Aymar (AJ)

why not opt-in? just ask permission first

if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked

just ask permission first

Blacksky the feed will always be Black only.
Blacksky-only posts on blacksky.community will be Black only.

you can think of Blacksky Algorithms the company as Reddit for AT Protocol. We will make other “subreddits”

Community been here for 2 years and company for 1 year. Im the founder of both.

As a former Washington Post reporter I’m ashamed of this news. There is nothing false or inflammatory in anything Karen Attiah wrote.

Canceling my subscription. I’m appalled by our democratic organizations’ inability to protect free speech for all in the face of rising fascism.

lol!

A person holds a yellow sign at a protest that reads, "Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair – Mariame Kaba," with some words in bold red and black letters. Other protest signs are visible in the background.

A friend snapped this pic and sent it to me yesterday. It's from yesterday's large march in Chicago. Thank to the protester for bringing me along :)

Proud to have worked with you!!

Reparative Media Can producing stories and developing platforms to support people who have been harmed by multiple, intersecting systems heal those systems? In Reparative Med...

Speaking of which, the latest entry in MIT's Distribution Matters series (which I co-edit with Ramon Lobato) is "Reparative Media" by the ever-amazing @ajescoffery.bsky.social. It now has a gorgeous cover and a pre-order page (hint). So proud to have had the opportunity to work with Aymar. #commsky

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

Remember how I keep saying you have no business on Substack? You have no business on Substack.

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We deserve our own.

I understand the allure of wanting to be a "carry guns and wear leather jackets" Black Panther but there's a case to be made that the most dangerous ones were the "feed kids breakfast and teach them about settler colonialism" Black Panthers

Media reconstruction and reparative media Abstract. Drawing from the work of scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois and insights from co-creating a community-based media platform, this article demonstrate

As part of this month's forum on Media & Fascism, @ajescoffery.bsky.social explores how experimental, community-based media practices can help us revitalize and reconstruct democracy. Check it out!

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I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

'Drag Race' icon Shea Couleé reveals secret 'Ironheart' character who brings drag to MCU 'RuPaul's Drag Race' icon Shea Couleé reveals details about her secret 'Ironheart' character with a mysterious past: A 'fierce hacker' bringing drag looks to the MCU.

Love this. We are going to watch the shit out of Ironheart, fam. Giving this the chance it missed due to COVID, production schedule backflips, leading man bullshit, moneymaking nonsense...
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So proud of you!

It was an honor to be hooded by my chair @ajescoffery.bsky.social

My book has a cover!

Reparative Media argues we can reimagine how we make media, how we connect through technology, and how we generate knowledge to heal our culture.

Cruel Capitalism: a forum on media and fascism by AJ Bauer and Paula Chakravartty in Communication, Culture and Critique: This article introduces a forum on "media and fascism" by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of international fascist tendencies. It notes contradictions in the affective promises of capitalism vis a vis the elimination of racialized and gendered state regulatory and social welfare functions and describes the role of violent repression in sustaining right-authoritarian political formations in the US and around the globe.

Check out my latest, with @paulachak.bsky.social, in @ccc-journal.bsky.social!

It introduces a forum we co-edited on "Media and Fascism," with a star-studded lineup! See the 🧵 below:

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This was so fun to write! Using Du Bois and reconstruction to talk about how media could help us survive authoritarianism.

Media reconstruction and reparative media Abstract. Drawing from the work of scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois and insights from co-creating a community-based media platform, this article demonstrate

@ajescoffery.bsky.social writes about reconstruction and reparative media.

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So I’m going to social media to ask my professor friends: is this true? Are y’all removing books by Black authors critiquing structural harm from your syllabi for fear of retribution?

The final nail in the coffin was when they said we would have to pay thousands of dollars to the press because no one would buy the book due to the anti-DEI backlash in the States.

Imagine: asking Black scholars to pay a white press money to publish a book about reparations!

Helping people understand how these corporations have historically perpetuated a toxic cultural climate is ESSENTIAL to understanding the moment. Now that systems are falling apart is the perfect time to think about repair.

This is wild to say at a time when most of the world’s most divisive leaders — in the U.S., China, Russia, India and more — have built their followings through media. The current US President would not be without NBC/Fox News, Facebook/Twitter/Truth, the manosphere, and now his own cryptocurrency.

One of the board’s critiques was the fact that we focused on offering a framework for harm in media and tech, instead of outlining what reparations will look like. At the same time, they say that in the current political climate, reparations seem impossible, so the book is irrelevant.

Our book is Media Reparations. We spend most of the book making the case that media has a 100+ year history of perpetuating harm to Black, indigenous and many other communities while also offering a brief framework and examples of what repair could look like.

Today a (short) book I’m writing with Khadijah White about how media has perpetuated harm in society was effectively denied a contract from a publisher because of fear of the US anti-DEI climate, despite an editor who’s been consistently passionate about the project.

Meant every word!

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

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The only stablecoin should have been issued by the Fed, and 47 should have never been able to issue a grift coin or stablecoin, but Dems completely missed the chance to regulate crypto under Biden…out of sheer ignorance and seeming allegiance to the banks.

My Brain Finally Broke Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

“The more frequently people use ChatGPT, the lonelier, and the more dependent on it, they become.”
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