Reposted by Antonio ByrdPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade... 22437276
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I agree. I want go a thousand years into the past or a thousand years into the future and do so without ever trying to lay breadcombs that link us back to this family 🙄 000
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll. Me trying to photograph the full Moon last night. 010
Reposted by Antonio ByrdRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage. 698199395949
Reposted by Antonio ByrdProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19595933532
Reposted by Antonio ByrdOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 383112933056
Reposted by Antonio ByrdSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"some investors are voicing increasing skepticism about the growth expectations for data centers and the risks associated with their build-out, forcing industry executives and their advisers to recalibrate their plans" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...nytimes.comWall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom (Gift Article)Several companies tied to the data center industry have delayed their initial public offerings amid the increasing public backlash to these energy guzzling facilities. 111440
Reposted by Antonio Byrd𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026They’re here … CYBERZOMBIES! My new open access/free article is live. Available at: mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitali... @asanews.bsky.social @fast-capitalism.bsky.social #AI #Sciencemavmatrix.uta.eduCyberzombies and the Afterlife of Thought: Dead Labor, AI, and the Necropolis of CapitalThis essay presents a novel Marxist theory of artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest expansive form of dead labor. Drawing on Marx’s Grundrisse (1993 [1973]), I argue that modern AI systems functi... 5148
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The best news of last week isn’t AI doomerism—it’s that Celine Dion made the ultimate comeback of all time 020
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026static.klipy.comPorsha Williams Sips TeaALT: Porsha Williams Sips Tea 100
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ya know back in 2024 we had a chance to make a different choice but then yall said “nah we like project 2025.” And I would not be surprised if y’all said “we should keep the republicans in power because damn those DSA candidates are sus” for the mid-terms. 250 years and still on the same BS. 😒 010
Reposted by Antonio ByrdEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When I say I've been working on this debunking for *years* that includes academic publications. Here's a quick thread: 224575
Reposted by Antonio ByrdEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >> 17984296
Reposted by Antonio ByrdJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Am I understanding correctly that this AI agent wants me to pay it $25 a week to tell me how my words are landing with readers? And also that it doesn't know the answer to the question of whether people still take writing courses in 2026? 6212
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The problem with following Coxon’s alarm is that what he says sounds clear for the public maybe because it’s grounded in some pop culture. To experts, his words sound misleading or inaccurate. 010
Reposted by Antonio ByrdPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like 332112494
Reposted by Antonio ByrdDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below. 145136944893
Reposted by Antonio ByrdAlbert Ibars @albert-ibars.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Corbs marins entre la boira. Estany d'Ivars i Vilasana. #Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInAbstract #ECK 28458106
Reposted by Antonio ByrdJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies. 17446103
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026static.klipy.comWendy Williams Show: Audience Member's ReactionALT: Wendy Williams Show: Audience Member's Reaction 030
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When I heard about OpenAI’s model proving a signicanr theory in mathematics i immediately asked myself “so where’s the bullshit?” Reader - we found it. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...techcrunch.comOpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunchThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. 130
Reposted by Antonio ByrdJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026We hear so much about AI being "inevitable," but much less about the fact that how it is used is a result of humans making choices. Decisions about AI and education are being made every day by Alpha Schools, by universities, and today by NYC. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... 04922
Reposted by Antonio ByrdAndy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026McMaster Nuclear Reactor. Pentax 17, fp4+ #believeinfilm 0252
Reposted by Antonio ByrdJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Whenever I see a poll like this I always like to remind people that approval for interracial marriage in the US did not cross the 50% mark until 1994, when I was already in my twenties. 332271683
Reposted by Antonio Byrd🦇Sorawolfkiba🎃👑 @sorawolfkiba.bsky.social · 31/08/2026August 31st September 1st: 620248
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This video was so cringe; either people didn’t understand what they were talking about or they wanted to tell a Gen Z politician all the problems with Gen Z (which are mostly not problems; classic tropes of laziness as every generation has for before) 010
Reposted by Antonio ByrdRachel Parker @msraitchetp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Pump this shit into my veins: www.cbsnews.com/news/milo-yi...cbsnews.comMilo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody facing a final removal order, sources sayFar-right political commentator and deportation advocate Milo Yiannopoulos is currently in ICE custody, the agency's database shows. 121
Reposted by Antonio Byrd🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared. 158393148499
Reposted by Antonio ByrdMark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️ 159208813814
Reposted by Antonio ByrdW. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton was definitely on the list of WHITE FOLKS THAT BLACK PEOPLE DON’T PLAY ABOUT. R. I. P. Dolly Parton. 845042
Reposted by Antonio ByrdParkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I absolutely loved this article. What a fantastic takedown of the bullshittery that is the AI industry. AI does not scale. The returns are diminishing. Line only goes up if it runs on hype and grift. Bc it's a grift run by the amoral sociopathic incel Nerd Reich. 821684579
Reposted by Antonio Byrdsean pagliacci aka doctor dog with a gun @ghosthardware05.bsky.social · 25/08/2026 1686032347
Reposted by Antonio ByrdTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move 3486133
Reposted by Antonio ByrdJasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Multiplayer Twine is in live alpha! Sign up now to get a link. It's like Docs for IF, but fully open-source and self-hostable. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... h/t @chrisklimas.com for this awesome collaboration! 210637
Reposted by Antonio ByrdGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 21/08/2026If anyone is thinking of doing linguistics activities with libraries or other community groups, this post may be a helpful resource! 0258
Reposted by Antonio ByrdMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Instead of hiding my undies in shame at the doctor's office, I put them on the doorknob outside, so they know I’m ready. 3425916
Reposted by Antonio ByrdRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Remember when food was safe to eat www.dailymail.com/health/artic...dailymail.comBlueberry recall moved to highest risk level... 'probability of death'A recall of frozen blueberries has been upgraded to the FDA's highest warning level over potential deadly bacterial contamination. There have been 12 sickened and four hospitalized. 30044701940
Reposted by Antonio ByrdNoah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUSS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reportsAircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land 28257942059
Reposted by Antonio ByrdMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The future we were promised: Flying cars The future we got: Pervert glasses with an app that can undress women in real time. 28455131233
Reposted by Antonio ByrdThe Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"'There is this assumption,' Gebru added, 'that someone has to have a certain amount of literacy or that they have to speak a certain language in order for technology like AI to work very well for them.' DAIR flips that assumption."macfound.orgBuilding a More Equitable AI Design for Underrepresented Languages 03611
Reposted by Antonio ByrdBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification. 609191142374
Reposted by Antonio ByrdRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I have an essay in the Boston Globe Magazine on Sunday, but it’s online today. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/12/m...bostonglobe.comWhy are we paying billions to tech companies for data to enforce immigration laws and policies? - The Boston GlobeThe government has always collected immigration data. But now a data empire ruled by CEOs is grabbing more of that power. 12710