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TikTok’s US Split Reshapes Global Access: What South Africa’s 17M Users and Creators Must Know About Monetization Limits, Algorithm Changes, and Growing Localized Feeds

South Africa has over 17 million TikTok users, yet local creators cannot access TikTok’s Creator Rewards or Fund. This is mainly because TikTok hasn’t set up the necessary payment systems in South Africa, including local banking, tax handling, and legal agreements compliant with local laws. Additionally, TikTok prioritizes launching monetization programs in select test markets […]

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General Politics WTF

Are these Emojis “secret symbols” linked to Tren de Aragua

Last week, U.S. law enforcement agencies made a surprising claim: certain emojis being used on social media might be secret symbols linked to Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang. This theory appeared in official briefings, training documents, and reports shared among officers from the FBI, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the U.S. Army, and […]

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Politics Techstuff WTF

Curtis Yarvin’s Dark Enlightenment: The Radical Vision Shaping a Post-Democratic Future

The Dark Enlightenment, also known as the neo-reactionary movement (NRx), is a philosophical and political ideology that rejects democratic and egalitarian principles, advocating for a return to hierarchical and traditional forms of governance. Also referred to as technofacism, this ideology promotes an absolute monarchy or corporate-style feudalism. AS this is being written on the day […]

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General Politics

Thomas Matthew Crooks: What Led to the Attempted Shooting of Donald Trump?

What happened to the guy who attempted to shoot Donald Trump at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania? WE hear very little about him, and nobody even references that event, seen both as Divine interference and the result of Joe Biden’s policies. In interviews, Trump expressed astonishment at surviving the attack, attributing it to luck […]

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Politics Techstuff WTF

The Technocracy Movement: A Failed Utopian Vision and Its Controversial Echoes in Elon Musk

The Technocracy movement, emerging from the economic devastation of the Great Depression in the 1930s in the United States and Canada, proposed a radical solution: replacing traditional governance with a system ruled by scientists and engineers. Does this have a familiar sound? At the moment we are seeing a frightening rise of technofacism  embodied by […]

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