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 · 26/02/2025liberals have the same issue. the “their shit stinks worse; and ours has dried rose petals in it” is part of why we are here 010
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
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 21/02/2025ive been here with you for many years the question then becomes what is the true use of these apps, and is that usage netting positive impact? if “counter resistance” is loud and unfettered, and misinformation is abounding, and communities are not media literate, what are we actually doing here? 060
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 · 25/01/2025bless you and your work and your stance, you have my support 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I have so much to say about everything here, but the first is THANK YOU. two things come to mind 1. Doomerism is a reaction the masses havent been taught/mentored how to work out of. The mindset we seem to share is usually gifted or taught 2. What IS unprecedented is the Anthropocene of it all 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Goals. Been gardening for some years now, and have had my eyes on the Master Gardener program….soon as I find a chunk of time, I’m leveling up! 140
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 · 24/01/2025that’d be dope. I published something similar inspired by Hagakure, for my craft www.enterthecity.com/product-page...enterthecity.comTAO of the MC | SUMEmcee and Hip Hop aficionado Sum delivers 21 meditations on the craft of Hip Hop inspired by Taoist philosophies. 120
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 · 23/01/2025this has been ripping our communities apart for generations lol 110
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 · 23/01/2025well of course there will be. the whole affair is predicated by false pretense 000
Sum @sumkilla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025“the hood” is just dilapidated housing projects? yall sure about this? anybody from “the hood” over there in the socials crew? 000
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