Tarik Moody
@tarikmoody.com
Creative director for Black-led media outlet HYFIN from Radio Milwaukee, architect, AI enthusiast, foodie, geek, Howard U. alum tarikmoody.com hyfin.org
Just in time for March Madness. I created AgentMadness, my AI-powered March Madness tournament sim that turns all 68 NCAA teams into competing AI agents, then lets Claude and ElevenLabs call every game like a live broadcast. Check it: agentmadness-seven.vercel.app repo: github.com/tmoody1973/a...
AgentMadness — AI Tournament Simulator
68 teams become AI agents. Claude simulates every game. ElevenLabs calls every upset. The bracket fills in real time.
agentmadness-seven.vercel.app
I built Hakivo — need your vote! 🗳️ AI platform making Congress accessible: ✨ Real-time bill tracking ✨ AI analysis (Cerebras) ✨ Personalized Daily audio briefs ✨ Semantic search and more! Built for the Liquidmetal AI Champion Ship Hackathon. Go Vote: devpost.com/software/hak...
Hakivo: AI That Makes Congress Make Sense | Liquidmetal AI Hackathon Demo
YouTube video by Tarik Moody
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Yesterday, federal funding for public radio ends as CPB support disappears nationwide. It’s a moment that hits home—not just for stations like Radio Milwaukee, but for audiences who rely on public media for culture, discovery, and connection.
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Denmark Makes History: Your Face and Voice Are Now Your Intellectual Property
Europe's First Digital Identity Protection Law Tackles the Deepfake Crisis Denmark is poised to become the first European nation to grant citizens copyright control over their own faces, voices, and ...
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Anyone know why my prompt to fetch ingredient prices works perfectly in Perplexity, but not in my food app? Perplexity shows stores and prices as expected, but my app’s results look nothing like it (see screenshots). Any ideas? #kirohackathon#kirohackathon #AIdev #AI
Working on my hackathon project called platewise. platewise is an AI-powered web application that helps families optimize their grocery budgets while preserving their culinary cultural heritage.This platform makes nutritious, culturally authentic meals accessible regardless of budget constraints.
What happens when you adapt software development AI frameworks for public radio management challenges? The challenge: Public radio stations manage complex operations—fundraising, marketing, programming, partnerships—with skeleton crews and shrinking budgets.
Public Radio's Pivotal Moment: Will It Become Blockbuster or Netflix? open.substack.com/pub/tarikmoo...
Public Radio's Pivotal Moment: Will It Become Blockbuster or Netflix?
The end of CPB funding forces a long-overdue reckoning with innovation, leadership, and the future of public media
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Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy can check out copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler but not “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? (Gift Article)
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity in His Last Major Interview (1992)
Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity in His Last Major Interview (1992)
Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be surprisingly tricky to define. In the more than 30-year-old interview clip above, Isaac Asimov describes artificial intelligence as “a phrase that we use for any device that does things which, in the past, we have associated only with […]
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A National Park Service web page about the Underground Railroad appeared to have been restored on Monday to prominently show the abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman, after it had been changed in recent months to remove a large photo and quotes from her.
National Park Service Restores Harriet Tubman Material to Underground Railroad Web Page
The page had been edited to remove material about the antislavery leader. Other government pages have been changed or deleted amid efforts to scrub references to diversity and inclusion.
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The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi
The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi
Once, the United States was known for sending forth the world’s most complained-about international tourists; today, that dubious distinction arguably belongs to China. But it wasn’t so long ago that the Chinese tourist was a practically unheard-of phenomenon, especially in the West. That’s an important contextual element to understand when considering the work of photographer […]
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Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi
Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holiday, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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One of my favorite professors EVER wrote a piece about how attacks on DEI are a trojan horse to resegregate #highered. @mwkraus.bsky.social is the gift that keeps on giving. #blacksky
Michael W. Kraus@mwkraus.bsky.social · 2y agoIn today's @chicagotribune.com I wrote about how federal policy on diversity, as well as university surrender, is based on lies, misperceptions, and distortions all aimed at resegregating higher education. Combating these lies is a battleground: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/o...
“Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner, Marc Cabanes.” www.wired.com/story/after-...
A Math Couple Solves a Major Group Theory Problem—After 20 Years of Work
Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner, Marc Cabanes.
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I'm testing out OpenAI 4o image tool. It is quite impressive. Here are some samples. I had it create an infographic of the Harlem Renaissance. Then I had it turn a photo of me with TV On The Radio into an anime.
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, pictured in the thumbnail, was most recently the artistic director of Kennedy Center’s social impact team. He was fired Tuesday. If you know Marc/have followed his work, you know he’s made remarkable contributions to arts and culture and created opportunities for countless folks
Kennedy Center guts social impact team; more layoffs expected
It marks the first major reduction in workforce since President Donald Trump’s takeover of the center.
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Netflix's The Residence found an amazing way to build a compelling drama about the support staff who maintain the White House: center them in a funny, smart murder mystery. Hear me join the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast to dish on why it worked so well: loom.ly/qeGNXOo
Murder comes to the White House in 'The Residence' : Pop Culture Happy Hour
In the new Netflix series The Residence, a dead body shows up in an awkward location: the White House. A sprawling list of suspects try to outsmart a brilliant detective played by Uzo Aduba. She's joi...
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A definite must-read from The New York Times on AI progress... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...
Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
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Once thought of as a byproduct of collard greens, brothy, complex potlikker takes on new life as a wonderful base for a Japanese staple. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/d...
A Ramen That Merges Japan and the South (Gift Article)
Once thought of as a byproduct of collard greens, brothy, complex potlikker takes on new life as a wonderful base for a Japanese staple.
nytimes.com
After Years of Controversy, Assembly Recognizes Black History Month
After Years of Controversy, Assembly Recognizes Black History Month
Once a routine practice, the Assembly has not passed the resolution since 2020.
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Exclusive-FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say
U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sour...
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Over my mostly private-sector career, I’ve heard the suggestion that government is incompetent and the private sector is efficient and effective. Many times I’ve seen the opposite, with the private sector often shockingly incompetent but largely un-scrutinized like the public sector is. Until now.
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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