ultrasonic_carousel @ultrasonic_carousel@wonkodon.com

Terribly sad, and I have to say I'm angry that I wasn't informed. Like Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense, I'm always the last to know.

These GW fans might want to google “Whiskey Rebellion” before they recruit George into their insurrectionary movement.

My latest article for the Seaside News, about Myrna Loy, appears on page 35 of the magazine.

https://issuu.com/seasidenews/docs/seaside_news_-_march_web_df8d16c8052a8f/35

#Movies #Hollywood #Actress #Magazine

Friendly reminder to turn on 2FA for your accounts if you haven't.

Twitter appears to have stopped publishing transparency reports showing what takedown demands governments have issued and, importantly, which demands Twitter honored. This is a bad development for free speech and transparency — especially after the recent censorship demands India has been granted on Twitter. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-no-transparency-reports-government-data-1234684941/

"I don't listen to what art critics say.
I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Neo-Expressionist artist Basquiat grew up in Brooklyn NY, child of a Boriqua mother and Haitian father. Fluent in three languages, he forged his own path in the art world alongside people like Keith Haring and Andy Warhol until his untimely death at age twenty-seven. His legacy endures.

#BlackHistoryMonth #art #Basquiat #ArtHistory #BlackHistory

Stolen and posting with #AltText.

Twitter: "Hi, we're run by a cryptofascist who reinstates the accounts of literal nazis while suspending those of press. We'll keep randomly taking away features with no notice and limiting your visibility until you pay us a monthly fee, which you can only do in a handful of countries. Vaccines are bad, the election was rigged, and we love Putin!"

Mastodon: "Hi! You need to choose a server and our DM UX is a little iffy."

Users: "NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FACED A CHOICE THIS HARD"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kLjDDTbPLlw&feature=share ⚡️🇺🇸One year ago: The night Russia invaded Ukraine (MSNBC News VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Outside tonight and frogs are croaking. I feel bad for them. I want to tell them, “Yes, it was 72 today, but this is still Missouri and it’s still February.”

Homo sapiens in Europe used bow-and-arrow 54,000 years ago: study - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism https://www.rawstory.com/homo-sapiens-in-europe-used-bow-and-arrow-54-000-years-ago-study/

The really fun thing about this is that this is happening on the same day that my seniors and grad students are scheduled to talk about… Race and Facial Recognition! 😃

I'll suggest this episode as a supplement, and see what comes up in the discussion.

For now, here's your reminder that the histories of facial recognition and surveillance in this country are predicated on the racialized history of policing, photography, and physiognomic measurement.

We can draw a line from slave patrols, phrenology, and even photography itself, through to the organizing logics of COINTELPRO and anti-Black surveillance, and systems of predictive policing reaching as far back as the 1960's, straight through to the current use of big data, algorithms, and "A.I." to surveil marginalized communities.

And that's just regarding Black folx. Questions like "who ought to be monitored" and "how do the monitoring devices perceive us, if at all" affect many marginalized communities, especially disabled people— a group which is Also already subjected to high rates of police violence.

So at the end of the day even if "AI" policing systems worked "perfectly"— that is, if they didn't reproduce prejudices & misperceive multiple distinct & intersecting marginalized communities— they'd most likely STILL be prejudicially deployed AGAINST those communities More Often.

So we shouldn't use them.
@NPR

I understand that a lot of you folks are great at technological stuff and excited for all the possibilities that Mastodon/the fediverse brings, but if you want more people to use this then you should probably just market it as Twitter without the ads or algorithm or Nazis.