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Aymar (AJ)
@ajescoffery.blacksky.app
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professor @ Northwestern affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein jury @ Peabody Awards co-founder @weareotv BOOKS: Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025 Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity The Cookout, out now ⬇️ http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · Nov 25
Encourage everyone to head of to the YouTube channel for Data 4 Black Lives to catch the livestreams of all the talks!
Here's mine: "Reparative AI, Powered by Ancestral Intelligences," in which I present a framework/method for challenging AI.
www.youtube.com/live/VnMc1yv...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9d
why not opt-in? just ask permission first

if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked

just ask permission first
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9d
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 23d
Blacksky the feed will always be Black only.
Blacksky-only posts on blacksky.community will be Black only.

you can think of Blacksky Algorithms the company as Reddit for AT Protocol. We will make other “subreddits”

Community been here for 2 years and company for 1 year. Im the founder of both.
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✨🥀Persephone Evil🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 23d
Ok so maybe I’m not understanding something? In my mind the goal is to have an app/site for Black ppl only…but now I’m hearing there is a push for white ppl to join but just with another handle? I don’t get how that’s for Black ppl only…Is it all based on just the handle?
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 23d
Blacksky will always be a community for only individuals that identify as Black.
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · 23d
As a former Washington Post reporter I’m ashamed of this news. There is nothing false or inflammatory in anything Karen Attiah wrote.

Canceling my subscription. I’m appalled by our democratic organizations’ inability to protect free speech for all in the face of rising fascism.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d
Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · 26d
lol!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 2
A friend snapped this pic and sent it to me yesterday. It's from yesterday's large march in Chicago. Thank to the protester for bringing me along :)
A person holds a yellow sign at a protest that reads, "Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair – Mariame Kaba," with some words in bold red and black letters. Other protest signs are visible in the background.
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · Aug 27
Proud to have worked with you!!
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Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social · Aug 26
Speaking of which, the latest entry in MIT's Distribution Matters series (which I co-edit with Ramon Lobato) is "Reparative Media" by the ever-amazing @ajescoffery.bsky.social. It now has a gorgeous cover and a pre-order page (hint). So proud to have had the opportunity to work with Aymar. #commsky
Reparative Media
Can producing stories and developing platforms to support people who have been harmed by multiple, intersecting systems heal those systems? In Reparative Med...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Aug 7
Remember how I keep saying you have no business on Substack? You have no business on Substack.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...
Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing
The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.
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Real Shea_Butter @sheabuttersoul.blacksky.app · Aug 6
We deserve our own.
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · Aug 6
Blacksky only posts is end of week
Custom GIFs is on the list

Other two are unlikely to happen until there’s a few million in the bank account. Could change.

Tell a friend to tell a friend.
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🏳️‍🌈✨Golden Burning Sed🌞♋️ @seddieweddie.bsky.social · Aug 6
Where are custom gifs?
Media in DMs?
Videos longer than 3 minutes?

Who is designing that?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 9
I understand the allure of wanting to be a "carry guns and wear leather jackets" Black Panther but there's a case to be made that the most dangerous ones were the "feed kids breakfast and teach them about settler colonialism" Black Panthers
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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · Nov 9
I hope we Americans can let go of our desire to be the individual Chosen One who leads the rebellion and punches every Nazi. Organizing is hard, it takes experience and resources and time. Stop fantasizing about being a superhero. Start joining existing groups and be part of collective action.
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Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · Jun 26
As part of this month's forum on Media & Fascism, @ajescoffery.bsky.social explores how experimental, community-based media practices can help us revitalize and reconstruct democracy. Check it out!

doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
Media reconstruction and reparative media
Abstract. Drawing from the work of scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois and insights from co-creating a community-based media platform, this article demonstrate
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jun 9
I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · Jun 16
Love this. We are going to watch the shit out of Ironheart, fam. Giving this the chance it missed due to COVID, production schedule backflips, leading man bullshit, moneymaking nonsense...
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'Drag Race' icon Shea Couleé reveals secret 'Ironheart' character who brings drag to MCU
'RuPaul's Drag Race' icon Shea Couleé reveals details about her secret 'Ironheart' character with a mysterious past: A 'fierce hacker' bringing drag looks to the MCU.
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · Jun 15
So proud of you!
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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · Jun 15
It was an honor to be hooded by my chair @ajescoffery.bsky.social
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · Jun 6
My book has a cover!

Reparative Media argues we can reimagine how we make media, how we connect through technology, and how we generate knowledge to heal our culture.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Jun 3
Check out my latest, with @paulachak.bsky.social, in @ccc-journal.bsky.social!

It introduces a forum we co-edited on "Media and Fascism," with a star-studded lineup! See the 🧵 below:

doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
Cruel Capitalism: a forum on media and fascism by AJ Bauer and Paula Chakravartty in Communication, Culture and Critique: This article introduces a forum on "media and fascism" by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of international fascist tendencies. It notes contradictions in the affective promises of capitalism vis a vis the elimination of racialized and gendered state regulatory and social welfare functions and describes the role of violent repression in sustaining right-authoritarian political formations in the US and around the globe.
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · Jun 3
This was so fun to write! Using Du Bois and reconstruction to talk about how media could help us survive authoritarianism.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Jun 3
@ajescoffery.bsky.social writes about reconstruction and reparative media.

doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
Media reconstruction and reparative media
Abstract. Drawing from the work of scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois and insights from co-creating a community-based media platform, this article demonstrate
doi.org
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Jun 3
@ajescoffery.bsky.social writes about reconstruction and reparative media.

doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
Media reconstruction and reparative media
Abstract. Drawing from the work of scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois and insights from co-creating a community-based media platform, this article demonstrate
doi.org
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · May 19
So I’m going to social media to ask my professor friends: is this true? Are y’all removing books by Black authors critiquing structural harm from your syllabi for fear of retribution?
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · May 19
The final nail in the coffin was when they said we would have to pay thousands of dollars to the press because no one would buy the book due to the anti-DEI backlash in the States.

Imagine: asking Black scholars to pay a white press money to publish a book about reparations!
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · May 19
Helping people understand how these corporations have historically perpetuated a toxic cultural climate is ESSENTIAL to understanding the moment. Now that systems are falling apart is the perfect time to think about repair.
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · May 19
This is wild to say at a time when most of the world’s most divisive leaders — in the U.S., China, Russia, India and more — have built their followings through media. The current US President would not be without NBC/Fox News, Facebook/Twitter/Truth, the manosphere, and now his own cryptocurrency.
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · May 19
One of the board’s critiques was the fact that we focused on offering a framework for harm in media and tech, instead of outlining what reparations will look like. At the same time, they say that in the current political climate, reparations seem impossible, so the book is irrelevant.
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Aymar (AJ) @ajescoffery.blacksky.app · May 19
Our book is Media Reparations. We spend most of the book making the case that media has a 100+ year history of perpetuating harm to Black, indigenous and many other communities while also offering a brief framework and examples of what repair could look like.
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