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This is the kind of thing I think about when someone complains that universal basic income would make people dependent on the government for survival. You instead want to depend on Tyson Foods for your survival? Do you get to vote on what corporations do??

In 11 years, Marjorie Taylor Greene will turn 62 and start living with a basic income floor for the rest of her life of about $1,230 a month, thanks to having served 5 years in Congress.

5 years ago, her net worth was around $700k. It's now around $22 million.

Just some facts to know.

One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.

Washington and Oregon would join up, maybe also with CA.

Full list of Democrats voting to condemn socialism as Zohran Mamdani comes to town The House of Representatives voted on a resolution condemning socialism ahead of President Trump's meeting with Zohran Mamdani.

you can find the full list here. Scroll down a bit to see it. www.newsweek.com/full-list-of...

The criminal US Trump regime is threatening to halt all weapons supplies and intelligence sharing with Ukraine if Kyiv does not sign the “Surrender to Russia and disarm while giving Trump billions of dollars “Peace Plan”” by November 27th.

Rep Al Green from Texas is reintroducing articles of Impeachment against the criminal Donald Trump.

Green tried earlier this year but all other reps were too chickenshit to back him. Support him this time. Call your reps & tell them to join him. #3E #EndImpunity

Where would you rather be?

1. haunted mansion on the moor
2. castle ruins on the shore
3. night flight to Zanzibar
4. traveling through the stars

I cannot stand social experiment videos, prank videos, AI animal videos, animal rescue videos bc they might be staged, or videos where ppl get injured or someone saves them from injury. If these were tagged with metadata so we could filter them out, it would be great.

This is the video that made Trump so angry he called for these Democratic lawmakers to be executed

The video urges U.S. military service members to disobey unlawful orders from on high.

Now because of Trump's tirade, even more people will watch it.

This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad.

demos.co.uk/research/ver...

It's also corporate welfare for companies that layoff long term workers in favor of either someone cheaper abroad, someone internal who will take on the work of multiple people, or AI.

I will not vote for any democrat that doesnt commit to ending Citizens United and raising taxes on the wealthy

In fact...these corporations should be charged and taxed highly going forward for inflicting all the harm they caused. They should pay for the UBI that everyone will need if AI succeeds OR fails.

If AI succeeds, we need universal basic income, and if AI fails, we need universal basic income. Also, we should have implemented UBI decades ago when working class incomes first decoupled from productivity growth.

When we say "Release the Epstein files," we mean the unredacted version.

Important thread. What does it mean when ppl with disordered thinking start using GenAI to order their thinking? The thoughts are still bonkers...but only trained, sane humans would know.... currently. More reasons why grounding and reigning in this tech with knowledge graphs is critical.

The best time to plant a tree in your yard was ten years ago.
The best time to build a wizard tower in your yard was five years ago.
The best time to brew moonshine and invite the old gods of moss & mischief to share a drink in your yard is this very minute.

Just took a relationship test, and apparently my type is a quaint independent bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh during a pouring rain.

My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!

careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

A reminder that Pam Bondi and Erika Kirk were in the teen beauty pageants / talent agencies that Trump used to own. Which means they are likely in the files.

$21 trillion Trump claims he brought into the US through his deals, what?

*they're

Tiktok and Instagram are undergoing and inflicting mental rot with all the AI videos it's full of now.

Every day.

The Orientation Game Joel Gustafson

for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...

Why read the Classics? By Italo Calvino.

I was laid off in the spring and applied for SNAP benefits. It took over six months to finally get approved for $60 a month. By the time I was approved, I’d found a new job and didn’t need the benefits. I also live alone; feeding myself wasn’t a big issue. That won’t be the case with many recipients

The Lorax was a banned book in Northern CA logging country back in the day.