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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 04/05/2026
To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.
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As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
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Francesca Giannetti @jofrankie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
How do you scrape form, interaction? @amplify285.bsky.social mentions Black Covid Care as an example of a project that relies upon user decisions #bbp #networkingblackprint blackcovidcare.com
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Black Covid Care
Narratives of Black life during the Covid-19 pandemic have disproportionately focused on high death rates, increased comorbidities, vaccine hesitancy, limited vaccine availability, and how racism has exacerbated Black suffering throughout the pandemic. But what of those stories of care, community, and how Black people have kept each other well during the pandemic? What do those stories sound like? “Black Covid Care” is an attempt to listen to this care, to the ways in which Black people have supported each other during the pandemic. From vaccine and testing pop up sites in Oakland, CA to community organizations feeding their communities in Greensboro, NC, Black people have come together consistently to keep themselves well during a tumultuous time in the world.
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Returning to Dream Lab this summer ⚡️ BLACK SPECULATIVE DIGITAL ARTS & HUMANITIES, co-taught by Dr. Michael Sterling Burns and Dr. Clayton Colmon 🔮
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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Freshly updated for Black History Month is our list of new indie games to play made by developers of color. RELOOTED! DROPSHOT! SANTACORPS! www.pcmag.com/picks/indie-...
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Play These 24 Indie Video Games From Developers of Color Now
Indie games bring innovation and artistry to the video game industry, and people of color bring diversity and perspective to indie games. These PoC-developed indie titles should be on your radar.
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UMD English @umdenglish.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Distinguished University Professor of English @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social has emerged as a leading voice on AI. Read our Q&A to learn more about how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern: english.umd.edu/news/how-matthew-kirschenbaum-sees-ais-impact
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Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New CFP from JITP on Minimalist Digital Pedagogy. Due June 15th. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Personally can't wait to have @alondra.bsky.social and @amplify285.bsky.social up on the stage in dialogue with Milner and Lanier at the closing keynote of Who Owns Black Data, vol. 2. It's gonna be lit 🔥🔥🔥 Check out the program here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/schedule/
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Schedule | Who Owns Black Data?
A conference series on stewarding the historical and cultural record of Black life in the Americas.
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Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
You were excellent and we loved having you here. Don't be a stranger whenever you're in MD again - our doors are always open to you! 🌟
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Here at this @aadhum-umd.bsky.social workshop today, @rudyfraser.com is taking us under (I mean under) the hood to play with and learn about creating custom feeds in bluesky, in this case developing custom algorithms— thinking about weights and requirements, definitions and filtering the firehose. 😍
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Here we go! @rudyfraser.com is describing matters of representing/supporting Black communities on social media. Turns to technical infrastructure: open source, user support, & other considerations. Thinking about systems that are sustainable, and that can operate well into the future.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
From scholars working on independent projects to gatherings of #BlackDH centers and initiatives, it's been a great week at the Africana Digital Humanities @ HBCU's Convening! Keynote convo'ing w/ Kenton Rambsy & the GOAT Maryemma Graham; amazing panels for days + basking in Colored Conventions-isms
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#Blacksky y'all. #blackDH #digitalhumanities
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
As I was saying to a friend today, it's always a privilege to have someone care about your ideas. Gratitude today to The Black Studies Podcast for this opportunity to chat w the glorious Ashley Newby @ digital things, Black Studies things, teaching things, & more! open.spotify.com/episode/6IdA...
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Marisa Parham - Department of English, University of Maryland
The Black Studies Podcast · Episode
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Still we march along with the love— excited here today for @awwsmith.bsky.social at MITH & @aadhum-umd.bsky.social. We’re talking about his progress on LiteraryDJ, which begins w/ the limits of classical computing vis-à-vis Black language, & exploring new possibilities in computing. Quantum y’all!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Today? Advising projs, teaching my Black Digitalities grad course, & sitting @ this talk by @safiyanoble.bsky.social (How’s that for burying the lede?🌟) Moving constantly btw headlines & actually getting my job done. It’s a devilish both/and. Talks like this remind us why we must also do what we do
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
When we say digital @aadhum-umd.bsky.social, we mean ‘digital + experimental,’ which is how we think about our own version of #digitalhumanities Today? Sitting here at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social listening to Curry J. Hackett on landscape, Black life, Black joy, and AI image generation.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
AI? Ecology? Poetics? Black joy? Sign. me. up. Join us this week as we welcome the renowned artist and technologist Curry Hackett to AADHum, for a campus workshop + the second event in our ongoing series at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
AADHum & MITH got together and made a baby! We named it NarraSpace. It feels good to push toward new and ever more interactive ways to share scholarship & to find and tell our stories — looking for the new new while also homebrewing... english.umd.edu/news/step-na...
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Step Into NarraSpace: UMD’s Hub for Immersive Storytelling and Inclusive Scholarship
By Jessica Weiss ’05What does it mean to truly feel the complexity of a human experience—like the layered emotions of diaspora or the unspoken nuances of code-switching? These are the questions being ...
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Today at Maryland-College Park? Walter Greason and Tim Fielder talking about The Graphic History of Hip-Hop!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What better way to slink back onto the socials than to say how happy @aadhum-umd.bsky.social is to host members of the Afrotechtopia @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville! We are joining Ari Melenciano and Jeremy Kamal in celebrating Black Metal, an art book based in Black speculative design!
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What do we have here? AADHum's first 2025 event! 🚀 Over the moon excited for this one. Come hang with us for a night about futures, speculative design, and the important work of independent Black digital and experimental makers. Swoon. Busboys & Poets Hyattsville — 5pm on 2/12 — Free!
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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
At CNI, James Shulman and @amplify285.bsky.social discuss the ACLS Commission on Fostering & Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship's report: "Other Stories to Tell: Recovery Scholarship and the Infrastructure for Digital Humanities." 📹 Watch at:
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Report of the ACLS Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship
Report and Recommendations of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital ScholarshipRecovery scholarshi...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Clear, detailed explanation for *users* about how to do reports for Blacksky content moderation. So well done by Dr. KáLyn Coghill! @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social Trust & Safety folks ought to read this.
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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 19/12/2024
I want to make more websites for my interests next year!! Nothing stopping us from doing this. I think social media broke our brains and made us all obsessed with numbers. Back in the day we didn’t care about that, it was exciting if even one person signed the “guest book” on your weird little page.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Marisa Parham on the WNBA (plotting a battle between Clark v Reese!)-brilliant! Kate Starbird on supposed concerns about protecting women’s sports from trans people-brilliant! Soraya McDonald on the Washington Post, minoritized reporters-brilliant! Renee DiResta on how to study platforms-brilliant!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
quietly raises hand
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
'The co-lead of Remains // an Archive tells us about the lab's art exhibition, the importance of centering relationships between enslaved people in her writing, and the family photos that inspire her.' lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...
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Dive into the Ecosystem: Jessica Newby
The co-lead of Remains // an Archive tells us about the lab's art exhibition, the importance of centering relationships between enslaved people in her writing, and the family photos that inspire her.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ask me about listening to Dana Williams talk about the uses of data in examining Toni Morrison’s editorial legacy, because… swoon. Here at #NMAAHC for the Black Literary Network/Future of #BlackDH gathering.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This Wed. @ 12p — Join UMD English on the Zooms for an authors' conversation about OUTPUT ⇢ "An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT." english.umd.edu/events/book-...
Cover for the book, OUTPUT, which features a collage of computer geared text and images, masked behind the title.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/11/2024
Thinking of @amplify285.bsky.social saying repeatedly during the day of our panel hosted by Brown's Democracy project (I will post YT link when it's up for this interested) we HAVE to deal with the racism and sexism on the left. Because PHEW.
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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/11/2024
NOPE HELL NAW ABSOLUTELY TF NOT
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Rianna Walcott @riannawalcott.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
ANYWAY looks like we chose bluesky, how nice to tie a little bow on this piece, only took seven months!! #BlackSky #blackademics
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/11/2024
Same, girls. Hard same.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Currently at a dream team talk about digital disinformation featuring @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social and @amplify285.bsky.social here at Brown.
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John Drabinski @jdrabinski.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Why not start my (online) life here with a pic of this luscious cat?
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Parts of history and the whole of history don't need to harmonize. It is all the parts- racial, ethnic, gendered, economic, structural, belief-based, empire, thousands of other things- that sing together in different keys and tunings to create the rhyming, dissonant cacophony that is the whole.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/11/2024
In my latest #NewScientist column, I think through what we can learn from @helendecruz.net’s thinking about wonder: ‘Philosopher Helen De Cruz…explains that “wonder is a useful emotion, because it points to gaps in what you thought you knew”.’ www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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You can't put a price on the sense of awe particle physics inspires
Astronomy and particle physics are no longer seen as vital by the US establishment, so funding has fallen. But our work creates a sense of wonder, and wonder matters, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
As a former NEHer who believes strongly in their mission & the state humanities councils, I’m gravely concerned about their future. I wrote this in March 2017 when their budget was last targeted for elimination. Please share & talk about their value to your community! medium.com/@jasonrhody/...
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To protect the arts and humanities, go local.
This post was original written in March. On May 23rd, the President’s budget was released, with NEH, NEA, IMLS, National Historical…
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Looking forward ⇢ This Friday!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
"I can understand being despairing. Yet I’m with Audre Lorde, who wrote that “despair is a tool of our enemies.” Why do I believe this? Because despair has a way of distorting, it often pairs well with cynicism... a way of being that contracts what’s possible rather than expanding possibilities."
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 13/11/2024
From "My Project 2025," A New Poem By Saeed Jones. saeedjones.substack.com/p/my-project...
Screenshot of a part of a poem by Saeed Jones that reads: 

I am god talking to herself. I am evicting

America from my body and making room

in the borders of my black bad bitch body

for everyone I was sent into this life

to love loudly.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/11/2024
Reminder that @haymarketbooks.bsky.social is giving away these ten books including by @prisonculture.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and others. Get in on it. www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
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Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to ...
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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
After these last few weeks of campus visits and conferences, I’m more convinced than ever that giving students freedom to work outside traditional forms is crucial. They want to use the humanities to make a difference. We need internships, community engagement, podcasts, data viz, SOTL, and more.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/04/2024
Yep
In the context of electronic monitoring, some language is neutralized. Kilgore notes that advocates of the technology have successfully moved the public away from the term “ankle bracelet,” for example. The use of humanistic language to describe the technology is problematic for multiple reasons, according to Kilgore. 

“If you look at the way in which the producers are marketing these devices, they’re now couching them in the jargon of efficiency, and sometimes—like with cell phone devices—reducing stigma and opening doors to people,” said Kilgore. “So there’s a way in which this surveillance has been combined with the convenience that comes with digital technology, and it kind of gets wound up together with Google Calendar … It’s really an important argument to show why this is surveillance, but how many people have just given up on the idea of privacy?”
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Can't wait to welcome @amplify285.bsky.social to Atlanta as part of our #AIAINetwork spring speaker series. She'll be talking about "Black living + other computational poetics" and you can RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/aiai-speak...
Event flyer for Marisa Parham at Clark Atlanta University on Wednesday 4/3 at 4pm.
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