Jason Reynolds and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom join Urban Consulate in Detroit for a live conversation with Orlando P. Baile @ "Daring Ideas for the Future Series" Nov 2025
Video by JP Leong of Afrochine.
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19.12.2025 14:48
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I don't think the New Radicals could have kicked Courtney Love's ass.
18.11.2025 15:17
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There were a couple of split seconds where I really thought this was a picture of some massive nuts.
08.05.2025 10:23
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The Parliament of Trees
Deeper into the Green
The latest issue of The Vertigo Weekly Reader is out.
Eternity offers something different if you happen to be a piece of corporate-owned IP.
24.04.2025 11:46
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Something to put in your calendar to live another year for then. Not that we have an actual date you could pin the event to.
27.03.2025 10:30
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But I'm probably not the target audience here. I'd love a greater sense of online comics community, but I'm also a bit of a grump who doesn't want any more reason to stare at his phone. In-person is probably the future for me (once childcare's easier), but I live in Leeds so I'm spoiled with options
27.03.2025 10:06
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Discord seems like the most viable route. And yet, as someone who's retreated a bit from online life (for parenting, and to refocus my attention) I find Discords to be a bit like walking into a post-con party by yourself and trying to make friends. Doable, but kind of off-putting.
27.03.2025 10:06
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I do know what the answer to this is: look at a book or exhibition instead.
But it sucks, having real work tainted by the mere existence of AI slop.
25.03.2025 11:00
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And I don't want to spend my time looking for clues as to whether an image is one or the other.
25.03.2025 10:54
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I find the experience of looking at Pinterest or Instagram's 'for you' tab ruined by the question: 'is this AI generated?'
I don't want to look at fake photos of imaginary scenes sucked from an LLM. I don't want to look at 'art' that wasn't created by a person.
25.03.2025 10:54
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(With my brainiac hat on I think, 'nope!' Which makes watching the film a weird exercise in kayfabe. I find the moment it/he sacrifices it's/him-self genuinely moving.)
04.03.2025 11:23
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(They probably just take for granted that you'll assume he's alive, and don't want to get bogged down in discussing it within the film. But whenever I watch it I just find myself wondering whether it/he's conscious.)
04.03.2025 11:22
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One of the things I like about Big Hero 6 is how they never really suggest that Baymax is 'alive', and yet the film invites you to treat it/him as though it/him is. It's this sort of weird open philosophical space that goes unaddressed. In a Disney film.
04.03.2025 11:19
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There's something satisfyingly knob-like about that picture of Vance, actually. An old man knob, specifically. Great picture choice.
04.03.2025 11:13
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We had a Prime Minister do it. She lasted a few weeks. Not sure youβll be so lucky.
03.03.2025 19:00
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Resist!
01.03.2025 10:32
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Beyond the Limit
Mystical creativity magical bullsh!t
On having one of those universe-lights-up-your-brain writing experiences.
27.02.2025 12:14
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Beyond the Limit
Mystical creativity magical bullsh!t
On having one of those universe-lights-up-your-brain writing experiences.
27.02.2025 12:14
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This is good stuff.
26.02.2025 10:51
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Heaven and Hell are boring
Leave a little mystery
Cosmology, mystery, putting walls around the universe
20.02.2025 14:53
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I've never watched a single episode, but I discovered the other day it has Merida and Elsa in it and that's still making my head feel a bit weird.
19.02.2025 12:41
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19.02.2025 11:33
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But we have the water taxi. Does it take you... to the other side?
19.02.2025 11:26
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If this is the moment we discover we're actually in limbo I don't know whether I'll lose it or be weirdly relieved.
19.02.2025 11:03
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(I hope I never have to rely on Apple's location services in an emergency)
19.02.2025 10:34
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No such place, clearly.
19.02.2025 10:34
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But, anyway, I think it's f###ing great that Pixar has produced such powerful stories to help children understand themselves and the world around them. I'm glad I gave my daughter a little nudge to engage with it.
19.02.2025 10:32
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EXACTLY the parenting moment we all needed when she was still in her PJs and we had to leave the house in nine minutes.
19.02.2025 10:32
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