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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

The "U" in UX stands for shareholder.

I keep hearing about the need for job creation and cost of living reductions… that’s all well and good. Could we just start saying ‘wealth redistribution’ instead maybe? We don’t need more jobs to tax the living shit out of billionaires. We can start there. F*ck those dudes.

The "All Modern Digital Infrastructure" meme, but instead of the number counter holding things up there's Microsoft in a hi-viz vest ramming in AI with a sledgehammer, causing everything to teeter on the brink of collapse.

Commie Warlock (@CommieWarlock) on twitter: "humans really made up paper money and to give it value said it's value was based on a metal which also has a made up value and then convinced everyone again that those made up values are constantly decreasing and that they determine whether or not a child can eat"

I’ve debated buying gold lately… not that I have any money… but feels like it’s more likely to hold value than anything else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

kind of wild just how much of modern day living is millions of people saying “we don’t want this, it’s dumb, bad, and evil” and then like 10 dudes going “lol too bad” and then they get their way

This is really impressive. They invented racism.

For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work

“Somewhat” doing a lot of work though admittedly 😜

Interesting! Showing that scientists might actually be really solid apolitical messengers…? Even the lowest combinations of high trust are over 50%…?

Can I be a Soros funded hipster socialist police abolitionist? I’m not a lawyer and I’m better shape than I once was, so I’ve got to play mix and match ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.

Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.

Just discovered I can turn CoPilot off in my work MS account and I feel liberated.

That is all.

Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

Sign in a LIBRARY: Fuck social media. marry books. kill AI.

Oldie but goodie

The Luddites weren't anti-progress. They weren't anti-technology. They were pro worker rights. And it's convenient for the tech barons (in any age) to make us believe those are the same thing.

> money-system based on things happening
> beneficiary with presidential power that can make almost anything happen

what could possibly go wrong

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Is it just me or has auto-correct gotten exceptionally worse lately…? Like it was never that good - but goodness it is BAD now. 🙈

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity

Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.

It aids fascism.

If your dad's name is Murray, he drives for Corporate Cabs, and you're his daughter in her final year at Wairarapa College, he is so goddamn proud of your writing. I heard the synopsis of several of your stories and films and he was beaming.

Keep doing.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Sarah Pochin and the new age of open racism What the Reform MP said was appalling. The Tories’ refusal to condemn her is arguably worse

“Let’s be clear, since a lot of people seem to be finding that difficult: most people who get upset if they see black or brown faces in adverts are racists. There are few other reasons for seeing diversity in advertising to bother anyone.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...

Can't afford:
Ferries
Hospitals
Pay equity
Intercity passenger rail
Fair pay increases for doctors, nurses, teachers
Feeding kids
😕😕

Can afford:
Roads
Military hardware
Landlord tax cuts
Pay rises for MPs
Billionaire subsidies
Support for tobacco & alcohol industries
💩💩

#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

You can’t even complain about the number of black people in your town or on TV these days without being called a racist.