amaialm

Australian–Basque nomad. Passionate about learning, reading, music, traveling, and experiencing life through other people’s eyes. Drawn to profound questions.

[The Rest Is Politics @RestIsPolitics]

How is AI turning us into the intellectual equivalent of a cow? 🐮

@harari_yuval explains.

[amaialm @amaialm]

We spend so much time searching for complex answers when simple, working solutions are already living within our own communities and with people with good habits around us.

​The Sternins’ work with mothers in Vietnam is such a powerful example: don't explain the theory—just put people next to the ones already doing the actual thing.

It's an inspiring story. ​It's a nudge to:

1) Not give up; there is great potential for positive results and actions

2) Take a step back, breathe, and look around (or contact people who are addressing issues with good results) and talk to them.

3) Balance our attention diets: less focusing on macro-doom, more observing the "positive deviants" right beside us.

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[amaialm @amaialm]

Any analysis done before sharing fear? Just curious why is this a big surprise... you can check auickly that the behaviours you exposé are not anormal on any LLM: The risks mentioned (reward hacking, tool abuse, hallucination under pressure) are real safety concerns that researchers are working to fix, but the framing implies an emergent, conscious "rogue AI" rather than a complex statistical system executing bad code paths.... if it's honest shock.. just analyse things before posting. If your objective is to spread fear.... ok.. you are doing exactly that.

[amaialm @amaialm]

@CJHandmer Thanks for sharing ! ..

[amaialm @amaialm]

Impressive video. Great early warning

@cyantist on point.

Signed,

Sorgiña platypus

[Cyan Banister @cyantist]

This isn't technically correct. It's human shot himself by asking the robot to pretend and role play. The issue is that the robots shouldn't want to harm humans even if pretending.

[amaialm @amaialm]

@cyantist Thanks for sharing

[amaialm @amaialm]

Well balanced feedback about your perspective and respectful. Thanks @Aella for sharing and informed and well argumented perspective.

It is a matter that does go beyond politics.

It is about what public behaviors are acceptable and supported. Beyond right or left.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

I've always been in between both political parties. Both the right and the left hate me. I'm a sex worker, but I've personally been the target of a bunch mass cancellation attempts by the left during the woke wars. I thought the BLM protests were kinda dumb (based on a factually incorrect premise), I think most people protesting Gaza are people who suspiciously seem to not care about other human rights violations, some worse and better documented.

It's one thing when dumb leftist mobs make false, easily disprovable claims. It's another thing when the current administration does it. I have WAY higher standards for the people in positions of physical force over us, the people who control the military.

The current administration appears to be hacking away at some of the things I thought everyone found sacred - our rights, our freedoms, and in some cases the process of democracy itself. I dismissed a lot of the early fears around this because they came from leftist factions who were hysterical about extremely stupid or false things, but I am increasingly horrified to find out that on this specific topic they unfortunately were right.

We've moved past this being a normal left vs right issue - this is now entering the kind of territory that both left and right should agree is too far. We need our battlegrounds fair, our use of force measures, our leaders trustworthy. Even if we disagree with them hugely there should be some level of integrity. For example I think Mamdani is economically insane and will destroy prosperity in NY if given the chance and my heart breaks for the city - but he still plays fair, and as far as I can tell hasn't behaved in unethical or dishonest ways.

I want the right to have a better leader, and I want the right to recognize they need a better leader, one that can fight illegal immigration and protect gun rights and keep taxes low and still, also, be a good person who takes the institution of government to be sacred. Otherwise the right will fail in the long term. This is not a winning strategy.

[amaialm @amaialm]

@CJHandmer Congratulations

[amaialm @amaialm]

Worth it.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A two-minute must watch on life.

[amaialm @amaialm]

@BillAckman Thanks for sharing.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A two-minute must watch on life.

[amaialm @amaialm]

Wow! Beautiful, fun and powerful.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is brilliant.
♥️ 🎶🎻

[amaialm @amaialm]

@JamesMelville Loved it. Thanks

[amaialm @amaialm]

@TrevorNoah on disappointed Trump voters waiting out the storm. Spot-on, funny—adorable as ever.

https://t.co/GFesCNotvY

Villains steal openly; others as sheep. Voters demanded change from lagging systems, chronic issues.

Results? ACA subsidies expiring (2.2M at risk), tariffs reshaping trade, tax cuts extended with refunds—but remorse rising

Modern path: Reform global finance (debt/SDGs), ethical tech, community action. Stop politician distractions—make them focus on us. Let's jijutsu them...like i see smart organisations are doing.

Examples: working with journalists on keeping the focus on the real matters. 

Some.examples : satirits in the US do not get distracted and keep the focus on the Einsten mess. If you analyse why Trump.has gone for Venezuela.. a big part is drama and shifting attention... and causing more fear at a huge cost.

Locally in my area.. when NGOs dont get financing they work with press and jkurnalists to show the rubish building up and that subsidies are going to the wrong places and pockets

Smart PR scores aid (Lurpe Garbia); free meals via "cocinas solidarias."  We need more coverage, and good story telling around the things that require focus.

Villain  addicts, sells—but it is unhealthy... and it risks showing that villain behaviour is the way forward.

Lets stop the villains (also the ones dressed as sheep).

Hunt local good near you.

Don't let mind-trickers abuse yours.😉

Sorgiña platypus 🧙‍♀️🐣

[amaialm @amaialm]

@Aella_Girl Thanks for sharing. Any one can en up in a pitp, sometimes of our our doing sometimes due to unforseen circumstances, sometimes a mix. U have gone through a lot. I hope you are kind to yourself, give yourself the time to heal... as you get back on your feet. All the best. Hugs

[amaialm @amaialm]

Wow

[Cyan Banister @cyantist]

Shit. I only have one bucket

[amaialm @amaialm]

🌊 Data's Wild Dance: Economist 2025 Insights for 2026 Sapiens

My dad brought my sisters and me up reading The Economist, taking us fishing, and teaching us how to put the worm on the hook, clean the fish, or change a tire. I guess he would have enjoyed having a boy... he had five chirpy girls instead. It must have felt like living in a hen's den sometimes for him.

Interesting and insightful - the Economist's "Year in Data" has come out with stunning visuals on Gaza's 53.5M tonnes rubble (imagine 10K Olympic pools of heartbreak) and Trudeau's shock 22% poll crash.

But critique: light on sources, Western-heavy (where's Asia/Africa?).

Key insights unpacked:

Politics dual-speed: Sudden falls (Trudeau) vs. slow burns (EU hard-right up since 2015)—biz lesson: model both for Trump-era volatility.

Rebuild reality: Post-war rubble dwarfs budgets; data demands human grit stories.

Culture's code: Poem rhymes fading, slang exploding—Gen Z invents faster than polls predict.

Joy in numbers: NYC rats routed by bins; "Ratatouille" babies booming. Data dances.

In AI/quantum floods, lean too numeric and wipeout—like windsurfing a rogue wave.

Txakoli truth: crisp stats need Basque-earth soul. Balance wins.

Your turn (reflect + laugh): What is the biggest data miss needing heart in your world?

Rat-bin win or election blindspot?

Please Spill critically! 👇

Link to the article here: https://t.co/SHLBFjcXsh?

Signed,

Amaia Sorgiña Platypus

[amaialm @amaialm]

Thanks @marwilliamson for pointing some basics out there.

Run things like they are running things internally down to the ground?.

Gaslighting is a good metaphore for what is going on.

[Marianne Williamson @marwilliamson]

"We're going to run things."

Like we ran Iraq, helping create ISIS? Like we ran Afghanistan, empowering the Taliban?

"We're going to run things" is not a plan. It's a gaslight.
https://t.co/gWEfcLr7SA

[amaialm @amaialm]

Why?

I do not get it. Is the US not just doing what Putin did in Crimea and afterwards the rest of Ukraine? With a poor excuse?

If China evaluates they can take China, this would be setting the example to move ahead and not follow any international agreements, no?

Could you clarify your claim?

[amaialm @amaialm]

Thanks for making sense. The justification of these actions are avoiding a serious debate about what is really going on.

Smoke and mirrors.

It feels like the try to distract us by throwing bread and lies... like in Roman times.

Will it work. Will the current administration become more popular due to these actions?