Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Questioning Code: Courage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Alondra Nelson Amherst College Commencement Amherst, MA May 24, 2025 As Prepared for Delivery
I was honored to have the opportunity to address the Amherst College community with an address titled "Questioning Code: Courage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." albert.ias.edu/server/api/c...
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
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This week's episode of #Paradise - whoa! All the awards for Sterling Brown and James Marsden.
All of the above! 😅
I tell my students all the time: before you criticize something, make sure you understand what it is doing or attempting to do.
And it’s okay to just say you don’t understand.
And I got Purple Rain for high school seniors in the spring 😅
Training Day ending too lol
Continuing with the buddy flick theme, Training Day Denzel is all over this film.
Watching #GladiatorII. 35 min in and this is like a Denzel Washington-Paul Mescal buddy flick, and I’m here for it. Denzel is having so much fun in this role I can tell.
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This whole thread is wild!
y'all please keep me in your prayers my fierce aunt Liv just got called home
I’m thinking (incompletely) like a step beyond Creative Commons licensing
Yeah I have not thought this through beyond wish level lol. But even an opt in platform. I don’t believe most people want to be pirates or plagiarists—it’s just not always easy to find the original citation. And if they were made easier I think people would be cool with it.
Screen capture of Meta AI generated profile of “hellograndpabrian” featuring brown skinned black man with gray beard, a series of AI generated or augmented images, and a profile bio that reads “AI managed by Meta. Everybody’s grandpa. Retired textile businessman who is always learning. Message me to talk about anything.”
Looks like Meta is taking down their (Blackface) AI-generated/augmented profiles. So many questions here. Who wrote their bios? Why is Grandpa Brian a “retired textile businessman”? Textile as in cotton?? 😐
Maybe @anildash.com can offer some insight into this
I really need someone to develop a smart contract app that enforces citations for quotes and credits for archival images. A public ledger that traces chain of transmission. I don’t know how it would all work but
Prince singing over an Anita Baker sample? Yes. Yesssssss
20 years ago today, #Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and brought the house down with this searing guitar solo. And then later that night I was one of the lucky many who go to see him funk up and rock out Club Black.
Honored to have joined Stephen Satterfield on his journey to Atlanta to sample MJ’s Pies and Chais delicious #beanpie and discuss #BlackMuslim food culture for the second season of High on the Hog, now streaming on Netflix.
As we celebrate Hip-Hop's 50th, Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer reminds us that "In my book, I make the case that Islam, specifically Black Islam, gave hip-hip knowledge of self." https://theconversation.com/knowledge-of-self-how-a-key-phrase-from-islam-became-a-pillar-of-hip-hop-208559
Last night marked 40 years since the live debut of Prince’s band The Revolution, in a scintillating show that included the premieres of half the songs on Purple Rain — which was recorded live that night. This is how that moment happened. https://anildash.com/2014/07/25/i_know_times_are_changing/
Platforms are reluctant to admit that they are making editorial choices. I’ll put it this way: you don’t have to be a fancy spot with a dress code, but if people know it’s ok to shit on the floor in your establishment you’re going to get a lot of floor shitters and other customers will go elsewhere.
I loved the point about factual vs. emotional honesty.
