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)
Scientist for the Disinformation Age, #Python, Lean Startup, #BlueSci, (hobby author 📘 with 900k+ words across 8 fiction manuscripts)
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Civic Intent — GivingPulse
www.givingpulse.givingtuesday.org
Since the #bsky algorithm is fair, unlike twitter, and creating posts is no longer pointless, I'm the author of #GivingTuesday's #CivicIntent report - a way to measure that sense of "doing good" and "good intentions" that 4 out of 5 Americans feel:
www.givingpulse.givingtuesday.org/civic-intent...
www.givingpulse.givingtuesday.org/civic-intent...
It's fascinating to consider that prison populations are 15-25% psychopaths, compared to about 1% of the general population.
These are people who can't empathize or reciprocate with others.
modlab.yale.edu/news/crimina...
These are people who can't empathize or reciprocate with others.
modlab.yale.edu/news/crimina...
The criminal system is full of people with psychopathy. It fails to help them. (The Appeal)
| Mechanisms of Disinhibition (MoD) Laboratory
modlab.yale.edu
November 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
It's fascinating to consider that prison populations are 15-25% psychopaths, compared to about 1% of the general population.
These are people who can't empathize or reciprocate with others.
modlab.yale.edu/news/crimina...
These are people who can't empathize or reciprocate with others.
modlab.yale.edu/news/crimina...
Ideas about citizens legally deterring local ICE activities:
"This last weekend, we heard horns honking and whistling, I ran outside to see if someone was stopped. It was two SUV’s with ice agents and at least 15 cars following them making as much noise as they could. People had been waiting at
"This last weekend, we heard horns honking and whistling, I ran outside to see if someone was stopped. It was two SUV’s with ice agents and at least 15 cars following them making as much noise as they could. People had been waiting at
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Ideas about citizens legally deterring local ICE activities:
"This last weekend, we heard horns honking and whistling, I ran outside to see if someone was stopped. It was two SUV’s with ice agents and at least 15 cars following them making as much noise as they could. People had been waiting at
"This last weekend, we heard horns honking and whistling, I ran outside to see if someone was stopped. It was two SUV’s with ice agents and at least 15 cars following them making as much noise as they could. People had been waiting at
In response to the Charlotte ICE raids, I was reading forums from people, and it sounds like Home Depot, Menards and Target all allowed ICE to use their parking lots for staging raids. (In Chicago too).
It's helpful when corporations are transparent about their stance. Helps me decide who I visit.
It's helpful when corporations are transparent about their stance. Helps me decide who I visit.
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 AM
In response to the Charlotte ICE raids, I was reading forums from people, and it sounds like Home Depot, Menards and Target all allowed ICE to use their parking lots for staging raids. (In Chicago too).
It's helpful when corporations are transparent about their stance. Helps me decide who I visit.
It's helpful when corporations are transparent about their stance. Helps me decide who I visit.
@nano2love.bsky.social 18643 words. On track for 40k in #NaNoWriMo
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
@nano2love.bsky.social 18643 words. On track for 40k in #NaNoWriMo
This was exactly what I was looking for. Internet, you're okay today.
fequency of #huggingface licenses used by datasets shows MIT and Apache-2 are dominating. #datascience #machinelearning
fequency of #huggingface licenses used by datasets shows MIT and Apache-2 are dominating. #datascience #machinelearning
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This was exactly what I was looking for. Internet, you're okay today.
fequency of #huggingface licenses used by datasets shows MIT and Apache-2 are dominating. #datascience #machinelearning
fequency of #huggingface licenses used by datasets shows MIT and Apache-2 are dominating. #datascience #machinelearning
One of my favorite discoveries today is that Liquor Kiosks in the USSR used to be called "American Girls."
Something about that tickles me pink as a writer.
Something about that tickles me pink as a writer.
So what people did was this: go down to the liquor kiosk (called an American Girl for no known reason) with a ruble in your pocket and hold your fist to your stomach, one thumb up.
Within a minute or so, someone would come next to you and hold his thumb up too to show that he had another ruble.
Within a minute or so, someone would come next to you and hold his thumb up too to show that he had another ruble.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
One of my favorite discoveries today is that Liquor Kiosks in the USSR used to be called "American Girls."
Something about that tickles me pink as a writer.
Something about that tickles me pink as a writer.
This is funnier the more you rewatch it.
Seriously: QA much?
Seriously: QA much?
Russie / Insolite / La société russe de robotique (IDOL) a présenter son nouveau robot humanoïde doté ... ''d'intelligence artificielle ''
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This is funnier the more you rewatch it.
Seriously: QA much?
Seriously: QA much?
@nano2love.bsky.social 17001 words today!
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
@nano2love.bsky.social 17001 words today!
I was doing some reading today.
During the 1970s -- a decade with stagflation (14% inflation peak), an oil embargo, a "national nightmare," and generally a poor economy -- happened to be the last time wages for rich and poor rose together.
1990s & 2010s- market booms - the wealth gap widened.
During the 1970s -- a decade with stagflation (14% inflation peak), an oil embargo, a "national nightmare," and generally a poor economy -- happened to be the last time wages for rich and poor rose together.
1990s & 2010s- market booms - the wealth gap widened.
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I was doing some reading today.
During the 1970s -- a decade with stagflation (14% inflation peak), an oil embargo, a "national nightmare," and generally a poor economy -- happened to be the last time wages for rich and poor rose together.
1990s & 2010s- market booms - the wealth gap widened.
During the 1970s -- a decade with stagflation (14% inflation peak), an oil embargo, a "national nightmare," and generally a poor economy -- happened to be the last time wages for rich and poor rose together.
1990s & 2010s- market booms - the wealth gap widened.
Russia's 2nd largest political party only got 4.3% of the vote in 2024. They won 2nd in the last 10 elections.
I think those in power in the US would be thrilled to "get" 95% of the votes even if it was fraudulent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communi...
I think those in power in the US would be thrilled to "get" 95% of the votes even if it was fraudulent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communi...
Communist Party of the Russian Federation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Russia's 2nd largest political party only got 4.3% of the vote in 2024. They won 2nd in the last 10 elections.
I think those in power in the US would be thrilled to "get" 95% of the votes even if it was fraudulent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communi...
I think those in power in the US would be thrilled to "get" 95% of the votes even if it was fraudulent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communi...
The only place shoring important details on reopening the gov: whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
"The package would fund most agencies through Jan. 30,
> provide full-year funding for SNAP <
..., while leaving out the Affordable Care Act subsidy extension Democrats had demanded."
"The package would fund most agencies through Jan. 30,
> provide full-year funding for SNAP <
..., while leaving out the Affordable Care Act subsidy extension Democrats had demanded."
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whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The only place shoring important details on reopening the gov: whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
"The package would fund most agencies through Jan. 30,
> provide full-year funding for SNAP <
..., while leaving out the Affordable Care Act subsidy extension Democrats had demanded."
"The package would fund most agencies through Jan. 30,
> provide full-year funding for SNAP <
..., while leaving out the Affordable Care Act subsidy extension Democrats had demanded."
Wow. Will there be an Alzheimer's epidemic in about 15 years?
On one MIT study: "Students asked to write essays with ChatGPT showed the lowest brain activity among all groups tested."
& minutes later, 83% couldn’t remember anything they'd "written"
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
On one MIT study: "Students asked to write essays with ChatGPT showed the lowest brain activity among all groups tested."
& minutes later, 83% couldn’t remember anything they'd "written"
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Wow. Will there be an Alzheimer's epidemic in about 15 years?
On one MIT study: "Students asked to write essays with ChatGPT showed the lowest brain activity among all groups tested."
& minutes later, 83% couldn’t remember anything they'd "written"
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
On one MIT study: "Students asked to write essays with ChatGPT showed the lowest brain activity among all groups tested."
& minutes later, 83% couldn’t remember anything they'd "written"
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
@nano2love.bsky.social total word count: 14361 today
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
@nano2love.bsky.social total word count: 14361 today
Reposted by Marc Maxmeister
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Worth reading this about Watson - young and old - as it is important to realize that luck has much more to do with our success than we admit. And sometimes, it stands on stealing key data from Rosalind Franklin and NOT crediting her, maybe, because she was "just a woman"?
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Worth reading this about Watson - young and old - as it is important to realize that luck has much more to do with our success than we admit. And sometimes, it stands on stealing key data from Rosalind Franklin and NOT crediting her, maybe, because she was "just a woman"?
@nano2love.bsky.social 10803 words!
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
@nano2love.bsky.social 10803 words!
#AI what's the deal with gemini/LLM -- any prompt I give to depict class warfare includes this pyramid.
And the pyramid is a UFO, beaming citizens up?
And the pyramid is a UFO, beaming citizens up?
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
#AI what's the deal with gemini/LLM -- any prompt I give to depict class warfare includes this pyramid.
And the pyramid is a UFO, beaming citizens up?
And the pyramid is a UFO, beaming citizens up?
Why are the Dem leaders so hated?
- They make a lot of speeches but don't actually make their own sacrifices. When they close government, they just appear to quit the public eye, instead of mobilizing a direct action to help the poor, who bear the brunt of the suffering.
- They make a lot of speeches but don't actually make their own sacrifices. When they close government, they just appear to quit the public eye, instead of mobilizing a direct action to help the poor, who bear the brunt of the suffering.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Why are the Dem leaders so hated?
- They make a lot of speeches but don't actually make their own sacrifices. When they close government, they just appear to quit the public eye, instead of mobilizing a direct action to help the poor, who bear the brunt of the suffering.
- They make a lot of speeches but don't actually make their own sacrifices. When they close government, they just appear to quit the public eye, instead of mobilizing a direct action to help the poor, who bear the brunt of the suffering.
@nano2love.bsky.social 9349 words tonight #NaNoWriMo
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
@nano2love.bsky.social 9349 words tonight #NaNoWriMo
Today's #zeitgeist search word: trends
yeah, the number of people searching for "i have no money" trending up is not good.
yeah, the number of people searching for "i have no money" trending up is not good.
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today's #zeitgeist search word: trends
yeah, the number of people searching for "i have no money" trending up is not good.
yeah, the number of people searching for "i have no money" trending up is not good.
Neither of these are what those words mean, which is why we need new words to describe the economic divide in the world.
Some ones to define or look up: crapitalism, social democrat,, democratic socialist, free market fundamentalist, libertarian (minarchism, anarcho-capitalist [AKA Musk]) ...
Some ones to define or look up: crapitalism, social democrat,, democratic socialist, free market fundamentalist, libertarian (minarchism, anarcho-capitalist [AKA Musk]) ...
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Neither of these are what those words mean, which is why we need new words to describe the economic divide in the world.
Some ones to define or look up: crapitalism, social democrat,, democratic socialist, free market fundamentalist, libertarian (minarchism, anarcho-capitalist [AKA Musk]) ...
Some ones to define or look up: crapitalism, social democrat,, democratic socialist, free market fundamentalist, libertarian (minarchism, anarcho-capitalist [AKA Musk]) ...
@nano2love.bsky.social today's #NaNoWriMo word count: 8254
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
@nano2love.bsky.social today's #NaNoWriMo word count: 8254