I should've stayed in Canada.

Universal Basic Income doesn’t make people stop working. It makes people stop panicking. Panicking about rent. Panicking about bills. Panicking about choosing between medicine and food. Imagine what America could build if survival wasn’t our full-time job. #UBI

Project 2025 but instead it’s actually filled with good ideas like universal basic income, free college and a functioning healthcare system instead of a blueprint to reboot Nazi Germany 1933-1945

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

THIS IS THEIR WHOLE JOB HOW DO THEY NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHY DO THEY SO EAGERLY PLAY A ROLE IN IT

Make a band singular: Foo FIGHTer

Welcome to the balkanization of the United States. www.opb.org/article/2025... www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n...

People who use #vscode with #copilot: Is there a way to make CoPilot less aggressive?? It gives me like 0.5 seconds before it starts filling my screen with suggestions and it does it EVERY SINGLE TIME I stop typing. Visual Studio is tuned better, can I get a similar experience in VSC?

@damianedwards.com It just clicked for me. I'm working on a project that has nothing to do with .NET, but I needed to just convert a thing to another thing, so I wrote like a 20-line Program.cs and just dotnet ran it. I went from "how do I..." to problem solved in 5 minutes.

This isn't limited to politics, either. It's completely pervasive. You used to be able to tune out commercials, but now, literally anything you read could be an advertisement. You have to have your guard up for 99% of interactions.

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

Okay this keeps coming up, so I'm going to channel my inner UM ACTUALLY for a second here: Metroid Dread is not a Metroidvania.

We know the 4-day workweek works. At Kickstarter United, we’re pushing to make it permanent because we’ve seen the impact. It helps us avoid burnout, make space for life, and still launch big wins. We’re better workers and better people because of it.

"Nearly 300,000 filers used Direct File for the 2025 tax season, and 94% of users who completed an IRS survey rated their experience as 'excellent' or 'above average.'"

A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.

Maybe it should be unattractive for this kind of person to run for office.

"We fight over an offense we did not give, against those who were not alive to be offended."

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

LOL. If the best argument Scott has against HOLDING PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST MINORS is "but the Democrats might win!", then he's not a serious person.

Post a scene inside a car

Like I said.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

Oh god, is this what I sound like when I tell my juniors to backmerge more often?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

THIS is what we mean when we say billionaires should not exist. Who cares whether you agree with Elon's current thinking on the current issue -- it will be different tomorrow or next week or next month. The point is that democracy should not be subject to the whims of a handful of rich assholes.

I've been looking at UBI for several years. As a fiscal conservative, socially liberal person who taught business, human resource management, entrepreneurship (among other subjects) for 3+ decades, I conclude that it is a sensible solution to intractible societal ills. Canada, PM Carney, yes we can!

Creator of Magic: The Gathering (world's first and most successful trading card game) says UBI increases opportunities to get ahead with work and new businesses.

it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"

So the U.S., a democracy, just attacked Iran without a vote or any input from Congress. Iran, an authoritarian regime, just held a debate and vote in parliament over whether to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

So. 1. Create OpenAI and ChatGPT, make the bot problem exponentially worse 2. Offer solution with dystopian biometric scanner 3. Pretend your solution comes with UBI, but it's just your new crypto Sam, UBI isn't compute and it isn't crypto, it's money. Maybe put some of yours where your mouth is.

This is so disgusting.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

How many times do we need to get studies that show "Going further right doesn't help Dems win" and "UBI works" before publications stop acting like A) this ain't news and B) maybe we should stop the endless studies and actually DO THE FUCKING THING.

It's ridiculous that it took until 2024 for this to be real, and even more ridiculous that the Trump administration killed it. This isn't just common sense, it's also GOOD SOFTWARE made by people who both knew what they were doing and believed in what they were doing.

"We always assumed there would be people gunning for it, but we also knew it was something people wanted. We knew it was an idea whose time had come." — @merici.bsky.social

We have some news to share with you. 🥄 Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.

Tramell Tillman was the best thing about the M:I movie. I wish this was higher praise, because he deserves it.

It's just like the UBI studies do you know how many of those fuckin' things exist? And they all say the same thing: "Making sure people have the money to meet their needs, no matter how they get it is a net good for society." EVERY FUCKING TIME

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

Good morning !

As usual, @anildash.com has it right: much like the “return to office” push, these “AI-first” corporate policies are performances for investors, and for other tech CEOs. A better policy would empower workers to explore a technology’s benefits, not just mandate usage. www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/...

If anyone does not have due process, then no one has due process.

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

Fear & concern are coded feminine, so they get translated into anger, which feels more tough. Hurt & disappointment are coded feminine, so they get translated into outrage & aggrievement. The simple human need for love & affirmation is coded feminine, so it gets translated into demands & control.