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I absolutely abhor that with every study that proves universal basic income works (how many studies does it take before it’s actually implemented universally?) there’s the qualifier “homeless people didn’t spend as much money on booze and drugs as we thought”. So condescending. We don’t scrutinize rich people this way. There’s the assumption that rich people deserve that choice because the money belongs to them. Poor people have to answer to some arbitrary social expectation of acceptable behaviour before they are “allowed” to be housed, fed, clothed, etc. It shouldn’t matter how basic universal income is spent. The whole point is that we all get the choice and the possibility to live a comfortable life. It’s not up to any of us to decide what comfort looks like for anyone. Some people don’t fit social expectations and it’s apparently not ok only when they are poor.

I see the number of unread posts in my reader jump by a few hundred, I just *know* one of you web devs has rebuilt their site. (https://jan.boddez.net/notes/7c55e55615)

Never do something so terrible you get Elon Musk to defend you.

Sorry if I’m in a bad mood with people today. My bra is too tight and HR says I am not allowed to take it off in the office after the last incident.

Why is it okay to exclude the far right from your communities while welcoming the far left? Well, to summarize it as succinctly as possible, the far left basically wants to rebuild the economic system and the far right wants to kill all of the Jews.

@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk Has he even *tried* to ruin astronomy by launching thousands of shiny satellites? Has he ever built a car that blew up while running over a toddler? I bet he hasn't even attempted to undermine US democracy. Low-effort all round

Forced birth in a country with: —No universal healthcare —No universal childcare —No paid family & medical leave —One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations This isn't about "life." It's about control.

Yes, I promise I'll "never forget" 9/11--but not for the same reasons our hyper-patriots, blood-and-soil nationalists, Christian imperial crusaders, and cross-party imperialists want me too. As a result of that tragic event, and its aftermath, I became a better citizen, a better political thinker, a better historian, a better educator, and a better Christian in spite of their permanent war-oriented white Christo-nationalist tribalism. Indeed, I'll never ever forget the personal lessons of 9/11.

I agree with Oliver Anthony when he says he's neither Democrat or Republican.

Oliver Anthony represents that smug, fact averse asshole demographic that says both sides are the same so there's no point of voting.

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) August 27, 2023

Arkansas banned paying for AP African history tests—but pays for AP European history TX banned abortion b/c a fetus has rights—but reject liability for a stillbirth b/c a fetus has no rights N Dakota GOP banned free school lunches—but gave themselves free lunches For the GOP, hypocrisy isn’t a bug—it’s the feature. Vote them out.

Isn't it weird how the corrupt deep state only targets the Republicans who happened to have committed the most egregious crimes?

The same people who act like a commercial real estate crash would be an economic apocalypse are weirdly quiet about Elon Musk—maybe the most famous lessee of office space in the world—refusing to pay his rent. #ReturnToOffice #RemoteWork #RealEstate

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that when TFG accused the Democrats of stealing the election what he really meant was that his team had actively tried to steal the election by hacking into voting systems in Georgia and possibly elsewhere but failed.

Can we even say "indictment day" anymore? It's more akin to a season now.

He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times

Funny how people always go with the classic, "If you're not doing anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide." over a far more sensible: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, you should have no reason to spy on me." #privacy #surveillance

I think the funniest thing about the current strain of rabid conservatism in the States is how much these chucklefucks are hurt that people think they're creepy and uncool, so instead of trying to become interesting/decent humans, they just resort to trying to force everyone to pay attention to them, while doing spiteful shit to make themselves feel better.

I am really, really, REALLY irritated by what I just saw. The #ImageDescription function of Microsoft's #Bing is outright lying to people with vision impairments about what appears in images it receives. It's bad enough when an #LLM is allowed to tell lies that a person can easily check for veracity themselves. But how the hell are you going to offer this so-called service to someone who can't check the claims being made and NEEDS those claims to be correct? How long till someone gets poisoned because Bing lied and told someone it was food that hasn't expired when it has, or that it's safe to drink when it's cleaning solution, or God knows what? This is downright irresponsible and dangerous. #Microsoft either needs to put VERY CLEAR disclaimers on their service, or just take it down until it can actually be trusted. #Blindness #VisualImpairment #Accessibility #AccessibilityMatters #Disability #DisabilityRights #CorporateResponsibility #LargeLanguageModels #MoralHazard

Inflation has gotten so out of hand that billionaires have to pool resources to buy a Supreme Court Justice these days.

Big Tech Company: "What, you want to edit key biographical details of your profile such as gender and name because you had an awakening and would like to express your true self without losing all the social connections you've made on our platform? That's stupid." Big Tech Company: "Also we just rebranded so please stop using our old name."