Malkia. Didn't do none of that. Malkia Cyril is the Founder and Executive Director for the Center of Media and Justice. A co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network for decades, Malkia has strengthened the organizing and communication capacity of grassroots leaders
Because ego is the opposite of what you need at any of those three phases. As Cyril Connolly says, "Ego sucks us down like the law of gravity." Again, I'm not talking about ego in the Freudian sense-- which, even after a fair amount of reading about, I still don't quite understand.
of writing domain names in scripts other than Latin characters. So Cyrillic and Chinese and Hebrew and Arabic and so on are all scripts that are now available for IDNs. And they're being introduced now by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The domain name system, as I'm sure you are all very well aware, has got a bunch of vulnerabilities in it.
And actually, early electronic literature work in Russian was done in ASCII. Because there was not support for the Cyrillic alphabet on the first computers that were popularly available there. And even as we continue with amazing projects like Unicode, there's still these questions of how different programming languages and different environments
I want to give you the example of a new school in Paris, a school. Built by the ex-deputy CEO of EPITECH, Cyril de Geyer-- built the Rocket School factory. The first year, he had a lot of applications.
A prolific writer, public speaker, and poet, Cyril 's articles and quotes have appeared in "Politico," "The Huffington Post," "Essence," and dozens of other places, including documentary films such as Netflix's "13th." Cyril is a Prime Movers fellow, recipient of the 2012 Donald McGannon Award for work to advance the roles women and people of color in the Media Reform Movement.
in the movement for digital rights and freedom, and a proud leader in the Black Lives Matter Network. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Wilson White and Malkia Cyril . All right, so I think we're going to have a pretty fascinating discussion with Malkia here today.
And then you're like, wow, that's cool. And also, instrument manufacturers-- I'm very good friends with the people at Moog and Cyril , the main designer there. And he knows things that I would never know about electronics.
has a value equal to 60. We actually did a-- I worked with a Russian translator and we did a transliteration to Cyrillic of this piece, "Letterformed Terrain." And we had a Russian title for it.
And the last one of these is actually a fairly simple one, but one that, I think, has a point. It's called "ASCII Hegemony." So when we translated this to Russian or transliterated it to Cyrillic, this one stayed the same. Because this is just all the printable characters in ASCII.
support different alphabets. So you can get Latin alphabet in Perl by saying A dot dot Z. But you can't do that for Greek, or Cyrillic, or other alphabets. Of course, you can work around that.
And so today, I'm ecstatic to have a prolific person with us today, Malkia Cyril . Before I introduce Malkia, I'll introduce Wilson White, the host of our panel today.
to show racial and economic justice in the digital age. A prolific writer, public speaker, and poet, Cyril 's articles and quotes have appeared in "Politico," "The Huffington Post," "Essence," and dozens of other places, including documentary films such as Netflix's "13th." Cyril is a Prime Movers fellow, recipient of the 2012 Donald
perhaps a dead man in a wool suit seated in the lotus position in the exact center of the room. It would be freezing inside-- outside, the heat of a June night, packing crates marked in Cyrillic letters, a scattering of black feathers. The Cubans would do their part.
And we had a Russian title for it. And for one thing, the landscape is denser, because there's more characters in the Cyrillic alphabet. But that value of 60 stays the same.