Kris Bastiani
@orchidaugur.bsky.social
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Every day the genocide continues is an explicit endorsement from Trump to keep going.
It's as true for him as it was for Biden
It's as true for him as it was for Biden
"We know he was on the phone to Netanyahu ordering Israeli planes that were on the way to bomb Iran that [they] should be turned round. Trump ordered that. It happened"
Underlining the fact that the US could have stopped the genocide in Gaza at any time over the last 20 months
Underlining the fact that the US could have stopped the genocide in Gaza at any time over the last 20 months
June 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Every day the genocide continues is an explicit endorsement from Trump to keep going.
It's as true for him as it was for Biden
It's as true for him as it was for Biden
Got my coffee from these folks this morning and they're good people- but that's not a requirement to deserve these kind of rights at work.
Solidarity to the workers at the Padre coffee roastery!
This is pretty inspiring to read.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/su...
This is pretty inspiring to read.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/su...
Support Workers at Padre Roastery
In mid-2024, workers at Padre Coffee's Brunswick East roastery made the decision to unionise. This was not a step taken lightly – but it was a necessary one. Since the business was bought out by corpo...
www.megaphone.org.au
June 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Got my coffee from these folks this morning and they're good people- but that's not a requirement to deserve these kind of rights at work.
*MC Hammer voice*
January 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
*MC Hammer voice*
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Internal displacement keeps getting sold as the “humanitarian option” in Gaza. But every story that forces you to confront how you’d move entire families and possessions without a car or food or water sounds exactly like this.
May 11, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Internal displacement keeps getting sold as the “humanitarian option” in Gaza. But every story that forces you to confront how you’d move entire families and possessions without a car or food or water sounds exactly like this.
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Now that snipers are trained on peaceful students and professors are being hog-tied by masked men with assault rifles, it'd be great to hear from all the people who made "free speech on US campuses" their life's mission every time they met a student with blue hair.
April 26, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Now that snipers are trained on peaceful students and professors are being hog-tied by masked men with assault rifles, it'd be great to hear from all the people who made "free speech on US campuses" their life's mission every time they met a student with blue hair.
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For a decade, Hollywood hasn’t aggressively fought piracy because it saw people would pay if they made them a good deal.
But as streaming has gotten worse and more expensive, consumers turned back to file sharing. Now the industry plans to get Congress to pass new legislation to stop them.
But as streaming has gotten worse and more expensive, consumers turned back to file sharing. Now the industry plans to get Congress to pass new legislation to stop them.
Hollywood is reviving its war on piracy
As the streaming deal gets worse, people are going back to piracy. The industry wants to stop them.
disconnect.blog
April 23, 2024 at 1:41 PM
For a decade, Hollywood hasn’t aggressively fought piracy because it saw people would pay if they made them a good deal.
But as streaming has gotten worse and more expensive, consumers turned back to file sharing. Now the industry plans to get Congress to pass new legislation to stop them.
But as streaming has gotten worse and more expensive, consumers turned back to file sharing. Now the industry plans to get Congress to pass new legislation to stop them.
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This is so wild to me, because they won. People stopped torrenting and just got streaming substitutions instead. All they needed to do was keep things the same, and they fucked it up anyway.
Streaming services are becoming less attractive because of rising prices and companies removing content, which is sending people back to piracy. So now the industry is trying to pass laws to penalize digital piracy again.
Studios Are Going After Piracy Again, Potentially Reigniting Fight Over Free Speech
The Motion Picture Association said it will work with Congress to enact an anti-piracy law similar to legislation that failed to pass more than a decade ago for potentially promoting censorship.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
April 12, 2024 at 10:58 AM
This is so wild to me, because they won. People stopped torrenting and just got streaming substitutions instead. All they needed to do was keep things the same, and they fucked it up anyway.
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Every time. UBI works.
AI doesn’t.
But which one is getting billions in hot dumb money thrown at it.
AI doesn’t.
But which one is getting billions in hot dumb money thrown at it.
Fresh results from another basic income pilot. This one took place in San Antonio, Texas where 1,000 people got a $1,908 payment in Dec 2020, followed by 8 quarterly $400 payments between Apr 2021 and Jan 2023.
What happened?
Incomes from work went up.
That's a commonly observed impact BTW.
What happened?
Incomes from work went up.
That's a commonly observed impact BTW.
San Antonio experimented with giving people $5,108 no-strings-attached. They spent it on housing and school supplies for their kids.
San Antonio, Texas is one of several US cities piloting basic income programs to assist low-income residents with housing and combat poverty rates.
www.businessinsider.com
March 15, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Every time. UBI works.
AI doesn’t.
But which one is getting billions in hot dumb money thrown at it.
AI doesn’t.
But which one is getting billions in hot dumb money thrown at it.
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No more modern nonsense, return to to tradition
February 11, 2024 at 6:19 PM
No more modern nonsense, return to to tradition
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In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.
Fresh basic income pilot results, this time from Arlington, Virginia where 200 people got $500 a month for 2 years. The findings:
Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains.
www.arlnow.com/2024/02/06/r...
Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains.
www.arlnow.com/2024/02/06/r...
February 7, 2024 at 4:09 PM
In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.
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common misconception that the only way to introduce tech/advances is to eliminate jobs and concentrate wealth upward, forcing us to come up with new worse jobs. technology can be introduced democratically and without being owned/deployed benefitted from unilaterally by elites
They seem a mixed bag. They stood for good things, like ending child labor, and whatnot, but if you try to make people keep you that no longer need you, break their mills, and shoot them in the dick, folks respond negatively. Who knew🤷♂️
January 11, 2024 at 7:26 PM
common misconception that the only way to introduce tech/advances is to eliminate jobs and concentrate wealth upward, forcing us to come up with new worse jobs. technology can be introduced democratically and without being owned/deployed benefitted from unilaterally by elites
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Study after study comes to similar conclusions, but somehow it isn't enough to blunt the instinct to appease racists among social democratic politicians
Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’
Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Study after study comes to similar conclusions, but somehow it isn't enough to blunt the instinct to appease racists among social democratic politicians
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For cis folks who maybe don't get how bad it is:
Here's the map.
Red or Orange? There's at least a half a dozen laws that attack trans rights ranging from Healthcare bans to risking being arrested for "drag near kids" by being in public.
Dark green? Basic human protections.
That's the reality.
Here's the map.
Red or Orange? There's at least a half a dozen laws that attack trans rights ranging from Healthcare bans to risking being arrested for "drag near kids" by being in public.
Dark green? Basic human protections.
That's the reality.
January 5, 2024 at 7:23 PM
For cis folks who maybe don't get how bad it is:
Here's the map.
Red or Orange? There's at least a half a dozen laws that attack trans rights ranging from Healthcare bans to risking being arrested for "drag near kids" by being in public.
Dark green? Basic human protections.
That's the reality.
Here's the map.
Red or Orange? There's at least a half a dozen laws that attack trans rights ranging from Healthcare bans to risking being arrested for "drag near kids" by being in public.
Dark green? Basic human protections.
That's the reality.
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