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C'est quand même 6 fois plus qu'un gouvernement de droite hein....
October 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
C'est quand même 6 fois plus qu'un gouvernement de droite hein....
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Tonight!
I'm speaking and signing copies this evening at 7pm at the Harvard U. bookstore about The Second Emancipation. Open to all! www.harvard.com/event/howard...
August 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tonight!
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A fantastic review of The Second Emancipation in today's Boston Globe, seen just now, hours before I speak in Cambridge. This reviewer understands how a deep intellectual history of Pan-Africanism sits at the book's core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/a...
Looking at African liberation through its first post-colonial presidency - The Boston Globe
At midnight on March 6, 1957, Crown subjects in the Gold Coast celebrated the end of British colonial rule by naming themselves citizens of a new nation-state, the Republic of Ghana.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A fantastic review of The Second Emancipation in today's Boston Globe, seen just now, hours before I speak in Cambridge. This reviewer understands how a deep intellectual history of Pan-Africanism sits at the book's core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/a...
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Some interesting numbers on the decline for clickthrough rates from Google thanks to AI summaries and overviews. It's basically the apocalypse for publisher revenue.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/google-ai-overviews-leads-to-dramatic-reduction-in-click-throughs-for-mail-
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/google-ai-overviews-leads-to-dramatic-reduction-in-click-throughs-for-mail-
Google AI Overviews leads to dramatic reduction in clickthroughs for Mail Online
Mail Online is seeing up to 56% lower clickthrough rate when Google AI Overviews appear for one of its keywords.
pressgazette.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Some interesting numbers on the decline for clickthrough rates from Google thanks to AI summaries and overviews. It's basically the apocalypse for publisher revenue.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/google-ai-overviews-leads-to-dramatic-reduction-in-click-throughs-for-mail-
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/google-ai-overviews-leads-to-dramatic-reduction-in-click-throughs-for-mail-
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A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
April 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
Just wrapped an incredible panel at #SXSW2025: "Can AI Be Trained to Be Ethical, and Will It?" It was an honor to be with brilliant co-panelists @perspectivai.bsky.social, Grace Gerwe and @sustainablemedia.bsky.social
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Building Ethical AI: A Panel Discussion Explore the crucial ethics of AI development in this insightful panel discussion. Experts discuss building ethical AI systems, emphasizing empathy, stakeholder ...
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March 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just wrapped an incredible panel at #SXSW2025: "Can AI Be Trained to Be Ethical, and Will It?" It was an honor to be with brilliant co-panelists @perspectivai.bsky.social, Grace Gerwe and @sustainablemedia.bsky.social
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Created by a slave owner and built by slaves. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
University of Virginia board votes to end DEI office
UVA is the latest school to dismantle its office of diversity, equity and inclusion and some say other Virginia universities could follow.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Created by a slave owner and built by slaves. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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More great blurb banners for my forthcoming book, The Second Emancipation, out in August. I'm deeply grateful to all of these wonderful contributors.
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
More great blurb banners for my forthcoming book, The Second Emancipation, out in August. I'm deeply grateful to all of these wonderful contributors.
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Deeply, deeply immoral.
The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
March 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Deeply, deeply immoral.
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A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A reminder for these times.
The bombastic flouting of norms and laws makes the world more sensible to them. It is government and civic life they don’t understand. Musk clarifies a scary world for them, putting it in terms they understand. Bad guy. Good guy. Evil. Villain. Kill. Win.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Opinion | Look Past Elon Musk’s Chaos. There’s Something More Sinister at Work. (Gift Article)
Everything is content.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The bombastic flouting of norms and laws makes the world more sensible to them. It is government and civic life they don’t understand. Musk clarifies a scary world for them, putting it in terms they understand. Bad guy. Good guy. Evil. Villain. Kill. Win.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
A curious group of friends sneak into an abandoned spinach canning factory to investigate the legend of the "Sailor Man"
I approve.
I approve.
February 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A curious group of friends sneak into an abandoned spinach canning factory to investigate the legend of the "Sailor Man"
I approve.
I approve.
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Genuinely the most tense, gripping sporting contest I've seen all year. Great sportsmanship at the end too 👏🏾
December 25, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Genuinely the most tense, gripping sporting contest I've seen all year. Great sportsmanship at the end too 👏🏾
I agree, and would extend by saying the onus is on communities and stakeholders to be actively involved in governance. It can’t be done credibly from above alone, we learned that in Web 2.0
There are ways across each platform to protect your data. Easiest way is to hit delete. No one reads the fine print. Like product disclosure statements with banking products. I always go on about this because it’s true. The onus is also on the individual to protect.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
I agree, and would extend by saying the onus is on communities and stakeholders to be actively involved in governance. It can’t be done credibly from above alone, we learned that in Web 2.0
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
12/12/2024
Ten days ago, on December 2,
President Joe Biden arrived in Angola, the first U.S. president to visit central Africa since President Barack Obama traveled
there in 2015.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
12/12/2024
Ten days ago, on December 2,
President Joe Biden arrived in Angola, the first U.S. president to visit central Africa since President Barack Obama traveled
there in 2015.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 13, 2024 at 5:50 PM
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
12/12/2024
Ten days ago, on December 2,
President Joe Biden arrived in Angola, the first U.S. president to visit central Africa since President Barack Obama traveled
there in 2015.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
12/12/2024
Ten days ago, on December 2,
President Joe Biden arrived in Angola, the first U.S. president to visit central Africa since President Barack Obama traveled
there in 2015.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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In Honor of Nikki Giovanni
Ego Trippin for the rest of the week...
I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad
Ego Trippin for the rest of the week...
I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad
December 10, 2024 at 9:54 PM
In Honor of Nikki Giovanni
Ego Trippin for the rest of the week...
I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad
Ego Trippin for the rest of the week...
I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad
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🤔 Is AI good or evil? Or both? I would love to know what you think.
❤️ Please take 2 minutes to answer my quick questions and share
🙌🏽 Thank you so much, I will send you the results
#AI #poll #questions
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❤️ Please take 2 minutes to answer my quick questions and share
🙌🏽 Thank you so much, I will send you the results
#AI #poll #questions
forms.gle/J6u7xcUx7DWW...
Is AI good or evil?
Please answer these short questions to help me understand what people think about AI, there are no right or wrong answers, thank you very much. I will email you the results.
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December 6, 2024 at 1:07 PM
🤔 Is AI good or evil? Or both? I would love to know what you think.
❤️ Please take 2 minutes to answer my quick questions and share
🙌🏽 Thank you so much, I will send you the results
#AI #poll #questions
forms.gle/J6u7xcUx7DWW...
❤️ Please take 2 minutes to answer my quick questions and share
🙌🏽 Thank you so much, I will send you the results
#AI #poll #questions
forms.gle/J6u7xcUx7DWW...
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U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by 2100, the largest age group of the world’s population will have changed from 10-14 year-olds today to 35-39 year-olds. The global population will have grown from 8.1 billion to 10.9 billion🧵
Map reveals how world's population will change by 2100
The Census Bureau has revealed how much populations will change across the world, with vastly different changes between nations.
www.newsweek.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:59 PM
U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by 2100, the largest age group of the world’s population will have changed from 10-14 year-olds today to 35-39 year-olds. The global population will have grown from 8.1 billion to 10.9 billion🧵
The doccie "Dahomey," by Mati Diop, was listed in today's NYT as one of 2024's best films. Have not yet seen it, but I'm looking forward to it.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/m...
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‘Dahomey’: A Daring Meditation on the Painful Legacy of Looted Artifacts
Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:18 PM
The doccie "Dahomey," by Mati Diop, was listed in today's NYT as one of 2024's best films. Have not yet seen it, but I'm looking forward to it.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/m...
Breaking with a long-held taboo, a new generation of leaders in #Senegal wants answers.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
80 Years After Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France (Gift Article)
The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in secrecy. But Senegal’s new government won’t abide the mystery.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Breaking with a long-held taboo, a new generation of leaders in #Senegal wants answers.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...