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Dan retweeted
Just do universal basic income. Artists need money to make art. What you're saying is make the money before the art, which is not how making art works.
And let's not forget what trained all AI models. Artists' work did.
Dan retweeted
I'll be sorting out my January, February and March plans soon.
Brisbane and Gold Coast friends, here's your chance to keep me closer to home! 😉
I'd much rather enjoy some local company than be constantly living out of a suitcase.
And just quietly... those who plan ahead always find themselves on my favourites list. 😘
So, who's going to give me a good reason to stay home?
Dan retweeted
The cost of not doing UBI exceeds the cost of doing UBI.
If you think helping people is expensive, wait until you calculate the cost of abandoning them.
Emergency rooms, shelters, policing, courts, prisons, and the human cost of lives lost.
Poverty is expensive. Homelessness is expensive. Neglect is expensive.
Investing in people isn't just compassion, it's common sense.
And sheesh, we're paying a fortune to keep doing the wrong thing.
Dan retweeted
$20/hr minimum wage is a joke.
Any wage based solution to poverty and the problem of unemployment & unemployability is laughably inadequate.
We must implement universal basic income.
Some people's privilege and lack of empathy is really awful.
Dan retweeted
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Dan retweeted
>capitalists capture all the land
>they have a monopoly on the source of all wealth & productivity
>land speculation drives prices up until commercial crash
If we want capitalism that's sustained, we need land value tax funded universal basic income to resolve class conflict.
Dan retweeted
Inflation rises to 4.3%.
If increasing interest rates is supposed to control inflation. After SIXTEEN rate rises, inflation is up, down, up again....
PROOF:
INTEREST RATES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH, NOR ARE ABLE TO CONTROL, INFLATION.
It's time to ditch this failed theory.
#auspol
Dan retweeted
One Nation voters ain't patriots.
They support a fully imported foreign political culture from MAGA United States.
They support replacing the Citizen's Rights of Australians with the Corporate Rights of Foreign Corporations.
And they should be called-out for it.
#auspol
Dan retweeted
Exactly. Financial insecurity isn't just an economic problem; it's a mental health issue. Basic income trials found improvements in wellbeing and reduced stress. UBI provides income security; UBS tackles essential costs. Prevention matters as much as treatment.
Dan retweeted
AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own, and MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play.
13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, were left alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours. They started creating their own challenges and that "play" even enabled them to be better at tasks given later.
“We normally develop artificial agents by deciding in advance what they should practice, what they should optimize, and what counts as progress,” the researchers write in their report. “Play suggests another regime: give an agent a sufficiently rich and safe world, let it choose what is interesting, and allow useful knowledge to accumulate from the history that follows.”
If agents can figure out stuff to do if not given a task, I'm pretty sure humans can figure it out too. All of this "But what will people do if they don't need to work for someone else in order to eat?" is just nonsense.
If people aren't forced into jobbing in order to survive, that does not mean the end of all work or challenges in the pursuit of meaning. It is so natural to come up with new challenges that even agents do it.
Humans with unconditional basic income are going to be more than okay. Stop with the end of meaning crap.
Also, play is clearly valuable in learning skills. So stop shitting on playing games as not having any value.
techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/le…
