Great 2b back in Tulsa this week continuing our amazing collab btw NYU-Tulsa, Tulsa Film Collective, Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts, & Culture, & the Creative Equity Initiative for an eve of insight, skill-building, and connection for Tulsa film community. RSVP at: docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...

Just a heads-up that our X account — where we haven't posted since November of last year — appears to have been hacked, this after two of our posts were falsely flagged as a "policy violation." Good times over there! Please note that here and LinkedIn are the only platforms we're active on.

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These cuts & cap on indirects use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, painting all universities with a broad brush when they differ in terms of endowments, the real uses and necessity of indirects to do the actual research, and impact this move will have. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH, Legacy of Black BBQ (AKA, BBQ), Day 2. BBQ has always been about bringing people together, for the sake of building community, also for other things-like activism. Here's an event by the West Philadelphia Committee to Free Angela Davis, May 13, 1972. #blackhistorymonth2025 #bbq

Much respect to whoever can guess what I’m cookin’ up?

1/4. thanks to @jennydeluxe.bsky.social for the shoutout in her insightful piece about @bsky.app. Its premise about the natural and inevitable ebb and flow of platforms and the community shifts that follow them remind me of the transition from pre-Web communities. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...

As the husband of a career civil servant, I am grateful for those who believe in, and have committed their lives to the mission of government, despite who happens to occupy the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

We’re among the organizations urging an immediate halt to the Department of Homeland Security's use of non-compliant AI systems, which could be used to facilitate civil rights violations, mass detentions, and deportations under the incoming administration. abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

Yes, may it be so! “The smart, actually cool, genuinely interested people will once again have their moment, getting the resources and clearance to design and (re)build a tech ecosystem that is actually innovative and built for benefit.”

This CNN interview with Clear CEO ask all the WRONG questions about current and developing biometric “identity verification”/surveillance tech… Surely we should be conncerned with more than just the airport lines getting longer, yes? @CNN Clear p.1

In my book, Black Software, I sat something like “Can our technological tools ever outrun white supremacy?” The Q remains rhetorical. Schmidt says AI will shape Identity, but history show he has it backwards. www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt...

First time smoking beef back ribs. They held up pretty well after 3.5 hours of smoke, another 1.5 wrapped… great bark, tender, but of course not a lot of meat on these bones!

Tonight’s quotable quote from the manchild… “I go to school and come home and have to do homework… you come home from work and don’t do fuckin’ nuthin’”ME: Yup!

For the old folks out there or people who know - is it just me or was there a time in the 80s/90s when we didnt really recycle but were taught when we did sort recycling, egg crates went in with the plastics and not the paper??? Trying to explain to my wife why I STILL reflexively do this. any help?

election coming back to bite me in the butt again. My last Instacart order was dor materials to make signs for the PA polling place I observed on election day. Nice 60 degree day today. Planned to smoke three racks of St. Louis Ribs and some dino beef ribs. But my order went to that PA polling spot!

The Mike Tyson butt shot - could have gone the rest of my days without that one.

Tonight’s choice. Brisket continues to be the favorite for this Texas BBQ fanatic.

BBQ has a long, storied history intimately entertwined with American (race) politics - depending on time and circumstance, an expression of both pain and joy. Gonna spend my time here for the next little while….

Where Do We Go From Here? Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a post-election assessment and conversation Thursday, November 21st at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

You can find me at bluesky. Haven’t done much there but I’ve at least set up shop. https://bsky.app/profile/cmcilwain.bsky.social

That’s all for me folks. I’m out.

What should we do about online harms like climate #misinfo and #childexploitation? Looking forward to moderating the #IPIE's #UNGA program! Join @selcankaynak @BruhnJensen @SRakotomalala @joaobrant and I tomorrow: CUNY Elebash Hall 9/24,...

Ummmm… What???

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! May your day be filled with smoky and fiery skirt steak!

Back at it again! @nyuniversity commencement @Yankees stadium! CONGRATS grads!!!

It’s that time! Congrats @nyusteinhardt newly minted Docs!

It was an honor, as always, to present @nyuniversity Distinguished Teaching Awards to some truly amazing faculty educators from @NYUStern @NYUSilver @NYUWagner @NYUSPS @nyugrossman @NYUTischSchool. https://simplebooklet.com/20222023dtaprogrambrochure.

This is what Sunday looks like

Where my peeps at?

1/4. This story brought back memories, from the before times when I worked in @OkDemocrats politics in Oklahoma. An afternoon in DUrant - a county over from McCurtain. An early evening political meeting at a local diner....

Great to spend a few minutes this morning welcoming a group of brilliant engineering scholars to @nyutandon @nyuniversity Faculty First Look Program! https://ffl.blackfacts.com/

Bets on whether this will this make it through review?

Reminded me of undergrad ⁦@obubison⁩ where my fav profs were always looking over shoulder, often threatened 4 pushing 2much racial justice & defending LGBTQ folks. Like now in ⁦@RonDeSantisFL⁩, some of worst infringement of academic freedom....

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Smokin’ up some beef short ribs. #BBQ

Anyone know why I95 South is closed through maryland?

@DLockPro meet @so_treu

Sooooo @flyLAXairport - whats up with the power in Terminal 3? Any info about what happened, how long till resolved?

This is some bs. At CLT airport and narry a @Bojangles in sight! Good thing I’m early; time for terminal hiking. Need a 8-piece box and some sweet tea, STAT

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Now at the point where I’m getting more spam on here than email, phone and my websites combined. Feel like I’m in a garbage can full of coupons for shit nobody wants from people no one wants to hear from…

I almost picked up the bone to gnaw on after inhaling, at this fancy steak joint. I stopped myself just before I heard my grandma’s voice in my ear calling me out for my lack of home training!

A fire alarm in the airport, everybody asked to evacuate? THATS a first! Also, we all still here waiting on our bags…

This from the neighborhood listserve… “There’s a chicken wandering around the corner of Westminster and Glenwood. Anybody missing one?” Only in BK…

Annoying that @MSNBC makes a big deal out of :00 poll closings, interrupts commentary, and everything only to go through a whole list if races that are “too close to call”…

Ok, all I need this election is for @CheriBeasleyNC to win. C’mon my Queen City fam. That’s all I need, Beasley, @staceyabrams and @joy4ok to win. That’s all I need.

@joy4ok. That’s all I need this election night. Joy Hofmeister to win, and @staceyabrams to win. That’s all I need.

All I need for election night is for #StaceyAbrams to win. That’s all I need.

Last year this time was working a chilly PA polling place. Tonight I’m sitting in my warm vehicle while my son does his twist out and retwist at the barber, watching poll returns on silent on one screen and tiktok on my other. Hmmm. Not sure what the commentary on this is yet…