Rich

Teacher, reader, always learning
"Ignorance, allied w/ power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have"
#HBCU grad
#BlackLivesMatter✊🏿 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

[Rich @katmore9]

From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free. ✊🏿

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#Decolonization

[Rich @katmore9]

@YourManDevine @YahooSports If "desperation looks good on the Knicks", why did you construe Mike Brown's as "paranoid" and Kenny Atkinson's as "more measured"? 🤔

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Rich @katmore9]

@ggqt3 @certified1KB @RachelTrue @hellaignorance The original tweet by Rachel True lamented the lack of Black TV shows on network TV. Researching a little would sadly reveal that reality (Abbott Elementary being exception.) ☹️

[Rich @katmore9]

@KerleeLogan @DCAUReview Show = Justice League.
Episode = A Better World

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

“When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent. And everyone in South America of African descent is an Afro-American. Everyone in the Caribbean, whether it’s the West Indies or Cuba or Mexico, if they have African blood, they are Afro Americans. If they’re in Canada and they have African blood, they’re Afro Americans.”–Malcolm X (1964) https://t.co/ASg89c1hfe

[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

March 22nd is World Water Day.

In Canada there are 37 First Nations living under drinking water advisories, some that have been in place for decades. 🧵1/6

[Rich @katmore9]

@jay_rayart FANTASTIC work, brother. Take a bow. 👏🏿👏🏿

[Jason Raymond @jay_rayart]

Waves! Out now <3

[❦. @filmsbratz]

— update: it’s over 500+ films now on my ‘vintage black films of old hollywood’ list, y’all! i dug DEEP for these, even finding some lost black cinema! more material for us to appreciate & me to talk about in archives. enjoy! 🥰🌹🏛️🎞️https://t.co/KA2JCMuoJ1

[Rich @katmore9]

@JohnAllen485228 @asiamah_cl16402 @oldmedia Also, since you went there, before you call someone "dumb ass" 🙄, proofread your tweet beforehand. It's "Highfather", not "hi father".

[Rich @katmore9]

@JohnAllen485228 @asiamah_cl16402 @oldmedia Again, where did Orion explicitly state - not imply - that the citizens of Earth were under the protection of New Genesis?

He didn't. Orion's declaration was to stop the Apokoliptian invasion (i.e "further aggression").

It's why all he did was offer his condolences to Supes.

[Rich @katmore9]

@JohnAllen485228 @asiamah_cl16402 @oldmedia New Genesis only stopped the invasion. Orion said nothing about protecting the citizens. 🤷🏿‍♂️

[Rich @katmore9]

@ryangerritsen It's deceiving to present these survey stats without context.
- the population has gotten older in Canada
- there's been a pandemic
- provinces are responsible for funding healthcare, not the federal government.

[Rich @katmore9]

@TheLitFeast @DiscussingFilm A) If you knew anything about Javier Bardem, you'd know that this isn't about winning "brownie points"; he's held an anti-war stance for years.

B) It wasn't a speech he gave. It was a short, concise statement.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Barber-Scotia College was the first higher education institution for Black women in this country. Today it is fighting to survive. The 144K Collective is asking 144,000 people to donate just $1.44 to help save this historic institution. Our HBCUs are not just schools. They are the foundation of our history, our culture, and our future.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone.

And it's making you a worse person because of it.

Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would.

That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear.

It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on.

Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one.

The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started.

Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product.

This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens.

Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing.

You're right. They're wrong.

Even when the opposite is true.

[Rich @katmore9]

@imarjungarg @Thebestfigen What app or website did you use for this analysis? 🤔

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now https://t.co/hhCJNMwI3k

[Rich @katmore9]

Hi @PatrickHorvath LOVED your story in "DC Horror Presents". Very creative story where the simplest mistake leads to catastrophe.
The true stroke of genius for me though came in the final panel where I saw Superman (!!) looking the way he does, knowing what fate awaits him. 😬

[Rich @katmore9]

@MAGAWEAVER @PlanetOfMemes *Al Bundy
(the actor is Ed O'Neill)