Wow. If I ever become homeless again, I’ll definitely consider buying a ticket to Australia! I had no idea that they gave all the homeless people fancy upscale apartments, nice cars, and tricked out RVs, and a good income, so that they could spend their days walking on the beach, writing stories, and traveling wherever they felt like on a whim. /s
I feel like they really could’ve done a much better job at that documentary (unless maybe that actually is what homelessness there is like?). At least here in the U.S., there are also a ton of people couchsurfing on the goodwill of friends, or worse, living rough, or worse, in dangerous shelters. The fact that they didn’t show any of that, or even begin to address it - well that is a bit awkward.
It’s like they’re trying to showcase homelessness as a pleasant vacation, with all your needs met and not a care in the world. Just the minor gripe that you don’t own a house.
Wow. You and I drew very different conclusions from that.
Putting this over here because it’s definitely not “good news”
“By invalidating existing noncompete agreements and prohibiting businesses and their workers from ever entering into such agreements going forward, the rule will force businesses all over the country—including in this District—to turn to inadequate and expensive alternatives to protect their confidential information, such as nondisclosure agreements and trade-secret lawsuits,” the Chamber of Commerce said in its complaint.
Yeah, that’s sort of how it should be. If it’s important enough to protect, then protect it, don’t prevent the person from working in their field altogether.
… why do the media always want there to be “common ground”
The common ground is if you don’t like abortion then don’t have one. But that’s completely unacceptable to the anti-choice people who want control over everyone else. /obvious
So many threats to democracy nowadays. Even broken ones like ours.
Damn. Usually you just have to infer that kind of nutbag politics.
Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy. In 2013, a New York Times story headlined “Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call” described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations’: outdated and obsolescent.”
… a couple of thoughts from reading this far
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This is not the first time it has occurred to me that everything wrong with Silicon Valley is Stanford’s fault
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Silicon Valley folks think it’s self-evident that far-away Redmond is evil, and that this is just as obvious to everyone else as it is to them
The thing I’ve always hated about this justification for UBI is that it assumes AI will become a thing that 1. works and 2. whether it works or not (it doesn’t) wouldn’t immediately be weaponized by the rich against society generally to get rid of any UBI and explicitly murder as many “surplus" people as possible.
I finally tracked this down.
