There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move.
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βWhat then, is the responsible course of action? For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging. My resignation represents such a refusal, not a surrender of responsibility but an assertion of it.β
βTo remain on advisory boards that have been stripped of meaningful advisory function is to become that shopkeeper, to lend legitimacy to a process that has been systematically delegitimized."
"Like the shopkeeper in an authoritarian society described by Vaclav Havel in his essay βThe Power of the Powerless,β who participates in his own oppression through small daily acts of complicity, like placing a party slogan in his window not out of conviction but out of habit."
βTo watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations."
"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 symposium is open to the public throughout the day. If you would like to also join us for the reception and keynote dialogue, please register using this link:
Originally we planned to hold the symposium solely focused on the issue of reparations, but these new dangers prompted us to pivot *in medias res*, without sacrificing the original focus.
The past is under threat from a variety of forces, including the commodification of data, the privatization of knowledge, and more recently, a concerted effort to erase or rewrite history in ways that serve the interests of those in power.
Now the past is facing new dangers, and the question of ownership and control over the Black historical and cultural record is more urgent than ever.
In our second installment we continue our efforts to gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, and archivists from the Americas and Africa to discuss, elucidate, and provide public answers to the question: Who owns and controls the Black historical and cultural record?
What: ππ‘π¨ ππ°π§π¬ ππ₯πππ€ ππππ? AΜΆrΜΆcΜΆhΜΆiΜΆvΜΆaΜΆlΜΆ Μ΅RΜΆeΜΆpΜΆaΜΆrΜΆaΜΆtΜΆiΜΆoΜΆnΜΆsΜΆ Μ΅The Past in Danger
When: May 14, 2025
Where: Yale University
NEW: Rhode Island's long waiting list for infants and toddlers with developmental delays to get Early Intervention has finally decreased after the latest funding boost helped increase salaries
"In the life of a baby, every week is critical," said one provider whose wait list has finally diminished
Potential insider trading is a completely across the political spectrum thing btw, knows no bounds of party
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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
WASHINGTON (AP) β AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government canβt bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
βIβm not particularly interested in assisting the process of flattening myself into an array of data points, to serve the interests of tech companies by making myself even more machine-readable. Iβm not convinced that the best way to understand oneself is through quantification.β
βFacing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will βscrub nothing.ββ π₯
Can we get more of this? βThe Japanese American National Museum will βscrub nothing,β Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
βOur community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,β Fujioka said.
times home page with arrow pointing to story about protests a few screen loads down.
Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.
OK, letβs see the best signs that you saw today.
New York Times headline reading "New York says it does not intend to comply with D.E.I. order on schools"
Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
Mayor Michelle Wu stands back to camera in front of a large crowd of protesters attending the Hands Off Rally on April 5, 2025.
Boston showed up today to send a clear message: We will not sit by while Donald Trump and his billionaire friends dismantle the protections that our families count on.
Hands off Boston.
Sign reading βHands off social securityβ
Sign reading βDepaetmemt Of Greed & Evil / DOGEβ
Sign reading βDEPORT WHITE SUPREMACYβ
Sign with the face of Cory Booker reading : βThe power of the people is greater than the people in powerβ
More fantastic #handsoff signs in Providence ππ½πͺ§ππ½
We have a digital exhibit coming on the music of the conventions! In the meantime, check out, teach, and share the amazing digital exhibits on our at coloredconventions.org/exhibits!
Black men, send me manuscripts. Stop playing with me. As one of very few Black men in this industry, SEND ME YOUR BOOKS. Thanks. π«Άπ½
