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Marcos Huerta

@marcoshuerta.com
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Past: PhD in Astrophysics from Rice University -> Science policy at the US Department of Energy. 
Present: Data scientist living in Virginia. I am also on Mastodon, @marcoshuerta@vmst.io marcoshuerta.com

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 14h
I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.
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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 04/10/2026
There will not be a nuclear reactor on the moon in 2030 or 2036 or even 2050. We can’t build these things on cost and on time on earth; it is farcical to think anyone will ever build one on the moon.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're a woman who plays EA Sports CFB or Madden, I wanna talk to you! And if you're a woman who loves football and don't play those games, I also wanna hear from you! Working on a piece on football, the sports video games, and well, US! RESHARES APPRECIATED
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 01/10/2026
Jim Crane had an analytics-driven team, fresh off winning the 2022 World Series, and I guess decided he didn’t like the data nerds getting all the glory. He ditched Click, started listening to ex-players like Bagwell, and tanked the franchise. He’s now the Houston Jerry Jones.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 29/09/2026
This doesn't seem … good?
Bar chart showing Anthropic negative earnings increasingly negative to -$42 billion in FY 2025.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with the amazing @emilyriederer.bsky.social about a deep dive into election data! We chat data quality! Headless browser automation! Connections to EHR data! It’s great.
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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Had so much fun chatting with @lucystats.bsky.social and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social about gnarly real world data wrangling — from elections to EHRs and beyond! Show link below! Meanwhile, I’m live-posting of my latest civic data eng sidequests here bsky.app/profile/emil...
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James V. Grimaldi @jamesvgrimaldi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kennedy Center shelved roof-leak repairs — and then said the building should be closed because of, yes, roof leaks www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/a... via @NYTimes
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Players to lead MLB in AVG, OBP and SLG in the Divisional Era (since 1969) 2026: Yordan Alvarez 2025: Aaron Judge 2013: Miguel Cabrera 2002: Barry Bonds 1999: Larry Walker 1980: George Brett
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 26/09/2026
LLMs aren’t too smart, they’re too dumb - resorting to hacking web sites when given basic information retrieval tasks? Would love more details on the exact requests/prompts and why there were no human intervention steps. (A prompt can never be trusted to constrain LLM behavior!)
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told
US judge reviews deal with California, says it must not be result of collusion.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Elon Musk's site is evil and no one should use it share.google/M2iaQnTl2oMw...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 14/09/2026
”… X, the burnerverse’s platform of choice, is famously subject to little moderation. Since Elon Musk acquired [X] .. its algorithm has regularly boosted racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic content, making it the ideal petri dish for a coordinated harassment campaign.”
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm sorry, a free what of what?
Costco ad seen at the store: 1 free Bucket of Mayonnaise with your first online order
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Shel Winkley @shelwinkleywx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Texas is baking today. But the grid can handle it. ERCOT dashboard: 57.8% of power demand is being met by solar and wind right now. That means less than half of today's demand relies on sources that create heat-trapping emissions. #txwx
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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The fact that Sark hasn't ordered Ted Cruz carried out of the stadium is a fireable offense
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Collin S @cseguin03.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Ted Cruz Curse
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 03/09/2026
The top-two primary has proven itself to be one of the single worst electoral reforms imaginable, achieving none of its goals while creating a huge host of problems. Yet some people want to bring it to MA, and the only poll shows it passing.
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 31/08/2026
Why didn’t I put an airtag on the diaper bag? 😱
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
I think I can say categorically: there is not a single prominent right-wing media figure, including many that regularly campaign with & for Republican candidates, who has not said worse things than the worst thing Hasan Piker has ever said on at least a weekly basis. Why does no one care?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On the Jeffries imbroglio, it looks at the very least like he got played for a sucker; to regain trust, he’d have to debrief House Dems and free them to talk to the press (or just discuss the Kushner meeting directly). But it’s a bad omen. www.offmessage.net/p/hakeem-jef...
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We Need To Hear From Jeffries
He needs to be drawing redlines, not signaling compromise. Did he get snookered, or does he really intend to work cooperatively with thieves?
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 19/08/2026
Check out the Mariners subreddit; it's shifted to 95% nautical mariner posts.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
welcome to the field of dreams, an homage to a movie revolving around men banned for life from baseball for gambling. brought to you by fanduel
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We passed this law - and make no mistake, it is a law, not just an option for the Treasury department to interpret - to ensure people wouldn't hide their identities in nests of LLCs to launder money. Treasury is protecting criminals with this action. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
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FinCEN Permanently Ends Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements for Millions of Small Business Owners
Will Delete Information Previously Reported by U.S. PersonsWASHINGTON––Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a final rule that permanent...
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Degenerates like Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and RFK Jr. should not be effectively immune (civilly, politically) for defaming civil servants—or any civilians—for propaganda or fundraising purposes. What they're doing to Anthony Fauci right now is horrifying. As things stand, they'll get away with it.
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Republicans Should Suffer For Their Smears
There should be consequences, from civil liability to expulsion from Congress, for lying about citizens for propaganda or fundraising purposes.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/08/2026
"Today, everyone sees the name Taylor Farms and suddenly becomes the Hercule Poirot of the commode. You had our guacamole at noon. You experienced what you describe as a bowel emergency of unprecedented violence at 12:07. Case closed, you say."
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When You Really Think About It, Everything Makes You Poop (by Taylor Farms)
“Today, everyone sees the name Taylor Farms and suddenly becomes the Hercule Poirot of the commode. You had our guacamole at noon. You experienced what you d...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's just insane that the president tells absurd, easily disproven lies on a daily basis, and at this point we all just expect it.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
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Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 03/08/2026
“You are right to be upset. I ordered you 10 blizzards when you asked for a burger. I violated every principle I was given. I panicked instead of thinking.”
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This Fauci hearing is the biggest explosion of right wing brainworms I've ever seen. Years of debunked and absurd antivax and "gain of function" conspiracy theories expressed as incoherent screaming at an 85 year old man. It's absolutely demented and embarrassing to watch.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
O’Neal helped purge me & all the other Black full-time staff columnists at the Post Opinion Section. I challenged his move to fire me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. And he testified against me in June. We are expecting an arbitration ruling soon. Convenient time for him to quit.
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Marcos Huerta @marcoshuerta.com · 30/07/2026
This is why Senate Democrats should not vote for any CR until Trump releases every dollar he has stolen from blue states, universities, the CFPB, etc. This is not a government that deserves to be funded as if it’s normal.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Well, whatever quasi-tornado just tore through my neighborhood in Northwest brought down a lot of trees and branches. That had 2012-derecho energy, for those of you who remember.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/07/2026
@smencimer.bsky.social has never had a problem with the IRS. So she was surprised in May when she was told she suddenly owed a lot of money. "After reviewing the cryptic letter, we realized that we did not, in fact, owe any." But the issue has yet to be resolved. She's still on the phone, waiting.
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The IRS is imploding.
The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”
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