I can confirm firsthand that Rev. Bryant has been highly Sus for a very long time. π¬
I can confirm firsthand that Rev. Bryant has been highly Sus for a very long time. π¬
Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. βPastorβ Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please donβt believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."
Nekima on the Target boycott.
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*Accurate thumbnail bioβaccompanied by a Wildly inaccurate photo, even tho my headshots dating to the 2010s are easily found across the Internet. OTOH, a Cynical thought, during this bleak era of Corp racism driven by 47: Maybe Iβd have better luck landing a well-paying FT role if I CosPlay as a WWπ€¦π½ββοΈ
Yup. Worse: Even as they scrape our original words, works, etc., without our prior consent to βtrainβ their Soulless LLMs, they are themselves so bereft of Humanities intelligence, cultural competence EQ, etc., that their βbots responses are deeply DUMB! This is how ChatGPT depicts me: π¬
Thank you for your activism. After I read Casey Newtonβs detailed walk-through of #Grammerlyβs terrible βreviewβ tool the other day, I thought to conduct a scan bc Iβm sure Iβm in there too BUT I havenβt gotten to it yet. Itβs all so Demoralizing + Infuriating, as Mo Ryan pointed out. π«
In the grand Effed Up scheme of the #AI proliferation thatβs being forced on us lately, this is a proverbial βsmall victory.β Still, Iβll take it! Thanks for sharing this update.
cc: @moryan.bsky.social
Email screenshot: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces. The feature will be deactivated starting March 12, 2026. We're sorry, and we appreciate you holding us to a higher standard."
Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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In happier news, this cheers me up: meet Allen Michaan, owner/operator of the spectacular, century old #GrandLake movie palace in OaklandCA. He is a Civic HERO dedicated to preserving this architectural gem, and maintaining a nourishing cultural gathering placeππΎποΈπ₯ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Historian here it does hurt to see how ignorant the tech bros and the current regime are when it comes to the humanities or even their own field! Kudos to @historians.org for standing up for History education, essential for an informed citizenry in a virtuous republic.
A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files.
The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.
Right?! Perversely, last year I got a payment as part of that Class Action suit against FB/Meta for stealing user data to train its stupid AI: grand total in my pocket? $77. π Still awaiting outcome of the #OpenAI and #Anthropic lawsuits re copyright theft. My book publishers signed on. π€·π½ββοΈ
Last (for now!) Along w the terrible impacts on writers and other creatives that AI is creating, thereβs also horrible socioecon outcomes escalating by the minute: see #SF + the greater Bay Area, where residents WHO ACTUALLY POWER CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE canβt afford to live thanks to Rich Techiesπ‘
PS: CoPilot (MSFT/OpenAI), Grammarly, Gemini (Google/Alphabet) and dozens more are a Scourge on humanity and it infuriates me how many Electeds have signed off on these jerks releasing Extractive products in the public marketplace w/ ZERO independent study on negative impacts! It is Outrageous π‘
Thanks @moryan.bsky.social for articulating this forcefully. I hit a wall a few months ago when a friend sent me a screencap of a prompt he used in ChatGPT: βWho is Amy L. Alexander?β Similar to you, Iβve been in mass media for a long time, yet the βbot returned a short bioβw/ a pic of a blonde WWπ€¦π½ββοΈ
Be sure to read this in full: the kicker is cathartic! π₯π₯π₯https://www.moryan.com/an-open-letter-to-grammarly-and-other-plagiarists-thieves-and-slop-merchants/
ββMove fast and break thingsβ now extends to the reputations and identities of respected professionals and creative people. And you have the nerve to presume we should all put up with every outrage, with every act of destruction, with every theft. I donβt. I wonβt.β @moryan.bsky.social has HAD ITππΎ
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Tβyeah. Textbook example of complicit, cowardly Flunkies laundering #CYA messaging via the press.
Edit: White people with guns stormed the Michigan State Capitol
Weβve seen this before. Flashback to May 2020, as the CVD19 pandemic swept across the U.S. www.statnews.com/2020/05/17/t...
Flashback to summer of 2020 as COVID-19 escalated nationwide, claiming thousands of U.S. residents and we learned that Obamaβs MedSci team had given 45βs teams in 2017 a comprehensive public health mitigation plan in case of viral transmission threatβ¦which 45βs team ignored. π€¦π½ββοΈ
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are they really going to call it that
Operation Epstein Defender
Related Reminder: Racist, Corrupt 47 dodged the draft five times during the #VietnamWar.
Police argue the Jan 6 plaque was mounted in a βhiddenβ location, no different than a basement storage room:
substack.com/@macfarlanen...
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegsethβs lust for βlethality.β
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
See this #Weinstein Jailhouse intervew www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
βHe cycled through a series of operatic emotionsβpride, fury, self-pity, shame. But his six years of incarceration had failed to inspire any genuine contrition. The world may have branded him a monster, but Harvey still considers himself a victim β crucified for a bygone era of Hollywood sins.β π« ππΎ