ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

#racism #MLK

Shirley MacLaine photographiée par Bert Stern pour Esquire, 1960

#photo #portrait #art

Twiggy wearing a Snoopy hat, photo by Bert Stern for Vogue (November 15, 1967)

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-maya-cities-super-highways-revealed-latest-survey-2023-01-16/
A new high-tech study has revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including 417 previously unknown cites linked by what may be the world's first highway network and hidden for millennia by the dense jungles of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico.

Today is the day we honor Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy,?/!: I want to do so by uplifting one of the geniuses he helped inspire: Stevie Wonder. Though he’s one of the most gifted and important artists to have ever created popular music, Stevie’s legacy as a tireless and fearless advocate for justice may he even more powerful, and is too often overlooked. We should heed every word he says. (Full post here: https://anildash.com/2022/01/17/how-stevie-celebrated-a-birthday/ )

This new Mastodon web client is not only sexy as hell, but fast and, dare I say, more intuitive than the original. So far, I'm a big fan.Link: https://elk.zone

#bluemonday

B-52s c 1979

If you replace "No" with "Maybe Later" in a dialog box of *any* sort, please *please* spend a few minutes understanding how consent works.

The Taliban are buying blue ticks for their twitter accounts

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64294613

If you love music, and if you live with a constant quiet undertone of existential homesickness, this is for you: https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/01/15/alfred-kazin-music/

Today is a good day to read Black anarchist Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's reflections on how those who maintain and benefit from white supremacy have done their best to co-opt the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://libcom.org/article/reflection-doctor-king

Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1910185

#machinelearning #StableDiffusion #EmadMostaque #JosephSaveri #StabilityAI #deviantART #MidJourney #lawsuit #Biz&IT #Policy #AI

Hi tweeps, I'm prepping for my intro class. Can anyone recommend (deep breath) a good, critical, introductory reading on Art + AI ?

You know what I'd love to get more of in fiction #Submissions for the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast? Stories set outside the white/European/USA default, written by authors with personal connections to their topic.

For instance, there's a fascinating history of female same-sex love in the medieval Islamicate world. I'd love to see those stories.

$0.08/word for up to 5000 words is $400 -- think about it.

https://alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/call-submissions-2023-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-fiction-series

Musk ox at the #AlaskaWildlifeConservationCenter
#MuskoxenMonday
📸 by Austin Blackwell

Saw the #BlueBugs hashtag floating around and this ink-blue _Chalybion_ mud dauber immediately came to mind!

https://inaturalist.ca/observations/123658567

#BlueMonday #wasps #MudDaubers #ArthroBeauty

It's 2023 and Black people in the USA still don't have equal voting access. Like I said, the civil rights era didn't end. You are still in it.

People just pretended that the civil rights era ended once they had assassinated enough of the major civil rights leaders. But the objectives of the civil rights era have not yet been achieved.

Now we have to listen to racists that misquote MLK, and then disrespect modern day civil rights leaders like Kaepernick and Stacey Abrams the very next breathe.