#SouthAfrican artist Lebohang Kganye has been following in her late #mother's footsteps to photograph these touching images of her ghostly presence in her mother's life.
As she says 'there's this idea of the ghost & this idea of slippage between memory & reality - in some of the images you aren't sure whether she's the daughter or I'm the daughter'
I find her images so powerfully evocative of memory, loss & the relationship with our long past parents, I wanted to share one this #sunday
I'm not an IPv6 fundamentalist, but it really is time that our ISPs started allowing us to get IPv6 addresses if we want them. #AWS will no longer be providing free IPv4 addresses to their customers from February (that's only 3 months from now), and that includes non-permanent DHCP addresses, for all services. I expect a number of websites and services will decide there's no need to pay for IPv4 addresses when most of the Internet has at least rudimentary support for IPv6 by now, which means that they'll simply vanish from sight for most South African users.
And where AWS leads, other cloud providers eventually follow.
So who do we speak to to get things moving? All I get from the support channels is polite confusion, because there's no "Add new service" item on their choose-your-own-adventure support scripts, and no way to escalate to decision makers.
Edit: There are local ISPs who will allow you to get an IPv6 address. These are few and far between, though.
Fellow South Africans (Pretoria specifically), does anyone know of an affordable therapist, preferably around the PTA East area? If not, an affordable therapist taking online appointments? I need help, but I also need to pay for that help myself. I'm a university student, for reference, and I want to look into something, anything, so that I don't feel this out of control anymore.
I listened to your fascinating interview (1) with #ThomasZimmer. (1)
Also, I had a brief look at your #Wikipedia entry.
When I read in the shownotes that this was about your book, which I haven't read, "What Tech Calls Thinking" is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual..
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Is This Democracy:
25. The Ideology of #SiliconValley vs the Idea of Democracy – with #AdrianDaub
...penchant for #SciFi, the early-blooming in life of these tech founders, and the nerd-discrimination they had suffered for their nerdy books.
Even though all these are facts, they are not at the bottom of all this. The #SouthAfrican-born #Musk, child of #apartheid, seems to be another factor.
I do see, though, that an overidentification with #FrankHerbert's #Dune's Paul Muad'Dib...
They did not have the necessary permits for their weapons.
"We cannot let passengers with illegal firearms into the EU," -airport spokesman Mr Rudzki. He added that they were told they could disembark if they left their weapons on the plane but they refused.
"The firearms.. were not going to be confiscated as some reports in South Africa have said," he added.