maggie
thesecondpineta.bsky.social
maggie
@thesecondpineta.bsky.social
💻 clean energy / cleantech comms

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🏡 Berlin, Cville, Rome

Arm Ukraine! 🇺🇦

disinterested ≠ uninterested!

e.g. more financially disinterested politicians! ban officeholders from investing in what they're legislating about & overseeing.
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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And, of course, CC's thesis is that the biggest way tech companies miss the next wave is by being unwilling to cannibalize their cash cows. Example after example in his paper and book were exactly that. Companies insisting that their cash cows were more important than the big new thing.
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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And so KILLING the value of the ad revenue systems that are funding *waves generally* ALL of the content production on the internet, which is also maybe your most core product and revenue stream. . .

seems insane.

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November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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a rabbit an imam and a priest walk into a bar. The rabbit says I think i'm a typo
August 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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4/ These are some of the Venezuelan men and women who were detained on Sept. 30 in Chicago in one of the most aggressive and highly publicized immigration raids to take place in a U.S. city in recent history. You can read our story here. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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You can read his remarks in full here, via Deadline

deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
deadline.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM