James French
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Rep. Lauren Underwood
8 days ago
Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
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about 1 month ago
University of Toronto to create AI role named after tech pioneer Geoffrey Hinton
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University of Toronto to create AI role named after tech pioneer Geoffrey Hinton
The Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence will help the university recruit, teach and train students and inspire promising AI startups.
https://www.thestar.com/business/university-of-toronto-to-create-ai-role-named-after-tech-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton/article_a79e76e5-2cb1-5a7b-8f3c-e800e6451635.html
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Howard French
about 1 month ago
I'll be in conversation with Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, Slow Poison, today at 4 at Columbia. Details below. Here's the first of two pieces I've written about the book.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/z...
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The Making of Mamdani
A close reading of a new book by New York politician Zohran Mamdaniâs father reveals a generational yearning for community and inclusion.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/zohran-mahmood-mamdani-new-york-mayoral-race-politics-book/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=em9ocmFuLW1haG1vb2QtbWFtZGFuaS1uZXcteW9yay1tYXlvcmFsLXJhY2UtcG9saXRpY3MtYm9vaw==&pid=CW3657086
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Ryan Musser
about 1 month ago
Mali has recovered $1.2 billion in arrears from mining companies after an audit that uncovered massive shortfalls for the state and paved the way for a new mining code. The law raised royalties, boosted state stakes in mining companies & scrapped stability clauses.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Mali recovers $1.2 billion in arrears from miners, eyes annual windfall under new code
Mali has recovered 761 billion CFA francs ($1.2 billion) in arrears from mining companies following a sweeping audit, its finance minister said, marking one of the countryâs biggest clawbacks from its...
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-recovers-12-billion-arrears-miners-eyes-annual-windfall-under-new-code-2025-12-02/?taid=692f166bef26a00001765309&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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Augustin Trébuchet, detto Agostino Bilancino
about 2 months ago
Quand NestlĂ© dĂ©cide de ne rien apprendre du scandale du lait pour bĂ©bĂ© vendu en Afrique ça donne NestlĂ© qui ne met pas de sucre dans ses cĂ©rĂ©ales pour bĂ©bĂ©s en Occident, lâenlĂšve sous la pression en Inde, et⊠âŠaugmente la dose en Afrique. Mais hein câest pas du racisme, câest de lâentrepreneuriat!
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Howard French
5 months ago
Tonight!
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5 months ago
A fantastic review of The Second Emancipation in today's Boston Globe, seen just now, hours before I speak in Cambridge. This reviewer understands how a deep intellectual history of Pan-Africanism sits at the book's core.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/a...
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Looking at African liberation through its first post-colonial presidency - The Boston Globe
At midnight on March 6, 1957, Crown subjects in the Gold Coast celebrated the end of British colonial rule by naming themselves citizens of a new nation-state, the Republic of Ghana.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/arts/howard-w-french-second-emancipation-kwame-nkrumah/
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Ian Betteridge
8 months ago
Some interesting numbers on the decline for clickthrough rates from Google thanks to AI summaries and overviews. It's basically the apocalypse for publisher revenue.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/google-ai-overviews-leads-to-dramatic-reduction-in-click-throughs-for-mail-
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Google AI Overviews leads to dramatic reduction in clickthroughs for Mail Online
Mail Online is seeing up to 56% lower clickthrough rate when Google AI Overviews appear for one of its keywords.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/google-ai-overviews-leads-to-dramatic-reduction-in-click-throughs-for-mail-online/
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John Elwood
9 months ago
A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
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Just wrapped an incredible panel at
#SXSW2025
: "Can AI Be Trained to Be Ethical, and Will It?" It was an honor to be with brilliant co-panelists
@perspectivai.bsky.social
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@sustainablemedia.bsky.social
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2pXh4Nq/
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Building Ethical AI: A Panel Discussion Explore the crucial ethics of AI development in this insightful panel discussion. Experts discuss building ethical AI systems, emphasizing empathy, stakeholder ...
TikTok video by Sustainable Media Center
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2pXh4Nq/
10 months ago
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Howard French
11 months ago
Created by a slave owner and built by slaves.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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University of Virginia board votes to end DEI office
UVA is the latest school to dismantle its office of diversity, equity and inclusion and some say other Virginia universities could follow.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/07/university-of-virginia-dei-office-closed/
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Howard French
11 months ago
More great blurb banners for my forthcoming book, The Second Emancipation, out in August. I'm deeply grateful to all of these wonderful contributors.
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Terrence Peterson
11 months ago
Deeply, deeply immoral.
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George Takei
11 months ago
A reminder for these times.
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The bombastic flouting of norms and laws makes the world more sensible to them. It is government and civic life they donât understand. Musk clarifies a scary world for them, putting it in terms they understand. Bad guy. Good guy. Evil. Villain. Kill. Win.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
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Opinion | Look Past Elon Muskâs Chaos. Thereâs Something More Sinister at Work. (Gift Article)
Everything is content.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/opinion/musk-trump-government-takeover.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU4.kDtE.1lv8CYGp26lB&smid=url-share
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A curious group of friends sneak into an abandoned spinach canning factory to investigate the legend of the "Sailor Man" I approve.
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BeardedGenius
about 1 year ago
Genuinely the most tense, gripping sporting contest I've seen all year. Great sportsmanship at the end too đđŸ
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I agree, and would extend by saying the onus is on communities and stakeholders to be actively involved in governance. It canât be done credibly from above alone, we learned that in Web 2.0
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
12/12/2024 Ten days ago, on December 2, President Joe Biden arrived in Angola, the first U.S. president to visit central Africa since President Barack Obama traveled there in 2015.
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Black Women In Artificial Intelligence
about 1 year ago
In Honor of Nikki Giovanni Ego Trippin for the rest of the week... I was born in the congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls into the center giving divine perfect light I am bad
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Street at Arnold Arboretum renamed to honor enslaved woman â Harvard Gazette
The city of Boston approved changing Bussey Street to Flora Way, honoring an enslaved woman who lived on an estate in the 18th century.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/12/street-at-arnold-arboretum-renamed-to-honor-enslaved-woman/
about 1 year ago
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Professor Sue Black OBE
about 1 year ago
đ€ Is AI good or evil? Or both? I would love to know what you think. â€ïž Please take 2 minutes to answer my quick questions and share đđœ Thank you so much, I will send you the results
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#questions
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Is AI good or evil?
Please answer these short questions to help me understand what people think about AI, there are no right or wrong answers, thank you very much. I will email you the results.
https://forms.gle/J6u7xcUx7DWW5tgS7
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Charles Onyango-Obbo
about 1 year ago
U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by 2100, the largest age group of the worldâs population will have changed from 10-14 year-olds today to 35-39 year-olds. The global population will have grown from 8.1 billion to 10.9 billionđ§”
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Map reveals how world's population will change by 2100
The Census Bureau has revealed how much populations will change across the world, with vastly different changes between nations.
https://www.newsweek.com/world-population-2100-change-demographics-1993509#:~:text=By%202100%2C%20the%20Census%20Bureau,be%20reflected%20equally%20across%20nations
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The doccie "Dahomey," by Mati Diop, was listed in today's NYT as one of 2024's best films. Have not yet seen it, but I'm looking forward to it.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/m...
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âDahomeyâ: A Daring Meditation on the Painful Legacy of Looted Artifacts
Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures â sometimes from their point of view â looted from Benin in 1892.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/movies/dahomey-documentary-mati-diop.html
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Breaking with a long-held taboo, a new generation of leaders in
#Senegal
wants answers.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
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80 Years After Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France (Gift Article)
The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in secrecy. But Senegalâs new government wonât abide the mystery.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/world/africa/france-senegal-thiaroye-massacre.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE4.iNq1.8gYhMOov90fP&smid=url-share
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