Phillip Winn @pwinn@qoto.org
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
Joined Nov 2022
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Always an absolute icon.
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You know what’s sad #BlackMastodon - that Joe is a criminally underrated singer/songwriter and artist!
His music is an incredible source of #BlackJoy on #BlackFriday any day of the week and his catalog is deeep. Sounds better live than his smoove vocals on wax
I Wanna Know why he doesn’t get props he deserves when he will blow most contemporary artists out the water any day of the week and twice on Sunday, amirite??
(His sister got pipes 2)
R&B #music
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@doctorjaymarie But at THE top of my #BlackMastodon list of most underrated artists is my dude fr Oakland Raphael Saadiq fr Tony, Toni, Tone.
I mean… It Never Rains, Lay Your Head On My Pillow, Feels Good, You Should Be Here, Still A Man and many more. One of my under the radar favs he did with T Boz fr TLC is Different Times 🔥🔥
I'm going to have to double- or triple-up to get through the rest of my compiled links while people are still paying attention during Black History Month! Let's carry on with another playlist of videos, this time 36 of them:
Black History, from Untold History
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqq0MJHDcHL2Ih4ujaUpMG1EpCoo45cdI
More two-minute videos, this time focusing on people who don't come up as often, like Ethel Payne and Garrett Morgan, or somewhat better-known figures as Sojourner Truth and DJ Kool Herc.
You could spread these videos out over the weekend and be ready for more come Monday, or squeeze them all into a marathon 72 minutes or so. Either way, enjoy them!
It's Friday, Friday, got to get down on Friday, everybody--wait, no. I mean, yes, it's Friday, but no, there's no need to put that song back into your head.
Instead, let's Follow more people! It's time for a Fresh Flock of Five Fine Folks to Follow on Friday!
@VoiceM Voice M
@AshBeardguy Ashton
@DiasporaDiamond Diaspora Diamond
@BenCisco Ben Cisco
@victoriomilian Victorio Milian
In my head, Ben Cisco is a guy with that name in real life, but he leans into sharing the name with Ben Sisko, the fictional commander of Deep Space Nine in the *Star Trek* series of that name, and so sets his online persona accordingly. If that's not the case, I don't know want to know, because I love it. I hope he even looks a bit like Avery Brooks, but if not, again, I would rather not know.
We're coming to the end of Black History Month soon, so here are a few more people I've been following recently. Even though it breaks the alliteration, I guess they are a Few Fine Folks more.
@Onemeatball One Meat Ball
@Adam_Cadmon1 Adam F. Lawton
Follow them all! The more, the merrier!
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#blackandandwhitephotography #mural
#photography #monochrome #StreetArt
San Francisco, California
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Ok, so there is much discussion about the alt text on pictures. My mom is legally blind. As she has gotten older her sight is almost gone. She LIVES on the computer and to say she gets excited when special attention is paid for the blind is a great understatement. Please use alt text and describe the pictures you post. Describe it as if you had your eyes closed and the only link to the outside world is what a kind soul took an extra 5 minutes to type. Come on, do it, make someone’s day.#AltText
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Right-wing extremists committed EVERY ideologically driven mass killing in the U.S. in 2022, with an "unusually high" proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday. https://www.axios.com/2023/02/23/mass-killings-extremism-adl-report-2022
Black history is American history, and American history is Black history. What better way to educate yourself than with Black American History? In this case, a series of videos from Extra Credits.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5AlikBYiNGc5yXmuiF8QPc8
17 videos about people like the Harlem Hellfighters and Billie Holiday, and events like Interstate Displacement and the Harlem Renaissance, all very good videos.
The Butlerian Jihad used to be, for me, one of the most fantastical elements of the Dune series. Sure, melange enabling interstellar travel and giant worms, but a war fought to prevent anything like computers?
With the rise of generative AI models, I think I see it now. It isn’t that humans fight against the machines, it’s that humans fight against humans to prevent the use of the machines.
I now believe Dune to be among the most realistic science-fiction sagas ever written. It’s about a company strictly controlling a valuable resource that enables transportation, and being willing to do anything at all to preserve their monopoly.
The oil must flow.
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A young Chloe Wofford who would later rename herself Toni Morrison.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #BlackFriday #histodons #History #BlackAndWhite #BlackJoy #BlackExcellence #Photography #blackhistorymonth #BlackHistory
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Another #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackTech appreciation post
Engineer Marian Croak created Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which converts voice data into digital signals for transmission over the #Internet
VoIP technology is instrumental for remote work, video conferencing like Skype, Zoom & FaceTime
She has over 200 patents in her name, more than earning her spot in the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Lift Every Voice & Sing ✊🏾
It's not Friday, but it is Black History Month, so why wait? Is that a non sequitur? No soap, radio!
Here are some great people to follow:
@stephen Stephen Anfield
@sonyasteele Sonya Steele
@jamieBGN Jamie Broadnax
@zhivi zhivi
@daryl Daryl G. Wright
Follow them because they're interesting, not just because it's Black History Month and you feel guilty for how white your Home timelines is. Although if that's true, you should follow more than just these five people!
With music and jokes and important posts, you can learn, and laugh, and agree strongly that there needs to be more anime awareness in this world. I mean, I chose my avatar for a reason.
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Imagine how the US would change if there were two law changes:
1) Mandatory federal prosecution for law enforcement officers that intentionally plant evidence.
2) Minimum sentence guidelines that match the amount of years that the falsely accused person would have gotten. I.e., if an officer plants an amount of drugs that would have resulted in 8 years for the suspect, then the officer gets 8 years.
Either we believe that sentencing changes behavior, or we don't.🤷🏿♂️
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People like to say that "You can't change people's minds with data!" That's kind of true, but not really. You can definitely get some folk to change their position on topics with data. You can't get other folk to stop being racist/sexist, etc with data, because racism/sexism etc are lies, and the person got themselves into that situation specifically by rejecting the truth.
But good news, not everyone is racist/sexist because they reject the truth. Some people have had the truth kept from them.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I haven't made it to Black History yet. I'm still on white US history.
Q: Enough about racism for a second. Take a break! I'm worried about gender issues in the US too. For example, why is the gender pay gap in the US so large? It's one of the worst in the OECD!
A: You know why. Racism! In the US, the pay gap between white men and white women, is smaller than the pay gap between white women and Black and Latinx women.
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I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.
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Down the garden path
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
Joined Nov 2022
