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"What troubled me more was to sit and watch and listen to the thunderous silence of the righteous, the prayerful, the convicted, the believers, where is the holy outrage, where was the righteous indignation when this man's remains languished in that place, where were we all of us
Do we still need a Constitutional Court in Botswana? Just look at how a court ruling can ignite public outrage and trigger violence. The real question is whether our justice system is strengthening constitutionalism or deepening societal divisions. There stuck.
MASS SHOOTING IN RSA.
I’m beginning to question the old apartheid-era narrative that Black societies cannot govern themselves. The real crisis, however, may be less about race and more about institutional fragility, elite capture, corruption, weak accountability, resource plunder and the abuse of state power. When political power becomes unchecked, public resources are diverted, institutions are compromised, and weapons can become instruments of internal conflict. The question is no longer “Who can rule us?” but “Who will build institutions strong enough to protect us from the abuse of power?
The man appears deeply tired and troubled. From his appearance in this particular image, he looks visibly fatigued and under considerable pressure: his eyes appear heavy, his expression is serious and subdued, and his face gives an overall impression of tiredness, stress and concern.
CRIME DOESNT PAY.
True loyalty reflects God's character, it remains steadfast in truth, love, and commitment, even when no one is watching.
The most dangerous form of colonialism is not the control of land, but the control of the mind , when the oppressed begin to see themselves through the eyes of the oppressor.
Football or any Sport should never become a privilege reserved for the highest bidder. It belongs to the people, to inspire, unite, and create equal opportunities. When money determines who can watch, compete, or host, the true spirit of sport is diminished. The game should always come before the profits.
Statement attributable to the FIFA President
The FIFA Forward Enterprise project was intended to provide a basis for further strengthening our FIFA Member Associations and our sport worldwide, especially in those countries where support is most needed. And more so, as we said from the outset, to do this only if a majority of the FIFA Member Associations were in support and always subject to a consultation process with them, the FIFA Council, the Confederations and wider stakeholders.
Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place.
Our purpose has always been - and will always be - to unite and improve.
As a result, this proposal will not proceed.
Moving forward, my intent is to bring all interested parties back together in the coming days and weeks in the spirit of shared interest in our game, and with the objective to continue growing football everywhere, particularly in those countries that mostly need our support.
Some 9/11 families oppose Zohran Mamdani's attendance because they believe his past statements and associations are insensitive to the victims and the legacy of the attacks. Others disagree, and the memorial itself remains a nonpartisan event open to elected officials.
Hmm I wonder why the families of 9/11 don’t want Mandami at the 25th anniversary memorial ceremony. Could it be for any of the following reasons?
He campaigned with Hassan Piker who said US deserved 9/11
He endorsed Claire Valdez who also said America deserved 9/11
He endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier who founded a group at Columbia with a stated goal of overthrowing Western Civilization
He sympathized with the Boston Marathon bombers before the murdered bodies were even cold?
His dad has justified “suicide bombing” (like the ones in 9/11) as “first and foremost a category of soldier”.
Mandami has refused to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada” which is exactly what 9/11 was
During his mayoral campaign he took a smiling picture with his arm around Iman Siraj Wahhaj who was accused of being one of the co-conspirators of the 1993 world trade center bombing
He has said he wanted to defund the police about a million times and demonized law enforcement
Yeah I wonder why the families don’t want him there. The bigger question is how the hell did we get here in the 1st place?
Ps - All the above is readily accessible with a quick google search. He hasnt hid who he is.
Hebrews 7:2 (KJV): To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all. So, biblically, a tithe means 10%.
Seeing five global stars perform under one roof at a FIFA World Cup closing ceremony is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime spectacle that millions would never forget. One night. One game. The world united.
Unwavering support for military action against Iran and unconditional backing of Israel risked escalating tensions, sidelining peaceful solutions, and deepening divisions across the Middle East. True leadership requires balancing security with diplomacy, not treating force as the default response.
The Republican stalwart had backed tough action against Iran and been a strong supporter of Israel. on.wsj.com/4voHwe6
Congratulations to the South African authorities on the arrest. My heartfelt condolences to the family of the woman and her two children. May justice prevail, and may they rest in peace.
BREAKING: A man wanted in connection with the murder of a woman and her two children in Bedford has been arrested in South Africa, police there say
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Solani Thom Tanjo. retweeted
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 scores 54 to place fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index following only Fable 5, GPT-5.5, and Opus 4.8. It scores on par with GPT-5.5 in Codex on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index in the Grok Build harness, at much lower cost
Grok 4.5 improves 16 points over Grok 4.3 on the Intelligence Index, bringing SpaceXAI to the intelligence frontier behind only OpenAI and Anthropic, and outperforming all open weights models and notably Google’s Gemini models. Key standout areas of performance are agentic knowledge work and coding.
Grok 4.5 in Grok Build scores 76 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, on par with GPT-5.5 (xhigh) in Codex and just below Fable 5 (max) in Claude Code, and at a small fraction of the token usage and price.
Congratulations to @spacexai, @cursor_ai, and @elonmusk on the impressive release!
Key Takeaways:
➤ Grok 4.5 performs very strongly on agentic tasks. Grok 4.5 ranks #4 on GDPval-AA v2 with an Elo of 1543, between Claude Opus 4.8 (1600) and GLM-5.2 (1513). It achieves the top score on 𝜏³-Banking of 33%, above 31% from GPT-5.5 (xhigh), and sits on the cost vs performance Pareto frontier across all three agentic evaluations in the Intelligence Index
➤ Grok 4.5 is one of the most cost efficient models to run for near-frontier intelligence. It costs $0.31 per task on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and $2.59 per task on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index within Grok Build
➤ Low cost for Grok 4.5 is driven by both low pricing and token efficiency. Grok 4.5 has a headline price over 60% lower than Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and used ~14k output tokens per Intelligence Index Task - over 60% lower than Opus 4.8. On the Coding Agent Index, Grok 4.5 stands out on the Pareto frontier of Coding Agent Index score vs. Total Tokens, using only 1.9M tokens for the Coding Agent Index while scoring 76
➤ As a coding agent, Grok 4.5 in Grok Build is on par with GPT-5.5 and offers efficiency benefits: In our Artificial Intelligence Coding Agent Index that consists of DeepSWE, Terminal-Bench v2, and SWE-Atlas QnA, Grok 4.5 in Grok Build ranks third, on par with GPT-5.5 (Codex) and below Fable 5 (Claude Code). It is also very efficient in achieving this result: Grok 4.5 in Grok Build cost $2.49 per task while Fable 5 in Claude Code cost $11.80 and GPT-5.5 in Codex $5.07. This is driven by relatively low token pricing and the model using far fewer tokens than comparable models (1.9M average tokens used per task), significantly less than Fable 5 in Claude Code (7.2M) and GPT-5.5 in Codex (6.2M)
Other model details:
➤ Context window of 500k tokens - a reduction from Grok 4.3’s 1M token context, but retaining configurable reasoning and vision input
➤ Pricing of $2/$6 per 1M tokens of input/output; cache hits are discounted by 75% to $0.5 per 1M tokens, and costs still double with long (>200k token) inputs
➤ As Elon Musk has disclosed, Grok 4.5 is 3x larger than its predecessor at 1.5T parameters
Solani Thom Tanjo. retweeted
Grok 4.5 is not yet using our internally developed C/C++ inference software that exact maps to the GB300 hardware. Doubling or more of the current speed is probably achievable.
I think AI has just hit a gigantic threshold, and Grok 4.5 is the PERFECT example as to why that is.
One of the hardest parts of working with AI is iterating on a project or task that you're working on.
As the models have gotten smarter (and more expensive), it's taking longer and longer to get an answer or action back.
This creates a ton of stall time per query or action, which is actually quite bad for creativity and staying in a state of flow.
You have SO many extended starts and stops. Which inevitably leads to your brain going somewhere else. And then when the AI comes back, you have to redirect your brain to that original task, spool your brain back up to what you were working on at that moment, and then adjust as needed.
There's a ton of mental friction involved.
This ESPECIALLY sucks when the AI takes a REALLY long time to get something back for you, but it's not quite what you were looking for or asked for. And what sucks EVEN MORE is that these "mistakes" are getting MORE expensive!!!
So wait time is going up. AND it costs more per run.
HOWEVER - even after using Grok 4.5 for about an hour - what's become obvious is that it's SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE AND BETTER to use a model that is FAST... and capable ENOUGH.
Capable ENOUGH is the real unlock here.
Imagine having Fable 5 performance but at the speed of Gemini 3.5 flash. Or Haiku. That's where we're inevitably going.
I think Grok 4.5 (and models like it) have really solved for one of the biggest unlocks in AI - a model that will get you a GOOD ENOUGH answer VERY FAST, at which point iteration can happen VERY QUICKLY.
This - counter intuitively - keeps the user in a state of flow and creativity for MUCH longer because you are constantly ENGAGED with your project... instead of letting the AI loose for a long time.
And as long as humans are involved, I think 'not quite right' will be a FOREVER problem with AI - because AIs, by default, CANNOT have human taste.
Because they are NOT human.
But they can be UNBELIEVABLE tools. And unbelievable tools are the ones that are VERY GOOD and VERY FAST.
I think that's the true unlock with Grok 4.5 and models like it.
Difficult to describe until you experience it.
I think this is a VERY big deal for @spacexai and @elonmusk.