Troy, aka Dr Wise

RECLAIMING PRESTIGE: How Fashion’s Cultural Hierarchies are Being Reimagined | Image Amplified Troy Wise, PhD & Rick Guzman, Co-Editors and Co-Founders | Image Amplified × Culture Clock™ | April 2025 It’s not ge

Prestige was on my mind for April — not elitist prestige, but prestige as cultural- and self-preservation. As a pluriversal care for excellence. My Culture Clock™ analysis mapped how CSM, LCF, and Parsons may confront prestige mutation in the next several years: imageamplified.com/reclaiming-p...

MEDIA SOVEREIGNTY: How We’re Taking Back Control of Fashion’s Narrative in 2025 To put it bluntly, there is no turning back. We’ve seen behind the curtain. Across the fashion media landscape, the once-deified have revealed themselves. Fashion houses are scrambling. Corporate fashion media is in perpetual crisis mode. No longer aspirational, democratizing, or liberating, social media has betrayed us. It’s rigged. Contrived. Creepy. No longer naive or complacent, we recognize how we’ve been feeding the machine that finds new ways to erase us.

MEDIA SOVEREIGNTY: How We’re Taking Back Control of Fashion’s Narrative in 2025

To put it bluntly, there is no turning back. We’ve seen behind the curtain. Across the fashion media landscape, the once-deified have revealed themselves. Fashion houses are scrambling. Corporate fashion media is in…

YouTube video by WXII 12 News NC lawmakers postpone vote to ban DEI in state government, as protesters pack state House

"NC lawmakers postpone vote to ban DEI in state government, as protesters pack state House..."
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1) Do something autocratic
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat

boosting because good and we need more good

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Under the preposterous logic of "AI Artist" Pope Julius II is the artist of the Sistine Chapel because he prompted Michelangelo to do it.

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The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

Federal workers: Here’s how to lock down your communications Under the new administration there’s an increased need for digital security. Here’s how everyone, even you, can communicate and post safely, from using Signal to thinking twice about what you post on ...

Cyber-safety for scientists & science communicators:
1) Say less
2) Use Signal for texts
3) Use caution on social media
4) Don't email
5) Be safe outside
#SciComm 🧪

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Reshaping Reality: The Power of Catalytic Play in Career and Culture “The future is not something we passively enter — it is something we can practice, prepare for, and shape through play.”

In this article I take a closer look at Catalytic Play, as developed by my husband Rick.

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Christmas, Past and Future: Bridging Traditions Through Innovative Connection Bridging isn’t just a concept — it’s a practice of turning creative tensions into connections.

The first chapter in Winterson’s Christmas Days book inspired this new article on Bridging, a concept and methodology I’m developing:

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Rather than denying the friction, Bridging transforms it into connection, honoring both the contrasts and commonalities.

The holidays are a perfect example: they challenge us to find harmony in cultural differences, creating new traditions while honoring part of the past that we find meaningful.

It’s not always seamless: some traditions clash, others just fit awkwardly. This is where bridging, developed as part of my ANI (Aesthetic-Narrative Imagination) theory, comes in. Bridging is about intentionally addressing these tensions—balancing differences into something meaningful and resonant.

Yesterday Rick gifted me Jeannette Winterson’s Christmas Days, and her first chapter reminded me of the creative tensions that define the holidays. They bring together a patchwork of traditions—childhood memories, cultural rituals, and new practices we create along the way.

Texas Bans Sale Of Luggage To Pregnant Women AUSTIN, TX—In a sweeping prohibition with immediate implications for the Lone Star State’s potential mothers-to-be, Texas banned the sale of luggage to pregnant women Monday. “With this law, we ensure...

Texas Bans Sale Of Luggage To Pregnant Women

Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.

What New Yorkers Want From Local News New York Focus traveled across the state to meet with communities about their local news needs.

What people say they want in local news: “greater transparency + media scrutiny around development projects”; “more explanatory journalism that can break down decision making at different levels of government + empower ppl to participate politically”; “information pertaining to social services” …

Screenshot from a TikTok video showing a man with a guitar and the words deny defend depose

Screenshot from a TikTok video showing the words sent defend depose and a woman dancing along with a security camera image of the UnitedHealth shooter

Screenshot from a TikTok video of a woman excited by the words Deny defend depose

Screenshot from a TikTok video New Yorkers reacting to the Defend Deny Depose guy: What about the people he murdered? What murder?

TikTok is pretty wild right now. I don’t think the ruling class is prepared for the cultural shift that’s happening this week.

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

- Isaac Asimov

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FINALLY, THIS:

“Misandry..is women’s anger agnst their oppressors. Misogyny is men’s anger agnst those they oppress”

These things are not equal, not in societal active AND tacit support & power, nor in individual & societal impacts

“Both sides-ism” of ths is a political decision to disappear 👆🏽.

Say it louder for the people in the back: priorities, people!

Required reading. #resist

An ad for Bluesky in New York City that says “No Trolls” with a man wearing a USA hat in a 🚫 symbol

Me on the way home from karaoke after drinking a bottle of soju: ohhh that’s my website

Bluesky Emerges As A Rising Alternative To X With the digital world ever-changing, the emergence of new social media platforms is nothing short of thrilling. One newcomer, Bluesky, has recently soared to the…

Bluesky claims a staggering 24 million users & increasing by day with it reportedly adding 10,000 new users every 10-15 minutes. evrimagaci.org/tpg/bluesky-...

X is tanking, Reddit is rising, and other tidbits from Ofcom <p>Ofcom have released their Online Nation 2024 report. And it turns out people are using the internet in ways.</p>

Ofcom have published the Online Nation report 2024, and here are my headlines:

Meta and Alphabet still rule


X is tanking, Reddit is rising

Men and women use the internet differentlyish.

And other UNIQUE INSIGHTS previously unknown to humanity.

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