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@sumkilla.bsky.social
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Executive Director, CERITAS Research Group • Founder, Kizmet Experience Studio • Liberationist • I dont do Neoliberalism • I love you all. 🐉 @kzmtxstudio 🐉

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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
remember the creator needs an audience. the creative needs industry / a job. the artist needs the art. they can overlap, but they should never be confused. happy new year.
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
quarterly bluesky check in. this app moving the needle in any of yalls lives yet? worth building an audience here or nah?
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My latest essay: The Algorithm is Fascist ["For The People" version] open.substack.com/pub/ceritas/...
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The Algorithm is Fascist ["For The People" version]
The Global Shift To Neo Fascism and A Case for Algorithmic Reparations
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Yall following how this dude is mobilizing the new right or what? The riddle of the niggardly billionaires open.substack.com/pub/graymirr...
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The riddle of the niggardly billionaires
"It may be a corruption of the Amharic 'negus,' meaning of course 'king.'"
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Over the past year we hosted artist-led roundtables on AI, harm & creative labor. I’ve shared a synthesis of what we learned on Substack. Grateful to everyone who made this possible. 📖 Read: ceritas.substack.com/p/what-artis... #AI #art #CERITAS #creativefutures
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“AI Supremacy & The Human Soul” - my take on understanding how toxic capitalism, racial bias, and spiritual disconnection shape AI dev. Co-authored with faculty from Virginia Tech and Howard University, this is a narrative intervention and a call for deeper discourse. kzmtx.com/ceritas
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CERITAS — The Kizmet Experience Studio
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
been here for a while now. havent been posting much…struggling to see the value in this app. its the same extractive model of farming us, we labor for free and help build something we will never own, or truly grow from. this is a dead model
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The popular conception is that undereducated conservatives eat more misinformation than educated liberals,... but studies show that smart liberals drinking enough of their own kool-aid and never questioning themselves are actually the ones. phys.org/news/2025-02...
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Educated but easily fooled? Who falls for misinformation and why
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have identified who is most susceptible to online misinformation and why. Their meta-analysis reveals surprising patterns in how demograph...
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The popular conception is that undereducated conservatives eat more misinformation than educated liberals,... but studies show that smart liberals drinking enough of their own kool-aid and never questioning themselves are actually the ones. phys.org/news/2025-02...
phys.org
Educated but easily fooled? Who falls for misinformation and why
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have identified who is most susceptible to online misinformation and why. Their meta-analysis reveals surprising patterns in how demograph...
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I appeared on this podcast today doing all my greatest hits… rap, AI, new human archetypes etc youtube.com/@reflectcali...
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Re - Flect / Calibrate
Join our dynamic discussion with Artivists in the midst of the creative process. Learn how they determine targets, tactics, and principles; how they deal with surprise roadblocks, criticism, and burno...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025
This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“plantation” and “colony” can overlap in definition. I think “social app” can now overlap there too
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
been here for a while now. havent been posting much…struggling to see the value in this app. its the same extractive model of farming us, we labor for free and help build something we will never own, or truly grow from. this is a dead model
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
speaking truth to power is a craft you learn from watching others do it. being mad and inspired may be enough, but it might not be effective if you don't know how to make your stance cut through
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
the creator needs an audience the creative needs an industry the artist needs the art
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
jfc I step away from this app for 2 days
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
a flaming arrow of a headline that i will happily click the shit out of www.404media.co/openai-furio...
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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
ppl want to collectivize until it's time to commit to the dredgery of collectivizing. then it's "I have better things to do" in our new skin, the only thing that matters is collectivizing, across philosophical, ideological and identity lines welcome to the year of the serpent
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Not just the NSF….NEH as well. An NEH funded program I am affiliated with just dodged a bullet but they are worried about being able to secure the same funding next year.
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
doing a lot of work in the “responsible AI” space, and man… the communication gap between affected communities and the affectors is hella bo-legged
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
despair is a right, but a luxurious one
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
the new breed of clout chaser borne of the Gaza genocide may be the most troubling of the species.
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
liberated myself from the need for any kind of social media presence or footprint many many years ago. was able to do this because I have worked professionally in all aspects of digital media, saw how they make the sausage and decided to keep it light touch. dont confuse my footprint with my reach.
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
normalize asking for people’s consent before throwing them on a group chat, it smells way better
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Feel free to share with those who claim DEI is ineffective. Steve Bannon saw a far-right movement that could only be successful if it was diverse, equitable and inclusive. While its evangelists take to the streets to decry DEI and liberals stay predictable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1UU...
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Steve Bannon Explains How To Take Back Congress With ‘Inclusive Nationalism’ | @realjasonwhitlock
YouTube video by BlazeTV
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
do it when im driving w my kids all the time
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I see the same people who expanded their social influence with Trump outrage in 2016 doing the same sht they was doin back then. And I dont see any visible work they’ve done outside of building their personal brands since then. But they are “voices”. This is part of why we’re here.
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brendle @brendle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
other than genociding native people, getting rich from imported slaves, operating a racial apartheid state, using nuclear weapons against civilians, violently disrupting democracies across the world, and arming and supporting a current racial apartheid state, this is america's darkest moment.
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I see America waking up to what Black Radicals been saying for a few generations now and its three parts empathy to one part annoyed
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
need some links from when was Snoop not a capitalist
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
the inverse of maga thinking, is thinking that somehow america will become magically worse because of maga
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
this makes it easy also shoutout Blacks and Latinos for Trump, the inauguration parties look to be litty
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
disinformation = intentional lies misinformation = erroneous gossip …there can be overlap but you can start there
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
it’ll be interesting to see when Gen Alpha comes for the inevitable Millennial and Gen Z slide to the right like every gen before them who became the establishment. one day we’ll tap the macro patterns for wisdom and get to the root of breaking this pattern, but outrage is valid too
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
made cabbage with sausage over rice for dinner tonight. cabbage remains such a world-beater. accounting in equal parts for flavor, versatility, and value, it's easily a top-tier vegetable, and although it may not necessarily be the best vegetable it should absolutely be in the conversation
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Dorina @dorina.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Some good tips from organizers as humans are nice & helpful, but overwhelmed: - Donating? label & organize your donations - Volunteering? check dates/times of asks & fill out volunteer forms - Raising money to buy supplies? donate $ directly to folks affected by the fires + mutual aid orgs
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I understand America is a mess rn, but its hard to hear “how is it possible for the US to behave like this” coming from anyone in UK/EU… the Kool Herc of global imperialism, colonialism and chattel slavery… feels like when Cosby was scolding young black men for sagging pants.
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Dorina @dorina.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Someone was nice enough to create a sheet with GoFundMes of people in Los Angeles who've lost their homes, if you can share or are able to donate docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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2025 Wildfires GFM List
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
so I saw the oil fields on Stocker and LaBrea catch fire real time. the fires are way beyond just the Palisades. smoke and ash in Leimert. stay safe.
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
excellent analysis
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
man today is a revelation. i see many assume the fact checking on Meta was fair and just by default. but the same fact checking routinely and unfairly shut down radical organizers and folx fighting for justice. yeh Zuck bent knee to suckle balls …but, that apparatus was *highly* flawed & harmful
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
its funny now I guess. folks playing games like this is eventually probably gonna cause somebody somewhere some harm. they will probably be from a less privileged community without a voice. but yes, lets make a point since we are in our bags today.
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
but there was almost zero fact checking infrastructure for non-english speaking groups, which is precisely who disinformation campaigns pivoted to target after the disinformation clampdown. and the pivot worked. there was little outcry, but probably little knowledge of it. just found this out myself
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Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I think anyone concerned about Zuck's moves never actually used these platforms to speak out against the establishment in clear terms. If you had, you would feel the sting of being moderated. I'm cool with not being regulated by the tech oligarchy..
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