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The only privacy-preserving #BasicIncome system. End-to-end encrypted community software. (Project of @okTurtles)

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Announcing Group Income 2.0!

Private community software with an end-to-end encrypted financial safety net

🎦 Short Film: A Group Income Future

👇 See post below for full details.

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The Underground: Ep.3 Finale

#Cyberpunk #Dystopian #Anime #Animation #BasicIncome #DigitalID

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The Underground: Ep.2 Tunnel

He Hacked My Citizen Score To Save My Life. 😳

#AnimeShort #BasicIncome #GroupIncome

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My Social Credit Score Hit 0.2. Then The Drones Breached The Ceiling.

The Underground: Ep.1 Drones

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We also fixed many low-level issues, including:

- A significant memory leak from service worker ↔︎ page message passing

- We added a recovery mechanism from rare key rotation failures

And much more!

See all the changes 👇

https://t.co/qRGf5f1OhO

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We've been busy polishing stability and adding features — Group Income 2.8 is finally here!

Yes, we had to skip a few version numbers for this one. 😅

See what's new 👇

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Upload progress spinners and other quality-of-life tweaks!

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@jack @blocks

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

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Maintenance complete!

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Our official server (https://t.co/Wblnp1cm6Q) will be down for some maintenance for the next few minutes. Shouldn't take long. 🤞

[okTurtles Foundation (@[email protected]) @okTurtles]

A very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you from @okTurtles 😊! 🎄🎊

💝🐢

[Group Income (@[email protected]) @Group_Income]

> "Make sure you have systems in place outside of the system"

We know something about this 🙂

[Andrew Kaufman MD @AndrewKaufmanMD]

When the digital ID is introduced, it won’t be mandatory, but you just won’t be able to participate in society if you don’t have it. Authorities will claim everyone still has a choice, but they are going to make it nearly impossible to live without agreeing to their rules. It will be similar to the COVID shot, except much more intertwined with day-to-day life. Make sure you have systems in place outside of the system so you can resist without being starved out.

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Group Income also now speaks 8 new languages in addition to French and English:

Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, and Ukrainian

See the full release notes of what else is new in 2.5:

https://t.co/KVWvoJBoQJ

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We built an end-to-end encrypted video player into Group Income.

Available in version 2.5 👇

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https://t.co/cWxofT1Uw0

#job #hiring

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Sitting on social media? Consider getting paid for it.

We're #hiring a social media manager, link in the next post: