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The 2016 Black Geeks of DragonCon meetup As geeks across the country make their way to Atlanta for DragonCon this weekend, we look back to 2016 when our friends at Airship Ashanti had a harrowing e…

As I've been working on the other essay about LLMs in fiction, I've found myself considering the last few months of AI-related literary scan

Bakari is the netkoleh, ruler of the Ega empire and the living embodiment of the gods. When his eldest son and heir falls ill and dies, Bakari drowns in despair. He decides that the gods are nonexiste...

Alt: a man is celebrating his 49th birthday with a cake with candles in the shape of the number 49

Trailblazer Ruth E. Carter is at it again. With her fifth Oscar nomination for costume design on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

Alt: A man in a black turtleneck (from one of those terrible X-Men movies) saying "perfection."

Alt: Heath Ledger's Joker saying "and here we go"

Restless and troubled by salt-dreams, Dion was up before dawn. The night workers in the dryhouse sang work songs. Dion yoked her buckets across her shoulders and waded out into the sea, the face of th...

A Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Resource Compilation With the awful realization that we are indeed in a fight for our very survival coming over me for the past few years, I’ve asked my...