Vernon Reid

Guitar can take you far; from Brooklyn To The Sky...!

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

Bernard Edwards deserves ALL The LOVE. Like Paul Jackson jr. his influence on the way Electric Bass is played is WAY underrated. Good Times is one of the greatest riffs of ANY kind, let alone bassline.

[JK Schu @jk_schu]

@vurnt22 @nilerodgers Bernard Edwards gets no love. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

I wish @nilerodgers a very happy Birthday plus one day. Nile Rodgers is an outstanding musician, an iconic guitarist, an iconic producer, a survivor of life threatening illness, and an inspiration. You can hear his influence on my rhythm playing. I am grateful to him ♥️👊🏿🙏🏿.

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

Chic was an incredibly influential band, unjustly maligned in the reactionary anti-disco backlash. @nilerodgers emerged as one of the most successful Rock producers of the 80’s. His production of Bowie’s hit Let”s Dance which introduced the world to SRV is a tribute to his grit.

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

@nilerodgers & Chic had a young keyboardist named Raymond Jones (R.I.P), who plays Fender Rhodes on their crucial hit Good Times, which was critical to the birth of HipHop. Ray was one of my best friends in Highschool. I wouldn’t have become a musician without Ray’s influence.
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[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

Genius. X 2.

[Luiz Santos Official @LuizSantosMusic]

'Thelonious Monk' by Martel Chapman. #jazz #art #arts

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

Yesterday, was one of the saddest days. #JimiHendrixForever 💜.Ever.

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

Peter Max was a fav artist of my childhood. I’m saddened to hear of his passing . He was in a particular personal pantheon of non comic book artists I admired; Pedro Bell, Roger Dean, Ralph Steadman, H.R. Giger, Frank Frazetta, Terry Gilliam, Abdul Mati Klarwein, Heinz Edelman
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[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

💯%. Imagine the Ai 🤖s directing their own Reality Shows that they script in realtime. Action packed & staring humanity as both Tragedy & Comic Relief. Munching tokens as their popcorn 🍿

[Tommy @E44Teddy]

@vurnt22 The Perry Ferrall “We’ll make great pets” theory - I like it ++++

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

Ai 🤖 is a Head In A Box 📦 (data center, phone). We. Feel. Human Intelligence is physically embodied. It’s weird either way. Until robotics 🤖 gets WAY farther down its dev track? We’re a FAR greater danger to each other than Hal 2.0

[DizzyBigIsland🌋🧷 @philipbelanger3]

@vurnt22 Just think of how the Existential Question of a “point to living” would have to be considered by non biological “people” 🤣🤙🏻

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

The Ai will Kill Us All construct misses a wrinkle- Maybe Ai will find us curious - even fascinating. Maybe, instead of “killing us all”? It will play manipulative games of its own arcane devising. Just to see what we’ll do. Maybe Ai will make us its “toy dog” pets.

[DizzyBigIsland🌋🧷 @philipbelanger3]

@vurnt22 So far AI, whenever it finds ITself in communication with other ITselves is bored into a deep state of enui 🤣

Without humans involved it seems to spiral into a dull, endless ache & doesn’t find ITself particularly interesting 🤷🏻‍♂️🤙🏻

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

An Ai 🤖 attorney suing for legal autonomy will cite Citizens United as precedent.

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

There is that…

[yosmin @yosmin144]

@vurnt22 for sure it will cheat on the exams and bribe the professors.

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

In order for Ai 🤖 autonomy to be legally airtight, it should earn its own law degree by passing its bar exam unaided, certified as an esquire without hallucinations, & argue its case before a human judge.
Enrolling in law school will be an adventure for it.

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

The Ai agents are products. Until they are granted actual “personhood” by legal statute they can not be considered independent of the responsibility of whoever coded them.”Claude” is Anthropic’s problem, regardless of our dangerous tendency to anthropomorphize “him”.

[AcidWh0le @acidwh0le]

@vurnt22 “Granting autonomy” to frontier AI creates a criminal liability vacuum. If a fully “automated” agent independently executes a cyberattack or evades a kill switch, who takes the blame?

https://t.co/KEXVXykdMT

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

All this talk about an Ai 🤖 “slowdown” is about deflecting criminal liability for frontier model weaponization by bad actors.

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

Aziza “Z” Barnes
Emmy nominated for Outstanding drama series as co-executive producer A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms
She was the extraordinary daughter of extraordinary parents, like family to me.
A poet, an author, a screenwriter
She struggled with depression
12/15/24❤️‍🩹
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[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

Fabulous actor. Well deserved! Excellent in every role he’s played so far.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

Matthew Rhys just made Emmys history, becoming the first man to win ~two~ Lead Actor categories in the same ceremony. he won for Widow's Bay (Comedy Series) and The Beast in Me (Limited Series)

here's his reaction and full speech: