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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 3h

Cool, I’m being flamed by the right wing financial press! financialpost.com/opinion/tere...

Terence Corcoran: Help! I’m rich, so tax me more. Pretty please…

Here’s a message for socialist millionaires: send in the money voluntarily, or shut up. Read more from Terence Corcoran

financialpost.com

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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 3d

every day it's a man who looks like my father, taken to the ground. a man who looks like my brother, on his knees. a woman who looks just like my sister, screaming for her children. every day.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 5d

🚄 new train map from planemad alert: api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/pl...

Rail World

A map made by planemad

api.mapbox.com

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 5d

It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨

We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer

(Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

Godot IDE Engineer

Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot

inkandswitch.com

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 9d

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

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 13d

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

9/25/25 catalyst · Thursday, Sep 25 📸

Shared album · Tap to view!

photos.app.goo.gl

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 16d

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

pvh @pvh.ca · 16d

It's pretty cool that Ink & Switch is contributing to this big ARIA programme now. We get two big things out of it: funding (obviously) but also a community of fascinating creators and problems to connect with. I'm learning all about the UK power grid this week.
www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/d...

ARIA Safeguarded AI Programme, new faces, and a splattering of ink lab notes

Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who have recently joined our staff. Finally, we’ve got a collection of lab notes about Programmable Ink...

www.inkandswitch.com

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · 16d

Stockholm’s ferries and archipelago *swoon*

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Denis Trailin @denis.trailin.ca · Sep 3

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.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Sep 3

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

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Sep 3

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.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Aug 26

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.

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Aug 25

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.”

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Aug 24

my US map is pure red these days

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Aug 23

how long until you buy a spacemouse though

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Aug 23

Have you read any KJ Parker?

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Jul 30

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

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · Jul 29

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.

Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · Jul 28

I mean, GPS only exists because the government (ok, the military) needed it. If these techbros had invented GPS they would be charging $50 to get a route that doesn’t send you up an old logging road that 4WD isn’t enough for

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Jul 30

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).

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Avi Bryant @avibryant.com · Jul 13

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.