And the thing that will have the most value for me is that people will see my name and know that a human being worked on this book and did her best to make it the best, and most meaningful, book she could.

So what's gonna happen there? She's going to have to constantly cycle through pen name after pen name, regurgitating books in different formats, and she'll be joined by thousands of other content extruders all fighting over the same "we fooled you" dollars.

She's making six figures right now, but that's on hundreds of books. She's not making huge amounts of money on any one book. Mostly, she's just marketing shit barely well enough to fool people into thinking she has a real product, and then not getting them to stick around.

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI. The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

I'm going to win.

- there would be no #SuperBowlHalfTimeShow without #InLivingColor. January 26, 1992. never forget.

We got fascism and AI instead of replicators and flying cars. I will never forgive technocrats for this

Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.

What’s wild here is almost no one who styles themselves as public intellectuals who proudly put their names on a list in service to this “anti-woke” movement will be asked to account for their decision making in this regard.

death threats for returning people’s property for free. what a sick world we live in. thankful to this man and his crew. 250 abandoned cars because of ICE is unreal.

I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

I love them lmaoooo

Heat (1995) Director: Michael Mann #filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

He’s best known in internet lore for his infamous 2018 “female presenting nipples” memo. Now he will ensure democracy doesn’t die in darkness www.buzzfeednews.com/article/remy...

OK so now the former CEO of Tumblr is running the Washington Post. Tumblr. A company whose history is a textbook case study in corporate value destruction.

Yep. bsky.app/profile/thet...

In independent social media, the greatest sin isn't racism, transphobia or even CSAM content. The greatest sin is telling white people they do not have unlimited access to our spaces. Because you *never* see white people get as activated as they do about Black social media autonomy.

The backlash against Blacksky after announcing it will have Blacsky only posts is based purely on racism. Because this feature has been a main stay in the fedi for a long time, but it was by a white devs, so there wasn't a problem. But when Black folks do it, suddenly it's an issue.

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

You are doing good work sir. Keep going.

Lots of secret hostility. - Rudy is a hack - Blacksky is a semi-proprietary ethnocentric social network just “popping up” - Blacksky is masquerading as fully open source would you all like me to still speak at #AtmosphereConf this year? I don’t have to.

Evergreen

Public domain clip art, y'all. openclipart.org

Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can. Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop. Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵 www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

Me when I call a hair salon that claims to do “all types of hair” and ask about Black hair care and they say “what’s that” to multiple questions…

“That ‘Fast Car’ can be passed down through generations without requiring explanation is both a songwriting triumph and a grim indictment of America.”

When ppl say this, they mean they fear being a beginner. Because if growth as an artist is a goal, they’d accept that they have to actually make art themselves. Engage in the practice. 4 years of gen ai use and they’ll still actually be a beginner. 4 years of real art practice will reflect growth.

I’m sorry but stuff like this is why I can’t listen to Cole sksksks. I’m not saying he’s not talented, but that talent is…for someone else to listen to. Because he lyrically irritates me; often. If he can get some different lyrics with the same cadences, flows, delivery, tempos, samples etc…maybe.

Someone asked Patriots who Bad Bunny gonna bring out and while some players answered the question with various guesses, Stefon wouldn’t answer and just smirked and tilted his head and kept walking. Does that mean Bad Bunny gonna bring out Cardi B for halftime?👀🔍

Industry not as good to me this season. Couldn’t put finger on why at first because it’s not the debauchery or absurdity or tension between unlikable characters’ reverence for and disgust with capitalism. That’s S1-S3 too; fine seasons. This season “too online.” A Dr. Umar reference? Come on, man.

*learning Spanish before halftime*

Fuck these fucking thieves

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

Folks probably spent more on Claude/LLMs than they’ve given to mutual aid 😭 You’re weird!!!

👵🏾🎥 #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

🎤Juve Thee Nile

“Sorry y’all got cut but I’m still good over here. Be blessed” lol

Lately I been eating sandwiches because I forgot how good they are when I’m not energetic enough to cook. A turkey sandwich with some red onion on it, provolone, spring greens, heirloom tomato, mayo, balsamic vinaigrette, on fresh baked bread. Saves my life.

That royalty rate has remained the same for the last FIFTY YEARS

Even now, Stevie Wonder only gets 20% of the royalties from his record sales

Rico Wade’s mother’s basement gave us OutKast, Goodie Mob, and the Dungeon Family

So much of the best raps come from people forced to innovate with limited tools while fucking around with their friends and more people should take that lesson in.

Slob on my knob was made by teenagers in a Memphis bedroom and everyone loves it

I think what pisses me off the most about the “predatory powerful men” discourse is not that they’re typically mediocre talents - although they mostly are - but that their presence almost certainly ensured that we never saw the work of thousands of genuinely talented women.

Ppl genuinely demanding gen X & millennials pretend like we didn’t do HS, college, careers, personal projects and even jokes/memes/reactions without gen ai our whole lives. When gaslighting reaches a mass scale & has power (billionaires, gov) behind it, it facilitates structural violence actually.

“Gen ai should exist because disabled/poor ppl can’t make art otherwise” is asking you to believe lies, not your eyes. As if poor/disabled ppl haven’t written words/made art prior to gen ai. Of course a yt leftist using dead Black scholars as a shield made this argument. That ol’ train? Never late.

Public and replayable declarations of joining Blacksky. Priority moderation queues for in-community reports. A democratically decided community guideline document. Legal support for “Fearless Fund” type lawsuits. Revenue from members, not advertisers. Proactive and defensive feed algorithms.

Reading this and I want everyone in her orbit to get their ass beat

How could we forget. We used to get real news from a reliable source