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@elmorejr.blacksky.app

Data nerd, board games, sci-fi aficionado, space geek, hip hop & jazz fiend

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Picture of the entrance to The Ottendorfer Library in NYC

Picture of the entrance to The Ottendorfer Library in NYC

Traveling to The City and had to visit NYC’s oldest public library, The Ottendorfer in the East Village πŸ“š (support public libraries y’all)

25.10.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

11.10.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 924    πŸ” 294    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6
"2025 Winners Announcement" with Ignyte Awards logo overlayed on artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.

"2025 Winners Announcement" with Ignyte Awards logo overlayed on artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.

Oh, hello

12.10.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 267    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 49

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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β€œthe girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

09.10.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a beautiful story about generational pain, forgiveness, and most importantly self-forgiveness. And shout out to the story team for lovingly sharing southern US culture and the character design team on creating black characters that are truly black. The hair, the style, the language. 10/10πŸ”₯

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Album cover for the Boomerang movie soundtrack

Album cover for the Boomerang movie soundtrack

Also Face…(truly the GOAT)

02.10.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read M...

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall!

I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures.

Explore, share, save:

02.10.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1218    πŸ” 659    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 56

Do you remember?! 🍁

21.09.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Logo and image from the game South of Midnight

Logo and image from the game South of Midnight

Finally getting some free time to jump into South of Midnight

20.09.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

18.09.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13655    πŸ” 5527    πŸ’¬ 254    πŸ“Œ 486

Went to try out The Rogue Prince of Persia on XBOX Game Pass, but (1) had to be online, (2) had to create an account and login to Ubisoft; Fuck that noise! Uninstalled…

20.09.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the main character glowing in the movie The Last Dragon

Screenshot of the main character glowing in the movie The Last Dragon

I’m official! Thanks to @rude1.blacksky.team for the services and the @tektite.cc team for the quick and easy migration!

14.09.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
the album cover for The Deele singing group from the 80s

the album cover for The Deele singing group from the 80s

Was listening to the Babyface interview on the R&B Money podcast. Do we need to bring breed back? #1985

07.09.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

06.09.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3596    πŸ” 867    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 85

I jumped to OnlyOffice this year and haven’t looked back…https://www.onlyoffice.com/en/download-desktop.aspx

05.09.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Great Cascadian Empire

03.09.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#AddToBlackSky

01.09.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who’s got a line to the Wayans? πŸ˜€

31.08.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OK, hear me out β€” a Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor #Blacksky

31.08.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Undefeated

25.08.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification.Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech,

Age verification via face scans is not safety β€” it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Ayo! Congrats @blacknerdproblems.bsky.social on the Hugo!

17.08.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

26.04.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4033    πŸ” 1222    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 38

There won’t be a single paper or panel. Just looking at each other going, β€œI KNOW RIGHT!!” for 36 hours.

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one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

02.08.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 13188    πŸ” 3879    πŸ’¬ 282    πŸ“Œ 149
The board game Vantage, from Stonemaier Games on a table and ready to be unboxed

The board game Vantage, from Stonemaier Games on a table and ready to be unboxed

Weekend partially spoken for πŸ‘€ @stonemaiergames.com #tabletopgaming

02.08.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's Bandcamp Friday!!! This is the magical day when artists get *100 percent* of the profit from anything you purchase on Bandcamp. That's right, it all goes to the artists. It's a wonderful day to buy some music and I just spent (checks notes) a small fortune.

Here are some recommendations!

01.08.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 324    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 13
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The definitive climate fiction reading list These wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future.

The definitive climate fiction reading list.

These 20 wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future β€” and humanity’s place in it.

grist.org/fix/climate-...

#BookSky #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Fiction #Books #GreenSky

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