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why the fuck you talking to me? you scared my cats out of their minds

300k Black women got fired, Jimmy Kimmel was gon be OK. Give them their jobs back

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Let’s be clear, if a person says racist statements then that person is a racist….if a person defends those same statements and tells you that person isn’t a racist then that person is too a racist. I hope that clears up any confusion… #Blacksky

If you don’t do anything else as a parent you’ve got to build up your children’s confidence. That is like the single most important thing for you to do.

The head of the department looked around the table. "I presume you've all been visited by the G-men," he said. They all nodded. "But we don't care about that, do we?" There was a pause, and, slowly, some nods. And more nods. "OK, then, let's offer Professor Condon a job." And they did....

honestly didn’t know who that guy was until you all got obsessed

Maya Angelou writing in bed, with a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bible. (1982)

I will not be told how to feel about anything. I will not be told how to express myself on any matter. But I'm not going to tell anyone else how to do their thing either. I am the boss of me (and me alone). I'm unlikely to get along with anybody who doesn't respect this.

everybody needs to quit posting. process your feeling with family, friends, and therapists. posting online just creates a collective pathology

Excerpt from the latest PROCSSS newsletter, where I wrote about following the blueprint left by the Jazz greats to stay engaged and creative in these oppressive times. www.nonstndrd.com/we-got-the-j...

The goals of this administration are so obviously, explicitly racist and there is not a single mainstream media outlet willing to even suggest that’s the motivation.

Wow. Did Kavanaugh just say, unasked, that racism is ok when you make up an excuse?

yes, this is the same ask that Chicago Mayor Emmanuel, Cook County Sheriff Dart, and Illinois Governor Rauner asked President Trump in 2018. Bipartisan elected local officials want federal assistance. A National Guard deployment is a dress rehearsal for a coup. That’s not hyperbole — that’s fact

Stony Island Arts Bank! A Chicago treasure!

I'm particularly pleased to have several sculptures from Mary Zehnder in the gallery for this show. A native Chicagoan, Zehnder studied briefly at the University of Illinois School of Art and Architecture when she was younger, but life got in the way. She returned to art later in life with aplomb.

At every level of this society, we just don’t value children enough.

rust isnt special. you know what else is memory safe. a beautiful forest stream

No. Next question?

Lovestruck Books at Harvard Square is the most popular bookseller in town for the same reasons explained by Angelina Eimannsberger www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-a...

The occupation of DC pisses me off. My people have been in DC since it was established. Our enslaved ancestors' labor built the city. A Black man, Benjamin Banneker, was a huge part of the design team with L'Enfant. DC is part of the Black world, too! www.whitehousehistory.org/benjamin-ban...

poorly. next question?

I like the prosody in Felix Klien’s explanation of Bürgi logarithms. He’s writing with purpose and with pride of his students and country in a time of (relative) peace in Europe ca. 1904

May depend on how ambitious you want to be but I think for most people it’s healthier and more realistic to come to terms with the fact that you can’t really “waste” your life, it’s all just life. Just do good, try to make yourself happy and healthy and if you dont like something try to change it.

“Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that. Nothing could be more obvious, of course, especially to those who have given more than two minutes of thought to the matter.” Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Nothing.

I keep seeing people celebrate this headline… but this isn’t good news. This means more effort may be placed on installing generative tooling in the back office

I hadn’t thought of the visual and cultural connections between Basquiat artistic style and the signatures of Haitian loa until I saw this inset in Zora Neale Hurston “Tell My Horse” really obvious in retrospect

Rainbow Tiger Totem 🐯🌈✨ Made for the Odd Folk & Fables exhibition with Giant Robot! Show opens tomorrow at 11am PT and all artwork will be available online at that time as well! Future purchase link is here: www.giantrobot.com/collections/... #art #pottery

I mean, CRL James calls Dessalines “a monster” too, but that’s in a Trotskyist history where Dessalines role as a revolutionary general alongside L’Ouverture has a political parallel in the late 1930s Communist debates.

If you understand what software engineering as a career actually entails (lots of people and organizational problems, understanding legacy code and tradeoffs) you are at a career advantage over those who understand the job as just producing code. Those jobs could be replaced. But that ain’t the job

on a personal note, this feeling of "erasure" has been what's driving my exploration of Black American literature and history. Last winter, I felt acutely that my grandfather's side of the family had been subconsciously scrubbed from our identities, as a zombie-like reaction to latent supremacism

intricate argument by Samuel Loncar in Marginalia Review of Books. TLDR: modern antisemitism and racism arises from an erasure of shared histories. accepting this means accepting, also, the Harvard "Report on Antisemitism" makes a justifiable claim against the anti-Zionist protesters on campus.

Everything the West brags about:“high living standards,” “freedom," “world-leading economies (GDP)", "happiness index", etc., is paid for by the plunder of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Every iPhone, every gallon of gas, every supermarket stocked to the ceiling: stolen labour & stolen resources.

not sure who needs to hear this but throwing a sandwich at a cop, getting mustard on his bulletproof vest, then running down the block before getting caught and arguing down the charge to a misdemeanor with a nominal fine or community service IS *NOT* STANDING UP TO THE STATE that’s all

Here is our interview with this major literary figure and African thinker. It was spine-tingling to talk to him in person (well, on Zoom). www.historyofphilosophy.net/ngugi-interv... #philsky #podcasts

This social media stuff is cool but make sure you’re happy in real life.

Don't listen to white people on DC. They don't know what they're talking about because they live in a separate DC that's not a Black city. They all, most liberals by the way, segregate themselves from us in daily life.

read Hannah Arendt — her book Origins of Totalitarianism is about exactly this problem! Oh, and what’s happening with the “protection” that politicians are offering now? Might those people in the White House already known such tactics?

more sinister than that even: it’s what free people do during the Enlightenment, ie, those who aren’t slaves nor serfs nor peasants

Every time admin talks about "future-proofing our degrees," I die a little inside and then remind them that critical thinking is the only skill that does this

in case you’re wondering (you’re not) why Ishmael Reed calls out David Byrne as “invaluable in defusing some of the hysteria with which Neo-African religion has been relegated in the United States, a Protestant country” it’s because of Papa Legba youtu.be/u21-p4sTz4w

Amistad (actually, I think Harper Collins operating under Amistad’s name) was sloppy in placing this essay about “Dust Tracks on a Road” at the end of “Tell My Horse”. The foward’s also missing. It’s supposed to be page xi but there is no page xi. The I Reed essay ought to be the forward but isn’t

Ok— I wasn’t imagining this back when I read “Mules and Men.” Gates puts it more academically as an instance of “double consciousness” … but I don’t like that framing of Hurston’s writing voice, either. She’s more unique than that, and independent of Du Bois’ concept

“I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths” — Anas Al Sharif in a posthumous message to be share in the event of his death