Our new paper: African interlaces are continuous “over-under” paths, in African lusona, beadwork, textiles, etc. They visualize the “circulating vital energy” of Indigenous regenerative economies. Some survived the middle passage, creating new diaspora design ecologies.
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Happy to chat with folks if you have questions. Our recent work is available on our website at generativejustice.org/projects/
Our paper on Indigenous knowledge for STEM in Bali is out!. Traditional "subak" irrigation uses bottom-up, democratized resource distribution with ecological sustainability. Children learning with the subak model show statistically significant improvement in their STEM understanding. bit.ly/4rjvEt4
We need a statue for bi-partisan anti-violence, showing two left wing figures killed, and two right wing figures killed. The right-wing should be Charlie Kirk plus Brian Sicknick, the DC police officer (and Trump supporter) whose death was due to the Jan 6 rioters.
Excited to see my former grad student, Kwame Robinson, now an assistant prof in Detroit, developing "AI for the People": lnkd.in/gDKmpe34
I am all for empathy. But it really hurts the cause to keep reposting false clickbate. Arendt, Einstein -- never said this. Plato said the opposite: that your subjective impressions are the lowest form of knowlege. Empathy is good, but so is responsible use of communication.
Segments that look like a DNA strand extend from a cosmic looking image of a solar flare at the upper left to a human figure at the right, bridging macro and micro scales
theatlantavoice.com/steve-r-alle... "“The wisdom of fractals derives from Africa as it was a commonly used technology by people and civilizations throughout history. ...Fractals and Afrofuturism provide pathways that unlock the doors to successfully administering his designs"
Computer science majors now have one of the top unemployment rates in the nation. No one seems willing to admit that AI's chickens are finally coming home to roost. I'm hoping upper management is next.
www.newsweek.com/computer-sci...
Our new paper, Ubuntu AI: Machine Learning for Regenerative Design Ecologies. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Bali weavers beating AI at geometry:
Human: bamboo weaving creates geometric shapes. Nature: mask of mythic beast showing nonlinear curves. Spiritual: "meru" structure in temple shows human geometric shapes in nonlinear scaling.
Launching our new CSDT for Bali's Indigenous "Tri Hita Karana" algorithms: csdt.org/culture/bali... Will be trying it out with kids and teachers in Bangli and Denpasar this week.
Generative Justice at the Venice Biennale: venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/geology-brit...
Great paper! Would love to see how localized currencies might be used to assist the artisanal fishing and transitional aquaculture cases. See for example www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
We also need mutual aid orgs that are self-sustaining, not charities. Examples like Mondragon work because they are financially self-sustaining. Even wikipedia creates an excellent, high value product. Our GJ platforms take this approach: generativejustice.org/af/ and generativejustice.org/uai/
Graph showing rise of 200% for White family household net worth, barely any for Black and Latine families
This growing gap in White vs Black/Latine net household worth seems to have the same rate no matter which party is in the whitehouse. What is that telling us?
Tehila we appreciate your critique of the "charity industry", microfinancing, and other failures. But @naticonrazon.bsky.social and myself are wondering if you classify radical interventions like Barcelona's Can Batillo under the same umbrella. undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/07/09/t...
@ChrisGray's excellent new book, "AI, Sacred Violence, and War—The Case of Gaza" is available as a free download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
In the 1980s, creative music sampling in rap was condemned as theft. 40 years later, AI's steals all human creativity at scale, and they call it a genius breakthrough.
Our prediction of the destructive effects of the election, and what is required to avoid it in the future: bit.ly/4aSAdCA #AI4good
Nice article about our work developing AI tools for Black artisans in Africa and Detroit: stamps.umich.edu/news/ubuntu-ai
Since AI has essentially committed theft of all of humanity's internet images and text, and there is no way to individually proscute, the best legal action would be to require those corporations to put their AI models in publically accessible open source, free for anyone to utilize. bit.ly/406WwRD
The problem with the model you are describing is that it is quite linear. Yes, convergent morphologies show evolution stablizing niches. But evolution simultaneously destabilizes niches. If convergence was king, we would not see one continent 99% marsupials, another 99% placentals.
Drummers and metal sculpture at the Uganda showcase
Some of the African artists and designers using our ubuntu-ai platform below. This Uganda group showcased their work at the British embassy. You can see samples from all 400 artists at ubuntu-ai.net. For more about the project uses AI to prevent value extraction, see generativejustice.org/uai/
That's the great thing about networks, they are 100% tangents
Above, examples of West African X in 18th century paintings, Senegalese architecture and craft
Perhaps of interest to @africanarchives.bsky.social - new publication suggests the diagonals in Washington DC streets reflect a geometric theme, "the West African X", due to African American land surveyor Benjamin Banneker. bit.ly/3NQ7Ev9
I took Peitgen's class at UCSC, cool dude. Pg9 "Nested patterns where there is a set of generalist species that interact with other generalist species, and then a subset of specialized species whose interactions are nested within the generalist interactions" -- Peitgen would have loved that.
The network diagrams you have are cool but I cannot find them in the article. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our focus is AI for worker-owned business. Your definition excludes that. I get it -- despicable companies claim "doing good" while making billions in military contracts. But restricting AI for good to "charity" recreates a stereotype those companies love. generativejustice.org/artisanal-cy...
