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I’m saying there’s no such thing
as nothing. Try and try, you’ll never disappear.
—Kemi Alabi
poets.org/poem/lonely-sleep-…
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The Herbalist, Louisiana or South Carolina, 1929-1931 by US photographer Doris Ulmann, known for her portraits of the people of Appalachia #WomensArt .
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Shyam Benegal’s Manthan (1976) was probably the first crowd-funded film in India & definitely the first on its scale. Financed by 500,000 dairy farmers of Gujarat, who contributed Rs.2 each, Manthan remains as a rare and unique example of a film that was funded by its subjects.
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"Datasheets for Datasets," by @TimnitGebru, @JamieMmt, @BrianaVecchione, @JennWVaughan, @HannaWallach, @HalDaume3, and @KateCrawford, proposes that every dataset be accompanied with a datasheet that documents its provenance, uses, etc. bit.ly/3oMFq7E
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The academy seeks to keep things in stasis so it can study it into oblivion and irrelevance. Dr. Joy James is absolutely correct in saying that “the academy has no revolutionary desire”. If you must be in the academy, use the resources and funnel them into the community.
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Last year, @thewiremagazine asked me to write about jazz fusion in its contemporary expression and Greg Tate wrote about the music's past.
Our essays appeared side by side in print and I took it as the highest honor.
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In our upcoming paper, we use a children's picture book to explain how bizarre it is that ML researchers claim to measure "general" model capabilities with *data* benchmarks - artifacts that are inherently specific, contextualized and finite.
Deets here: arxiv.org/abs/2111.15366
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If we reflect on the long arc of becoming human, it is a process that combines our evolutionary history with the ways we bring our own existence into being ow.ly/cUon50yHpOP @AdaJaarsma
Fully and irrevocably taken by @BwayColorPurple at @Centre_Square. What a night / experience.
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"Who were the folks that drove the movement—how did they mobilize & utilize digital tools to accomplish what they managed to accomplish?...I began with the question, where did Black Lives Matter come from?” Listen to our podcast w/ @cmcilwain: listen.datasociety.net/black…
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I had the pleasure of editing this new @thecreativeindp guide by artist ann haeyoung, which offers insights on how to reframe your idea of "being an artist" under capitalism.
ty @tchoi8 and @PioneerWorks_ for helping to make this guide happen! <3
thecreativeindependent.com/g…
taking @RebeccaFiebrink’s Machine Learning for Musicians course outside of school and using the things I’m learning to create “sonic selfies” for @digiwonk’s course and IT HAS BEEN SO FUN & EMOTIONAL