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photographer. writer. film/tv. vinyl records. music. art. 📷✍🏾 bio.site/thetrudz
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John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
about 2 months ago
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Currently watching a film that oomf would describe as “ungood.”😹😹 So far it’s a stinker. Imma pause it and check back later and maybe it’ll be different idk.
about 2 hours ago
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Kalkail (any/all) 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
about 23 hours ago
Nnedi Okorafor wrote about it like two decades ago. Hang on…
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Stephen King's Super-Duper Magical Negroes
The archetype of the Magical Negro is an issue of race. It is the subordination of a minority figure masked as the empowerment of one.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/articles/stephen-kings-super-duper-magical-negroes/
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Blade Brown
about 23 hours ago
Their needs to be a deep dive on the fact that the majority of the Stephen King universe has a magic black man or woman.
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max tani
about 7 hours ago
www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
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Condé Nast abruptly fires 4 staffers after HR confrontation
The firings were an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/06/2025/cond-nast-abruptly-fires-4-staffers-after-hr-confrontation
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max tani
about 7 hours ago
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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Sarah Kendzior
about 10 hours ago
New article! I wrote about Mamdani's win and the NYC I once lived in and loved:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
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When I Loved New York
Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-loved-new-york
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Katie Mack
about 6 hours ago
If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.
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Phil Lewis
about 11 hours ago
The first teaser for “Michael,” the long-waited Michael Jackson biopic, is out:
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🜲 James
about 13 hours ago
Synopsis: Executive produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, this three-part pop culture and historical docuseries confronts and reclaims the Wild West. It reveals the story of the Black cowboy — a history that has been stolen, erased, and left untold.
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High Horse: The Black Cowboy | Official Trailer | Peacock Original
YouTube video by Peacock
https://youtu.be/Lb5dbTupc8I?si=DPdl5KUGOHAw5AtN
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ali alkhatib
about 7 hours ago
we should stop pretending people in academia are aligned with our projected political imaginations of higher ed. many CS/AI "luminaries" are obviously engaged in political projects to unravel labor power, belittle human intelligence & creativity, and enhance capacities for state & corporate violence
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
about 8 hours ago
These are slave catchers. Their model is directly from slave catching . They are following the blueprint America BUILT for attacking racialized property
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Glendon R Frank
about 9 hours ago
Letterboxd being down is incredibly stressful for people like me who's entire personality revolves around "open Letterboxd and look at all the colourful movies"
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Raquel Stecher
about 11 hours ago
If I watched a movie and I can't log it on Letterboxd because the site is down, did I even watch the movie. 🤔
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“The Creative Essence of Zohran Mamdani’s Ascent”
hyperallergic.com/1055167/the-...
“Artists know that you only have to do something once to prove to others that the unimaginable is actually very much possible.”
about 9 hours ago
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I’m never gonna understand or relate to the type of person who thinks debate is the highest form of communication and think debate should be the primary use for social media platforms. They’re from a completely different often extremely pampered world and we’ll always be oil and water. It’s fine.
about 9 hours ago
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His Imperial Trillness
about 9 hours ago
Have you tried a personal dancehall party in your kitchen? I’m not saying a little whine can fix it all but it might get you through till lunch.
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mcc
about 21 hours ago
A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
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Lenée (she/ her) says #ProtectJhordin
about 20 hours ago
There will be a Hulu documentary about the situation. People will cite this specific skeet.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
1 day ago
This is what happens when tech press decides to give up on any meaningful commitment to race and avoids handling conflict by just erasing it. Fake Black people online aren’t new Fake Black people are a cornerstone of America They REFUSE to acknowledge this beyond playing “spot the Bot”
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AuroraPeachy 🍑
1 day ago
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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joannes
1 day ago
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Santa Clown” ✪
1 day ago
Stop sharing AI slop. It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays. But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.
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“man at the garden” “peekaboo” “hey now” “reincarnated” “dodger blue” (“squabble up” and “luther” have cool af music videos. I love the whole album tho.)
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2 days ago
Thank you for crediting the artist. In a world of AI slop it’s more important than ever to recognize human art.
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The New Yorker
2 days ago
Cover art by Edel Rodriguez.
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The New Yorker
2 days ago
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win.
#NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
2 days ago
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More Perfect Union
2 days ago
"OpenAI Inc.’s failure to shield internal communications about pirated books from copyright plaintiffs threatens to expose the company to billions in damages and potentially debilitating sanctions."
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/opena...
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OpenAI Risks Billions as Court Weighs Privilege in Copyright Row
OpenAI Inc.'s failure to shield internal communications about pirated books from copyright plaintiffs threatens to expose the company to billions in damages and potentially debilitating sanctions.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openai-risks-billions-as-court-weighs-privilege-in-copyright-row
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More Perfect Union
2 days ago
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
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Anil Dash
2 days ago
Common Crawl is how all of Big AI laundered the lack of consent in scraping up content across the web.
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The Verge
3 days ago
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
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Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.
https://buff.ly/LcD6ye0
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“Photographer Coreen Simpson’s Half Century of Black Style and Self-Representation”
www.vanityfair.com/culture/phot...
3 days ago
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C. Robert Cargill
3 days ago
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 days ago
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 days ago
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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404 Media
3 days ago
Timeline cleanse: Kodak will begin selling two famous types of film stock—Kodak Gold 200 and Kodak Ultramax 400—directly to retailers and distributors in the U.S., another indication that the historic company is taking back control over how people buy its film.
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Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again
Kodak appears to be taking back control over the distribution of its film.
https://www.404media.co/kodak-quietly-begins-directly-selling-kodak-gold-and-ultramax-film-again/
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Iconic.
3 days ago
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3 days ago
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“Top photos of the 2025 New York City Marathon”
www.independent.co.uk/news/new-yor...
3 days ago
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I love the people who finish a marathon last so bad; they’re absolutely still brave and special. The symbolism too deep to ignore no matter how trite it may appear to be. It gets to me every time.
3 days ago
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When his voice cracks out of sheer passion for his home when he says “this is Kiss; I’m outsiiiide” during Verzuz needs to be in NMAAHC. Locked in. If he was drummer, he’d be in the pocket.
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3 days ago
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mujer pecosa
3 days ago
Now Spinning: Nat King Cole @ The Sands
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
7 days ago
This compounds with, of course, the art theft that these programs are built on, and the environmental impact of generative AI. Our talks aren’t made better with it 😞
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
7 days ago
I realize that many scientists are not confident in their art skills. Simple drawings made by scientists who may not be artistically talented are significantly better than the ai art because **the ai stuff is full of errors**. “Bad” but correct figures are better than “prettier” wrong ones.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
7 days ago
The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
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derek guy
4 days ago
if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck
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South FL food resources: Palm Beach:
tinyurl.com/pb-county-food
Broward:
tinyurl.com/br-county-food
Dade:
tinyurl.com/dade-county-food
South FL:
tinyurl.com/south-fl-food
3 days ago
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Black stylists >>> Saw a video of a stylist who did a pixie cut with Harlem Renaissance finger waves on 4b without relaxer. Now, the fact the hairdo gonna last 48 hours is nobody’s business lmao. But ate so bad.
3 days ago
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I hate when I want to use a Chit reference but no one knows what I’m talking about. Makes me think of what oomf said about the era of tv shows and media in general being a “shared” experience in the past versus an algorithmic one now. Damn, if you can’t slide in a present-day ref, what can ya do?
3 days ago
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Sometimes things happen in media (the biz side) that feels so bsky-coded in terms of discussion (and I see it mentioned nowhere else), but the CBS “get rid of the The Blacks™️” campaign broke containment and I see the GP discussing the new and old racists in charge there. Huge topic on clock app.
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