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Kingyak

@kingyak.bsky.social

RPG designer. Writer/Co-writer/Publisher of QAGS, Hobomancer, Elvismancer and more. Fictional non-fiction author. Digital art dabbler. Aspiring cartographer. Editor. Layout guy. Old Fart. https://lnk.bio/kingyak

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Kingyak@kingyak.bsky.social · 3d ago

"But we’ll know. The science was there. The evidence was there. The money was there. What wasn’t there was the will to let go of a comforting lie; the lie that people get what they deserve." open.substack.com/pub/scottsan...

Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Basic Income in a World Without Free Will

If our decisions are shaped by forces we never chose, then punishing people for those decisions and withholding the resources that would improve them is our true moral failure.

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Kingyak@kingyak.bsky.social · 5d ago

I personally think Mamdani's stores are just doing Dollar General's legwork for them, but the background on GPS (one of the many things the government should be charging companies patent or licensing fees for) is good stuff. open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...

Google Maps, Uber, and Wall Street Run on Socialism: How the U.S. Government Built the Global Positioning System

The Federal government built a global navigation system, nicknamed "Lighthouses in the Sky" on which Google Maps, Wall Street, and shipping rely. Just don't call it socialism.

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Kingyak@kingyak.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Somebody wrote a script about a little girl who’s secretly a maladjusted hobbit, a movie company bought that script, actors memorized lines from it, a film crew shot it, and they released it in theaters where people might see it." #Movies #Reviews #Orphan #Books #KindleExclusives amzn.to/4bUJGLH

20 Movies You Probably Haven't Seen: Reviewed By Some Guy You Don't Know

Amazon.com: 20 Movies You Probably Haven't Seen: Reviewed By Some Guy You Don't Know (Audible Audio Edition): Steve Johnson, Brainfart Press, Virtual Voice: Audible Books & Originals

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Kingyak@kingyak.bsky.social · 3w ago

"I guarantee you that private equity funds that own tens of thousands of homes hate this idea. Oh well, I guess they’ll have to sell some homes to actual people. C’est la vie." The Land Dividend: How a Land Value Tax Can Fund a UBI open.substack.com/pub/scottsan...

The Land Dividend: How a Land Value Tax Can Fund a UBI

Why taxing the value of land is potentially the best tax for universal basic income by making housing cheaper, taxing AI indirectly, and pushing rents down instead of up

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