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Rest in love, Sir. 93 years young. James Earl Jones is now an ancestor y'all.

"'Why did you do all this for me?' Wilbur asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' "You have been my friend, replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die... By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.

Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.'"

~From Charlotte's Web by Elwyn Brooks, "E.B." White

The greatest gymnast of all time, Simone Biles, took an apparent jab at former Pres. trump early Friday, posting on X, "I love my black job," in response to a post about her winning the gold medal in the women's gymnastics individual all-around hours earlier.

The comments came after trump used the term "Black jobs" during an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference.

Joan Baez covering Peter Gabriel's "Biko" November 20, 1999.

1970.

Mississippi versus Sesame Street

Minutes ago: Atlanta cops tasing a restrained student protester at Emory University

Well, well what have we here?

Hmm I wonder what this is all about if it's not racism...HMMMMMMM

nature.com

Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect

Some large language models harbour hidden biases that cannot be removed using standard methods.

Researchers found that some artificial intelligence (AI) systems are more likely to recommend the death penalty to a fictional defendant presenting a statement written in African American English (AAE) — a dialect spoken by millions of people in the United States that is associated with the descendants of enslaved African Americans — compared with one written in Standardized American English (SAE). The chatbots were also more likely to match AAE speakers with less-prestigious jobs.

unsurprising but still worth talking about

Mamoudou Gassama, a 22-year old Black man from Mali, without hesitation scaled four stories of a Paris building to save a toddler facing certain death. Mamoudou is an undocumented immigrant. He knew getting caught would mean deportation. 

But instead, France has a new hero. President Macron thanked him, granted him French citizenship plus a job at the French fire brigade.

Shout out to Mamoudou Gassama!

During the Great Depression, there was a group of “book women” who delivered books, regardless of weather, to rural communities in Kentucky. These women would ride up to 120 miles every week on horseback, traversing dangerous terrain, to ensure that their readers received their books on time.