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I don't know if it's animal magnetism but I don't put up with rude behavior regardless of gender.😁 Patent & trademark it.😁 Homies call to conduct business & the wifey or kids roll up & start a whole conversation in the background. N8gglet doesn't have enough sense to shut them down. So, I help him out by hanging up. Call me back. My folks..anybody around me knows not to start bumping their gums if they see I'm on a call. Wait your turn to talk to me.😁 I almost dropped outta school in the 2nd grade. Teacher tried to make me participate in recess along with the other kids. I told her azz I don't play.🤣 I've been a grown azz man ever since I was a little boy.😁😎

I had not considered there may be gender component to doing this. I’ve known so many women, over so many years that post so much personal information on social, that I have long since given up even commenting about the activity to them. That behavior will not change anytime soon, as social media creates all types of incentives for people to share as much as possible about themselves. It’s one of the reasons I deleted my original Facebook account. But going back to the point of this conversation 🙂 I’ve considered the fact that something that I, or someone else, has written here could be taken out of context and come back to bite me in the real worl. I’m not anonymous, because it takes some effort to do it, and I’m too lazy to maintain anonymity. @Mel Hopkins I might stop short of the word “love.” but if you consider the fact that AALBC.com is almost 30 years old with the boatload of content and there’s increasingly less competition from other website, AALBC really should rank high in search be referenced by aggregators. But I still feel that Google search has done more harm to the web than it has to benefit it. I think AI will do even more harm so much more that it poses and existential threat to the WWW we know today. I’m not confident what we get in return will be better than what we have today.

As quiet as it's been kept, I produce the nation's most comprehensive bestsellers list featuring books written by Black people, The BLK Bestsellers: https://blkbestsellers.com/ Frankly, nothing has ever come close to a list like this. In a media landscape not dominated by a handful of white male billionaires, this would already be a big deal... but I digress. Using sales data provided by Circana BookScan, the goal of the BLK list is to highlight books written by Black people that are selling well but are not getting the attention they deserve. Only a handful of the BLK Bestsellers ever make the NY Times or USA Today lists; the BLK Bestsellers list helps to improve the discoverability of books by Black writers. My challenge is identifying the books written by Black authors to rank. There are no metadata fields I can query because no one really tracks an author's ethnicity (or so-called race). One of the things I've noticed, especially in the children's book space, is that the bestselling books featuring Black children are often not written by Black writers. IMHO, there is nothing inherently wrong with white writers writing about Black people, but in practice these writers often enjoy structural benefits that Black writers do not and it's just another way Black stories by Black people are suppressed. While working on this month's BLK List the #23 ranked book (image below) turned out to be My First Juneteenth Book for Toddlers by Ambsachi Nila. I was not familiar with the author which surprised me because I know the top selling children's book authors. The book was identified based upon the book's subject (Juneteenth) and its relatively high sales. So, I do what I normally do and researched the author, while authors included on the BLK Bestsellers list must be Black, I would certainly consider them for inclusion on AALBC.com. A web search for Ambsachi Nila revealed nothing about the author who is presumably also the illustrator of the book. It is not unusual for an author to hide their identity, but this is not typical for a children's book author, because classroom visits are an important source of income for many children's book authors. Ambsachi Nila didn't even have a website. So, I resorted to AI to see what I could learn about this writer/illustrator. At this point I'm still operating on the assumption that Ambsachi Nila is human. Gemini reached the same conclusion I was beginning to suspect, stating that "the books published under the name Ambsachi Nila were likely generated by AI or assembled using rapid automated content-generation tools." It also identified several additional warning signs I had overlooked (see its full response at the end of this message). Even without AI, I was definitely not going to add the book to AALBC or the BLK List, but the fact that it sold so many copies during Juneteenth, for lack of a better word, is fu*ked up--seriously. One of the top-selling books about Juneteenth was a subpar book likely created by a rapid automated content-generation tool. Hundreds of people were duped into buying this book. This is what happens when tech billionaires control book discoverability and sales. As with everything else, we (Black people) suffer the most. I maintain lists of quality Juneteenth books for kids (nonfiction and fiction). When it comes to Black culture, trust lists curated by Black people who have your best interests in mind—not algorithms designed to maximize revenue. Other, "AL slop" titles by the same "author," Ambsachi Nila: Gemini Confirmed My Suspicions: It is highly likely—somewhere in the 90% to 95% range—that the books published under the name Ambsachi Nila are completely generated by AI or assembled using rapid automated content-generation tools. When you look closely at the data trail left by these books on retail platforms, they display all the classic "smoking guns" of the synthetic book-packaging mills that have flooded Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) over the last couple of years. The Evidence Breakdown 1. Grammatical "Hiccups" in the Core Text AI text generators and non-native automated scrapers often stumble over fine syntax and pluralization rules. If you look closely at the official publisher's synopsis uploaded to book databases for the Kwanzaa Book for Toddlers, the text contains glaring grammatical errors and typos: "Kwanzaa Book for Toddlers was especially designed for young kids and write in easy-to-follow language..." "This educational book explain the seven principles..." "...full of colorful, bright and eye-catching ilustrations..." (spelled with a single 'l') A genuine children's book author or an established publishing house employs editors to catch these fundamental errors before pushing a book live to global distribution networks. Automated book-generation setups skip this step entirely. 2. Extreme Keyword Stuffing Human authors title their books for artistic resonance or clear branding. AI-driven operations title their books strictly to trick search algorithms. The full title registered in global databases reads: "Kwanzaa Book For Toddlers About Culture and Principles of Kwanzaa Holiday to Learn and Celebrate for Kids - Kwanzaa Books for Kids" This is not a title; it is a search string designed to capture click traffic from parents typing generic holiday terms into search bars. 3. The 36-Page KDP "Template" Layout The book's physical dimensions are listed as exactly $8.5 \times 8.5\text{ inches}$ with a page count of precisely 36 pages. This is the absolute standard automated template footprint used for print-on-demand children's books generated via Amazon KDP. A script or a prompt tells Midjourney or ChatGPT to produce roughly 15 consecutive square image blocks and matching simple sentences, which are then poured into an automated formatting tool and uploaded in a matter of minutes. Anatomy of a "Book Mill" Since the explosion of generative AI models, a massive global side-hustle industry has emerged. Operators use tools to: Generate simple rhyming text or basic holiday overviews using LLMs. Generate matching stock vector images or clip art using diffusion models. Publish the books under a completely fabricated, ethnically ambiguous pseudonym (like "Ambsachi Nila") to appear authoritative to unsuspecting buyers. The Bottom Line These types of books are commercial entities generated to mine search data for passive revenue. Because they lack a real author, they also lack any real cultural depth, nuance, or authentic lived experience. This trend highlights exactly why curated networks like AALBC are so important. In a sea of algorithmic noise and synthetic content, finding and vetting real, human Black authors who pour their actual souls and heritages into their books is the only way to protect authentic literary culture.

So you have probably noticed I don't just slap any ole thing up in the forum. I recently searched for my name +journalist, and there I was splashed at the top of the Google results for my writing on aalbc. Although I have my own website, when Muckrack, the journalism aggregation website, found me -Mel Hopkins's Profile | Medium, Substack, Ebony Journalist | Muck Rack, again, it was all my popular comments from AALBC. When I write book reviews on AALBC, they become AALBC famous on the net. I've been thinking about writing excerpts from the time I flew the friendly skies - and if I were most folks, I'd probably post on Patreon and Substack - but I'm not, I'm going to post about my crazy escapades on AALBC and maybe Patreon too - but I betcha the most views will come from AALBC. Thank you, @Troy In short, Claude AI had a lot to say about AALBC. But here's a snippet: "In other words, AALBC's forum is functioning as a consensus-building document for who you are as a writer and thinker — and AI search is now reading that document alongside Google." Aside: @Pioneer1 and @ProfD y'all were genius to remain anonymous 💓

It's ABOUT TIME somebody posted something I can sink my teeth into, lol. I was getting kinda bored for a minute. I log on to AALBC on a smooth Saturday morning looking for about 5 or 6 threads I can chop it up in and see the only one who has been posting since yesterday is ME. Usually ProfD has dropped SOMETHING profound by the time I log on, now HE comes up absent.....lol. Sheeeyit....... I don't even know WHAT Mel said yet and already gave her ass a trophy just for posting something I can respond too....lol.

My other "Twin" HeyGen AI-ed this one of our Flexx promotional photos taken in the 90s. She updated us I'm on the right. 😄

Well enjoy your vacation @Pioneer1

Facts. For a number of reasons, it's better keeping one's cards closer to the vest. People make a huge mistake trying to impress others by spilling their bizness. Then, wonder why they got robbed in one way or another.🤣😎

I've learned that one of the better moves to make when first meeting others is to DOWN PLAY one's qualities. If people see you at what they believe to be your worst and still want to be with you, then you know the relationship can only get better as you reveal more of your true self.

An abridged digest of this famous speech. ### What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass Delivered at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. The task before me is one which requires much previous thought and study for its proper performance. I know that apologies of this sort are generally considered flat and unmeaning. I trust, however, that mine will not be so considered. Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent me. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country schoolhouses, avails me nothing on the present occasion. The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a Fourth-of-July oration. This certainly sounds large, and out of the common way, for it is true that I have often had the privilege to speak in this beautiful Hall, and to address many who now honor me with their presence. But neither their familiar faces, nor the perfect Gage of the Hall, can free me from embarrassment. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here today is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude. This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the Fourth of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom. This, to you, is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. It carries your minds back to the day, and to the act of your great deliverance; and to the signs, and to the wonders, associated with that act, and that day. This celebration also marks the beginning of another year of your national life; and reminds you that the Republic of America is now seventy-six years old. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. Seventy-six years, though a good old age for a man, is but a mere speck in the life of a nation. Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands. According to this fact, you are, even now, only in the beginning of your national career, still lingering in the period of childhood. I repeat, I am glad this is so. There is hope in the thought, and hope is much needed, under the dark clouds which lower above the horizon. ... Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very moment... Can hardly wait for the fireworks tonight.

@aka Contrarian ...I did drop the ball on those noteworthy events. 😁 Tony Brown was smooth as silk on his Journal show. Mother Khadijah Farrakhan was married to Minister Louis Farrakhan for 72 years. The word is that she was a strong matriarchal figure. Stay busy having fun with AI & being able to travel by simply closing your eyes. That's exactly why you're still here with us.🤗😎

@richardmurray I think you would be who could best fufill my request to print Frederick Douglass' famous 4th of July speech. I never tire of reading it. Its message is as timely today, as it was when he first delivered it.

Fam...I just stand on my block when it comes to being a no nonsense man but still a clown, er, with a sense of humor.🤣😎

@ProfD you really sound like an interesting person. A genuine, bona fide, cool dude who is his own man. 👍

Sista @Mel Hopkins it's always great to have your presence in the proverbial coffeeshop. @aka Contrarian (Cynique) has been on an AI tear lately. She's jet-setting through pics.🤣😎

I’m talking about women across the board in general all ages including our age but as they get older than us not so much. I remember years ago I was out to dinner with a group of people in Brooklyn next to me was a writer who is very well known now and her face was buried in her phone and I asked what she was doing. She said she was on Twitter. I asked her what that was and she explained you you just read the posts when you’re bored and need something to do; I was like “you mean as in right now.” she understood what I was saying and put her phone away. Today, if I’m with someone one-on-one, I will wave my hand between their face and the screen if I think they’re devoting too much time to it rather than our conversation. Younger women tend to be in their screen while watching TV. I was at a comedy show recently, and the person was in their screen during a comedy show. I just never seen guys do this. It’s always women. Now, of course, I’m not saying all women do this and I’m not saying guys who never do it. I’m just saying that the vast majority of the times I’m observing it it’s women not men. Well, you have that animal, magnetism, women, love, and men envy.

There is no way a woman hanging out with me would have time to be scrolling & watching videos on her phone. She would be too busy talking to &/or listening to me.😁 Admittedly, I don't like younger women so that probably helps too. If a seasoned woman exhibited that type of behavior...she wouldn't be a passenger in my truck.🤣😎

Well sista @Mel Hopkins ...you must be a better writer or more substantive than myself. I just sit in this proverbial AALBC armchair giving my opinions about everything. 🤣😎

That is a sweeping claim, but where is the evidence? First, Barack Obama did not “fail to win an Illinois seat by focusing on the Black vote.” He was already an elected Illinois state senator when, in 2000, he unsuccessfully challenged longtime incumbent Congressman Bobby Rush in the Democratic primary for Illinois’s First Congressional District. Losing one primary to an entrenched incumbent is not proof that Obama lacked political or legislative ability. I moved to Illinois in 2002, so I did not merely read about Illinois politics after the fact. I was an Illinois voter. Second, saying that Obama later won by “splitting the Black and white vote” and obtaining support from wealthy donors is not a serious analysis of the 2008 campaign. As a marketing communications strategist, I had the opportunity to study the “Yes We Can” and “Change We Can Believe In” campaigns closely. The first campaign was a masterclass in architecting a social movement. Reducing Obama’s campaign to speeches, commercials, wealthy donors, and appearances misses the central innovation: it built a decentralized civic movement in which millions of ordinary people became organizers, fundraisers, community leaders, and co-authors of the campaign’s meaning. (Obama's Lost Army) Successful candidates build coalitions. Obama assembled a multiracial electorate, attracted major donors, and developed an unusually broad small-donor fundraising operation. That is called campaigning. It is not evidence that he somehow “undid” Hillary Clinton’s rightful possession of the nomination. No candidate possessed the nomination by right. The nomination belonged to the candidate who won the delegate contest. Now to the allegation that Obama was “woeful as a legislator” and that the laws associated with him were “poor” and “dysfunctional.” Presidents do not personally make laws. Congress drafts and passes bills. Presidents may establish policy priorities, propose legislation, negotiate with lawmakers, advocate for bills, veto them, or sign them into law. Therefore, name the specific legislation you are criticizing and quantify its allegedly woeful results. During Obama’s years in the Illinois Senate, he worked on legislation requiring the recording of interrogations in capital cases and the collection of racial data from traffic stops. In the U.S. Senate, his work included federal-spending transparency and bipartisan efforts to secure nuclear and conventional weapons. As president, he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored workers’ ability to challenge continuing pay discrimination when they receive discriminatory compensation. He also signed the Affordable Care Act. You may dislike the ACA or object to particular provisions, but “I dislike it” is not evidence that the law was dysfunctional. Measurable outcomes are available for examination. According to the Obama White House’s 2016 assessment of progress in the African-American community, approximately three million uninsured, nonelderly Black adults gained health coverage after Affordable Care Act enrollment began. The report also documented 700,000 fewer Black Americans living in poverty in 2015, 400,000 fewer Black children living in poverty, historically high Black high-school graduation rates, declining incarceration rates, and 62 lifetime federal judicial appointments of African Americans. Yes, the administration itself issued that report, and its conclusions should be checked against the underlying federal data. Nor should every favorable development during an administration automatically be credited to one president or one piece of legislation. But the report still provides actual claims, measurements, and outcomes that can be investigated. That is considerably more substantive than simply declaring that Obama was “woeful” and that his laws were “dysfunctional.” I also personally obtained healthcare benefits through the Affordable Care Act, as did millions of other Americans. You cannot erase the people who benefited from a law merely by declaring the entire law a failure. And if Mayor Zohran Mamdani can be as consequential for New York City as President Obama was for the United States, then New York may be well positioned to preserve its standing as one of the world’s leading cities. There are legitimate criticisms to make of Obama’s presidency. There were compromises, policy failures, implementation problems, and unfulfilled promises. But “he gave good speeches and made terrible laws” is not an analysis. It is an unsupported opinion. So which specific bills produced the “woeful results” you claim? Which provisions were defective? What measurable damage did they cause? What evidence connects that damage to the legislation? Name the law. Identify the defective provision. Quantify the harm. If you cannot identify the law, explain the defect and provide factual evidence of the result, please do not tag me merely to repeat a political impression. I do not have time to debate accusations that their author refuses to substantiate.

Bro, I've been an old man all my life. I was born old.🤣😎

ProfD Right. There are many of us who cannot be bought for any amount of money to compromise ourselves. I know. When I was homeless and staying in the shelter, I met some of them....lol. They never compromised. Except at 7am when the shelter attendants told them to get their ass out of the building and don't come back before 8pm. Thankfully, there is nothing on this planet that I want so badly I'd be willing to do anything to get it. Guess that means I'm blessed. Perhaps. Or since you're still living (and as Neely Fuller Jr. would say "still learning") it COULD mean that you just haven't MET that something or someone yet who will FORCE you to do what you never thought you'd do...lol.

Yeah. It is ridiculous. Thankfully, there are still brutally honest people like myself telling the truth. I have zero problems with saying...let that BS go to a brotha or sista. Don't look like a clown. Real women have a way of letting a man know there is nothing fake about them well before git down time. 😉 In general, some Black folks tend to be loud & over-the-top in whatever they do. It's like they're screaming look at me. On the flip side, Black folks do bring the flavor & flair that makes life less dull & boring. We make it pop.😎

It's unfortunate money left Michigan when auto industry out-sourced but smoke stayed.🤣😎

Michigan was built for that anyway. 100 years ago when most of the car and steel factories were up and running, EVERY DAY looked like that....lol.

"fornicative"....lol. My first time coming across that one!

Lol.....I don't think that statement was for you. It was directed towards me per an exchange about Black marriage, we were having.

Twin, it is. A lot of times folks like me write the copy but use an avatar or a clone of our voice 🙋🏽‍♀️ to narrate the script 🙃. Yes, some folks you see in these videos exist in real life but they have cloned themselves to deliver a better presentation. Want to see?

This is a good point. In this case, I blame the educational system, not AI. Those who use AI shouldn't be using it as a Search Engine because it is not that. But some folks who use the LLM AI also aren't accustomed to challenging authority. I watched a video about Feynman and education that sent me down a rabbit hole. In it, the writer posits that most students accept answers without challenging the meaning. Whether this documentarian is telling the truth or not, I've also recognized this behavior throughout my years in school, business, and corporate America. People don't ask questions or challenge information. Obviously, you challenge the answers, so I'm really responding to your statement because most people are just looking for packaged answers rather than meaning, and that's the real payoff. Which will continue to separate the haves from the have-nots. (I'm not speaking about money here, but those who innovate because they can think beyond what the education system provides to the student. I always go back to our education at Brooklyn Tech - we couldn't skate on memorization, the teachers there taught us to think it through. Like the Feynman video I linked to in my response.

ProfD There's no benefit to shooting heroine regardless how high or good it makes a person feel. Lol....THOSE ARE the benefits! Sometimes the only thing a person wants IS to get high and feel good. They don't care about their health or future. Got them pill dudes here who work nice jobs & would rather play video games instead of chasing snatch box. That's because they've been so accustomed to it that they're better at using SOMEBODY ELSE'S "joy stick" to have fun than at using their own....lol.

Funny but true!!! And easier to exit. But "hursh" because next thing you know the "private equity" folks will want to invest! Senator Rev. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock's bill became federal law keeping PE folks from purchasing single family homes - so you know marriage LLC is next.

Man you killed it with that one. Who else would have thought of the Poker analogy and not letting others know what kind of cards you're carrying.....lol.

Mel Lol....how are you going to sit up there and list ALL of them as "number 1" on the list????? There's really no ranking because my ideal man has all three. Even if you met all the men (friends, lovers, associates, acquaintance) that I had an opportunity to have in my life - you'd see the all share the same characteristics. While I'm sure Troy welcomes your participation, this list was actually crafted for men because we tend to look for different attributes in the opposite sex than women do. Some of what you value, we can take or leave Like height....lol. I don't care how short a woman is. I'd date a MIDGET if she was sexy...lol. And WOULDN'T be ashamed to walk around with her in public. I'd pick her up and carry her in one arm like a baby is she wanted me to. There was one man, a friend set me up with, and we went out on a date. See, I've learned that's a tell tale sign right THERE...the need to be "set up" for a date. Most people who are atleast moderately attractive don't need to be "set up" to meet other people. They naturally attract others either at work or while they're out and about in their daily life. Usually it's people who are generally not attractive enough to meet people in their day to day life....for whatever reason be it looks or personality....who need to be "set up" by a friend or turn to dating apps. Just like if a person is constantly in and out of jail......there's usually a reason for it. If a person has a hard time finding or attracting others, there's usually a reason. I have never or would ever entertain, date or even tease a broke man. See, that's one of the major differences between what most women are looking for and what most men are....lol. Most men could care less about the financial status of a woman. She could be too broke to pay ATTENTION let alone pay her bills...lol...doesn't matter as long as she was sexy, or pretty, or ultra-feminine. See all of those mail order brides from dirt poor countries that men are willing to spend millions of dollars to get? intelligence see this denontation it was what makes a man the entire package Yet another difference between most men and most women. Most men aren't looking for a super intelligent woman, just one who is intelligent enough to KNOW HOW TO ACT IN PUBLIC...lol. As long as she ain't acting a loud mouth ghetto fool when you take her out somewhere and doing things like.... -Getting into arguments with other women while standing in line. -Mean mugging and cussing out the waitress who has to serve us our food. -Threatening men with what I'M going to do to them when they look at her wrong or say something she doesn't like I don't care whether she can even read or write, as long as she has enough sense to carry herself in a mild, non-aggressive, feminine manner. attractiveness If he has the first two - he definitely has this one. I'm glad you said this because I initially was going to mention it to Troy. Attractiveness involves ALL of these attributes and how they relate to eachother synergistically to make a person desirable. I presumed when he wrote "attractiveness" he meant LOOKS, so I rolled with it. But I would have chosen another word to be more specific like "beauty" or "aesthetics" dealing with the physical outward appearance.

It could happen, but he would have to be a MASCULINE gay man....not an effeminate acting one.

Refugees from South Africa should get asylum in the United States. If the Trump Administration wants to limit immigration to ONLY refugees who are fleeing persecution in South Africa, instead of the White Afrikaners.....they should first accept the BLACK AFRICAN immigrants who are currently being harassed and persecuted in there. Give them priority refugee status. I don't recall hearing or seeing anyone else on the internet suggesting this. So remember the idea came from ME.....lol.

On that tip.......... It COULD be, that the Caucasian population has increased over the centuries through conquest and better nutrition and medicine while the indigenous Black and Brown populations have declined or been diluted. Look no further than the NBA as an example.....lol.

Looks like @aka Contrarian took a page from your book, er, movie idea & used AI to flip the script.🤣 Again, you two going back & forth is worth the price of admission from where I sit.😁😎

@ProfD I have no problems at all because I'm posting from my phone. I never log out. And I have an app that connects me any time I decide to post.

What does "Atleast" spell? And your grammar leaves a lot to be desired.

ROTFLMMFBAO! I don’t know why I found that so funny I guess just because it’s so extreme lol coming from a little old lady who just shared so many pictures with her new boo, but still finds the time to lay into @Pioneer1 You didn’t ask me, but I think the former is far more healthier than a latter. I’ve been obsessed with using AI to improve my website for the past six months. I know I need to pull back… but it’s hard right now because I’m accomplishing so much. it’s not all that complicated man most people are pretty superficial, a cute face big titties big ass. You’ll have no problem with attracting a dude. You could be semi retarded and don’t even speak English doesn’t matter. Or you can have a lot of money that pretty much trump‘s everything including looks. Short of that everyone else just settles, People who are really interested in getting to connect with someone on a deeper level independent of wealth or appearance are relatively rare they exist, but they are more anomalous rather than the norm. If people get bored with each other it is because they’re not listening — people are fascinating with interesting stories.

So wait, did you provide a prompt that had you put his hand on his thigh like that @aka Contrarian or did the AI do that on itself? I was at a cookout over the weekend and someone was playing a song that I really liked, and I asked who it was and a guy sitting across from me said it was him that he created the song using an AI! I was like that could be a hit man. Then the Sista next to me was like oh you should hear this song (below) and Sista on the other side also knew the saw and was like yo that Song really touched her. Another AI song! Now I’ve heard many people say that AI music isn’t any good and that they can tell the difference. Well, one thing I know for sure is that I can’t tell the difference and that for a lot of people they could care less. I mean the cheering in the background sounds fake, but this has been fake for the past 50 years or longer. Sure, the music is derivative… Sounds like Beyoncé, but what music isn’t derivative? When AI starts doing something that’s completely novel the money will flow right out of musicians hands into the hands of be already super wealthy. Musicians will be covering AI generated music.

None of the 4 in that photo above is actually in Trump's Administration. Like you said, Scott Turner....the head of HUD is the only Black person currently in his Administration. Funny how they pick a Black man to oversee how the housing projects and Section 8 programs are ran, lol.

@ProfD You sound like a confident brutha who doesn't need to go around "advertising" himself over the internet. You don't seem like somebody who likes to post images of himself grinning and grabbing on women in strange places....lol.

It's most certainly a gender thing. Not totally, but for the most part. It seems as if most women....even older mature women...don't seem to take their financial or personal safety seriously when it comes to online behavior. I warned my stepdaughter so many times about posting all of her information online years ago, she ignored my warnings and ended up with an ex-boyfriend who stalked her and took her through an ordeal. She told me I was right and after the drama with her ex was cleared up she started being more cautious....for maybe HALF A YEAR.....and then went right back to posting all of her shit on Meta and TikTok again! She's her own paparazzi.

I don't know if I'd call it genius over just being typical men....lol Most men like to keep a low profile. Many of us have learned....whether it was from dating, working, or highschool homies....that the less personal information people know about you the less "ammunition" they have if they ever decide to come at you, lol. I'm constantly getting on the females in my family about posting all of their business on social media. Posting their pictures. Posting their activities. Posting their full name and family history. Posting their children's pictures. Posting pictures of their new house or new car. Posting from their job letting everybody know where they work. Posting themselves in their underwear. Posting themselves laying in bed with a cold. Just putting out ALL of their information. I've warned them over and over again to stop putting all of their business out in the street like that, but most of them don't listen UNTIL something happens and they end up regretting it. They act like their can't possibly be some creepy mofo sitting in a dark room eating mushy frootloops with chocolate milk and building a profile of them to be his next stalking victim. The thought of it NEVER crosses their minds. Now about that photo........... 🤔 -Seems like I saw somebody who looks JUST LIKE her....in LL Cool J's "Around The Way Girl" video....lol.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/civil-rights-attorneys-karmelo-anthony-appeal-pro-bono/ Looks like Karmelo Anthony will have a dream team of lawyers working pro bono on his appeal. Ben Crump himself doesn't appear to be one of lawyers but his firm is being represented. Getting a new trial &/or having his conviction overturned will be an uphill battle. No way are those white folks in McKinney, TX going to let these lawyers waltz into their town & turn it upside down.😎

I have never criticized Joe Jackson because the reality of the matter is if that father didn't push his offspring into entertainment they probably would have ended up being factory workers in Gary, Indiana. Nobody can imagine Michael Jackson making widgets or buffing floors in a warehouse & walking back & forth to work with a lunchbox.🤣 Joe jackson, a Black man, did whatever it took to make his family rich. It worked too.😎

@Pioneer1 I had no idea Shakira was 49. She looks GREAT! Shoot, she looks great for a 30-year-old! I have no clue what she may have done to her body. But she is of course wearing makeup and surely the video was edited to enhance her appearance. This is par for the course and no one involved in the production is considering the impact on the self-esteem of the viewer--nor should they. Their concern is to make a good video and I think they accomplished that. The viewer should be knowledgeable enough not to judge themselves by the images seen in magazines and on the screen -- the models themselves don't look like the images of themselves. Finally, 49 is not THAT old man. Now I won't say 49 is the new 30, but you should not be broken down at that age. Here is a video of me at 49. Now I appreciate most people could not do this move at any age, but I was a D1 gymnast. and I was in shape most of my life. Shikira has been wiggling her fine booty for decades; of course she is gonna be better at it than your typical 50-year-old Besides her JOB is to look good .

@Pioneer1 ..the global elite orchestrate the chaos & confusion around the world. The system of racism white supremacy manages it.😎

This is already happening. I see couples out having drinks or a meal. They are both on their phones. I go to a fast food Mexican restaurant. Most customers order on line. When they show up they don't ask for their order they just hold out their phone.