To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.

As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch

Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.

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How do you scrape form, interaction? @amplify285.bsky.social mentions Black Covid Care as an example of a project that relies upon user decisions #bbp #networkingblackprint blackcovidcare.com

Returning to Dream Lab this summer ⚡️ BLACK SPECULATIVE DIGITAL ARTS & HUMANITIES, co-taught by Dr. Michael Sterling Burns and Dr. Clayton Colmon 🔮

Freshly updated for Black History Month is our list of new indie games to play made by developers of color. RELOOTED! DROPSHOT! SANTACORPS! www.pcmag.com/picks/indie-...

Play These 24 Indie Video Games From Developers of Color Now

Indie games bring innovation and artistry to the video game industry, and people of color bring diversity and perspective to indie games. These PoC-developed indie titles should be on your radar.

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Distinguished University Professor of English @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social has emerged as a leading voice on AI. Read our Q&A to learn more about how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern: english.umd.edu/news/how-matthew-kirschenbaum-sees-ais-impact

New CFP from JITP on Minimalist Digital Pedagogy. Due June 15th. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Personally can't wait to have @alondra.bsky.social and @amplify285.bsky.social up on the stage in dialogue with Milner and Lanier at the closing keynote of Who Owns Black Data, vol. 2. It's gonna be lit 🔥🔥🔥 Check out the program here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/schedule/

Schedule | Who Owns Black Data?

A conference series on stewarding the historical and cultural record of Black life in the Americas.

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You were excellent and we loved having you here. Don't be a stranger whenever you're in MD again - our doors are always open to you! 🌟

Here at this @aadhum-umd.bsky.social workshop today, @rudyfraser.com is taking us under (I mean under) the hood to play with and learn about creating custom feeds in bluesky, in this case developing custom algorithms— thinking about weights and requirements, definitions and filtering the firehose. 😍

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD@aadhum-umd.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re on Day 2 of such an amazing time with @rudyfraser.com. Join us at 5:30PM @ 1104 Taliaferro Hall at UMD, College Park for the custom feeds workshop. (Free parking after 4pm!)

Here we go! @rudyfraser.com is describing matters of representing/supporting Black communities on social media. Turns to technical infrastructure: open source, user support, & other considerations. Thinking about systems that are sustainable, and that can operate well into the future.

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD@aadhum-umd.bsky.social · last yr.

So very thrilled abt this series of events w. @rudyfraser.com this wk @univofmaryland.bsky.social! ⭐

From scholars working on independent projects to gatherings of #BlackDH centers and initiatives, it's been a great week at the Africana Digital Humanities @ HBCU's Convening! Keynote convo'ing w/ Kenton Rambsy & the GOAT Maryemma Graham; amazing panels for days + basking in Colored Conventions-isms

#Blacksky y'all. #blackDH #digitalhumanities

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD@aadhum-umd.bsky.social · last yr.

From #BlackTwitter to @blacksky.app - We are in for a treat w. 3 upcoming AADHum events w/ technologist, community organizer, & creator of Blacksky, @rudyfraser.com! RSVP here: go.umd.edu/blacksky

As I was saying to a friend today, it's always a privilege to have someone care about your ideas. Gratitude today to The Black Studies Podcast for this opportunity to chat w the glorious Ashley Newby @ digital things, Black Studies things, teaching things, & more! open.spotify.com/episode/6IdA...

Marisa Parham - Department of English, University of Maryland

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Still we march along with the love— excited here today for @awwsmith.bsky.social at MITH & @aadhum-umd.bsky.social. We’re talking about his progress on LiteraryDJ, which begins w/ the limits of classical computing vis-à-vis Black language, & exploring new possibilities in computing. Quantum y’all!

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD@aadhum-umd.bsky.social · 2y ago

🤖 Join us tmrw - Apr 3rd @ 4pm in MITH to learn abt AADHum faculty @awwsmith.bsky.social's latest work. A researcher, developer, + artist, Smith investigates quantum computing as a new method for creative writing & human-computer co-writing. We hope to see you there!

Today? Advising projs, teaching my Black Digitalities grad course, & sitting @ this talk by @safiyanoble.bsky.social (How’s that for burying the lede?🌟) Moving constantly btw headlines & actually getting my job done. It’s a devilish both/and. Talks like this remind us why we must also do what we do

When we say digital @aadhum-umd.bsky.social, we mean ‘digital + experimental,’ which is how we think about our own version of #digitalhumanities Today? Sitting here at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social listening to Curry J. Hackett on landscape, Black life, Black joy, and AI image generation.

Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy@amplify285.bsky.social · 2y ago

AI? Ecology? Poetics? Black joy? Sign. me. up. Join us this week as we welcome the renowned artist and technologist Curry Hackett to AADHum, for a campus workshop + the second event in our ongoing series at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville!

AI? Ecology? Poetics? Black joy? Sign. me. up. Join us this week as we welcome the renowned artist and technologist Curry Hackett to AADHum, for a campus workshop + the second event in our ongoing series at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville!

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD@aadhum-umd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us for two AADHum events led by transdisciplinary artist, designer, & educator @curryhackett.bsky.social! Thurs 3/27 ⇣ 💻 1pm ⇢ MITH: wkshp on AI, art, & visualizing Black joy 🌱 5pm ⇢ @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville: convo on AI, eco-poetics, & Black life

AADHum & MITH got together and made a baby! We named it NarraSpace. It feels good to push toward new and ever more interactive ways to share scholarship & to find and tell our stories — looking for the new new while also homebrewing... english.umd.edu/news/step-na...

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The Gray Sage@walterdgreason.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are so honored to visit with you, MITH, AADHUM, and the Black Studies podcast. Somewhere, Angel Nieves is smiling.

Today at Maryland-College Park? Walter Greason and Tim Fielder talking about The Graphic History of Hip-Hop!

What better way to slink back onto the socials than to say how happy @aadhum-umd.bsky.social is to host members of the Afrotechtopia @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville! We are joining Ari Melenciano and Jeremy Kamal in celebrating Black Metal, an art book based in Black speculative design!

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

What do we have here? AADHum's first 2025 event! 🚀 Over the moon excited for this one. Come hang with us for a night about futures, speculative design, and the important work of independent Black digital and experimental makers. Swoon. Busboys & Poets Hyattsville — 5pm on 2/12 — Free!

At CNI, James Shulman and @amplify285.bsky.social discuss the ACLS Commission on Fostering & Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship's report: "Other Stories to Tell: Recovery Scholarship and the Infrastructure for Digital Humanities." 📹 Watch at:

Report of the ACLS Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship

Report and Recommendations of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital ScholarshipRecovery scholarshi...

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Clear, detailed explanation for *users* about how to do reports for Blacksky content moderation. So well done by Dr. KáLyn Coghill! @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social Trust & Safety folks ought to read this.

Kay Coghill, PhD.@drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 2y ago

New write-up on what to report to @blacksky.app on my substack now! open.substack.com/pub/drkalync... #blacksky

I want to make more websites for my interests next year!! Nothing stopping us from doing this. I think social media broke our brains and made us all obsessed with numbers. Back in the day we didn’t care about that, it was exciting if even one person signed the “guest book” on your weird little page.

Chance Kubesh@itskoob.mov · 2y ago

If you guys miss the old internet, you can join in and contribute at any time. Sign up at a static host like neocities or nekoweb. Make a shrine to some random shit you love, and other people will love it. It doesn't have to look good, use barebones html, plenty find it endearing. It screams Human

Marisa Parham on the WNBA (plotting a battle between Clark v Reese!)-brilliant! Kate Starbird on supposed concerns about protecting women’s sports from trans people-brilliant! Soraya McDonald on the Washington Post, minoritized reporters-brilliant! Renee DiResta on how to study platforms-brilliant!

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Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2y ago

does everyone already know that Mat Johnson is a genius? I never see him discussed. Invisible Things is a great fucking antifascist novel. it's also extremely funny.

'The co-lead of Remains // an Archive tells us about the lab's art exhibition, the importance of centering relationships between enslaved people in her writing, and the family photos that inspire her.' lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...

Dive into the Ecosystem: Jessica Newby

The co-lead of Remains // an Archive tells us about the lab's art exhibition, the importance of centering relationships between enslaved people in her writing, and the family photos that inspire her.

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