Joel

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🏃‍♂️ Runner |🏋🏽‍♂️ Lifter
☕️ Home Barista | ✈️ Traveler
🎮 Gamer | 📚 Reader
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[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

90 min long run and I got some negative splits in!

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

Fairly new to gaming but fighting games were always fun!

[jordan @pyroov8]

Nine games that shaped me

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

@dash71287 I live for those chips!

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

70 min run #halfmarathonprep

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

1st Long run of half marathon training ✅#run

[CBS News @CBSNews]

A massive crowd gathered at the Stonewall National Monument on Friday during New York City's pride celebrations and belted out the tune "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." The monument commemorates the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, sparked by police raids at the Stonewall Inn in 1969.

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

I ran fast! 🏃🏽‍♂️💨

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.

From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.

To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.

Happy Pride, New York City.

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

#NewProfilePic #nyc

[AI Highlight @AIHighlight]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

"Margeret Thatcher said the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

In the 1950s, one out of every three workers in this country carried a union card. Today, it’s fewer than one in ten.

That decline didn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of decades of coordinated attacks by corporations that have grown richer while working people have been asked to settle for less.

That’s the crisis we’re living through: deepening inequality, eroding stability, and a political system that too often answers to wealth instead of the will of the people.

Union Now is changing that — rebuilding the power of working people from the ground up. Yesterday, alongside @BernieSanders, I was proud to stand with organizers and workers at the @UnionNow_ rally.

[Raj Arya @RajjAryaa]

Your iPhone Lockscreen Deserve this 👇

Want these wallpaper ??
Like, Repost & Reply Glass
I will send you the link straight to your DM
Let’s go🏃

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

@RajjAryaa Glass

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

@RajjAryaa Done

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

There is no real way to address climate change without addressing the hoarding of the super rich.

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

Full Power Suit: Engaged. 🔋
Just a reminder that Samus Aran has been doing this since ‘86. Dread is everything!!

#MetroidDread #SamusAran #Metroid #NintendoSwitch #Metroidvania #EMMI #Nintendo #GamingLife #BountyHunter

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

I had such a privilege of being among 3,000 runners to participate in the International 10k held in El Paso and Cuidad Juarez.

Being able to grow up in a border community is such an important part of my identity.

This is such an amazing way to start the year!

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

I haven’t committed to running any races because I want to be able to enjoy my travels without having to schedule them around my training.

[Joel @BrewRunQuest]

There are a lot of fitness influencers whose lives revolve around the gym. This doesn’t support my lifestyle.

This year, I’m committing to make the most isn’t less. I’m committing to 4 days of lifting and running and making a day for a long run while eating according to my goal