Antonio Byrd
@writesantonio.bsky.social
He/they and 🏳️🌈. K drama and anime and mostly reposting about whatever I think is interesting. I don’t get any attention here but happy to support others get engagement! 😃
Why is The Creature so attractive in #Frankenstein? Lol
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Why is The Creature so attractive in #Frankenstein? Lol
How you gonna jam CoPilot into my inbox but it can’t access my inbox to find emails because the regular search bar is garbage
a woman says make it make sense in front of a sign that says sistas
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November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
How you gonna jam CoPilot into my inbox but it can’t access my inbox to find emails because the regular search bar is garbage
I’ve been asking for something to find my damn emails for years
I want AI to do the laundry and my admin while I write and illustrate books.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
I don't want AI to write and illustrate books while I do the laundry and admin.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I’ve been asking for something to find my damn emails for years
I’m like this all the time with my students and colleagues. I barely remember who said an idea or where they said but I know what they said! Lol
What came out was “uhhh I think bang bang is in the title and uhhh it’s about these women.” I am mortified.
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I’m like this all the time with my students and colleagues. I barely remember who said an idea or where they said but I know what they said! Lol
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There could be an interesting debate here (we are both participants in the same @chronicle.com forum). We agree I think on the severity of the threat to education. We disagree perhaps on how materially manifest that threat already is and its ultimate socio-political framing (and consequent remedy).
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
There could be an interesting debate here (we are both participants in the same @chronicle.com forum). We agree I think on the severity of the threat to education. We disagree perhaps on how materially manifest that threat already is and its ultimate socio-political framing (and consequent remedy).
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If you are a white person and your first impulse on seeing a person of color saying something critical of white people's actions is to defend white people by holding that person of color to a higher moral standard than you hold the white people around you to, you are choosing to be the oppressor.
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you are a white person and your first impulse on seeing a person of color saying something critical of white people's actions is to defend white people by holding that person of color to a higher moral standard than you hold the white people around you to, you are choosing to be the oppressor.
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
Dang he signed it. Now this joke aged poorly already
Trump: I’ll sign that bill as soon as I can!
a close up of a woman 's face with a disney logo on the bottom right
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November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Dang he signed it. Now this joke aged poorly already
Trump: I’ll sign that bill as soon as I can!
a close up of a woman 's face with a disney logo on the bottom right
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November 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Trump: I’ll sign that bill as soon as I can!
Trump: Of course I’ll sign the bill that releases the Epstein files.
a woman wearing a black shirt and a white collar is smiling .
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November 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Trump: Of course I’ll sign the bill that releases the Epstein files.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
You say that with a smile?
Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
You say that with a smile?
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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.
www.nytimes.com
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.
www.ucpress.edu
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.
www.themarshallproject.org
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.