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Every era has its form of warfare. Some fought with weapons. Others fought with protest, music, art, and expression. Today, the battlefield is information. Algorithms shape attention. Distraction spreads faster than truth. Most people don’t even realize they’re being influenced in real time. That is the foundation of CyberFunk Cowboys. BEYOND THE ALGORITHM The name was born from a conversation about resistance. In 2022, I attended the Austin Justice Coalition’s Black Art Ma

The story we’re often told about where artificial intelligence began was in labs, code, and tech companies. Like it just appeared. Like it’s new. It’s not. The thinking behind A.I.—pattern recognition, prediction, system design—was already here. Long before machines processed data, there were people doing it in real time, under pressure, without recognition, and without room for error. Innovators like Benjamin Banneker turned observation into systems, mapping time and space w

When people hear the word “cowboy,” they picture a legend. But most of what we were shown was never the full truth. ⸻ In the American West, many of the men who actually worked cattle were Black. Recently freed and formerly enslaved people became skilled riders, herders, and ranch hands. They worked the land, moved cattle across dangerous terrain, and helped build the foundation of the cattle industry itself. The term “boy” was often used to describe them in a dismissive way.