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Let's build a world where we care for one another while we can. 🌹

[btrower @btrower]

Twitter was a hellscape before, but it was tolerable. This current X iteration is brutal. @elonmusk is not a moron, but at least for me he is systematically killing twitter and that makes so little sense. I wonder: What will replace it now that Twitter is effectively dead?

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

“As so many of the the commons were seized and fenced off long ago, and with the current assimilation of the data of our entire global civilization now used to birth and train an emerging artificial workforce (unlike anything previously encountered by humanity), it is time we start taking a good look at how resources could start to flow back to fund a guaranteed solid economic floor for everyone."

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@RonPaul @DanielLMcAdams https://t.co/afLtmYWAGo

[btrower @btrower]

@RonPaul @DanielLMcAdams It's heartbreaking to see that Ron Paul, formerly a man of principle with whom I could disagree, but whom I could respect, is aiding and abetting the destruction of his nation by a traitorous Russian asset and a cabal of oligarchs. I am skeptical that it is really him here.

[btrower @btrower]

You're not alone.

[btrower @btrower]

@scottsantens Me too, but not as exhaustively as you have done here. It's a good piece. It helps address half-measures fakes that keep popping up: https://t.co/VnM2Grd6MB -- At least in Canada, this could and should begin phasing in directly tomorrow.

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@scottsantens @RBReich Re: "Establish Medicare for all. " -- If this spearheads demands, there will either M4A or clear proof representatives will not represent, and need to be replaced.

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

OpenAI is calling for a Public Wealth Fund UBI so that everyone, not just investors, owns a piece of the AI future.

This is now mainstream policy, backed by successful examples like Alaska.

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@AdamHoltererer I got here with the question: does anthropic not know what relaunch means? All these big vendors have practically zero clue how to run a production system. I keep spamming the net with this old methodology, most of which is testing, FFS: https://t.co/uZWAanZhfP

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shares what business leaders are saying behind closed doors

AI could wipe out entry-level white collar jobs, even while it cures diseases like cancer and gives us cheap energy

"We can't stop the AI bus" - We can fund UBI

[btrower @btrower]

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
-- [From: Christopher Penn]

[btrower @btrower]

@VraserX Agree, though it's two steps back with Claude right now acting dumb as a stump and screwing every single thing up -- at cost because it loses its way and loses work. Aggravatiing AF.

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

UBI—like Social Security—isn't about creating dependency; it's about ending it. It gives people the leverage to negotiate better wages and better conditions. It turns the labor market from a coercive "choice" into an actual choice. That's the freedom we should be fighting for.

[btrower @btrower]

Well, at least somebody there is paying some attention. I hate the costs are high and it's insanely aggravating to have their cavalier attitude toss away work I paid for. There are experienced adult production developers out there. They should get some.

[Lydia Hallie ✨ @lydiahallie]

We're aware people are hitting usage limits in Claude Code way faster than expected. Actively investigating, will share more when we have an update!

[btrower @btrower]

@scottsantens In Canada, you know, where the hospital does not mean bankruptcy, as of this moment, we could start phasing in UBI by adjustments to the tax system and existing mechanisms like those used for CERB. Ultimately UBI pays for itself and it's our money.

[btrower @btrower]

Interesting. It's essentially 100% for me and it looks like a lot of people are coasting on it.

[Tyler @rezoundous]

So it has been about a year since. Is AI writing 100% of your code?

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@JuliaEMcCoy I get it!

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@krishnanrohit Cognitive misers. They do not want to use up the 'brain juice', calories, blood sugar, whatever to think and learn and think and learn because they find it's just too much thinking and learning. They'll never learn.

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@Morphteksystems @JacobColling Yep. Just checked. af -- in answer to "Are you alive yet?" -- Claude: Server is busy. Retrying in 7s (attempt 5 of 10) -- I don't want to sound to glib, but it *was* working at some point. Can't they just roll back and reboot so I can get on with it?

[btrower @btrower]

@JacobColling I personally have found it running 'not' today. It's beyond aggravating as it seems to take a big chunk of work with it. I'm not bitter, but ... wait ... no, I am bitter. I'm trying to get stuff done with an AI assistant that is in rehab.

[btrower @btrower]

@bindureddy I'm totally not getting it. GPT seems to get dumber all the time for things I'm doing. It gets into failure modes that have in the past taken a day to climb back out of. These toolsl are indispensible but not without pain. Claude is down right now too :(