If i finish this abstract today, I will let myself watch both the Traitors finale AND the Pitt tonight as a treat..

Starting my days listening to Stevie Wonder and reading Du Bois instead of whatever is in the news cycle! Happy 100th Black History Month 🖤

Librarians are the pillars of society, change my mind

The Racial Construction of Neoliberalism by @arunkundnani.bsky.social is my fave text that I've read so far among 3 classes so far this semester. Just needed to place that thought somewhere lol

just logged into linkedin for the first time in weeks and this was one of my notifications (????). I'm sure there's someone studying the ways corporate media and platforms uptake the use of (queer) AAVE 😵‍💫

It will never be comprehensible or forgivable that the man who incited a deadly insurrection and attack on our Capitol was able to run again and retake the levers of power.

i'm a capricorn rising ✨

and this all started bc someone asked if I could create an IG highlight for all the AI/digital culture articles I share and I thought "I can do one better" I can organize these in a systemized way by collection lol

fell down a rabbit hole of productivity today. looked up and its 8pm and i've organized my zotero collection, started on my personal website, re-wrote my professional bio (was putting that off for months/confused about research interests lol)

Multiple Organizations Lead the Charge to Safeguard HBCU History “There were so many stories that needed to be told.” That’s how Cassandra Illidge, executive director of the HBCU Grants Program at Getty Images, describe

"Participating institutions retain full copyright ownership of their materials. Digitization occurs on-site with all digital files returned directly to the HBCU. Getty and Ancestry also provide campus-wide access to Ancestry’s genealogical research tools."

insightintoacademia.com/hbcu-history...

This is an open biblio that you are welcome to add your work to, if you work fits into critical data center studies:

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"gen alpha phrases" and it's just phrases that Black people across generations say...

"ate that up" is black QUEER language and "secure the bag" has been around since I was at least in middle school

People in Gaza are posting final messages.

MOVE bombing 40 years later: A day of reflection and remembrance Forty years ago today, city officials made the unconscionable decision to bomb its own people.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

📍The Book I’ve Been Holding in My Chest

I’ve been writing a book for years—one shaped by a single question:Who gets to be understood online?
It’s about grief, algorithms, and Gakirah Barnes.She was 17.She was brilliant.Her life—lived on Twitter—has something to teach us all.

Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

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also I'm sorry I have to keep breaking the news to people that chatGPT can apparently speak Patois now

we are in so much trouble, dear lord

The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Malcom X, Tina Turner, Prince, Muhammad Ali, the Jackson’s family (throwing in the Five Heartbeats bc they count too, idc!)

All film biopics I watched regularly in my Black home with my Black family growing up lol even if they weren’t “age appropriate”

Saying this bc her film biopic was and is remains one of my fave “Black” films growing up and as a result I became enamored with Tina Turner at like 8 lol

But there are children who don’t know her/understand her impact!

I don’t have enough characters to explain here but this has me thinking about how changes in how we consume media (viewing TV collectively vs streaming individually) has shifted how much younger generations likely know about artists before their time.

The Devil in America - Reactor Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shatteri...

SINNERS is an extraordinary fantastic lens through which to process (African-) American history.

Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America."

reactormag.com/the-devil-in...

Cannot believe this was his debut. Amazing performance!

'Sinners' Review: Ryan Coogler's Blood-soaked Southern Gothic Horror Masterpiece Coogler’s first original flick is a staggeringly sophisticated studio horror with so much on its mind and sharpened fangs ready to bite.

After two [IMAX] viewings of SINNERS, I finally wrote my review. As you can imagine, it's about 1500 words. Yet, simply put, if I had seen this as a religiously-stifled teen, it would've liberated me sooner. #SinnersMovie

Read my five-star review here:

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Hello! #SinnersMovie is somebody’s dissertation chapter! Need all the historians who were in the writers room to come to the front 😭

Well profs, "would you help the Gestapo?" is a live question.

How To Download And Save Your DNA Data From 23andMe Before Deleting Your Account Some are opting to download their DNA data from services like 23andMe before deleting their accounts. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to just that.

I am however, downloading all my data and deleting it haha

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In an ideal world without capitalist profit motives and equal access, this platform would be wonderful to many.