Charlton McIlwain

On #ComputerSaysMaybe, D&S Executive Director Janet Haven and Board President @cmcilwain.bsky.social sat down with @alixdunn.com to discuss the tech industry’s co-opting of academia, how giving the reins to tech oligarchs hurts people, and why independent research is essential. youtu.be/xUJbo0KmbOk

Great 2b back in Tulsa this week continuing our amazing collab btw NYU-Tulsa, Tulsa Film Collective, Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts, & Culture, & the Creative Equity Initiative for an eve of insight, skill-building, and connection for Tulsa film community. RSVP at: docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...

Thanks for posting! I’m slow on the uptake on this one!

Just a heads-up that our X account — where we haven't posted since November of last year — appears to have been hacked, this after two of our posts were falsely flagged as a "policy violation." Good times over there! Please note that here and LinkedIn are the only platforms we're active on.

Thank you!

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

These cuts & cap on indirects use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, painting all universities with a broad brush when they differ in terms of endowments, the real uses and necessity of indirects to do the actual research, and impact this move will have.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH, Legacy of Black BBQ (AKA, BBQ), Day 2. BBQ has always been about bringing people together, for the sake of building community, also for other things-like activism. Here's an event by the West Philadelphia Committee to Free Angela Davis, May 13, 1972. #blackhistorymonth2025 #bbq

Much respect to whoever can guess what I’m cookin’ up?

4/4. The history bears out @jennydeluxe.bsky.social point - change is inevitable. And as platforms wax and wane communties are of different minds about who stays, who goes and who tries to build bridges amongts them all. You can read more about this history in my book Black Software a.co/d/cBNl9VC

3/4. Some couldn’t quite find their people in the new web universe. For others, it didn’t deliver the same thrill of learning a new skill (both the tactile experience of manipulating hardware) and the coding to engage and build early software).

2/4. Many Black users who had since the mid to late 80s built strong communities on BBS, then UseNet, struggled with what to do with the advent of the WWW. Many made the seamlessly made he transition. But many did not, just for the reason that “things just wasn’t the same.”

Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That. Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.

1/4. thanks to @jennydeluxe.bsky.social for the shoutout in her insightful piece about @bsky.app. Its premise about the natural and inevitable ebb and flow of platforms and the community shifts that follow them remind me of the transition from pre-Web communities. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...

As the husband of a career civil servant, I am grateful for those who believe in, and have committed their lives to the mission of government, despite who happens to occupy the White House.

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Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them...

We’re among the organizations urging an immediate halt to the Department of Homeland Security's use of non-compliant AI systems, which could be used to facilitate civil rights violations, mass detentions, and deportations under the incoming administration. abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

Yes, may it be so! “The smart, actually cool, genuinely interested people will once again have their moment, getting the resources and clearance to design and (re)build a tech ecosystem that is actually innovative and built for benefit.”

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This CNN interview with Clear CEO ask all the WRONG questions about current and developing biometric “identity verification”/surveillance tech… Surely we should be conncerned with more than just the airport lines getting longer, yes? @CNN Clear p.1

Identity & power have always shaped our technologies in ways that have ALREADY irreparably harmed those with particular identities, including some of those among those exceptional “sunflowers” as @hypervisible.bsky.social called them :) - that schmidt was speaking to in that Princeton crowd.

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI will 'shape' identity and that 'normal people' are not ready for it Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in the future AI could be a child's best friend, shaping their identity and worldview.

In my book, Black Software, I sat something like “Can our technological tools ever outrun white supremacy?” The Q remains rhetorical. Schmidt says AI will shape Identity, but history show he has it backwards.
www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt...

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First time smoking beef back ribs. They held up pretty well after 3.5 hours of smoke, another 1.5 wrapped… great bark, tender, but of course not a lot of meat on these bones!

Good point. I forget about the styrofoam!

Tonight’s quotable quote from the manchild… “I go to school and come home and have to do homework… you come home from work and don’t do fuckin’ nuthin’”ME: Yup!

For the old folks out there or people who know - is it just me or was there a time in the 80s/90s when we didnt really recycle but were taught when we did sort recycling, egg crates went in with the plastics and not the paper??? Trying to explain to my wife why I STILL reflexively do this. any help?

Image of instacart order showing the wrong location where my order for bbq meats was delivered to. Receipts has personal information scribbled out.

election coming back to bite me in the butt again. My last Instacart order was dor materials to make signs for the PA polling place I observed on election day. Nice 60 degree day today. Planned to smoke three racks of St. Louis Ribs and some dino beef ribs. But my order went to that PA polling spot!

I think @sjjphd.bsky.social is working in it!

I have the same inclination

The Mike Tyson butt shot - could have gone the rest of my days without that one.

Bbq smoker, with two rows of meat each wrapped in butcher paper. Multiple thermometer wires crisscross each other and are inserted into their respective meat

Stacked rows of thick-sliced brisket, laid out diagonally on a light brown wood cutting board

Tonight’s choice. Brisket continues to be the favorite for this Texas BBQ fanatic.