RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116313116876680135

Remember my photo from yesterday?

Well, I found the contact information of the artist and wrote to her this morning to compliment her on her incredible work.

Britt_streetart_ is #BrittTamalet.

The website Street Art Lyon has more examples of her powerful work:

🔗: https://street-art-lyon.com/category/artistes/britt-tamalet/

Her website:
🔗: https://www.britttamalet.com

We exchanged messages and she's SUPER NICE! We may meet up next time she's in Paris. Maybe I'll convince her to set up a profile on the Fediverse 🤗 ❤️

Local legend and spoken word #artist Vernon "VCR" Robinson performing "April Cools Day" at City Winery Boston Wednesday April 1

VCR has opened up for Dead Prez, S.O.S. Band, Amiri Baraka, The Last Poets, Les Nubians, Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore, Michel’le and other well-known artists in New York (including the famous Nuyorican Poets Café), Atlanta, Chicago, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Dallas, Cleveland, New Hampshire, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and more

#tickets https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/vcr-april-cools-day

For the 1,000th time: "AI" does not have agency and cannot think and cannot act.

Chatbots cannot "evade safeguards" or "destroy things" or "ignore instructions".

They do literally only one thing and one thing only: string tokens together based on statistics of proximity of tokens in a data corpus.

If you attribute any deeper meaning to this, it's a sign of psychosis and you should absolutely never use chatbots, possibly you should even touch grass.

"I grant you one wish," the magic fish said.

"To eat my mother's pancakes again, just like when I was a child."

"Are you sure?"

"You think it frivolous?"

"No. But to grant it I must send you back to the child you were, with no adult memories."

"Would my life change?"

"You ask that every time."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

Before the Civil Rights Act, my great-uncle from Roxbury took on Pullman in 1954 — and won

https://baystatebanner.com/2026/03/26/before-the-civil-rights-act-my-great-uncle-from-roxbury-took-on-pullman-in-1954-and-won/

#BostonBanner #RoxburyMA

mastodon, once more i have need of your collective mind, so pls boost if you are willing

this quarter i’m teaching (2 different) English classes on the themes of FISHING & HUMOR

as ever, i am interested in whatever materials you think would be illuminating/charming/intriguing on those topics. we don’t have the scope for full books, but excerpts, chapters, articles, videos, artworks, songs, poems… we are open to nearly anything of topical interest

i so appreciate your input, fedi-folk 💚

The dark history of a constitutional amendment that now keeps us from becoming Arkansas
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/dark-history-constitutional-amendment-now-keeps-us-becoming-arkansas

#Massachusetts