Zaheer Ali
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I was honored to have the opportunity to address the Amherst College community with an address titled "Questioning Code: Courage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." albert.ias.edu/server/api/c...
June 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I was honored to have the opportunity to address the Amherst College community with an address titled "Questioning Code: Courage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." albert.ias.edu/server/api/c...
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
I tell my students all the time: before you criticize something, make sure you understand what it is doing or attempting to do.
And it’s okay to just say you don’t understand.
And it’s okay to just say you don’t understand.
February 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I tell my students all the time: before you criticize something, make sure you understand what it is doing or attempting to do.
And it’s okay to just say you don’t understand.
And it’s okay to just say you don’t understand.
Watching #GladiatorII. 35 min in and this is like a Denzel Washington-Paul Mescal buddy flick, and I’m here for it. Denzel is having so much fun in this role I can tell.
January 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Watching #GladiatorII. 35 min in and this is like a Denzel Washington-Paul Mescal buddy flick, and I’m here for it. Denzel is having so much fun in this role I can tell.
This whole thread is wild!
I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
January 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This whole thread is wild!
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y'all please keep me in your prayers my fierce aunt Liv just got called home
January 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
y'all please keep me in your prayers my fierce aunt Liv just got called home
Looks like Meta is taking down their (Blackface) AI-generated/augmented profiles. So many questions here. Who wrote their bios? Why is Grandpa Brian a “retired textile businessman”? Textile as in cotton?? 😐
January 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Looks like Meta is taking down their (Blackface) AI-generated/augmented profiles. So many questions here. Who wrote their bios? Why is Grandpa Brian a “retired textile businessman”? Textile as in cotton?? 😐
I really need someone to develop a smart contract app that enforces citations for quotes and credits for archival images. A public ledger that traces chain of transmission. I don’t know how it would all work but
January 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I really need someone to develop a smart contract app that enforces citations for quotes and credits for archival images. A public ledger that traces chain of transmission. I don’t know how it would all work but
Prince singing over an Anita Baker sample? Yes. Yesssssss
Don't have anything earth-shattering to say about "Keep on Loving U," except that it's a bop and Prince's voice is a balm for the soul--never more so than in this absolute nightmare of a month/year. Check it out while you can! youtu.be/ehnJB8_r9HA?...
Prince - "Keep On Lovin' U" (2002 ?) **HQ**
YouTube video by New Paisley Generation
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November 30, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Prince singing over an Anita Baker sample? Yes. Yesssssss
20 years ago today, #Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and brought the house down with this searing guitar solo. And then later that night I was one of the lucky many who go to see him funk up and rock out Club Black.
2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood
2021 Remastered Edit: Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison & Prince pay tribute to George Harrison at the 2004 Induction Ceremony
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March 15, 2024 at 11:50 PM
20 years ago today, #Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and brought the house down with this searing guitar solo. And then later that night I was one of the lucky many who go to see him funk up and rock out Club Black.
Honored to have joined Stephen Satterfield on his journey to Atlanta to sample MJ’s Pies and Chais delicious #beanpie and discuss #BlackMuslim food culture for the second season of High on the Hog, now streaming on Netflix.
November 23, 2023 at 1:41 AM
Honored to have joined Stephen Satterfield on his journey to Atlanta to sample MJ’s Pies and Chais delicious #beanpie and discuss #BlackMuslim food culture for the second season of High on the Hog, now streaming on Netflix.
As we celebrate Hip-Hop's 50th, Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer reminds us that "In my book, I make the case that Islam, specifically Black Islam, gave hip-hip knowledge of self." https://theconversation.com/knowledge-of-self-how-a-key-phrase-from-islam-became-a-pillar-of-hip-hop-208559
'Knowledge of self': How a key phrase from Islam became a pillar of hip-hop
A scholar explains how a concept that appeared in Nation of Islam literature nearly a century ago essentially defines hip-hop’s consciousness today.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2023 at 1:57 PM
As we celebrate Hip-Hop's 50th, Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer reminds us that "In my book, I make the case that Islam, specifically Black Islam, gave hip-hip knowledge of self." https://theconversation.com/knowledge-of-self-how-a-key-phrase-from-islam-became-a-pillar-of-hip-hop-208559
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Last night marked 40 years since the live debut of Prince’s band The Revolution, in a scintillating show that included the premieres of half the songs on Purple Rain — which was recorded live that night. This is how that moment happened. https://anildash.com/2014/07/25/i_know_times_are_changing/
I Know Times Are Changing - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
August 4, 2023 at 4:12 AM
Last night marked 40 years since the live debut of Prince’s band The Revolution, in a scintillating show that included the premieres of half the songs on Purple Rain — which was recorded live that night. This is how that moment happened. https://anildash.com/2014/07/25/i_know_times_are_changing/
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Platforms are reluctant to admit that they are making editorial choices. I’ll put it this way: you don’t have to be a fancy spot with a dress code, but if people know it’s ok to shit on the floor in your establishment you’re going to get a lot of floor shitters and other customers will go elsewhere.
July 13, 2023 at 2:51 PM
Platforms are reluctant to admit that they are making editorial choices. I’ll put it this way: you don’t have to be a fancy spot with a dress code, but if people know it’s ok to shit on the floor in your establishment you’re going to get a lot of floor shitters and other customers will go elsewhere.