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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?

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.

@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.

If you don't know who Thomas Spence was, read this. He was the 1st to propose a true Universal Basic Income plan. He died in 1814. 3 years later, the Society of Spencean Philanthropists—what were essentially UBI+UBS+No Landlords clubs—became the first political ideology to be outlawed by Parliament. In 1775, Thomas Spence proposed that parishes collectively own all land, lease it to the highest bidder, fund public services from the rent, and distribute the surplus equally to every resident quarterly—about £10/year, ~$1,500 today—regardless of age, gender, or status. The first true UBI plan. His words: "all the living souls in the parish, whether male or female; married or single; legitimate or illegitimate; from a day old to the extremest age..." If the land dividend was in any way means-tested or conditional, it would no longer have been restitution for a stolen birthright.

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

@JuliaEMcCoy I get it!

This is what my day looks like now: I wake up when I want. I create what I want, bringing it to life 100 times faster and easier with AI. I spend way more time with my kids. I live my actual life. I didn’t get here by clinging to the old way. I got here by being the first to master the new one. AI didn’t steal my freedom. AI gave me my freedom. The writers who called me a traitor in 2023? Most of them are struggling right now. Adapt or die. That’s always been the choice.

@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.

What's the underlying reason why so many people so radically prefer bad economic policies like price controls, considering we've known they're bad for decades now?

@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?

@JacobColling its down af

Claude is running noticably slow today. Anyone else? down

@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.

@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 :(

GPT 5.4 is cheaper and more performant for xls and deep research than other SOTA models We have now managed to improve performance by 33% on other top Gemini or Claude models OpenAI needs to double down on this win and launch GPT 6.0 ASAP

@status_is_down Yes, and I'm peevish about it. I'm right in the middle of a big body of work and 'Server is busy. Retrying ...' Claude has repeatedly eaten money getting to some point and then dying and scrapping the work.

Claude AI is reportedly down for hundreds of users right now. Are you one of them? #ClaudeDown #Anthropic #ClaudeAiDown community.designtaxi.com/topic/25465-is…

@scottsantens Yes. The wealth is already there if you divide GDP by population and it is increasing and poised to explode. People should be demanding UBI and embrace tooling up to make UBI better. An arithmetic problem with a natural solution -- dividend as you say.

Automation via AI is no longer on its way - it's here. We can either have a future where machines do the work and we suffer, or a future where machines do the work and we thrive. The difference is policy. The difference is distributing an AI dividend. The difference is UBI.

@AndrewYang Yeah. This is not your dad's reality, I am afraid. 2026, the year the future arrived early, is going to be a very weird reset.

Conventional economic theory never accounted for intelligent machines that can do the equivalent of weeks of human work in minutes or seconds.

@JohnStossel @ryanmcmaken @mises Austrian economics is widely criticized by mainstream economists for being unscientific, overly ideological, and for rejecting empirical evidence in favor of deduction. It's a dumb school that appeals to people who aren't super fond of reading. Good luck with that.

I was a big-government liberal. My consumer reporting found problems I thought only government could fix… But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises made me question what I thought I knew about government policy. @ryanmcmaken of @mises explains their ideas:

You say "looks like somebody has too much time on their hands" but all I hear is "I'm sad because I don't know what creativity feels like." -- Dan Wineman

@scottsantens @gerardsans Saved me the trouble. Thanks!

@gerardsans What are you even talking about? Sounds like you just used AI stupidly.

If you're working in the AI space, you need to be pushing for universal basic income RIGHT NOW. It's not good enough to just say UBI may be needed in the future. And put your money where your mouth is, or else people will assume you're lying about the capabilities of AI and/or will push against AI.

@HoosierJackson I know, right? It must be by design, but it's insane. For me it is just about unusable. Half the time I can't post and just about every time I can't read the top tweet.

Literally nothing works on this website anymore holy shit.

@VraserX Cool video. I'm expecting things to be really awesome but so quickly and incredibly different that people will have big time future shock. Just 2026 is going to be weirdest year we ever had. By 2030 just about everything about 2026 will be like bygone 8-track tapes.

I’m genuinely curious. If AI and robotics eliminate most human labor and scarcity… what does daily life actually look like? What do people do with their time? What gives life meaning? How do you imagine a post-labor world?

@hydrangea4977 @naomirwolf Well, at least you check you work.

@naomirwolf How can you check you work after you write an essay or term paper. You proofread it. Doesn’t make sense!!!

I still think her parents should have noticed she couldn’t read. Call me old-fashioned.