Laws that prohibit the storage of property in public spaces, which don’t prohibit the parking of cars in public spaces, are the barely-veiled criminalization of homelessness.
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Laws that prohibit the storage of property in public spaces, which don’t prohibit the parking of cars in public spaces, are the barely-veiled criminalization of homelessness. -
Gavin Newsom going all in on AI to "solve the homelessness crisis" at the same time a govt report out of Australia shows it can barely even summarize things at a 40% satisfactory rate, let alone do any sort of abstract innovative intelligent analysis i...When I talk about Tainter’s theory of societal collapse as a function of diminishing returns on complexity, this is what I mean: a massive global investment of billions of dollars and millions of person-hours for labor and massive quantities of computing consuming an ever-growing amount of energy to produce garbage that takes more work to sift through to find anything even remotely useful and edit out the bullshit that will very explicitly get people killed.
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Why do we need this type of preaching?The NYT wants Trump to win so badly
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I often hear some variation of “I find anarchism appealing but I worry that it would be incompatible with the complexity of the modern world.”I often hear some variation of “I find anarchism appealing but I worry that it would be incompatible with the complexity of the modern world.”
And I get that concern, but it begs the question that the modern world is “working,” which it very clearly isn’t.
It is built on a foundation of immense, constant violence and ecological destruction. It only “works” for some people, and only then at an unsustainable cost.
Look around and tell me that all of this is “working.” So embrace anarchism or reject it, whatever, but don’t pretend that the obstacle is a need to maintain some version of the status quo.
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A lot of people who think their landlords are kind and generous people who provide them housing also seem to think those same landlords would evict them into homelessness if landlording were to go away.Here’s an idea: if you invite someone into your home to live with you, maybe they’re part of the community of people who live in that home and not a customer.
Maybe if that person is contributing to the capital costs and upkeep of the house, they’re one of the owners too and not a customer.
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A lot of people who think their landlords are kind and generous people who provide them housing also seem to think those same landlords would evict them into homelessness if landlording were to go away.Suggest the idea of “community” and it absolutely breaks people. “How can we even have a relationship if it isn’t transactional?”
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A lot of people who think their landlords are kind and generous people who provide them housing also seem to think those same landlords would evict them into homelessness if landlording were to go away.A lot of people who think their landlords are kind and generous people who provide them housing also seem to think those same landlords would evict them into homelessness if landlording were to go away.
The idea that housing is something that other people give us, that we intrinsically have to pay them for, has poisoned our ability to imagine things as simple as “roommates” or “friends and family living together.”