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I did not "Praise" the video in the sense that I thought it was true or that it convinced me that people could talk to dead people. I found it interesting though. I would use AI to benefit all of mankind. I think medical research would be at the top of my list. But in a capitalist society greed will corrupt how AI is used, that is what makes it scary to me. My experience using it for coding is that it will do what you ask it to do, even if that is not the best way for a given task to be accomplished. I'm learning that it is better to prompt the AI by telling it what you want to accomplish and let it tell you how to do it -- this is where it really shines. I think it is beyond the task level. Again, this is what I have access to God only knows what the state of the art is capable of...

There wouldn't be any men at my "billionaire sex parties."🥰 This is true. Karen Hinter wrote a book about Brothers going to Brazile. You probably roll with a different class of Brothers than the good @ProfD, so you experience is different. Not only do I know dude that go down regularly I not of some who have moved and stayed.

Allow me @frankster;, @Pioneer1 colors, rainbows and grief are not NOT tangible. "her grief was tangible" is a metaphor. It is the same as saying, "Pioneer I was gripped by fear." You can't be gripped by fear. Fear remains intangible. Get it now?

Why? He would be the first and he won’t be the last. But I know I’m biased by the BS I’ve seen online… it is terrible how the algorithm influences you — even against your own Brothers.

The oldest Black Literary Award? That is a good question. I don't know. Here I share a list of book awards and the Black winners of white awards: https://aalbc.com/awards/ Maybe the answer is there. As far as the International Impact Book Awards. I never heard of it, so I can only assume it is not very prestigious. It look scammy, but I don't know enough about it to say for sure.

Potentially. Even if it did the cured would be saved for the super wealthy, while the rest of us pay for chemo, as Prof implied. Maybe. It will certainly help in the creation of superior artificial limbs. What?! Let's not go off the deep end. But there is already technology that lets you communicate with an avatar of a deceased person training on everything that have recorded or written. But who knows maybe all the mysteries of what happens after we dies will be revealed by AI. Certainly, slowing the aging process and curating deadly diseases is possible. We've been doing that without AI, AI will only make it faster. Turning old people into toddlers seems unlikely in the short term assuming it was even desirable. But my main point was that the conversation generated on the book was pretty damn good. Now if this is the tech I have access to, who know what this tech is capable of.

Yeah, I heard this and had no idea until recently how bad it has been for some. I was in the woods of Georgia for several days during the time of the storm and the weather was beautiful. Damage from a hurricane that far inland is unusual... It seems no one is really safe from the effects. I guess we are doomed, as we are not ġonna do anything to mitigate our impact on the environment and the resulting impact on climate change.

OK I trying to stay away from the Algorithm, but I have fallen prey to some of the Diddy stuff in YouTube. This is not about lavishly freaky parties. Apparently, this is about kidnapping and holding hostage underage girls to sexual torture involving Oprah, Steve Harvey, TD Jakes, and others... at least that is the shit that is in my feed. 🫣 Apparently, Kat Williams has been trying to tell y'all all this for years Whether the worst of these rumor and gossip is true, or not, I don't think this is "The Man" railroading Diddy because he was about to do something positive for the Black masses in the vein of MLK. X, or Garvey. This is some Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein shit on steroids.

Yeah, they are shown respect. Funny thing about puffy, “freak out” is a euphemism. Apparently there was some really devilish stuff going on with children and unconsenting adults.

This is the most true. I did not really realize this until recently. This resonates too. i don’t really understand the first paragraph week enough to comment on it.

@Heather M. it is best to post your book info directly on the site. Maybe a sample poem. Shortened links with like else looks sketchy and I usually delete these. After checking the link I thought you were the other Heather McGhee. Consider using your middle initial to avoid confusion.

@harry brown I guess you heard the rumors about TD Jakes at Puffy’s “Freakouts.” I doubt MLK III or any of the members of the southern Christian leadership conference were down with Jake’s.

Interestingly, I did not see your reply until just now. I read it but I wanna sleep on it and read it again before I provide my feedback. Thanks again @Delano

Garvey was a man of his time. Hubert Henry Harrison died too young. No one moved and organized Black people the way Garvey did. Not Obama, King, or Malcolm X.

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I use some AI tool almost every working day and am constantly amazed by how damn good it is. Check out the following discussion on a book I published earlier this year. The ENTIRE conversation was generated by AI. I added the subtitles and progress bar with another AI tool. Even the person holding the book is artificial a mockup in photoshop. AI is scary because it will change things in ways that I can't image. Given how greedy some people are these changes may not bee good for us.

Yeah, I went off the grid for a few days attending the Melanated Campout in Cordele GA. I've been a homeowner in Tampa since 2011 and lived in West Palm Beach for almost two years. I have never been seriously impacted by a hurricane -- never even lost power (our lines are underground). Now I have been impacted by storms in New York City -- one was so severe it shut down Wall Street for days flooding subway to the ceiling and damn near wiping Far Rockaway off the map. @Pioneer1 I think Florida is a great place to live--despite our wacky governor 😉

Hey @Milton help a bookseller out and provide some metadata. What is the book's ISBN?

I dunno man, we are talking about Homeland Security and the denied him bail! The feds must have him on some shenanigans FAR more serious than what was described in the NY Post article... The government is treating him like a terrorist or a mob boss.

From the NY Post article, "Combs is accused of forcing women into “Freak Offs” with male prostitutes while he masturbated and recorded the sometimes days-long sex sessions." WTF?! He has the money to pay people to do this with exuberance. I thought he was accused of trafficking in underage children.

@Pioneer1 I just got rid of those two posters. They got one by me.

No, I derived them from various sources. The price of the Model T Ford in1908 and 1926? The average price of a car in 2024 and the average annual wages for people in each of those years. I factored in the present value of 1908 and 1926 wages and Model T prices in 2024 dollars. I did not say this, but I agree with it the good @ProfD. The public education is designed to teach you how to work and to be a good citizen. Being "Educated" is a completely different matter.

They are already on the road. I drove a tesla, in self-drove mode. It is arguably a better driver than I am. You can hail a self-driving cab in San Francisco today and there are self-driving buses and truck on the road now. The price dropped dramatically from roughly 12 times the average annual wage in 1908 to less than three times the annual wage in 1925. Today a car costs 0.7 of one's annual salary. What does this have to do with the WTC? {forgive my typos when you dictate, autocorrect changes thing after you reviewed it}

The professor would not say that guy who told me, who was told some other person, ad infinitum. The professor would say that there is an experiment, that can be reproduced, which tells us the how long man has been on or how old the Earth itself is. Besides a couple of billion years is more than enough time for another Homo Sapien reach to great technical heights and completely obliterate themselves. Yes, metoo. People can say anything, but what can they prove? OK. show me something, that is backed by more than someone's words. OK, which pyramid are you talking about? I'll watch the video and get back to you.

I watched this “debate” too. I can’t imagine that anyone’s mind was changed. I find it extraordinary that Trump would mention that crazy story about immigrants, eating pet cats and dogs. That is worse than pizza gate. Obviously, he thinks that will appeal to his base. Which raises issues of the sanity of his base, if what he thinks of them is true. like @Pioneer1 I’m not expecting any radical changes from the status quo. Despite all that was said on both sides. The rich will get richer. The poor middle-class will continue to struggle….