Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 02/01/2026remember 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. 020
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 05/12/2025quarterly bluesky check in. this app moving the needle in any of yalls lives yet? worth building an audience here or nah? 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2025My latest essay: The Algorithm is Fascist ["For The People" version] open.substack.com/pub/ceritas/...open.substack.comThe Algorithm is Fascist ["For The People" version]The Global Shift To Neo Fascism and A Case for Algorithmic Reparations 010
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Yall following how this dude is mobilizing the new right or what? The riddle of the niggardly billionaires open.substack.com/pub/graymirr...open.substack.comThe riddle of the niggardly billionaires"It may be a corruption of the Amharic 'negus,' meaning of course 'king.'" 010
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Over 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 021
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/ceritaskzmtx.comCERITAS — The Kizmet Experience Studio 010
Reposted by SumSum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025been 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 001
Reposted by SumSum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The 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.orgEducated but easily fooled? Who falls for misinformation and whyResearchers 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... 001
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The 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.orgEducated but easily fooled? Who falls for misinformation and whyResearchers 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... 001
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I appeared on this podcast today doing all my greatest hits… rap, AI, new human archetypes etc youtube.com/@reflectcali...youtube.comRe - Flect / CalibrateJoin 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... 000
Reposted by SumChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025This 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 91119162688
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025“plantation” and “colony” can overlap in definition. I think “social app” can now overlap there too 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025been 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 001
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025speaking 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 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 06/02/2025the creator needs an audience the creative needs an industry the artist needs the art 020
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025a flaming arrow of a headline that i will happily click the shit out of www.404media.co/openai-furio...404media.coOpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From UsOpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation. 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025ppl 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 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Not 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. 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2025doing a lot of work in the “responsible AI” space, and man… the communication gap between affected communities and the affectors is hella bo-legged 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2025the new breed of clout chaser borne of the Gaza genocide may be the most troubling of the species. 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 23/01/2025liberated 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. 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 23/01/2025normalize asking for people’s consent before throwing them on a group chat, it smells way better 010
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Feel 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...youtube.comSteve Bannon Explains How To Take Back Congress With ‘Inclusive Nationalism’ | @realjasonwhitlockYouTube video by BlazeTV 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I 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. 000
Reposted by Sumbrendle @brendle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025other 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. 353703871
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I see America waking up to what Black Radicals been saying for a few generations now and its three parts empathy to one part annoyed 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 20/01/2025the inverse of maga thinking, is thinking that somehow america will become magically worse because of maga 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 17/01/2025this makes it easy also shoutout Blacks and Latinos for Trump, the inauguration parties look to be litty 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 17/01/2025disinformation = intentional lies misinformation = erroneous gossip …there can be overlap but you can start there 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 17/01/2025it’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 000
Reposted by SumJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 16/01/2025made 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 5327168372
Reposted by SumDorina @dorina.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Some 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 11914
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I 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. 010
Reposted by SumDorina @dorina.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Someone 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...docs.google.com2025 Wildfires GFM List 13756
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025so 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. 010
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025man 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 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025its 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. 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2025but 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 010
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I 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.. 110