Lisa Technically Excellent Osborne

Immersive producer & curator.
Currently with @blkpublicmedia and @buildwithbia

[Lisa Technically Excellent Osborne @julipeno]

"Who Gets to Create the Future?"
Whose ideas about fictional tech have been endorsed and distributed through American pop culture since WW2?
Sept 15th at 2 pm ET at the #HPHBCU2022 Conference.

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

“As we shelter inside and wear masks outside to protect ourselves from ... toxic fumes and gases, we can thank the oil and gas industry, assisted by its friends in Congress, for ensuring that these environmental disasters continue.” #PostLetters https://t.co/VT6ic2dPW6

[Warren Leight @warrenleightTV]

Apple exec: "The golden ticket for every major streamer is to be able to produce a show that looks like it was produced in the U.S. But that was shot overseas with non-union crews and only a handful of American actors."

[jcarrington @jcarrington]

@nhannahjones @cmarinucci, Asians constitute 36% of Berkeley's undergrads, followed by whites at 23.8%

Currently there are only 589 Black students, or 2%, of the total 29,300 undergrad population, down from 7.9% in 1989 & 3.2% in 2016, per LA Times.

Remarkable.

https://t.co/dyLmyt5kho

[Eneida DelValle ~ 🇵🇷 @eneidadvt]

@nhannahjones It’s insane to me that people blame Affirmative Action when the real issue at thes institutions are Legacy Admissions & or the students whose parents donate an excessive amount of money or building to get their kids in.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

UC does not have affirmative action, Black students remain under-enrolled. Blaming Black folks, however, never goes out of style.

[🥨 @marisapk]

To recap: today the Clerk stonewalled, then apparently lied to @CopCityVote organizers, and then left at noon without finishing the job they were legally obligated to do by yesterday. Which was to review and approve a half sheet of paper.

[🥨 @marisapk]

Good morning from City Hall at the Atlanta City Clerk’s office. The office declined to tell organizers when the @CopCityVote petition will be approved, after passing the 7-day approval window. The building also sent 2 police officers to stand outside the office, coincidentally.

[Deanna 小美 Pan @DDpan]

And why do we, as a city, tolerate a system that’s so clearly unequal, that leaves so many students hungry for more — more arts, more challenging classes, more sports, more clubs, more fun? Here’s what I found about Boston’s great high school divide:

https://t.co/fj0VoJQ7TI

[Deanna 小美 Pan @DDpan]

I met her friends and they told me versions of the same story, all of them disappointed and disillusioned. I wondered: How did the Burke get this way? How is this fair when the same district has high schools, like Boston Latin, with every opportunity under the sun? 3/

[Deanna 小美 Pan @DDpan]

What Justis wanted to tell me, though, was that her Spanish class had no real teacher, that she drummed on Home Depot buckets in music class, that she rarely got homework, that she could only take one AP class, that high school was nothing like what she thought it would be. 2/

[Deanna 小美 Pan @DDpan]

Several months ago, I met an extraordinary young woman, Justis Porter, a junior at Burke High School. I asked her what her school was like, figuring she’d want to talk about the recent violence there. (A student shot another student. Another student was stabbed.) 1/

[Sisa @TheTitanBaddie]

Hating black people while simultaneously basing so much of KPOP's sound and image on the cosplaying of blackness is actually wild business.

[𝒥𝑜𝑒𝓁, 𝒶 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 @joeljohnson]

Severence arguably used the same lighting technique to add a sinister air. But the lack of deep, lossy shadow is Apple-affiliated content is everywhere once you look for it.

[𝒥𝑜𝑒𝓁, 𝒶 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 @joeljohnson]

Apple's house style is hyperrealism, or nearly. The people + clothing is real, but their speech (sound quality, cadence), their hand gestures, the blocking is all diffusely lit in a way that makes everyone look unreal. And backdrops—some real, some virtual— always look virtual.

[The Nap Ministry @TheNapMinistry]

I truly dislike doing things with folks who haven’t started the process of unraveling from grind culture. It’s brutal attempting to collaborate with them. The pace they have for labor is not aligned. Why I rarely collaborate with entities outside of the team I’ve cultivated.

[Lisa Technically Excellent Osborne @julipeno]

Just want to give a shout-out to @MNNNYC for offering a $25 #mocap class and in NYC, no less! The cost of learning #emergingtech is a huge barrier to entry for Black creatives trying to learn #ar, #vr and #3d animation, for ex. Classes often run $300+.
https://t.co/TGJgGFnPrG

[Lisa Technically Excellent Osborne @julipeno]

#whoseworldarewebuilding

[Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix]

State Bills Aren’t Enough: The Case for National Legislation on Data Privacy and Civil Rights

Amanda Beckham is the government relations manager for Free Press Action (@freepressaction).
https://t.co/umwyvNIswY

[Lisa Technically Excellent Osborne @julipeno]

There is a good #TheGoodFight episode about #section230.

#whoseworldarewebuilding

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Supreme Court declined to take up questions about the tech industry’s liability protections in two high-profile cases, effectively putting the ball back in Congress’s court to hash out whether or how to revamp the law known as Section 230. https://t.co/N7gO22waU0

[Lisa Technically Excellent Osborne @julipeno]

#whoseworldarewebuilding

[Ray [REDACTED] @RayRedacted]

This is incredible. It is called DragGan, and it is using the drag function to control imagery from generative adversarial networks. Just watch it. Trust me.

Full writeup here: https://t.co/MXCkm3ZMzX