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ZariaJalan

@zariajalan.bsky.social
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Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. <3

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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Since I plan on publishing the work, the training data will be public on Github for reproduction...
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lately I've been seeing a lot of content aimed at Black people that is supposed to be celebrating the merits of segregation and claiming how we were so much better under segregation. And I feel like this is psy-op. Trying to get folks ready for it again. Segregation was not great for Black people.
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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a clown. Her daughter is angry because she realized she had a clown mama who used her for clicks, clout and bonafides. Nikole Hannah-Jones denied her daughter the same educational opportunities and advantages she and her husband grew up with to "make a statement."
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
by an overfunded school and it teaches you more about our society than either one of those experiences in isolation ever could...
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And the more and more I learn about how jobs and advantages are distributed in this society, whenever I mentor students, I always advise them to go to the best school/university they can get into. But there's something to be said for personally having the experience of an underfunded school followed
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I had no idea people were paying for tutors and paying to ace things out until I got to CMU and saw this reinforced at MIT. Knowing what I know now, I absolutely would not have made the choice the author made, because school is fundamentally to learn and open up as many opportunities as possible...
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
jaw-dropping to me when I arrived at Carnegie Mellon later. My SAT score which was exceptionally high at my majority black magnet school was seen by others in college as underperforming, and that's when I learned that almost every single person I met there had SAT prep and tutors to get into CMU...
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
slotted into Algebra 1 was already starting to form. All the way through high school I always took the highest level math courses available to me and even at a predominantly black high school, somehow all of my advanced courses dropped down to ~50% black. The education disparity only became more
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This article really hits home for me. I went to a majority white and asian pre-k and kindergarten, and when I was transferred to a majority black public school, I was so far "ahead" they advanced me a grade, and then when I went to a more diverse middle school, the racial divide between who was
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
and organizations trying to fight the good fight (to various degrees and ideologies) as opposed to OUR organized tax dollars and OUR organized institutions giving us access to the data and systems that WE pay for.
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
technological transformation could've been if it were spearheaded by people who care about things like income inequality, racial inequality, access to education, access to voting and information, access to government services. At this current moment it's a variety of independent technologists
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The engagement-optimizing commercialized models which we don't really have any control over, or to bring up your own infrastructure to train, evaluate, host, and serve your own model which is cumbersome even as in individual with google production level experience 😭 I truly do mourn what this
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
One thing I was really hoping to see was a public push for open-data, open-weight AI models. In the same way that AT protocol helps people build things that function for themselves, I'd really love to see an AI equivalent trained on public (preferably, non-stolen) data. Right now our options are 🧵
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'm building it because the internet is **confusing**, and i'm trying to navigate it better for myself, but if anyone has thoughts on this, feel free to DM me, because I can't be the only one who's interested in reading things that are actually true 😩
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In preparation for the midterms heating up and for more posts that only partially cite information, I'm training a model to detect when public figures are taken out of context. I'm quite tired of people saying one thing, citing a source, reading the source and the source not supporting that post.🫠
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Yes basically :D although i wonder if people will like having their integrity assessed…🧐
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Think an AI tool thats like marc lamont hill on the joe budden podcast… but for your social media feed…👀
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Im designing a tool that use AI to flag when someone is taking someone else out of context. Misquotes, uncharitable interpretations, inaccurate recontextualizations… maybe this should be a bluesky labeler…
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 23/07/2025
Tenant unions are coming (VERY complimentary).
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/07/2025
Like social media manipulation does mean that: — voters got false information about candidates — bad actors encouraged people not to vote — anonymity protects but is also a vehicle for disinformation That’s just how the thing is now! Online trust is tenuous/damaged! Them’s the breaks
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/07/2025
People on this app get really angry every time I point out that social media manipulation is a real phenomenon that we are all stewing in and that’s having real world consequences and I’m sure part of that is engagement farmers who do that manipulation not liking people talking about it
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/07/2025
lord grant me the courage to write with the confidence a mediocre white man
screenshot reads: Many (not all) insiders now say AGI — artificial general intelligence — stands a good chance of happening in the next few years. AGI is a generative AI model that could, on intellectually oriented tests, outperform human experts on 90% of questions. That doesn’t mean AI will be able to dribble a basketball, make GDP grow by 40% a year or, for that matter, destroy us. Still, AGI would be an impressive accomplishment — and over time, however slowly, it will change our world.
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Thank you :)
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
When y’all want information that’s thorough and trustworthy and not paywalled, where do yall go?
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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 03/07/2025
always thought this song prescient
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2025
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 30/06/2025
Still not enough conversation about her being one of the best performers in hip-hop by a wide fucking margin.
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Natasha Jaques @natashajaques.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
So I tried to post on X about how I'm moving to BlueSky and why. The tweet got less than 10% of the views of my 5 most recent tweets. Think the algorithm is suppressing this information? Once again, so much for a "free and open town square".
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 29/06/2025
"Mamdani has to do more to appeal to black people" . . . lol
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@karenattiah.bsky.social what are you trying to see?
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
You could say the same about being called black, we also demanded to be called african american
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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Bart/Homer Simpson meme

THIS IS THE HOTTEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE

THIS IS THE COLDEST SUMMER OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Less so user research and more so exploring ideas of collective governance and what would be required there. We've never really had a platform where the needs of individual users are the focus point... reddit might be the closest with custom moderation rules etc...
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thank you Ted :)
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's me... i'm the product team 😇 But, in all seriousness, FUBU means having a space where the black community decides it's own future, fate, and governance. It's important that there's a part of the internet where the buttons, the rules, and the rankings are governed by afrofuturistic visions.
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Fiyah 💜 Angelou 🪮 🏁 @fiyahangelou.blacksky.app · 16/06/2025
✨💥✨ imagine what could be accomplished if even 1/4 of us subscribed…💬 #BlackskysTheLimit
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Thanks! It's a tool made by a friend Colin Megill. He created it for democratic decision making. Fun fact, It's actually been piloted for community based policy making in several cities :)
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Everything you submit and vote on will be shared with the devs and the mods and we’ll also do a short blog post sharing what we learned from you and how we’re approaching incorporating your feedback into the roadmap. Thank you for the support 🙏🏽 (2/2)
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Y’all got it done! 🥳🫨🤩 As a community we hit the monthly subscription goal. In addition to dropping the fork this month, I’m also sharing a feedback link that will allow you to submit and vote on the features and capabilities you want the most from blacksky: pol.is/6vmnfmi5ps (1/2)🧵
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What do you think of the methods? They did end up with an inconclusive result…
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Ive been listening to the same 30 seconds of cardi’s new song and whim whammie on repeat. I pray the ladies end the suspense 😭
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Saw this beautiful flag in the shaw neighborhood the other day, just thought I’d share this gem. #PrideMonth
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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.blacksky.app · 10/06/2025
Around this time of the year I always make the joke that people from middle America fly all the way to DC to stare anxiously at me on the metro
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Brotha Tiptoe @thesuburbanthug.blacksky.app · 10/06/2025
Like if you think the Democrats are on the left, you are grossly undereducated for the current moment. If you think that policing is the cure, you are grossly undereducated for this moment If you think cross cultural solidarity is not mandatory, you are grossly undereducated for the current moment.
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
That’s not true in a primary
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Thanks :) I'd actually be down to chat and introduce myself, I'll DM you.
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Two of my faves ^_^ very excited for this...
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ZariaJalan @zariajalan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We're always paying attention to the features the community is asking for, so right now we're starting with the private posts so the community has its own space, but hopefully one day the gifs will speed up 🤞🏽
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