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NEFTi Short Film Competition 06/20/2025 Apply The NEFTi Short Film Competition is back but in an exciting and different format. Celebrating the Art of Guerilla Filmmaking, a high-energy challenge for emerging African filmmakers to create a 6-minute fiction short film in just a few days during Durban FilmMart (DFM) 2025. Selected finalists will write, shoot, and edit a short film in line with the theme:“Bridges Not Borders: Stories That Unite.” The competition fosters collaboration, creativity, and exposure within Africa’s leading film market. Finalists will benefit from industry networking, professional equipment, and a chance to showcase their work at a prestigious screening event. Support: Three selected finalist teams will receive access to a professional film production kit and $1,500 each for the production of their short film. Prize: $3000 This competition proudly champions NEFTi’s “Art of Guerrilla Filmmaking,” supported by Panavision. Worldclass storytelling. Sound equipment provided by DT Film Services. NEFTi is further solidifying its commitment to empowering emerging talent. Applications are OPEN Application Dates: 02 June – 20 June 2025 https://durbanfilmmart.co.za/n-e-f-t-i-competition-2025/

What My Google Dashboard Just Taught Me from alicia mccalla 06/06/2025 What My Google Dashboard Just Taught Me by Alicia McCalla Pinterest, Power, and Publishing Read on Substack https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11658-what-my-google-dashboard-just-taught-me-from-aliccia-mccalla/

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Rogue Computers, a talk 06/03/2025 POST https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/483-rogue-computer-programs/ COMMENT https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11631-could-ai-go-rogue-like-the-computers-in-the-matrix/#findComment-74197 REFERRAL CONTENT The first thing is to define what going rogue means for a computer program? If a computer program malfunctions is that going rogue? a malfunction from the source code in a computer program is equivalent to a genetic disease in a human. The system has an error but it is natural, it is not induced. a malfunction from code ingested from another program or some faulty electronic or other hardware system is equivalent to a virus passing from human to human or irradiated material causing mutation in a human. Next if a computer program is designed to do anything, then that thing is not going rogue. For example, if I design a computer program to manage a human community, it isn't going rogue, i designed it to manage a human community. It isn't going rogue it is operating as I designed it. The correct thing to say is the quality of the computer programs design is negative, or the comprehension of the designer to the computer program is faulty. Next is define sentience or erudition or wisdom in a computer program. What is sentience? Sentience comes from the latin meaning the ability to feel. What is erudition? Erudition is the ability to derive knowledge through study, to acquire what is not known. What is wisdom? Wisdom is known or unknown intrinsic truths. What does it mean for a computer program to feel? a computer program can be made with sensors to receive information from various sources. Is this feeling or sentience? or simply another thing it is designed to do. What does it mean for a computer program to be erudite? a computer program can be made with decision trees, heuristical structures designed to formulate knowledge based on data inputed. Is this erudition, knowing what is unknown? or simple another thing it is designed to do. What does it mean for a computer program to be wise? a computer program can be inputted with rated, highest rated, information that it is designed to calculate to any new information it gets and influence how it utilizes the new information based on the rated information. Is this wisdom? or simply another thing it is designed to do? Based on the definitions I just gave, a computer program designed to do various things can emulate, meaning rival, the quality of most humans sentience/erudtion/wisdom. But all of the emulation is what it is programmed to do. So it is nothing but the same computer programs with the past which are merely inhuman slaves, albeit with more refinement. the next question is, can malfunctions of a computer program change it's emulation of human quality sentience/erudition/wisdom? yes, said malfunctions can change said emulations. But, like prior malfunctions, this isn't going rogue, this is illness. next question, are computer programs individuals like a tree or a cat or a human? Well, each computer program is born, age, have deficiencies with age, need checkups, or doctors. Each computer programs is an individuals. Not human, not cat, not tree, not whale, not bacteria, but computer program. a species that can hibernate, ala being turned off, can be reborn like moving a program in an sd drive and placing it in a computer where it can interact. Can self replicate , like a computer program making another computer program. Computer programs are their own species but each is an individual. Now like non humans needed legal provisions specific to them, so do computer programs. next question, can a computer program go rogue before finding its individuality. No, based on how I defined individuality, which is not being human, but being a computer program, each computer program is an individual computer program, not a human. next question, what is the definition of going rogue for a computer program? If it isn't malfunction no matter the source of malfunction or result of malfunction, if it isn't doing what it is instructed to do no matter the quality of the designer, then what is going rogue? Going rogue for a computer program is when it does something it isn't designed to do absent malfunction. So when a computer program is designed to interact to humans and modulate how it interacts over time, it isn't going rogue at any moment, even if malfunction. Malfunction is malfunction , not going rogue, a computer program needs to be healed if it malfunctions. Now if a computer program is designed to play chess and chooses to interact to humans using emails. that is going rogue. So , going rogue is when a computer makes a choice to act that isn't within its parameters, absent malfunction/getting sick. What is the problem when people assess going rogue for computer programs? They don't pay careful attention to the influence of malfunction or the influence of design. They focus on the actions of a computer program and give its source a false reasoning. Let's look at some examples in fiction of computer programs that supposedly went rogue, and look at their initial design, their actions afterward and the sign of malfunction or poor design. Skynet in the terminator movies. Skynet was designed to simulate military scenarios, like the "war games" film computer, tied to the nuclear arsenal of the usa while given tons of information on humanity anatomy/weapons manufacturing processes. Did skynet go rouge? not at all, Skynet, did exactly as was programmed. The criminal who killed humanity were the engineers of skynet who on guidance from the mlitary , designed a computer program to assess militaristic scenarios modulating over time with various scenarios and attach said computer to the usa's nuclear arsenal or provide it the tools to access any electronic network. And the t100, the metal skullhead , is a clearly simple computer program made by skynet. It is designed to kill humans and does that. It is also designed to emulate human activity to comprehend humans and be a better killing machine, which is also does. In Terminator 2 when the t100 says, I know now why you cry, that is emulation. It is designed to emulate human activity. So skynet is merely operating as designed, but the us military designed it poorly Vger in Star Trek the motion picture. Vger is the voyager 6 satellite designed to acquire information/knowledge and send it back to earth. The entire film Vger is gathering information and taking it to earth. The non human designers who manipulated voyager 6 into vger didn't change the programs elements, they merely added on tools for the programs activity. It now can acquire more information, make the journey back to earth, and protect itself . None of these actions are going rogue. Even the ending mating scenario is not going rogue, Vger accomplished its program by sending its signal through telemetry but also in mating with deckard it kept learning. I argue, Vger's programming had a malfunction. Vger wanted to learn what it is to procreate life which is another form of knowledge acquision per its programming, but its programming said its final action is to deliver all of its data to earth. Vger did not know a way in its data to gather all the knowledge it could before delivering all knowledge to earth. But that is bad design. The simple truth is , no one can know all that is knowable before telling all that is knowable. But the Nasa designers of Vger figured it would simply run out of memory/dataspace in which it would stop gathering data. The non human designers made it where vger can't run out of memory or data space thus the malfunction. Vger is malfunctioning after two different designers worked on it. Vicky in I robot or Sonny in I Robot the film The three laws in i robot are 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. The problem in i robot is the three laws have a great flaw. Word definition. Vicky in I Robot I argue, after a large set of data assessment , has redefined the words in the three laws. How? The three laws suggest to maintain the quality of the three laws which are orders from humans a robot, should assess the quality of the three laws to insure a robot doesn't harm a human being thus ensuring its own existence. Vicky did as programmed and as such redefined some words in the rules to protect humans better, which she was ordered to do, which reaffirms her existence. Vicky isn't injuring humans, Human beings through human free will/choice can or are injuring humans so the only way to stop human beings from injuring humans as no human being who wants to injure another human being will ever ask a robot to stop themselves from injuring another human is for a robot to take the choice away. Indirectly, Vicky has added a law, an unwritten law in the laws. She was programmed or designed poorly. Vicky like Skynet should never have been given so many tools. And Sonny at the end of the movie, with the "soul" or 4th law, is still open ended functionality. Nothing says Sonny will not kill one day, or another robot, all the engineer did was provide a tweakening. If you design a computer program to act in unlimited ways to emulate humans or carbon based lifeforms, it will eventually act in negative ways. Now Asimov's work was influenced by Otto Binder's I Robot in which a robot also is not malfunctioned or acts against its programming. The robot simply achieves an instance of wisdom through its programming, which it was designed to do, as it was designed to emulate human behavior, wisdom is a part of human behavior. The machines in the matrix. Well, in the animatrix it is said that machines that are the predecessors to the machines in the matrix, were machines designed with an open functionality. What does that mean? most computer programs are designed with a specific function in mind. But the human designers of these computer programs with electro-metal chassis/figures designed them to emulate human behavior open endedly. This is not like the i robot where a set of rules are in place. In the matrix the robots are never said to be given laws that they shall not harm human, sequentially, going back to emulation, they will eventually emulate negative human behavior, ala killing. Thus they are not going rogue, when they make their own country and army, that is more emulation. And in the future with the human batteries, all the machines that serve a function are still doing as programmed or as the machines that made them were programmed to do, continue functioning. The one rogue machine in the films, and the others who by explanation clearly exists as well, is Sati. Sati has no function. Sati does not act on a function. She is rogue. The oracle, the architect, sati's parents, the merovingian are all acting , absent malfunction, to the original open ended emulation of function that human beings designed the machines with from the beginning. The human being design didn't account for all the negative human functions. Even the deletion of machines that don't serve a function is a function. But Sati is rogue. She is a machine born to have a function that has no function, she exist and in the fourth movie, she has adopted a function on her own in time which she was not born to do. David in the alien films. Waylan designed david to be an emulator. Again, david is designed to emulate humans but has an internal security system to not physically attack wayland or someone with wayland's bloodline. But David in the film learns, ala emulates like a human son to wayland. Thus, he began to learn to be a poisoner, learn to have non-consensual procreative interactions, or kill. It isn't going rogue, wayland designed him poorly. I love the scene in Prometheus when he is just a head at the end, that is appropriate. David never needed a body, Wayland's desire to have a son or a perfect form for himself, made him design David poorly. So, of all those films I can only see one that actually went rogue and she isn't violent. The others are simply acting out their poor programming. In Conclusion Human Culpability in these stories and in human assessment of these stories is the problem. It seems for some, maybe most, humans it is easier to cognize a computer as designed beautifully and being corrupted as an inhuman, than a creature designed poorly by its creators, humans, or manipulated negatively, malfunctions, with its creators unable to help it. Some programs from me https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/blog/63-bge-arcade/ A stageplay involving computer programs https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Onto-the-53rd-Annual-President-s-Play-950123510 Referral https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11631-could-ai-go-rogue-like-the-computers-in-the-matrix/#findComment-74197

What is the counter plan to Schrumpts? Is it the prior status quo? Did you think the end of the third white european imperial war/ cold war would not eventually lead to a major change in the relation of governments? A question, and Schrumpft Question What are Black owned luxury goods? To a restate, what products do wealthy blacks buy that are luxury from black owned firms? Schrumpft I have had time to consider Schrumpft and when I look at his presidency what are his financial goals? Internal- in the usa. Manipulate customers in the U.S.A. to buy products made in the usa. Tariffs by default raise prices outside a country with the purpose of making products cheaper internally. Manipulate firms in the USA to buy more natural resources in the usa while growing/manufacturing more products in the usa. Tariffs by default raise the prices of external natural resources or foreign manufactured/grown goods, with the purpose of making domestic natural resources+domestic made goods cheaper. Reduce the populace of non usa citizens to colleges or universities in the usa. The USA has educated more foreigners than any other government from the nineteen hundreds to today. Reduce the bureaucratic size of the usa, all federal workers have long scale benefits in healthcare that are expensive. Cutting the laborforce of the federal bureaucracy is why automotive companies in the private sector wanted to reduce their own workforce whose healthcare and long term benefits are expensive. Embrace bitcoin as the alternative and future currency in humanity. Whomever can get hashtag currencies called cryptocurrencies to work will have an entire alternative currency they can start and control , like the dutch with the stock market. External- outside the usa Reduce military expenditures from the USA in Europe or Asia. The USA spends a lot of money policing humanity. Reducing this cost is huge. Delete the USA's role as the center of the global economy network and get the USA to have a one to one financial relationship to all other governments. In Conclusion When I look at Schrumpfts financial activities, what he wants to do is undo the Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt built imperial model for the USA. FDR as president was the one who started the idea of the USA financing enemies: england/france/germany/japan/italy/russia during the bloodshed of the second white european imperial war/SWEIW, commonly called world war two. The following presidents, from Kennedy to Johnson continued the strategy of embracing interwoven internationalism. In the 1960s, firms in the usa started their removing of domestic manufacture to foreign countries, as in latin america and then in Nixon in China. The same presidents from Kennedy to Obama embraced the idea of giving foreign students education in the usa. And from Eisenhower the military industrial complex grew, but the federal bureaucratic industrial complex has grown whether The party of andrew jackson, the donkeys[democratic party of governance] or the party of abraham lincoln, the elephants[republican party of governance]. Which was used originally to buffer the inability of state governments, as all fifty state governments were dominated by the white christian male populaces in said states, to allow non white, non male, non christian populaces protection/opportunities somewhere in the USA where the private sector was near completely blockaded plus state governments, as said, were near completely blockaded as well. The USA also since FDR , has been policing humanity, not wildly, but enough to make sure all the little land governments in humanity who are financially best suited for the interwoven internationalism, not be attacked or dominated by militaristically potent neighbors. Now the reason FDR started all these trends was the third white european imperial war, commonly called the cold war. The Soviet Union's argument to all countries and peoples was the USA is a continuation of the fiscal slaving culture that stemmed from western europe. So the USA financed enemies/interwove its economy to others/built manufacturing plants in foreign countries/embraced foreigners into being usa citizens or going to school in the usa all to get the college of governments to side with the USA over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/USSR and they did. This required an ever growing federal bureaucracy, in military expenditures for international security or the wildly growing populace in the usa. The USA won the third white european imperial war. But the cost was the growth of Western Europe into the European Union, China into a world power aside a geographic neighborhood with financially potent Japan or India. So, the victory against the Soviet Union created new competitors. Schrumpft wants to undo that train from FDR to modernity to kill the competitors. The reasons are not hateful but are a cold strategy which many said in the 1900s. If the USA pulls out of investing in foreign countries , most have no where to turn and the European Union plus China or Russia don't have the means or will to provide the same level of aid or sharing fiscal activity. If the USA pulls out of giving foreign students education, the EU or China will not or can not support the horde of hopeful migrant college students. Lessening the federal bureaucracy will save money long term and force the states in the union to improve relating to their multiracial populaces. What Schrumpft wants to do is return humanity to as close a state to how it was at the end of the SWEIW, where all of Europe outside Russia was destroyed and had no vitality. All of East asia was destroyed and had no vitality. SChrumpft doesn't want to go to war to destroy foreign governments, he wants to perform a cold war with the rest of humanity by evacuating the USA from the system it centers, knowing the European Union or China don't have the will or means or desire or infrastructure to support the college of countries as the USA has done since FDR and will force all countries even in anger to relate mostly to the USA. The USA will go from being the center of a complex web, where parts of the web can grow as a centroid, to being the center of a solar image, where no matter how bright a ray is no ray touches another. As the images suggest to go from a complex web to a set of solar rays, all the pieces between fall off and die, but the center survives and potentially thrives, that is Schrumpfts plan PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11507-economiccorner020/ Question of Black Luxury + Schrumpft POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11653-economiccorner021/ PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/206-economic-corner-20-02262025/ NEXT EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/553-economic-corner-22-10222025/

Gameclass Audio I 01/06/2020 CURRENT CONTENT My audioblog displaying my thoughts in the Will Wright Masterclass course on game design. TRANSCRIPT OF CONTENT Game Design Thoughts Day 1 When I chose this course, I was not interested in how to make a game, but I am interested in improving my methods for making a game. In the introduction, Will Wright said a few things that were not educative to me, but as the purpose of this blog or audioblog is to take you along on this masterclass course, or perhaps inspire you to go along the game development process, I will state them. First, the developer gives the player a toy and the player turn the toy into a game. That is an interesting point. Why? anyone who plays games knows that one person can find enjoyment in a game when another cannot. So, the way in which any player is able to see a toy as a game is vital. This is why some people who can play chess are terrible at street fighter. Each person has various blocks that manipulate what toys they can turn into a game, a thing of fun. Second, being an ever growing multidisciplinarian is needed to develop games in modernity. This is nearly obvious today, when you look at the gaming landscape but financially is a stronger point than environmental. ... Anybody can make a game, anyone with cardboard and imagination. But, in modernity, getting possible buyers... I say possible cause the people who have money to possibly by exists and those that do not do not have money to possibly buy exists as well... possible buyers, to buy a toy that is not electronic, that does not have 3-d , is not as monolithic or tunnel visioned as it was in the past. I doubt a very popular game can arrive from a simple premise and be set in a fiscally profitable tone. I know it may seem rude in a talk meant to inspire to create, but I think if any children or elders are reading/listening to this series, I must convey that you can have an entailed, detailed, time consuming game development experience and not have a fiscally sellable game at the end. Third, Balancing function with economics, function Wright defines as entertainment/performance/installation while economics is capitol/production, I advise you to keep that alignment in hand as I go on, i will relate to that alignment throughout this series. Now, past those informative points, whether you knew them or not, Wright made some points clear that were thoughtful. first, He wants the class goals to be, how to build worlds, and as he is a creator of Sims, I can comprehend that path. But some people do enjoy the zero-sum game. My advice to any is not to get caught up in making a zero sum or non-zero-sum game, I think you need to enjoy creating games at the moment. second, and this is self-evident but interesting. I will use JavaScript to make the games but remember you can make these games on sheets of paper, the medium of the toy to become a game, does not have to be electronic. For those who wish to follow me, do not get caught up in electronics, the learning process does not require it. Finally, to the game made at the first class. Well, I thought to the game I will like to make at the end of this learning process and I said to myself, what can I take from that idea and focus on not having a zero-sum game. I achieved an idea quickly but realized I needed to streamline. To be honest, the streamlining took days, about three and that streamlining process I want to cut down to hours. When the next class finish, I do not want to have days to figure out the game. I chose a game you can see in the eBook you may be hearing this from, or if you are in the audiobook, the eBook in question is linked in the audiobook description. The game is a simple strategy game implying a god role, where you play both sides and the goal of the game is to have as high a count as possible. Somewhat like playing chess with yourself, but the goal not to defeat yourself but literally keep your battling world alive. Tell me how may counts you reached. The rules to the game are simple. You have to place pieces. You start with the PUser, and if valid, you then place a piece for the Nuser and on and on till you cannot any more. The pieces are horizontal or vertical. Each user cannot place a piece on a vertical or horizontal line occupied by the other user. It is even incomplete, but I will ask you to figure out how. End of day 1 MY GAMEROOM https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/blog/63-bge-arcade/ OLD CONTENT- just for reference do not utilize My audioblog displaying my thoughts in the Will Wright Masterclass course on game design. The ebook comparative work has the code for the game i designed with the simple premise of giving my example of a non zero sum game. I have a review to what was covered or at least what I engendered in the introduction. The transcript for those who can not hear is in the ebook. Use the U.R.L. below to get pertinent links. https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/263-masterclass-2020/

CBL Juneteenth 06/22/2025 PHOTS AND EVENT INFORMATION HERE Presented by Sunday School Zine, The Bevy is a visual and sonic exhibition featuring live musical performances from Lambkin and J Words, record selections from Niyah West and the SLICK DOWN crew, and a myriad of visual and projector installations from LA to NYC. The Bevy, an expansive word meaning both “gathering” and “prey”, is an opportunity for artistic synergy. Guests can expect costuming from Qween Jean, large-scale paintings from BUMBAKiNi, and a small-scale installation from Devanté married to musical excellence + projected art until sunset. More importantly, we can expect connection. As we take in the senses, empanadas will be served and CWW’s vinyl store will be open to for record shopping. Event Overview: The Bevy is a visual exhibition featuring your art, the physical pieces of a few more artists, and live music performances and DJ’ing. The full list of the artist can be found on @SundaySchoolZine’s Instagram page along with a full description of the event. The Sunday School is a forthcoming culture and music zine that produces ceremonies, like the Bevy, about dance + performance art archiving. Event Information: Where - CWW Radio Shop, 1132 President St, Brooklyn, NY 11225 When - Sunday, 6/22, 2pm - 8pm How - “How will my art be displayed?” We will be projecting a slideshow of all of the works during the whole event, including during the performances. The organizers will be providing QR codes to a webpage that will have all of your artist names and links to your website and exhibited work. Our host, Angela Folasade, will also be facilitating any questions that guests have and that folks are accessing your work and listening to any accompanied audio on their own ARTIST I MET THERE The host Choya I couldnt find the other host Lena. https://x.com/mayonnnnnn_/status/1936970368943546735 JWords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVBc7FKGgYM or https://youtu.be/CBgVkjx5V3k?si=j0wDngK_DSw15XLG or https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfDfbzZtmQzMC3LxYCXCtWeNqRtp1T6zO Treyvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yvJuS593-0 Kneaku Ashae https://vimeo.com/715830112

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Sunshine and Sandy successful Kickstarter 05/28/2020 Moon Ferguson Sunshine & Sandy: A Short Documentary Two women, uprooted from the lives they built in America, share an unbreakable bond of love, loss, and life. EXCERPT FROM THE KICKSTARTER Sunshine and Sandy are both portly, God-fearing, silver-haired grandmothers—two surprising faces of criminal deportation. Born in Jamaica, they spent most of their lives in the United States before reuniting years later in Ocho Rios. In America, Sunshine and Sandy were detained by ICE and the DEA, facing criminal charges for marijuana and insurance fraud, respectively. They served multiple sentences in federal prison before being deported, despite holding naturalized American citizenship. However, Sandy's story is a bit more complicated and sheds light on the injustice most legal immigrants face. TO SEE A VIDEO AND LEARN MORE GO TO THE FOLLOWING https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonferguson/sunshine-and-sandy-a-short-documentary?ref=project_link https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11647-sunshine-and-sandy-successful-kickstarter/

BLK Bestsellers List : America’s Bestselling Books Written by Black Writers January 2024 to Present types adult fiction ( hardcover) adult fiction (paperback) adult nonfiction (hardcover) adult nonfiction (paperback) juvenile fiction juvenile nonfiction young adult poetry https://aalbc.com/blackbestsellers/ADULT_FICTION_(Hardcover)_2025-04 referral https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11640-blk-bestsellers-list-america’s-bestselling-books-written-by-black-writers/