Antonio Roman-Alcalá
@antidogmatist.bsky.social
Thinker, writer, agroecologist, educator, facilitator, fatherer, drummer, partner, former tweeter, snacker, etceterer
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Reposted by Antonio Roman-Alcalá
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Yup. It won’t do that. It won’t even write essays well lol
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Yup. It won’t do that. It won’t even write essays well lol
Ooh can’t wait to refer to this paper when I am teaching students about problems of AI and the unfortunate popularity of horrid techo-fixations among the capitalist elite
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Ooh can’t wait to refer to this paper when I am teaching students about problems of AI and the unfortunate popularity of horrid techo-fixations among the capitalist elite
Let’s hope they chicken out as they have done when confronted with basically any real resistance
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Let’s hope they chicken out as they have done when confronted with basically any real resistance
Reposted by Antonio Roman-Alcalá
Scientists: Humanity has missed 1.5C climate target
Politicians after 30 COP meetings:
We have the beginning of a concept of a plan to begin discussing phasing out of fossil fuels eventually, maybe, someday
Politicians after 30 COP meetings:
We have the beginning of a concept of a plan to begin discussing phasing out of fossil fuels eventually, maybe, someday
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Scientists: Humanity has missed 1.5C climate target
Politicians after 30 COP meetings:
We have the beginning of a concept of a plan to begin discussing phasing out of fossil fuels eventually, maybe, someday
Politicians after 30 COP meetings:
We have the beginning of a concept of a plan to begin discussing phasing out of fossil fuels eventually, maybe, someday
I make this bad joke every year but it still holds: ACAB means that All Cops Are Bastards and that includes this COP
Climate COP is as much a tool enabling elite inaction as it is helping humanity address climate crisis
Climate COP is as much a tool enabling elite inaction as it is helping humanity address climate crisis
[Résumé de la COP 30]
« On s’en reparle à la COP 31 ? »
« On s’en reparle à la COP 31 ? »
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I make this bad joke every year but it still holds: ACAB means that All Cops Are Bastards and that includes this COP
Climate COP is as much a tool enabling elite inaction as it is helping humanity address climate crisis
Climate COP is as much a tool enabling elite inaction as it is helping humanity address climate crisis
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Reposted by Antonio Roman-Alcalá
Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Again I’m so glad I escaped twitter, but also: good reminder that one of the problems is being exposed to an untrue representation of “what Americans think” (ie they aren’t as Nazi/idiotic/Trumpian as you might think from being on X)
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Again I’m so glad I escaped twitter, but also: good reminder that one of the problems is being exposed to an untrue representation of “what Americans think” (ie they aren’t as Nazi/idiotic/Trumpian as you might think from being on X)
I had a similar experience/reaction: first, hella mad at Google for linking their AI BS to actually useful features like priority inboxes…but after I turned it all off, I’m now getting a lot of un-subscribing done and getting better at just erasing many emails rather than let them bog my life down!
Gonna be honest, kinda like that gmail just dumps every email in one pile after turning the gemini shit off, makes ut much easier to delete the marketing stuff as it comes in
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I had a similar experience/reaction: first, hella mad at Google for linking their AI BS to actually useful features like priority inboxes…but after I turned it all off, I’m now getting a lot of un-subscribing done and getting better at just erasing many emails rather than let them bog my life down!
Reposted by Antonio Roman-Alcalá
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
Let’s not overestimate the popularity of Nazis like Fuentes
With Nick Fuentes in the news (again…) I am going to reshare our latest research piece, which checked claims that his audience is growing against data we have.
It’s not clear that’s actually true, yet right-wing figures keep trying to make excuses for his audience.
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
It’s not clear that’s actually true, yet right-wing figures keep trying to make excuses for his audience.
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
Flash Report: Claims of Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity Are Unsupported by Data - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Let’s not overestimate the popularity of Nazis like Fuentes
How many times do we have to say fuck @nytimes.com and its consistently pro-genocide, pro-cop, “we love fascists more than leftists” coverage
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
How many times do we have to say fuck @nytimes.com and its consistently pro-genocide, pro-cop, “we love fascists more than leftists” coverage
Oh great a feel good story about one person the state managed NOT to murder by way of prison!
Wouldn’t it be nice if NPR had ever taken prison abolitionist politics seriously?
Wouldn’t it be nice if NPR had ever taken prison abolitionist politics seriously?
After 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has been living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles for the past decade. via @laist.com
Artist Gary Tyler turns 40 years of wrongful imprisonment into powerful textiles
An exhibition of Tyler’s quilts captures scenes of humanity from within the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary.
laist.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Oh great a feel good story about one person the state managed NOT to murder by way of prison!
Wouldn’t it be nice if NPR had ever taken prison abolitionist politics seriously?
Wouldn’t it be nice if NPR had ever taken prison abolitionist politics seriously?
Reposted by Antonio Roman-Alcalá
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
Daniel Lurie: smart billionaires are the ones that try the thing that has definitely been tried before and definitely did not work when it was tried before. Say hello to revamping the failed War on Drugs!
SF rich/tech self-description as “innovative” is always good for a laugh/cry response
SF rich/tech self-description as “innovative” is always good for a laugh/cry response
Mayor Daniel Lurie is hoping a new, coercive approach can help officers tackle open-air drug use in San Francisco while getting more people off the streets and connected to addiction treatment.
S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie lays out new plan to arrest and treat drug users
Mayor Daniel Lurie is hoping a new, coercive approach can help officers tackle open-air drug use in San Francisco while getting more people off the streets and connected to addiction treatment.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Daniel Lurie: smart billionaires are the ones that try the thing that has definitely been tried before and definitely did not work when it was tried before. Say hello to revamping the failed War on Drugs!
SF rich/tech self-description as “innovative” is always good for a laugh/cry response
SF rich/tech self-description as “innovative” is always good for a laugh/cry response
Is someone going to humanitarian intervention us yet?
Last week at the United Nations in Geneva, the US boycotted its human rights review that all U.N. member states participate in every 4.5 years. By evading its U.N. human rights review, America ignores what the world sees clearly: Texans suffering under abortion bans.
Texas’ abortion crisis deserves concern — even as U.S. turns away | Opinion
By evading its U.N. human rights review, America ignores what the world sees clearly: Texans suffering under abortion bans, Irma L. Garcia of Jane's Due Process writes.
www.statesman.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Is someone going to humanitarian intervention us yet?
Reposted by Antonio Roman-Alcalá
I think “Sacrifice Alex Karp” is actually a winning campaign message
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I think “Sacrifice Alex Karp” is actually a winning campaign message
I don’t generally support politicians, period, but I support politicians trolling other politicians! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Especially when their target is a lying sack of shit like Mike Johnson.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I don’t generally support politicians, period, but I support politicians trolling other politicians! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Especially when their target is a lying sack of shit like Mike Johnson.
Yet investors are never “exhausted” by the murder, genocide, surveillance, suppression, and authoritarian political control their companies advance
One analyst suggested stocks may be suffering from “rally exhaustion.”
Palantir Plummets 8% Despite Beating Earnings Expectations—As Markets Stumble
One analyst suggested stocks may be suffering from “rally exhaustion.”
www.forbes.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Yet investors are never “exhausted” by the murder, genocide, surveillance, suppression, and authoritarian political control their companies advance
Make Liars Afraid (to lie) Again
Mike Johnson lies shamelessly: "The president is desperate for SNAP benefits to flow to the American citizens who desperately rely on it ... the SNAP situation has legal impediments."
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Make Liars Afraid (to lie) Again
Yes there is something called “mainstream media” and yes they do suck big big big balls and should not exist
These stocks could come under pressure if Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race
These stocks could come under pressure if Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race
The outcome of New York's mayoral election on Tuesday may end up weakening some specific stocks.
cnb.cx
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Yes there is something called “mainstream media” and yes they do suck big big big balls and should not exist
Reposted by Antonio Roman-Alcalá
With all these extrajudicial boat murders, we have a president who is not only an adjudicated rapist, but also an unapprehended serial killer.
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
With all these extrajudicial boat murders, we have a president who is not only an adjudicated rapist, but also an unapprehended serial killer.
Fully agree: not that I’m undisturbed by the authoritarian turn in politics, but this turn is made so much more frightfully worrisome by increasingly widespread ignorance & ill-informed political views, which are themselves artifacts of an already toxic media ecosystem getting worse
In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Fully agree: not that I’m undisturbed by the authoritarian turn in politics, but this turn is made so much more frightfully worrisome by increasingly widespread ignorance & ill-informed political views, which are themselves artifacts of an already toxic media ecosystem getting worse
They won’t even let us have Teen Vogue!!!
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
They won’t even let us have Teen Vogue!!!