Alfred Kowo @aycay47

🚨 BREAKING: THE UNITED NATIONS HAS ADOPTED THE NEW WORLD MAP SHOWING THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA THANKS TO TOGO WHO PUSHED THE RESOLUTION. THE CURRENT MAP FOR CENTURIES WAS DELIBERATELY DRAWN TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK AFRICA IS AS SMALL AS ICELAND WHEN IT IN FACT IS MORE THAN 14 TIMES BIGGER AND EUROPE, THE US, INDIA AND CHINA CAN FIT INTO AFRICA ALL AT ONCE. THE RESOLUTION WAS VOTED MASSIVELY IN FAVOUR AND ONLY THE USA VOTED AGAINST IT. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA FOR RECLAIMING THEIR RIGHT AND THANKS ESPECIALLY TO THE REPUBLIC OF TOGO FOR MAKING THE MOVE 👏👏👏

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Nowhere near that dumb claim circulating. So where does this data come from? It is publicly available on heda.co.za so if you want to fight me, fight me on the data. This is focused on 2024 permanent academic staff only.

It is rare to see Black female PhDs in Applied Data Science, making this achievement even more remarkable. Meet Dr Khensani Xivuri, the first and only Black female to receive a PhD in Applied Data Science from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦.

🚨BREAKING: France wiped Google and Microsoft off 2.5 million government computers. Germany moved 30,000 PCs off Windows. Denmark dropped Microsoft Office. Here's exactly what they switched to and how to do the same:

50 websites that feel like the internet’s hidden toolbox 🧰 1. unpaywall.org — Free research papers 2. openlibrary.org — Borrow books online 3. doaj.org — Free academic journals 4. alternativeto.net — App alternatives 5. justwatch.com — Find where to stream 6. archive.org — Internet archives 7. gutenberg.org — 70K+ free books 8. openstax.org — Free textbooks 9. openculture.com — Free courses 10. wolframalpha.com — Solve complex problems 11. photopea.com — Photoshop alternative 12. squoosh.app — Compress images 13. remove.bg — Remove backgrounds 14. cleanup.pictures — Remove objects 15. unscreen.com — Remove video backgrounds 16. carbon.now.sh — Beautiful code images 17. ray.so — Code screenshots 18. shots.so — Product mockups 19. smartmockups.com — Create mockups 20. haveibeenpwned.com — Check data breaches 21. virustotal.com — Scan files & URLs 22. privnote.com — Self-destructing notes 23. temp-mail.org — Temporary email 24. file.io — Temporary file sharing 25. archive.ph — Save webpages 26. similarsites.com — Find similar websites 27. radio.garden — Explore global radio 28. everynoise.com — Discover music genres 29. tunefind.com — Find songs from shows 30. musicforprogramming.net — Focus music 31. mynoise.net — Custom background sounds 32. coffitivity.com — Café ambience 33. elicit.org — Research assistant 34. consensus.app — Research-backed answers 35. connectedpapers.com @sauda_coder — Research connections 36. semanticscholar.org — Academic search 37. scispace.com — Understand research papers 38. summarize.tech — YouTube summaries 39. phind.com — AI for developers 40. regex101.com — Test regex 41. codebeautify.org — Format code 42. jsonformatter.org — Format JSON 43. explainshell.com — Understand terminal commands 44. raindrop.io — Bookmark manager 45. downdetector.com — Check outages 46. tineye.com — Reverse image search 47. fast.com — Internet speed test 48. smallpdf.com — PDF tools 49. ilovepdf.com — Merge/split PDFs 50. 10minutemail.com — Temporary email Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖 Follow @sauda_coder for more useful websites, AI tools & tech resources. 🚀

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SA population hits 63.5 million! ​👫 Gender Gap: 32.3M women vs 31.2M men. Ladies, there is a 1.1 million shortage of amadoda. ​🚦 GP (16.2M): Officially full, the whole of Limpopo is here. Proof? N1 Traffic. ​🏖️ KZN (12.3M): 2nd biggest. Just pure vibes, humidity, and running from old age. ☀️ ​🏜️ NV (1.3M): Ghost town. The whole province shares one WhatsApp group.

This is Andy Burnham, the new British Prime Minister. He is addressing an issue that I have been talking about on this page for years: the obsession with university degrees that often do little to improve the employment prospects of our young people. There is enormous peer pressure for young people to go to university because many have been brought up to believe that a degree is automatically superior to a qualification from a polytechnic or a technical college. Yet that thinking is based on an outdated education model that no longer reflects the realities of today’s global economy. Many young people never receive proper career guidance. They are encouraged to pursue degrees without first asking a simple question. What opportunities will this qualification create? Meanwhile, careers in electrical engineering, plumbing, welding, fitting and turning, construction, refrigeration, vehicle mechanics, and many other skilled trades are overlooked, even though they are among the most financially rewarding professions today. I have experienced this myself. I have been trying to get someone to do a relatively small job at my home in the United Kingdom. The earliest available appointment was two weeks away. To hang about 20 framed portraits on the walls of a house, a handyman charges between £600 and £700 for roughly two hours of work. Plumbing is even more expensive. These skilled trades often pay better than many occupations requiring university degrees that have little demand in the labour market. That is why I am pleased to hear the British Prime Minister speaking openly about this issue. It is encouraging to see a leader acknowledging something that many of us have been saying for years. When I look at Zimbabwe’s history, particularly during the period that many people refer to as Rhodesia’s economic peak, one thing stands out. The country’s industrial success was built not on universities, but on the expansion of technical colleges, vocational training centres, and polytechnics. The University of Rhodesia produced administrators, professionals, and managers, but the people who built the factories, maintained the machinery, wired the electrical systems, constructed the roads and bridges, and kept heavy industry running largely came through technical and vocational education. At one point, Rhodesia operated one of the most sophisticated railway systems in Africa, and it was even ahead of the British railway system at the time. The system was not run primarily by university graduates; it was built, maintained, and operated largely by graduates of technical colleges. Yet it became the backbone of the Rhodesian economy, transporting raw materials, manufactured goods, and agricultural products across the country and beyond its borders. Industrial economies are built by skilled technicians as much as they are by university graduates. This is also personal for me. My late father ran a training programme in Murewa where he taught many former liberation war fighters practical skills such as carpentry and construction after the war. I watched him doing it. Those men left with trades that enabled them to build businesses and support their families. Some of them became extremely successful. When I was imprisoned for exposing corruption, one of the people my father had trained arrived at my home and left US$5,000 to ensure that I had whatever I needed while I was in prison. He had gone on to establish a successful construction company operating in Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana. His success was not built on a fashionable university degree. It was built on practical skills that created real economic value. That is why career guidance matters. Young people deserve honest advice, not outdated assumptions. We should stop treating university as the only respectable path to success and instead encourage young people to choose careers based on opportunity, aptitude, and the needs of the economy. I am deliberately not naming particular degrees because I do not want to discourage those who are already studying them. However, we cannot ignore the reality that some qualifications have very limited employment prospects. Even British newspapers such as The London Times regularly analyse graduate outcomes, comparing degrees that consistently lead to well-paid employment with those that often leave graduates underemployed or unemployed. As adults, parents, teachers, policymakers, and influencers, we have a responsibility to guide young people honestly. We must stop romanticising qualifications simply because they come from universities. Today, in the United Kingdom, an experienced plumber, electrician, or heating engineer can earn considerably more than many graduates in professions that require years at university. That tells us something about where the modern economy places value. Africa’s industrial revolution will not be driven by producing endless numbers of graduates whose skills do not match the demands of the economy. It will be driven by expanding technical colleges, vocational institutions, apprenticeships, and polytechnics that produce electricians, engineers, mechanics, builders, welders, technicians, and other skilled professionals capable of building industries rather than merely administering them. That is one of the most important lessons history has already taught us. The evidence is there for anyone willing to look at it objectively. Andy Burnham emphasised this reality by announcing a major investment in Britain’s nuclear deterrent that will create and support 22,000 apprenticeships. That is what political leadership should be looking at and working towards accomplishing not just endless empty speeches.

Just remembered this @mybroadband article a few days ago. Mind you Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa is the CEO of multinational conglomerate Naspers. Previously CEO of Shanduka, Co-founder of Sigma, VP at Fieldstone. Finance Degree, Rutgers. MBA, Montfort. Exec Ed, Harvard.

Yes, she is gifted and talented and she’s a black doctor and a scientist.

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If you want to understand modern psy-warfare, study Iran’s social media strategy. It didn’t just defend its position, it rewrote the narrative, rehabilitated its image, and pulled global sentiment in its direction. The US was left with no space to manoeuvre its narrative & folded

This video of Iran’s metro stations has about 1.5M views, many didn’t expect this level of infrastructure and design. Seeing it changes perceptions and surprises viewers.

The Pakistan talks collapsed. Iran's statement is precise: "The success of this process depends on the seriousness and good faith of the other side, refraining from excessive demands and unlawful conditions." "Excessive demands" = US demanded Iran surrender its nuclear program AND recognize Israel. "Unlawful conditions" = US demanded Iran waive war reparations it is legally owed. Iran did not walk away from peace. Iran walked away from humiliation. There is a difference.

BREAKING: Iranian State TV revealed the reasons for the failure of the talks with the U.S Details: - The U.S. tried to achieve at the negotiating table what it could not achieve through war - The Americans demanded that Iran hand over enriched uranium and open the Strait of Hormuz without recognizing Iran’s sovereignty over it - Iran has decided to defend its national interests by military means.

It seems that Vance arrived in Islamabad without the full authority to reach an agreement with Iran, unlike Ghalibaf. According to his own account, he called Trump more than 12 times during 21 hours of negotiations to discuss the issues. And according to Araghchi, he spoke with Netanyahu at least once during the Islamabad talks. The US needs a negotiator who can reach an agreement on the spot, not someone who keeps a phone in hand and, like a child, has to check everything with daddy or uncle.

To those who take Iran lightly, take note of this essential information. ​Whenever news breaks that Iran has hacked a high-tech American company or made their most advanced surveillance drone, the Triton, vanish... your first reaction is usually: "China must be supporting them" or "Russia must be helping"... right? ​Well, listen up. ​Iran ranks 4th in the world with an average IQ score of 104.80, while the United States ranks 18th with a score of 101.04. Iran has been a nation of intellectuals since the beginning, and it remains so today. ​Iran holds the 2nd rank globally in STEM graduate density—far ahead of the US, China, Germany, and India. ​STEM stands for Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics. ​This means that for every 100,000 people, Iran produces the second-highest number of specialists in the world in these fields. Furthermore, a significant number of students from Iran pursue advanced higher education. ​Iran possesses some of the world's best engineers and has the oil wealth to back them. With this, they have built a formidable defense infrastructure. This is why they possess highly advanced missiles and the skilled personnel to operate them. ​Now, consider the news that China is about to deliver its newest, most advanced defense system to Iran. So, for those who think Iran is intimidated by America, please read the facts instead of falling for media chatter. #Kaalchakra ​I hold a Master's degree in International Trade, and international projects are my business. I study all of this for my profession. I felt that the general public should be informed, so I am writing this post. If you don't like my post, please Google it and prove me wrong. Don't just talk nonsense based on emotions, or I will respond in kind.