Olin Goudey

SNOW DAYYY!!!

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If only I knew about this sooner! World class tool for democracy

Next rainy day, find a street wire in the reflection of a puddle - this one at Davis Sq.

Noam Chomsky: As Venezuela Struggles to Fix Economy, U.S. Should Stop Trying to Undermine Its Gov’t Tensions are growing between the United States and Venezuela as the government of President Nicolás Maduro grapples with an economic crisis and a right-wing opposition calling for his removal from off...

This interview provides missing context for today's Daily on the coming attempt to invade Venezuela.

www.democracynow.org/2015/3/3/noa...

Things I like paying for today: Green line, small coffee. Things I don't like paying for: $33 haircut.

Petition: A New Dining Option for a Healthier Tufts Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

c.org/WffBHK8zHf

Would volunteer to make this a profitable robot cafe like isipcoffee.com

There are some details of their predicament I have not looked into... to be determined

Project Go-Big: Internet-Scale Humanoid Pretraining and Direct Human-to-Robot Transfer Project Go-Big: Internet-Scale Humanoid Pretraining and Direct Human-to-Robot Transfer

This is what I'm talking about. We'd better start preparing the social and technological infrastructure to sustain this. Time to turn governmental policy (policies of old) towards robot policies.

www.figure.ai/news/project...

An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

These are a set of type of servo that is part of an open-source standard (Hugging Faces's LeRobot), the formation of which counted on free-trade (cheap, universal).

Wow, I hate tariffs. This is incredible - never felt so scammed by my native country.

(See "Import charges".)

Found out a principle to guide my running home policy:

1.Minimize one-term stoplights.

2. (More practical corollary) Always choose the direction that minimizes Euclidean distance.

(Pictured, a lucky case of this policy.)

The minimum wage is one way the people choose what businesses should exist (within democratic control), setting the parameters of the business of the economy.

If your company can't pay minimum wage, it should not exist and be dysselected along with many of other good business ideas.

Strawberry smoothie

This strawberry season, remember that the leaves are edible, healthy, and add a delicious layer to smoothies!

Our small team vs millions of bots — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software The FSF has been campaigning for your software freedom for forty years. We can't prevent a dystopian future alone - join us in our crucial work to guard user freedom and defy dystopia. Become an associate member today!

Best of luck to FSF in fighting their cyberwar - wish I could help. www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadm...

Meet the neighborhood cats running for Somerville’s ‘Bike Path Mayor’ - The Boston Globe According to a growing collection of lawn signs in Somerville, the race is on.

If you can spare $1, get a Boston Globe subscription and read this. Brilliant reporting. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/03/m...

Lightcast Taxonomies - Skills, Occupations, Titles Lightcast taxonomies define the relationship between skills, titles, and occupations so that you can understand the labor market as clearly as possible.

Human-centric skills (lightcast.io/products/dat...) have one notion of Skills. Another is what is actually, computationally done in the physical world. It would be interesting to approach automation from this angle, especially on a hot summer day when employed manual labor sounds particularly unfun.

AI is coming for YOUR job and jobs all across the country.

Who will benefit from this revolutionary transformation?

Will it be working class Americans or the billionaires who own the technology?

That is the economic struggle of our time.

A virtual, immaterial cup in a not real (generated) cafe.

Listening to NYT's The Daily... Tom Homan seems to change his mind on whether illegal immigration (from any number of years ago) is a crime that should lead to deportation (no to yes). He says it isn't, then he infers it, then he says it.

It's raining crabs and clams at Carson Beach.

Seagulls are tossing all sorts of creatures from various altitudes - it's really remarkable. How and when did they learn this?

We have to beat the industry at integrating robots, and this is the last chance we get, otherwise the next huge ownership-tech alliance is implemented and (non-owning) human jobs are gone.

The industry that writes the robot code/models is concentrated for now on distant factories. It is in this window that society can make "room" for robots responsibly (with software I believe), before the industry can assert its job-displacing offers to smaller businesses.

I think our only hope of bulldozing the alliance between ownership by the few and the robot/automation industry is with software.

Maybe it's an emergency that a huge swath of human labor will get automated in the next < 5 years. (If it doesn't it really really should.)

And yet ownership doesn't change so we get those cost savings through being customers of competing businesses.

I Emailed 3,805 Administrators to Find Out Why a Year at Brown Costs $93,064 Alexander Shieh

I support this type of activism and journalism. I'd extend the investigation to all hierarchies.

www.brownspectator.com/p/i-emailed-...

Boston Sand & Gravel should be broken up.

COWOP Post by @Center4EconDem.

Sharing two links:

- cooperativema.org: a serious resource for encouraging worker ownership
- www.dorchesterfoodcoop.com: an example, right here in Boston

Here's one: help.loomio.com