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Welcome to my world. Yeah and they were still bloodletting too... Well if you look at the rate population growth is declining and the total population is expected to begin to decline before the end of the century. @harry brown can't login. I don't know how to help him either. I can login with the user credential I gave him, but he can't... Man you have no idea how many hackers there are trying to just fu*k sh*t up just for kicks. Then you have the spammers. The email address is a trivial vaccination that has helped.

Here are three clips that I created in a few minutes. I started with the following prompt: "A black woman in her 60s is clearly middle class in a room filled with books Afrocentric art, and family photos. Her hairstyle is natural she is educated and confident. She is looking at a laptop computer and expresses delight at what she sees in the screen and is clearly engaged. There is Jazz music playing softly in the background. She has a glass of wine nearby but that is not her focus as the camera pans around she the screen reveals the AALBC homepage (attached images) please replace the avatar on the provided image with an images of the woman used in the video." If did not get the last part right, but it is pretty good, This would be great for b-roll. The tech is getting so good so fast. Also, these women strike me as being in their 70s not 60s. It seems AI does not know Black don't crack.

Do tell...

I just reread @Gibran 's reply to this post: https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/5566-black-people-dont-read/#findComment-32479 I think it is well worth reading. When I first read it 8 years ago, I don't recall being moved by Gibran's disappointment is not teaching is a brother, he was locked up with for 10 years, how to read. The book that was ultimately used to teach fellow inmates to read was the Laubach Way to Reading. The book appears to be in the public domain (as so many different entities have published versions of it. The author Frank Charles Laubach (September 2, 1884 – June 11, 1970), was known fascinatingly as "The Apostle to the Illiterates." According to Wikipedia Laubach developed the "Each One Teach One" literacy program. "Each One Teach One" is a phrase I believe came out of the Black community. I knew it ever since I was a kid they had something to do with the Rucker Basketball tournament.

Those were not on the list :-) Though I would say that enchanting and vibe belong under attractiveness. Resulting in the same ranking as Pioneer Funny I just listed the three as they came to me. When I looked at it, I realized it was in my rank order too. I think men are socialized this way.

Fake quote I think of the same way when a human does it. If it is really important verify. As far as calculating an astrological chart, it is just math so I'm sure an AI can do that. You are probably not using, or have access to the right model. The models differ. For example, Chat GPI is much better at writing than Gemini, but Gemini is better at coding. True. These blue color jobs have already been largely eliminated through technology and outsourcing. I did not see the pitch folks come out then.

Rank the following traits that you would like to see in a partner (however, you like to define them): (1) attractiveness (2) intelligence (3) wealth

@aka Contrarian my man is doing two drinks at a time

If you plan on continuing to write @Phil Lamar I would start with the author profile that also gets your photograph on the homepage in the Author page. If that article in your local newspaper is on the web, please post a link.

High quality people you’re hanging out with. In the moment, appreciating the people they are with and apparently not addicted to social media… a blessing.

I think gifted gymnasts are born. I wasn’t a gifted gymnast. I could compete at the college level, but I would never be on the Olympic team. I’ve had a couple of knee surgeries that might be related to the sport, but I don’t know. I consider myself out of shape now, but that’s probably due to my age and being more sedentary than I’ve been in my entire life. Like I said in another post, I’ve spent most of my free time messing around with my website and AI over the past six months. I take walks, But I drink eat too much too. That said I can still do a few handstand push-ups ;-)

Books buy or about people of African descent, so it is a good fit. You’ve been active here so that gives you a leg up. The only issue is time if you buy a profile I’ll get you up immediately. If you don’t, you’ve been a good egg I’ll probably add your book at some point. Is that the front page of the newspaper, with their face just above the fold. That’s pretty good! You should have no problem getting gigs and selling books at schools in your county and the surrounding ones. But then again, North Carolina is a rough place…

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

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

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

Contact: Sarah Gardner Baton Rouge Area Foundation (225) 387-6126, SGardner@braf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 2026 Rob Franklin wins Ernest J. Gaines AwardBaton Rouge, LA – The Baton Rouge Area Foundation today announced that Rob Franklin’s debut novel Great Black Hope has won the 19th annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, presented annually by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to support an emerging African American fiction writer. The award honors the late Ernest Gaines, whose stories gave voice to African Americans in rural areas. A national panel of literary judges selected the winner from 25 eligible entries. Mr. Franklin will receive a $15,000 award to support the continuation of his craft. He will also be honored at a 6 p.m. event at the Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, on October 30, 2026 at the annual Award Ceremony. "I’m thrilled to receive this award and endlessly grateful to the judges panel and to the Gaines family for their support of my work,” said Franklin. “Ernest J. Gaines’s legacy of creativity, chronicling Black American life, and fostering the next generation of young writers is an immense inspiration, and I’m honored to be a part of it." Great Black Hope tells the story of Smith, an upwardly mobile and downwardly spiraling Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamourous parties and sudden consequences, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest. A national bestseller, the novel was also nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence — it was named a “Best Book of the Year” by TIME, Vogue, NPR, and Vanity Fair, among others Franklin is a writer and professor. He has written cover stories for Cultured Magazine, The Cut, and Document Journal. A co-founder of Art for Black Lives, Franklin holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing program. He teaches writing at School of Visual Arts and edits fiction for Joyland. He lives in New York. Previous winners of the Ernest J. Gaines Award include: Swift River by Essie Chambers; TEMPLE FOLK by Aaliyah Bilal: Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend; The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris; Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump; Lot by Bryan Washington; A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley; The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard; Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson; Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson; The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson; The Cutting Season by Attica Locke; We Are Only Taking What We Need by Stephanie Powell Watts; How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu; Big Machine by Victor Lavalle; Stellar Places by Jeffery Reynard Allen; Like Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard and; A Killing in This Town by Olympia Vernon. Applications for the 20th annual Gaines Award are now open. Details can be found at ernestjgainesaward.org/criteria. ###

OK, what is streaming, I’ll check it out.

It is like blaming the cigarette smoker for becoming addicted; the systems are explicitly designed to illicit that behavior. If they’re not posting they’re scrolling. And yes, I have to admit if I’m hanging out with a woman she’s far less likely to be able to put a phone down than a dude. I don’t know if it’s something cultural or because guys are just built differently. Maybe it’s a combination of both, but if I’m sitting with a dude and he’s scrolling through and giggling at some TikTok videos trying to show me the funny ones … that would be rather strange behavior.

Here we go, exaggerating putting words in my mouth, I didn’t say anything about missing teeth 😜 Glad y’all don’t take everything so seriously but the point I’m making is people wanna see 50 year-old women who look like Shakira not Monique (the comedian). Nothing wrong with Monique but she looks more like the typical black woman her age than Shakira and then of course we’re looking at the digitally enhanced makeup wearing version of Shakira.

LOL! you don't! Shoot, I doubt you wanna see a regular woman all natural So you wanna see warts and all huh? puckered hips, flabby stomachs, bat wings, hair everywhere -- most of it grey, bald spots, scars, keloids, moles age spots, wrinkles.... If that is what people clamored for that is what we would get.

2010 -- Wow! Another thing I noticed as I get older, besides loosing someone every five minutes ☹️ is that my perception of time has really sped up! It is hard to believe 2026 is already half over!

@Phil Lamar why didn’t you reply in the conversation that we were having? It would’ve been a lot easier for me to follow the context of my statement that you quoted. Well, I offer a variety of services to help Authors and publishers spread the word about their books. And you don’t have to break your bank: https://aalbc.com/advertise/ Advertising is just one aspect of marketing a book indeed much of that activity would’ve taken place before the book was even published. I would recommend that you join an organization like the independent Book publishes association and the Authors Guild they both provide a wide variety of resources to help Authors like yourself. You can find links to both of those organizations at the bottom of my homepage.

@Pioneer1 #1 ignore something called competition. If you’re competitors are using low wage labor and foreign companies and sell their products for half of what you were selling yours, you would not be in business very long. #2 I guess we could exploit the labor in those black countries as well, but then you’ll still be left with the same problem a loss of jobs in the United States I still have no interest in seeing the new Michael Jackson movie. When I saw TV for free, I still don’t think I will watch it unless I’m with someone who’s really wants to see it. I don’t know enough about Michael Jackson’s parents to offer an opinion other than to say, my guess is that they did the best they knew how like any of us parents.