Marcelo Rinesi
@marcelorinesi.bsky.social
Cognitive architecture designer and consultant.
On https://rinesi.com there are links to my blog and newsletters (one for articles, "what's new on arXiv," etc, the other for original short-short SF).
On https://rinesi.com there are links to my blog and newsletters (one for articles, "what's new on arXiv," etc, the other for original short-short SF).
Important to cut this kind of thing at its root - not just because ICE "patrolling" can certainly impact voter behavior, but also because they have already tried to steal an election; "millions of votes from illegals" is going to be the claim before polls close.
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Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
Missouri GOP Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Important to cut this kind of thing at its root - not just because ICE "patrolling" can certainly impact voter behavior, but also because they have already tried to steal an election; "millions of votes from illegals" is going to be the claim before polls close.
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Regardless of your views on current AI capabilities, an executive posting "Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming” in a customer-oriented company is as red a flag as you could imagine regarding commercial viability.
If... 1/
by @michael-kan.bsky.social
If... 1/
by @michael-kan.bsky.social
Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI?
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's head of AI, vents after the company receives backlash for saying 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'
www.pcmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Regardless of your views on current AI capabilities, an executive posting "Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming” in a customer-oriented company is as red a flag as you could imagine regarding commercial viability.
If... 1/
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If... 1/
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The field and the stakes are different, but there's a parallel between Microsoft forgetting the basics of making consumer OSes to keep public markets happy and Boeing forgetting the basics of making safe planes to keep PE investors happy. 1/
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November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The field and the stakes are different, but there's a parallel between Microsoft forgetting the basics of making consumer OSes to keep public markets happy and Boeing forgetting the basics of making safe planes to keep PE investors happy. 1/
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At an extra step of generality, I wish it were generally understood among the business/applied/management community that there's only so much information about X you can get out of data with low mutual information w/X.
Nihil ex nihilo, everybody.
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Nihil ex nihilo, everybody.
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I think econometrics people could learn from the signals processing people: the more noise in a metric, the fewer bands you can divide it into.
["is an imperfect proxy" is a form of distortion, which you can treat as noise]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon...
["is an imperfect proxy" is a form of distortion, which you can treat as noise]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon...
Shannon–Hartley theorem - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
At an extra step of generality, I wish it were generally understood among the business/applied/management community that there's only so much information about X you can get out of data with low mutual information w/X.
Nihil ex nihilo, everybody.
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Nihil ex nihilo, everybody.
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As the FT published last January: “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it's a new dawn.”
That's at least half of what Trump sold them - that's what they want.
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That's at least half of what Trump sold them - that's what they want.
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reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
As the FT published last January: “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it's a new dawn.”
That's at least half of what Trump sold them - that's what they want.
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That's at least half of what Trump sold them - that's what they want.
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I think both American Evangelists and Protestants elsewhere sometimes forget that one of the roots of what Bloom called the American Religion comes from a far-from-mainstream English branch that was Like That from the beginning. 1/
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This is why Evangelical Christians in particular, have remade Jesus Christ into an unrecognizable figure; not just the reddish haired, blue eyed, white man....but also someone who is okay with the 'prosperity doctrine' that people get rich on earth deserve it, and poor people ...deserve it.
“Quiet, quiet, Piggy.” -Donald Trump
I am continually appalled by Trump.
But I’m even more appalled by the Christians who keep supporting him.
“Christian” means “Christ-like.”
Right now, every pastor and parent should be saying, “Act like Jesus not like Trump.”
Follow Jesus. Not Trump.
I am continually appalled by Trump.
But I’m even more appalled by the Christians who keep supporting him.
“Christian” means “Christ-like.”
Right now, every pastor and parent should be saying, “Act like Jesus not like Trump.”
Follow Jesus. Not Trump.
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I think both American Evangelists and Protestants elsewhere sometimes forget that one of the roots of what Bloom called the American Religion comes from a far-from-mainstream English branch that was Like That from the beginning. 1/
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If somebody has some sort of timeline of these[1] there's an ~impressionistic business history article~ "AI-driven trading strategy" pitch around those as nowcasting/forecasting signals.
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[1] Acknowledging all the sample issues.
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[1] Acknowledging all the sample issues.
A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
If somebody has some sort of timeline of these[1] there's an ~impressionistic business history article~ "AI-driven trading strategy" pitch around those as nowcasting/forecasting signals.
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[1] Acknowledging all the sample issues.
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[1] Acknowledging all the sample issues.
Canada joining the EU+? in 2040 would be the funniest possible outcome of Trump II.
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BREAKING: Canada Close to Deal With Sweden to Manufacture GRIPEN Fighter Jets After Signing MASSIVE Trade/Security Pact #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #Canada #EconSky
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
BREAKING: Canada Close to Deal With Sweden to Manufacture GRIPEN Fighter Jets After Signing MASSIVE Trade/Security Pact
Thanks to Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney can't be stopped.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Canada joining the EU+? in 2040 would be the funniest possible outcome of Trump II.
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I know what @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social is saying and, for the purposes of getting their votes, yes, sure.
But: That voter knew about J6, about the rape, the way Trump talked about migrants as animals. No Trump voter bought the lie that Trump was a decent human being... 1/
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But: That voter knew about J6, about the rape, the way Trump talked about migrants as animals. No Trump voter bought the lie that Trump was a decent human being... 1/
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"You voted for this!" FAFOism is a powerful force. Easy to get swept away in it. But the fact is that guys like this were lied to, and your anger is better spent on the liars than the lied to. We can welcome guys like this in. We need to build a better country, and we can't do it without them.
Q: You voted for President Trump in 2024. Do you regret that decision?
North Carolina Voter: Yes, 100%…DHS agents harassed me simply for being Latino
North Carolina Voter: Yes, 100%…DHS agents harassed me simply for being Latino
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I know what @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social is saying and, for the purposes of getting their votes, yes, sure.
But: That voter knew about J6, about the rape, the way Trump talked about migrants as animals. No Trump voter bought the lie that Trump was a decent human being... 1/
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But: That voter knew about J6, about the rape, the way Trump talked about migrants as animals. No Trump voter bought the lie that Trump was a decent human being... 1/
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Just the Abstract and Key Points make me giggle with happiness. It's not even remotely close to a field I'm well-versed in, but this sort of thing --together what astrophysics-- are among the most reliably awe-inspiring frontiers of current science and technology.
Ultrafast physics with structured light - Nature Reviews Physics
Spatiotemporal structuring of optical fields offers opportunities to probe and control electron motions in light–matter interactions. This Review discusses the recent advances in both fundamental phys...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Just the Abstract and Key Points make me giggle with happiness. It's not even remotely close to a field I'm well-versed in, but this sort of thing --together what astrophysics-- are among the most reliably awe-inspiring frontiers of current science and technology.
No single book can "explain the 20th century," but if you had to pick on, you could do much worse than this one.
What Is A Production Process?
Chapter 1 of my book “The Origins of Efficiency”
www.construction-physics.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
No single book can "explain the 20th century," but if you had to pick on, you could do much worse than this one.
"Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes."
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
Deeper than the Skin
Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes. Some looked eagerly at everything in the hope that it would trigger the…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes."
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
I've seen it also in people light-years from Serrano's class, in other countries with mostly non-overlapping politics.
Maybe we need to ask analysts to stop using Left/Right or D/R as the structural binary and instead classify voters by whether they think you can, in fact, "grab them by the pussy."
Maybe we need to ask analysts to stop using Left/Right or D/R as the structural binary and instead classify voters by whether they think you can, in fact, "grab them by the pussy."
It's a culture of impunity all right, and it's not based on any of the classifications Americans are comfortable talking about.
Andres Serrano's appearance in the Epstein files illustrates this vividly.
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Andres Serrano's appearance in the Epstein files illustrates this vividly.
bsky.app/profile/ebha...
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I've seen it also in people light-years from Serrano's class, in other countries with mostly non-overlapping politics.
Maybe we need to ask analysts to stop using Left/Right or D/R as the structural binary and instead classify voters by whether they think you can, in fact, "grab them by the pussy."
Maybe we need to ask analysts to stop using Left/Right or D/R as the structural binary and instead classify voters by whether they think you can, in fact, "grab them by the pussy."
Interesting as usual -and I definitely de-and-re-learned a lot about Bretton Woods- but I think most interesting in how it suggests, I believe, a way for smaller actors to think about ways to act in the current environment.
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Chartbook 461 Ordering not order: Thinking about the future of the world economy in 2025, with historians, journalists, political scientists and ... Nietzsche.
We are in a moment in which in the face of Trump’s turmoil, China’s Belt and Road Initiative is booming again.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Interesting as usual -and I definitely de-and-re-learned a lot about Bretton Woods- but I think most interesting in how it suggests, I believe, a way for smaller actors to think about ways to act in the current environment.
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I think spot on and applies elsewhere; in volume-driven/time-constrained areas the competitive advantage of AI can make it an strategic necessity even if the new equilibrium is worse for everybody.1/
by Leonardo Bursztyn, @aleximas.bsky.social @rafaeljjd.bsky.social Aaron Leonard & Christopher Roth
by Leonardo Bursztyn, @aleximas.bsky.social @rafaeljjd.bsky.social Aaron Leonard & Christopher Roth
Social Dynamics of AI Adoption
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I think spot on and applies elsewhere; in volume-driven/time-constrained areas the competitive advantage of AI can make it an strategic necessity even if the new equilibrium is worse for everybody.1/
by Leonardo Bursztyn, @aleximas.bsky.social @rafaeljjd.bsky.social Aaron Leonard & Christopher Roth
by Leonardo Bursztyn, @aleximas.bsky.social @rafaeljjd.bsky.social Aaron Leonard & Christopher Roth
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This extends to much (most?) US government entities, associated institutions, and even civil society like (most?) media and (some?) universities. Culture is extremely hard to rebuild, particularly if organized around the appeasement of the defeated. 1/
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Trump will not just be four years of bad management. The culture of these organizations will be fucked for a long time. The pressure to retaliate and clean house will be strong, and no-one wants to work in a war zone.
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This extends to much (most?) US government entities, associated institutions, and even civil society like (most?) media and (some?) universities. Culture is extremely hard to rebuild, particularly if organized around the appeasement of the defeated. 1/
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On one hand, as a former TA I'd have been livid and/or disappointed and/or deeply worried.
OTOH, I look at the nearly total lack of personal or social cost when the powerful --from Trump to Musk to...-- say utter nonsense and deliberate lies... 1/
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OTOH, I look at the nearly total lack of personal or social cost when the powerful --from Trump to Musk to...-- say utter nonsense and deliberate lies... 1/
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Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"
Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
On one hand, as a former TA I'd have been livid and/or disappointed and/or deeply worried.
OTOH, I look at the nearly total lack of personal or social cost when the powerful --from Trump to Musk to...-- say utter nonsense and deliberate lies... 1/
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OTOH, I look at the nearly total lack of personal or social cost when the powerful --from Trump to Musk to...-- say utter nonsense and deliberate lies... 1/
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To the degree to which the Liberal/Conservative difference is about whether women should have the same rights and opportunities as men, I would suggest the graph on the left is intrinsically -although structurally- disingenuous in its implied symmetry.
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
To the degree to which the Liberal/Conservative difference is about whether women should have the same rights and opportunities as men, I would suggest the graph on the left is intrinsically -although structurally- disingenuous in its implied symmetry.
I like the data analytics very much, but I find myself having epistemic doubts about the -or rather *my*- models of political action it's embedded on.
On one hand, yes...
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On one hand, yes...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I like the data analytics very much, but I find myself having epistemic doubts about the -or rather *my*- models of political action it's embedded on.
On one hand, yes...
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On one hand, yes...
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"Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes."
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
Deeper than the Skin
Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes. Some looked eagerly at everything in the hope that it would trigger the…
blog.rinesi.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes."
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
I this most Americans are too insular to really perceive how deeply anomalous (although influential) is the legal, operational, and cultural role of their security forces, and how much of Trumpian authoritarianism is a scaled up version of the baseline Black experience.
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This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I this most Americans are too insular to really perceive how deeply anomalous (although influential) is the legal, operational, and cultural role of their security forces, and how much of Trumpian authoritarianism is a scaled up version of the baseline Black experience.
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This is 100% true; I'd add that the drift can't really be solved thru training or exhortations, as it requires a top-down political culture, design principles, and an external environment that are rarely present.
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<rant> A periodic reminder that Sprints, Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Scrum Boards, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Points, Velocity, PIs, etc., have NOTHING AT ALL to do with "Agile." Agility comes from working small, delivering frequently for feedback from actual customers, and adapting based on
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November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is 100% true; I'd add that the drift can't really be solved thru training or exhortations, as it requires a top-down political culture, design principles, and an external environment that are rarely present.
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Hidden inside the M:I movies there's a *much* better action-comedy franchise about a borderline-suicidal idiot savant of Rube Goldberg planning who gets all the low-to-mid-stakes but deeply weird missions and kept alive by a long-suffering hypercompetent team and world-class Buster Keaton skills.
However you feel about Tom Cruise you gotta admit he loves nearly dying making movies
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Hidden inside the M:I movies there's a *much* better action-comedy franchise about a borderline-suicidal idiot savant of Rube Goldberg planning who gets all the low-to-mid-stakes but deeply weird missions and kept alive by a long-suffering hypercompetent team and world-class Buster Keaton skills.
"Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes."
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
Deeper than the Skin
Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes. Some looked eagerly at everything in the hope that it would trigger the…
blog.rinesi.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Ariadne saw two kinds of people leave the brain tattoo parlor: she could tell them apart by the type of hope in their eyes."
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction
#AdversarialMetanoia #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction