Below are images created by two different versions of ChatGPT in response to the following prompt: Create an image based on this theme: white culture has no culture. This exercise was inspired by Christian Ortiz's outstanding LinkedIn essay, reprinted with permission on my blog: White Culture Has No Culture: What Racism Really Is, And Why … Continue reading A Study in Contrasts
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The Weaponization of Judaism
Mara Kronenfeld's UNRWA Photo Below is a LinkedIn post by Mara Kronenfeld, executive director of UNRWA USA, which is helping to provide food and medicine to people in Gaza. This is a Jewish person's clear and passionate response to the oft-heard and ludicrous charge that to be anti-Zionist or anti-genocide (and therefore anti-Israel) is to … Continue reading The Weaponization of Judaism
White Culture Has No Culture: What Racism Really Is, And Why So Many White People Don’t Understand It
Below is a guest post by Christian Ortiz, one of my LinkedIn contacts whose tagline and description are: "Helping equity-first orgs and governments use AI that won’t replicate white supremacy | Afro-Indigenous Decolonial Technologist and The Market Disrupter | Creator of Justice AI + the DIA." Christian's essay is a brilliant analysis of "white culture" … Continue reading White Culture Has No Culture: What Racism Really Is, And Why So Many White People Don’t Understand It
Gunning Down the Future of Palestine
Image created by ChatGPT Here are three LinkedIn posts by Hani Almadhoun, reprinted with permission. Hani, who is the Senior Director of Philanthropy for UNWRA, has lost numerous immediate and extended family members, including his brother Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun, who was targeted by the IOF and killed by a drone on November 30, 2024, near … Continue reading Gunning Down the Future of Palestine
“Sun of Hope” by Shams Mazen Rajab
Source: ELT Professionals for Palestine After reading this poem, which was published as a guest post in Letters from Gaza, an ELT Professionals for Palestine's e-newsletter, I was inspired to create two versions of a song using my go-to AI music program with customized prompts. (See the embedded links below for both versions.) Also, below … Continue reading “Sun of Hope” by Shams Mazen Rajab
Don’t Forget: The Full Case Against Donald Trump — Lies, Crimes, Corruption, and the Receipts They’re Hoping You’ll Ignore.
This guest post by LA-based lawyer Mitch Jackson provides a thorough review of the highlights of King Don Old's psychopathy for those who have forgotten or never knew. Read it and remember. History will. Peace, MAA MAA: I wish I could "unsee" this image. 😆 I’ve never felt the need to speak louder than I … Continue reading Don’t Forget: The Full Case Against Donald Trump — Lies, Crimes, Corruption, and the Receipts They’re Hoping You’ll Ignore.
“Tear Down the Walls”
REUTERS/via SNO Sites/Lucy NicholsonThe badge of ICE Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, in Hawthorne, California. File photo March 1, 2020. I created this song "in honor of" ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), a US government agency from hell. Let me know which version you prefer in the comments section below, on my … Continue reading “Tear Down the Walls”
The Kindness I Withheld
Here are two versions of a song I created with AI-generated lyrics and music based on customized prompts. It was inspired by George Saunders’ 2013 commencement speech at Syracuse University that focused on "failures of kindness." Let me know which version you prefer and why, either here or on my YouTube account (Watch on YouTube). … Continue reading The Kindness I Withheld
Loving Someone Who Chose the Red Hat: A Story of Quiet Resistance
Below is a post by Mitch Jackson, a California-based lawyer I follow on Substack. If you're a US American or related to one, you can probably relate to his thoughts about "loving someone who chose the red hat." (This reminds me of the US Civil War, by the way, which lasted from 1861 to 1865.) … Continue reading Loving Someone Who Chose the Red Hat: A Story of Quiet Resistance
The Scourge of Binary Thinking
Below is the latest post by Benjamin Cremer that I felt was worth sharing. Ben is a self-described pastor, Wesleyan, and writer whom I follow on Instagram and Into the Gray on Substack. As he writes on the former, "My desire is for authentic dialogue, especially as we navigate through difficult topics at the intersection … Continue reading The Scourge of Binary Thinking
An International Educator in Vietnam 
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