It is, now, time for me to receive free money from the universe again. Thank you.

Starting soon: Basically Income PAC’s Basic Income Roundtable, today at 11:00 a.m. Eastern / 8:00 a.m. Pacific on Clubhouse. Today's guest is Karl Widerquist, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Qatar. Find our house "Basically Income PAC" on Clubhouse to join.

Sometimes in life all you need is $50 million dollars.

Join the Basic Income Roundtable at the top of the hour, starting in ~15 minutes, on the Clubhouse app. Search for the "Basically Income" house and join the Basic Income Roundtable event, or friend me on the app--username "ShaelRiley".

The Basic Income Roundtable begins at the top of the hour. If you're here, I hope to see you there. clubhouse.com/i/basic-income…

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Join Basically Income PAC for a Virtual Town Hall with Matt Dodson (our endorsed US Senate candidate from New Mexico) Tuesday, May 12, 2026 6 PM Mountain / 7 PM Central / 8 PM Eastern

Universal Basic income needs champions in Congress.#UBI Join Basically Income PAC's virtual town hall with Matt Dodson, our endorsed U.S. Senate candidate in NM. Tue, May 12 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET Matt supports $1,000/month for every U.S. citizen. Join: us02web.zoom.us/j/8207832771…

Are you busy tonight? Meet Basically Income PAC on Clubhouse for our good-vibes-only financial literacy class Q&A, run by our Executive Director Sheridan Lund. How will you spend your extra $1,000 a month? clubhouse.com/invite/qgESOa0…

Created on a custom @suno model, trained on a bunch of sound files I made 20 years ago.

In response, we at Basically Income PAC have written a wonderful piece on why you, @elonmusk, will inevitably support Universal Basic Income not just as a talking point, but as federal policy, backing the candidates who make it happen in coming elections. basicallyincome.org/blog/Why…

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It’s clear that AI will wind up funding universal income. Let’s make that happen ASAP.

Alan Watts on why trying harder is often the worst thing you can do. Alan Watts identified a pattern that runs through the heart of Daoist and Zen philosophy, one he called the backwards law. The idea is simple and deeply counterintuitive: "When you would be strong, very often the best course is to be weak. When you would be powerful, the best course is often to withdraw." Most of us are conditioned to believe that the path to any outcome is direct effort. Want connection? Pursue it. Want strength? Force it. Want happiness? Chase it. But Watts argues that many of the things we most want in life are precisely the things we repel through our pursuit of them. He uses solitude as the clearest illustration of this paradox: "It's when you learn to love solitude that, paradoxically as it may seem, you are better able to get on with others." The person who needs company who cannot sit alone, who craves connection and hunts for it is often the most difficult to be around. Their need fills the room. It creates pressure. But the person who is genuinely comfortable with themselves? That ease is magnetic. They don't demand anything from the interaction. And so the connection forms naturally. This is what Watts means by the backwards law. Contrary things come from unexpected directions. The outcome arrives not through the front door of direct effort, but through the side door of letting go.

imagine perceiving less than 1% of reality and then trying to tell someone they are delusional

At Basically Income PAC, we have a wonderful new blog post by Faye Ku (@PalestineMATH) this morning: A Mother's Day Sermon: youtu.be/1s_JnLwaOfs

Thanks, Google! Now, the question is: can I run a quantized version of Kimi K2 on an old Nvidia gaming laptop from 2016? Also, can I figure out how to correctly setup Node? (This is what stopped me from finishing an Open Claw installation last time😅)