Michael Hunter
@michaelchunter.bsky.social
Computer science, math, progressive politics, and deeply nerdy things.
Of all the dumb ideas in the world, this is certainly one of them.
Using artificial intelligence to identify Congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system. n.pr/48mmSlu
An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress
Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Of all the dumb ideas in the world, this is certainly one of them.
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Fuel for my long held view that executives provide very little value and should be compensated around the middle of their org pay scale
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Fuel for my long held view that executives provide very little value and should be compensated around the middle of their org pay scale
Also, murder is illegal. Probably lots of places in maritime law.
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Also, murder is illegal. Probably lots of places in maritime law.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
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On one side of the ledger, we have half a trillion dollars in operating losses expected over the next 5 years.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
On one side of the ledger, we have half a trillion dollars in operating losses expected over the next 5 years.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
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Is it a 'masculine value' to melt down about some new fake shit every week?
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Is it a 'masculine value' to melt down about some new fake shit every week?
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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The only thing better than dinner-party fun fact pedantry is being able to out-pedant someone else.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The only thing better than dinner-party fun fact pedantry is being able to out-pedant someone else.
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* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
In Search of Van Halen's Brown M&Ms
Contract riders and the meaning of a modern pop star
snackstack.net
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
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ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
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The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Yes Elizabeth Warren, but also, no shit!!! Does Harvard really want to wait for an outside pressure campaign before doing the VERY OBVIOUSLY right thing here?
Elizabeth Warren has urged Harvard to oust Larry Summers after revelations that he solicited advice from Jeffrey Epstein on how to abuse his position and coerce his mentee to have sex with him.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Urges Harvard to Cut Ties With Summers After Epstein Emails Surface | News | The Harvard Crimson
Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren (D-Mass.) urged Harvard to cut ties with former University President Lawrence Summers after newly released emails revealed years of personal correspondence between Summers and...
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Yes Elizabeth Warren, but also, no shit!!! Does Harvard really want to wait for an outside pressure campaign before doing the VERY OBVIOUSLY right thing here?
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“COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.”
“China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”
“China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”
As U.S. and E.U. Retreat on Climate, China Takes the Leadership Role
As U.N. talks get underway, China is emerging as a key leader in international climate efforts. It is empowering the global energy transition, and along with India and Brazil, is becoming the driving ...
e360.yale.edu
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.”
“China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”
“China is helping enable the energy transition, while the U.S. tries to force countries to buy U.S. oil and gas. Global trends favor China.”
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
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imagine defending your role in getting a pedophile elected like this. in public.
listen asking if Ms Rachel was Hamas or if Mamdani's aunt actually exists is JOURNALISM.
Sitting president in active pedophilia gang having thanksgiving dinner at the White House?? that's not news. C'mon.
listen asking if Ms Rachel was Hamas or if Mamdani's aunt actually exists is JOURNALISM.
Sitting president in active pedophilia gang having thanksgiving dinner at the White House?? that's not news. C'mon.
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
imagine defending your role in getting a pedophile elected like this. in public.
listen asking if Ms Rachel was Hamas or if Mamdani's aunt actually exists is JOURNALISM.
Sitting president in active pedophilia gang having thanksgiving dinner at the White House?? that's not news. C'mon.
listen asking if Ms Rachel was Hamas or if Mamdani's aunt actually exists is JOURNALISM.
Sitting president in active pedophilia gang having thanksgiving dinner at the White House?? that's not news. C'mon.
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btw these people have a podcast that is recorded currently. The Origins Podcast which is part of the Origins Project which received 2 million dollars (at least) of seed money from Epstein.
So yeah.
So yeah.
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
btw these people have a podcast that is recorded currently. The Origins Podcast which is part of the Origins Project which received 2 million dollars (at least) of seed money from Epstein.
So yeah.
So yeah.
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Trump's judicial nominees refused to say that Biden won the 2020 election or that a violent mob attacked the Capitol on January 6. And several Senate Ds voted for these people to become federal judges. Not great!
This morning Demand Justice unveiled a new analysis that found 27 of Trump's judicial nominees have provided dishonest and misleading answers about the 2020 election and January 6th.
Read the groundbreaking report here:
demandjustice.org/new-report-f...
Read the groundbreaking report here:
demandjustice.org/new-report-f...
New Report From Demand Justice: Pattern Of Dishonesty And Evasion From Trump Judicial Nominees - Demand Justice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 11, 2025 CONTACT: [email protected] NEW REPORT FROM DEMAND JUSTICE: PATTERN OF DISHONESTY AND EVASION FROM TRUMP JUDICIAL NOMINEES Washington, DC – Today Demand Ju...
demandjustice.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trump's judicial nominees refused to say that Biden won the 2020 election or that a violent mob attacked the Capitol on January 6. And several Senate Ds voted for these people to become federal judges. Not great!
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat