Clay Rosenthal
@clayrosenthal.bsky.social
Leftist, nerd, gym rat. I care about having a nicer planet to live on than I got
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We're firing a shot across the bow!
1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs.
And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures): www.amazonclimatejustice.org
1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs.
And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures): www.amazonclimatejustice.org
PR: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs, say 1000+ Amazon employees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Press contact: hello@amazonclimatejustice.org AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs, say 1000+ Amazon employees Over 1,000 Amazon emplo...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We're firing a shot across the bow!
1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs.
And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures): www.amazonclimatejustice.org
1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs.
And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures): www.amazonclimatejustice.org
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No one makes it entirely on their own. If you benefit from a functioning society, you owe something back.
#TaxBillionaires
#TaxBillionaires
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
No one makes it entirely on their own. If you benefit from a functioning society, you owe something back.
#TaxBillionaires
#TaxBillionaires
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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
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Corporate preference for automation should have already prompted adoption of universal basic income. Instead, fired workers invariably suffer financial insecurity and insults. Ignore this outcome for future fired workers at our peril.
"Just as the extraordinary crisis of the Great Depression required the bold policy of Social Security, the disruption caused by AI requires an equally bold response—a Social Security for everyone in the form of UBI."
—Gisele Huff (@gisele600.bsky.social)
—Gisele Huff (@gisele600.bsky.social)
AI Is taking jobs: Could universal basic income become a reality?
Forecasts that AI could erase tens of millions of jobs by the end of the decade appear to be making the notion of a guaranteed income less radical.
www.newsweek.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Corporate preference for automation should have already prompted adoption of universal basic income. Instead, fired workers invariably suffer financial insecurity and insults. Ignore this outcome for future fired workers at our peril.
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AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
September 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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What they aren’t showing on Fox News
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
What they aren’t showing on Fox News
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screenrant.com/terminator-2...
Fitting:
"Cameron believed that cops, institutionalized in a system that encourages them to abuse their power, were a perfect representation of the inhumanity that led to the creation of murderous robots."
Fitting:
"Cameron believed that cops, institutionalized in a system that encourages them to abuse their power, were a perfect representation of the inhumanity that led to the creation of murderous robots."
Terminator 2: Why James Cameron Chose To Make The T-1000 A Police Officer
In Terminator 2, there's more to the T-1000's police uniform.
screenrant.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
screenrant.com/terminator-2...
Fitting:
"Cameron believed that cops, institutionalized in a system that encourages them to abuse their power, were a perfect representation of the inhumanity that led to the creation of murderous robots."
Fitting:
"Cameron believed that cops, institutionalized in a system that encourages them to abuse their power, were a perfect representation of the inhumanity that led to the creation of murderous robots."
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If you gleefully claim your product will cut jobs, you are now contractually obligated to lobby for UBI. Sorry, those are the new rules!
June 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If you gleefully claim your product will cut jobs, you are now contractually obligated to lobby for UBI. Sorry, those are the new rules!
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Welcome to Trump's America, where you can bribe the president in exchange for legal immunity.
The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.
The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.
May 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Welcome to Trump's America, where you can bribe the president in exchange for legal immunity.
The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.
The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.
Thanks SF city government workers for not just letting them steamroll their way in
So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!
3 men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records
San Francisco city officials are investigating after three men who claimed to be from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) showed up at City Hall on Friday demanding records from offices bef...
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Thanks SF city government workers for not just letting them steamroll their way in
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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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Congrats. You played yourself.
January 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congrats. You played yourself.
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Indigenous folks have been real loud about this since the first European colonizers showed up on their shores.
Welcome, there’s coffee & elote on the table in the corner. A better world is possible, let’s build it together.
Welcome, there’s coffee & elote on the table in the corner. A better world is possible, let’s build it together.
January 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Indigenous folks have been real loud about this since the first European colonizers showed up on their shores.
Welcome, there’s coffee & elote on the table in the corner. A better world is possible, let’s build it together.
Welcome, there’s coffee & elote on the table in the corner. A better world is possible, let’s build it together.
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The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
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We really need to teach our kids how to spot intellectual garbage. This is a hug hole in our educational system.
November 30, 2024 at 3:04 PM
We really need to teach our kids how to spot intellectual garbage. This is a hug hole in our educational system.
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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
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Don’t threaten me with a good time.
December 21, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Once upon a time, Slovakia invested in 1000s of check dams in erosion gullies, & extensive earthworks to hold back rain runoff & prevent flooding in the lowlands. It worked. It's still working.
November 28, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Once upon a time, Slovakia invested in 1000s of check dams in erosion gullies, & extensive earthworks to hold back rain runoff & prevent flooding in the lowlands. It worked. It's still working.
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✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
December 11, 2024 at 8:06 PM
✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
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More of this is needed across the nation. I’d also love to see more community land trusts for commercial/mixed use developments
This is exactly what I mean when I say that there are political coalitions to build involving the various stakeholders and actors who have a direct interest in the construction of more housing. www.vox.com/policy/2024/...
What if public housing were for everyone?
Local governments are trying a new way to address the housing crisis.
www.vox.com
February 11, 2024 at 8:57 PM
More of this is needed across the nation. I’d also love to see more community land trusts for commercial/mixed use developments
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Meta's "no politics allowed" stance is 1) itself a political position, and 2) so impossible to enforce that it's instead a perverse guarantee that what political content does surface will be absolutely deranged, in that the algorithms will be unable to identify it as conventionally political
February 11, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Meta's "no politics allowed" stance is 1) itself a political position, and 2) so impossible to enforce that it's instead a perverse guarantee that what political content does surface will be absolutely deranged, in that the algorithms will be unable to identify it as conventionally political