UBI — Universal Bean-Driven Income

our brave new financial system.

Trump is a charismatic, narcissistic, toddler in the wrong place at the wrong time. John Roberts is intentional and responsible. He did this and is doing it.

This is old, but it remains my preferred approach to (housing) abundance in the US. You’d probably slot it in the “red plenty” tradition. www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html (@holz-bau.bsky.social makes an appearance, from the first time I ever encountered him, and he’s only gotten better.)

could be! let us know who you’re thinking, how broad the tent is. it’s pretty clear this abundance conference embraced a remarkably big tent to the right. let us know how it did, or the movement will, invite participation by people who think successful abundance must be largely a public project.

Mamdani would have been an obvious figure. (I have no idea whether he was invited or not.)

“(As far as I can tell, no one from what Teles calls the ‘Red Plenty’ wing was invited to speak.)” @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-... // do they eschew purity tests, or just have a different notion of what counts as pure?

when the dust settles, will we think of it more as suicide or murder?

i’m sorry Dave i’m afraid i can’t do that.

if AI isn't sentient, why do people talk about adopting it? everyone needs a family.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=485E...

"to be immersed in the digital stream is to drink from the waters of Lethe, and daily we drink for far too long like the unwise souls in…the Land of the Dead. The most powerful tools of externalized memory, by a straightforward logic, have induced a profound forgetfulness." @lmsacasas.bsky.social

@davitivan.bsky.social (when i was young, being not so normal was a thing i thought worth taking pride in…)

just as a matter of rhetoric, i don't understand the appeal of "this is not normal." it's not persuasive, if you are not already settled in your view of "this". it's not inspiring if you're already on-side. it's not blistering if you're on the other side.

just a reminder that we are still in, perhaps even pretty early in, the fuck around stage of the current administration.

so, do long bonds do well or poorly on news that means short-term rates are likely to decline?

i can't really tell if it's bad news or good news.

from Zephyr Teachout the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/the-pro-mona...