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  2. Can you elaborate. The following quote is from physicist John Wheeler It from bit" is not the claim that we use information to describe the world. It is the stronger claim that the world is constituted by information — that physical reality is the running pattern of answered binary questions, and that what we call particles, forces, and spacetime are large-scale regularities in that pattern. @Troy
  3. PRIOR ENTRY https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/828-art-comments-09232026/ NEXT ENTRY ? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1385294092/5313291054 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox thank you for the features beautiful artwork shared as always @4mberhead22375 what is that mechanical device? is it a bot or a ride? @Astanael great adventure scene @Onirio beautiful, i see the black hole, but is it colliding into a star @GaelleNHarper beautiful, it s worth a shirt what inspired the design? @Joinerra lovely craft, hope you have positive checkups in the future @RighiCarlo did you have a reference for the image? is so, what dance was being performed? is the work acrylic ? @EintoeRn chains from a coke plant, never saw before, carbon industry is so vital in the last five hundred years @MozaGrin that is someone in a suit. yes? hope they fin their home or are rescued COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1387197289/5314264957 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox congrats on getting the wordwide distribution. to Ripples on the pool, https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1386813510/5314262458 from here https://www.deviantart.com/leothefox/gallery/101128356/the-hosue-of-forever @300ChickenNuggets he burned the world, did you get that phrase from somewhere. In cheap retrospect, if more whites in the north had sherman's attitude toward whites of the south, the terrorism by whites to non whites post war between the state s may have been averted. I argue sherman didn't burn enough @Maxdamageplus is your demonblood outlander a character in your dungeons and dragons games? @thigmotaxis magical flying pig, nice, will you partake in artober in deviantart? @LucienWittwer « Captif du temps » : un beau choix. Impossible de dire si la personne tombe vers l'avant ou si elle est déjà tombée en dépassant le point critique./// captive of time , nice choice, you can't tell, if the person is falling toward or fell past @merearthling does the gras ssmell lovely there after a rain or with a large wind? Wiki didn't provide a phonetic for Ceanabhiene , can you make it? @SethFitts at first i thought a doghouse but it is really a taxi did you design the dog off of a canine you know? @AngelISKRA interesting, you put aims fire in the background from the hand that can not be seen? I didn't check your galleries, how many entities from the ars geotia have you drawn? @offermoord interesting, the sower, the seeds of death? which can be explained as without death, no life can exist. R Literature Ripples on the Pool[DEVIATION] I. Ripples on the Pool The cauldron glowed, full to the brim with swirling liquids which would reveal many things. The room that held it was dark, the changing colours of the ripples on the boiling mass were the only light. The surface was white, but rings or blue and red undulated fitfully out from the center. Two figures stood over the changing concoction and watched, waiting to see what fate would reveal. Bodies were swallowed in shadow and the faces changed hue with the constant shifting of the glowing liquid. “When,” asked the voice of the first man, a voice defined by a controlled strength, “when will it reveal all?” “Shortly,” replied the voice of the second man, a voice revealing the traits of airy wisdom and light conjecture, “but you must prepare yourself to receive it. I do not know just what will be revealed.” “I know what I suspect.” “Be not ruled by suspicion, that is what you always told me. Perhaps one may only know when he forgets to suspect.” “I will try
  4. 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. 😁😎
  5. No surprise. Those meetings will be happening in auditoriums & conference rooms all over the USA. Hope the coffee & danish was good.😎
  6. URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Undead-Face-Stitch-Makeup-by-V-1377419264 CONTENT EMBEDED EMBED CODE stichstitchestutorialundeadstitchtutorialvstitchedskinrichardmurrayhddeviantrichardmurrayhumblr DescriptionThis is My OC Undead, a gift from @DeathIsOnYourCards She studied @Vitani4000 's tutorial and made herself up like a proper undead woman Tutorial: How to draw stitches with Vitani4000Yesterday Your body is a canvas, and canvases are meant to The multiimage gif for made up face of Undead Undead colored face Undead BW face, for you to color as you like Undead Looking up colored Undead looking up colored as you like I used the OC given to me by @deathisonyourcards , I call her undead https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=undead Lineart https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages Coloring Page Commission https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Single-Coloring-Page-1349611949 Tip Jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #stitches #stich #tutorial #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #v #undead
  7. LINKS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bmYf2f72M https://x.com/MotherhoodSex/status/2107231187529855332 https://rmhreblogs.tumblr.com/post/829690846120230912/my-ebook-series CONTENT TumblrRMHreblogsMy Ebook series https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-short-story-collection https://www.kobo.com/series/jihi https://www.kobo.com/ebook/gospel-of-joseph... Adult Black Links Blktouch https://blktouch.com/ Midnight-hour a group for black erotic artists https://www.tumblr.com/communities/midnight-hour artist listing https://www.instagram.com/erotiglyphx/ https://www.deviantart.com/dualmask/gallery?q=sexy https://www.deviantart.com/kiratheartist/gallery?q=sexy https://www.deviantart.com/musashden/gallery?q=erotic https://www.deviantart.com/mystic-skillz/gallery?q=sexy https://www.deviantart.com/coolbeaniebabez/gallery?q=sexy My Ebook series https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-short-story-collection https://www.kobo.com/series/jihi https://www.kobo.com/ebook/gospel-of-joseph https://www.kobo.com/series/visasiki-series https://www.kobo.com/series/poetry-or-more https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-tip-jar-audios Groups I moderate https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler https://www.tumblr.com/communities/midnight-hour https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature https://www.deviantart.com/color-me-club My public galleries https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/84827787/poetry https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/87407046/the-theater https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/67560516/calligraphy My profile on AALBC https://aalbc.com/authors/Richard-Murray
  8. 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.
  9. 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?
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  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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...
  14. These conclusions seem relevant to Artificial Intelligence...
  15. 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. 🙂‍
  16. 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.
  17. 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...............
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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
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  22. 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.
  23. 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.😁😎
  24. @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.
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  26. 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.
  27. @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.
  28. 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.😎
  29. 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.

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