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UMD English @umdenglish.bsky.social · May 5

Distinguished University Professor of English @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social has emerged as a leading voice on AI. Read our Q&A to learn more about how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern: english.umd.edu/news/how-matthew-kirschenbaum-sees-ais-impact

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Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social · Apr 29

New CFP from JITP on Minimalist Digital Pedagogy. Due June 15th. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · Apr 25

Personally can't wait to have @alondra.bsky.social and @amplify285.bsky.social up on the stage in dialogue with Milner and Lanier at the closing keynote of Who Owns Black Data, vol. 2. It's gonna be lit 🔥🔥🔥

Check out the program here:

wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/schedule/

Schedule | Who Owns Black Data?

A conference series on stewarding the historical and cultural record of Black life in the Americas.

wobd.blackbeyonddata.org

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · Apr 23

Day 1 with @aadhum-umd.bsky.social was amazing. Introduced folks to @mmasnick.bsky.social’s Trust & Safety Tycoon. Great questions about building decentralized platforms and thinking through content moderation challenges.

And, and, aaaand — I soldered something for the first time!

MEET YOUR
MATERIALS
Conductive thread
We are using Karl Grimm silver-plated thread, but you can also use stainless steel conductive thread.
Regular thread
Embroidery needle
These needles are a little bigger and good for embroidering.
Embroidery hoop
This will keep the fabric tight as you sew.
Fabric
Cotton and felt work well, but you should experiment!
Beeswax
Very helpful to help thread your needle.
Amp
We're using a Adafruit Mono 2.5W Class D Amp with handy alligator clips, 1/8" jack, and battery pack all soldered in for easy testing. (See the back for instructions on how to make your own!)
GOOD VIBRATIONS
WHAT IS SOUND?,
Sound is a type of energy made when something vibrates.
If you hit a drum (or any other object), the air particles around it vibrate. The air carries this energy in all directions in the form of sound
When these waves of vibrating particles reach your ears, it causes the hair in your ears to vibrate, which your brain reads as sound.
Sound waves keep going until the energy dissipates or it is absorbed by another object.

Your guide to soldering
By AADHum!

FABRIC SPEAKERS
Spark Workshop
May 22, 2018
liza stark // thesoftcircuiteer.net

A wooden loom considered one of the first computers because the woven fabric can be interpreted as binary numbers

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Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social · Apr 24

You were excellent and we loved having you here. Don't be a stranger whenever you're in MD again - our doors are always open to you! 🌟

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · Apr 24

So much love and gratitude for the @aadhum-umd.bsky.social team. Appreciated them inviting me to spread the good word about decentralized social media as a tool for community building

And as hosts—it was the 1st time I’ve been in a hacker/maker space and really felt seen. Support them & their work!

A goodie bag featuring MITH and AADhum merch as well as a 3d printed Blacksky tag, custom AADhum M&Ms, and an embroidery kit to make a fabric speaker. The cloth is a night sky. The bag says “To: Rudy, From: AADhum”

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 23

Here at this @aadhum-umd.bsky.social workshop today, @rudyfraser.com is taking us under (I mean under) the hood to play with and learn about creating custom feeds in bluesky, in this case developing custom algorithms— thinking about weights and requirements, definitions and filtering the firehose. 😍

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social · Apr 23

We’re on Day 2 of such an amazing time with @rudyfraser.com. Join us at 5:30PM @ 1104 Taliaferro Hall at UMD, College Park for the custom feeds workshop. (Free parking after 4pm!)

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social · Apr 13

From #BlackTwitter to @blacksky.app - We are in for a treat w. 3 upcoming AADHum events w/ technologist, community organizer, & creator of Blacksky, @rudyfraser.com! RSVP here: go.umd.edu/blacksky

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 22

Excellent audience question: how might the ethical and technical independence that undergirds #Blacksky be communicated its users? Fraser points us to this great explanatory thread by @msblis.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/msbl...

Chablis Jasmine @msblis.blacksky.app · Nov 24

So what’s the biggest difference?

BlackSky is an app within BlueSky… let me say that again. Yes, it feels like the same app because BlackSky is an app built on BlueSky’s framework. But shout out to Rudy — he created the infrastructure that specifically protects Black culture.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 22

Fraser discussing complexity + difficulty of content moderation. Regardless: "Content moderation as community care and not a cost of business."

Also love the attn Blacksky has paid to inviting in diverse Black communities. 🌱 What emerges however is the added difficulty of intracommunity moderation.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thinking Twitter as a uniquely Black app + shoutout to CashApp. Migrate to it, shape it, spread it... but not paid for it. Blacksky pushes against this, but Fraser notes its popularity (and Bsky's in gen) is tied to looking like Twitter. Fraser ties to skeuomorphism, familiarity. But what's next?

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 22

Love how Fraser turns directly to other on the ground work w/ mutual aid, which informs digital vision. Cites @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's desc of mutual aid: 'horizontal networks of solidarity,' quoting Matthew Whitley. Also, Dean Spade on distinction between non-profit work and mutual aid.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 22

Here we go! @rudyfraser.com is describing matters of representing/supporting Black communities on social media. Turns to technical infrastructure: open source, user support, & other considerations. Thinking about systems that are sustainable, and that can operate well into the future.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 17

All the thanks to Rico Chapman and Charmayne Patterson for convening and siting us here at thee AUC, and Clarence P. Wilson for keeping us on the rails. 🌱

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 17

From scholars working on independent projects to gatherings of #BlackDH centers and initiatives, it's been a great week at the Africana Digital Humanities @ HBCU's Convening! Keynote convo'ing w/ Kenton Rambsy & the GOAT Maryemma Graham; amazing panels for days + basking in Colored Conventions-isms

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 15

#Blacksky y'all. #blackDH #digitalhumanities

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social · Apr 13

From #BlackTwitter to @blacksky.app - We are in for a treat w. 3 upcoming AADHum events w/ technologist, community organizer, & creator of Blacksky, @rudyfraser.com! RSVP here: go.umd.edu/blacksky

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 15

As I was saying to a friend today, it's always a privilege to have someone care about your ideas. Gratitude today to The Black Studies Podcast for this opportunity to chat w the glorious Ashley Newby @ digital things, Black Studies things, teaching things, & more! open.spotify.com/episode/6IdA...

Marisa Parham - Department of English, University of Maryland

The Black Studies Podcast · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 3

Now take quantum sims & make them accessible— NLP that anyone can play with. Two turntables & a pocket of qubits? Also, thinking @ curation, a lá @lillianyvonne.bsky.social. Not merely machine generation, but working in relationship w/ computation to *see*, or maybe feel, differently. Entangling.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 3

Our first example follows mimicking Markov chains and blackout poetry refracted thru quantum processing. Thinking about entanglement, the introduction of dynamism — the power of context-driven generation — to remix hip-hop, meaning music and poetry.

Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 3

Still we march along with the love— excited here today for @awwsmith.bsky.social at MITH & @aadhum-umd.bsky.social. We’re talking about his progress on LiteraryDJ, which begins w/ the limits of classical computing vis-à-vis Black language, & exploring new possibilities in computing. Quantum y’all!

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social · Apr 2

🤖 Join us tmrw - Apr 3rd @ 4pm in MITH to learn abt AADHum faculty @awwsmith.bsky.social's latest work.

A researcher, developer, + artist, Smith investigates quantum computing as a new method for creative writing & human-computer co-writing. We hope to see you there!

Join us tomorrow, April 3rd at 4pm in 0301 Hornbake Library to learn about AADHum faculty Andrew Smith's latest work.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 1

Apparently I am live-skying my heart.

Now we are bathed in Patricia Hill Collins’ deep intelligence, pointing us toward thinking @ AI & social relations. It feels good to be brought to attention by a person of such immense capacity to focus us in witness of her critical gaze.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 1

And also. Sitting here with my lab folk, my students, and my colleagues Tahir Hemphill, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. Grateful.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Apr 1

Today? Advising projs, teaching my Black Digitalities grad course, & sitting @ this talk by @safiyanoble.bsky.social (How’s that for burying the lede?🌟) Moving constantly btw headlines & actually getting my job done. It’s a devilish both/and. Talks like this remind us why we must also do what we do

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Mar 27

In this conversation with @umd-arhu.bsky.social, Jayson Porter, Hackett reminds us of Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean philosopher’s idea of opacity— the right to not always taking responsibility for translating cultural knowledge. Much at stake in thinking about where we locate archival material.

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Mar 27

When we say digital @aadhum-umd.bsky.social, we mean ‘digital + experimental,’ which is how we think about our own version of #digitalhumanities

Today? Sitting here at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social listening to Curry J. Hackett on landscape, Black life, Black joy, and AI image generation.

Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Mar 24

AI? Ecology? Poetics? Black joy? Sign. me. up.

Join us this week as we welcome the renowned artist and technologist Curry Hackett to AADHum, for a campus workshop + the second event in our ongoing series at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville!

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social · Mar 14

Join us for two AADHum events led by transdisciplinary artist, designer, & educator @curryhackett.bsky.social!

Thurs 3/27 ⇣

💻 1pm ⇢ MITH: wkshp on AI, art, & visualizing Black joy

🌱 5pm ⇢ @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville: convo on AI, eco-poetics, & Black life

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Mar 24

AI? Ecology? Poetics? Black joy? Sign. me. up.

Join us this week as we welcome the renowned artist and technologist Curry Hackett to AADHum, for a campus workshop + the second event in our ongoing series at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville!

Black digital & experimental humanities @ UMD @aadhum-umd.bsky.social · Mar 14

Join us for two AADHum events led by transdisciplinary artist, designer, & educator @curryhackett.bsky.social!

Thurs 3/27 ⇣

💻 1pm ⇢ MITH: wkshp on AI, art, & visualizing Black joy

🌱 5pm ⇢ @busboysandpoets.bsky.social Hyattsville: convo on AI, eco-poetics, & Black life

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Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social · Mar 13

gorgeous.

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