UBI is proof that we do not actually care about evidence when it comes to policy, because I struggle to find a better example of something so consistently shown to be beneficial and yet itâs never even brought up as a serious option outside of endless pilot programs that all tell us the same thing
Universal Basic Income works literally every time. www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A.'s BIG:LEAP experiment gave monthly payments to poor families for a year with no strings attached. Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds.
density and illegibility is a strategy!
this week I dug into Project 2025's plans for what it calls the "extremist" "climate alarm industry." in short: they want more PFAS in your balls www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...
The right-wing political playbook makes a Trump re-election a global existential threat.
'âThatâs the beauty and the horror of it all,â said one staff member. âYouâre like, I canât believe all this wonderfulness is happening in the midst of just absolute stupidity.â'
Edible Schoolyard, Alice Waters' nonprofit, is hugely influential and respected in the food world â so it was shocking and really sad to hear from so many staff that it's been an awful place to work. for my column, I spent 6 months digging into how this happened. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...
Current and former staff say that legendary chef Alice Waters' nonprofit Edible Schoolyard faces financial challenges and directionless governance.
Anyone who says they want to see the âcomplete and total eradication of griefâ vastly overrates what bots will be able to do but also speaks to how tech solutionists misunderstand what it means to exist in the world. A hollow amalgam of a loved oneâs utterances can never replace what is lost.
Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint....
You consistently learn the profound limits of "data" when you are trying to address criminal punishment issues. You can share data forever and most people will shrug and say 'well that doesn't FEEL correct to me."
yep. i sincerely believe that legalizing drugs â even hard drugs â is an order of magnitude less destructive than legalizing gambling
For all the moral panic about legalizing marijuana, it seems that the much less critiqued legalization of sports betting will end up wreaking a great deal of devastation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.
*deep breath* This is the most revealing, personal & vulnerable essays I have ever written about my body, desire & pain for Archer Magazine's resistance issue Disability, pleasure and aging: The pleasure principle archermagazine.com.au/2024/09/disa... Photo credit: MarĂa del RĂo
Edible Schoolyard, Alice Waters' nonprofit, is hugely influential and respected in the food world â so it was shocking and really sad to hear from so many staff that it's been an awful place to work. for my column, I spent 6 months digging into how this happened. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...
Current and former staff say that legendary chef Alice Waters' nonprofit Edible Schoolyard faces financial challenges and directionless governance.