I might even let some of it trickle down. Maybe. Let me think about it.

I feel like we could fix all of this if we just gave rich people, like me, more money. Please do that. Then I'd have more money to pour into the unlimited Citizens United political slush funds for all the politicians that'll help make this permanent forever. Thanks!

@SeanCasten that's not a pardon, it's a death sentence

@hpod16 people still use txwitter? News to me.

"It doesn’t need to be this way. People shouldn’t have to literally sell their blood to make ends meet. That’s the idea behind Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) — ensuring we all have that little bit of extra cash to tide us over in times of need."

https://rgmii.org/blog/a-little-money-can-make-a-big-difference/

man, it is really hard to write about this $4.7b -- that is b as in billion -- dollar blood plasma donation industry in the US without crying, like.. a lot.

@vampiress yeah BeOS was super cool but any time I hear "this is really complicated for programmers to figure out" I run for the nearest bunker..

@vampiress to be clear, I am not anti UNIX. How could I be? It's literally unavoidable. What I think we should avoid is monocultures, because they're not survivable long term.

@vampiress there are some really great books from that era, and that one I remember being excellent

@gabboman hint hint gabboman.. let's go all the way back to version one point oh

@Migueldeicaza thank you very much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0RTD7250II

@0xabad1dea is.. is.. this image to scale? (runs away)

@gabboman 1992? GOOD LAWD

I am amazed that so few people got this image reference, but then I remembered I am really frickin' old now https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ifd3ys/im_giving_away_half_my_wealth_to_make_the/

@jessie awesome, where is this??

@mathew purity is overrated on all sides

@Gargron also 8k is the big lie. 4k not so much. Very rapidly diminishing returns.

@Gargron without looking, is this about compression? Because yeah. JPEG lossy compression works on images as well as words (LLMs)

@joeld it's always friendly and quite memorable. I'm here to learn the nuances, not to be "right" but I come with a lot of citations and data.

@joeld People usually remember when they meet me.