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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

PEPFAR was one good program Trump and DOGE and Elon failed to destroy. Despite trying, congress continued to fund it at historic levels (~$5-7B a year). It shows congress is complicit in every other cut they achieved. Because of PEPFAR, 8 million babies born HIV-free. www.kff.org/global-healt...

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The Trump Administration's Foreign Aid Review: Status of PEPFAR | KFF

Fact sheet examining actions taken by the Trump administration and their impact on PEPFAR.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Love this statistic: "99.9% of all US businesses are small businesses." and "83% of all small businesses have no employees." Every politician's statement about helping "hardworking americans" and "small businesses" can mean nothing. At least nothing like you think it means.

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The fact that Republicans are accusing Ukraine of interfering with US elections by attacking a MOSCOW, RUSSIA data center kinda says it all, doesn't it? Republicans are traitors. Zelenksyy just pulled a W we can't even fathom yet. #OperationQuietPiggy #SlavaUkraini ✊🇺🇦

A social media post with text about Ukraine targeting Russian bot farms above a photo of people watching a large fire and billowing black smoke rising from a forest.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If @anonymous knew these were key pieces in the information age wars, why can't cyber attacks be effective against them everyday? Just asking as a curious pro-democracy bystander.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ukraine took out 2 huge data centers, and just like that--POOF! Pro-Trump/MAGA posts on US social media plummeted. Same happened to posts boosting Germany's far-right AfD. The primary function of those Bots is to boost groups Putin believes will destabilize the west. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response ...

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#MTGA Reality Fracture #FRA -- why the red Ajani is the best card in the set to draft. You. can (a) wipe. theboard (b) draw 6 cards and (c) attack for 30 over 4 turns in a regular game. #magicthegathering

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As a Panthers fan, I remember. I was there. I voted for the other options. Reapers would have been awesome. Even Lynx. I'd accept Tarheels, because it would be unique... but on social media there are always like 5 Panthers sports teams to disambiguate.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is this the new moderate? And the current GOP candidate for Governor of Colorado just said he'd have his opponent executed by hanging, just because he disagrees with him.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There was a race in India some years back between Einstein and Hitler. This is a global game of telephone. Somebody hears about a powerful leader and takes the name, not knowing any more.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think DATA was probably one of the few interesting attempts to explore AI. It obviously came along with some weird internal prompt engineering (obsessed with becoming more human), but I enjoyed watching the journey. Wesley, we can agree, was some producer's bad idea

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The "political spectrum" changes over time, differs from one country to the next (but not entirely), and is generally not a great measuring stick to compare ideas across centuries.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Has anyone else noticed that too many sci-fi writers embrace petty despots in their distant future imagined worlds? If anything, systems get more complex over time and it's less likely a lone ruler can be individually responsible. We should crave more stories about systemetic evils.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pew's Political Types would not support this. A lot of people swing around the center, and it isn't stable, and they're less ideological in general, making them harder for ideologues to influence.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I visited Russia in 1991, and I would say, even then, regular people were far less well informed about the world than Americans were. But since the Internet began, Americans have closed that "ignorance gap"

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Or when they're more obviously losing the conventional war, why not intimidate?

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would love to write a Trump biography that only tracks his life choices of (a) accepting/giving bribes vs (b) his snobbery for stuff or any other value he might have. It would be revealing how lust for power cuts against anything he might ever have been.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Case in point: The amount of money the big 5 AI companies spent on R&D this year alone (2026) would have been more than enough to end poverty worldwide, at least for this year.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is the quote that convinced me this guy is for real. A lot of politicians parrot their parties oft-repeated cliches, but real leaders drive new insights and framing out of the old

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Beuerlein, better than I remember!

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bryce young. And this should matter because he played against some decent defenses. Did you see some of those tight spaces he threw into last night?

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

already an improvement, despite years of being a pretty below average QB on every measure. He looks improved to me. And yesterday he was 70%+

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He seems a little above average at evading sacks, given their below average line play as of late. I'll take that. He's also so much more accurate than Cam ever was, who finish with a career success rate below 60%.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

well Jesus was an Egyptian immigrant, by ICE's standards

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All of this matters because we're witnessing the same phenomenon, only 10X worse, with #AI flat-world-pitchers who are silent about a billion people "made redundant" and what anger they'll bring to politics.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This reddit comment (about the book) from 14 years ago was totally on point: Thomas Friedman is the perfect example of what Yasheng Huang hilariously calls an "airportologist" - Westerners who draw sweeping conclusions about countries seemingly on the basis of their airport terminals.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I think of best selling Airport terminal books that were completely naive/wrong: Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat" comes up. The book completely failed to recognize all of the economic forces that gave us Brexit, MAGA, and caste of discarded workers - the ignored work force.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What's the deal with New York State zip3 code randomness? According to google search AI, the USPS assigned numbers sequentially along historic railway and highway mail routes radiating out from New York City and Albany, rather than in a strict geographical grid.

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Barchart @barchart.com · 30/09/2026

BREAKING 🚨: Housing Market The largest mortgage lender in the United States, United Wholesale Mortgage, just fell to its lowest closing price in history after trading red for an 8th straight month, its longest losing streak ever! 📉 🏡

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I didn't know oil stockpiles are seasonal -- what is the reason? Seems to be highest in the Feb-April range? Less traveling in the Winter? Except for 2020 - Covid-19 lockdown clearly present.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been saying this since 2016. If an elected leader speaks from a podium, that's no news. Context is news. Consequences of actions are news. Laws are news. Chatter is a distraction.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also -- I attended your church in 2007, post Katrina. Love your community!

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@firstuuneworleans.bsky.social I can see you have a youtube channel -- www.youtube.com/@FirstUUChur... but no podcast. I can't include you in divining.app because of youtube's restrictions. If you want your content added, you just need to say the word and I'll show you the way churches manage...

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First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think he deliberately "doesn't get it" in order to confuse the public and blur the lines until people believe there is no existing mechanism that supports people and provides services. Then everything can be private. (not Trump's plan; it is what his Nerd Reich handlers want)

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DOGE succeeded wildly in executing Project2025. USAID got killed. And then most of OECD countries cut THEIR funding to match, because they were just doing it out of pressure from the US, it turns out. It can be reversed, but the harm done already is huge.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interesting... the NRA gets categorized as "Crime & Legal-Related" in the national taxonomy (NTEE) of nonprofit cause areas. I think they enabled more than they've prevented, but that's only based on looking at every other country. So I could be wrong.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love a guy who barely wins every election. Keeps him focused on finding out what people need most -- I wish he could shadow Mamdani for a day too and elevate his instincts.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone remember this guy? "During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away ~$6.9 billion in 2025 dollars, almost 90 percent of his fortune, to charities, foundations and universities. Called on the rich to do the same, and supported progressive taxation & the estate tax."

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd agree. IF you want to hear over 30,000 sermons from #UU churches in the 21st century, here's a website I built to organize all that: divining.app?denom=uu

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Divining: a deeper search for meaning

Discover, search & listen to sermons across traditions.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luckily for America's future, just about every person who's lived under a dictator knows full well the people and the government of a nation are totally unconnected. Only Americans insult the people other nations when their governments suck. We gotta unlearn this ourselves.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Xi studied grad school in Iowa in this 20s. There is nothing Trump can show him that would reveal to Xi. Xi has a better handle on what this country is like, from personal experience (of the non-billionaire kind).

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Warning: the link's content is very different from the headline -- and mostly highlights what an impossible claim Yang is making. (a 4 terrabyte model can't hide on a basic web server with 2 cores and 4GB of memory... and any self-replicating code would be small)

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is why I got irked when my "green mutual fund" decided it's top assets would all be AI companies -- the actual eco cost of these companies is huge.

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

yeah right now every mutual fund seems to over index on AI companies, even the "green fund" I bought 20+ years ago to avoid the exact kinds of companies that waste energy and water....

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Marc Maxmeister @marcmaxmeister.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

and I think we haven't begun to feel the consequences of most 2025 decisions yet

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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Inside that American Research Group poll going around 86% rated the National Economy as Bad, Very Bad, or Terrible

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