Clay Rosenthal

No one makes it entirely on their own. If you benefit from a functioning society, you owe something back.

#TaxBillionaires

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

Corporate preference for automation should have already prompted adoption of universal basic income. Instead, fired workers invariably suffer financial insecurity and insults. Ignore this outcome for future fired workers at our peril.

kagi: kagi.com/privacy

a private search engine you pay for

Zen browser: zen-browser.app

best of firefox and arc

Radicle: the sovereign forge Sovereign code infrastructure.

Jujutsu and Radicle

Radicle is a decentralized git backend: radicle.xyz

Jujutsu is a new cli for git: jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

Terminator 2: Why James Cameron Chose To Make The T-1000 A Police Officer In Terminator 2, there's more to the T-1000's police uniform.

screenrant.com/terminator-2...

Fitting:

"Cameron believed that cops, institutionalized in a system that encourages them to abuse their power, were a perfect representation of the inhumanity that led to the creation of murderous robots."

If you gleefully claim your product will cut jobs, you are now contractually obligated to lobby for UBI. Sorry, those are the new rules!

Welcome to Trump's America, where you can bribe the president in exchange for legal immunity.

The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.

Thanks SF city government workers for not just letting them steamroll their way in

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

Congrats. You played yourself.

Indigenous folks have been real loud about this since the first European colonizers showed up on their shores.

Welcome, there’s coffee & elote on the table in the corner. A better world is possible, let’s build it together.

The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care.

But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.

Anyone got tips to avoid fucking up your neck while working in tech? Is it just fix your posture or there some other tips?

Cranky Uncle game: building resilience against misinformation - Cranky Uncle The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation. The game was developed by Monash University scientist John Cook, in collaboration with creative agency Goodbeast. The...

This looks like it’s from cranky uncle, very fun website to help teach these to people. crankyuncle.com/game/

We really need to teach our kids how to spot intellectual garbage. This is a hug hole in our educational system.

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis) Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%) Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis) New mothers extend their maternity leaves Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%) Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%) Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%) Savings go up, debts go down Source: scottsantens

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

1 of 4, a log check dam installed in an eroding gully.

2 of 4, a check dam made of local wood & brush trimmings organized in a drainage to capture sediment while slowing the force of the water & allowing it to sink into the earth where it can emerge further downslope as a spring. This makes forests fire-resistant, too.

A series of leaky check dams, made with immediately available material, installed in an erosion gully & an eroded logging road.

A more elaborate check dam made with logs and rocks.

Once upon a time, Slovakia invested in 1000s of check dams in erosion gullies, & extensive earthworks to hold back rain runoff & prevent flooding in the lowlands. It worked. It's still working.

A stylized photo collage displaying a photo of Times Tech Guild workers picketing outside the New York Times building in Midtown Manhattan in early November 2024, overlaid in light red, with the Times Tech Guild logo and large, outlined, all caps text: We Have A Deal

✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊

We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:

A wealthy man looks out at his human chess board who are presenting him with a contract. And asks in disbelief "my human chess board has unionized? How is this even possible? I deliberately pit you against each other."

More of this is needed across the nation. I’d also love to see more community land trusts for commercial/mixed use developments

While users will still be allowed to follow accounts that post about political and social issues, accounts posting such content will not be recommended and content posted by nonpolitical accounts that is political in nature or includes social commentary also won’t be recommended, Meta said. The company said it also won’t show users posts focused on laws, elections or social issues from accounts those users don’t follow.

Meta's "no politics allowed" stance is 1) itself a political position, and 2) so impossible to enforce that it's instead a perverse guarantee that what political content does surface will be absolutely deranged, in that the algorithms will be unable to identify it as conventionally political

I think the historical context on this is really important to understand and promote because the reality is that there's no inherent aversion to trans people in our culture, it's one that's been cultivated by explicit right wing propaganda as another way to divide the working class against itself