Reposted by Antonio ByrdAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A Russian sunset 511289186
Reposted by Antonio ByrdCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Screw Alito. His book comes out today, same day as mine, but my book is about the brilliance of Black women, power of community action, resistance to racism & oppression, & world-changing impact of books. Oh, and music. Which one do you think should be a bestseller? bookshop.org/p/books/free...bookshop.orgFreedom's Daughters: How a Generation of Black Women Resisted Oppression Through Literacy and EducationA stirring contribution to America’s historical narrative.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything t... 312639
Reposted by Antonio ByrdStanding Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 06/10/2026At 4 a.m. today, Israeli forces raided a five-story building in Al-Tur, East Jerusalem, forced Palestinian families out with barely anything in their hands, and demolished 10 apartments — leaving around 70 Palestinians without their homes. 67173
Reposted by Antonio ByrdDave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I am less than 10 minutes into this interview and the analysis from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app is absolutely razor sharp. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThere Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit GebruPodcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m 110632
Reposted by Antonio ByrdJohn Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026New blog post up! "The treachery of approximation in an era of AI" I hope you'll read and enjoy. Maybe share if you enjoy. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-treach...meresophistry.substack.comThe treachery of approximation in an era of AIIntroduction 044
Reposted by Antonio ByrdVince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026HAPPENING NOW: Anti-Trump demonstrator in Ohio holds up protest sign that reads: “Hey Trump — We aren't paid to be here. We all hate you for free!” 📍Vandalia, Ohio 341567
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It just wild how the GOP is spend what the last year and a half doing everything they can to undermine elections. They claim to have policies America loves and then turn around to make sure no one votes on those amazing policies they have. Weird 000
Reposted by Antonio ByrdEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13974417
Reposted by Antonio ByrdDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 201836908
Reposted by Antonio ByrdDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A new kind of redlining just dropped 418539
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... 22441281
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. 701199785974
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. 🧵 19596013538
Reposted by Antonio ByrdOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 385113473085
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. >> 17984295
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 332118493
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. 145136954892
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 28465106
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. 158393208505
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 ❤️ 159208793814
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. 845142
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 1685982345
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 3486134