amanda strydom (amandas.bsky.social)
@A_StrydomSenior Programme Manager: CivicSignal @Code4Africa. Former managing ed @AfricanCIR. AI media ethics + ML + disinfo. She/her
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Every time I open up my phone Trump has appointed like, the ice cream cone that killed Dawson’s Dad as the Secretary of Transportation.
What is considered polite protocol with AI note takers joining external work calls? I don't think it's appropriate without asking, so if it's my meeting, I deny entry, but maybe everyone else is just letting them in?
Govt and so many South Africans blaming illegal miners and nobody asking who is buying gold. Nobody chooses to go underground in circumstances that are life-threatening if there aren’t willing buyers.
Says @GaytonMcK, an ex-convict who benefited from this country’s rule of law: fair trial, just & humane treatment, food & shelter in line with international treaties.Not only that, after prison society welcomed him back, allowed to set up businesses & now an MP & a govt minister.
Thank you Minister @Khu_Ntshavheni let there be smoke, lots of smoke 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A woman says something and in her mentions is man calling her a prostitute. 🚮
I feel as u r one of their prostitutes, now u r realizing d business is gone once all those illegal miners get arrested or die under ground
This, and the cheering we're seeing from the public, is the South African id flexing itself. Yes we have this amazing constitution that does protect my rights, your rights, & their rights, but that's never been who we are. This, conservative & punitive, is the real South Africa.
[WATCH] "We will smoke them out." Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says the government will not be sending any help for scores of illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West. #Newzroom405
The ANC can’t say it’s really thinking about its electoral decline and then appoint people like Aus Pemmy to such crucial portfolios. Ke a gana. Woza 2026
There is no water crisis, says Pemmy Majodina, just use it wisely. The minister’s statements come a day after the constitutional court said it was working remotely because of unreliable water supply. mg.co.za/news/2024-11-1…
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[THREAD] Republican-led foreign policy is bad news for SA, which has the world's biggest #HIV treatment programme. The #gagrule bans orgs and governments from providing or promoting terminations regardless of whose money they’re using to do it. #Trump expanded this to apply to…
There's also good evidence to suggest that Trump's anti-abortion foreign policy will sow chaos in public health and it won't even decrease abortion rates. Terminations increase every time the gag rule is rolled out, likely because of the policy's negative impact on contraception…
Every time the US has a republican president, the #globalgagrule is put in place, and women's health services are rolled back in all countries that get #PEPFAR funds. Under Trump's extreme version of this policy, orgs could lose US donor dollars for just informing people about…
Can’t tell if we’re still stuck in Gramsci’s interregnum or about to leave it 🤷♂️
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A note that this account is not the same as @TaxJusticeAfric, which is a public interest group that pushes for transparency in Africa's tax system & makes sure billionaires & big business pay their dues. Tax Justice SA pushes policies that protect the alcohol, tobacco & mining…
The new tobacco bill offers no solutions to illicit trade. But the vast majority of cigarette sales in SA are already illegal. @GovernmentZA must focus on enforcement instead of virtue-signalling. #StopSkyfCapture #LockThemUp @NPA_Prosecutes @HealthZA @sarstax @PresidencyZA
Standard Bank requiring physically going into a branch to update a residential address like it's still 1995 🙄
I was horrified to learn at a recent conference how many journalists use ChatGPT as a search and fact-checking tool. Read the thread to understand why this is A Terrible Idea.
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>
The periodic moral panic about halaal food is Christian supremacy steeped in dominionism. It’s also telling that this outrage often is sparked by Woolies food products.
What do we as South Africans know about the slaughtering methods of Halaal? Is it ethical @WOOLWORTHS_SA? @peta
He is joy incarnate and I cannot see him
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