Chris Lay

An idea: UBI+JG. The SOEs staffed by the JG produce the basket of goods and services necessary to dignified material existence and participation in society, priced so that the whole basket costs the UBI. The UBI is fully taxed away by progressive income tax by the time you get to 1.5x median income.

The destruction of protected wildlife sanctuaries in Texas for border wall construction continues long after the slogan was forgotten. Here's what will be lost: 'Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus) on a Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu)' (📷: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS)

did any of these people google the countries they were moving to

luke i swear to god flaminghydra.com/issue-676/#t...

If you made these robots, and are now acting surprised that fascists want to use them to do fascism, well you're a lying piece of shit aren't you? arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/b...

"being anti-AI is ablest" is the kind of argument that does not require trying to explain why it's wrong, it's ok to just say "no it isn't and also fuck you"

Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

I asked my cats if they will disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. Their answer was disturbing.

Corollary: The reason we should want to boost housing supply is not that it will lower housing costs, but because it will allow more people to live in dense urban areas.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

a kinda interesting thing that The Files have shown is “the limits of corporate media’s control of information.” like, this stuff has been frozen out of the discourse of DC and political elites, and the national legislature and news coverage, but it’s still widely known and cared about.

I logged in a bit late, just in time to hear @jtforward2.bsky.social asking whether it might be better to simply enforce the vacant property ordinance that we have on the books rather than hiring consultants and talking to neighboring communities about how to maybe make a new law. 3/?

There is a very important point here, which is that housing (like money, labor and perhaps energy) is such a critical input to so many other (re)production processes that a partial equilibrium analysis that approaches it as just another commodity is going to get a lot of big things wrong.

Oh my GOD

one thing the people targeting Arday did very successfully was bait the left into a discussion of whether Arday plagiarized (he did) rather than a discussion of the value of DEI.

... I'll allow it

42 years ago...

It's good for people who work at tech companies to realize that benign premises are often masks for contracts they're uncomfortable with, and also Boston Dynamics *origin* is as a defense contractor building robot mules for the military.

as I was saying…

Reading about new advances in treatment for schizophrenia, and look who shows up.

hunter s thompson sure did ruin a lot of male writers huh

There's nuance here about "how do we use platforms owned by the fascists". You *have to understand the political purpose of the platforms* in order to use them to subvert authoritarians. For the most part, Americans simply do not. Centrists (including DNC consultants) do not. Major media does not.

The vibes-based "I know it when I see it" system of umpires determining if a swing was successfully checked or not is actually fine — a time-tested and effective solution to an annoying problem — and anyone trying to write a new rule to make it "objective" is a sicko who should not be trusted.

This 🤡

"It’s difficult to overstate how much billionaires dominate Republican campaign funding. We’re talking about a few dozen families and, at the highest tier, a small handful of men." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/three...

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a great movie for kids because it shows multiple children getting bullied and grapples with the horrors of WWI

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!

ok! a rare note of accuracy sounds awesome, also

If you want to know how complete the right-wing capture of the public narrative is: people were shocked a dozen years ago at birtherism being pointed at Obama. Yesterday, Trumpists said AES was not an American *even though he has a birth certificate* — and none of those outlets even made it news.

Not just pundit class — "legitimate" journalists CANNOT STOP centering fascists and racists as the only possible source of narratives.

Re LRS, this is also the dynamic in the US going back to at least the 90s: When the GOP is in power they fit the state and make enemies abroad, and then they run against the incompetent government that they made and promise to protect us from the foreign enemies that they pissed off.

"More broadly this fits with a standard Netanyahu strategy which is essentially: the results of my policies are dire and I’m the only one who can protect us in such a dire situation." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-bri...

Re LRS, Ia! ia!

have the people considered the Temple of Starry Wisdom

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there's no question that there's still a lot of froth in "AI," but having watched Tesla plow through multiple crises with vastly worse business fundamentals than what Anthropic is disclosing I'm not sure I'd get too hung up on a transformative bubble pop scenario

Behold, my son the disco ball 🎃