Danielle Koonce
@prophessakoonce.bsky.social
I have an MA in English, Ph.D. in SOCY. I'm a Reverend. I live to write. I center the rural South in my research. I teach. I study. I prophess.
Artificial intelligence will not save you. The language you model is most powerful.
www.daniellemkoonce.com
Artificial intelligence will not save you. The language you model is most powerful.
www.daniellemkoonce.com
You will know for those who know.
I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!
December 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
You will know for those who know.
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UPDATE #1 12/11 12:35 PM: Atrium Health Pineville has facilitated a call between David and his wife Cecilia. Cecilia has now been able to speak with her husband after a week in detention at the hospital.
David Cárdenas Centeno—a father of three Wake County Public School students whose family has lived in Raleigh for the past three years—was attending his annual check-in with Citizenship and Immigration Services when he was effectively disappeared by ICE.
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
UPDATE #1 12/11 12:35 PM: Atrium Health Pineville has facilitated a call between David and his wife Cecilia. Cecilia has now been able to speak with her husband after a week in detention at the hospital.
Who is in 50's circle? Setting your sights on bringing another person down is always the beginning of your own downfall. In the beginning it always seems like you are winning, but by the end whatever pain/shame/criticism you direct on another person will boomerang back to you. U reap what u sow.
On the eve of Netflix releasing a highly anticipated docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs — produced by his longtime foe Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson — the embattled mogul’s lawyers have sent a cease-and-desist letter, demanding that Netflix not release “Sean Combs: The Reckoning.” https://cnn.it/4iAIors
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Who is in 50's circle? Setting your sights on bringing another person down is always the beginning of your own downfall. In the beginning it always seems like you are winning, but by the end whatever pain/shame/criticism you direct on another person will boomerang back to you. U reap what u sow.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Over 800 people remained missing Monday after devastating floods killed over 1,000 people last week in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, as Indonesia’s president urged more action to confront the changing climate. https://to.pbs.org/48ioz3e
Over 800 people remain missing after flooding in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand
The flooding and landslides killed at least 604 people in Indonesia, 366 in Sri Lanka and 176 in Thailand, authorities said.
www.pbs.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Started stressing about where everyone will sit for Thanksgiving dinner. Hub reminded me that our grandmas hosted 30-deep in a 3 bedroom home with one table, 5 chairs, and 2 stools. No one complained while eating some of the best food, cakes, and pies ever. We are good. Be grateful. #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Started stressing about where everyone will sit for Thanksgiving dinner. Hub reminded me that our grandmas hosted 30-deep in a 3 bedroom home with one table, 5 chairs, and 2 stools. No one complained while eating some of the best food, cakes, and pies ever. We are good. Be grateful. #Thanksgiving
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
I knew something weird was happening to my Gmail accounts. All of a sudden AI was basically taking over my emails. One day I was fine, the next I'm vying with Gemini to reply to a simple email. Thank you for sharing this.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I knew something weird was happening to my Gmail accounts. All of a sudden AI was basically taking over my emails. One day I was fine, the next I'm vying with Gemini to reply to a simple email. Thank you for sharing this.
My aunties ate this up when I was a child. J.R.'s name (along with Victor Newman) was on constant rotation in the beauty salon and in neighborhood banter. The chokehold of soap operas and evening television drama on the 80s. IYKYK
Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Mary Crosby seen here in the "Who Done It?" episode of "DALLAS" dir. Leonard Katzman revealing the person who pulled the trigger was Kristin, J.R.'s scheming sister-in-law and mistress who shot him in a fit of anger, which aired #OnThisDay in 1980
📺 Lorimar Productions
📺 Lorimar Productions
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My aunties ate this up when I was a child. J.R.'s name (along with Victor Newman) was on constant rotation in the beauty salon and in neighborhood banter. The chokehold of soap operas and evening television drama on the 80s. IYKYK
Was supposed to have a virtual writing session this morning with a co-researcher but she notified me that ICE is in Durham and she has to do patrols to help keep her community safe. The forced normalization of protrcting communities from ICE is equally damaging. You can't just undo this and move on.
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Was supposed to have a virtual writing session this morning with a co-researcher but she notified me that ICE is in Durham and she has to do patrols to help keep her community safe. The forced normalization of protrcting communities from ICE is equally damaging. You can't just undo this and move on.
Never thought of it like this...
one of the more frustrating things about AI shit is that it, unfortunately, represents how a lot of older types think the computer should work ("ask it questions, get answers, talk with it") and normal interaction with a computer makes them terrified they'll hit a "blow up everything" button
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Never thought of it like this...
Yesterday a delivery truck pulled up beside our home blasting Michael Jackson. My 9-year old son and I were playing basketball. He turns to me excitedly and says, "Mom, thats Dirty Diana!" He was so excited and broke out in a dance. I smiled. And for a brief moment all was right in the world.
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Yesterday a delivery truck pulled up beside our home blasting Michael Jackson. My 9-year old son and I were playing basketball. He turns to me excitedly and says, "Mom, thats Dirty Diana!" He was so excited and broke out in a dance. I smiled. And for a brief moment all was right in the world.
Reposted by Danielle Koonce
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
Matthew 6:26 "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
God has not forgotten you. ##SundaySermonette
God has not forgotten you. ##SundaySermonette
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Matthew 6:26 "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
God has not forgotten you. ##SundaySermonette
God has not forgotten you. ##SundaySermonette
Reposted by Danielle Koonce
Watch or read our two-part interview with writer Jelani Cobb.
How We Got Here: Jelani Cobb on Rise of Trump & White Nationalism After Push for Racial Justice
Jelani Cobb, the acclaimed journalist and dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has just published a new collection of essays, “Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here.” The book collects ...
www.democracynow.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Watch or read our two-part interview with writer Jelani Cobb.
There has to be more legitimate militaristic/defense topics up for discussion...has to be. Sudan. Venezuela. N. Korea. Russia. Ukraine. Use of military force against select states. Climate change impacts on military logistics. But here we are talking about beards.
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There has to be more legitimate militaristic/defense topics up for discussion...has to be. Sudan. Venezuela. N. Korea. Russia. Ukraine. Use of military force against select states. Climate change impacts on military logistics. But here we are talking about beards.
Reposted by Danielle Koonce
5 things to do for sanity and self preservation this week
1. Purge your kids' toys now. Someone might need a low-cost gift
2. Try a new hairstyle you can do yourself
3. Plan a book swap with your family
4. Get some cough drops and epsom salts. It's wintry bath time.
5. Play a full album w/ no skips
1. Purge your kids' toys now. Someone might need a low-cost gift
2. Try a new hairstyle you can do yourself
3. Plan a book swap with your family
4. Get some cough drops and epsom salts. It's wintry bath time.
5. Play a full album w/ no skips
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
5 things to do for sanity and self preservation this week
1. Purge your kids' toys now. Someone might need a low-cost gift
2. Try a new hairstyle you can do yourself
3. Plan a book swap with your family
4. Get some cough drops and epsom salts. It's wintry bath time.
5. Play a full album w/ no skips
1. Purge your kids' toys now. Someone might need a low-cost gift
2. Try a new hairstyle you can do yourself
3. Plan a book swap with your family
4. Get some cough drops and epsom salts. It's wintry bath time.
5. Play a full album w/ no skips
This is why I wrote my blogs, "The Intelligence that is Artificial."
Why humans would defer their own organic brain intellect to machine intellect is beyond me. Mind you, machine intellect relies on human intelligence. Ingenuity, yes. Intelligence, nope.
Why humans would defer their own organic brain intellect to machine intellect is beyond me. Mind you, machine intellect relies on human intelligence. Ingenuity, yes. Intelligence, nope.
Bahahahahaha The New York Times just printed an opinion piece declaring "AI is intelligent, so long as we redefine what intelligence means to include it. And soon AI will be conscious, because we'll just redefine consciousness too!"
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Nothing means anything! Yay!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is why I wrote my blogs, "The Intelligence that is Artificial."
Why humans would defer their own organic brain intellect to machine intellect is beyond me. Mind you, machine intellect relies on human intelligence. Ingenuity, yes. Intelligence, nope.
Why humans would defer their own organic brain intellect to machine intellect is beyond me. Mind you, machine intellect relies on human intelligence. Ingenuity, yes. Intelligence, nope.
Reposted by Danielle Koonce
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
Reposted by Danielle Koonce
US gun culture + Stand Your Ground laws = More racist violence. www.bbc.com/news/article...
US cleaning woman shot and killed after arriving at wrong home
Police say they found Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, dead after she was shot on the front porch of a home in an Indianapolis suburb.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
US gun culture + Stand Your Ground laws = More racist violence. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The pace at which universities in particular are ushering in a chat-box induced learning environment, with no restrictions and with plenty of half-baked promises of "harnishing the talent and creativity of our students, faculty and staff..."
So dangerous and deadly.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
So dangerous and deadly.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The pace at which universities in particular are ushering in a chat-box induced learning environment, with no restrictions and with plenty of half-baked promises of "harnishing the talent and creativity of our students, faculty and staff..."
So dangerous and deadly.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
So dangerous and deadly.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
I read Marquez's 'Until August' and loved it. The wording, the plot or lack thereof, the descriptions...so rich and beautiful. I fell head over heels after just a few pages. This is how a Nobel writer makes you feel. Their pen, like a needle, draws you out of your world and into theirs.
#booksky
#booksky
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I read Marquez's 'Until August' and loved it. The wording, the plot or lack thereof, the descriptions...so rich and beautiful. I fell head over heels after just a few pages. This is how a Nobel writer makes you feel. Their pen, like a needle, draws you out of your world and into theirs.
#booksky
#booksky
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Target greeters trying to lure us back:
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Target greeters trying to lure us back:
My husband who works long hours asked me about Mamdani. I said he lived in a couple of countries...Indian, Arabic roots by way of Africa...tried to be a rapper one time.
My husband said, "he sounds just like a New Yorker."
The media is trying so hard to make Mamdani an outlier. Stop it.
My husband said, "he sounds just like a New Yorker."
The media is trying so hard to make Mamdani an outlier. Stop it.
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My husband who works long hours asked me about Mamdani. I said he lived in a couple of countries...Indian, Arabic roots by way of Africa...tried to be a rapper one time.
My husband said, "he sounds just like a New Yorker."
The media is trying so hard to make Mamdani an outlier. Stop it.
My husband said, "he sounds just like a New Yorker."
The media is trying so hard to make Mamdani an outlier. Stop it.
Part II of my blog post, "The Intelligence That is Artificial" is up. We can utilize the technology without being consumed by it, or can we? Despite the possibilities, AI poses an enormous environmental threat. I represent those communities most at risk.
daniellemkoonce.com/2025/11/05/t...
daniellemkoonce.com/2025/11/05/t...
The Intelligence That is Artificial (Part II)
In part one of my blog on artificial intelligence, I really tried to nail down the fact that artificial intelligence is artificial. Artificial intelligence is not human intelligence. Rather, it rel…
daniellemkoonce.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Part II of my blog post, "The Intelligence That is Artificial" is up. We can utilize the technology without being consumed by it, or can we? Despite the possibilities, AI poses an enormous environmental threat. I represent those communities most at risk.
daniellemkoonce.com/2025/11/05/t...
daniellemkoonce.com/2025/11/05/t...