Been seeing a lot of support for Guaranteed Minimum Income lately. I think the idea is catching on. A bit thin on how exactly it is to be paid for, or even what the projected costs would be, but enthusiasm for the idea of not tying it directly to “poor people”.
Homeland Insecurity | Souciant.
Really speaks to me and how I perceive my own situation.
ProPublica wrote a story about a couple in CA that sound just like Shelley and I. Our healthcare costs are about to go up by 70%. We support the law, but in our case (and it appears 2-3% of the general population) it’s going to hurt badly; my insurance will be my second highest expense behind my mortgage.
How do we fix this? Jeez, the guy even looks like me!
Eating hokey-pokey ice cream with pomegranate sauce.
“Ted Cruz is one sore loser”, says the Washington Post. I don’t think he lost at all; his grandstanding has made him a household word all around the world. 3280 posts on Reddit, and counting. It’s all about Ted Cruz, not any particular issue. Maybe his constituents will figure it out, like the Houston Chronicle did (“Why we miss Kay Bailey Hutchison”)
This recipe for cooking lambs’ brains is not a parody.
MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone – Buy Direct (Official Site).
Nice! Hook up anything as keyboard or mouse input.
From the Economist, more on the Bullshit Jobs article
Emphasises the point we’ve been thinking about: the necessity of divorcing income from work. Go, Economist!
This is a big deal.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175
As the people behind Silent Circle have said, there is currently no technical solution for the exposure of metadata in email; current encryption mechanisms only apply to the body of the message.
So, currently, using email means we all have to put up with this creepy feeling that the operator of Groklaw refers to.