brian @gerswayne

Shelter is a human right and a necessity for human thriving. The choice to turn speculation on our homes into a path to social mobility inevitably led to the crash of 2008 and 3.7 million US foreclosures. gen.medium.com/the-rents-too-… 1/

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brian @gerswayne

4 years ago

@IHateNYT “doing things to significantly reduce the burden on working class people…but make them continue to have to work hard” is actually the worst part of this answer

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brian @gerswayne

4 years ago

tremendous thread

Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow

4 years ago

The USPS will send you 4 covid tests free if you complete a form that asks for your name and address. This is @Cigna's reimbursement form. It's three pages long and must be completed, printed, and mailed or faxed (a process that involves inventing a time machine). 1/

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brian @gerswayne

5 years ago

oh what's that you'd like to have a few of your cautious friends over for a reasonable pandemic era new years eve get together? cool man hey here have some sniffles and a slight tickle in your throat instead :) :)

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San Francisco Neighbors Solidarity Network 🌉 @Solidarity_SF

5 years ago

Okay comrades, here we go! starting *now* we are raising funds to buy and deliver the following items for the residents of Bayside RV lot as soon as possible: -generators -space heaters -blankets -socks Please RT and share. Your support is everything!

San Francisco Bay View Newspaper @sfbayview

5 years ago

City abandons 60 houseless people in Bayview RV lot: ‘Everything we own is soaking wet’ sfbayview.com/2021/12/city-a…

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brian @gerswayne

5 years ago

“will it happen” actually is the question, and “no” is almost certainly the answer

The Walrus @thewalrus

5 years ago

So "Will it happen?" is not really the question. A better question when it comes to tech revolutions is “Should it happen?" The answer there is thornier and more complex. Read Jon Evans (@rezendi)’s full article here: thewalrus.ca/all-aboard-the… #Metaverse

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brian @gerswayne

5 years ago

“What haunts us isn’t merely an imagined idyllic time before global market crashes, terrorism, and the constant interconnectedness of a digital, online world, but what may have been…” 🤌

The Walrus @thewalrus

5 years ago

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brian @gerswayne

5 years ago

@crulge aloneness can be masked as acceptable or even desirable - baby animals and the elderly grasping at sad lil simulacra shows us both that they’re alone and that they crave connection so much that even terry cloth will do. it’s 1000x more sad! it’s definitely our future!!

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brian @gerswayne

5 years ago

if you banged pots and pans or clapped out your windows in spring 2020 it’s actually illegal for you to ignore this strike fund 😌

East Bay DSA 🌹 @DSAEastBay

5 years ago

700 East Bay engineers & biomedical techs who worked overtime through Covid to keep Kaiser's facilities running are on strike, because Kaiser wants to freeze their pay below inflation. Donate to their strike fund here & share this post! gofundme.com/f/local-39-str…

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brian @gerswayne

5 years ago

something tells me that “creating trillionaires” will not be compatible with decreasing economic inequality. maybe rethink this one a bit

Sam Altman @sama

5 years ago

Said another way, you can either believe 1) the pie can grow a lot (and so, e.g. we should encourage trillionaires and the creation of far more wealth), or 2) it can’t (and so, e.g., we should abolish billionaires and divide up everything we have now equally).