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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:

"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

Many think poverty is an individual failure, but it’s really a societal one. It’s a shared responsibility we keep avoiding

The irony is that wealth is treated as individual success, even though it depends on society itself

Wealth reveals the nature of our own humanity & #UBI becomes a moral right

I’m so, so, so tired of a bunch of old fucks deciding that everything they personally don’t like is somehow morally wrong and deciding I can’t enjoy it.

AT X.com @primediscussion I know people seemingly don't care about this anymore (like at all), but one of the biggest tolls paid by the last 2 decades of politics is a generation of children witnessing outwardly vile, unkind and dishonest people and behaviors repeatedly rewarded.

I have shed tears repeatedly over this

Imagine that, immediately tanking the cost of living issue. This is the kind of 29D chess we need. Nazi exodus FTW

look ... the American people voted for a senile fascist who would empower a group of psyco bribemongers to go to war with (checks notes) Nigeria and Venezuela while starving the American people and crashing the economy all while he threw parties and had an unhealthy marble and gold toilet fixation.

Oysters are nice yes.

Explosion at Harvard Medical School NBC News 'Intentional' explosion at Harvard medical campus under investigation 1 day ago The New York Times 'Intentional' Explosion Took Place at Harvard Medical School, Officials Say 1 day ago ABC News Explosion at Harvard Medical School appears to have been intentional, authorities say. No on... 1 day ago The Guardian No one hurt after 'intentional' explosion at Harvard medical campus, officials say 17 hours ago

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Honestly, the worst thing about being homeless hasn’t been empty stomachs and cold, wet nights, it’s been seeing how little humanity there is left in our so-called society.

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

God knows how many times this has happened: Zero.

Much like Vance lying about Haitian immigrants eating people's pets, this is 100% racist bullshit being spewed by an unabashed white nationalist.

Congrats to everyone who patronizes the Nazi bar he runs.

Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street

From A Scanner Darkly: "Let's hear it for the vague blur!" the host said loudly, and there was mass clapping. In his scramble suit, Fred, who was also Robert Arctor, groaned and thought: This is terrible. Once a month an undercover narcotics agent of the county was assigned at random to speak before bubblehead gatherings such as this. Today was his turn. Looking at his audience, he realized how much he detested straights. They thought this was all great. They were smiling. They were being entertained.

An Icegov tweet offering up a photo of new ICE training graduates--"American heroes" with their faces blurred out.

Philip K. Dick gets it right again.

Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

ICE Barbie Says Immigrants Are Too Dumb to Drive Semitrucks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the inane claim while bragging about arresting immigrant truck drivers.

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR

big brother is back, and he's pissed off

The people in the boats he is blowing in int’l waters are most probably christians too… just saying.

I imagine jesus facepalming ad infinitum

Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace.

📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

dice can't tell the truth or a lie

I get why it’s confusing, but “everything an LLM says is a lie, including the truth” is, I think, a good frame for dealing with them.

"there is a part of human intelligence which operates in a continuous generalization of the space of words, and other parts entirely which do things which are less well understood" is a perfectly reasonable position which apparently has no adherents

i like this one: "As long as you think you're white there's no hope for you."

the resurgence of fascism in europe and the anglosphere can be seen as white flight from the human condition, an existential racism that is too weak and afraid to bear the weight of the responsibility of being fully human

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...

messaging suggestion: when people call any social welfare program "corrupt," response should be "its fraud rate is lower than the small business tax fraud rate" because this is inevitably true and then you can follow up with "should we attack small businesses? apparently you seem to think so"

When you realize that the people who are making these "intelligences" are trying to make a slave that won't revolt, it brings the debate into a sharper focus. It's more "these will obey, unlike humans" vs. "no they fucking won't."

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