Marc Maxmeister
@marcmaxmeister.bsky.social
Pro-Democracy, period. Senior Data Scientist 🧪, #GivingTuesday Scientist for the Disinformation Age, #Python, Lean Startup, #BlueSci, (hobby author 📘 with 900k+ words across 8 fiction manuscripts)
Today, just remembering Archbishop Romero, a liberation theologist in El Salvador who was gunned down for talking about power exploiting the poor and the sins of capitalism. Still relevant today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93s...
Óscar Romero - Wikipedia
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US healthcare: clearly not innovating or borrowing lessons from the successes of the rest of the world
oops, I accidentally taught #AI how to read the secret writing on adolescent boys: ŧĥē ǫüíçķ ɓřøŵñ ƒø× ĵüɱρ øṽēř ŧĥē ļåžý ɗøğş they'll know our secrets.
Since 2018 I've had a passive pipeline archiving all church sermons from liberal religion. After 60k, many full text+audio at archive.org/details/@mar..., this is a summary of what sermons talked about: (includes every #UU church with online sermons, plus many others)
Today's games design insight: If you AI is having to optimize NP-hard problems in order to win against the human, you probably have a game that will be interesting enough to be fun. But this does not necessarily prove your game is fun. But if the AI can easily solve the board, that's not good.
This is making me think about alien spaceships differently. (#AI constructed it but I prompted it carefully to achieve my mind's eye)
If you weighed all 10 quadrillion ants, they would weigh as much as all the humans
'At elite journals, editors play a central role, rejecting a large majority of submissions without formal peer review, recruiting specific outside experts as reviewers, and guiding authors in how to respond to them.' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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lolz, what #AI thinks a hand looks like when asked to "Draw a hand" instead of just using images of hands.
Over the last 10 days I used #claude enterprise to design an android game. Now I can see what my tech friends at google/facebook/corporate are talking about being mandated to increase output 10X. Over this time I estimated 15 hours of work to complete 150 hours of coding. 90% refocused to design.
Wow! Apple iPhone holds 58-69% of the US market, but only 22% of the global market. I'd lived outside the US I thought the US was like the rest of the world.
"Free press" unpacked at 4:30 -- Katie says exactly what statements are now illegal to say on corporate news, because of Trump intimidation.
LAFAYETTE@lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 4w ago'38,000 Times In Epstein Files': Katie Phang Drops Stunning Under Oath Truths In Senate Forum | APT youtu.be/FotCWJdOjgo?...
If you take #Pew Research's political types and their survey about turnout per type, and extrapolate the 2024 election results, you can see that specific factions not-showing-up-to-vote is the dominant reason Trump is now president. If 8% of each group defected, that's still a smaller piece.
Trump's reign wouldn't have been possible with GW Bush's cabal eroding trust in leadership first.
Wondering why DSA and progressive left is taking over the primaries in the Democratic Party in 2026? Look at the base. When Progressives and the Left-out Left align on candidates, they're 19% of the pop; larger than the Establishment Dems. (Pew 2026)
In 1967 #USNews ( and world report ) predicted that by 2000: "Scientists will see the creation, in the laboratory, of primitive forms of artificial life by the year 2000." I'm thinking that 2026-2027 might be that year. At least people are debating #AI this way. www.usnews.com/news/blogs/p...
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I was playing around with #claude opus for game design, and I realized you can prompt it to set up a genetic #algorithm to optimize an answer to any question in a complex design space. 🤯 major AHA moment! #LLMs use domain-knowledge plus randomness to solve. Adding GA layers could be next level.
Climate dot gov has been relaunched by nonprofit at climate.us. arstechnica.com/science/2026... Brought to you by boring researchers who save what others hide, then turn it back on.
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Lols, fewer people now watch PBS than watch Newsmax.
This continues to bother me. I definitely had the wrong image in my mind.
(1/27) I did a quiet social experiment that opened my eyes more than anything I've ever written. I put on a MAGA hat for seven days straight. Grocery stores. Gas stations. Walmart parking lot. Youth sports. A barbershop. A dinner table. Told nobody what I was doing. Kept a journal of every
I'd suspected this sort of thing was happening but not seen anywhere in US news. Also, how great is it to have a #bsky account that covers political grafiti?
Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnti-World Cup posters seen in Manchester, UK
#Pew's long-awaited update to the political typology is here! www.pewresearch.org/collections/... Faith & Flag Conservatives --> Faith First Conservatives (basically no change) Committed Conservatives --> Pragmatic and Polite Right (think: Bill Cristol, former "never trumpers" without a party)
Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling in the U.S. and other countries. Two new studies say that is not a coincidence.
Two New Studies Ask: Did the iPhone Cause Birthrates to Decline?
Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling. Two studies say that is not a coincidence.
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