In this short essay, @lmsacasas.bsky.social provides a useful checklist for recognizing the Borg complex, and for deconstructing “manufactured inevitability.” A sort of guide for responding to the “banality of evil” as wonderfully captured by Arendt. open.substack.com/pub/theconvi...

Happy 55th Birthday to the BEAUTIFUL Regina Hall 🎁🎈🥳🎂🎉

That fineness done sat down in her like sleep in a weary toddler’s eyes

the song hangin' by chic possibly one of my favorites youtube.com/watch?v=-zAN... has this incredible dialogue at the beginning > uh hey theodore > like what are we gonna do tonight man > theodore? you ain't hangin out with me > callin me no theodore

so much to be said about the language of implication and how a safe space is formed when an identity can be formed outside of white society. i think queer people can relate to this

“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before WWII. Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.” — Mitch McConnell fell and hit his head so hard, the scales fell from his eyes. www.ft.com/content/11d2...

FUCK HIM!!!! HE IS A HUGE REASON FOR WHY SHIT IS HAPPENING THE WAY IT IS!!!!!

I celebrated the day my beard finally connected too

Ok, I laughed.

You know what. For the endless wonder and laughs he created and his iconic impact mr. Bean at least deserves some dome

Cory Booker loves him a passé blanc.

me? tall, Black & sleepy

a kairotic memory of life blooming amidst/within/through pain and devastation. that's disco

Niggas who don't know how to keep a woman are holding circle jerk sessions trying to tell Klay how to keep a woman.

Wild part about this is, even men have told these goofballs "if you make sure she knows she's safe, she will give you the world." They can't. They aren't safe themselves.

Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”

These are excuses—lazy and poor ones at that. If proper moderation was actually a priority BlueSky would treat it like one.

On BlueSky moderation…a topic I’m always interested to read about…

"it's not in the stored training data just the entire training data set"

“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”

We're hosting "Writing and Resistance" a workshop and conversation with KIESE LAYMON, ROBERT JONES, JR. and DEESHA PHILYAW on Dec. 14! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project. Join us! Register: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

Do not miss this! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

#tdih 1841, Madison Washington & 18 other enslaved people aboard "Creole" (en route Richmond to NOLA) rebelled & sailed ship to Bahamas where most secured freedom, one of largest US slave revolts. Via @blackpastonline.bsky.social, "The Creole Mutiny," more. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...

@merbroussard.bsky.social FYI https://www.cc.gatech.edu/bharat-endowed-faculty-professorships

The Only Time Vincent Price Did the 'Thriller' Monologue Live on Joan Rivers “Tonight show” in 1987 #Halloween 🎃

if you feel sad ... just go listen to these currently middle aged men rap till things got better

4) Bun B is suggesting to this lady why she should become his courtesan because he has the ability to provide her with a lifestyle of extravagance ... but makes sure to clarify... you are in a relationship with me... but EYE am not in a relationship with you

My favorite things about “international players anthem”

Bernie Mac?

Some people be far more stupid than you give them credit for

POC funerals be like...

There's so much being recalled and there's no newsletter coming out due to the shutdown. Check this and see if you have any of these in your kitchen. If so, throw them out or see if you can get a refund if you can.

We are all grieving something right now. We are tapped out.

This is crazy! Culturally most ppl of color refer to older relatives and friends of family as "Auntie or Uncle".

Social media killed un performative romance. Performative romantic gestures thrive on social media. If you didn’t post it, it never happened.

I am cackling “I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more like masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.” wapo.st/49nAEGw

This was back when they had that rewards program where after 3 purchases you won a free Food Poisoning

if i’m not disrespecting you on this mf dont disrespect me period. idc wtf going on, this is not that. i talk shit too well. and you don’t have to talk to me on this hoe at all actually. get right

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

i don’t know what would give a man the impression that i need someone to “talk to”, when i can clearly talk to myself just fine. 😂

Hold on, lemme check my IG DMs, LinkedIn mail, gmail, multiple discord servers, Discourse, slack workspaces, WhatsApp, Messenger, iMessage, Germ, Session, Matrix, signal, IRC, GitHub issues and PRs, Clickup, and bsky DMs and get back to you

me: the AT website refresh doesn't have to look amazing team: yeah but it be at least as cool as the blacksky website me: shit

Did a presentation at Brown University demoing Blacksky and this was the top post on the trending feed.

Rudy Fraser created an online space for people not looking to have their social media presence obliterated by the whims of Bluesky mods. That’s not “racial segregation.” We’ve been invited to his house and told to help ourselves to what’s in the fridge, but we’re objecting to our handles?

This paper shows how data visualizations were used to promote anti-immigrant messaging in the lead up to the 2024 U.S. election. Tracing dataviz lineages, we reveal how participatory propaganda took shape both thru initially misleading visualizations of publicly available data & annotating/remixing.

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]