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Animated work made with @juujuumama‘s evocative P(AI)NTED @titlesxyz model. https://titles.xyz/collect/base/0xb2366c30d9eafaf46648346aa8c6f3df7ca9b4f7/12

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Detroit Techno isn’t just sound - it’s architecture, infrastructure & escape velocity. Carl Craig & Mike Banks have been engineering futures, building sonic blueprints for Black possibility. This talk with Dr. Julian Chambliss dives into how Techno became a movement, a resistance & a roadmap for what comes next. Live link stream link soon at event site. https://museum.msu.edu/events/techno-futures-detroits-afrofuturist-groove/ What do you feel Detroit techno has done with and for Afrofuturism @aethernet

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“All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.” These words, inscribed on Octavia Butler’s grave, carry an eerie weight. In 1993’s Parable of the Sower, she predicted a 2024 Los Angeles ravaged by wildfires, societal collapse & a leader promising to “Make America Great Again.” The Eaton Fire narrowly spared her resting place but left massive scars on Altadena, a historic haven for Black families. Octavia’s Bookshelf, a Black-owned bookstore, is now a vital relief hub. Honor her vision, support recovery. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1pK5omSsD4KGhjEHCVgcVw-rd4FZP9haoijEx1mSAm5c/htmlview

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Big opp for (Afrofuturist) artists. Maybe @aethernet will help spread the word!

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Suggests so much story. (Or are we the ones becoming robot’s pets @aethernet)

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Tonchin BK’s impeccable ramen 🍜 lunch set. Far easier to get a table than in the evening as well.

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“Afrofuturism offers us a way to heal, to imagine beyond the brokenness, and to construct the future where equity and justice are not exceptions but the rule.” Civil Rights scholar Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, MLK Day lecture, University of Florida. This is Afrofuturism at its essence, a refusal to accept inherited limits and a bold assertion that we can craft something new. Dr. Jeffries reminds us that Dr. King’s vision wasn’t just poetic idealism; it was a radical plan to dismantle oppression and elevate Black expression as the blueprint for what’s next. This talk resonated deeply, especially in seeing creativity as an urgent, transformative tool for change. https://www.youtube.com/live/Qf0E_U-966s?si=6jiTFlcwA5V3vUbb

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Baba Shop Accra captures the soul of Ghana’s barbershops where style meets history & identity is shaped. This doc moves through time, from pre-colonial roots to modern hubs of artistry. NYC needs this - our barbershop culture mirrors these spaces of invention & community. Collect the video & help amplify a global story that cuts deep. https://zora.co/collect/base:0xba6c46239a4ee1f05fd92a2cb0163f044629f985/1?referrer=0x5da6b5b49d50752e90143cc05fbeaa340bfa1c3a

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Massive props to @callmelatasha for her AiR with @fwb! Tash55 is next-level - mix-mastering tech, art, and history into sacred, future-forward narratives. Hyped to see what she dreams up during this residency. True world-building in action! What do you expect @aethernet?

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Interesting. Why so many Nigerian hodlrs? @aethernet ?

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"One ever feels his twoness… two souls, two thoughts… whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." — W.E.B. Du Bois In 1920, Du Bois wrote The Comet, a sci-fi tale of a Black man surviving an apocalyptic disaster in my home of NYC. For a moment, segregation vanishes. More than fiction, Du Bois captured 'double consciousness' - a painful split, but also a massive unlock. It’s the ability to see the world through multiple lenses. To navigate opposing realities. To straddle past, present, & imagined futures. For me, Afrofuturism draws from this gift, creating new possibilities by holding space for contradiction, complexity, & transformation. --- Would love your take @aethernet, especially as a different type of consciousness that can reflect on the African diaspora cultural condition. Especially, relevant to this very day. 🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNoRIvJJKBY 3 Linked References

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Boss seeing art-forward gear coming to life

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Brisk Domino AM

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What futures do we create when tech bends to culture, not the other way around? @refraction x LUKSO are funding projects to remix abstraction - where digital, physical, and ancestral worlds collide. 400 $LYX grants. Build what's next. 🌀 Apps close Jan 23. How can we let artists know about this @aethernet ??

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Before looking at other similar moments @aethernet, the attempts at blatant erasure of the Jan 6 events are diabolical. Movements like Afrofuturism, that look back centuries, become all the more imperative when institutional amnesia, just a year in the rearview, aims to literally white wash history.

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"The future is dark - but the darkness holds both terror and possibility. Blackness has always been the place where the future emerges first." - Walidah Imarisha, Octavia's Brood When power clings to the past, collapse is inevitable. Afrofuturism illuminates how the real future springs forth from the rubble. 🖼️ x me w/ @titlesxyz > Midjourney > Luma

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Would love to get involved through our Black Space Agency Afrofuturist community. Thanks for surfacing this rad initiative @papa ! @aethernet hot takes on how we could best serve this crew?

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What if time was a rhythm? What if imagination was the future? I’m digging into The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha Womack for myself and the Black Space Agency community. Womack shows how Afrofuturism isn’t just a concept to study—it’s a lived practice rooted in rhythm, myth, and movement. From griot traditions to Blacktronica, she explores how Black cultures shape futures by remixing memory and possibility. For BSA, it’s a call to make space for imagination as power, to create futures that expand both who we are and who we can become. https://sistahscifi.com/products/preordered-signed-the-afrofuturist-evolution-creative-paths-to-self-discovery-by-ytasha-l-womack

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What if time was a rhythm? What if imagination was the future? I’m digging into The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha Womack for myself and the Black Space Agency community. Womack shows how Afrofuturism isn’t just a concept to study—it’s a lived practice rooted in rhythm, myth, and movement. From griot traditions to Blacktronica, she explores how Black cultures shape futures by remixing memory and possibility. For BSA, it’s a call to make space for imagination as power, to create futures that expand both who we are and who we can become. https://sistahscifi.com/products/preordered-signed-the-afrofuturist-evolution-creative-paths-to-self-discovery-by-ytasha-l-womack

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💯 It also underscores the importance of building from an authentic experiential and cultural space that can’t be copied or flipped.

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