Lando

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 📚 (support public libraries y’all)

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"

"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

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

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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. 10/10🔥

Album cover for the Boomerang movie soundtrack

Also Face…(truly the GOAT)

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:

Do you remember?! 🍁

Logo and image from the game South of Midnight

Finally getting some free time to jump into South of Midnight

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.

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…

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!

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

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.

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

The Great Cascadian Empire

#AddToBlackSky

Who’s got a line to the Wayans? 😀

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

Undefeated

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 — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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

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

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

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

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

Weekend partially spoken for 👀 @stonemaiergames.com #tabletopgaming

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!

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 — and humanity’s place in it.

grist.org/fix/climate-...

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