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Web developer born in the last millennia. CTO @openup.org.za. South Africa 🌍
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It's time to call it. AI is built on a house of cards of intellectual property violations starting with Facebook which is starting to look a lot like a crime scene as held back discovery documents begin to be compelled and unsealed in court. /1

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Driving 2 tons of metal at 70mph turns out to be a bad idea for meat bags prone to corruption.

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Someone tell the potential new investors of X, a computer system, that computers can’t handle tens of millions of transactions…

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Don’t be these people. Shin Bet Arrests Two Israelis Suspected of Involvement in Tel Aviv Suburbs Bus Bombs. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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There is no greatest country. No exceptionalism. Humanity is global, not confined in imaginary borders. Don’t be led, lead.

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The UK is a less secure place to live and do business in now. Backdoors are false security, just ask the US Treasury. bbc.com/news/article...

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The Gulf of Language: Around half of the world’s countries have native or local names that differ from their English versions. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

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After Bill Gates quit Microsoft, he became a professional investor. Over the next 13 years, Bill Gates (investor) made more money than Bill Gates (Microsoft CEO) made in his 25 years of doing a job. pluralistic.net/2025/02/18/p...

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So, uh, about that Greek island party I invited you all too…

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Movie you’ve watched More Than Six times using a gif

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Gov. Pritzker, who is Jewish and led the effort to construct the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, said he doesn’t “invoke the specter of Nazis lightly,” but that he was “watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now.”

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The new James Bond is set in the Amazon with a space rocket company owning billionaire bald villain hell bent on owning all retail and delivery to your home.

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