Yannis Kassios
yannis-kassios.bsky.social
Yannis Kassios
@yannis-kassios.bsky.social
🇬🇷 🇨🇦 GenX, software engineer and a bunch of other things
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Update your jargon file:

There are 3 hard problems in software engineering: naming things, off-by-one errors, cache invalidation, and polymorphic lists.
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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With less human workers needed every year that AI does more, it may have to come to this very soon. Some are starting to make it a reality now. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

www.scottsantens.com/its-time-to-...
It's Time to Walk the Walk for Universal Basic Income (UBI)
UBI means some pay more tax but most net ahead. Walk the walk now: align monthly giving with your likely net tax and help build the income floor.
www.scottsantens.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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They always say the same basic thing. They are always wrong. And we should do what we have always done and do the thing that needs doing anyway, which this time around is universal basic income and healthcare, and a 4-day workweek.
October 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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ICYMI: Canadians ranked Basic Income as top choice to address AI Job Loss (Abacus Poll)

AI is coming for work. Canadians want security.
September 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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September 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Us: hey, could you put some of those billions of dollars you'll never be able to spend in 50 lifetimes to healing the planet, and creating universal healthcare and basic income?

Them: nah, we want an absolute dystopia so you all want to go to mars.

Us: uh... how about no.
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Universal Basic Income isn't communism. It is the key that unlocks the chains, freeing people to be able to live and pursue their passions, including passions of competing against companies who only sell enshitified products for maximum profit with actual quality products to benefit consumers.
August 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The disingenuous take advantage of confusion, so after well over 150 years, Darwin's Theory of Evolution is still very misunderstood by the public.

One thing that seems to trip up people's thinking is the meaning of the word "theory"...

The "Theory" of Evolution 🧪
www.linkedin.com/pulse/theory...
July 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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On 10 June 1944, 81 years ago today, German occupation forces in Greece massacred 228 Greek villagers. The Nazis raped and mutilated women, disemboweled pregnant women, slaughtered men with bayonets, “strangled the women with their own guts. They cut the throats of all infants.”
June 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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May 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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May 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Learn about the Vatican's sacred gathering of pope pickers
May 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🧪I used to be the assigning editor of a profiles column, and I've missed those deep dives into people's experiences. It was a treat to speak with Michael Running Wolf, his wife Caroline, and their professional colleagues about their work using AI to revitalize Indigenous languages for @nature.com.
Walking in two worlds: how an Indigenous computer scientist is using AI to preserve threatened languages
Michael Running Wolf leads artificial-intelligence initiatives to revive lost languages and empower Indigenous people.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.
April 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Panican?? Is there a tariff on words from England that we don't know about? #trump #tariffs
April 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Isms are dead. Instead, eliminate the profit motive for all essentials like food, shelter, healthcare and education. Use Mark Cuban's template www.costplusdrugs.com. Then, you still have a free market for all the people's wants but an equitable market for all their needs.
April 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Mark Carney's office *opened 90% of emails* our supporters sent about basic income, written by liberals and non-liberals alike.

Many talked about how it could improve food security. Here are their letters. 🧵
April 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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That is why we have to disabuse our fellow Americans about the myth of meritocracy. I fund the non-profit income-movement@bsky.social that is launching a long-range campaign to do just that:
March 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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A partner of ours and champion in the basic income space, @income-movement.bsky.social, is running a social media campaign that aims to debunk the myth of meritocracy in the US.

A thread 🧵
March 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM