They believe in racism; do you really believe in anti-racism?

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A few weeks back, a movement colleague—noted anti-racist writer and activist Tim Wise—started making videos about a young white man in Tennessee, Dalton Eatherly, who goes by the online persona of Chud the Builder. Chud apparently for weeks had been posting on X about his adventures in Nashville and other areas, where he “exercised” his …

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AI isn’t here to help you

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Yeah, AI is a tool, just not the tool you think it is—and what’s being peddled to you isn’t really for your benefit. This is something I’ve been learning and that I hope you will learn as well. So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes a confusing landscape, and really AI is a broad term that …

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Philanthropy in the era of authoritarianism…do better

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While I am known for my writing online (and sometimes for various publications) and for public speaking work as “Black Girl in Maine” (or BGIM) those things are not my job. They are the things I started doing over 20 years ago to keep me sane as a Black woman who had moved to a …

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