Mariana Colín
@themorbidzoo.bsky.social
Ambivalent YouTuber and PhD Candidate in Communications/Media Anthropology. #1 Twilight apologist.
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"Nobody seems to have the cilantro gene in Mexico" yeah because they genetically selected away from it. Because it's a weakness
December 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Nobody seems to have the cilantro gene in Mexico" yeah because they genetically selected away from it. Because it's a weakness
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"Clout?" My partner in posts, we are on bluesky
September 20, 2023 at 12:09 AM
"Clout?" My partner in posts, we are on bluesky
The read that Pluribus is about AI is pretty wrong, I think, and not just because Vince Gilligan started working on it 8 years ago.
AI is not a hive mind; it’s not a mind at all. The World is literally a person, that’s why it matters that Carol is so rude to them.
AI is not a hive mind; it’s not a mind at all. The World is literally a person, that’s why it matters that Carol is so rude to them.
December 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The read that Pluribus is about AI is pretty wrong, I think, and not just because Vince Gilligan started working on it 8 years ago.
AI is not a hive mind; it’s not a mind at all. The World is literally a person, that’s why it matters that Carol is so rude to them.
AI is not a hive mind; it’s not a mind at all. The World is literally a person, that’s why it matters that Carol is so rude to them.
Folks can I interest you in nice little swig of oxytocin
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Please, Christmas is a week away and my niece deserves*something* to open. Help if you can?
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December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Folks can I interest you in nice little swig of oxytocin
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I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.
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Oh damn sorry about that, we only imprison people for systematic sexual abuse when they have nowhere else to be
Harvey Weinstein has emphasized his desire to "needs to spend the remaining days" of his life surrounded by family, following the announcement that his upcoming court hearing has been delayed.
Harvey Weinstein wants to spend 'remaining days' with family amid legal battles
www.irishstar.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Oh damn sorry about that, we only imprison people for systematic sexual abuse when they have nowhere else to be
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
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What Rufo is concerned about is that he and other self-proclaimed thought leaders on the Right are losing influence over/within MAGA. They believe they should be in charge of the radical "counter-revolution" and feel their status threatened by some of the more unruly extremist forces bubbling up.
December 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What Rufo is concerned about is that he and other self-proclaimed thought leaders on the Right are losing influence over/within MAGA. They believe they should be in charge of the radical "counter-revolution" and feel their status threatened by some of the more unruly extremist forces bubbling up.
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Americans when they see the logical end point of their politics
‘What are we a bunch of AFRICANS?’
‘What are we a bunch of AFRICANS?’
Ailing wannabe dictator yelling at his people and insisting that they're getting richer and safer when all the evidence demonstrates the opposite.
This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.
This is Gaddafi-levels of lunacy.
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Americans when they see the logical end point of their politics
‘What are we a bunch of AFRICANS?’
‘What are we a bunch of AFRICANS?’
This whole AI thing has been a stellar resource for categorizing people into who has a functional theory of mind and who doesn’t. Equating “painstakingly earning the trust of a different species” with “it always tells me I’m a nice special boy :)” is toddler shit, actually
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This whole AI thing has been a stellar resource for categorizing people into who has a functional theory of mind and who doesn’t. Equating “painstakingly earning the trust of a different species” with “it always tells me I’m a nice special boy :)” is toddler shit, actually
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put me down as thinking this will be used as a very vicious and likely effective harassment tactic but will succeed in denaturalizing almost no one
The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.
What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
put me down as thinking this will be used as a very vicious and likely effective harassment tactic but will succeed in denaturalizing almost no one
I for one am very ready to enter a world where we stop pretending the US does regime change for the benefit of anything that resembles “freedom”
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I for one am very ready to enter a world where we stop pretending the US does regime change for the benefit of anything that resembles “freedom”
Someone on stream last week asked my spiciest political take and here it is:
The insistent and proud ignorance among Democrats re guns is indistinguishable as a rhetorical tool from Republicans’ proud ignorance about everything else (often including guns), and it doesn’t help our gun problem.
The insistent and proud ignorance among Democrats re guns is indistinguishable as a rhetorical tool from Republicans’ proud ignorance about everything else (often including guns), and it doesn’t help our gun problem.
Walz: "To watch people word salad - there's too damn many guns & wrong types of guns on the street. I don't want to hear 'how do you define assault weapon?' I damn sure can tell you what it does & unfortunately we have a bunch of parents now who know a lot more about what these weapons do"
December 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Someone on stream last week asked my spiciest political take and here it is:
The insistent and proud ignorance among Democrats re guns is indistinguishable as a rhetorical tool from Republicans’ proud ignorance about everything else (often including guns), and it doesn’t help our gun problem.
The insistent and proud ignorance among Democrats re guns is indistinguishable as a rhetorical tool from Republicans’ proud ignorance about everything else (often including guns), and it doesn’t help our gun problem.
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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It is remarkable to me that LLMs capable of churning out effectively infinite amount of text have existed for several years now and the damning fact is not one of them has produced a text so far that a meaningful number of people wanted to read.
Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?
Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It is remarkable to me that LLMs capable of churning out effectively infinite amount of text have existed for several years now and the damning fact is not one of them has produced a text so far that a meaningful number of people wanted to read.
Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?
Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?
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to be clear, it is fine if you just want to dick around! that's what i mostly do on here. but the idea that "you're giving up the fight to influence people by not using X" is belied by the fact that effectively *no one* uses X. and i don't see any of the "use X!" people on tiktok or youtube.
December 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
to be clear, it is fine if you just want to dick around! that's what i mostly do on here. but the idea that "you're giving up the fight to influence people by not using X" is belied by the fact that effectively *no one* uses X. and i don't see any of the "use X!" people on tiktok or youtube.
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i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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obsessed with people who are like “Mr president stop, you’re not your compassionate self right now”
December 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
obsessed with people who are like “Mr president stop, you’re not your compassionate self right now”
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There will be a cohort of children born that will be known as the It Happened Party Babies. A microgeneration conceived in joy that hasn't been seen since 1945.
I do not think the right is remotely prepared for the scale of celebration that we’ll see When It Happens
December 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There will be a cohort of children born that will be known as the It Happened Party Babies. A microgeneration conceived in joy that hasn't been seen since 1945.
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Now, let's see who exactly is behind this singular, beloved piece of cultural media
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Now, let's see who exactly is behind this singular, beloved piece of cultural media
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I’m just an anti-popularist at this point. I think these people misunderstand politics to such a fundamental degree it’s a category error.
December 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I’m just an anti-popularist at this point. I think these people misunderstand politics to such a fundamental degree it’s a category error.
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glenn beck *sobbing*: please sir. i am begging for a light in the darkness. what has happened to our beautiful country??
AI george washington *tilting around head like a tv with motion smoothing on* : Great question! America’s political problems aren’t just unprecedented—They’re downright scary!
AI george washington *tilting around head like a tv with motion smoothing on* : Great question! America’s political problems aren’t just unprecedented—They’re downright scary!
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
glenn beck *sobbing*: please sir. i am begging for a light in the darkness. what has happened to our beautiful country??
AI george washington *tilting around head like a tv with motion smoothing on* : Great question! America’s political problems aren’t just unprecedented—They’re downright scary!
AI george washington *tilting around head like a tv with motion smoothing on* : Great question! America’s political problems aren’t just unprecedented—They’re downright scary!