why not opt-in? just ask permission first if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked just ask permission first

Blacksky the feed will always be Black only. Blacksky-only posts on blacksky.community will be Black only. you can think of Blacksky Algorithms the company as Reddit for AT Protocol. We will make other “subreddits” Community been here for 2 years and company for 1 year. Im the founder of both.

As a former Washington Post reporter I’m ashamed of this news. There is nothing false or inflammatory in anything Karen Attiah wrote. Canceling my subscription. I’m appalled by our democratic organizations’ inability to protect free speech for all in the face of rising fascism.

A friend snapped this pic and sent it to me yesterday. It's from yesterday's large march in Chicago. Thank to the protester for bringing me along :)

Speaking of which, the latest entry in MIT's Distribution Matters series (which I co-edit with Ramon Lobato) is "Reparative Media" by the ever-amazing @ajescoffery.bsky.social. It now has a gorgeous cover and a pre-order page (hint). So proud to have had the opportunity to work with Aymar. #commsky

Remember how I keep saying you have no business on Substack? You have no business on Substack. www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...

We deserve our own.

I understand the allure of wanting to be a "carry guns and wear leather jackets" Black Panther but there's a case to be made that the most dangerous ones were the "feed kids breakfast and teach them about settler colonialism" Black Panthers

As part of this month's forum on Media & Fascism, @ajescoffery.bsky.social explores how experimental, community-based media practices can help us revitalize and reconstruct democracy. Check it out! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

Love this. We are going to watch the shit out of Ironheart, fam. Giving this the chance it missed due to COVID, production schedule backflips, leading man bullshit, moneymaking nonsense... ew.com/ironheart-sh...

It was an honor to be hooded by my chair @ajescoffery.bsky.social

My book has a cover! Reparative Media argues we can reimagine how we make media, how we connect through technology, and how we generate knowledge to heal our culture.

Check out my latest, with @paulachak.bsky.social, in @ccc-journal.bsky.social! It introduces a forum we co-edited on "Media and Fascism," with a star-studded lineup! See the 🧵 below: doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

This was so fun to write! Using Du Bois and reconstruction to talk about how media could help us survive authoritarianism.

@ajescoffery.bsky.social writes about reconstruction and reparative media. doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

Today a (short) book I’m writing with Khadijah White about how media has perpetuated harm in society was effectively denied a contract from a publisher because of fear of the US anti-DEI climate, despite an editor who’s been consistently passionate about the project.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

The only stablecoin should have been issued by the Fed, and 47 should have never been able to issue a grift coin or stablecoin, but Dems completely missed the chance to regulate crypto under Biden…out of sheer ignorance and seeming allegiance to the banks.

“The more frequently people use ChatGPT, the lonelier, and the more dependent on it, they become.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Did a presentation at Harvard Business School today. Shout out @ajescoffery.bsky.social for making that possible.

Dive into this simple but profound truth: the gender binary, frozen to sex, was violently imposed nearly everywhere by colonialism. Read:

Loving Nana Mgbechikwere’s expose on what OpenAI does with custom GPTs: unpaid digital labor!

Had the honor of a great, wide-ranging conversation with @ajescoffery.bsky.social! We talked about designing online social spaces, the magic of early 2000s Internet forums, and how social media can be a tool for collective action. Check it out!

There's a lot going on, but we should not let this slip under the radar—Google and OpenAI are cynically seizing on the Trump admin's hawkish, US-first AI policy instincts to make a play at gutting artists' copyright protections once and for all. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai-and...

This weekend I've decided to finally read Balaji Srinivasan's terrible fucking book, "The Network State." I've put this off for as long as I possibly could. Here goes. thenetworkstate.com/book/tns.pdf

This article builds on the work of Aymar Jean Christian (@mediadataequity.bsky.social) and Khadijah Costley White who put forth the term "organic representation" as a critical lens to analyze not just text but production + distribution. Please engage, critique (constructively 😅), share, build...

its no coincidence that generative AI is such a perfect fit for fascist futurism. re: futurism, AI is iconic. it can stand for "wealth-ness" and "future-ness" in a way real video can not re: fascism, AI is an assertion of the statistically standard, normal, hegemonic, and inevitable

I wrote about Musk's efforts to create a mediasphere dominated by propaganda and misinfo, and how it fits into a fascist agenda, in Sept, but I have been harping about this since he bought Twitter. Back then, some people didn't believe me when I said that move was about doing propaganda at scale.

New study by @mediadataequity.bsky.social shows that streaming platforms prefer Black pain over joy. If you want to dive into an eg. after reading, I wrote about how everyone heals but Cal, the Black trans nonbinary character in Sex Education for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social when it was aired.

New article out! In the build up and aftermath of BLM 2020, Black Hollywood often critiqued the industry for its interest in their pain. We find evidence they were right. We analyzed streaming platforms and found most disproportionately marketed Black trauma over joy or more complex narratives.

Thanks @rudyfraser.com, as the outlook of the country changes and propaganda systems surface, we need to fight this with decentralized anti-propaganda systems of our own. I dream of the Latino and Black community uniting in coordinated resistance, we face similar challenges 💪

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

Some of us will be processing this forever

Media and digital literacy are key to disrupting disinformation. --clapping back/arguing just helps to amplify bad faith accounts & false material --don't share "funny" disinfo to dunk on it; some will still believe it --BLOCK, REPORT, and tell others to do same *without* sharing disinfo content

when you post only a screenshot of a story/claim without a valid link, you are contributing to the normalisation of circulating unverifiable information (and possibly exacerbating mis/disinformation)

In my 3rd interview I discuss food, audience & reparative systems for now and after the interval with @mediadataequity.bsky.social. redistribution & accountability, safety & invitation, reciprocity & care: critical to finding power and agency when threatened. aljean.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/t...

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

The Streaming Studio System is in full effect resurrecting broadcast TV formats & titans like Dick Wolf who’s “small production company” has made thousands of TV episodes promoting myths of policing and medicine at a time when faith in both are (justifiably) low. Framing this as a “comeback” is 😆

I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be. Imagine the situation where you pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services, each with different “exclusives” — but for the Internet itself.

And to think we spent years debating the implications of their real name policy

So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.

The special issue of @twccomms.bsky.social “Centering Blackness in Fan Studies” I co-edited with Matt Griffin is out now! It features four original essays on Black fandom + K-pop, horror podcasting, the Hillman bookstore, and Scandal. journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

“KáLyn Coghill, an educator who joined the moderation team, wanted to know ‘what the process could look like if Black people had the power to remove toxic accounts from their zeitgeist.’ What all might spring from that sort of environment? How would social media change? How would we?”

Warner Bros. Discovery restructures to split up streaming and cable businesses

My classy BSky users: who among us is following the AI agent trend now enabled by crypto currently blowing up on X? Autonomous agents are running Twitter accounts, producing music albums and memes and are now being given crypto wallets to scam users. Mostly horrible but… youtu.be/5-K5cQ5KBHc?...

OpenAI’s Sora and technologies like it represent a step change in generative video. WITNESS executive director Sam Gregory says there are fundamental gaps in access to detection tools that disadvantage journalists and civil society, but there is time to address this and other threats:

This iconic exchange was part of two hourlong episodes on the iconic show SOUL! on which Nikki Giovanni was a host and artist. She was arguably *the* voice of this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, innovative program that was one of public TV’s earliest hits and, in my opinion, its best.

Thinking about the phase of my life when “will quantum computing kill the blockchain?” was the question I had to think about