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“Holy Canoli, this is crazy!” - Klay Thompson, 2022. | Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[kunié 🦅 @TheTunmise]

need to stop watching people make things and actually make things

[... @tamaranopper]

Like James Baldwin said, “I think the great difficulty or danger is not to make the event an occasion for the exhibition of your virtuosity.”

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

DJ Quik says AI is a total violation of culture:

"It's a total violation of culture. It's appropriation. You can't recreate somebody that's still here doing what they do.

Don't use my stuff because I know that computer is not gonna have my nuances. I watch AI programs on YouTube and they mispronounce words. It ain't human.

I'd rather have bad human material than good AI material. How bout that"

[Larry Fisher 🐉 @burnergod77]

The superior producer on the right side of history, funny how that go

[tzolis stan @E5THXR]

Why can’t black people do business without pretending it’s a community service?

[musty tether🇿🇼 @brownsugaaaa3]

i know African immigrant parents are doing their best, but imo they aren’t suspicious enough of white people. they just move to white neighborhoods thinking it’s all gonna be fine and dandy and then the kids are responsible for developing a sense of racial consciousness

[... @tamaranopper]

In a short story, Toni Cade Bambara wrote, “She views everything and everybody as potentially good, as a possible hastener of the moment, an usherer-in of the new day. Examines everybody in terms of their input to making revolution an irresistible certainty.” Rare energy.

[... @tamaranopper]

Later in her life Assata Shakur said she wanted to “develop a style of writing and a style of work that is contra-arrogant. i think arrogance is one of the things that really stifled the world revolutionary movement and really hindered communication between people.”

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

#NINAONCESAID

[Benn Jordan @bennjordan]

Flock takes their privacy very seriously.

But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.

Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.

[ruby justice thelot @being_on_line]

The reason why Americans don't care about AI is the same reason Gil Scott Heron did not care about the moon landing in his 1970 poem "Whitey's on the Moon"

[Duchess of Brixton ❤️🖤💚☭ @fufuisonme]

Afro-pessimism is the only framework that explains what the after life of African Enslavement means. It states that modern society remains fundamentally shaped by anti-blackness, positioning Black people in a permanent state of social death.
So evident in Prof Arday’s treatment.

[Jay Jurden @JayJurden]

There’s a very annoying type of southern white gay who gets popular online every few years for this faggy conservative act while doing an egregious blaccent (Landon Romano, Southern Momma etc)

And y’all idiots fall for it every time

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

I used to be a chronic procrastinator and it left me an absolute shell of a human. doing things immediately and with intense urgency was truly the cure. you think of an idea and you write it down instantly. you think of someone and you text them on the spot. even a mundane task like putting your laundry away gets done the second it appears. stop leaving things for later. just do it now

[Chinwendu Nwangwa @msnwangwa]

Influencer culture is why people who haven’t done the work, who don’t have the experience, who haven’t contributed any meaningful ideas to pertinent discourse in specific fields are being invited to be guest speakers at events in such fields.

We’ve forsaken competence for virality, and this is how the decline in actual knowledge and value added continues.

[Complex @Complex]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first “Parents’ Night Out” gave New York City parents free childcare for four hours on Aug. 16.

The NYC Parks program offered children ages 6 to 13 dinner and activities while their caregivers got time to themselves.

The NYTimes reported hat some parents went on dates or out to dinner, while others went home to relax, shopped or caught up on laundry.

📸:GETTY

[𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 @andrejgee]

for my @guardian debut, i wrote about how reducing a movement for Black lives to “woke 1.0” or “2.0” is wack as hell for a variety of reasons

[Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @PaperWhispers]

The moment *we* begin to associate 'first Black' or 'youngest Black' or 'only Black' as the poisoned chalice it is, an emblem of deeply embedded racism in the institution, that is the moment when we will begin to ensure true recognition of our achievements.

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

it's not involuntary treatment, it's involuntary removal from public sight, they don't give a shit what happens afterwards

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

I know that language changes but I’m going to have to draw the line at legitimizing people talking like Tommy Pickles. Call me a fascist I literally don’t care.