Skeptical, contrarian and opinionated tech enthusiast. Anti-fascist. Right clicker. I’m quitting twitter after 14 years because Elon Musk is a sociopath. $tslaq
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Steve Raikow retweeted
Thread on how Amazon treats its workers
Context:
Amazon full-time warehouse employees make $31,200 a year. Jeff Bezos makes that every 12 seconds.
Cost to give warehouse workers 2 weeks paid sick leave + pay bumps so they don't qualify for food stamps = 0.9% of Bezos' fortune
Steve Raikow retweeted
As Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep Paul Gosar speak at this white supremacist, anti-Semitic, pro-Putin event, silence by Republican Party leaders is deafening and enabling.
All Americans should renounce this garbage and reject the Putin wing of the GOP now.
Steve Raikow retweeted
The head of Russia's space agency: "If [the U.S.] blocks cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled descent out of orbit and a fall on the United States or"—continued in his next tweet—"Europe?"
"The ISS doesn't fly over Russia, so all the risks are yours."
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Steve Raikow retweeted
This will be the last video I watch for a while. But I want everyone to see what’s happening in EUROPE
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Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding security assistance from Ukraine. He got away with it. h/t @santiagomayer_
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The Metaverse: Great for business and big tech, detrimental to humans? A live session with Futurist Gerd Leonhard teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1jMJgeyLk…
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Lab-grown meats continues to become more affordable on a consumer level. singularityhub.com/2021/12/3…
Steve Raikow retweeted
Republicans have no need to eliminate the filibuster because their only agenda is tax and budget cuts and stacking the judiciary, none of which are subject to the filibuster. It is a very, very useful obstructionist tool for them in the minority, however.
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Google out today with a blog post on why the antitrust bill are bad and ummmm I always thought competition was good for consumers blog.google/outreach-initiat…
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I want everybody to remember that the Supreme Court has said the government doesn't have the authority to make people wear a mask when it later says it *does* have the authority to force women to give birth against their will.
Steve Raikow retweeted
One of the things I find profoundly disturbing about crypto culture is that it seeks to financialize everything—to reduce all human interaction, motivations, creativity, ideas and behaviors to some kind of zero sum game. It’s a deeply bleak and obtuse view of humanity.
Steve Raikow retweeted
How many classrooms are re-opening tomorrow with only 14 seats?
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Vaccinating the entire world would be nice but where are we gonna find $7 billion
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I still don't get web3.
ALT Anakin & Padme meme Panel 1: Anakin: Web3 tackles the biggest problem in econ: scarcity Panel 2: Padme: Reducing scarcity is great! Panel 3: (no text) Panel 4: Padme: Your'e reducing it, right?
Steve Raikow retweeted
NFT owners: "Right clicking doesn't matter, provenance matters"
Also NFT owners: "Hey stop using that without my permission"
