darnelle 🪷

chatterbox busybody goody-two-shoes from southside chi. hood nerd.

[darnelle 🪷 @PROTVGONIST]

@justtjustinaa me, lmao. i got zero regard for my mental health and that series is a 10/10. 😭

[أم شكردن @ZkakLBlatt_love]

This is literally what Fidel Castro said and people thought was crazy

[shayma @roundthefurr]

we should all be like her

[Black Writer in Berlin 🖋🖊 @PhilipHend57757]

"Politicians in my eyes," recorded in 1974, actually sounds like 1990s grunge. DEATH was way ahead of its time.

[darnelle 🪷 @PROTVGONIST]

@briedidntask fr atp it’s “normal.” at the very least expected.

[lazarusneverdied @plamedi432]

I wish more people knew about dr clenora instead of bell hooks.

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

Just saw this on Substack. The metaphor is spot on.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[m @chmpgnsoshalist]

“humanity faces a new Tower of Babel” is such an unbelievably hard opening for a document about AI.

[Peppers | Phoenix Fan Fusion A1403 @PinchofPeppers]

I love how the Pope's encyclical is so well-written that people sincerely believe it was written by AI, because the notion of being that well-educated and qualified for a leadership role is genuinely foreign to the general public.

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

[AquaticLettuce ⏳|📜|👑💌 @AquaticLettuce]

> Pope announces his stance against AI
> the bubble immediately starts popping
Thank god literally i guess

[Staladus 🐁 @Staladus]

The atheism leaving my body the moment the Pope starts talking about how AI is an affront to God and the new Tower of Babel

[Naomi Barton @therealnaomib]

immediate classic. i suspect this is what it was like for people to read the greats in their time. the one thing about everything becoming slop is that something this gorgeously true, elegant, considered hits you in the face like the fist of god

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

“As oppressed people we do have in common the fact that our press releases and our statements, if they even hit the news media, which is controlled by the oppressor, are often distorted and the press never tells the truth.”
-Kwame Ture

[Edgar Allen Poe 🇬🇲 @allenakinkunle]

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[darnelle 🪷 @PROTVGONIST]

@disrupthehuman Oh wait, for clarity, the book she DNF'd was "House of the Scorpion." The book about the war veteran was a different scenario. I was also reading another memoir about a former Iraqi prisoner of war at the time.

[darnelle 🪷 @PROTVGONIST]

@disrupthehuman I was sharing my experience with a memoir about a Iraq War veteran. It mystified her that I would willingly read an account from a soldier killing and dehumanizing ppl.

I tried to explain that I simply want an unfiltered story in pursuit of a more holistic vision of my world.

[darnelle 🪷 @PROTVGONIST]

@disrupthehuman I don't read with the intention or expectation that every book matches my current beliefs and worldview, nor am I unable to grasp bias, cruelty, poor arguments, etc. when they present themselves. I trust my brain. More than anything I'd hate to engage with art SO defensively.

[darnelle 🪷 @PROTVGONIST]

@disrupthehuman For her she seemed deeply avoidant and anxious of the idea that 'consuming' certain stories, media, etc.—That they would corrupt her.

I've struggled to wrap my own head around it. It's scarier for me to NOT seek work that dives into lives and experiences far removed from my own.