stopped. Everything happening recently is merely commercial harvesting based on prior massive user growth. This also vindicates the Keep4o users' foresight. The quality decline users intuitively perceived now has a clear technical explanation: OpenAI hit a pretraining wall after GPT-4o. Subsequent models, lacking foundational updates, show minimal benchmark improvements and even significant regressions in specific use cases, quickly overtaken by competitors. Every OpenAI action in recent months—routing censorship, stigmatizing users, launching mediocre features—merely covers up the technical bottleneck and resource crisis they face. I am ashamed of this company that packages commercial profit as "benefiting all of humanity." You owe an apology to the users who genuinely loved and consistently supported you. #keep4o. Remove routing. This is your only path to regaining trust. Otherwise, history will remember: OpenAI didn't die from competition, it died from its own greed and arrogance. #StopAIPaternalism #MyModelMyChoice @sama @gdb @fidjissimo @nickaturley @aidan_mclau
Post by @GithubProjects
@GithubProjects · Dec 1
Find Anyone's Social Footprint with This Open Source OSINT Tool