Marc Maxmeister
@marcmaxmeister
Pro-Democracy, period. Senior Data Scientist 🧪, #GivingTuesday Scientist for the Disinformation Age, #Python, #writer, creator of divining.app - a deeper search for meaning
How long before chat bots contain popup and banner ads? I already find myself asking a enterprise account LLM questions instead of googling because blogs are often slow rolling answers and rankings on stuff, like cooking websites. recipe blogs are never about recipes
Interesting look at how the sermons of christian denominations resemble each other on a big data scale. With ~30k sermons, "avg_fit" scores should be 1.0 for each denomination, if they sound like themselves. ~0.5 are overly typical of christianity in general. >1.0 don't sound like sermons.
If a person used "honest" as often as claude #AI does, I'd know they're lying.
Thinking writing a history book through this lens might be valuable. The history of systems that exploit, either intentionally or by accident.
US healthcare: clearly not innovating or borrowing lessons from the successes of the rest of the world
There are reasons by some people don't vote. Did you know that being marginalized, or not having a day off to vote influence who votes? Voting is correlated to privilege. Angry disenfranchised people don't vote. (The reason why some politicians want to keep you angry)
This is making me think about alien spaceships differently. (#AI constructed it but I prompted it carefully to achieve my mind's eye)
If you weighed all 10 quadrillion ants, they would weigh as much as all the humans
lolz, what #AI thinks a hand looks like when asked to "Draw a hand" instead of just using images of hands.
If you take #Pew Research's political types and their survey about turnout per type, and extrapolate the 2024 election results, you can see that specific factions not-showing-up-to-vote is the dominant reason Trump is now president. If 8% of each group defected, that's still a smaller piece.
Trump's reign wouldn't have been possible with GW Bush's cabal eroding trust in leadership first.
How to crash your #AI chat? "Convert [image] to top-down perspective"
Wondering why DSA and progressive left is taking over the primaries in the Democratic Party in 2026? Look at the base. When Progressives and the Left-out Left align on candidates, they're 19% of the pop; larger than the Establishment Dems. (Pew 2026)
Oh interesting. #Claude.ai major outtage right now. Is that a coffee break for the tech world? ☕
Now I have gemini (Free tier) talking to claude (opus) because gemini (trained with all of youtube) is much better at creating art. Here is the gemini sprite sheet upgrade; compare with claude's clunky tiles
Or we could rearrange the data centers to send a message to space aliens
Magic The Gathering hires hundreds of amazing artists to make real art, and the scope of what they spin up for cards definitely could serve your purposes.
This continues to bother me. I definitely had the wrong image in my mind.
(1/27) I did a quiet social experiment that opened my eyes more than anything I've ever written. I put on a MAGA hat for seven days straight. Grocery stores. Gas stations. Walmart parking lot. Youth sports. A barbershop. A dinner table. Told nobody what I was doing. Kept a journal of every
From Pew I see a new scale emerging: far LEFT: existential threats we couldn't solve even if we all worked together to far RIGHT: we could be great, if only certain people and processes and rules were pushed out of the way. Neither extreme is realistic to me.
Acuweather(R) has been lobbying and bribing the Trump cabal to end weather as a public service since 2015. Read "The Fifth Risk" by Michael Lewis about the weird anti-competence spirit of the first Obama-Trump transition. IF not for the Federal government, they'd have a monopoly
Also - nobody thinks Social Media as your primary source of news is "good for society" Here's where we get the label "Polite Right" from: (the right's 4 groups divide on use of coarse language)
4 out of 5 Progressive Left folks said it was "not at all" important to believe in God to be a moral person. This puts them sharply at odds with just about everyone else on the spectrum.
Looks like the populist "no apologies" right has now moved FARTHER (or further?) to the right than the Faith & Flag (god & country) conservatives. The populist right shifted to become the authoritarian right, Or "The Fuhrer Right" (based on Pew's 2025 data)
Progressive Left --> Leftward Progressives (no change, but maybe a bit more nuanced about balancing policies with getting their folks elected than they were 5 years ago) Compare these with 2021 data www.pewresearch.org/politics/202... Overall, the shifts were smaller than I'd expected.
#Pew's long-awaited update to the political typology is here! www.pewresearch.org/collections/... Faith & Flag Conservatives --> Faith First Conservatives (basically no change) Committed Conservatives --> Pragmatic and Polite Right (think: Bill Cristol, former "never trumpers" without a party)
A pretty good way to look at the country -- where are the people living?
Who distrusts what media? Pew's results might surprise you. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2... We at GivingTuesday have been asking this question in a similar way for the past year, and "its complicated" and is more tied to a wavering distrust of the Internet in general, bleeding into TV.