Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

A bad update: we're getting reports of pro-No Kings creators who have been suspended today as well. And we still lack backend access to the official No Kings account. Stay tuned, will report news when I have it.

A $250,000 deposit for a car whose total cost you don’t know, whose final specification is not set, and in the case of the “Rocket” configuration will never be road legal… I don’t know what’s funnier, the morons buying it or the morons saying ‘the jump jet feature is handy when roads collapse’ 🙄

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

To put that into dollar terms: Oregon residents are now paying $1.6 billion more for electricity than they were paying just 5 years ago, which comes out to roughly $950 extra per household per year. Alternately, that $611,000 from the pockets of Oregonians each year for each data center job.

Or as Dr. King put it: "It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking... The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization..."

Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Lifting everyone out of poverty with UBI + UBS is the morally right thing to do, but it's also economic good sense. It is very costly to let poverty exist. The wealthy are willing to let us all pay those costs and use poverty as a stick.

BOOM! The Spectrum Next now has Roguecraft DX and it’s bloody marvellous.

I wrote about flying cars.

Tomorrow...

This has so much atmosphere, especially when the lights go out…

The Lindsey Graham Act would have imposed significant new sanctions on Russia from 18 October, but allowed the President to issue waivers. He just did. To avoid screaming, I went through every provision explaining them and indicating which he waived. Spoiler: All the ones that did anything.

Major Harvard Study on kids PROVED UBI works. + high school graduation and schooling + voting rates + conscientiousness and open-mindedness - depression and anxiety UBI is how we invest in the next generation.