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When Governance Architecture Is Not Governance 

Today at 13:09 PM, via iAfrica

Africa’s AI Momentum Is Real. The Governance Beneath It Is Not. On 27 April 2026, South Africa’s Communications and Digital Technologies Minister pulled the country’s Draft National AI Policy after it emerged that its reference list contained fictitious academic citations, articles attributed to researchers who had never written them, on topics they had never studied. […]

We are preparing to transform the moon and Mars. The public must have a say in this future | Ben Bramble

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

The Artemis missions are paving the way to civilizational decisions. It’s time to ask not just what we can do – but whether we should do it

This month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and returned safely. It is an extraordinary thing to send people into deep space and bring them...

The Invisible Force Making Food Less Nutritious

Today at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

fjo3 shares a report from the Washington Post: Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, have produced potent changes in the way plants grow — from increasing their sugar content to depleting essential nutrients like zinc. Experts fear the degradation of Earth’s food supply will cause an epidemic of hidden hunger, in which even people who...

Working class under siege — The rising cost of healthcare and the Gems crisis

Today at 12:53 PM, via Daily Maverick

Gems was established as a social solidarity instrument – to provide affordable, equitable healthcare to public servants. Today, that founding vision is under threat. When contributions rise beyond affordability, when co-payments increase, when members are forced to downgrade or exit the scheme, we are witnessing the erosion of that social compact.

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