Abstracts for our keynote panel, "Generative Justice as a Pathway to Abolitionist Futures" are online at bit.ly/4dxcf1V. This will take place at the 15th National Conference on Critical Perspectives in Criminology and Social Justice, May 20-22 at Brock University.

Worker-owned and community-based design studios in Italy: a brief tour (part 2) eglash.substack.com/p/generative...

Part1 of our tour of worker-owned design cooperatives, community makerspaces and related institutions in Italy open.substack.com/pub/eglash/p...

A fun interview about fractal liberation with political scientist Beatriz Rey. You can get the English language version here: bit.ly/4eOZGBb Sobre sociedades fractais open.substack.com/pub/beatrizr...

Our new paper: African interlaces are continuous “over-under” paths, in African lusona, beadwork, textiles, etc. They visualize the “circulating vital energy” of Indigenous regenerative economies. Some survived the middle passage, creating new diaspora design ecologies. lnkd.in/grJU9Fuw

Our paper on Indigenous knowledge for STEM in Bali is out!. Traditional "subak" irrigation uses bottom-up, democratized resource distribution with ecological sustainability. Children learning with the subak model show statistically significant improvement in their STEM understanding. bit.ly/4rjvEt4

We need a statue for bi-partisan anti-violence, showing two left wing figures killed, and two right wing figures killed. The right-wing should be Charlie Kirk plus Brian Sicknick, the DC police officer (and Trump supporter) whose death was due to the Jan 6 rioters.

Excited to see my former grad student, Kwame Robinson, now an assistant prof in Detroit, developing "AI for the People": lnkd.in/gDKmpe34

theatlantavoice.com/steve-r-alle... "“The wisdom of fractals derives from Africa as it was a commonly used technology by people and civilizations throughout history. ...Fractals and Afrofuturism provide pathways that unlock the doors to successfully administering his designs"

Computer science majors now have one of the top unemployment rates in the nation. No one seems willing to admit that AI's chickens are finally coming home to roost. I'm hoping upper management is next. www.newsweek.com/computer-sci...

Our new paper, Ubuntu AI: Machine Learning for Regenerative Design Ecologies. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Bali weavers beating AI at geometry:

Launching our new CSDT for Bali's Indigenous "Tri Hita Karana" algorithms: csdt.org/culture/bali... Will be trying it out with kids and teachers in Bangli and Denpasar this week.

Generative Justice at the Venice Biennale: venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/geology-brit...

This growing gap in White vs Black/Latine net household worth seems to have the same rate no matter which party is in the whitehouse. What is that telling us?

@ChrisGray's excellent new book, "AI, Sacred Violence, and War—The Case of Gaza" is available as a free download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

In the 1980s, creative music sampling in rap was condemned as theft. 40 years later, AI's steals all human creativity at scale, and they call it a genius breakthrough.

Our prediction of the destructive effects of the election, and what is required to avoid it in the future: bit.ly/4aSAdCA #AI4good

Nice article about our work developing AI tools for Black artisans in Africa and Detroit: stamps.umich.edu/news/ubuntu-ai

Since AI has essentially committed theft of all of humanity's internet images and text, and there is no way to individually proscute, the best legal action would be to require those corporations to put their AI models in publically accessible open source, free for anyone to utilize. bit.ly/406WwRD

Some of the African artists and designers using our ubuntu-ai platform below. This Uganda group showcased their work at the British embassy. You can see samples from all 400 artists at ubuntu-ai.net. For more about the project uses AI to prevent value extraction, see generativejustice.org/uai/

Perhaps of interest to @africanarchives.bsky.social - new publication suggests the diagonals in Washington DC streets reflect a geometric theme, "the West African X", due to African American land surveyor Benjamin Banneker. bit.ly/3NQ7Ev9