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And I got Purple Rain for high school seniors in the spring 😅

Training Day ending too lol

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Continuing with the buddy flick theme, Training Day Denzel is all over this film.

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Watching #GladiatorII. 35 min in and this is like a Denzel Washington-Paul Mescal buddy flick, and I’m here for it. Denzel is having so much fun in this role I can tell.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This whole thread is wild!

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y'all please keep me in your prayers my fierce aunt Liv just got called home

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I’m thinking (incompletely) like a step beyond Creative Commons licensing

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Yeah I have not thought this through beyond wish level lol. But even an opt in platform. I don’t believe most people want to be pirates or plagiarists—it’s just not always easy to find the original citation. And if they were made easier I think people would be cool with it.

Looks like Meta is taking down their (Blackface) AI-generated/augmented profiles. So many questions here. Who wrote their bios? Why is Grandpa Brian a “retired textile businessman”? Textile as in cotton?? 😐

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Maybe @anildash.com can offer some insight into this

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Zaheer Ali @zaheerali.com · 30/11/2024

I really need someone to develop a smart contract app that enforces citations for quotes and credits for archival images. A public ledger that traces chain of transmission. I don’t know how it would all work but

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Prince singing over an Anita Baker sample? Yes. Yesssssss

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Zaheer Ali @zaheerali.com · 15/03/2024

20 years ago today, #Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and brought the house down with this searing guitar solo. And then later that night I was one of the lucky many who go to see him funk up and rock out Club Black.

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2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood

2021 Remastered Edit: Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison & Prince pay tribute to George Harrison at the 2004 Induction Ceremony

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Zaheer Ali @zaheerali.com · 23/11/2023

Honored to have joined Stephen Satterfield on his journey to Atlanta to sample MJ’s Pies and Chais delicious #beanpie and discuss #BlackMuslim food culture for the second season of High on the Hog, now streaming on Netflix.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/08/2023

Last night marked 40 years since the live debut of Prince’s band The Revolution, in a scintillating show that included the premieres of half the songs on Purple Rain — which was recorded live that night. This is how that moment happened. anildash.com/2014/07/25/i_know_time…

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I Know Times Are Changing - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Platforms are reluctant to admit that they are making editorial choices. I’ll put it this way: you don’t have to be a fancy spot with a dress code, but if people know it’s ok to shit on the floor in your establishment you’re going to get a lot of floor shitters and other customers will go elsewhere.

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Zaheer Ali @zaheerali.com · 22/06/2023

I loved the point about factual vs. emotional honesty.