Marcelo Rinesi
@marcelorinesi.bsky.social
Cognitive architecture designer and consultant.
On https://rinesi.com there are links to my blog and newsletters (one for articles, "what's new on arXiv," etc, the other for original short-short SF).
On https://rinesi.com there are links to my blog and newsletters (one for articles, "what's new on arXiv," etc, the other for original short-short SF).
"We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger than our name."
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Collateral Dreams
We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger than our name. But it was only after my father died and as the lineage chairperson I was…
blog.rinesi.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger than our name."
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
However far they get with this -this isn't an administration that excels at project planning and execution--the impact of this type of "AI-driven science acceleration" has consistently been negative[1], so I believe it'll further harm the already weakened US scientific system. 1/
via @jmberger.com
via @jmberger.com
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
However far they get with this -this isn't an administration that excels at project planning and execution--the impact of this type of "AI-driven science acceleration" has consistently been negative[1], so I believe it'll further harm the already weakened US scientific system. 1/
via @jmberger.com
via @jmberger.com
As another example of the Trump-Milei[-Musk-etc] axis - the Argentine government has created a "National Agency of Migration" that explicitly references the CBP as one of its models.
FWIW, very few in Argentina -mostly the most online Mileists- are even... 1/
FWIW, very few in Argentina -mostly the most online Mileists- are even... 1/
“Cambio de paradigma”: para reforzar las fronteras, el Gobierno crea la Policía Migratoria
El Ministerio de Seguridad presentará mañana la flamante Agencia Nacional de Migraciones (ANM)
www.lanacion.com.ar
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
As another example of the Trump-Milei[-Musk-etc] axis - the Argentine government has created a "National Agency of Migration" that explicitly references the CBP as one of its models.
FWIW, very few in Argentina -mostly the most online Mileists- are even... 1/
FWIW, very few in Argentina -mostly the most online Mileists- are even... 1/
In further Suspicious Nonhuman Behavior News...
North Atlantic alert as orcas begin targeting commercial ships in what experts describe as coordinated attacks
What began as rare encounters off the Iberian coast now shows up in captain’s logs from Galicia to the Strait of Gibraltar, and in wary chatter on VHF.
www.reteuro.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In further Suspicious Nonhuman Behavior News...
I wasn't at the right time and place to have one of these --my first computer, at age 5, was a Brazilian clone of a ZX Spectrum[1]-- but it's philosophically much closer to how I see computers than most things I see today[2].
[1] All... 1/
by @lproven.bsky.social
[1] All... 1/
by @lproven.bsky.social
LisaGUI recreates Apple's innovative computer OS, without emulating it
LisaGUI recreates Apple's innovative computer OS, without emulating it
Somewhere between a cover version and a loving homage of the interface that helped shape the modern desktop
LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from that system.…
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I wasn't at the right time and place to have one of these --my first computer, at age 5, was a Brazilian clone of a ZX Spectrum[1]-- but it's philosophically much closer to how I see computers than most things I see today[2].
[1] All... 1/
by @lproven.bsky.social
[1] All... 1/
by @lproven.bsky.social
If there's one area of AI --in its broadest and truest sense-- I'm optimistic over and fascinated by is mathematics; this sort of thing is very early days, but the combination of world-class mathematicians and increasingly powerful specialized systems will get us far.
Sum-difference exponents for boundedly many slopes, and rational complexity
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/sum-difference-exponents-for-boundedly-many-slopes-and-rational-complexity/
#math #mathematics
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/sum-difference-exponents-for-boundedly-many-slopes-and-rational-complexity/
#math #mathematics
Sum-difference exponents for boundedly many slopes, and rational complexity
Summary: Terence Tao uploads arXiv paper on sum-difference constants, rational complexity, entropy, and projections in bounded slope settings
terrytao.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
If there's one area of AI --in its broadest and truest sense-- I'm optimistic over and fascinated by is mathematics; this sort of thing is very early days, but the combination of world-class mathematicians and increasingly powerful specialized systems will get us far.
A not at all tongue-in-cheek observation is that the Chinese and North Koreans are on the cutting edge of state-level hacking, but nobody -*nobody*- has ever done it like the Russians when it comes to long-term asset development. If you know what I mean.
APT24's Pivot to Multi-Vector Attacks | Google Cloud Blog
PRC-nexus APT24 uses BADAUDIO malware in a persistent, multi-vector espionage campaign targeting Taiwan.
cloud.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A not at all tongue-in-cheek observation is that the Chinese and North Koreans are on the cutting edge of state-level hacking, but nobody -*nobody*- has ever done it like the Russians when it comes to long-term asset development. If you know what I mean.
Part of the planned changes in labor legislation in Argentina would include something like low base salaries + productivity bonuses; while Argentina's labor legislation and culture is (was?) quite... unique --not always in good ways-- the issues with "objective productivity metrics" are obvious.
Analizan impulsar convenios por empresas, cambios en indemnizaciones y la posibilidad de cobrar en pesos, dólares o euros
Se trabaja, además, en flexibilizar los vínculos y modalidades laborales, en crear un banco de horas y en una posible reducción de cargas sociales y condonación de multas, según un borrador al que acc...
www.lanacion.com.ar
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Part of the planned changes in labor legislation in Argentina would include something like low base salaries + productivity bonuses; while Argentina's labor legislation and culture is (was?) quite... unique --not always in good ways-- the issues with "objective productivity metrics" are obvious.
Wish I could take it. I also hope they look later into markets: LLMs are obviously hot these days in language, but I've always had a soft spot for markets as pseudo-minds[1].
[1] i.e. an Azatoth-egregore muttering to itself at high-frequency while the press mistranslates its nonhuman thoughts.
[1] i.e. an Azatoth-egregore muttering to itself at high-frequency while the press mistranslates its nonhuman thoughts.
I'm teaching a new class at Berkeley next semester:
Linguistics 265: Biological and Artificial Language
From the syllabus:
This class is an introduction to a novel approach to language. Linguistics has predominantly focused on
human language.
Linguistics 265: Biological and Artificial Language
From the syllabus:
This class is an introduction to a novel approach to language. Linguistics has predominantly focused on
human language.
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Wish I could take it. I also hope they look later into markets: LLMs are obviously hot these days in language, but I've always had a soft spot for markets as pseudo-minds[1].
[1] i.e. an Azatoth-egregore muttering to itself at high-frequency while the press mistranslates its nonhuman thoughts.
[1] i.e. an Azatoth-egregore muttering to itself at high-frequency while the press mistranslates its nonhuman thoughts.
There's a fragile equilibrium here: the political system under-reacts to these threats because it assumes they won't act on them, and/so they escalate the threats. Question is what happens the first time an enthusiastic FBI Patel guy violently grabs a Senator off the street .
via @jmberger.com
via @jmberger.com
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There's a fragile equilibrium here: the political system under-reacts to these threats because it assumes they won't act on them, and/so they escalate the threats. Question is what happens the first time an enthusiastic FBI Patel guy violently grabs a Senator off the street .
via @jmberger.com
via @jmberger.com
As @edburmila.bsky.social notes, Venezuela's oil reserves aren't really worth it. Trump's US is good at individual-level grift but, as openly rogue as it has gone, it's really incompetent at imperialism.
Mind you, this doesn't make the US any safer for everybody else (or itself).
via @ejfagan.com
Mind you, this doesn't make the US any safer for everybody else (or itself).
via @ejfagan.com
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
As @edburmila.bsky.social notes, Venezuela's oil reserves aren't really worth it. Trump's US is good at individual-level grift but, as openly rogue as it has gone, it's really incompetent at imperialism.
Mind you, this doesn't make the US any safer for everybody else (or itself).
via @ejfagan.com
Mind you, this doesn't make the US any safer for everybody else (or itself).
via @ejfagan.com
"We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger than our name."
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Collateral Dreams
We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger than our name. But it was only after my father died and as the lineage chairperson I was…
blog.rinesi.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger than our name."
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
The article is at the very least disingenuous: its claim to lost productivity refers to a Fed paper that talks about *general investment*; you can't just extrapolate that being slow to replace functional devices hinders productivity (and in many cases older ones work better).
via @jmberger.com
via @jmberger.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The article is at the very least disingenuous: its claim to lost productivity refers to a Fed paper that talks about *general investment*; you can't just extrapolate that being slow to replace functional devices hinders productivity (and in many cases older ones work better).
via @jmberger.com
via @jmberger.com
As it's been said elsewhere, it's tricky to disentangle changes in preferences from changes in the perception of possibility. I'm... 1/1
via @aaronsojourner.org by Dana Braga at @pewresearch.org
via @aaronsojourner.org by Dana Braga at @pewresearch.org
The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids…
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
As it's been said elsewhere, it's tricky to disentangle changes in preferences from changes in the perception of possibility. I'm... 1/1
via @aaronsojourner.org by Dana Braga at @pewresearch.org
via @aaronsojourner.org by Dana Braga at @pewresearch.org
I would love to believe that if Trump went thru with it --say the FBI arrested some of those Dems-- the GOP would get personally scared enough to pull the trigger on impeachment, but I don't. I'm not even sure other Dems would go feral on it.
via @tkeck44.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
via @tkeck44.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I would love to believe that if Trump went thru with it --say the FBI arrested some of those Dems-- the GOP would get personally scared enough to pull the trigger on impeachment, but I don't. I'm not even sure other Dems would go feral on it.
via @tkeck44.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
via @tkeck44.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Watching J6 live from Buenos Aires I joked "if those were Argentineans they'd have entered Congress by now" and then they did. As much as Trump/Muskian politics got Milei the Presidency, Latin American political know-how is not irrelevant to the US now.
via @johncluverius.bsky.social @jmberger.com
via @johncluverius.bsky.social @jmberger.com
#NEW: Gov. Mike Braun said he and his family are among the Republicans targeted in a wave of threats against state officeholders over Indiana redistricting. www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/…
Indiana’s governor and at least 8 lawmakers have been swatted or threatened as state Republicans...
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said he and his family are among the Republicans targeted in a wave of threats against state officeholders this week as President Donald Trump pressures Hoosier State lawmak...
www.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Watching J6 live from Buenos Aires I joked "if those were Argentineans they'd have entered Congress by now" and then they did. As much as Trump/Muskian politics got Milei the Presidency, Latin American political know-how is not irrelevant to the US now.
via @johncluverius.bsky.social @jmberger.com
via @johncluverius.bsky.social @jmberger.com
It's not coincidental for a party that made climate change being a hoax a shibboleth --and a media environment complicit in one way or another-- ended up with RFK Jr and Trump: an organization can choose to be delusional, not control what it is delusional about.
via @wikisteff.bsky.social
via @wikisteff.bsky.social
Trump is so far detached from reality it’s absurd. It’s past time to talk seriously about the 25th Amendment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It's not coincidental for a party that made climate change being a hoax a shibboleth --and a media environment complicit in one way or another-- ended up with RFK Jr and Trump: an organization can choose to be delusional, not control what it is delusional about.
via @wikisteff.bsky.social
via @wikisteff.bsky.social
"We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger than our name."
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Collateral Dreams
blog.rinesi.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"We all knew our lineage owned a star and a bacteria; we also had significant debt with a bank not much younger than our name."
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
#ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
A plausible theory is that the way US security forces have historically treated minorities accustomed media and society to a nonzero level of micro-fascism in a way that makes it difficult to react to escalation.
They have always been in the process of "first coming for the..."
via @jmberger.com
They have always been in the process of "first coming for the..."
via @jmberger.com
The **chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court** called to expand virtual hearings —citing this incident where ICE threatened to smash the window of a judge’s car — because people who work at the courthouses are no longer safe
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A plausible theory is that the way US security forces have historically treated minorities accustomed media and society to a nonzero level of micro-fascism in a way that makes it difficult to react to escalation.
They have always been in the process of "first coming for the..."
via @jmberger.com
They have always been in the process of "first coming for the..."
via @jmberger.com
I can't speaking about the psychology --n=138 isn't a lot-- but performing an experiment that lets you put"The Batman Effect" in the paper title is a brilliant career move. 10/10, no notes.
via @adapalmer.bsky.social
via @adapalmer.bsky.social
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I can't speaking about the psychology --n=138 isn't a lot-- but performing an experiment that lets you put"The Batman Effect" in the paper title is a brilliant career move. 10/10, no notes.
via @adapalmer.bsky.social
via @adapalmer.bsky.social
I still have to read it and look at the data (I had a lot of fun poking at a previous papers' - kudos on their openess) but if nothing else this is the sort of science I'm in love with regardless of how far it gets: how could we not try?
by @begus.bsky.social et al at @projectceti.bsky.social
by @begus.bsky.social et al at @projectceti.bsky.social
Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas
Abstract. The sperm whale communication system, consisting of groups of clicks called codas, has been primarily analyzed in terms of the number of clicks and their inter-click timing. This paper repor...
direct.mit.edu
November 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I still have to read it and look at the data (I had a lot of fun poking at a previous papers' - kudos on their openess) but if nothing else this is the sort of science I'm in love with regardless of how far it gets: how could we not try?
by @begus.bsky.social et al at @projectceti.bsky.social
by @begus.bsky.social et al at @projectceti.bsky.social
Just so we're clear, employee well-being falling and manager well-being rising isn't any sort of mystery - it's what happens in economies with weak worker protection laws and a quasireligious ideology of wealth when worker demand doesn't grow in pace with the labor force.
U.S. employee well-being hit new low in 2024, survey reveals
New research from the Human Capital Development Lab at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School analyzes the state of the American workforce in 2024 and shows an overall decline in employee well-being ...
phys.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just so we're clear, employee well-being falling and manager well-being rising isn't any sort of mystery - it's what happens in economies with weak worker protection laws and a quasireligious ideology of wealth when worker demand doesn't grow in pace with the labor force.
This has powerful real-life impact on people --it will provide further cover to a lot of harm-- but in a way the surreally stark shift is helpful: the US is no longer a sane actor, and the clearer it is to everybody, the faster they'll adjust.
via @ezwez.bsky.social @wikisteff.bsky.social
via @ezwez.bsky.social @wikisteff.bsky.social
Abortion, DEI Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Officials Say
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This has powerful real-life impact on people --it will provide further cover to a lot of harm-- but in a way the surreally stark shift is helpful: the US is no longer a sane actor, and the clearer it is to everybody, the faster they'll adjust.
via @ezwez.bsky.social @wikisteff.bsky.social
via @ezwez.bsky.social @wikisteff.bsky.social
I think @jonmladd.bsky.social 's model (thread) is much closer to the truth, but I suspect an analysis from scratch would recover a less linear topology of vote- and influence-weighted[1] policy preferences.
[1] I'm not a PolSci --I'd... 1/
via @tobiasharris.bsky.social @t0nyyates.bsky.social
[1] I'm not a PolSci --I'd... 1/
via @tobiasharris.bsky.social @t0nyyates.bsky.social
I don't think this is a correct description of America's party system.
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I think @jonmladd.bsky.social 's model (thread) is much closer to the truth, but I suspect an analysis from scratch would recover a less linear topology of vote- and influence-weighted[1] policy preferences.
[1] I'm not a PolSci --I'd... 1/
via @tobiasharris.bsky.social @t0nyyates.bsky.social
[1] I'm not a PolSci --I'd... 1/
via @tobiasharris.bsky.social @t0nyyates.bsky.social
Important to cut this kind of thing at its root - not just because ICE "patrolling" can certainly impact voter behavior, but also because they have already tried to steal an election; "millions of votes from illegals" is going to be the claim before polls close.
via @jonathancohn.bsky.social
via @jonathancohn.bsky.social
Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
Missouri GOP Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Important to cut this kind of thing at its root - not just because ICE "patrolling" can certainly impact voter behavior, but also because they have already tried to steal an election; "millions of votes from illegals" is going to be the claim before polls close.
via @jonathancohn.bsky.social
via @jonathancohn.bsky.social