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Marc Maxmeister

@marcmaxmeister.bsky.social

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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)

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · Nov 22

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...

Civic Intent — GivingPulse

www.givingpulse.givingtuesday.org

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 1h

@nano2love.bsky.social today I reached 3205 words! #NaNoWriMo

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 6h

Here's a breakdown of what fraction of the total USA (by zipcodes) are heavily dependent on #SNAP benefits (source: Census / American Communities Survey)

So 13.3% of all zipcodes have at least 20% of the population on SNAP.

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 6h

Interesting way to evaluate the power of subsidies (or expenses only US citizens pay, like catastrophic medical expenses)

Source: US Census Bureau

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 6h

#SNAP map, county level, 2022 data

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 6h

Where are large fractions of the population receiving #SNAP (typically, but not in November)?

(compare with counties that supported Trump 1 year ago)

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 8h

and yet, nobody stole the jewels by breaking this piece of security?

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 8h

we've all seen Akira Kurasawa, if if we didn't know it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPel...

Star Wars: A New Hope - Luke Skywalker Enters the Cantina [CLIP] | TNT

YouTube video by TNT

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 8h

And while seven samurai was a masterpiece at the time, it probably is a bit of a tough watch by today's standards.

I watched it once, a long time ago, and it was good, but a bit unfamiliar at parts. Like the action was TOO FAST compared to the John Woo I was raised to consider "normal"

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 10h

Kinda reminds you of the way one member of congress is being denied her right to swear in. There's a lot of complaining but not enough jail sentences being handed out for these types of power-grabs.

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 10h

Someone like that should never have become governor.

It is our job to vet "local" politicians else they become national demogogues.

I could have destroyed one NC Senator when he was nobody, winning my neighborhood with less than 4000 votes, had I run against him. This was a hard lesson for me.

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 10h

How about:
"30 Helens wasn't enough. How can 9 be?"

I know it is dated ca. 1988 but we gotta start somewhere

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

Chicagoland going for MVP:

“This is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination in the best possible way,” Khan said. “It’s overwhelmingly amazing, and we just want to make sure we get food to people who need it the most.”

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/e...

Evanston food drive overwhelms 'in the best possible way' as SNAP recipients face uncertainty

Many waited more than an hour to drop off bags of groceries during a food drive at Evanston Township High School.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 1d

@nano2love.bsky.social added 1237 words today #NaNoWriMo

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 1d

IF you wanted a bot that would help you track these, I built one -- @mention nano2love.bsky.social

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 1d

there are hashtags for writers on bsky, like #nano2 or #amwriting so you're not doing it alone

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 3d

Y'all know about their bar bet, where CS Lewis told Tolkien it was impossible to write a fantasy world without a named deity, to which Tolkien replied, "hold my beer!"

(Gandalf's return comes close: "I was sent back" -- yeh, by whom or by what force, exactly? From where?)

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 3d

Tolkien was likely a humanist but didn't identify that way. Lewis has a whole book about getting to Christianity from starting as a humanist.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 4d

Instead of inane scrolling of posts that are not information-rich, why not read about this creepy dude now called Andrew something Windsor and why he's clearly not worthy of any titles

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_...

Prince Andrew - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 4d

#MTG #Arena powered cube - surprising 17lands data for vintage: No green or black cards at the top. And red+white cards dominate.

Would you have guessed that Ajani and Pyrogoyf are equivalent in power to Ancestral Recall and Time Walk?

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 4d

I've read LotR at least twice and never caught on to this purpose for Tom Bombadill! Thanks for sharing!

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 4d

The most useful thing I've heard in the past week is that we're not suffering from information overload; we're starving in an information desert.

All around us is noise but not answers, learning, and real perspective on our world, unfiltered.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 5d

When AI-day-trading-bots start trading on the future of #AI, that will create an interesting positive feedback loop.

But surely no fintech bros would trust #AI to do that with their money right?

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 5d

MicroSoft owns 49% of openAI, right? so there's your reality problem

Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 5d

I keep divesting. The DOW could reach 10-billion in imagined future wealth and still crash to zero in day.

It is not propped up by companies so much as it is the media-disinformation machine that works for politics in a similar way.

I think that inflation reality will bring it down.

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