Hagen Engler
@hagenengler.bsky.social
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Word artist. Comms worker. Afro-positivist. 🍉Novelist | Musician | Editorial Director. Johannesburg, South Africa. Spoken-word acoustic album http://bit.ly/3KSbbe5
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Albert Luthuli: South African court rules apartheid police assault killed Nobel laureate
Albert Luthuli: South African court rules apartheid police assault killed Nobel laureate
The court sets aside the 1967 inquest that found that the anti-apartheid hero was hit by a goods train.
www.bbc.com
This doesn’t just gut refugee admissions — it creates a race-based system that prioritizes white South Africans over people facing real danger in their home countries.
An insult to everything we stand for. Trump is burying Ronald Reagan’s vision of America as a “shining city on a hill.”
An insult to everything we stand for. Trump is burying Ronald Reagan’s vision of America as a “shining city on a hill.”
Trump administration slashes number of refugees, prioritizes Afrikaners
The State Department will also no longer manage the resettlement of refugees.
www.politico.com
President says US will prioritise white South Africans in move decried by refugee advocates as blatantly political.
Trump announces lowest refugee admission cap in US history at 7,500
President says US will prioritise white South Africans in move decried by refugee advocates as blatantly political.
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Can Tazmin Brits please stop playing the reverse sweep? She’s not good at it 😭
It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
Mark Z. Danielewski's novel, TOM'S CROSSING, is published today. Set in the Utah mountains, it's a chase story...and as close to the Great American Novel as you're ever going to get.
Reposted by Hagen Engler
Reposted by Hagen Engler
“Privatisation was the experiment — and it’s failed. We have water companies pumping sewage into our rivers and charging us extra for the privilege.”
Zack Polanski says it’s time to bring water back into public hands on #BBCPoliticsNorth.
Zack Polanski says it’s time to bring water back into public hands on #BBCPoliticsNorth.
