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MichaelMarinus

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PGH-based advocate for Sustainable/Responsible/Impact Investment (and the use of ESG data). Regularly in Lake Tahoe, DC, A’dam.

UC Davis alum, 3rd Culture Kid (🇳🇱🇺🇸🇸🇬), ⚽️ crazy (LFC, Ajax, Riverhounds).

Be Excellent to each other 🤟 Get into good trouble ✌️

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MichaelMarinus

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Always open to a different perspective… but like 99% of crypto, I fail to see the use case for AI if consumers face direct personal cost.

July 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM

MichaelMarinus

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Amazing career. Great human.

ESPN @espn.com · May 2

Breaking: Gregg Popovich will no longer be head coach of the Spurs and is transitioning full-time to team president, sources told Shams Charania.

He is the NBA’s all-time winningest coach and winner of five NBA titles.

May 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM

MichaelMarinus

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All thanks to the “free speech absolutist” 🙄

WIRED @wired.com · Mar 6

New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Social Security Workers Aren't Allowed to Read This Story

New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.

wrd.cm

March 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM

MichaelMarinus

@michaelmarinus.bsky.social

The man is dense and obtuse. And clearly got into Penn/Wharton only thanks to 20th Century DEI (Daddy Exhibited Income).

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Mar 4

Mexico is America's largest source of imported fresh fruits & veggies, and Trump's 25% tariffs hit in winter when the US relies the most on imports—the vast majority of raspberries, limes, avocados, peppers, mangoes, & tomatoes come from MX/CA and will jump in price

a graph of fresh fruits and veggies where a large % of US Consumption is Mexican/Canadian Imports. Top are raspberries, papayas, limes, cucumbers, avocados, artichokes, bell peppers, mangoes, asparagus, and tomatoes.

March 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM

MichaelMarinus

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Must read 👇

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Feb 15

Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media *should* be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America

A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas

www.doomsdayscenario.co

February 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM

MichaelMarinus

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · Feb 5

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system.
They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government.
They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.

Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes.
The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn

February 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM

MichaelMarinus

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Great thread —>

Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · Jan 27

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

January 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM

MichaelMarinus

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Never gets old entering Olympic Valley

January 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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NPR

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All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.