20 Question Wednesday’s

Going through the archive, realized I hadn’t done one of these in a
hot minute.

1. Why is it so clear to me now that Hip Hop is a masculine space?
2. Why am I finally seeing Avatar this weekend?
3. Why am I more comfortable with Black and White, and not the grays?
4. Why is dating fun, scary, exciting and fun?
5. Why negro’s come at happy black girl day sideways?
6. Have you told your momma and/or the person who raised you you Love them recently?
7. How many people will need to be unemployed before we force the government to invest in us, they way they invest in corporations?
8. Why co-workers be so angry?
9. Why does managing whiteness require so much energy?
10. Why it be hard for me to accept a change, then when I do, it be like, what was the problem with the change in the first place?
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13. Why salad cost more than a big mac?
14. Why they charge 5 cent for bags?
15. Why One-Two shit go so hard?
16. Why the new Erykah album make me feel like I need to wear a new outfit the first time I listen to it?
17. Why when I wrote it on my blog, I was able to let it go?
18. Why do our girlfriends see our blindspots and call us on them?
19. When will we realize that every word has an impact?
20. Why is March kinda awesome?

You know the deal.

#blackgirlsfromthefuture. So I ask, I know yall got answers.

Facebook + Twitter + Your Privacy

Analog House

I have been thinking about a REALLY theoretical piece on the merging of our virtual worlds and our real (material) worlds (And the merging of Human Beings and corporations as well) and I haven’t been able to wrap my head around it.

One of my research interests is technology and the self, so I KNEW I would have to write it.

Lotta shit to grapple with.

I have been talking to S.bot, whom older readers know is
a dear friend and a marketing mucktey-muck. She helps me to see the big picture regarding technology. She subscribes to Venture Capitalist newsletters to see where the billionaires are placing their stacks.? So when she talks I listen. Her three major assertions are that:

a.The move is to get us all on the grid, so that our movements can be monitored.

b. Marketing and content are not the thrust of the internet and making money, the information engineers are the ones who will get cake, along with the information analysts. Engineers create programs that have marketing embedded in them Facebook, Gmail, Four Square, no content (or your personal) is what drives this machine.

c . Consequently (liberal arts) students who can analyze massive amounts of data will be incredibly valuable. The system has transitioned into information gathering, organizing and analyzing.

d. The goal with information and surveillance data is to get us to consent to what is called bio-metrics under the guise that we need to do this for global security purposes, convenience or both.

The first thing I asked her was why would anyone care whether we are on the grid.

Her response, was that if we are monitored, we can be controlled.

Think about it, the more information you have about a person (reading their blog, Facebook, Twitter, online resume), the more you can anticipate their next moves.

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Social Media may be the grandest example of manufactured consent that we have ever seen.

Which brings me to why I feel a little less paranoid and was ultimately motivated to get my words down on paper. <<–hahaha. I know.

On Chartreuse’s blog this morning, looking for a post that I want to respond to,? I came upon a Newsweek article article by Daniel Lyons about Facebook and how social media is “monitizing” our privacy. There three important quotes:

What’s happening is that our privacy has become a kind of currency. It’s what we use to pay for online services. Google charges nothing for Gmail; instead, it reads your e-mail and sends you advertisements based on keywords in your private messages.

The real holy grail is your list of friends. With that information, marketers can start sending more targeted messages. If you like a certain movie, or album, or mountain bike, your friends will probably like those, too. So they’ll be good targets for ads for those products. Of course, your friends are not going to buy everything you do. It’s not pinpoint accuracy. But the data helps marketers “narrowcast” their advertising. And it sure beats buying commercials on TV or splattering ads all over the Internet.

The genius of Google, Facebook, and others is that they’ve created services that are so useful or entertaining that people will give up some privacy in order to use them. Now the trick is to get people to give up more?in effect, to keep raising the price of the service.

These companies will never stop trying to chip away at our information. Their entire business model is based on the notion of “monetizing” our privacy. To succeed they must slowly change the notion of privacy itself?the “social norm,” as Facebook puts it?so that what we’re giving up doesn’t seem so valuable. Then they must gain our trust. Thus each new erosion of privacy comes delivered, paradoxically, with rhetoric about how Company X really cares about privacy. I’m not sure whether Orwell would be appalled or impressed. And who knew Big Brother would be not a big government agency, but a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley?

And who knew Big Brother would be not a big government agency, but a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley?

Honestly, I am not certain that they are mutually exclusive.

Thank you for hanging in there with me.

Thoughts?

Did the Lyons article help bring what I said home?

Am I reaching?

What does it mean to live in a surveilled world?

Aye Blood #2…….

I ain’t mean to blow up spots.

You know who you are.

I know, I violated two of my rules, out of being short sighted.

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But ‘chu good money, and if you reading this, you know I’m
sincere.

Consider this my amends.

~neens

Sometimes a Heart Can’t Afford to Be Just Friends

Click on the above image to peep the tweet which says,
“Sometimes a heart can’t afford to be just friends.”

My general rule is that if I am uncomfortable, I won’t do it.

I been number one AND number two before.

Number dos is bad for your self esteem IF YOU really want
the top spot. I was a kid then when I did that shit. I’m grown now.

Saw this tweet and thought it was remarkable, given the
“can we be friends” or “can you have friends” terrain I have
be walking lately. Ummp. Ummm. Ummp.

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My momma say, “Good things come to those who wait,
just don’t wait too long.”

Phonte’s Just Friends

Amy Winehouse <<Just Friends track.

Became anyone’s “friend” lately?

Had to make someone a “friend”?

Ummmp.

Aye Blood…….

I am old enough to know that it will go away.

But damn Gina if I don’t miss my friend.

Tonight, I am working on a review of 5 years of a feminist journal. I got stacks of papers, outlines, mo’ stacks of papers. The goal is for us to start thinking about the places that we would like to publish, places where our work will fit.

Hard assignment.

But it is the kind of thing that will allow me to KNOW a journal that I would like my work to be in.

Sometimes, there is nothing harder than accepting that you
have to let that thang go.

What’s perhaps even more difficult is when the person
was your friend, and that you are similarly situated
in life, in terms of work. That cha’ll went or will soon go through
the same shit.

In fact, this assignment is showing me how historians are like
lawyers in that they stay putting stuff into seperate categories,
then analyzing the categories. I have been thinking in terms of
categories and themes for the last 48 hours to make this assignment pop off.

I am close to God tonight.? I’m tired. Imma work till 12, then lay it down.
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I would imagine he may read from time to time. So,
if you catch this Love, I am doing a review of 5 years
of the journal Meridians and the papers are awesome:

“Guantanamo: A Feminist Perspective on U.S Human Rights Violations” by Victoria Brittain

“Never Innocent: Feminist Trouble with Sex Offender Registries and Protection in a Prison Nation” by Erica Meiners

“The Future of our Worlds: Black Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge in the University under Globalization” by Grace Kyungwon Hong

“Hip-Hop Honeys and Da Hustlaz: Black Sexualities in the New Hip Hop Pornography” by Mireille Miller-Young

Back to 2nd person.

I know that he would appreciate not only the fact that I have this assignment, but the pedagogy that the professor is using in terms of getting us to do the assignment. She just said DO it. No guide. It is forcing us to stretch.

I COULD call a grad school homie, but we all doing the same assignment. At home, pressed, reading, trying to make sense of it all and meet our deadline.

I am grateful for this blog as a place to work it out.

Thank you for reading. Especially you T.dot. You inspire me.

Fearless y vulnerable,

~neens