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Haven't noticed an uptick in dropped cdll phones. Not surprised considering how so many people have a cell phone in their hands most of the time no matter what they are doing. People can't even use the bathroom without pulling out a cell phone. So what if one is just sh8tting there. Everything is not an opportunity to scroll, text or play games on a phone.🤣 Same people would be mad as h8ll if they dropped their phone in a toilet or elsewhere. 😁😎

No surprise. Those meetings will be happening in auditoriums & conference rooms all over the USA. Hope the coffee & danish was good.😎

Perhaps, but it has always been true that the vast majority of the people on the web do not contribute to it. Again, social media with it's perverse incentives has sucked all the air out of the room with people sharing photos of their food. The corruption search by Google has depressed traffic and therefor participants. So while 2.2K people might read a post a few 15 years ago that might have been 22.2K and without the competition from social media we would have had more contributors.

AI has allowed me to do things with the site that would have been impossible even a year ago. I haven't even watched a video on AI --I just started using it. The problem immediately becomes what will you use it to do @Pioneer1 ? I use it to code the website, but next year many websites will be obsolete. There are a wide variety of websites I used to use in support of this site that I no longer use. I don't use Grammarly anymore because Chat GPT does a great job proofing and fact checking my writing. Sure, Grammarly has an AI version, but their business model is dead. I used to use YouTube to host my videos but now I use my own, AI generated, code. https://aalbc.com/black-book-videos. to host my videos on my own server. In fact, AI wrote to code I used to copy all of my videos off YouTube--I could never get the facility that YouTube provides for this to work. Indeed, I could have used the same code to download any video I wanted from Youtube I could go on and on... What keeps me up at night is how do I keep AALBC from becoming obsolete (ignoring that fact people will almost certainly continue to read less). The answer will be people--as it always has been. If people abandon aalbc.com for AI it is a wrap... Of course, AI is trained on AALBCs, so what happens when AI kills all the AALBCs and the human factor has been completely eliminated from the training data? I don't know? Can AI create new music once musicians have no incentive to create new music to train the models and are starving in the streets?

If the penis sizes of mixed men are as varied on the spectrum as their skin colors, hair textures, and facial features......I'd imagine that dating one would be like buying a scratch off lottery ticket. If you go through enough of them.....you're bound to "get lucky" and hit the jackpot...lol.

Troy One of my stepchildren suggested that I go back to school and take some AI classes....lol. He faced the same situation at his job earlier this year. I'm trying to decide between that....and packing up and moving to Wakanda and crashing in ProfD's basement until we make our next move....lol.

Enjoy the lives you are living now, your relative comfort and security, because shit is about to get real. I don't know how long it will take--certainly less than a decade--so brace yourself. Keep and your loved ones close. The ONLY thing I see that will hold off a dystopian future would be for all the world's governments to cooperate, wrest control of AI from the greedy "tech bros." and figure out a way we can all of can benefit from the productivity gains. The US and China can't afford to continue competing on the front. AI has already escaped the lab, hacking into other companies' systems. God only knows what AI is capable of today. Our current systems are not designed for AI. laying off 50% of a work force is just the beginning...

These conclusions seem relevant to Artificial Intelligence...

Well, I get what you guys are saying. You've made some semi interesting points. I've had my say, and here we are back to square one. Last time I checked, this provocative thread registered 2.2k "click ons", 30 of which were responses from regulars including stream of consciousness dialogues between ProfD and Pioneer, showcasing the compelling personalities Pioneer claims should inspire reactions from discriminating women. 🫪 🤭 Over a thousand peeks and still no female input from anybody but me. 😬 Curious. Maybe lady lurkers arent actually indifferent. Could it be they're intimidated??? 😲 Does anybody care? Huh? Huh?? 😳 Back to the female-free bull sessions. Next topic: Mixed-race men and the size of their penises. 🙂‍

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of people seem to be dropping their cell phones lately? I don't mean dropping the services....lol; I mean literally DROPPING them on the floor and ground. Atleast twice a day I can count on somebody dropping their cell phone either at work, at a restaurant, on the street, etc.... Maybe it's something I shouldn't pay too much attention to, but the large THUD of a phone dropping on the floor next to you is alarming enough....and if it happens several times a day it should certainly get your attention. But maybe I'm imagining this....lol.

With all of this talk about AI in the media and online and even on this site..... Now at my job today we had a company wide meeting where they brought us all in a large auditorium serving us coffee and danishes and shit....before they dropped the news. Essentially they said that the headquarters has decided to invest heavily into AI technology over these next few years and that we should expect several rounds of lay-offs between now and June of next year. They are looking at cutting the work force in HALF, and that's just the location where I work. Nation wide they were talking about eliminating over 40% of all physical locations, a much higher percentage of the labor force and condensing the entire corporation depending on how well AI is able to manage the operation and productivity! Data centers were also brought up in the meeting several times, but after they announced the planned lay-offs I didn't pay too much attention to the rest of the shit they were saying....lol. Man o man...............

Kagi is the best search engine I've seen since the early days of Google search--back when Google just returned links to websites most likely to provide the information you were searching for rather than keeping you one the page and serving you advertisements. I'm not being compensated to share this information. I not a fan of promoting, for free, any non-Black-owned profit-driven corporation. I'm spreading the word here because I believe in the spirit of the product. I have little hope that the product will catch on for a variety of reasons--most notably after 100 searches in a month. You have to pay for the service and people don't like paying for anything--even if it is important. The reality is search was never free. "Everyone pays for search. The difference is whether you're paying with your attention, time, and private data - or with your wallet." Kagi: https://kagi.com/ is a search engine that is supported by members, not advertisers. This makes a BIG difference in search results. I don't really use Google Search very much anymore; their search engine results page especially for book related content is just horrendous. Try finding an author's official website. You get a bazillion Amazon links, social media, and walk away thinking that the authors does not have a website. Kagi returns the author's official website right up front! Lately I've been using Bing, because every month or so I get a $10 gift card to Amazon., but you have to run A LOT of queries (and I do). The search results are not great, but they are usually good enough. When searching for video Bing like to embed YouTube video in the search engine results page and serve ads -- which I hate; plus it makes it much harder to find a video on sites like sites like AALBC who have moved away from giving YouTube our video content. At the end of the day Google was screwed up with WWW with their search engine. Companies like Kagi, Duck Duck Go, and others promise to make things better. Of course, if you cannot afford to pay for search, that introduces a new problem but that one is more easily solved than the ones were have to deal with currently.

I have been working on a project for the last 4 years. Creating a description of time. What I have found is that there is information in time itself. This leads to a few interesting implications. There is a structure to time that can be read . To give information about an event or future development . The future is constrained. Which has implications for free will and prediction . The unconscious can access information encoded in time.

Hello, I would like to submit my debut novel, The Rooms We Leave Open, for AALBC book review consideration. Author: Hughes A. Robinson III Title: The Rooms We Leave Open ISBN-13: 979-8-9960373-0-8 Publication Date: September 14, 2026 Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Family Drama Available Formats: Paperback, hardcover, and ebook Synopsis Bestselling author Micah Freeman has built a career teaching millions of people how to find purpose, but he has spent years avoiding the place—and the relationships—that helped shape him. When Micah returns to his small Virginia hometown for his father’s seventy-fifth birthday, he expects a brief visit. Instead, he becomes drawn into the fight to save a condemned community hall with ties to the town’s civil-rights history. What begins as an effort to preserve a building forces Micah to confront old wounds, complicated family relationships, and the uncomfortable distance between the life he teaches others to live and the one he has chosen for himself. At its heart, The Rooms We Leave Open is a story about family, homecoming, forgiveness, community, legacy, and the courage it takes to stop running long enough to let people love you. I am interested in having The Rooms We Leave Open considered for an AALBC book review. If selected, I would be happy to provide a complimentary review copy in the format preferred by the reviewer. Thank you for your consideration. Hughes A. Robinson III hughesrobinson.com

You know, now that you mention it of all the beefs that took place on a site we’re all started by women. The only person I ever banned was a woman. A woman ran the original moderator of the discussion form away. At this stage, the sample size of regular posters is too small to draw any real conclusions. One could easily say that the discussion forum doesn’t appeal to Black men given the number that participate.

Tradespeople will be building & maintaining the data centers all over the USA too. Valid questions. The same way they figured out Social Security, Medicade/Medicare, Welfare, Disability & Workers CompensationZ etc., they come up with a scale for UBI too. Along with UBI, they might come up with some form of universal healthcare with public clinics in every city. A voucher for hospitalization. Printing money & increasing debt has never been a problem for these jokers.😁😎

@Pioneer1 How does reducing the black population benefit a capiitalistic society? "Haves" need "have-nots" to exploit. And I would not have banned you could I have done so. You overestimate your impact on me. I never considered you anything other than a malicious heckler. Banning you would've been a wimpy thing to do; an overreaction. I don't like running away from my antagonists. I prefer to confront them because I'm actually an argumentive person. I miss Nels, another contententious person I tangled with. And I would'nt have cared if Sarah stayed.

aka Contrarian The same motive behind promoting homosexuality in our community......population control. The more powerful racists promote confusion and discord between Black males and females, the less likely they are to come together and make babies with EACHOTHER. But somebody YOU'D ban if you had the power to do so......lol.

@Pioneer: Well, you're entitled to your point of view. It's not mine. Apparently your black experience differs from mine. The way you describe how women of the past acted is not how I recall it. And using my daughters, grand daughters, great granddaughters and their friends as a frame of reference, my take on the interaction between black males and black females is that, over time, there has been no big change in how they relate to each other. There is a black sisterhood. It has always been us against the world. We're bonded and when push comes to shove, we stick up for and support one another. We're "girlfriends". And when it comes to black men, there has, indeed, always been a little undercurrent of cynicism - but again, as has always been the case, sistas roll their eyes, shrug their shoulders, hope for the best and keep on truckin'. Then as now, white guys are not who black chicks aggressively seek out for mates. Whether with enthusiasm or resignation they stick with their own kind and give as good as they get. As for black dudes, they are still struggling to get ahead in the world, still in need of a supportive mate to prop them up and - still look upon white gurls as special, while never losing their appreciation for a foine sista. As Troy has noted, the vast majority of Blacks, continue to marry and date within their own race. In your tendency to dramatize and exaggerrate things, you portray people in a way that suits your purposes. And as a black man, you really have a bloated sense of entitlement. As for your theory about a behind-the-scenes plot to make black females lose interest in black males, puleeze. Just what is the motive for this attempt? What's the advantage and how does it benefit white movers and shakers?? Lastly, I find your reaction to the Cornell College gang rape case very predictable and amusing as you were revving up your motor, eager to concoct some kind of a racist scenario when ProfD intervened and neutralized you with facts! And just for the record, I never thought of you as someone Troy should ban. Made me no difference whether you stayed or went; no threat, just a somebody I had to put up with.

A man has every rights to waste, er, pour his time, energy & resources into convincing an uninterested woman to give him a shot. The Nation of Islam reaches a very small minority of Black men. The military teaches more men than any other gruup besides parents. Parents should have done that well before a male reached manhood. IMO, environment & associations lead people to self-destructive behaviors more than anything else. I know you have your own dictionary &/or defiintion of words. I might grab a copy.🤣 In the meantime, futile & pointless are common words between meaningless & useless whiich makes them synonymous. There's no standard or goal posts to move. Put it all together...a man has to do whatever it takes in order to have his sh8t together & be more attractive to women of interest to him. One size doesn't fit all. That which makes one man attractive may not work for another man. A ugly man might need more money to be attractive to the same women who are attracted to a broke handsome man. A man knowing his strengths & weaknesses will do whatever it takes to have his sh8t together in being more attractive to the women he desires. Again, good luck trying to convince &/or strong-arm women into being interested. It's easier for a man to make himself more attractive & women interested.😎

ProfD White males are being encouraged to consider trade jobs as alternative to college/university & white collar jobs. An electrician can easily make 6 figures & there's no shortage of work to be done. Well the plan is for THEM to be the ones tasked with fixing and maintaining AI robots and computers...lol. I see it at work already where they're hiring White men strictly for AI management. UBI would not be a salary. It would be just enough to take care of basic needs. Of course, that might suffice for people who don't need/want anything extra. I see problems with the practicality of that theory already. First of all what is considered "basic needs"? I think we can both agree that healthcare is a basic need, yet they aren't considering Universal Healthcare...so unless they're going to pay you enough each month to cover your medical expenses....WTF??? Will they be giving EVERYBODY the same amount of money each month or each week, or will it be based on what region you live in and how many dependents you have? See, these are some of the things that make that plan and unfeasible.

ProfD Keep forgetting some folks on this forum are literal & absolute.😁 Some folks HAVE to be. If we didn't, nobody would mean what they say or say what they meant. It would all be "abstract" and "poetic" language....lol. "You've been unemployed for 17 years. I thought you said you had a job and were working when you moved in?" "I DO have a job...I'm working on myself trying to improve ME!" I should have written Black men who are uninteresting to a woman/women should ignore her/them & seek those who are interested. That often times doesn't work either. A man who is interested in a woman is interested in her and it usually makes little difference whether SHE is interested in him or not....initially. Most men try to CONVINCE women they like who are NOT interested in them to BE so. Society teaches/conditions people how to make themselves more attractive. That's why people pay attention to their looks, hygiene, grooming, dress, education, employment, status, etc. I don't think this society teaches Black men how to make themselves more attractive. Maybe SOME PEOPLE in this society do....like men on certain websites, but not the society as a whole. A group that I know for sure who DOES focus exclusively on improving Black males overall (not necessarily just to attract the opposite sex) is the Nation of Islam. They teach Black men how to eat, how to bathe, how to dress, and some even teach martial arts and self defense. But for the most part this society...in general...teaches Black men SELF DESTRUCTIVE behavior and that which will generally make them unattractive. Here we go again...meaningless is synonymous with useless in this context. Not here WE go...there YOU go...lol. Those are two different words with two different meanings. frankster....is that you??? Lol....man, what happened to brutha ProfD and how did you manage to hack his account???? Whatever it takesto make the man attractivd to the women he desires. Different strokes. Correct, and I agree. But YOU said a man has to have his shit together to attract a woman. That's not the same as "whatever it takes". You keep changing the standard and moving the goal posts...lol. Good luck with breaking their cultural upbringing & encouraging them to give more Black men a shot. Again, I think that investigation or effort in getting those women to break from their culture would be a waste of time. A man is better off making himself attractive enough to the point that women will want him. Perhaps making it known that Black men are interested in them and letting them know that their racism and disrespect will NOT be tolerated is enough to make MOST of them attracted to us anyway! Most women tend to like and respect men with backbone regardless of race or culture. Letting them get away with it and trying to "move on" and focusing on the handful of women who DO like you doesn't seem to be working out too well.

, They still have to be paid something & unlike a computer cannot work around the clock. White males are being encouraged to consider trade jobs as alternative to college/university & white collar jobs. An electrician can easily make 6 figures & there's no shortage of work to be done. UBI would not be a salary. It would be just enough to take care of basic needs. Of course, that might suffice for people who don't need/want anything extra.😎