Aymar (AJ)
@thehost.theinvite.us
professor @ Northwestern affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein jury @ Peabody Awards co-founder @weareotv BOOKS: Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025 Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity The Cookout, out now ⬇️ http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
Check out the interview with our very own @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team and @thehost.theinvite.us about Blacksky, Blackness, and the importance of having your own safer space online as Black people from The Invite's @stream.place on Juneteenth! youtu.be/4hrPb4egyis?...
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/thehost.theinvite.us Premiering Recipes for Liberation, a new podcast to gather the culture EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #NewMoonFridays
@thehost.theinvite.us is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!
Premiering Recipes for Liberation, a new podcast to gather the culture EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #NewMoonFridays
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🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/thehost.theinvite.us Premiering Recipes for Liberation, a new podcast to gather the culture EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #NewMoonFridays
@thehost.theinvite.us is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!
Premiering Recipes for Liberation, a new podcast to gather the culture EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #NewMoonFridays
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If you missed the Blacksky premiere, run🏃🏾♀️➡️ and get notified when it premieres on YT on the 4th. It was incredible. I’ll be watching again.
The Invite: FREEDOM
The Invite is a Black-led documentary film series, inviting artists...
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Aymar (AJ)@thehost.theinvite.us · 2mo ago🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/thehost.theinvite.us The Invite: Freedom PREMIERE EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #Juneteenth
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/thehost.theinvite.us The Invite: Freedom PREMIERE EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #Juneteenth
@thehost.theinvite.us is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!
The Invite: Freedom PREMIERE EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #Juneteenth
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"Everyone keeps telling me Threads is the new Black Twitter ... If we cannot build our own platforms, if we continue to farm the digital plantations of Meta -- do we actually want to be free?" - @thehost.theinvite.us via @stream.place stream.place/thehost.thei...
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/thehost.theinvite.us The Invite: Freedom PREMIERE EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #Juneteenth
@thehost.theinvite.us is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!
The Invite: Freedom PREMIERE EXCLUSIVELY on #Blacksky & #TheCookout #Juneteenth
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Entry 35 - Celebrate #Juneteenth on the Open Social Web by watching @theinvite.theinvite.us by @thehost.theinvite.us on @stream.place #SharpieVLOG
Stoked to premiere The Invite: Freedom **exclusively** on the Blacksky feed right here on Bluesky! For Juneteenth 12pm CT we spoke to the dopest Black artists we knew about Freedom in all the ways. Then we talk to @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team about @blackskyweb.xyz building community spaces!
The Invite: Freedom (teaser)
YouTube video by The Invite Project
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Join @theinvite.theinvite.us for The Invite documentary — starring Jamila Woods, Shea Coulee, and more --Juneteenth LIVE on @stream.place at 10 am PT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET. Followed by a conversation with @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team about Blacksky, moderation, and all things self-determination.
Very excited for this documentary to stream and for you all to support @theinvite.theinvite.us and @thehost.theinvite.us ! Our conversation after is quite juicy!
Thrilled to welcome @weareotv.theinvite.us to #thecookout as the first organization to join!! 🎉✊🏾👏🏾
Had the chance to see Safiya Noble (!) perform a stand-up comedy routine last night and can confirm that ridicule as praxis makes for a joyful means of both analyzing and mocking tech bros and their brilliant ideas.
AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
A civic grammar for AI rights
Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...
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Dr. Jabari applies my book to the history of hip hop and gives me CHILLS. His work has been at the forefront of seeing how corporate platforms have algorithmically amplified already extractive dynamics in overly commercialized hip hop. We need new infrastructure (& @blackskyweb.xyz is it imo!)
From the Cookout to the Feed
What reparative media can teach us about Silicon Valley, clout, and the crisis of Black self-representation.
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Huge and very good news for doc filmmakers on fair use today! The 10th Circuit has reversed itself in the Whyte Monkee case, ruling that fair use DOES protect the inclusion of 3rd-party footage in the breakout hit *Tiger King*. Big 🧵, unpacking it all:
The award profile for Heated Rivalry is up! “For showing how we can overcome our worst fears and ‘go to the cottage,’ Heated Rivalry has earned a Peabody.” 🔗: peabodyawards.com/award-profil...
Based on the People's Assembly feedback we are sharing 3 proposals for Blacksky-Only Posts. The blog contains 3 possible options and a link to vote on what you feel is best! Let's make this decision together and get Blacksky-Only posts launched! blackskyweb.xyz/moderation-o...
Moderation on Blacksky-Only Posts: A Community Proposal
Our team has explored several ways to make permissioned posts possible. Now we’re bringing the decision back to the community. Below are three approaches to moderation: a machine-learning system that ...
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> Blacksky didn’t begin with a pitch deck or a promise of disruption. It began with something much older and more enduring – a principle of mutual aid. Mandatory reading for anyone that wants to work with or for @blackskyweb.xyz in the future.
Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · 6mo ago“Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building toward that future.“ Read about what’s coming with Blacksky Cash in our latest blog! blackskyweb.xyz/money-for-mu...
BREAKING: This morning, our activists dropped a banner in NYC's American Museum of Natural History to ring the alarm over the MAGA regime’s whitewashing of our history & attacks on hard-won freedoms & rights. If you're too hot for a fascist future, join us: www.getfreetogether.org/toohotforafa...
"Aymar Jèan Escoffery is one of the most important thinkers and creators of our time. [Reparative Media] is the roadmap we need to repair from the deep divisions the internet has created among us." — @safiyanoble.bsky.social Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.
The newest book from @ajescoffery.blacksky.app, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture, is out! It reimagines how movies, TV, and a broader array of media can be made and distributed in inclusive and non-extractive ways. #openAccess mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
