Steven Boykey Sidley
@stevensidley
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Author, columnist, playwright, Professor at UJ and Chief Technology Officer for, oh, lots of companies. Co-writer of Beyond Bitcoin
South Africa
Joined May 2009
Not as bad as mass layoffs. Right?
dailyfriend.co.za
On 21 October, the New York Times reported that it had obtained a trove of leaked documents from Amazon, some of which indicated that the
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The NYSE? Investing in a crypto gambling platform? Ha!
currencynews.co.za
In prediction markets, bets fly on anything from Taylor Swift’s engagement to the end of the world. Now big money wants in – and, with it, regulation.
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Populists didn't invent anger – they discovered it lying in the rubble of liberal promises. Many of the grievances exploited by the populists are very real.
dailyfriend.co.za
Welcome to the age of populism, where the old rules are shredded, good manners are considered a weakness and soft voices a surrender.
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Website browsing is flattening, even cratering. Where have all the users gone? They have gone to AI. AI is doing browsing on their behalf. That completely changes the business model of the Internet. Here's the logical conclusion https://t.co/yWsjGc8x68
dailymaverick.co.za
The internet was built on ads and subscriptions. Those were the dollars that paid for the entire enchilada. Now they are drying up. The venerable old internet of searching and browsing is disintegr...
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Nuclear energy R&D was essentially shut down for 30 years by the environmental movement. Those days a now gone via an executive order from Trump. This is one good thing to come out of a dispiriting time in politics.
dailyfriend.co.za
The Trump administration, myriad controversies aside, did something very important for the planet this year.
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Here is the very unlikely story of what has happened in Albania. Their AI completely removes humans from the procurement loop. Tender design, publication, adjudication, award. Take humans out of the loop and intractable fraud has no handhold.
dailymaverick.co.za
Albania has appointed the world’s first Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in charge of public procurement. Her name is Diella, a traditionally attired woman with a wise yet beautiful...
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'The old world in which many of us lived – the world in which politics contained some measure of civility, decency and respect – has now been replaced by a snarling, bullying, lying, vengeful council of autocrats. What now?' @dailymaverick
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dailymaverick.co.za
Fear and uncertainty are everywhere; nobody seems to have a handle on what opinion it may be acceptable to share, with whom, and what the unacceptable might cost them.
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Yeah, it seems like free speech is not quite what it used to be.
dailyfriend.co.za
For days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, there was nothing in the news but Charlie Kirk. Rightly so – it was a volcanic political
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When Musk was ingnomiously ejected from Trump's inner circle earlier this year many people thought it was curtains for him. Not so fast... (Published in Daily Maverick today) https://t.co/gf0S9iqd8q
dailymaverick.co.za
Losing his spot as the world’s richest man has put a pin in a difficult six months for Elon Musk; however, underestimating him has always been a fool’s errand.
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· 42s '...implicit and explicit messages are delivered in the seating arrangements, the temperature of handshakes and smiles, who was invited and who decided not to come, and the size of military phalluses on carefully choreographed display.' #politics
https://t.co/uaRG5gFrAW
dailymaverick.co.za
The geopolitical consequence of the whole spectacle – save for a bit of deft hedging by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – was a little flaccid.
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Most of what is believed about immigrants is not true - perceptions of who they are and how they behave are wildly inaccurate in all countries where it has been studied. And yet... https://t.co/dxvFvxoyJo
dailyfriend.co.za
If there has been one golden thread which has passed through the political ruptures of many Western polities in the past decade or so, it
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When most people think if GenAI they think of ChatGPT. In fact when most people use GenAI they use ChatGPT. But there is a lot more going on... https://t.co/AHxVCL5WOd
dailymaverick.co.za
An eagerly awaited report listing which applications have shown staying power – the all-important ‘stickiness’ factor — reveals a new breed of apps emerging.
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Banks seem to have surrendered en masse to crypto's charms. But it is (as always) not that simple, because bank-issued stablecoins have little to do with cryptocurrencies . #crypto #banking
currencynews.co.za
Banks are embracing stablecoins, but not crypto’s ethos. They’ve taken the tech, dropped anonymity and built a faster, centralised system.
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