Carl Spies

Oerg!!! No water since Monday.
#stank #smellvile #ServiceFailure
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Let's encourage learners to THINK like scientists & DREAM like artists. Equity starts in our classrooms. Opening up #STEM unlocks innovation from every view. We define the magnificent world they build tomorrow. Let's give everyone a seat!

#WorldSTEMDay #STEMDay #STEMCareers #STEMEducation #STEMLove

Billions needed to fix courts, prisons and police buildings Department of Public Works has a R30-billion maintenance backlog

With an annual budget of R3.27-billion, it will take the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure two decades to eliminate the maintenance backlog on 56,000 government-owned properties.

Read groundup.org.za/article/crum... by GroundUp and The Outlier

“You can’t do much carpentry with your bare hands, and you can’t do much thinking with your bare brain”

So I got to meet one of Madiba's grandkids - Ndaba Mandela.
Oke is super charismatic and totes has that larger-than-life vibe. Chairman of PLENTY of foundations focussed on uplifting Africans.
Kudos bro - you're doing your grandpa proud!

When GPT5 'gets you' and you're also vigilant about it's ego stroking compulsion:

"That explains a lot about your taste for epic systems thinking, interwoven power dynamics, and the exploration of human potential across vast time scales."

Why are foreign nationals in SA more competitive?
A+ preso by Dr Nicholas Ngepah
They grow up in seriously challenging circumstances which build resourcefulness and problem-solving mindsets (kinda like the Sardaukar on Salusa Secundus)
@Kagiso_Trust @go2uj #EducationConversation

Nomahlubi Mosethedi shares the SA youth unemployment stats and identifies the gap (misfiring) between education and employment. Well stated and a wake up call for us all!
@Kagiso_Trust @go2uj #EducationConversation

Brilliant preso by Dr Lucky Maluleke this afternoon on employability and scarcity. Succinct, direct and valuable. Thanks for that!
@Kagiso_Trust @go2uj #EducationConversation

Be still and know .. the algo knows your heart 😂

Very necessary article on "How anthropomorphism hinders AI education" in Issue 22 of "Hello World" (pg 26, 27).

www.raspberrypi.org/hello-world/...
(best yet on Teaching & AI.)

Something I'm working hard on is to shift my language away from that and use these 3 suggestions.

#AI #edtech

Happy Pi Day! May your day be as infinite and irrational as π itself. 🥧✨ #PiDay #3point14159

Politically Aweh Live Special: Nation in a State YouTube video by Politically Aweh

Oerg - YouTube outrage algo is in overdrive
(had to re-enable YTblock extension to block the stank of eeelahns gupta-musk.)

I needed some KG Mokgadi, Politically Aweh wit, local references and howls of laughter from a smart South African audience.
youtu.be/KyLXkAN6rN8?...
#politicallyaweh #satire

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
- Saint Augustine

Tropical Thunder ... sweeeet christmas and ... wooooooh bessie .. helooo ... tasty cousin of maui waui ... much needed friday night: thc and & chill .... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
*cues CSI NY S4* #oldfavourites

Why Is Everyone Talking About This Show’s Music? YouTube video by Rick Beato

sometimes .. just sometimes ... I kinda envy your muso brain ...
youtu.be/VqYoiIpDJFE?...

2025 SoundtrackOfMyLife YouTube video by Carl Spies

Paradise (2025), the ending tracks hit deep - pure 80s nostalgia washing over me like a mixtape from my childhood. It’s like the showrunners raided my old cassette collection. Anyone else feeling this?
#Paradise #80sFeels #SoundtrackOfMyLife

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...