"today, white South Africans, who make up around seven per cent of the country’s population, still own seventy-two per cent of its private farmland. Meanwhile, millions of Black South Africans still live in informal settlements."

One thing I know for sure about HU CS is that department is truly a community: faculty, staff, and students. My heart breaks so badly for the young man's family. That's an unimaginable loss. I also hold space for his community who is hurting today too.❤️💙🤍

🧵⬇️. “This means that many abortion providers who currently offer telehealth will likely continue, but they will have to offer misoprostol-only abortions. As I reported back in 2024, misoprostol-only abortions are safe and effective, but they take longer and can be more painful.” And there it is.

📣 Civics of Technology Project's May Book Club will be discussing "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong About AI" by Dr. Rua Williams, AiiCE External Advisory Board Member! #AiiCEinnovates 🗓️ Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | 7 pm ET 🔗 www.civicsoftechnology.org/book-clubs

"The Alibaba email is still pinging my inbox every few days, tagged with a label I never chose, generated by an algorithm that had just enough data to be dangerous and not enough context to be right." I love seeing former students thriving, and Onome is one I'm proud to have taught.

Queen Muva and I watched Power to the People, Y'all (by Tressie McMillan Cottom) and Free Joan Little (by Yoruba Richen) today as part of the RiverRun International Film Festival. Perfect one-two viewing combo for today. Highly recommend. Tens. Thank you for telling these stories

We may be past awards season, but I'm still watching Sinners regularly around these parts. Ain't nothin changed. Also, make sure you watch the BTS on HBO as well as the Sinners In Proximity Podcast there.

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Can't even remember where I got these (I have two here and one in my office). But what a great reminder of all the women of color at NASA who made it possible for the moon joy we are still riding high on. I need to get these framed. #NASA #ArtemisII #WomenOfColor

Every single time I remember the new season of From started, it's late at night, and I'm too scared to watch before bed.

Thanking my parents for ensuring I developed a baseline level of self-awareness.

Years ago, I refused to accept that a relationship forged around the loss of my dad was *not* it. One night after crying to my mama, she calmly said to me "everyone sees how this will end except you." This is a post about tech. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/n...

Reading: The Inattention Economy: Hiw Women of Color Built the Internet By Lisa Nakamura

I cannot put into words how much I mourn the closing of K&W Cafeteria, especially the Chapel Hill location.

Surely that is some kind of libertarian/techbro/Silicon Valley MadLibs?

feels like the 1996 scifi classic Multiplicity ought to be required watching before you're allowed to touch "ai"

Today was the most Friday of Mondays ever, and I love that for me. "There just ain't one....." - Fred Hammond

First weekend of Black Farmers Market in Durham, and Queen Muva and I went SPECIFICALLY looking for the honey man. I bought the vanilla bean from him last May and I was SICK that he never returned last summer. His folks were selling for him today, and I grabbed two. It's almost summer, y'all!

The way I am just settling in with the fact people HATE US so casually

There are way too many women with *actual* knowledge of and expertise related to not just AI, but *GENERATIVE* AI for y'all to be out here listening to anything Reese Witherspoon has to say on the topic.

Has someone explained why Jay-Z changed his name to those dots? Also, why is Spotify advertising a new release and it's Song Cry?

THAT'S MY MAYOR! Narrator: She doesn't even GO HERE!

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

"The jury determined that Ticketmaster had overcharged consumers by $1.72 for each ticket. The judge will next set an overall damages amount based on the jury’s finding." AND IKYFL! Y'all better run me back my coins ASAP, cause ain't no damn way I only paid $2 over. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

Rev. Raphael Warnock is such a great orator.

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”. This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

The Glover Family.

Wait. I missed the WNBA DRAFT!?!? Azzi’s goin to Dallas? Raven’s going to INDIANA?!?!?!

Actual footage of me thinking about the fact I still have to file/pay these damn taxes.

Everything about this photo is certifiably unhinged. Just in time for Wed’s lecture on the gig economy.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

To quote Mark Watney, #NASA has been “sciencing the shit out of this” for decades. DECADES. #ArtemisII

SO many people at #NASA made #ArtemisII possible, beyond the crew, scientists, and engineers. The groundskeepers, cafeteria workers, custodians, security guards, administrative assistants, graphic designers, seamstresses, writers, editors, and communicators. Thanks for making this a success.

"More hugs. He's a hugger." Meghan (can't remember last name) on Victor Glover via the #NASA livestream. #ArtemisII

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

The Arts and Sciences are peak human being. Without them, we are nothing.

Evergreen.

Integrity crew managed to loop ALL the way around the moon and back, and managed to stay in communication with all of us down here the entire time except for maybe 2 hours tops. And they can't communicate with boats NEXT TO THEM OUTSIDE?!?! Welcome back to this janky ass planet, team. #NASA

Black women have advanced the human species so, so much. Just unrivaled brilliance, every generation.

As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII

My God. I spent that entire blackout period repeating The Lord's Prayer until the Integrity crew established comms again. Why am I so emotional right now?!!?!

I'm so sad that this is last day that I will have the 24/7 live feed playing on my second monitor like I'm a NASA employee. THEY"RE SUITED UP AND STRAPPED IN! They're back by 810pm ET! www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

No shade to this man today, but NASA’s Artemis II communication hit different with Leah Chesier explaining things to me.

WE GOT A BULL CITY SHOUTOUT courtesy of Congresswoman Valerie Foushee and Christina Koch! My hometown produces amazing people! #DurhamNC

It just seems like a really big missed opportunity that DtMF wasn't piped in as wake-up music for the Integrity crew over this trip. There's still time, #NASA! #ArtemisII