Antonio Byrd
@writesantonio.bsky.social
Book on computer code bootcamps and Black adults out now! He/they and 🏳️🌈. K drama and anime and mostly reposting
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One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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A podcast conversation (and transcript) with the terrific Lydia Polgreen of the NYT about my new book, The Second Emancipation, and about Africa's place in the world of today and tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | Africa Is Rising. The World Shouldn’t Turn Its Back.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A podcast conversation (and transcript) with the terrific Lydia Polgreen of the NYT about my new book, The Second Emancipation, and about Africa's place in the world of today and tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
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This is a conversation between a tanning-salon nut who became HHS Secretary, and a shape-shifter who grovels to a man he once called "America's Hitler."
30 years ago, an HHS/VP convo would have meant Donna Shalala and Al Gore.
30 years ago, an HHS/VP convo would have meant Donna Shalala and Al Gore.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is a conversation between a tanning-salon nut who became HHS Secretary, and a shape-shifter who grovels to a man he once called "America's Hitler."
30 years ago, an HHS/VP convo would have meant Donna Shalala and Al Gore.
30 years ago, an HHS/VP convo would have meant Donna Shalala and Al Gore.
I’m such a fan of local first software
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I’m such a fan of local first software
Finished all tasks an hour before my work day ends?
Hell must’ve frozen over
Hell must’ve frozen over
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Finished all tasks an hour before my work day ends?
Hell must’ve frozen over
Hell must’ve frozen over
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My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...
Pan-African Futurism by Reginold Royston - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...
They should add “yet” at the end of the sentence
"Trump has not been implicated in wrongdoing" -- CNN offers this dubious disclaimer in every interview they do about Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
They should add “yet” at the end of the sentence
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In his Life Inside essay, Bobby Bostic discusses his writing workshops in juvenile detention centers.
“These kids are full of potential,” he writes. “Giving them guidance is my way of giving back.”
“These kids are full of potential,” he writes. “Giving them guidance is my way of giving back.”
Here’s How I Use My Story to Teach Incarcerated Kids That Writing Matters
At 18, Bobby Bostic was sentenced to 241 years in prison. Now out on parole, he’s sharing the healing power of writing in juvenile detention centers.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In his Life Inside essay, Bobby Bostic discusses his writing workshops in juvenile detention centers.
“These kids are full of potential,” he writes. “Giving them guidance is my way of giving back.”
“These kids are full of potential,” he writes. “Giving them guidance is my way of giving back.”
Remember last Wednesday? When you felt hopeful? Damn what a good time that was. We had a good week.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Remember last Wednesday? When you felt hopeful? Damn what a good time that was. We had a good week.
I feel a cold coming on. This dip in temps may finally end my streak.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I feel a cold coming on. This dip in temps may finally end my streak.
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Sega cofounder David Rosen on ignoring the Yakuza in the early coin-op days (Next Generation, December 1996 issue)
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Sega cofounder David Rosen on ignoring the Yakuza in the early coin-op days (Next Generation, December 1996 issue)
Lolol
This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Lolol
LMAO. And eight of them said, “Let’s do that again.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
LMAO. And eight of them said, “Let’s do that again.”
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
That’s what they want for the 2026 elections. They need that narrative to stretch into next year to win. I mean . . . I assume. Not that it makes it better lol not they they will win.
Dear Senate Dems,
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM
That’s what they want for the 2026 elections. They need that narrative to stretch into next year to win. I mean . . . I assume. Not that it makes it better lol not they they will win.
There’s a nice little place that still develops film. The guy has been doing it for like 60 years. Hope he’s doing well
Who remembers, having to get your film developed?
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
There’s a nice little place that still develops film. The guy has been doing it for like 60 years. Hope he’s doing well
In tonight’s breaking news, some people are realizing that maybe the United States hasn’t been great for 250 years
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November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
In tonight’s breaking news, some people are realizing that maybe the United States hasn’t been great for 250 years
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
I have nothing against my colleague. He’s great. My point: this is the first time I’ve heard someone suggest using AI to get work done and I had visceral disagreement. I’m like “huh. I think I have specific standards for AI use.”
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November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have nothing against my colleague. He’s great. My point: this is the first time I’ve heard someone suggest using AI to get work done and I had visceral disagreement. I’m like “huh. I think I have specific standards for AI use.”
Another example from meeting. AI Champion Colleague suggests throwing three existing surveys into ChatGPT and let it make a new survey.
Me: Look I just wrote five questions based on our conversation.
Me: Look I just wrote five questions based on our conversation.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Another example from meeting. AI Champion Colleague suggests throwing three existing surveys into ChatGPT and let it make a new survey.
Me: Look I just wrote five questions based on our conversation.
Me: Look I just wrote five questions based on our conversation.
I know the difference between myself and someone who hypes AI. In a meeting about AI and academic experience on my campus, a colleague said we could use Zoom’s AI companion to do notes because he can be present in the convo.
My thought: Taking notes is being present?
My thought: Taking notes is being present?
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November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I know the difference between myself and someone who hypes AI. In a meeting about AI and academic experience on my campus, a colleague said we could use Zoom’s AI companion to do notes because he can be present in the convo.
My thought: Taking notes is being present?
My thought: Taking notes is being present?
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...