The Dude
@taterboy.bsky.social
I'm a writer, a guitarist, and dyed-in-the-wool Leftist.
I value justice, equity, and ethics above most other concerns.
Follow me and enjoy reading my articles on Substack which I put a great deal of care and thought into: https://bit.ly/3L6PwiZ
I value justice, equity, and ethics above most other concerns.
Follow me and enjoy reading my articles on Substack which I put a great deal of care and thought into: https://bit.ly/3L6PwiZ
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My original UBI article seems to have been pretty popular, so I made a robust sequel that addresses some potential concerns and offers solutions and mitigation strategies.
Link in the comments.
#UBI #Economics #Politics
Link in the comments.
#UBI #Economics #Politics
My original UBI article seems to have been pretty popular, so I made a robust sequel that addresses some potential concerns and offers solutions and mitigation strategies.
Link in the comments.
#UBI #Economics #Politics
Link in the comments.
#UBI #Economics #Politics
February 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
My original UBI article seems to have been pretty popular, so I made a robust sequel that addresses some potential concerns and offers solutions and mitigation strategies.
Link in the comments.
#UBI #Economics #Politics
Link in the comments.
#UBI #Economics #Politics
We really do need UBI more than ever before. Read this article. It shows all the ways we cannot afford to prevent UBI from becoming a thing as well as how we actually pay for it, and many of its downstream benefits:
tinyurl.com/2uvf37u6
#UBI #Dignity #Economics
tinyurl.com/2uvf37u6
#UBI #Dignity #Economics
Universal Basic Income
Why We Need it Now More than Ever
tinyurl.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
We really do need UBI more than ever before. Read this article. It shows all the ways we cannot afford to prevent UBI from becoming a thing as well as how we actually pay for it, and many of its downstream benefits:
tinyurl.com/2uvf37u6
#UBI #Dignity #Economics
tinyurl.com/2uvf37u6
#UBI #Dignity #Economics
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"What struck me most was how they've turned the right-wing argument about UBI on its head. Rather than disincentivising work, as critics claim, they show that UBI actually removes perverse disincentives in the current system. It eliminates the fear of losing benefits…"
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
Podcast: UBI and the Common Sense Policy Group
Universal basic income (UBI) is often dismissed as unaffordable, unrealistic, or politically impossible. But the conversation I had recently with Howard Reed and Elliott Johnson of the Common Sense Po...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 4:09 PM
"What struck me most was how they've turned the right-wing argument about UBI on its head. Rather than disincentivising work, as critics claim, they show that UBI actually removes perverse disincentives in the current system. It eliminates the fear of losing benefits…"
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
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There are a few papers on the Arxives about this recently. Here's one from December: arxiv.org/abs/2512.01992
It's a nasty engineering problem to make this work well...
It's a nasty engineering problem to make this work well...
LLM CHESS: Benchmarking Reasoning and Instruction-Following in LLMs through Chess
We introduce LLM CHESS, an evaluation framework designed to probe the generalization of reasoning and instruction-following abilities in large language models (LLMs) through extended agentic interacti...
arxiv.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:35 PM
There are a few papers on the Arxives about this recently. Here's one from December: arxiv.org/abs/2512.01992
It's a nasty engineering problem to make this work well...
It's a nasty engineering problem to make this work well...
Still Not Home
-Source photo by Joe Cornett, painting by Echo
-Source photo by Joe Cornett, painting by Echo
January 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Still Not Home
-Source photo by Joe Cornett, painting by Echo
-Source photo by Joe Cornett, painting by Echo
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Whether in 2026 or 2028, there will be a reckoning. Even if Trump gave a mass pardon (he would have to use an autopen to pardon 21K agents) there would still be civil action open to the folks who were harmed. 🗽
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Whether in 2026 or 2028, there will be a reckoning. Even if Trump gave a mass pardon (he would have to use an autopen to pardon 21K agents) there would still be civil action open to the folks who were harmed. 🗽
To me, chess is more than a game...
It could be our future.
Interested? Read this article: tinyurl.com/5n89u5yu
#AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chess #CognitiveScience #ComplexSystems #Intelligence
It could be our future.
Interested? Read this article: tinyurl.com/5n89u5yu
#AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chess #CognitiveScience #ComplexSystems #Intelligence
Chess: More Than a Game
An effort to make a dream reality
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January 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
To me, chess is more than a game...
It could be our future.
Interested? Read this article: tinyurl.com/5n89u5yu
#AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chess #CognitiveScience #ComplexSystems #Intelligence
It could be our future.
Interested? Read this article: tinyurl.com/5n89u5yu
#AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chess #CognitiveScience #ComplexSystems #Intelligence
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If the House Republicans had any guts, they'd hold an emergency impeachment vote on Trump today.
If the Senate Republicans had any guts, they'd convict Trump of violating the Constitution tomorrow.
The Constitution means nothing it if it can be ignored with impunity.
If the Senate Republicans had any guts, they'd convict Trump of violating the Constitution tomorrow.
The Constitution means nothing it if it can be ignored with impunity.
January 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
If the House Republicans had any guts, they'd hold an emergency impeachment vote on Trump today.
If the Senate Republicans had any guts, they'd convict Trump of violating the Constitution tomorrow.
The Constitution means nothing it if it can be ignored with impunity.
If the Senate Republicans had any guts, they'd convict Trump of violating the Constitution tomorrow.
The Constitution means nothing it if it can be ignored with impunity.
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Let me get this straight, the regime attacks and kidnaps Venezuelans in our country and deports them with no due process.
Then goes to Venezuela and kidnaps Venezuelans and brings them here for a trial?
WTAF is this insanity.
Then goes to Venezuela and kidnaps Venezuelans and brings them here for a trial?
WTAF is this insanity.
January 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Let me get this straight, the regime attacks and kidnaps Venezuelans in our country and deports them with no due process.
Then goes to Venezuela and kidnaps Venezuelans and brings them here for a trial?
WTAF is this insanity.
Then goes to Venezuela and kidnaps Venezuelans and brings them here for a trial?
WTAF is this insanity.
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I remember the lead up to the Iraq war and being frustrated with people conflating Saddam and 9/11. But at least thought that after 20 years of that we’d at least not do it again.
And yet here we are with again with Fentanyl deaths used to justify a war with Venezuela which doesn’t make fentanyl.
And yet here we are with again with Fentanyl deaths used to justify a war with Venezuela which doesn’t make fentanyl.
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 AM
I remember the lead up to the Iraq war and being frustrated with people conflating Saddam and 9/11. But at least thought that after 20 years of that we’d at least not do it again.
And yet here we are with again with Fentanyl deaths used to justify a war with Venezuela which doesn’t make fentanyl.
And yet here we are with again with Fentanyl deaths used to justify a war with Venezuela which doesn’t make fentanyl.
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When America abdicates its role as a defender of freedom and becomes the oppressor, it emboldens dictators everywhere.
We are about to learn some hard lessons.
One being how instrumental we used to be at preventing the world from descending into madness.
We are about to learn some hard lessons.
One being how instrumental we used to be at preventing the world from descending into madness.
January 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
When America abdicates its role as a defender of freedom and becomes the oppressor, it emboldens dictators everywhere.
We are about to learn some hard lessons.
One being how instrumental we used to be at preventing the world from descending into madness.
We are about to learn some hard lessons.
One being how instrumental we used to be at preventing the world from descending into madness.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
Americans already pay more for healthcare than anyone on Earth.
I wrote a clean, objection-resistant case for Universal Healthcare to address this problem.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/yvtau7jz
#MedicareForAll #UniversalHealthcare #HealthcareReform #HealthPolicy
I wrote a clean, objection-resistant case for Universal Healthcare to address this problem.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/yvtau7jz
#MedicareForAll #UniversalHealthcare #HealthcareReform #HealthPolicy
The Most Expensive Illusion in America
Why Our Healthcare System Fails — and How to Fix It Without Breaking the Country
tinyurl.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Americans already pay more for healthcare than anyone on Earth.
I wrote a clean, objection-resistant case for Universal Healthcare to address this problem.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/yvtau7jz
#MedicareForAll #UniversalHealthcare #HealthcareReform #HealthPolicy
I wrote a clean, objection-resistant case for Universal Healthcare to address this problem.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/yvtau7jz
#MedicareForAll #UniversalHealthcare #HealthcareReform #HealthPolicy
What if memory, emotion, and time aren’t just psychological — but structural?
This is a speculative book built with AI: physics-styled essays, history, trauma, cosmology, politics, and authorship, all explored in novel ways.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY75QWFW
#AI #SpeculativeThinking #HumanAI #Emergence
This is a speculative book built with AI: physics-styled essays, history, trauma, cosmology, politics, and authorship, all explored in novel ways.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY75QWFW
#AI #SpeculativeThinking #HumanAI #Emergence
Chronoemotional Entanglement: And Other Exercises in Speculation
www.amazon.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What if memory, emotion, and time aren’t just psychological — but structural?
This is a speculative book built with AI: physics-styled essays, history, trauma, cosmology, politics, and authorship, all explored in novel ways.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY75QWFW
#AI #SpeculativeThinking #HumanAI #Emergence
This is a speculative book built with AI: physics-styled essays, history, trauma, cosmology, politics, and authorship, all explored in novel ways.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY75QWFW
#AI #SpeculativeThinking #HumanAI #Emergence
Most AI content feels hollow because we force it into shallow interactions. This is how slop is made.
There’s a way to use AI that feels like substantive thinking again:
tinyurl.com/y7scz78k
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIWriting #AIPhilosophy
There’s a way to use AI that feels like substantive thinking again:
tinyurl.com/y7scz78k
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIWriting #AIPhilosophy
Why AI Makes Slop
And How to Stop it From Happening
tinyurl.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Most AI content feels hollow because we force it into shallow interactions. This is how slop is made.
There’s a way to use AI that feels like substantive thinking again:
tinyurl.com/y7scz78k
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIWriting #AIPhilosophy
There’s a way to use AI that feels like substantive thinking again:
tinyurl.com/y7scz78k
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIWriting #AIPhilosophy
Homelessness is a predictable output of a housing system engineered for instability. This essay lays out why we already pay more to tolerate the crisis than it would cost to end it, and why the usual arguments no longer hold:
A Practical Case for Ending Homelessness
tinyurl.com/2zwxam56
A Practical Case for Ending Homelessness
tinyurl.com/2zwxam56
A Practical Case for Ending Homelessness
And the Costs We Cannot Afford
tinyurl.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Homelessness is a predictable output of a housing system engineered for instability. This essay lays out why we already pay more to tolerate the crisis than it would cost to end it, and why the usual arguments no longer hold:
A Practical Case for Ending Homelessness
tinyurl.com/2zwxam56
A Practical Case for Ending Homelessness
tinyurl.com/2zwxam56
"Is there justice in the system, or is it just us in the system?"
-Corporate Avenger
A world without borders is not pie-in-the-sky. Here is a no-bullshit dismantling of the idea of the ethno-state. We could do it. We just have to try.
It's a two parter, buckle up folks:
bit.ly/4anJe8X
-Corporate Avenger
A world without borders is not pie-in-the-sky. Here is a no-bullshit dismantling of the idea of the ethno-state. We could do it. We just have to try.
It's a two parter, buckle up folks:
bit.ly/4anJe8X
A World Without Borders
Dismantling the Ethno-State.
bit.ly
December 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"Is there justice in the system, or is it just us in the system?"
-Corporate Avenger
A world without borders is not pie-in-the-sky. Here is a no-bullshit dismantling of the idea of the ethno-state. We could do it. We just have to try.
It's a two parter, buckle up folks:
bit.ly/4anJe8X
-Corporate Avenger
A world without borders is not pie-in-the-sky. Here is a no-bullshit dismantling of the idea of the ethno-state. We could do it. We just have to try.
It's a two parter, buckle up folks:
bit.ly/4anJe8X
"God money, I'll do anything for you."
Except pretend currency still serves human well-being.
bit.ly/4anoVbG
Except pretend currency still serves human well-being.
bit.ly/4anoVbG
Capitalism Sucks!
The Twisted Roots of Currency
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December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"God money, I'll do anything for you."
Except pretend currency still serves human well-being.
bit.ly/4anoVbG
Except pretend currency still serves human well-being.
bit.ly/4anoVbG
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Extra Extra read all about it!
Great news. Our domain is officially verified, and we’re now @basicincomeaction.org
We’re here to push universal basic income forward and keep building the #UBI movement
Great news. Our domain is officially verified, and we’re now @basicincomeaction.org
We’re here to push universal basic income forward and keep building the #UBI movement
December 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Extra Extra read all about it!
Great news. Our domain is officially verified, and we’re now @basicincomeaction.org
We’re here to push universal basic income forward and keep building the #UBI movement
Great news. Our domain is officially verified, and we’re now @basicincomeaction.org
We’re here to push universal basic income forward and keep building the #UBI movement
Trickle-down assumes starving people can power an economy.
UBI flips the model: stabilize the base, let money circulate upward, tax with equity
I wrote a full argument for UBI that aims to restore dignity to the nation and its people.
Read it. Sit with it. Share it if it lands.
⬇️
bit.ly/4p3QtXi
UBI flips the model: stabilize the base, let money circulate upward, tax with equity
I wrote a full argument for UBI that aims to restore dignity to the nation and its people.
Read it. Sit with it. Share it if it lands.
⬇️
bit.ly/4p3QtXi
Universal Basic Income
Why We Need it Now More than Ever
bit.ly
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Trickle-down assumes starving people can power an economy.
UBI flips the model: stabilize the base, let money circulate upward, tax with equity
I wrote a full argument for UBI that aims to restore dignity to the nation and its people.
Read it. Sit with it. Share it if it lands.
⬇️
bit.ly/4p3QtXi
UBI flips the model: stabilize the base, let money circulate upward, tax with equity
I wrote a full argument for UBI that aims to restore dignity to the nation and its people.
Read it. Sit with it. Share it if it lands.
⬇️
bit.ly/4p3QtXi
