Ivo Vegter (@ivovegter.bsky.social)
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Columnist at The Daily Friend. Advocate for classical liberalism, non-racialism, science and reason. No time for bigotry. Look up Brandolini's Law.
Knysna, South Africa
Joined December 2007
When online ID verification goes wrong.(My latest column. As censorial politicians charge down the slippery slope to puritanism, one site demonstrates why requiring online ID verification is dangerous.).
dailyfriend.co.za
As censorial politicians charge down the slippery slope to puritanism, one site demonstrates why requiring online ID verification is dangerous. The ink had barely dried
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RT @MarioNawfal: AOL HANGS UP FOR GOOD. After 34 years, AOL’s dial-up internet is logging off forever on Sept. 30, 2025. That screechy mod….
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RT @gtconway3d: Who know that "late Saddam" finishings were so readily available at Home Depot.
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Mbeki and other foundations withdraw from National Dialogue preparatory task team (That the ANC would hijack the process to reclaim "democratic" legitimacy for its revolutionary ideology was inevitable.).
news24.com
A week before the first event of the National Dialogue, the legacy foundations, touted to play a key role in the initiative, announced that they would not participate on 15 August and that they...
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I despair for humanity. The first thing they ask of AI is astrology advice. The machines are smarter than the average human, now.
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Trump calls for a new census to exclude undocumented immigrants.(It's hard to keep up, but this might be the dumbest idea of which Trump has ever relieved himself.).
edition.cnn.com
President Donald Trump announced in a social media post on Thursday that he has directed the Department of Commerce to begin work on a new US census that excludes undocumented immigrants from the...
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RT @Kasparov63: Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, un….
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RT @ChrisGibbonsSA: @GTalevi Astonishing: his language and intellectual stance mirrors that of the National Party in the 1980s. ‘Sanctions?….
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RT @GTalevi: Can someone just muzzle Fikile Mbalula? No wonder we are going nowhere as a country. The puffed-up, chest-thumping ideological….
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
"If they want to bring sanctions on us, let them bring them." - @MbalulaFikile .
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RT @PLMyburgh: Exclusive @dailymaverick video investigation live now! #IDT CEO Tebogo Malaka and spokesperson Phasha Makgolane brought R60k….
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Anti-dumping investigation: top loader prices set to rise.(Good piece. Tariffs are always bad for consumers, even if they're dressed up in cosy protectionist terms.).
dailymaverick.co.za
South Africa’s washing machines are about to get more expensive, and Defy is hoping that’s good news.
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Our President Is Economically Illiterate (On Don Trump.).
nytimes.com
The latest round of tariffs offers further evidence that Trump doesn’t understand how economies work.
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This really is scandalous. This envoy was so special he didn't go anywhere at all.
International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola confirmed that South Africa’s special envoy to the US, Mcebisi Jonas, is yet to travel to the US in this capacity. | @gerbjan.
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RT @powellemmaloui1: I was accused of spreading disinformation in Washington and had the full weight of state security weaponised against m….
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All's well, then. Whew!.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has closed the #ANCNEC meeting, calling for decisive action, restored trust, and renewed purpose to turn the tide. He reaffirmed the ANC’s role as the strategic centre of change and stressed that the alliance with the SACP and COSATU is principled and
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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About.
techdirt.com
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…
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Moronic response to moronic tariffs.(My latest column. Cyril Ramaphosa is about to make South Africa the first chump nation to validate Trump’s idiotic theory that tariffs are taxes on foreign countries.).
dailyfriend.co.za
Cyril Ramaphosa is about to make South Africa the first chump nation to validate Trump’s idiotic theory that tariffs are taxes on foreign countries. As
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UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read .(TL;DR).
reuters.com
A United Nations report seeking ways to improve efficiency and cut costs has revealed: U.N. reports are not widely read.
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How the West handed Hamas a win and killed the ceasefire | .Recognition of Palestine is supposed to bring peace. But cycles of violence aren’t normally broken by actions that incentivise more violence, and this symbolic action does little except that .
thejc.com
Recognition of Palestine is supposed to bring peace. But cycles of violence aren’t normally broken by actions that incentivise more violence, and this symbolic action does little except that
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