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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
Excellent audience question: how might the ethical and technical independence that undergirds #Blacksky be communicated its users? Fraser points us to this great explanatory thread by @msblis.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/msbl...
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Fraser discussing complexity + difficulty of content moderation. Regardless: "Content moderation as community care and not a cost of business." Also love the attn Blacksky has paid to inviting in diverse Black communities. 🌱 What emerges however is the added difficulty of intracommunity moderation.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Thinking Twitter as a uniquely Black app + shoutout to CashApp. Migrate to it, shape it, spread it... but not paid for it. Blacksky pushes against this, but Fraser notes its popularity (and Bsky's in gen) is tied to looking like Twitter. Fraser ties to skeuomorphism, familiarity. But what's next?
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Love how Fraser turns directly to other on the ground work w/ mutual aid, which informs digital vision. Cites @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's desc of mutual aid: 'horizontal networks of solidarity,' quoting Matthew Whitley. Also, Dean Spade on distinction between non-profit work and mutual aid.
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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
All the thanks to Rico Chapman and Charmayne Patterson for convening and siting us here at thee AUC, and Clarence P. Wilson for keeping us on the rails. 🌱
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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
Now take quantum sims & make them accessible— NLP that anyone can play with. Two turntables & a pocket of qubits? Also, thinking @ curation, a lá @lillianyvonne.bsky.social. Not merely machine generation, but working in relationship w/ computation to *see*, or maybe feel, differently. Entangling.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Our first example follows mimicking Markov chains and blackout poetry refracted thru quantum processing. Thinking about entanglement, the introduction of dynamism — the power of context-driven generation — to remix hip-hop, meaning music and poetry.
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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
Apparently I am live-skying my heart. Now we are bathed in Patricia Hill Collins’ deep intelligence, pointing us toward thinking @ AI & social relations. It feels good to be brought to attention by a person of such immense capacity to focus us in witness of her critical gaze.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
And also. Sitting here with my lab folk, my students, and my colleagues Tahir Hemphill, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. Grateful.
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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
In this conversation with @umd-arhu.bsky.social, Jayson Porter, Hackett reminds us of Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean philosopher’s idea of opacity— the right to not always taking responsibility for translating cultural knowledge. Much at stake in thinking about where we locate archival material.
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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
gorgeous.
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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
I should note that this Graphic History of Hip-Hop talk features live sketching by Tim Fielder! Illustrated notes, audience portraits. I am suspended between wholesomeness and innovation. Let us stay here forever in these times 😍
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Near and dear: @walterdgreason.bsky.social talking about his transition from working as a software engineer/game dev to PhD to using his critical media & computational skills to dev texts like the Wakanda Syllabus and this graphic history, as well as rocking #blackdigitalhumanities in general
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Inaugural podcast: hosts Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski discuss their interests in the field of Black Studies, visions for the future, thoughts on the past - listen in here or favorite streaming service open.spotify.com/episode/087l...
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Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski - Department of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland
The Black Studies Podcast · Episode
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I shall!
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This event is part of the @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social, a @mellon.org project from Ashley Newby and @jdrabinski.bsky.social of the UMD Africana and African American Studies dept.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Talking about distributing publications online and off, including founding The Graphic History Company to support the work 🔥https://www.graphichistorycompany.com/publications
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Publications | Graphic History Company
Read more on our inaugural graphic novel, The Graphic History of Hip Hop.
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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
Afrotechtopia’s Ari Melenciano & Jeremy Kamal w/ audience talkback, thinking about introspective practice, multimedia, the work of the artist in imagining human/tech futures, the work of revelation and encoding in Black Metal
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Learn more about Afrotechtopia at www.afrotectopia.org
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Black Metal by Afrotectopia
Black Metal is a new protocol for space travel. Created by Afrotectopia.
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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We are getting our future hopes and dinner on!
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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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