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then feel free to live your life in c/politics, c/news, and tbh practically every other comm, you don’t even need to login to the site, it’s frontloaded with american news, politics, topics and twitter memes

lemmy shitpost is for shitposts not american politics

if you cannot handle an irrelevant little fun fact in the commets section i don’t know what to say, teaspoon of cement or just block me?

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    South Africa’s foreign-born population almost trebled to 2.4 million between 1996 and 2022, according to the census, which aimed to include undocumented people. That represented 3.9% of the 62 million population, up from 2% in 1996. South Africa’s government has said it is working to improve immigration data.

    As frustration has grown at South Africa’s high levels of unemployment and inequality, so too has the scapegoating of other Africans. This tension has periodically erupted into often fatal violence.

    The current wave of protests about immigration peaked on 30 June, which was an unofficial deadline given by campaign groups for illegal immigrants to leave the country. But the attacks and displacement have continued, leading to thousands more fleeing South Africa this month.


    Looks like immigration causing problems even in Africa

     

    guy writes a lot of great tech articles tbh, have read quite a few now

    Censorship

    The part that bothers me isn’t the specific ban on LLM projects, or the specific ban on cryptocurrency projects. It’s that a hub built around “free software” is now telling its users which kinds of software are deemed good and which are not, and that is closer to censorship than it might seem. Once a platform writes into its terms that an entire category “harms its reputation” and can be removed on that basis, the deciding factor stops being whether the code is legal, or functional, or useful, and becomes whether it aligns with a position the platform has taken. I would argue that a significant share of the projects caught by a blanket ban of that kind are legitimate software rather than vibe-coded slop or sh.tcoin implementations.

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