Known for talking #tech in plain English • Hampton U • Formerly: TED, Intel, ReadWrite, Chevrolet 🏳️🌈
Atlanta, GA
Joined October 2007
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"Real change is systemic and self-implicating, urging us to see our role in vast complex problems." - @AnandWrites #obamasummit
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Remember when Google dropped this Black History Month commercial in 2020?
That’s what honoring Black history looks like, telling the truth loudly, not sanitizing it when it makes people uncomfortable.
Happy Black History Month.
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It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
"Where culture once circulated through proximity and shared reference points, platforms expanded its reach while stripping away its anchors." - @h0piummm
Solid analysis and great read!
Culture travels faster than responsibility.
A reflection on how Black culture gets separated from its origins and why consequence never disappears, it just sticks to certain bodies.
When Culture Loses its Consequence open.substack.com/pub/proofo…
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Happy 111th birthday to Mother Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa massacre in 1921.
We will not stop fighting for reparations for the Tulsa massacre and other acts of physical and systemic violence perpetrated against Black Americans.
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“Too few Black institutions reach 100 years, so it is a momentous occasion indeed for the #SchomburgCenter to celebrate this remarkable achievement,” said actor LeVar Burton said in a statement to @BlackEnterprise. #Schomburg100 #Harlem
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Definitely felt that earthquake in Atlanta. Place shook for about 3 or 4 seconds. Enough to get the dog barking about it. He was not a fan lol.
"The case law is now abundantly clear that when the FCC is powerless to protect consumers online, the states can step in to protect their residents," Love to see states step UP for their people. This is how you do it! #equity arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
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Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out
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Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
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Corporations are not people. jacobin.com/2023/06/seaford-…
Or when searching for anything related to Black people. P*rn is almost always the top results in searches using “Black” on Twitter.
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Now that we can't search Twitter without logging in, I wish Twitter could've evolved into a protocol or public utility of sorts. Twitter's search has a unique, competitive edge over Google & sometimes more value. Making it less accessible is another step in the wrong direction.
