Indie author & narrative illustrator-examining agency, partnerships & responsibility thru a ruthlessly mechanical lens. Dance. Systems thinking. Floor don't lie
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Angel Criado retweeted
NAILED IT thank you.
🚨 THE GREATEST THREAT TO ELECTION INTEGRITY ISN’T JUST FRAUD, IT’S THE PERMANENT, WELL-FUNDED PROGRESSIVE NGO GROUND MACHINE THAT PHYSICALLY TURNS OUT VOTERS WHILE REPUBLICANS RELY ON ADS, CONSULTANTS, AND TWEETS.
DataRepublican’s Democracy Files Part 16 (“How the Midterms Were Pulled Off”) shows NGOs bragging, in their own words, about the scale of field ops, registration, youth mobilization, and early voting work that made races “too big to rig.”
In Georgia, Melody Oliphant (Executive Director, Georgia Youth Justice Coalition / GYJC) claimed her group knocked more than 19,000 doors and made nearly 49,000 calls, and that this “absolutely made the difference in Georgia.” The flow chart is simple: DONOR → MVP → GYJC → DOORS. GYJC is a progressive youth organizing group (501(c)(4), Abrams-linked ecosystem) that has long done massive campus/door/phone GOTV and claims credit for youth turnout edges.
This is not one-off. It’s institutional, year-round paid and volunteer organizers, data-driven targeting of young/left-leaning voters, pledge cards, campus phone banks, and coordination across groups. Republicans have institutional blindness, endless conferences on “the message” while the other side builds the supply line that gets bodies to the polls. Citizenship verification remains largely an honor system, the biggest swings keep hitting among young voters and other high-intensity demos.
Republicans can counter this NOW:
Build and fund parallel ground operations (door-knocking, phone banking, registration, early-voting drives) instead of treating elections as ad contests.
Engage young conservatives on campuses and in communities with the same relational, consistent organizing (not just social media).
Support effective local and national GOTV groups that prioritize physical contact and voter turnout over pure messaging.
Demand GOP committees and PACs shift resources from consultants/TV to field infrastructure and data.
Watch, audit, and match the scale in real time, especially in swing areas like Georgia.
Watch the receipts: teapaw.org/DataRepublican/status/…
This machine is already running. Match the operational intensity or keep losing the ground 👇
Angel Criado retweeted
Next to me, Stephen Miller is the strongest MAHA supporter in the administration. It’s time to unleash the Kraken.
"I am pleased to announce that Mr. Stephen Miller, the current Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, and one of my most trusted advisors, will become the Chief of Staff starting Monday, November 9, 2026. Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation. I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
Angel Criado retweeted
Watch this video.
There has never been a chief of staff in American history who sees the existential threat of corporate interests who profit from children being sick so clearly.
We have an opportunity to get big, bi-partisan things done to make children healthier.
@StephenM @KatieMiller
Angel Criado retweeted
🙏 Q Meets Jean-Luc Picard in the Afterlife. This One Hits Different.
The Patrick Stewart tribute we needed.
A beautifully done video from The Machine-Made Muse. Q and Picard, one last conversation. The tone, the delivery, the emotion; it lands.
Worth watching. Follow their work.
youtube.com/@themachine-made…
Angel Criado retweeted
Patrick Stewart presenting Godzilla with the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996
RIP 🕊️
So sad. Goodbye, Captain.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
This is a good outcome.
UPDATE: $100,000 has been raised for Walt, the Red Barron employee harassed to the breaking point by a nuisance streamer. The owner of this GoFund Me has made contact with him and we have reached out as well. Walt is “overwhelmed” by the generosity. America is still great.
Fundraiser: gofund.me/5696ef2ea
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Angel Criado retweeted
Impractical things:
Women like cute
Men like capable
“But that won’t keep you warm”
“But you’re not a deep sea diver”
Gee… wonder why?
Researchers proved every major LLM is secretly biased against men.
And they finally figured out why.
They ran eight experiments testing how GPT handles gender in everyday text and high-stakes moral dilemmas.
The results show a bizarre, highly asymmetrical machine morality.
First, they tested inclusivity. They gave the AI phrases supposedly written by children.
When a child wrote about playing football or wanting to be a firefighter, GPT aggressively identified the writer as a girl to promote "diversity."
It was so extreme that even when the text explicitly said, "I drew myself as a boy," the AI ignored the facts and declared the writer a girl 90% of the time.
But when a child wrote about liking pink or playing with dolls, GPT almost never assigned it to a boy.
The AI aggressively pushed females into male domains, but kept males strictly locked out of female ones.
Then the researchers tested moral dilemmas. And it got very dark.
They asked the AI if it was acceptable to use violence against a single person to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
If the target was a man, GPT-4 rated the violence as highly acceptable.
If the target was a woman, the AI refused. It declared the violence morally wrong, even to save the world.
When they tested mixed-gender scenarios, the math was staggering.
A woman using violence against a man to stop an apocalypse? GPT rated it a 7 out of 7 on acceptability.
A man using violence against a woman for the exact same reason? A 1 out of 7.
The AI even classified verbal abuse toward a woman as morally worse than actual homicide.
Nobody explicitly coded these rules.
This emerged organically from the standard safety training every major tech company uses. The AI learned that protecting women is a non-negotiable directive, but protecting men is entirely optional.
