In a month, things will quieten down and people will forget #BlackLivesMatter and so will you. Here are some strategies I've learnt on the never-ending journey to make being an ally a way of life 👇✨ A Thread on being a Consistent Ally ✨👇 (1/n)

Startups are hard, I need your help! 🙏🏻 This year we found our niche: large firms who want to monitor the world at unprecedented scale. E.g. One customer does 2Mn searches a day looking for cyber-attacks, lawsuits, product recalls, and other material events over thousands of

Homemade seafood broil (which required a front row seat to the lobster cycle of life) + birite ice cream cake. End of summer is here.

It’s been a while… been heads down, focused, building, experimenting, learning and growing 🦄 Building a startup is different to any other challenge I have faced. The level of self-reflection and growth that has to happens to succeed astounds me daily But there is nothing

Yo, @UberEats @Uber_RSA your new “support” service really talks to the enshitification of tech. I have a driver who is stuck and not picking up. Clearly he is in need of an ambulance/police. And there is no human being at the end of the support line to help

I’m a psychiatrist. In 2025, I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. Online, I’m seeing the same pattern. Here’s what “AI psychosis” looks like, and why it’s spreading fast: 🧵

The opportunity gap in AI is more striking than ever. We talk way too much about those receiving $100M or whatever for their jobs, but not enough those asking for <$1k to present their work. For 3rd year in a row, @ml_collective is raising funds to support @DeepIndaba attendees.

Is MCP the enthusiastic consent of AI?

3 Indabas. Countless memories. Limitless impact. 🎉 This is what investing in African AI talent looks like. Let’s help others join the journey. 🌍 Donate to support 25 rising researchers: https://t.co/vExFkdzPql #Indaba2025 #MLCNigeria #AIinAfrica #SupportAfricanAI

It is cool to be capable. It is cool to know shit. That's why the HF team is open-sourcing not just the model, but the training code and datasets too. Learn. Build. Make it your own.

25 early-career researchers. 1 goal: share their work on a continental stage. 🌍 Let’s help them reach @DeepIndaba in Rwanda. Every share and dollar counts. 🎯 Donate/support: https://t.co/vExFkdzPql #DLIndaba2025 #AIinAfrica #SupportAfricanVoices @ml_collective

Joburg should be closed over winter man. This is unacceptable

While we're at it #G20SouthAfrica @CyrilRamaphosa

cc: @vukosi

@CityofJoburgZA @CyrilRamaphosa @DadaMorero And gurl, I got receipts: https://t.co/qcIIHqYDZh Lets go

To @CityofJoburgZA To highlight lack of service delivery, I did some analysis using the community whatsapp WE HAD ONGOING WATER OR ELECTRICITY INCIDENCES FOR A WHOPPING ✨48% OF THE TIME ✨ OVER 3 MONTHS What do you have to say for yourself? @CyrilRamaphosa @DadaMorero

Over a month later & @CityofJoburgZA continues to turn a blind eye to a serious biohazard in our precinct. A collapsed drain is forcing raw sewage 💩 into our stormwater system & onto our roads 🤢 — a health and environmental disaster in the making. Enough is enough!!

From another angle…. Other people poop and sewerage flowing here!! Biohazard ☣️ @CityofJoburgZA leaving us in this for more than a month! @Talk702 @City_Press @GautengANC @dailymaverick @EFFGautengProv @MayorOfJoburg #cityofjoburg #poopfountain #mayorofjoburg

TW: City of Johannesburg

This has been a month of our drains being blocked due to @CityofJoburgZA Not taking care of their infrastructure outside our place. There is literally poop floating around and overflowing! Other people from the next neighborhood’s sewerage overflowing our drains! @GautengANC

@Radio702 @mailandguardian As if failing electricity and water weren’t enough. We now have failing sewerage #NoHelpNoRates ANC fix your #shitshow