The Pirate Bay, first raided 20 years ago, sails on https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/116670283179348893 Every academic publishing house executive who ever priced a 250 pp book at $100, and everyone responsible for pricing journal article pdfs at $30, should be slapped into an aneurism.

for those runnning Electric Vehicles and have enough sun and solar capacity, check out this open source smart charging solution. https://evcc.io/en/ #ev #electricvehicle #foss #charging #southafrica #smarthome #khuseladata

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“#israel is currently destroying #tyre — a 5000 year old city, home to hundreds of thousands of people. Zero condemnation from a single British politician. Endless impunity; a time of barbarism and monsters.” #warcrimes #uk

For years, people worried that India, as a rising industrial power, would offset reduced emissions in the Western industrial economies. Instead, thanks to solar being so cheap, it will likely leapfrog fossil-fuel powered industrialization […]

This appears clickbaity, but actually gives a decent overview of the road to model collapse. https://youtu.be/4WyduoGpIPo

If you read only one essay today, make it this one. It pulls together and helps one understand many of the large developments in the world today which on the surface seem disparate. https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

Yip. And this is precisely why I and many others are totally against age-restricting social media: https://techcentral.co.za/the-hidden-cost-of-social-media-age-bans-is-everyones-privacy/282021/?utm_source=MastodonAfrica #socialmedia #privacy

From the elephants-in-rooms dept: potential false-flag attacks. It's difficult to astroturf visible "anti-semitism" in #southafrica, because anti-Zionist Jews are so prominent in the pro-Palestine space. So this could be the only way to push for repression of anti-Zionists - or for sanctions […]

The U.S. has become the world’s emergency oil supplier, exporting record volumes to Europe and Asia, but rapidly falling SPR and commercial inventories are raising concerns about future shortages.<--Trump is manipulating the oil market to cover up the impact of his dumb warfare. That cannot last […]

There must be an election coming - the racist, landlord-serving city council of #capetown is talking of social housing as it always does before elections... https://us.list-manage.com/15dqll8gPmx?e=46dedd47fe&c2id=5640827eb4d8fb78090e0a03c7ff574c

Trailer: https://youtu.be/37PDwW0c1so

Job: Wikimedia South Africa/2026-2027 Administrator https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/2026-2027_Administrator

South Africa’s right-to-repair vacuum https://techcentral.co.za/south-africas-right-to-repair-vacuum/281912/

There's long been tension between the volunteer editors of Wikipedia and the executives who oversee its infrastructure. Latest: https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Great portrayal of the weaponisation of spurious accusations of antisemitism in Britain https://youtu.be/-OsQHnveImE?list=PLV6wrjzP3lATeqHGnptAqmXqw3V2N7HON

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This resemblance between new & old #southafrica was nailed long ago by the film DIstrict Nine, but here's an update https://themodernmatriarch24.substack.com/p/echoes-of-apartheid-the-unsettling

NCC, Cowhide collective jam session on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. 515 Albert Rd, Salt River, Cape Town Free entry, donations welcome.

Oh great, the self-proclaimed liberals are fully behind the pogroms. Real patriots after all! https://mybroadband.co.za/news/gadgets/649637-south-africa-rolling-out-handheld-mobile-devices-to-identify-illegal-foreign-nationals.html

https://techcentral.co.za/cape-town-pioneers-pooled-wheeling-of-renewable-electricity/281783/ There are several small/mid hydro sites that have fallen into disuse/under-use under the tyranny of Eskom.

📅 30 May 2026 📍 515 Albert Road, Salt River, Cape Town We invite you for a community screening of The Story of Plastic in collaboration with Free From Plastic in SA & the global BreakFreeFromPlastic movement. Research by #BreakFreeFromPlastic shows […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down? Just one, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany and the University of Edinburgh analyzed food production data from 186 countries. The findings […]

Ndlovu is an impressive budding journalist but coming up through corporate ranks, doesn't yet tackle elephants in rooms https://techcentral.co.za/ddos-attacks-expose-south-africas-cyber-response-gap/281740/ Who or what would benefit from this type of attack?

So, they cosplayed reaching orbit and launching satellites, then the rocket exploded on returning to surface. But it has to be called "successful" because the IPO is approaching. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/science/649421-new-starship-completes-first-successful-mission.html

From the "India & Global Left" account on YT: "US foreign policy has literally come down to this level of stupidity- We will [try to] destroy China with tariffs and our 'allies' in East Asia; we will [try to] destroy Iran with sanctions and our 'allies' in West Asia; and when we fail to do […]

Details: https://pums.pentvars.edu.gh/lasoma/index

ILRIG podcast "A Forest Of Women" https://www.mixcloud.com/ilrig-sa/podilrig-226-building-a-forest-of-women-breaking-borders-to-humanity/

Xenophobia-mongers plan to march (perhaps to pogrom) tomorrow.

NCC is not generally a charity, but this is an exception. This morning, May 20, 2026, in Qandu Qandu, Khayelitsha, South Africa, a family is burying their 2-month-old baby — a life lost too soon after the floods and the harsh conditions in their home. No […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-facebook-arrest-tennessee-bushart-b8c5808d77f47a2d93497d12cf0daf84

3 Necro-extractivism PhD positions in Canada https://docs.proton.me/doc?mode=open-url&token=07B1G9GR8G&linkId=4HlZ7_epwcZPlqid-yqAJ9qBEl8N0UIFLTt0T1X3xZdJPX36HQAhiJLNGtZCDRF_eXTOSsP_2vA7ONh37OmE5A%3D%3D#mQu6qf2m5LX9

Cash for e-waste https://mybroadband.co.za/news/hardware/648585-cash-for-e-waste-in-south-africa.html

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The free basic electricity ration is the only glimmer in this darkness. But it must be reformed to apply per person, not per household. Adding a user layer to the software can make it portable, i.e. tradable - crucial for the poor […]

I'm set to shoot #windshortfilm a #solarpunk comedy in June, so this last mile campaign is to cover basics like food, transport, etc. We made all costumes, props, and set constructions from scratch and it strained our budget since it is a futuristic story with no central governments, and no […]

Survey: The trust gap between US/EU and Asia when it comes to AI https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/xx/pdf/2025/05/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai-global-report.pdf

So this whole strait of hormuz thing wasn't all bad. Our fruit industry's export market dried up which meant that, for a few glorious weeks, South Africans were seeing these huge, sweet, gorgeous export grade apples and oranges on our supermarket shelves, for cheaper than the usual shitty hard […]

"The web is growing every day and the volume of data transmitted is constantly increasing. What’s more, it still excludes a great many people. An average website generates 1.76 g of CO₂ per page view, which amounts to an estimated 211 kg per year. At the same time, 1.3 billion people live with […]

At last years of lobbying are taking effect, though only in one of the more boutique govt agencies. #communitynetworks to be officially supported https://www.tia.org.za/call-for-proposals-rural-community-networks-for-inclusive-digital-transformation-in-city-of-umhlathuze-kzn/

Another reason to use uBlock Origin: you can use Element Picker Mode (eyedropper icon) to selectively block web objects like "A.I." buttons, so you never press them by accident.

Some benefits of #bluesky #socialmedia #Organizing

Africa has definitely suffered the harm of imperialism and colonialism in all its forms, but the western attitude of giving Africans eternal victimhood status is dangerous. Opportunistic African leaders exploit this victimhood to the point where the victims […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hat-tip to @weblearning for this dashboard! https://web-learning.github.io/sa-wikipedia-dashboard/

Israeli cyber firms can locate and identify Starlink users globally https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-tech-firms-can-locate-and-identify-starlink-users Presumably the same tech was used, with Russian help, against Mossad assets in Iran to foil the failed coup ("protests") in January. For those […]

The Israel/US-Iran war is hitting South Africa hard – our oil dependency is why https://groundup.org.za/article/the-israelus-iran-war-is-hitting-south-africa-hard-and-oil-dependency-is-why/

This song from 1981 is perfect if you just substitute "LLM" for "IBM." Particularly prophetic: "She's also a telephone" https://genius.com/Electric-light-orchestra-yours-truly-2095-lyrics

One thing I really like about ATProto/Atmosphere is the concept of a PDS, or Personal Data Server, storing all your account data. The other day someone announced https://bookhive.buzz, basically ATProto take on https://bookwyrm.social, but unlike Bookwyrm, which requires you to create a […]

Google claim that their upcoming laptop is the "perfect partner to your Android phone" because you can "access files from your phone as if they live on your laptop" - but did you know that this is already possible, no special laptop model needed? KDE Connect is completely free and open source […]