tag: humanity
This update from Scott Santens is worth quoting:
When folks argue that a Universal Basic Income would deter working, think about those million-dollar CEOs. If a modest $15k is enough to make one quit working, wouldn’t multi-million dollar packages make CEOs practically comatose? Yet, here they are, still CEOing. Weird isn't it?
Yes. Quite.
My feelings on the upcoming election (not just presidential). We should vote for whoever will:
- Maximize our chances of restoring bodily autonomy for women.
- Maximize our capacity to celebrate and treat as equals every person. This is regardless of color, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, or other way of being different in ways that don’t harm others.
- Maximize our chances of avoiding the impending climate apocalypse.
- Maximize the chances that every person within our borders has all their basic needs met without conditions.
- Maximize our capacity to welcome, include, and integrate any person who has something to contribute to our culture.
- Maximize our ability to move from punishment as a capitalistic system towards restorative justice writ large.
- Maximize our safety.
- Minimize our contribution to global human suffering.
Our economy is supremely powerful. It is time we harness some of the greed that got us here to do the bare minimum for our fellow humans who have been marginalized due to no fault of their own. In the long run we will become even more powerful. If we can’t get to this new stage of development, very likely our planet will become uninhabitable for us. Just a bit more cooperation and harmonization with our environment can go a long way towards alleviating the suffering of all our fellow sentient beings.
No big deal. Right? 😃
The latest Supreme Court of the US decision about unlimited presidential power fills me with dread. I’m sure I’m not alone! Before the decision came down I decided to host a conversation about the current political climate.
We may feel powerless alone. But we are more resilient together. Will you join me?
Starts Tue, Jul 9, 2024, 1:15 PM PDT
Starting to engage again with a solar installer. Thinking hard about doing it not just to save money but also for the planet!
Very sad I haven’t been able to get a solar system yet. I don’t actually know the difference in ROI between getting that and paying off our mortgage sooner and investing in the S&P. Feeling like it has to be less about cash but why? Our economic system needs to solve for big things not me!
Or no? Am I interested in solar because I want to save the planet? Or because I don’t want to have a power outage? Or save money?
Wherein I write down some of my experiences thus far in attempting to acquire solar panels and batteries. It's been rough!
more inside...California reaches 100% renewable energy for 25 out of the last 32 days! A new record!! https://apple.news/Axn9hzc7XQ76nVs4QBBi3XA
Curious.. how many people skip because they want to instead of because they want attention?
Seems like all this investment in AI is going to do much more harm than good. Hope I’m wrong. Hope we don’t kick off an extinction level event. Tho maybe it’s for the best. Our species seems to be a threat to the rest of the planet.
Would love to be proved wrong!
I seem to have reached the limit of my energy to improve my blog. Perhaps that's for the best! Now I'm gonna focus a bit on implementing a small Lean Coffee web app. Or mobile app. Not sure exactly. But it will be entirely self hosted and open source and free!
more inside...“HB 1105 is a draconian bill rooted in anti-immigrant sentiment that would mandate local law enforcement to comply with failed policies and programs like 287(g) and error-prone ICE detainers that will cost counties millions of dollars . HB 1105 in no way promotes public safety.”
more inside...A long-ish reflection on psychological attachment styles: how they affect my decision making process about whether to stay or move on from a particular job.
more inside...It is so nice to wake up to a very good article on basic income on my feed! Balanced reporting by NPR.
Had another power outage last night. This is starting to really suck. Georgia Power really doesn’t seem to care about the south side of Atlanta.
Today’s feel good message: a mastodon post “RIP Bob of Bob’s Red Mill who gave his company to his employees when he retired …”
Much as I hate Substack, this article is worth reading. It outlines how the media has totally skewed the conversation about Biden’s mental fitness.
Back from extended power outage. Can't wait for solar to be installed. Quite ridiculous!
Seems it is hard wired in us to not want to exercise. So you need to hack yourself to make it happen. That’s what my quest to build this blog platform has been all about! Just on a larger scale. 😀
So I was in the middle of scheduling our site survey for a solar and battery backup installation and the power went out. Fun times!! It was out for 3 hrs.
“You know all the random unforced tech layoffs are just labor disorganizing, right?
“That's it. That's all they are. They're making us play musical chairs with our jobs to keep us from ever building enough trust to organize. Their ideal outcome is a labor pool that's too traumatized and reactive to act collectively.
“Just pushing everyone into a scarcity mindset on purpose. It's the whole US economy writ small.
“If you liked that toot then you'll love this book https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union”
🤯 I have nothing to add. This sentiment is perfect.
No, it isn’t possible to have too much psychological safety. I’m very glad to have the reminder that this is the foundation of any work with teams. Especially ones that are right at the beginning of adopting XP.
Very inspiring post about how we can fix the internet.
Happy New Year! May we all find the circumstances and energy to live happier, healthier lives.
It looks like users of micro.blog won't be receiving replies from my site. That's because in order for my replies to show up on their timeline I have to have an account there. Makes me sad!
This article about how private equity-owned hospitals are more dangerous than others is a strong reminder that the profit motive is more likely to be at odds with the motive to benefit others.
Profound: “I think the word ‘should’ may stop us living full lives.”
Yet another platform has succumbed to white supremacy. Avoid Substack!
It’s like choosing the right bar to hang out in.
Thoughts on evil big corporations eroding our culture.
more inside...I need to figure out how I feel about keeping animals in captivity. For wild animals, it seems like it creates great suffering so that some humans can get a little enjoyment. No brainer that this is generating negative karma.
But then what about domesticated ones? So long as their life with their human is better than it would have been in the wild are we doing the right thing? Is this karmically neutral? Hard to tell!
Huge fan of this vision! https://tech.lgbt/@some/111602180542613484
“Imagine a world without corporations, or rather, where corporations have gone extinct. Every family and community has their own servers, federating with others in a ritual process, defending their own against other groups with enmity.”
Feels like the language and stack I picked make it want to be a multi tenant thing instead of many small things running independently.
That is if I want to minimize electricity waste! Will need to see how much memory it takes to run this thing and do some thinking.
Starting to wonder — what will it take to make it super easy for folks to interact with my blog? While retaining control of all their content?
Wondering if “My Life” as a service could become a thing?
Why do I now feel so sad?
There are so many out there who dream of what I was somehow able to achieve who can’t seem to get there due to some inequity in our system.
more inside...Work in progress
This site is part of a larger effort to bring more of my digital life "in-house" so to speak. So when something goes wrong I have only myself to blame. Ha!