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    Title: feel the fire 
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    @Troy Ok, What makes the United States of America the richest government in humanity? I said in my first comment < https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10668-poverty-is-an-american-problem-not-black-one/?do=findComment&comment=64167 > The multiple acceptable answers are based on what people define as wealth. Is it gold or natural resources? Is it modern , 11/20/2023 , financial evaluation? Is it land? Is it military power? today, China or russia have more natural resources. Today, russia alone has the most land of any human government. Today, the USA has the largest military power of any human government. Modern financial evaluation is based on military power and defined through contrived calculations. What I define as wealth doesn't matter. But I know that many people define wealth differently from me and that doesn't make them wrong or me right, but the variance matters in discussing the existence, generation or distribution of an absence of wealth , ala poverty. My point is the book itself has flaws not from its content but its premise. And why? only if the reader agrees to the author's answers to said questions can a reader agree to the content. If someone is devout to some religion, which I am not, and measured wealth through some piety, this book's underlying positions don't work. And as I tend to always ask, who is we? I have never viewed the government of the usa as reflecting the populace under it. To be blunt, the native american has never been represented by the usa. I think it is an negative insult to history suggesting that.
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    topics Cento poetry series- twenty sixth lap Killens Review 2023 entry Dates, Astrology, Astronomy IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: a case against commonly bought literature, makers faire tokyo -craft selections, barbara lynn- guitar legend, Kidthewiz dancing treats U.R.L. https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/08/11/19/2023-rmnewsletter.html
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    The complete Jet Dancer game playthrough Get the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2084470/Jet_Dancer/
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    Maybe for 2024 we writers on aalbc will eacg submit a work for killens review, itslef a collection we can publish. Single Status Update from 11/18/2023 by richardmurray - African American Literature Book Club (aalbc.com)
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    A Call for Submissions
    for the Killens Review of Arts & Letters
    Spring 2024

    All That We Carry: Where Do We Go From Here?

    Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2023

    The Killens Review of Arts & Letters is a peer-reviewed journal that welcomes Black writers and artists whose work speaks to the general public and to an intergenerational range of readers represented throughout the African diaspora. For the Spring 2024 issue of the Killens Review, we are seeking short stories, essays, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography. Inspired by questions posed by Dr. Tiya Miles, eminent historian and creative writer, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are soliciting content that reflects how Black creatives from all parts of the world move forward when all around us is in disarray. Specifically, we ask that you submit original writing or art that explores the themes of legacy, memory, inheritance, and/or radical hope (or pessimism), with an orientation toward the future and future generations of Black peoples.

    Application

    https://centerforblackliterature.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CFP_Killens-Review-Spring-2024.pdf

     

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    https://www.deviantart.com/lilacphoenix/art/Commission-Birthday-Sale-November-12th-18th-994109458
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    what is the next big event in the year @Troy?
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    @richardmurray The point in my questions wasn't in any answers to them. that is why i said. You accept all the questions I answered have an answer on the internet or in some book but I argue all of those questions have multiple acceptable answers. And that is my point about what you quoted. The usa is a country of fiscal capitalism , a system that generates fiscal poverty by default, by default. it isn't unnatural or government agenda or government allowance for fiscally poor people to be in any fiscal capitalistic country. It is natural for fiscal capitalistic countries to have mostly fiscal poor. I use NYC as the easiest example. NYC has always been mostly fiscal poor people from the time of new amsterdam to today, through all the financial ups and downs of the city [gilded age/pre 1920 stock market crash/1980s / 1950s post world war NYC was mostly poor people for all the financial opulence in the stated areas]. The reason is simple. The fiscal capitalism in NYC. So to use the words in your question, I personally never blamed and do not blame fiscal poor people for being fiscal poor in the usa or any fiscal capitalistic country. As MLK jr said , a video i posted a few times in this community, I couldn't find the post so I shared it direct In a country where 90% of fiscal wealth is inherited, I find it odd that black people whose forebears were enslaved thus could offer no fiscal inheritance need the video above said in various forms over and over. and yes, to your point, most whites have no inheritance either, but the problem is phenotypical bias played and plays a role in the history of inheritance to blacks sequentially, phenotypical race makes poverty like all other issues in the usa a split issue. and please check your private messages troy
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    Well...from the quote you shared @Troy my problem is the perspective of the author? The first question in my mind is all the terms he uses. Are they truthful/functional/Lies/half truths and if so what is the truthful part? What makes the usa the richest country on earth? define riches to any country? if china is the second richest and the usa is the first then define riches? What defines an advanced democracy? a rule of the people that used to be before , a rule of the people for the future, is advanced democracy? does that apply to the usa? or the others mentioned aside it? Is that a wish or a hope or the truth? Does the usa government allow fiscal poverty, or permit people to live in the streets? Or is poverty or people living in the streets natural to the usa ? Is a legal interpretation of the usa allow for the usa to be deemed allowing poverty? Who are the children of the usa? Are the children of the usa, citizens of the usa? how do the people who live in the usa feel toward the usa? does that matter? do those who live under a government viewpoint matter? how does go along with the rule of the people assertion? Does the usa government authorize firms to pay laborers less than to live on? Gardless to the authors or anyone elses answers of said questions the author's perceptions to said questions are mandatory before he begins the book.
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    @aMhayes Well, based on what you said, people in government have been lying or making policies based on lies, and lies have consequence eventually. NY city is a prime example. WHo told NY city to be a haven city? NY city has always been mostly poor people, always, not sometimes , always, yet adding more poor people is smart? NY City used to have a bread factory, used to have a multitude of industries, didn't keep them? So who is to blame ? Eric Adams says the immigration is a federal issue. but, ny city through management of both parties of governance lying about the situation of the city is what led to this situation. Truth may not be pretty or simple or desired, but government by lies always leads to chaos.
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    https://www.deviantart.com/dualmask/art/Open-For-Commissions-994984533
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    @aMhayes well am*zon allows for free excerpts, link them. I think a a collaboration will be cool. I have thought about the writers on aalbc doing a book together, each making one story. We can make it free and publish it across platforms, thus we each can highlight aalbc and carry our fanbases to each other. but I have only considered the all
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    Where do you share your stories? if possible share them here?
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    Kobo plus has expanded https://kobowritinglife.com/2023/11/14/rakuten-kobo-launches-kobo-plus-in-norway-sweden-finland-and-denmark/
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    @Pioneer1 Exactly , exactly. The point is whomever is the producer, can override directors /actors or anyone else... the money is in control. I comprehend your point completely. If I was the producer of the upside I still would do what i said. but, in parallel, as producer, if I had five movies that I was certain to finance and begin preproduction in 2024, none would be like the upside. My five would be: 1) a high john the conqueror film[you will not want to produce this] - animation +fantasy 2) a fantasy film concerning ancient nubia- fantasy+history+live action 3) I admit, a science fiction film of my own writing:) 4) a film copying the basic idea of blood syndicate of milestone [you will not finance this film and will probably speak against it in media:) ]- superhero+action 5) and while I don't care to remakes in general. I am a big fan of three the hard way, not a fan of dolemite, so we can co produce, a new three the hard way. action film, live action In things I would like to produce I have preferences. And i prefer, more positive depictions of black people than in the upside than in white produced media. What you have to comprehend is I grew up with positive black images in media. I realize you and most black people sadly didn't, but I did. And I would oppose financing a film where a black billionaire helps a white felon. Not my money. well, to the films that involved black people in the 1970s. first, most of those films were written or directed by whites. I made whole post in this community, But from a fiscal perspective, most were what we will call today independent films. What i think you miss is that as black wealth in the usa increased, the larger studios made black films, but larger studios come with a less genre based style. You talk of three the hard way, that movie wasn't made by paramount or disney or mgm or universal or 20th century fox or columbia pictures. Sweet sweetback independent, distributed by small distributor. Cotton comes to harlem, samuel goldwyn, small producer Shaft which is from a white author which black people seem to not realize, was small too, mgm distributed. but they didn't finance. foxy borwn, american international pictures, again small uptown saturday night produced by first artists cooley high, american international again corn bread earl and me, american international Even the wiz was produced by motown , distributed by universal sparkle was independent like sweetback superfly was independent produced, warner bros distributed. So I hope I proved my point. You speak of the 1970s films usually financed or written by whites that involve black characters, but most of the post 1980s films that have black characters are not produced by small studios, these are major studio films and with that comes a different angle. Major studios are not going to make films like small independent studios. That has always been the truth. And to be blunt, black movie goers, don't help. whereas black movie goers in the 1970s were willing to see superfly. They were not as interested in low budget meteor man I think no less quality than foxy brown but had an epiphany with black panther. So independent films don't resonante with the modern black film going audience as in the 1970s. @ProfD I have been fortunate to learn a little bit about the film industry. The blunt truth is, Oprah/Pioneer or anyone black could produce that movie. I know it could be produced in NYC 100%. 100%. Now would it be circulated in theaters, advertised all over the world? that requires far more money than making the film in a lot of cases. Making films is in parts. Getting the money to finance to make a film is doable, even for black wealth. But getting the movie advertised plus shown is .. expensive. The barbie movie for example, spent more money on the advertisement and campaigns than the movie. And, to the OWN network, well, networks work by advertisers. The OWN network is a poor example to use. But, online their are film hosting sites for nollywood or owned by black people. They could easily host the film. But will it get advertised. Will people buy subscriptions for this one film. I don't know. BUT, the film, black billionaire+ white felon, can be made. Remember, white man's burden 1995 is functionally in the same zone as the film pioneer1 talks about producing. MAking films is not as hard as people think but it is the adveritising, the showing all over the world which is very expensive, really doubles the money and for non special effects laden films, most producers/advertisers/accountants will oppose as the revenue on return is usually calculated as not good enough
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    @Pioneer1 It's funny, in the movies that move we review, Nike seconds your sentiment. This is based on a true story, which was made into a french film and then a usa film. In france as in the usa, labor is designed to place people based on phenotype into a solid form, a stereotype. In the real story, the french film or the usa film a key plot point is that he is an exconvict who through opportunity , a rare thing given to exconvicts the world over, is lifted. If you ask me, does the upside film continue the stereotype of financially downtrodden black men in white european produced film, not all media,not all types of produced film, but white european produced film? yes. Now I could argue black people need to stop watching white produced film if they don't like how white money usually accepts portraying blacks but... I find all the black images i need in black produced artwork: books/music/graphical representatons/film I don't require white produced art to show black people positively. Sequentially, for me, black excon's isn't a stereotype in the media that matters most to me. If you ask me, if I was the producer , would I demand the story plot point remain the same? yes. I would not accepted writers making kevin hart a construction worker recently laid off or a college drop out. Not my produced film. Maybe cause in NYC I know fully well what incarceration has done to the black community in NYC, I like a black man from prison, getting opportunity, and using it successfully to a positive end. If a writer says to me, the producer, the money, they want to change kevin hart's characters background to a college dropout or construction worker laid off, I will reply no way. A white excon is able in real life but in fiction a black excon can't? I don't like that messaging and not with my money. If you, Pioneer1 are the producer of said film, based on your words, and with the only change left you can make to manipulate kevin hart's characters background, you demand writers make kevin hart a construction worker laid off or college student dropped out, am I correct? your answer in comments please my evidence cause I know among black people in the usa, this is always needed. https://www.gala.fr/stars_et_gotha/abdel_sellou
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    Black Lion and Cubs An animation series, an online game. Enjoyed it. How far did you get in the game?
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    I played the game, here are some shots. I enjoyed the trailer. Couldn't embed, so you have to use the link below. Official site https://www.blacklionandcubs.com/ Video game http://valleyofthekings.blacklionandcubs.com/ On the blackeducationstation https://www.blackeducationstation.com/black-lion-and-cubs-cartoon Season 2 trailer https://www.blackeducationstation.com/black-lion-and-cubs-cartoon/videos/blc-season-2-intro more information info@blacklionandcubs.com
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    @Pioneer1 I quote what you said that was wrong... in my opinion
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    The article title is terrible. Bill gates didn't say everyone will have an AI powered personal assisstant. He said , and I quote:" anyone who’s online will be able to have a personal assistant powered by artificial intelligence that’s far beyond today’s technology"

    Human beings who are fiscally poor are somebodies. And the people who are online are not a measure of humanity. Again most people are not online. 

     

    Bill Gates predicts everyone will have an AI-powered personal assistant within 5 years—whether they work in an office or not: ‘They will utterly change how we live’

    Chloe Taylor

    Fri, November 10, 2023 at 7:58 AM EST·4 min read

    Artificial intelligence might be dividing experts when it comes to its potential to destroy mankind or force people out of their jobs—but according to Bill Gates, it’s going to land us all with our very own executive assistant in less than a decade.

    In a post to his official blog on Thursday, the billionaire Microsoft cofounder said that even in 2023, “software is still pretty dumb”—but he predicted that this would “change completely” within the next five years.

    Instead of having multiple different apps on our devices to carry out different tasks, he said, users would simply need to tell their device, in everyday language, what they want to do. That’s where so-called AI-powered “agents” will step in, Gates said.

    “In the near future, anyone who’s online will be able to have a personal assistant powered by artificial intelligence that’s far beyond today’s technology,” he wrote. “Agents are smarter. They’re proactive—capable of making suggestions before you ask for them.”

    These personal assistants, capable of carrying out different tasks across different apps, will continuously improve over time as they get to know their users, according to Gates. For example, if you were planning a trip, existing chatbots might only be able to identify hotels that fit within your budget—but an agent will know what time of year you’ll be traveling and whether you always seek out new destinations or prefer to return to the same place.

    “When asked, it will recommend things to do based on your interests and propensity for adventure, and it will book reservations at the types of restaurants you would enjoy,” Gates said. “If you want this kind of deeply personalized planning today, you need to pay a travel agent and spend time telling them what you want.”

    AI agents will also drastically overhaul our productivity, Gates added.

    Microsoft and Google are among the plethora of firms already competing to develop productivity-boosting AI with their virtual assistants Copilot and Bard. But according to Gates, the AI agents of the future will “do even more” than those productivity tools.

    “If you have an idea for a business, an agent will help you write up a business plan, create a presentation for it, and even generate images of what your product might look like,” he predicted. “Companies will be able to make agents available for their employees to consult directly and be part of every meeting so they can answer questions.”

    Since the phenomenal rise of OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, billions of dollars have been poured into the development of artificial intelligence.

    But while the likes of Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and Elon Musk’s xAI are all competing to produce the most disruptive artificial intelligence model, Gates speculated that no single company will dominate the agents business. However, he noted that most of the AI agents of the future would likely be something individuals will have to pay for.

    “[But] if the number of companies that have started working on AI just this year is any indication, there will be an exceptional amount of competition, which will make agents very inexpensive,” he said. “Today, agents are embedded in other software like word processors and spreadsheets, but eventually they’ll operate on their own. Whether you work in an office or not, your agent will be able to help you in the same way that personal assistants support executives today.”

    Ultimately, agents will be able to assist their users with “virtually any activity and any area of life,” Gates insisted.

    “If your friend just had surgery, your agent will offer to send flowers and be able to order them for you,” he wrote. “If you tell it you’d like to catch up with your old college roommate, it will work with their agent to find a time to get together, and just before you arrive, it will remind you that their oldest child just started college at the local university.”

    Gates has previously spoken about how he believes the AI revolution will lead to everyone having their own “white-collar” personal assistants—and he isn’t the only technologist to have made that prediction.

    Earlier this year, internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee told CNBC’s Beyond the Valley podcast that AI would be able to access our data and step into the role of personal assistant.

    Meanwhile, Google DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman said in a September interview that he believed everybody would have their own AI-powered personal assistant within five years.

     

    URL

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-predicts-everyone-ai-125827903.html

     

    Basically the Murdoch clan to increase evaluation of their media kingdom, a fallen empire, is selling their data to the computer headmasters for a fee. As Murdoch owns dow jones and other institutions with a century of content, I can see how vital this is to the headmasters.

     

    News Corp beats Street estimates, touts generative AI efforts
    Chavi Mehta
    Updated Thu, November 9, 2023 at 5:40 PM EST·2 min read

     

    By Chavi Mehta

    (Reuters) -Media conglomerate News Corp beat Wall Street targets for first-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday and said it was in advanced talks to strike deals on the use of its content for generative artificial intelligence(AI).

    The company's Chief Executive Robert Thomson has been a vocal proponent of having generative AI companies pay for using its content to train their large language models. He has also touted the technology's potential to help reduce costs.

    "We are actively working to make the most of our premium content for AI and are engaged in advanced discussions that we expect to bring significant revenue to the company," Thomson said in a statement.

    These efforts add to the company's push to improve profitability and grow key assets such as Dow Jones.

    Thomson said that News Corp, which is a part of media baron Rupert Murdoch's empire and includes the Wall Street Journal and Sunday Times, is "assiduously" reviewing the company structure.

    The company faces renewed activist investor pressure to restructure itself, including a push to spin off some of its assets, following Murdoch's retirement from News Corp and Fox Corp boards in September.

    Murdoch is the majority shareholder of a Reno, Nevada-based family trust that owns 39% of News Corp's voting shares.

    "Investors clearly do not like (the company structure) as the stock has an estimated 35%-40% conglomerate discount embedded in the current stock price," said Craig Huber, analyst at Huber Research Partners.

    Revenue in the quarter ending Sept. 30 was $2.50 billion, compared with estimates of $2.49 billion, according to Visible Alpha. Adjusted profit per share was 16 cents, above estimates of 12 cents.

    Revenue at the Dow Jones business grew 4% to $537 million, boosted by a 14% rise in professional data services, while revenue at its Digital Real Estate Services unit, which operates Realtor.com, fell about 4%.

     

    URL

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/finance/news/news-corp-beats-quarterly-revenue-212051188.html

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    @Chevdove it is in the fiscally rich man meets the fiscally poor man mold. It is meant to be a feel good. I can tell you without unveiling the story that in the end, all the main characters and the subsequent characters are happy, deservedly. @ProfD yeah, well it's a feel good film. It isn't mean tto show much hardship but really overcoming with a happy resolution for all @Pioneer1 This film isn't a comedy. this is a feel good film. There are comical moments but even those are in an unfunny premise. Your wrong, the subtext of the film is how people going through different struggles can help each other. In the end of the film, Hart has reversed his fiscal level from the beginning of the film absent any illegal or criminal activity. Did you even see the review?
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    MORE MOVIES THAT MOVE WE ON AALBC https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q="movies that move we"&type=core_statuses_status&quick=1&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy
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    I missed it, hope it was fun
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