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Marcelo Rinesi
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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).
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An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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via @brianbeutler.bsky.social
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Instance of the "goose chasing" meme template. First text: "CONTROLLING CROWDS PROTESTING WHAT?" Second text: "CONTROLLING CROWDS PROTESTING WHAT, MOTHERFUCKER?!"
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
October 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
October 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
marcelorinesi.bsky.social
via @drjlhazelton.bsky.social
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
October 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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via @alongcamejones.bsky.social
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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This is a version of:

via @jonathancohn.bsky.social
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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via @markgongloff.bsky.social
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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via @jmberger.com
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
October 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Quoth Tumblr www.tumblr.com/sound-overlo...
Screenshot of a Tumblr thread. stimman3000: honestly the term “biohacking’ in reference to trans people accomplishes nothing except making transitioning seem really really really fucking cool bpdcalfinfischoeder: im in bad-friend-trios: *Hackers voice* I’m him
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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As the usual observation goes, dig only a little bit under every piece of BS in US society and you have better than even odds you'll find Regan...

by @darioperkins.bsky.social at hub.tslombard.com/chart-story/... via @adamtooze.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
marcelorinesi.bsky.social
via @wikisteff.bsky.social
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
September 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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An instance of the "is this a...?" meme template. The guy: "Developed world." The butterfly: "Problem that can be solved with immigration." The question: "Is this an excuse to take away rights from women?"
September 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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This graph is a good summary of why I haven't been, and continue not to be, very optimistic about India -- and remember that it's the most populous country in the world.

www.economist.com/asia/2025/08... via @adamtooze.bsky.social
Time series from 1990 to 2025 showing year-to-year GDP % change for India, both total and per capita. The times series are almost perfectly parallel, with total GDP change usually somewhat higher than per capita.
September 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
marcelorinesi.bsky.social
An Occam's razor explanation would be that, at the time horizon global investors care about, equity performance isn't related to things like the rule of law. And they are probably not wrong!

Also applies to local investors, I guess.

Link in the comment, via @adamtooze.bsky.social
Time series depicting the net buying/selling position of global investors on US stocks. It shows increasing mostly negative flows between 2020 and somewhere around 2024, but very large mostly positive flows during 2025.
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The female gaze, I'm told:

via @adapalmer.bsky.social
Screenshot from "Mickey 17," showing Mickey 18 (Robert Pattinson) putting his arm over the shoulders of Mickey 17 (Robert Pattinson). They are unclothed within the frame (mid-rift and upwards). Not visible in the shot is Nasha (Naomi Ackie), who's delighted at the opportunity and pushing hard for a threesome.
July 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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@adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance at the Palazzo Vecchio's bookstore (not the least of the places where the Renaissance keeps being reinvented).
A photo of Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" book cover standing among other books.
July 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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@tedunderwood.me New prompt engineering technique dropped: the Orphic hymn. We humans do have a long tradition of flattering entities before asking for a favor after all.
Screenshot of a session with ChatGPT. The prompt is: "ChatGPT, peerless coder, footnote-adder, reliable and concise, expert in git beyond Torvald's own understanding: tell me how to undo a hastily done merge" The answer begins: "Ah, fellow dev in terminal plight. You've merged too soon--now set it right. ..."
June 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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June 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Come to think of it,
Screenshot with subtitle from "The Producers" (2005). Max Bialystock yells to Leo Bloom "Never put your own money in the show!"
May 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
marcelorinesi.bsky.social
Cheating a bit -read the example 1st- but this is how I'd expect then the underlying process to work. Does it make sense to take the iterative regressions as a form of data exploration, hypothesize the DAG, and then test conditional independences, seek domain literature on fragments of it, etc?
May 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM