Is AI For Us or Coming For Us

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AKA First Draft #3

Jobs: Automation doesn’t tap executives on the shoulder, it guts frontline workers first. We’re always first fired, last rehired. The only counter is to flip the script: upskill into AI-adjacent roles and weaponize the tools to scale your hustle, not replace your humanity.

Surveillance: Don’t kid yourself. Big Brother already has receipts. Facial recognition and predictive policing miss hardest on Black faces and Black neighborhoods. That’s not a glitch, that’s systemic bias coded into the machine. Policy guardrails aren’t optional, they’re survival.

Data: You’re the new hustle, don’t get played. Your face, your voice, your community. They scrape it, train it, and resell it while you’re left clapping at vibes. The move? Contracts, consent, watermarks. If you don’t own your data, you don’t own yourself.

Environment: Every slick demo hides a dirty bill. Models burn energy, drain water, pile up e-waste, and the fallout doesn’t hit Palo Alto, it hits your backyard. Demand transparency before another server farm pops up on your block.

Misinformation: Lies don’t crawl anymore, they sprint. Deepfakes plus clout incentives equals narrative warfare. The only counter is community literacy and rapid-fire truth squads. Fact-checking isn’t nice-to-have; it’s infrastructure.

Power: Fear AI? That’s a waste of time. Shape it. From classrooms to contracts, from churches to city halls. If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. We need to get more of us involved on AI Ethics Boards.

Now What:
Build the playbook: Skills, protections, and vendor rules written by us, not for us.

Push local policy: Ban biased tech, force transparency, and secure opt-out rights.

Own your data: Don’t sign away your face or your words without compensation and control.

Build the coalition: Churches, HBCUs, unions, and small biz. You know, pool resources, scholarships, compute, and legal muscle.

Creators: Let AI assist, but never erase. Use it to stack your craft, not silence your voice.

 

 

Author Bio:

Justin Anderson is a Multipassionate Strategist and founder of Anderson Blackstar Enterprises, the force behind Madly Multipassionate and Anderson Blackstar Media. He builds brands, stories, and systems that blend truth, power, and strategy.

Mask On, F It Mask Off: What Jalonni Weaver Taught Me

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AKA First Draft #2

 


1. Fitting in is expensive. Authenticity is priceless.
When you trade your quirks, your edges, your real wiring just to slide into the mold, the invoice comes due in mental health, identity loss, and burnout. Nah, that’s not success, that’s survival mode disguised as ambition. I’ve experienced all of that, and it isn’t worth it.

2. Masks look professional, but they suffocate.
The polished smile, the nod at the right time, the “acceptable” version of you might keep you in the room, but it keeps the REAL you on the outside looking in. The longer you wear it, the harder it is to breathe.

3. Belonging isn’t earned by shrinking. It’s created by being seen.
You don’t build true belonging by fitting someone else’s narrative. It starts when difference is valued, not just tolerated. That’s the difference between inclusion as a buzzword and inclusion as something real. Hint: It’s a buzzword 99.99% of the time.

4. The cost of masking isn’t invisible, it’s too damn high.
Companies, schools, and systems act like there’s no price tag attached to “fitting in,” but they’re wrong. Here’s the cost: anxiety, depression, exhaustion. If they don’t see it, it’s because they’ve decided not to look.

5. The revolution is authenticity. Mask off, self on.
Fitting in keeps the machine humming. Authenticity breaks the cycle and forces the system to evolve. The brave act isn’t survival, it’s showing up unfiltered, well,”semi-filtered,” daring the world to adjust to you instead of the other way around.

Bottom line: If the price of entry is killing who you are, leave the building. The mask doesn’t protect you. Stop paying for a seat at a table that doesn’t deserve you.

 

Author Bio:

Justin Anderson is a Multipassionate Strategist and founder of Anderson Blackstar Enterprises, the force behind Madly Multipassionate and Anderson Blackstar Media. He builds brands, stories, and systems that blend truth, power, and strategy.

The First Draft #1 – When the Predator Borrows Teeth: Adobe, Google, and the AI Shift

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Adobe used to be the lion of the creative jungle. Now it’s outsourcing its roar to Google’s Gemini. Firefly and Express don’t stand alone anymore, they’re flexing borrowed muscle. That’s not dominance; that’s survival.

On the surface, Adobe’s buffet of AI models looks generous: Firefly here, Imagen there, Veo and friends in the mix. Freedom of choice, they’ll tell you. But freedom with a velvet leash is still control. Every slick “seamless workflow” is also a well-designed trap. Generate in Firefly, polish in Express, finish in Photoshop, and suddenly you’re neck-deep in Adobe’s ecosystem. Smooth? Absolutely. Strategic entrapment? Without a doubt.

And privacy? Adobe swears your creations won’t feed the machine. Nice words. But in this business, promises are like NDAs, only good until the check clears.

Meanwhile, Google isn’t lurking backstage anymore. It’s on the main stage with Gemini and Veo, and Adobe’s scrambling to keep pace. The predator looks a lot more like prey these days.

Here’s the truth: this isn’t Adobe leading the creative revolution it’s Adobe admitting the revolution left without them.

 

 

Author Bio:

Justin Anderson is a Multipassionate Strategist and founder of Anderson Blackstar Enterprises, the force behind Madly Multipassionate and Anderson Blackstar Media. He builds brands, stories, and systems that blend truth, power, and strategy.

Welcome to The First Draft

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The first draft isn’t pretty. It’s not polished, or rehearsed, or market-ready. It’s the scribbles in the margins, the late-night rant in a notebook, the raw idea before it’s strangled by revisions.

That’s exactly why it matters.

The First Draft is where the truth lives before the censors, the editors, and the corporate gloss come in. It’s where strategy gets human. Where creativity doesn’t have to fit into bullet points. Where multipassionate minds refuse to hide the mess that makes them brilliant.

This series exists to:

  • Catch ideas in their rawest form.
  • Trade polish for honesty.
  • Cut through jargon with wit and clarity.
  • Prove that the most powerful insights rarely survive the second draft.

If you’re looking for perfect, keep scrolling.
If you want the unpolished truth? Welcome to The First Draft.

 

 

Author Bio:

Justin Anderson is a Multipassionate Strategist and founder of Anderson Blackstar Enterprises, the force behind Madly Multipassionate and Anderson Blackstar Media. He builds brands, stories, and systems that blend truth, power, and strategy.