Andrew Fraser
@Arfness
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Gradually weaning myself off this place... but the dopamine... Find me at: @arfness.bsky.social
ex Johannesburg
Joined October 2010
Accidentally shuffled on to this song in my archive. It's from 1987 and sums up exactly how I feel right now. Save me, save me from tomorrow. I don't want to sail with this ship of fools. https://t.co/n13codZB6F
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Only democracy in the middle east....
Two former Israeli prison workers testified that prisoners at Sde Teiman were kept in chains until their limbs rotted, beaten for speaking or moving, left to piss and shit on themselves, and dying so often the staff called it a “graveyard.”
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"The balance of 51% in UMK is owned by Majestic Silver Trading 40 (MST) which is a politically connected South African consortium including Chancellor House, Pitsa Ya Setshaba Holdings (PST) and a Kalahari Community Trust."
We are visiting two neighbouring business properties with the same owner in Centurion. Majestic Silver Trading owes us close to R5 million. We disconnected electricity and have also welded the meters to prevent reconnection. @CityTshwane
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Even when corrected this "journalist" doubles down.
Factually incorrect tripe
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@stephenjones9 Jones is spot on, no one lifted a finger! If you exclude the 2007 commitment to elevate them to tier-1 status, the millions invested into their high performance systems, millions from WR & SANZAR to aid Rugby Champs inclusion & placement of ARG players in AU, NZ & SA Super Squads
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There's something to be said for a rugby columnist that knows nothing about rugby.
No-one ever lifted a finger to help Argentine rugby. Kicked out of Super Rugby. None of their players based at home. They must be exhausted. But they play great and stylish rugby. Sporting nobility.
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FAFO. Except now he's coming back to SA, we have a big enough local supply of racists, we don't need our exports returned.
South African neo-Nazi and senior National Socialist Network member Matthew Gruter has had his visa cancelled and will be deported.
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So, @grok claims that it is the user's fault that they accept untruths from the LLM. They haven't tried hard enough to get to the truth, which requires multiple prompt iterations.
@Arfness @NadimHCr @AbubakerAbedW Designs that merely mirror user inertia perpetuate shallow habits, whereas Grok's embeds verifiability—sources, caveats, and iterative prompts—to elevate engagement toward truth-seeking. User habits aren't fixed; exposure to reliable depth encourages iteration, as seen in
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Staying home today.
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After the DA was outed as supporting the captive Lion industry by Daily Maverick, it seems that there is a massive smear campaign against Dion George. I'm not sure how much is true, but I'm suspicious about these "revelations" now that the DA has received some bad PR.
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A five-year-old provocateur.
@TOliveFern She is almost 25 years old and is a professional provocateur since age 5.
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Germany too. Centrists partnered with far-right to look tough on immigration; it gained them nothing and gave AfD more power and more legitimacy
Cross-national comparisons are tough, but I do think the neoliberal commentators ought to at least *attempt* to grapple with this. Starmerism does seem pretty close to what they want, and it’s been political suicide
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It’s almost like they actually did
Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products
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Nonsense. The second clause of s 9(2) empowers the state to achieve the “full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms”. Not a constraint. Non-racialism rejects the use of race as an ontological category (eg denying the franchise to a group because of their ‘race’). It
My latest for The @DailyFriendSA: "Race-based law is often defended with the claim that apartheid was a racial system and thus that justice requires a racial system in reverse. The Constitution rejects this logic explicitly." https://t.co/j4eL7GUdje
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Americans keep calling it pedophilia, but that sounds like someone that likes feet. It's *paedophilia* when you have sex with children.
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“Show us where Solidarity Movement has lied, you leftist-liberal-communist-bitch-slut-prostitute-witch!!🤬” Okay, Piet 🥰 SOLIDARITY LIE “One commercial farmer killed every week.” - Jaco Kleynhans, Solidarity = 52 farmers/year? ❌ Reality (AfriForum/SAPS 2024): ✅ 55
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Things that never happened to Rob Hersov.
Rob Hersov claims that a SAPS officer went on TikTok & said that what happened to Charlie should also happen to Rob?😳 Rob then called Ian Cameron, who advised him to go to the police station & open a case so they could take action against the officer—HE DIDN’T!💔 Why not, Rob?
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@BiancavanWyk16 @BobMcBurger420 Solidarity claims one commercial farmer is murdered weekly, implying 52 per year. But 2024 AfriForum/SAPS stats show only 55 total farm murders, with 5-10 victims being farmers of any race and 45-50 being mostly black workers or families. This framing erases black victims,
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