Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Excuse me, did you say Peter Thiel is delivering the "Antichrist Lectures"... 030
Reposted by Clarence OkohPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparationsinquirer.comA Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in GermantownGreen Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners. 222125312874
Reposted by Clarence OkohI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026“The Charleston Reparations Task Force and members of the Gullah-Geechee community have called on the owners of three former plantations — Boone Hall, Middleton Place and Magnolia — to transfer 7,000 acres of land into permanent Gullah-Geechee stewardship” www.postandcourier.com/arts-culture...postandcourier.comSC artist's work removed from Magnolia Plantation after reparations message sparks tensionColumbia artist Kolpeace wanted to remove a portion of his art installation at Magnolia Plantation after a tense encounter. When he arrived, the rest of his work had been taken down. 04321
Reposted by Clarence OkohPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/202630 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"actionnews5.comPrison inmates help to pay down school lunch debtA school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates. 418105552550
Reposted by Clarence OkohProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: 10547761907
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The tragic irony is that AI models were likely the last to capture all those stories before they disappeared from the internet. Stories that we may never see again will live on in a technology that plundered Black digital archives to build a trillion dollar industry. A tale as old as time in the US 052
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I used to warn that AI hype has many parallels to Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scam. And now here we are... But you know what, with RFK running HHS, Dr. Oz in charge of CMS, and the CDC unleashing weekly plagues, I'm sure nothing can go wrong with introducing AI slop to healthcare 000
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Centrist elites are facing an existential political crisis that makes them especially dangerous in this moment. They're flanked by populist movements on the left and the right and they have no idea what to do to regain an electorally viable constituency 100
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Or hear me out... Those pundits are part of the same white nationalist project. A lot more people took pleasure in those lynchings than most of you will ever be willing to accept. This country is sick and does not care to get well 04115
Reposted by Clarence Okohleftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Texans, if you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it! trib.al/OP3mVj5 17347633031
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Mass surveillance is incompatible with a free society. It's an infrastructure of social control that manufacturers inequality and protects private wealth. Police will criminalize resistance before they ever concede to it. I hope there are local bail funds to support people caught up in this mess 062
Reposted by Clarence OkohBlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026With help from the Bears, Ace Hardware, pro athletes and more Keith Lee and the City of Gary brought a day of relief, community and sorely needed joy to Gary. Over 1,000 meals, 1,000 drinks and 2,000 buckets of emergency supplies were delivered. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... #BlackskyNewscbsnews.comInfluencer Keith Lee holds massive storm relief giveaway for residents in Gary, IndianaThousands of Gary residents lined up for everything from food to household essentials. 31595499
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026People confuse safety with social control. I don't think the post-pandemic crime panic was about people feeling less safe. I think it was a political frustration that state violence was constrained by the politics of the moment. That's why the media today could care less about these mayors' success 083
Reposted by Clarence OkohMaggie Priceless🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @maggiepriceless.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Its getting good. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...yahoo.comThe Largest Data Center In California Has Been Denied Water For Cooling — Now It's Suing A Public AgencyA developer wants to combine water rights from several plots of farmland to help cool a data center. Regulators said no, and now the developer is suing. 20839051219
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026So I guess we're going on a collective fast because what's left at this point 150
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Mind you this man teaches career and technical education.... How we got to fungi and literacy in the first week of school when he's supposed to be doing resume workshops is beyond me 260
Reposted by Clarence OkohHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.techcrunch.comSpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunchSpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months. 451372586
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026AI surveillance companies treat schools like a playground for reckless technologies. This was never about safety, it always about profit, power and prejudice. They will keep inventing ways to criminalize Black, indigenous & disabled children, even if it takes automating the school to prison pipeline 020
Reposted by Clarence OkohHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026“The Guardian has identified at least 33 instances of people damaging, vandalizing and destroying Flock cameras, across 23 states, that appear to have the explicit message of protesting surveillance.”theguardian.comInside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance camerasAn underground network of privacy activists is disabling or destroying the ubiquitous surveillance devices sprouting up across the US 211640
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026So Waymo can kidnap your child and send them to jail at the company's discretion??? What's stopping them from turning in people suspected to be undocumented? What about every person with a warrant? What about everybody on a police database? Political protestors? Etc etc etc 252
Reposted by Clarence OkohHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026Dude is running his own localized surveillance state, including functions that are essentially predictive policing and a gang database, except it’s for people who have said anything remotely critical of the organization, or anyone who associates with those critics.wired.comMadison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay CelebritiesAn MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.” 7337161
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Despite all of this, he'll end up with a podcast deal and millions in corporate sponsorships and speaking engagements... 030
Reposted by Clarence OkohHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”wired.comMeta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt OutAs part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. 21469432
Reposted by Clarence OkohHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026“Beginning on July 20, all eyewear or headwear that contains cameras, microphones or other recording technology will not be allowed inside any Unified Court System facilities, according to a memo from the Office of Court Administration.”syracuse.comNew York to ban smart glasses from all courthousesThe ban aims to prevent people from secretly filming court proceedings. 1434118904
Reposted by Clarence OkohJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.static.klipy.comWaymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic LightALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light 35264573439
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026If one night of excessive fireworks can cause such severe air quality issues, imagine what families living under the brutality of American militarism experience each day 03617
Reposted by Clarence OkohPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026A Code Purple air quality alert is in effect for DC, and residents are advised to limit time outdoors 381243410
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Respectfully, we do not know her inner thoughts. She may have felt courage, confusion, fear, humor, violence, exhaustion, humiliation, etc. She's entitled to all of those emotions bc she's a human being. It's enough that she survived racial terror 1101
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I never understood how the Egyptians ignored all the signs & plagues until now 0426
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026ICE has access to school cameras; data centers are being built in kids' neighborhoods; schools are putting AI microphones in bathrooms; and AI is calling the cops on Black children for eating a bag of Doritos.... And the Dems big idea for Project 2029 is to take your kids' phone away... 193
Reposted by Clarence OkohHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/06/2026“…several advertisers said Meta's AI tool had also generated bizarre or nonsensical ads for their products, and that some settings, like ‘test new creative features’ and ‘automatic adjustments,’ had automatically been toggled to ‘on.’”businessinsider.comREI gets roasted for a nonsensical Instagram ad and blames a Meta AI toolREI faces backlash over an Instagram ad showing a bike with two handlebars. The company said it was the result of a Meta AI tool. 76117
Reposted by Clarence OkohCooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 22/06/2026You wanna know how dumb chatgpt is? I asked it a question about Olivia Rodrigo's 3rd album and it told me she's only released 2 albums. Her third album not only released but was #1, the singles all charting. Chatgpt can't even google shit. If you trust it's info for *anything* you are insane. 1482083325
Reposted by Clarence OkohI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026Meanwhile... 18523
Reposted by Clarence OkohThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026But hey, at least we got a costly war and tariffs nobody wanted and he demolished half the White House and trashed the reflection pool! 540108805023
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Algorithmic racism is more than "biased" training data. The political economy of AI requires a racialized underclass. The ppl suffocating from data center turbines are the same ppl surveiled by AI police tech; are the same ppl denied jobs housing & education by AI decisionmaking tools; etc. 011
Reposted by Clarence OkohNBA @nba.com · 14/06/2026FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history! 8951111213
Reposted by Clarence OkohThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children. 22603323
Reposted by Clarence OkohMike Levin @mikelevin.org · 08/06/2026Eighteen people have died in ICE custody in the first five months of this year. ICE is on pace to pass last year’s toll, which was already the highest in two decades. So what is ICE doing about it? It is making the deaths harder to count. 21550532324
Reposted by Clarence OkohThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/06/2026Rescuers searched ruined buildings in the southern Philippines on Tuesday to ensure no one was still trapped a day after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in a half-century killed at least 37 people and displaced over 20,000. 48128
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Protect libraries and librarians at all costs 040
Reposted by Clarence OkohJ. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/ 8381202802
Reposted by Clarence OkohGrandma Janet @sweetgrandmajan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I love New Yorkers. #NBA #Knicks 31767401893
Reposted by Clarence OkohPulsa8 @pulsa8.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Systems like Palantir don't just watch us; they convert our freedom into spreadsheets. Every choice, movement, & connection is harvested as human capital, & sold back to states & plutocrats as “insight.” The result is politics where people aren't citizens to listen to, but human capital for profit.afsc.orgWhat is Palantir? And why is this corporation so dangerous? 11233401523
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026static.klipy.comMichael Jordan's Space Jam DunkAlt: Michael Jordan's Space Jam Dunk 000
Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The headlines may have moved on but DC (and other targeted cities) are *still* under military occupation. Local residents are *still* being terrorized by the military that they pay for. And DC residents *still* do not have a voting member of Congress because it does not have statehood 0107
Reposted by Clarence OkohGalen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Fuck AItheguardian.comIn first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacentersWhile many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban 22926210
Reposted by Clarence OkohPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Peabo Bryson, the iconic singer-songwriter behind the Oscar-winning Disney songs "Beauty and the Beast" and "A Whole New World," has died at 75 www.tmz.com/2026/06/02/p... 28341081223
Reposted by Clarence OkohPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Clarence B. Jones, lawyer and speechwriter who drafted part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech, has died. He was 95.nytimes.comClarence B. Jones, Who Helped Shape ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech, Dies at 95 382283774