For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

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Not certain about the photo but I endorse the text :)

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

If anyone wants to see some random in-progress photos of the boat photos.app.goo.gl/7csRvGWWy7CW...

been a blast so far working on this with @inkandswitch.com, @toposinstitute.bsky.social + others

Stockholm’s ferries and archipelago *swoon*

I have a friend who was a designer at an engineering firm who got laid off during covid. He took the time to get really good at backcountry skiing thanks to CERB and rejoined the labour force when the jobs came back.

People on CERB were underemployed and happy and productive (just not economically). COVID was a weird time but that part was great.

Interesting. I have positive feelings about UBI because of observing the CERB program in Canada during COVID, which (anecdotally, for many people I know) kept huge numbers of service industry and arts workers who were suddenly without work able to still pay rent and buy food.

I started with Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City which I think is as good a place as any. His books all broadly take place in the same world and hit many of the same tropes but I haven’t found reading order to matter that much.

Alternatively you could start with Devices and Desires.

I have a vivid memory of watching TV coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake as a child, and they were interviewing someone who had been a collector of pottery.

“I’m going to start collecting again,” she said. “But this time, maybe baskets.”

my US map is pure red these days

how long until you buy a spacemouse though

Have you read any KJ Parker?

The civilized way to get to remote forests is on a boat. Barefoot.

Techbros couldn’t have invented GPS because to have it work at all requires the use of distant black holes; basic research that gov’t needs to fund over decades that tech never will.

They don’t realize yet that they’ve turned off the faucet of the tech hose by defunding science.

I’m enough to remember when Twitter’s API was the standard demo for all kinds of new tech. (then they killed it to protect ad revenue).

I’ve just had a fantastic electronics designer drop off my electric boat projects for personal reasons, and another EE/robotics hire who had to withdraw before starting.

Would really love to get some more help in that area! Let me know of any leads.

happy to chat. If you want to reach out by email, I'm [email protected].

Thanks @mcfunley.com. I guess I should post this here!

Here are some pics of the future Boat Works site photos.app.goo.gl/AWPaQfTP1FKY...