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If every U.S. adult moved just one $40 gift
from Amazon to a small business this holiday season...
We'd redirect $10+ BILLION to support small businesses. The power of your purse. Wield your power wisely.
If every U.S. adult moved just one $40 gift
from Amazon to a small business this holiday season...
We'd redirect $10+ BILLION to support small businesses. The power of your purse. Wield your power wisely.
Pozsar's Bretton Woods III: Sometimes Money Can't Solve the Problem
https://philippdubach.com/2025/10/25/pozsars-bretton-woods-iii-the-framework-1/2/
#HackerNews #Pozsar #Bretton #Woods #III #Money #Economics #Finance
OK - despite the fact that #money is *pretty* tight right now, I did a pledgey thing. I don't do pledgey things very often... I think the last thing I pledged was the #Pebble watch. Which I loved, and so did lots of other folks. So, this means I have incredible taste, and you should definitely do a pledgey thing too. Put your #fediverse millions into @bonfire c/o their Indiepledgey place... here
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community
**PLEDGEY, PLEADEY, PLICI** (I pledge, I pled, I plici)
Life Kit: How to afford food when #money is tight
#podcast episode webpage: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5602078/how-to-afford-food-when-money-is-tight
OK - despite the fact that #money is *pretty* tight right now, I did a pledgey thing. I don't do pledgey things very often... I think the last thing I pledged was the #Pebble watch. Which I loved, and so did lots of other folks. So, this means I have incredible taste, and you should definitely do a pledgey thing too. Put your #fediverse millions into @bonfire c/o their Indiepledgey place... here
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community
**PLEDGEY, PLEADEY, PLICI** (I pledge, I pled, I plici)
I typically don't consider myself a #roleModel. But in this case, please follow my "lead" and become #supportingMember of @noybeu. I'm a so-called #gold member, but there are various options:
They do amazing work with our #money!
⚖️📚 The #EUCommission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the #GDPR. If internal drafts become reality, this would have significant impact on people's fundamental right to #privacy and data protection.
👀 Read more here 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles-gdpr
I typically don't consider myself a #roleModel. But in this case, please follow my "lead" and become #supportingMember of @noybeu. I'm a so-called #gold member, but there are various options:
They do amazing work with our #money!
Wow, that's a lot of pennies.
@lowqualityfacts Making change has always been difficult for me. I’d hand over a dollar and ask for 8.818 ounces of pennies. But that’s only want to give me 0.8 ounces of quarters. That screws me out of a whole 8.018 ounces of metal.
A lot of things matter to me in choosing what I work on, and who I work for. Money is one. It isn't the only one. It isn't even the most important one. I have an in-my-head sliding scale I use - the better your work matches my #ethical framework, the less #lucre it takes to convince me to help you.
So if you're using "AI" to build #algorithmic pricing systems to sell to companies so they can #gouge people needing services in their most #desperate hour? I *might* entertain a rate of $1000 per hour to shit on your head. There isn't enough #money in the world to get me to help you build that stuff.
On the other hand, if you're a small #company, selling actual #goods or #services to #customers who want and need them, as opposed to building something #shiny to attract the rubes so you can sell your audience to the #advertising industry? And you need a techie person?
Let's talk.
2/3
People who follow me may know that I've been without work for some time. I don't talk about it much. I was laid off from a public #benefit corporation undergoing some restructuring just as companies started firing engineers due to the "AI" hype.
I'm basically semi-retired at this point, mostly involuntarily, but I would love to find #work that I could feel good about to occupy some of my time.
I'm a #software engineer with two-plus decades of experience in a large number of areas. I've worked as an independent consultant in many industries, worked for a consulting company in many others, and held staff positions with tech companies of different sizes in various fields. Most recently I've tended to be designing and implementing APIs for internal and external use. I've been using Python professionally for 25 years, and personally for longer. The list of OSes, languages, and technologies I've worked with is long.
If you need some software-engineer-y things done but you're now saying "We can't possibly afford to #hire someone like that", keep reading.
1/3
#FediHire #NoAI #AI #ethics #affordable #engineer #Python #API
A lot of things matter to me in choosing what I work on, and who I work for. Money is one. It isn't the only one. It isn't even the most important one. I have an in-my-head sliding scale I use - the better your work matches my #ethical framework, the less #lucre it takes to convince me to help you.
So if you're using "AI" to build #algorithmic pricing systems to sell to companies so they can #gouge people needing services in their most #desperate hour? I *might* entertain a rate of $1000 per hour to shit on your head. There isn't enough #money in the world to get me to help you build that stuff.
On the other hand, if you're a small #company, selling actual #goods or #services to #customers who want and need them, as opposed to building something #shiny to attract the rubes so you can sell your audience to the #advertising industry? And you need a techie person?
Let's talk.
2/3
Cuz when you’re a #billionaire, who cares about pinching #pennies?
Pennies are drying up faster than retailers anticipated following Trump's decision earlier this year to halt production of the one-cent coin. #Retail groups…are frustrated by the lack of guidance from the #Trump admin & lawmakers, forcing them to round down to avoid angering customers & violating laws in some states—potentially costing high-volume businesses significant #money.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retailers-left-short-changed-penny-production-ends-2025-11-01/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Cuz when you’re a #billionaire, who cares about pinching #pennies?
Pennies are drying up faster than retailers anticipated following Trump's decision earlier this year to halt production of the one-cent coin. #Retail groups…are frustrated by the lack of guidance from the #Trump admin & lawmakers, forcing them to round down to avoid angering customers & violating laws in some states—potentially costing high-volume businesses significant #money.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retailers-left-short-changed-penny-production-ends-2025-11-01/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Taking Money off the Table
https://zachholman.com/posts/money-off-the-table
#HackerNews #Taking #Money #off #the #Table #finance #investing #personalfinance #startups #entrepreneurship
"Who should pay?"
CW: controversial.
Many men are poor. But women, as a group taken together, are poorer. And this is true in all countries in the world, not just those known for gendered oppression.
If you’re a man who’s interested in having more connection & understanding, I think it's important to consciously know this, “I am richer, in money terms, as a man, than most women are.”
(Refs at the end)
A thread 🧵
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In a similar way to how I must acknowledge, as a white person, that I’m richer than most Black and brown people are.
These dynamics help those who hold the most power to become richer, and they foster division among us.
In this thread, I’ll cover a bit of ground on the gender side of things...
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#Patriarchy #Money #BlackLivesMatter #Feminism #SocialJustice
"Who should pay?"
CW: controversial.
Many men are poor. But women, as a group taken together, are poorer. And this is true in all countries in the world, not just those known for gendered oppression.
If you’re a man who’s interested in having more connection & understanding, I think it's important to consciously know this, “I am richer, in money terms, as a man, than most women are.”
(Refs at the end)
A thread 🧵
⬇️
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