ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Hey, let's have that #aave conversation here.

The essential question was "Should white people be using it?"

Lots of "no's" -- but my take is asking Americans to just quit cold turkey is like asking country musicians to stop using blues as an influence. Not sure if there would be anything left?

Just BE THOUGHTFUL, do your homework, and perhaps avoid the annoying thing of making it some other kind of talk, like "Gen Z, Teen, etc."

#blacktwitter #blackmastodon

@thomasfuchs I keep trying to explain to people that AI systems aren't suited to problems where you have intelligent human antagonists who are trying to exploit flaws in the system

An AI moderation tool is just an arms race to see how quickly horrible people can invent new forms of abuse that get past the filters!

From 1989 to 2019, typical working families saw a negligible increase in wealth.

Meanwhile, the wealthiest one percent got $29 trillion richer in those same 30 years.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Yearly reminder to not give money to the Salvation Army. It is not a charity, it's a fundamentalist Christian organization that supports anti-queer policies. Support mutual aid resources instead.

#SalvationArmy

Very good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/27/france-man-fired-company-drinking-culture/

Mt. Rainier casting a shadow upwards across the sky.

When I turned 70, I thought, “Well, that’s it. I’ve had a great career, but it’s winding down.”
Boy, was I wrong. I found social media, and then a second wind at my sails in my 70s! I made my Broadway debut at 78, and I’ll make my London debut at 85.
Life is truly wonderful and magical.

If you’re in London, come see me in Allegiance starting in January. Tix here: https://allegiancemusical.com

“A Bright Future” (Part 2) (made with Midjourney)
I decided to focus on making an afrofuturist space opera. These were my prompts:

“afrofuture Star Wars, afrofuturism, cyberpunk, interstellar, space opera, elitists, politicians, senators, POC, David Lynch’s Dune, 12,000 in the future, film, real, photographs taken with a kodak Kodachrome camera, 85mm lens, 1.4f”

#midjourney #aiart #sf #sciencefiction #spaceopera #afrofuturism

@tgreyhavens

Moss garden, Saiho-ji temple, Kyoto.

#Mosstodon #moss #Zen #temple

"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today" - Indian Proverb
#zen #meditation #quotes

Superb graphic explaining tootfeeds by @markwyner@mast.to #twittermigration #mastodontips

Wow, this seems like a very cool project.

#minicomics #moa

90’S Mini-comics oral history project https://youtu.be/zcDHHcdXjm0 via @YouTube

Note from @lifeofablindgrl on Twitter:
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"Can everyone please stop adding their Mastodon usernames to their Twitter names? It’s really frustrating for screen reader users. Hearing them being read out loud when scrolling down my timeline isn’t fun.

"Add it to your bio or make a pinned tweet instead."

I do not like that site of birds
I do not like its awful words
I do not like what it became
I do not like its cult of shame
I do not like intrusive ads
I do not like the vapid fads
I do not like the clout it’s given
I do not like its algorithm
But I shall miss that weird bird town
I do not like it burning down

This week's highlightable delights: Storytelling and the art of tenderness, David Bowie on creativity and his advice to artists, the poetic science of the aurora borealis https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/bowie-borealis

Photographing a stationary dragonfly is a piece of cake. Photographing a dragonfly in flight. . . not so much! Viewpoint Park Pond High Point West #Seattle: #Photography

Please boost for maximum exposure! We need to help support and build this great resource!....

If you run a "Covid-cautious" business that uses respirators and/or HEPA filtration to aid in decreasing the transmission of Covid-19, help people find you by listing your business with the Covid Safe Network.

This is a great place for people to connect with businesses practicing Covid-19 safety precautions!

https://covidsafenetwork.com/home/

The almost daily vacillating is a wild ride.

Presented with special thanks to the two geese that entered the frame with impeccable timing and compositional sensitivity.

#silentsunday #fujifilm #landscape