richardmurray

Title: jimmy hendrix 
Artist: shawn alleyne < Pyroglyphics Studio > OR < https://www.deviantart.com/pyroglyphics1 >   

Prior post
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Shawn Alleyne post
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Title: feel the fire 
Artist: shawn alleyne < Pyroglyphics Studio > OR < https://www.deviantart.com/pyroglyphics1 >   

Prior post
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Shawn Alleyne post
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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

My R&A - response and articles

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

Who is the First Woman? Meet our new graphic novel hero!
Artemis [ https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/ ] is the first step in the next era of human exploration. This time when we go to the Moon, we’re staying, to study and learn more than ever before. We’ll test new technologies and prepare for our next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars. 

With today’s release of our graphic novel First Woman: NASA’s Promise for Humanity [ https://www.nasa.gov/CallieFirst/ ; free to read: ] you don’t have to wait to join us on an inspiring adventure in space.

Meet Commander Callie Rodriguez, the first woman to explore the Moon – at least in the comic book universe.

In Issue No. 1: Dream to Reality, Callie, her robot sidekick RT, and a team of other astronauts are living and working on the Moon in the not-too-distant future. Like any good, inquisitive robot, RT asks Callie how he came to be – not just on the Moon after a harrowing experience stowed in the Orion capsule – but about their origin story, if you will.

From her childhood aspirations of space travel to being selected as an astronaut candidate, Callie takes us on her trailblazing journey to the Moon.

As they venture out to check on a problem at a lunar crater, Callie shares with RT and the crew that she was captivated by space as a kid, and how time in her father’s autobody shop piqued her interest in building things and going places.

Callie learned at a young age that knowledge is gained through both success and failure in the classroom and on the field.

Through disappointment, setbacks, and personal tragedy, Callie pursues her passions and eventually achieves her lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut – a road inspired by the real lives of many NASA astronauts living and working in space today.

Callie''s official page
free to read or listen
https://www.nasa.gov/CallieFirst/

Video Trailer

First Book Audio
 

URL
https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/663314232247549952/who-is-the-first-woman-meet-our-new-graphic-novel

Episode 2 cover page, use links above to read or listen to more

Ask Mission Control agents a question
https://nasa.tumblr.com/ask
more about them

We’re back with the Kobo Writing Life Indie Cover Contest, 2023 edition! This is a great chance to show off your best cover of 2023 and vote for your other favourites (or your own – no judgement here!). The four winners, one in each genre category, will receive an amazing suite of prizes: a Kobo Clara 2E, promotional opportunities, and, of course, bragging rights and recognition!

Check out 2021’s winners here! [ https://kobowritinglife.com/2022/01/10/2021-kwl-indie-cover-contest-and-the-winner-is/ ] 

There will be two weeks to submit your cover. The submission period starts TODAY, November 1st, and closes at 11:59pm EST on November 17th. Once all submissions have been received, the KWL team will begin the jurying process!

Our expert team of merchandisers and marketers will select six covers from each genre to feature on four shortlists, for a total of 24 shortlisted covers. Voting will then be open to the public, and YOU, the author and reader community, will select the overall winners: one from each genre category of Romance, Mystery, and Sci-fi & Fantasy!

For your cover to be eligible:

Your book must be uploaded directly through Kobo Writing Life

Have a publication date or planned publication date in 2023 (January 1st 2023 – December 31st 2023)

Be categorized in one of the following four genre groups: Romance, General Fiction & Non-fiction, Mystery & Suspense, or Science Fiction & Fantasy

Notes:

This contest is open to titles of all languages. 

This contest is open worldwide.

Any sub-genre is eligible for submission.

One entry per author. Authors with multiple pen names are subject to the one entry per author ruling as well, i.e., if you have two pen names, you cannot submit 2 entries; the maximum submission number remains 1 title per individual.

Only winners in certain regions will be able to receive a Kobo Clara 2E as a prize. If you reside in one of the ineligible regions, you will be provided with an alternative prize package.

Any submissions that do not follow the above rules and requirements will not be eligible for participation in the contest.

Rules and regulations subject to change at the behest of the Kobo Writing Life team.

If you have any questions, please contact us at writinglife@kobo.com.

SUBMIT YOUR COVERS HERE! [ https://forms.office.com/r/nTw7KXMccb ] 

Important Dates:

SUBMISSION PERIOD: November 1st – 17th at 11:59PM EST

KWL TEAM JURYING PERIOD: November 20th – 24th

SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED, VOTING BEGINS: November 27th

VOTING PERIOD ENDS: December 15th at 11:59PM EST

WINNERS ANNOUNCED: week of December 18th

URL

https://kobowritinglife.com/2023/11/01/announcing-the-kobo-writing-life-2023-indie-cover-contest/

Angela Bassett visits the Ilê Aiyê headquarters and dances alongside Taís Araujo
Actresses are in the capital of Bahia for the Liberatum Festival
By gshow

Angela Bassett and Taís Araujo visit Ilê Aiyê — Photo: Lucas Ramos/Brazil News

Confirmed presence at the Liberatum Festival starting on Friday (3), in Salvador, Bahia, actress Angela Bassett is already enjoying the capital of Bahia.

On the afternoon of this Thursday (2), she visited the headquarters of the Ilê Aiyê Afro bloc, met those responsible for the cultural group and was symbolically crowned.

Furthermore, he had fun alongside actress Taís Araujo , with whom he danced to the sound of the drums.

"It's the most beautiful thing in the world, I've been an admirer of Angela for many years, it's beautiful to meet her, to see her getting to know the culture of Brazil, she's excited, it was very beautiful", said Taís, in a chat with gshow . "A day to never forget! Thank you very much, Salvador. Thank you very much to Ilê Aiyê and Dete Lima for giving me the honor of being dressed by you", she added on Instagram.

Angela Basset has fun and dances alongside Taís Araújo- a video is present at the URL linked below

Other famous Brazilians are also there, such as actress Luana Xavier, singer Majur and influencer Hugo Gloss.

From tomorrow until the 5th, Angela, Taís and all the guests will focus on Liberatum, which acts as an international platform to defend equality, diversity and inclusion and takes place for the first time in Brazil after 13 editions around the world.

With free programming and open to the public, anyone who stops by will be able to watch the panels with appearances by great world stars, such as Viola Davis, Angela Bassett and Debbie Harry, and great stars of Brazilian cinema and music, such as Taís Araújo, Seu Jorge and Karol Conká. 

Angela Bassett visits Ilê Aiyê — Photo: Lucas Ramos/Brazil News

Angela Bassett and Majur visit Ilê Aiyê — Photo: Lucas Ramos/Brazil News

Angela Bassett visits Ilê Aiyê — Photo: Lucas Ramos/Brazil News

URL
https://gshow.globo.com/tudo-mais/tv-e-famosos/noticia/angela-basset-visita-a-sede-do-ile-aiye-e-danca-ao-lado-de-tais-araujo.ghtml

Title: all trees near me 
Artist: GDbee < https://gdbee.store/ >   aka Prinnay    
Prior post 

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GDBee Post
https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=gdbee&type=core_statuses_status&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=or&sortby=newest

Fright-ing poems

Sikarengo
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/SikaRengo-990210896
Ms Wisp
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ms-Wisp-990211709
Namwizi
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Namwizi-990212473
I See
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/I-See-990607323
Infigito
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Infigito-991646228
Countdown To The Second Apocalypse
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Countdown-to-the-Second-Apocalypse-991647489
The Posthumous Letter Of Chocoti
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Posthumous-Letter-of-Chocoti-991648182
The Gulf Club Reveal
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Gulf-Club-Reveal-991648730
Pa Bones Hustlers Poem
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Pa-Bones-Hustlers-Poem-991649051
SGflight's first part... [SGflight's first part in Sappers Delight from The SuckleCave Gang ]
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/SGflight-s-first-part-991649586
Harvest Eternal
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Harvest-Eternal-991649960
 

Zelensky Hit With Double Blow from European Ally

Story by David Brennan 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing a growing challenge in Central Europe as populist leaders—including the newly elected prime minister of Slovakia—push back against European Union-NATO military assistance for Kyiv.

On Thursday, Ukraine-skeptic Prime Minister Robert Fico—fresh off his victory in last month's parliamentary election—said that Slovakia would no longer provide military aid to Ukraine. Fico is following through on campaign trail vows to push for negotiations with Moscow and an immediate end to the Kremlin's war.

"I will support zero military aid to Ukraine," Fico said. "An immediate halt to military operations is the best solution we have for Ukraine," the prime minister added, noting that Bratislava would continue to send humanitarian supplies to the country. "The EU should change from an arms supplier to a peacemaker," Fico said.

Fico added that he would push back against any sanctions on Russia that he deems harmful to Bratislava. "I will not vote for any sanctions against Russia, unless we see analyses of their impact on Slovakia," he said. "If there are to be such sanctions that will harm us, like most sanctions have, I can see no reason to support them."

Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry by email to request comment.

Fico's election has raised the prospect that Slovakia will join Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a spoiler in the EU's ongoing measures against Moscow.

Alena Kudzko, vice president for policy and programming at the GLOBSEC think tank in Bratislava, has told Newsweek that Fico has been known for his pragmatism throughout his long political career.

"He will not support Russia for the sake of supporting Russia, he will not support Orban for the sake of supporting Orban, and he will not support the EU or NATO for the sake of supporting the EU or NATO," Kudzko said.

"If it's necessary, he very may well go along with EU and NATO decisions," she added. "But, of course, he may make sure that he is bargaining hard and that he's able to get certain concessions for Slovakia that are useful for him at home."

Slovakia is one of the smallest nations in NATO and the EU, but the unanimity decision-making process of both blocs gives Bratislava significant influence. Even one nation—Hungary—has caused significant discord within the two bodies, and EU-NATO officials may now be facing a doubled challenge.

Oleksandr Merezhko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the chair of the body's foreign affairs committee, told Newsweek that Fico's announcement "is not a pleasant development, and we might be dealing with a 'mini-Orban.'

"But Slovakia was not the biggest provider of aid to Ukraine anyway," he added. "At the same time, I hope that Slovakia's democratic opposition is strong enough not to let Fico turn this country into Hungary."

Despite its small size, the pre-Fico Slovakian government provided a significant amount of military aid to Ukraine. Ammunition, armored vehicles, artillery pieces and even fighter jets have made their way eastwards from Bratislava since February 2022, with former Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad declaring weapons delivery as "the right thing" to do.

When asked Thursday about Fico's decision, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: "Slovakia did not have such a big share in the supply of weapons, so it will hardly affect the entire process."

URL

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/zelensky-hit-with-double-blow-from-european-ally/ar-AA1iWzuu

My Thoughts

The two key important points. Fico won votes saying he would stop aid to Ukraine and desires only an end. People in his government are pulling for a minority position in the country to continue to support ukraine with military aid. 

These two points lead to a simple truth. The war in Ukraine is being led by an agenda against the will of the majority in europe. The majority in Europe if in control would had let russia annex ukraine. And this would had been over. But Biden chose to step in as a war lord. He will not aid ukraine to defeat Russia but he will arm ukraine to resist russia enough to maintain a war. This is an ancient strategy. 

Sikarengo 
poetry
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/SikaRengo-990210896
calligraphy color
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sikarengo-Color-990210419
calligrpahy black and white
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sikarengo-BW-990210090

Ms Wisp 
poetry
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Ms-Wisp-990211709
calligraphy color
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/MsWisp-Color-990211339
calligraphy black and white
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/MsWisp-BW-990211198

Namwizi 
poetry
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Namwizi-990212473
calligraphy color
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Namwizi-Color-990212196
calligraphy black and white
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Namwizi-BW-990211944

Cursed Costumes
Day 1

Atumapac
sketch + character sheet
https://richardmurrayhumblr.tumblr.com/post/732121371740651520/rmaalbc-artist-richardmurray
atumapac as best baddie- lord of the summer isles
https://richardmurrayhumblr.tumblr.com/post/732121578651942912/rmaalbc-artist-richardmurray

Ebon Bon 
sketch + character sheet
https://richardmurrayhumblr.tumblr.com/post/732122983579222016/rmaalbc-artist-richardmurray
ebon bon as best baddie- Evilene of The Wiz with her blog entry
https://richardmurrayhumblr.tumblr.com/post/732123141466456064/rmaalbc-artist-richardmurray

Becko Nascimento
sketch + character sheet
https://rmfantasysetpieces1.tumblr.com/post/732123416329601024/rmsoccer
Becko Nascimento as Prince Prospero with 
An entry in the The Rayme Cabinet
https://rmfantasysetpieces1.tumblr.com/post/732123585861271552/rmsoccer

Ben Burns [fan fiction to a Speed Racer character]
sketch + character sheet
https://rmfantasysetpieces1.tumblr.com/post/732123736907661312/rmsoccer
Ben Burns as the headless horseman
https://rmfantasysetpieces1.tumblr.com/post/732123880514273280/rmsoccer

Title: Cosmetology
Artist: Lisa Tillman Pritchard  < https://www.etsy.com/shop/ltpartllc1/ , https://www.tiktok.com/@ltpartllc>     

Prior post  

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Lisa Tillman Pritchard post
https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=lisa%20tillman%20pritchard&type=core_statuses_status&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=and&sortby=newest

Title: Bongos
Artist: Lisa Tillman Pritchard  < https://www.etsy.com/shop/ltpartllc1/ , https://www.tiktok.com/@ltpartllc>     

Prior post  

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Lisa Tillman Pritchard post
https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=lisa%20tillman%20pritchard&type=core_statuses_status&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=and&sortby=newest

Title: Serendipity
Artist: GDbee < https://gdbee.store/ >   aka Prinnay    
Prior post 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2500&type=status
GDBee Post
https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=gdbee&type=core_statuses_status&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=or&sortby=newest

Title: Hovergirls physical version coming
Artist: GDbee < https://gdbee.store/ >   aka Prinnay    
Prior post 

https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2490&type=status
GDBee Post
https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?&q=gdbee&type=core_statuses_status&quick=1&author=richardmurray&search_and_or=or&sortby=newest

preorder
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hovergirls-geneva-bowers/1143848338
her social list
https://gdbee.carrd.co/

FROM THE ARTIST

I am SO excited to reveal the cover for the physical version of HoverGirls! It'll be hittin the shelves next summer!
It's basically the webcomic completely redrawn, freshly edited, and with more story! I'm extremely proud of how it came out. The original will always be here but the new edition literally has 100 more pages of story, and 99% less typos
If you love magical girls, struggling slice of life, parodies, and/or struggling slice of life magical girl parodies, you'll love HG, I promise!
*It's being published by Bloomsbury in August 2024*

Dark Academia

The following is a question and answer I gave concerning the Dark Academia artistic theme.

Do you have any favorite pieces of media that fit the dark academia theme?

I can't say the following film is most beloved or most favorited by me, but I like the films: "the covenant" ... I recall an old legend, I do not know where it is cited online, I read it offline. The old legend, told my way,  says that in spain, under a mound somewhere, is a gateway to a classroom. In this classroom, a negative spirit teaches all the students spells pertaining to shadows. The students live there and at the end of the course, the student with the worst grades must stay , their soul locked their forever.

How do you feel about dark academia as an aesthetic? Would you incorporate elements of it into your art or everyday life?

In my mind dark academia and the modern goth artistic movements are similar. I am an open minded artist so I don't have any biases to any aesthetic. I am not one to dress in it, but it is fine if someone else does. I know people offline who are goth or have a similar taste.  In terms of my own work, I can't recall anything that is dark academia. But I have written quite a bit. I have written work that deals with people learning magic and doing negative things but I don't see that as dark academia. Just learning negative magic or powers doesn't equate to dark academia for me. IF so, then every sith student in star wards is an example of dark academia and I don't see it that way. I think the larger environment has to bound to the darkness. Having house slytherin doesn't make harry potter dark academia.  Now,  a story about Durmstrang, the rival school to hogwarts, that teaches the full spectrum of dark magic <if you want me to write something, message me>

Share dark academia art in your comment, whether you made it yourself or a favorite artist did!

I realized I have little to nothing in my deviantart galleries that fits dark academia... here is what I think fits, I am open to read your thoughts on whether you think it does or does not:) 

the following is some art of mine I think is Dark Academia, what say you?

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Promptpot2022Day10-932661347

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Glasses-22-Witchtember-2022-930487371

Feature
https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Art-Feature-A-Guided-Tour-of-Dark-Academia-985975538

yesterday they had on local television a celebration of the 100 , which i had no idea of, before presenting encanto and I thought to myself Disney probably will be only angry at one thing today. And that is how little competition Disney has garnered from other artist in the USA. Yes, Disney the firm, from Walt's time to now is competitive and likes to be the main/sole/primary cartoon source in the usa. But, Disney was correct when he spoke to the artists who wanted to strike years ago. Owning your own business is what he did to free himself from others, as an abused artist. He wanted his workers to do the same but most did not feel or have the strength to do that and I think workers still don't.

ODe to disney

https://www.deviantart.com/flapperfoxy/art/Disney-100-988789370

Model/Artist: David Muray band
PHotographer: Ronald Reed ronwired
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A group of eccentric characters learn different lessons in greed, lust, and desire as they encounter supernatural creatures in the enchanted muggy land of South Florida. It is a dark and spooky twist on the Black culture of South Florida.

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What is the lesson in Palestine?

Two 

1)don't trust foreigners with your soveriegnity

2)don't invite immigrants who don't share your culture

The British opened the door for Eruopean Jews to enter Palestine eventually, the UA supplied said Jews with all the support they could muster and more. And said JEws took over Palestine with assitance from the uunited states of america + the united kingdom and made it Israel

The past can not be changed. And people lose homes, ask the Native American who for centuries has lived in the USA as the palestinean in Israel. But the question for the PAlestinean as the Native american is what will you do knowing the truth. Your home was stolen by an oppoent militaristically more powerful than you. 

Some palestineans as Native Americans give up on what was their own. But not all NAtive Americans and all the power to them. Ask the Irish Republican Army, which wasn't many people but were committed. Was the death/war/chaos worth it? 100% 

Getting back your land from an invader may take hundreds or thousands of years, but never give up, even when all your neighbors , so called kin, don't support you, never give up. And eventually, you will get your chance. Sacrifice all for what was taken. Share nothing with a thief. 

the photo shows a ship named the Theodor Herzl, which was used in a campaign to transport, illegally, Jewish refugees from Europe to a geopolitical entity controlled at the time by the British, known as Mandatory Palestine. The photo shows the refugees detained at a port, Haifa, in what is now modern-day Israel.

That effort, known as Aliyah Bet, saw tens of thousands of Jewish refugees attempt to enter Palestine. Between August 1946 and May 1948, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "the British government intercepted more than 50,000 Holocaust survivors seeking to resettle in Palestine," and "interned these survivors in detention camps established on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus."

The voyage of the Theodor Herzl was one of many attempted Aliyah Bet emigrations intercepted by the British government. Noted Holocaust survivor and memoirist Alicia Appleman-Jurman was among its over 2500 passengers. In her book Alicia: My Story, she described the ship being overtaken by British ships:

Doggedly our ship plowed forward, trying to get as close to shore as possible before the frigates surrounded us completely. But ours was only a leaky old cargo ship: the frigates were the products of modern warfare.

It didn't take long for them to bring us to a halt. I had learned enough English to understand every word suddenly coming on from a bullhorn. I knew they were announcing their intent to board us. A few moments of silence followed the British announcement.

Then we heard the voice of our captain speaking note the loudspeaker. "This is the ship Theodor Herzl," he said in English. The people on board are Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. They wish to return to the land of their ancestors. There are many children on this ship who are sick; most are orphans. They wish to rejoin their people. Let us come home."

Several reports of the Theodor Herzl's detention made international news, and several photos of the banner at issue in the photograph are in the Getty Images library and tie it to the ship's April 1947 detention in Haifa. An April 14, 1947 report in the Manchester Daily News in the U.K. described the event this way:

Refugees aboard the illegal immigrant ship Theodor Herzl destroyed the ship's engines when [their] resistance to a Royal Naval boarding party was useless off the Palestine coast early today. Destroyers had to tow the ship into Haifa.

Six of the wounded refugee Jews interviewed in hospital today said that there was some opposition when they were intercepted by a British destroyer off Tel Aviv. The refugees tried to throw the first two British sailors climbing up to the captain's bridge back into the sea but they did not succeed.

The boarding party, they added, used tear gas and fired several shots which wounded some of the refugees. They said they believed two were killed, but this was not confirmed from other sources.

After a brief detention in Haifa, the refugees were taken to Cyprus. "No matter what the British called it, although it was not a Nazi camp, it was a concentration camp and it was a prison," Appleman-Jurman wrote in her memoir.

The formation of the State of Israel brought an end to the Cyprus detention camps. "For most of those survivors interred on Cyprus, the experience only served to strengthen their resolve to reach Palestine," the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote, "which they almost all did following the creation of Israel in May 1948."

I repeat, never trust your home to a stranger + never allow strangers in your company, the historical lesson of the native american + the palestinean

The Scientific Case for Two Spaces After a Period
A new study proves that half of people are correct. The other is also correct.

By James Hamblin

photo by Tina Fineberg / AP

MAY 11, 2018

This is a time of much division. Families and communities are splintered by polarizing narratives. Outrage surrounds geopolitical discourse—so much so that anxiety often becomes a sort of white noise, making it increasingly difficult to trigger intense, acute anger. The effect can be desensitizing, like driving 60 miles per hour and losing hold of the reality that a minor error could result in instant death.

One thing that apparently still has the power to infuriate people, though, is how many spaces should be used after a period at the end of an English sentence.

The war is alive again of late because a study that came out this month from Skidmore College. The study is, somehow, the first to look specifically at this question. It is titled: “Are Two Spaces Better Than One? The Effect of Spacing Following Periods and Commas During Reading.”

It appears in the current issue of the journal Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. As best I can tell, psychophysics is a word; the Rochester Institute of Technology defines it as the “study of the relationship between stimuli (specified in physical terms) and the sensations and perceptions evoked by these stimuli.” The researchers are also real. Rebecca Johnson, an associate professor in Skidmore’s department of psychology, led the team. Her expertise is in the cognitive processes underlying reading. As Johnson told me, “Our data suggest that all readers benefit from having two spaces after periods.”

“Increased spacing has been shown to help facilitate processing in a number of other reading studies,” Johnson explained to me by email, using two spaces after each period. “Removing the spaces between words altogether drastically hurts our ability to read fluently, and increasing the amount of space between words helps us process the text.”

In the Skidmore study, among people who write with two spaces after periods—“two-spacers”—there was an increase in reading speed of 3 percent when reading text with two spaces following periods, as compared to one. This is, Johnson points out, an average of nine additional words per minute above their performance “under the one-space conditions.”

This is a small difference, though if a change like this saved even a tiny amount of time, or prevented a tiny amount of miscommunication, the net benefit across billions of people could be enormous. Entire economies could be made or broken, wars won or lost.

Or so it would seem. The conclusions she drew from that data pushed people into their corners on social media, where they dealt with it in variously intense ways.

Justin Wolfers, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, tweeted in reference to the study: “Science can blow your mind sometimes, and this time it has come down on the side of two spaces after a period.”

Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Yale University, wrote: “Hurray! Science vindicates my longstanding practice, learned at age 12, of using TWO SPACES after periods in text. NOT ONE SPACE. Text is easier to read that way. Of course, on Twitter, I use one space, given 280 characters.”

There’s a lot going on in that tweet, but you get the idea.

Others were less ecstatic. Robert VerBruggen, the deputy managing editor at National Review, shared the study with the comment: “New facts forced me to change my mind about drug legalization but I just don’t think I can do this.”

My colleague Ian Bogost tweeted simply, “This is terrorism.”

Full disclosure: I also shared a screenshot of the study’s conclusion that “the eye-movement record suggested that initial processing of the text was facilitated when periods were followed by two spaces.” I said about this only, “Oh no.”

I find two spaces after a period unsettling, like seeing a person who never blinks or still has their phone’s keyboard sound effects on. I plan to teach my kids never to reply to messages from people who put two spaces after a period. I want this study’s conclusion to be untrue—to uncover some error in the methodology, or some scandal that discredits the researchers or the university or the entire field of psychophysics.

So let’s look for that. Because this really does matter: In a time of greater and greater screen time, and more and more consumption of media, how do we optimize the information-delivery process?

In much the same way that we’re taught to write in straight lines from left to right, most of us have been taught that one way of spacing is simply right, and the other is wrong. Less often are we taught to question the standard—whether it makes sense, or whether it should change. But what is the value of education if not to teach children to question the status quo, and to act in deliberate ways that they can justify with sound, rational arguments?

Such an argument is extremely difficult to make when it comes to sentence spacing, because the evidence is not there for either case. The fact that the scientifically optimal number of spaces hasn’t been well studied was odd to Johnson, given the strength of people’s feelings on the subject. The new American Psychological Association style guidelines came out recently, and they had changed from one space to two spaces following periods because they claimed it “increased the readability of the text.” This galled Johnson: “Here we had a manual written to teach us how to write scientifically that was making claims that were not backed with empirical evidence!”

She was intrigued and designed the new study “to add some scientific data to the conversation.”

Her rationale for two spaces gets complex—verging into the domain of rather high-level psychophysical theory (email me). As the researchers explain it, it’s all about mechanics of the eye, and what causes us to trip up or pause, even for a split second. In the current study, when text was presented with two spaces after periods, some readers’ eyes were more likely to jump over the “punctuation region” and spend less unnecessary time fixated on it. The extra space seemed to make it easier for readers to “extract the lines and curves from the text.” The space also comes into the periphery of one’s vision before it arrives, and that helps to signal that the sentence is wrapping up.

The Skidmore study was small and less than definitive—essentially dipping a toe into a long-unquestioned practice. There were only 60 subjects, and they were all college students—meaning they were probably more interested in “hooking up” and “Snapchat” than actually reading. (Ed.: This is too much editorializing, apologies.)

Most importantly, the effects appeared early in processing, and spacing did not affect overall comprehension. And that’s what reading is all about, no? The fact that our eyes may move a little faster is less important than whether the concepts make it into our brains.

“It’s not like people COULDN’T understand the text when only one space was used after the periods,” Johnson said. “The [human] reading system is pretty flexible, and we can comprehend written material regardless of whether it is narrowly or widely spaced.”

Angela Chen at The Verge also gave a pointed critique of the methodology:

The two-space convention is left over from the days of typewriters. Typewriters allot the same amount of space for every character, so a narrow character like i gets as much as a wider character like w. (This is called a mono-spaced font.) With a typewriter, it makes sense to add an extra space to make it clear that the sentence has ended. Today’s word-processing software makes fonts proportional, though, which is why we only need one space. Also, it looks better. The Chicago Manual of Style and the Modern Language Association Style Manual also take this stance.

“I’ve gotten a lot of flak for using a mono-spaced font (Courier New) in the study,” said Johnson. Her defense is that most eye-tracking studies use monospaced fonts, and that many word-processing systems still, in practice, act like typewriters (in that they don’t add additional space between sentences even when using proportional fonts; to increase the amount of space between sentences relative to the amount of space between any two words within the sentence, two physical spaces are still needed following the period). “Although I agree that future research should look at these effects using other types of fonts, research in this area suggests that font differences in general are small or nonexistent.”

Even in the studies where researchers have removed interword spaces altogether, reading comprehension is still very high. For example, Thai and Chinese are typically written without spaces between words, even though studies have found that when space is added between words, reading speed increases. The standard comes down to aesthetics, tradition, conservation of paper and space—basically, the fact that reading is an act of much more than information delivery.

I’ve written before about the effect of color gradients on reading, and how it goes against the findings of science that our words should be in a single color, usually black and usually on a near-white background, and usually presented in lines of a certain length. This is all a matter of tradition and style, not optimal information transfer. This standard does not work well for everyone. It’s why I thought, for a long time, that I didn’t like books. I wasn’t good at the mechanics of reading. When I found text-to-speech programs and actual audiobooks, it was like finally seeing the turtle in one of those Magic Eye posters that everyone else at the party saw hours ago.

All of this is to say that if we really wanted to do evidence-based delivery of text for maximum comprehension, it wouldn’t be like debating one space or two. It would look totally different: words spewing into your face by some sort of torrent that syncs with feedback about your perception, and slows or pauses when you are distracted, and speeds up when you are bored.

Still, this has been a good exercise in challenging beliefs, at least for me. What is important is that this question not be what breaks us—that Americans remember that we are united by the ideals of democracy, freedom, liberty, and justice that we still hold dear, and which demand our allegiance above any person or party or spacing issue.

James Hamblin, M.D., is a former staff writer at The Atlantic. He is also a lecturer at Yale School of Public Health, a co-host of Social Distance, and the author of Clean: The New Science of Skin.

URL
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MY RESPONSE

As a writer I used and use grammatical techniques that are uncommon; I received and receive negative commentary in response to said use. But, what is the most potent issue? The most potent issue isn't who is right or wrong. The most potent issue is fear of no norm/standard. I find many people in various arenas are standardphiles or standard fanatics. 

I give the following examples: a sports team succeeds in lifting a trophy using a strategy deemed outdated, a writer composes a story that buyers embrace that doesn't utilize common expectations for characters, a person lives comfortably while not acting to the life script all others have around them. 

The problem isn't right or wrong, it is the fear of not being able to say who is right or wrong. This fear is huge. When a person whose forebears were enslaved in the usa to whites, says kill whites/kill the usa. The normal /standard response by most blacks or whites in the usa living at the time of this writing is something negative, around the terms: shame on you, you know better, judge individually, we are all family. But what if.... they are allowed? Notice I didn't say right or wrong. What if the condemnation is wrong ?  It isn't an issue of opinions but applied opinion. Applied opinion breeds consensus , creates the standards or norms. 

All know this. But how big is africa? who is american? who are immigrants to the usa? who are white? Absent applied opinion, the peer pressure is gone, and people are freer to do as they want, even against a majority as individuals. 

To writing, it doesn't spell the end of literature, but spells the end of critiques. Judgement requires laws which are attempts as an enforced standard or norm, which themselves are built on applied opinions. 

The reaction in the article from others is the purest example. They fear someone not caring what they say, and being surrounded by others who don't care too. 

Thus, the individualism, at least in the usa,  becomes true, not the mirror of white european descended, pan religious, empowerment that it is. 

Boo Movies for Halloween

any suggestions, please comment

Cat People 1942

The Seventh Victim 1943

The Uninvited 1944

The Picture of Dorian Grey 1945

The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1945 from Daniel on Vimeo.

Night of the Hunter 1955

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956

The House on Haunted Hill 1959

Eyes without a face 1960

The Innocents 1961

The Haunting 1963

Hour of the Wolf 1968

Night of the Living Dead 1968

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