Johnny Ray Gill

My new series CROSS premieres Nov. 14th on Amazon Prime. 🔍🥶

[Johnny Ray Gill @JohnnyRayGill]

Meet Bobby Trey.

Binge all 8 episodes of @crossonprime season one NOW on @PrimeVideo

#CrossOnPrime #AlexCross

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

Weaponizing blackness to defend AI as if it hasn’t already been used to racially profile Black people and poison Black communities is pathetic, but what else should I expect from this man?

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Courtside at MSG is funny because it’s like beloved former Knicks star from the ‘90s next to an insanely famous actor next to the CEO of a company that turns orphans into AI data center liquid coolant.

[Johnny Ray Gill @JohnnyRayGill]

For far too long we’ve sat next to white people and just let them lie… like in this clip, that’s got to stop. Total accountability moving forward or it’s checkmate.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Kid Chaos. #Discipline Sucka Free. @KidChaosMIA]

I was talkin to a girl for a few weeks one time n when I went to pick her up for the first date, we got like ten minutes up the road n she said sumn like “ion know if i feel like being out fr”. I replied “i feel you” n immediately took her back home n spent the rest of the night getting “you’re sensitive” n “I ain’t mean it like that” texts. Idc. All I gotta do is sniff I’m more into you than you are fw me n it’s clipped. Yall niggas are just desperate n have no dignity. Ida left expeditiously

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

There are basically a few ways to make a billion dollars. It’s either through monopolies, insider trading, political payoffs, fraud, inheritance, or wage theft. Nobody makes a billion dollars purely from hard work or saving money.

[David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS]

This the quintessential story of how sports reflects the state of the world. Thousands of fans have waited for Game 3 their whole lives and now they’re priced out of entering the game and can’t even celebrate outside because one billionaire gets to attend the game for free.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

So let me get this straight:

When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.

When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.

Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🏀 The New York Knicks went up 2-0 in the NBA Finals with a victory Friday night, putting them just two wins away from their first NBA title in 53 years.

The team is playing with the UAE government-backed “Experience Abu Dhabi” logo stitched onto its jerseys under a sponsorship deal worth around $30 million per year.

Rep. Jim McGovern (MA) says, “Fans should know that the sport they are enjoying is fueling crimes against humanity. They should know that the NBA is investing in the UAE, and the UAE is investing in atrocities in Sudan.”

The Knicks are the NBA’s only individual franchise with a direct sponsorship arrangement of this kind with the UAE. The broader NBA-UAE partnership is estimated to generate roughly $500 million in advertising revenue.

🎥 Video: @RefugeesIntl

[Club Shay Shay @ClubShayShay]

"2,000 years ago, the sun was in the constellation cancer on June 26th. It's not there anymore. ... It's an entire constellation off from the origins of the zodiac [signs]." - @neiltyson

[More Luigis Needed @LisaA311]

Interesting that wage theft is never called a national crisis

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Entering month 6 of the Mamdani mayorship of NYC and Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, and Murder is down an astounding 21%.

And he did so without "Adding 5000 new cops" to the streets. Instead, he's invested in public safety with free childcare, accessible infrastructure, and better funded schools and libraries. He's proven once again that if we want safer communities, we must invest in People—not Punishments.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

California is a neoliberal capitalist dystopia where the rich get richer and everyone else struggles to survive under the insane cost of living. Anyone who thinks the state is socialist knows nothing about socialism. The Democrats who rule the state are capitalist to their bones.

[Lizzy DarkWings @darkwingstweet]

@OrevaZSN In the tech world, they call software customers "users" for a reason.

It’s telling that CEOs view us, and their own employees, as addicts that need to be kept hooked to boost their profits.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The capitalist obsession with rapid growth at all costs is literally the function of cancer cells.

[Analytica Camillus @AnalyticaCamil1]

This gave me one of those Little Dark Ages America nostalgia moments for a media landscape I wasn’t even alive for.

You’re telling me that in the US, on mainstream television (not C-Span), we used to have sophisticated film discussions between extraordinarily well-watched media experts, who were well-versed enough in socio-cultural matters to have an actually intellectually vibrant discourse?

Just on cable?

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

Amazing Siskel & Ebert argument over the Wayans Brothers' Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Damien Peters @DamienPetersNBA]

I wholeheartedly believe the NBA community took LeBron James going to 8 straight Finals for granted. It takes a monumental effort to get there. The fact that it became routine is mind boggling. To this day he’s the most underrated competitor that’s ever played.