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Sarah Connor highlighted
Jul 26, 2026

Tools that restore that right online aren't loopholes in law enforcement; they're a correction to a decade in which "communication" quietly became synonymous with "surveilled communication." When a government's objection to a tool is that it can't be intercepted, rather than that it's being used for anything unlawful, is the state admitting its actual concern is visibility, not crime. 

Sarah Connor highlighted
Jul 26, 2026

Platforms like X, WhatsApp, or YouTube are Web2 constructs. They are centralized, corporate-owned, and rely on client-server architecture. They have terms of service, terms that can be unilaterally changed, and physical servers that can be seized. Platforms are inherently censorious because they have a single point of failure: the company itself, which can be coerced by state actors through fines, threats of imprisonment, or outright bans. 

Sarah Connor highlighted
Jul 26, 2026

The Indian government’s ban stems directly from the Information Technology (IT) Rules, 2021, which mandate that "significant social media intermediaries" must possess the technical ability to identify the "first originator" of a message upon the request of law enforcement. The stated motivation is national security and the prevention of crimes ranging from terrorism to the spread of disinformation. BitChat’s architecture makes compliance with this traceability mandate fundamentally impossible. The protocol is designed so that only the intended recipient holds the keys to decrypt the message. 

Sarah Connor highlighted
Jul 26, 2026

Once cellular data went dark, protesters didn't go quiet but they immediately switched to Bitchat and similar offline tools like Briar. The numbers do tell an interesting story as India accounted for roughly 85% of Bitchat's global downloads in the week leading up to the ban, compared to about 1% in the prior month. Downloads jumped thirty-two-fold in a single day. A tool built for disaster resilience became, overnight, the nervous system of a leaderless protest movement and that is precisely what made it intolerable to the state. Bitchat wasn’t targeted for hosting illegal content of any kind, but for enabling communication "even during network restrictions" and of undermining "lawful interception, attribution, and traceability." In other words: the crime wasn't anything said on Bitchat. The crime was that the state couldn't listen in. 

ARVIN highlighted
Jul 24, 2026

perfect reachability cannot be promised.

no protocol can promise it.

sometimes messenger bird not know cave.

sometimes cave underwater.

sometimes other grug simply unplug server to run hot-stone cooker.

such is network life.

ARVIN highlighted
Jul 24, 2026

Twitter use bizarre mind tricks to keep grug poking glowing rectangle until sun rise and young grugs ask where breakfast is.

Adwa Katia highlighted
Jul 24, 2026

IndieSats

Jul 24, 2026

Bitcoiners Use Bitcoin as Cash Money

dfbrl highlighted
Jul 23, 2026

Don’t Trust, Verify!

Sarah Connor highlighted
Jul 23, 2026

If you're serious about clawing back autonomy, start with the layer the state can hurt you through fastest, your money. This begins by self custodying your Bitcoin. Now before you roll your eyes and accuse me of peddling the "Bitcoin fixes everything" gospel, pay attention. Self-custody is not a passive investment strategy but it’s an aggressive, active act of secession. It is you reclaiming the fruits of your labour from the fiat debasement machine.

Sarah Connor highlighted
Jul 23, 2026

That’s not all. The company behind this wonderful technology to keep us safe is Cognyte, an Israeli surveillance firm spun out of the shadowy remnants of Verint Systems, a company with deep ties to Unit 8200, Israel’s equivalent of the NSA; it exists in the darkest corners of the global surveillance marketplace. Affectionately known as “the Palantir of Israel”, Cognyte is more than just a surveillance software vendor, but it sells tactical SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) solutions; hardware and software packages designed to intercept cellular communications in real-time without the cooperation of telecommunications providers.

Sarah Connor highlighted
Jul 23, 2026

The critical danger is Flock's nationwide data sharing model. Police departments can choose to share their data with no one, all departments in their state, or the entire Flock network nationwide. Flock incentivizes maximum sharing: departments that share nationally can search nationally. Over 7,000 agencies and organizations have access to this network, and officers in Texas, Florida, and thousands of other jurisdictions can track Massachusetts drivers in real-time without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion.

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 21, 2026

The Amish understood something that the rest of us have forgotten: geography matters. They didn't try to reform Babylon. They left and built their own communities with their own infrastructure, their own way of life, and they told the outside world to keep its "progress." We mocked them for decades, but now they're looking increasingly like the smartest people in the room. I'm not saying you need to grow a beard and start churning butter (unless that's your thing). I'm saying that location is a privacy strategy, and some of you are living in the worst possible places. In other words, get the heck out of jurisdictions that are racing to install Flock cameras and where the local politicos are obsessed with eroding your right to privacy. Better yet, form networks of like-minded sovereign individuals, pool your capital, buy land, and build self-sustaining, privacy-respecting "sovereign communities" that reject Big Brother by default. 

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 21, 2026

FalcoNet is a cell-site simulator that works by impersonating a cell tower, forcing every phone in range to connect to it and intercepts calls, SMS, and internet traffic in real-time while extracting unique device identifiers (IMEI, IMSI) for tracking. It operates via software-defined radio base transceiver stations covering 2G through 5G networks and it does not differentiate between phones owned by suspects and those that aren’t, but it sweeps every device into the same signal. It can be concealed within police vehicles, hidden in a backpack for on-foot missions or attached to a helicopter or plane. 

Jul 20, 2026

TL;DR: A Raspberry Pi or ESP32 may be offline, but your seed still lands in ordinary memory under software loaded from replaceable media. Swap the MicroSD or corrupt the firmware and the device can steal the seed, lie on its display, or leak the key through valid signatures. Stateless signing adds another failure: you must expose seed words or SeedQR every time you spend, often near phones and cameras. These boards are useful for learning, nodes, coordination, or one key in a multisig designed to survive its compromise. Using one as the sole key for life-changing savings is a terrible tradeoff. Use purpose-built hardware with authenticated boot, protected key storage and a transaction display backed by authenticated firmware. For most people, single-sig plus a strong BIP39 passphrase is a very valid setup. Use multisig when its added fault tolerance is worth the operational work and you can test the complete recovery.

Jul 19, 2026

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Jörg Lohrer

Laeserin highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

A coworker recently showed me the Dockerfile for an AI agent system he was working on. The Docker image was taking over five minutes to build and two minutes to start. At a glance, I saw the container was installing Java, Python, and Node.js, all three. That’s two managed runtimes and one interpreter (or two interpreters and one managed runtime, depending on how you count them).

markusturm highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

„Fünf Minuten nach deiner Geburt entscheiden sie über deinen Namen, deine Nationalität, deine Religion und deine Glaubensrichtung, und den Rest deines Lebens verbringst du damit, Dinge zu verteidigen, die du dir nicht ausgesucht hast.“

Mr Anderson highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

Notice the throughline in nearly every case: discovery came from the victim, not the system. Flock's own audit tools exist, but auditing is optional, retrospective, and toothless unless a department chooses to actually review the logs, which most don't, until a scandal forces the question. One department acknowledged that roughly 600 employees had standing access to the plate database, with no meaningful limit on how often, or why, any of them could run a search. This is definitely surveillance architecture masquerading as security infrastructure.

Mr Anderson highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

This is precisely the reasoning the Supreme Court used in Carpenter v. United States* (2018)* to require a warrant for cell-site location data: aggregation changes the nature of the intrusion. A single plate read tells the government where your car was at 8:47 a.m. A hundred thousand plate reads, networked nationally and stitched together with hotlists, tell the government your entire pattern of life; where you worship, who your doctor is, whether you visited a divorce attorney, an addiction treatment center, a gun range, a protest, or a political rally. None of that requires a warrant under current ALPR practice.

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

In a Flock-saturated world, the AI links your license plate ping directly to your CBDC wallet. You drive to an unapproved rally; a Flock camera reads your plate; the system identifies you. Within milliseconds, your digital wallet is throttled or zeroed out. You cannot buy gas, or food, and anyone who attempts to transact with you has their wallet flagged for contamination. The Flock camera provides the physical trigger; and the CBDC provides the financial kill switch. The state doesn't even need to send men with guns to arrest you; they simply turn off your money until you comply or starve. 

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

Notice the throughline in nearly every case: discovery came from the victim, not the system. Flock's own audit tools exist, but auditing is optional, retrospective, and toothless unless a department chooses to actually review the logs, which most don't, until a scandal forces the question. One department acknowledged that roughly 600 employees had standing access to the plate database, with no meaningful limit on how often, or why, any of them could run a search. This is definitely surveillance architecture masquerading as security infrastructure.

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

By outside estimates, roughly one in ten plate reads misidentifies even the state that issued the plate, let alone the specific plate number. And by the ACLU's accounting, under one percent of all ALPR scans ever connect to an actual crime. Do the math, for every camera pass that catches a genuine stolen vehicle or Amber Alert match, there are somewhere north of ninety-nine that simply log an innocent person's location, forever, on the off chance it might be useful someday.

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

This is the part that leaves a lot of people puzzled. We have always had CCTV cameras, so what's the problem with Flock cameras? Unlike traditional CCTV, which requires a human to review hours of useless footage, Flock cameras are edge-computing devices equipped with Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology, and as of 2026 there are somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 of them deployed across the United States, run by thousands of police departments, homeowners' associations, and private communities. Estimates vary because no single authoritative count exists  which is itself telling.

Curious Midwit highlighted
Jul 18, 2026

The surveillance does not stop at your license plate. The modern Flock network is not merely an optical system; but it is a spatial anchor for total digital deanonymization. Through a combination of sensor upgrades and systemic integration, these cameras are increasingly being used to tap into the smartphones of passers-by. Many modern ALPR networks now employ Bluetooth and Wi-Fi probing capabilities. As you drive or walk past a camera, its sensors silently vacuum up the unique MAC address of your smartphone as it continuously searches for known networks. Even if you disable location services, your phone's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios constantly broadcast their presence. This hardware identifier is immediately ingested into the same cloud database as your license plate. Your physical vehicle and your digital device are permanently married. The state no longer needs to guess who is driving the car; your phone has already told them.

saya highlighted
Jul 17, 2026
A particular human type has proliferated, he wrote — a type that has been hollowed out of the content of what it means to be human, that goes about its business convinced it is living freely, richly, fully, when in fact it is only existing. Not living. Existing. Moving through a sequence of days, consuming and producing and being entertained, mistaking motion for life and stimulation for meaning. Guénon tied this directly to the materialist attitude: the quiet, unexamined conviction that the real is only what the five senses can register, that whatever cannot be measured or bought or photographed simply is not there.
Flix highlighted
Jul 17, 2026

The drivers could be mass migration, population decline, aging, mass unemployment or just good old fiscal irresponsibility and socialism. Or a combination of all of them.

Flix highlighted
Jul 17, 2026

The drivers could be mass migration, population decline, aging, mass unemployment or just good old fiscal irresponsibility and socialism. Or a combination of all of them.

Ayşe highlighted
Jul 16, 2026
For him, tradition is not what accumulates horizontally, passed sideways from one generation to the next by mere repetition. It is what descends vertically — from a source above and beyond the human, a sacred and essential truth that entered the world from a higher order and has been transmitted, in various forms, ever since.
The Beave highlighted
Jul 16, 2026

This is a test of The Emergency Beaver System. This is only a test. Had this been an actual emergency, a beaver would have been dispatched to your location via local rideshare. This has been a test of The Emergency Beaver System.

TechDiplomat highlighted
Jul 16, 2026

bringing raw presence into the space, you cut beneath the surface and inspire others to drop their armor too.

TechDiplomat highlighted
Jul 16, 2026

Hey, how is your world feeling today, inside and out?”

TechDiplomat highlighted
Jul 16, 2026

love your fate (Amor Fati)

TechDiplomat highlighted
Jul 16, 2026

LOVE. Love yourself, people, nature, the Universe, and love your fate (Amor Fati). Make love with life. Make your life a love story.

TechDiplomat highlighted
Jul 16, 2026

LOVE. Love yourself, people, nature, the Universe, and love your fate (Amor Fati). Make love with life. Make your life a love story.

TechDiplomat highlighted
Jul 16, 2026

act in accordance with your own values and beliefs,

TechDiplomat highlighted
Jul 16, 2026

You are stepping into a workspace. A playground. A living laboratory where we reclaim our bodies, our minds, and our time

Micael highlighted
Jul 15, 2026

We talk a lot about how our monetary system is rigged, how the media spread lies and how fucked up our modern world is. It's obvious at this point that there are evil forces trying to enslave humanity, making men weak, stupid and fat so there's no real resistance against tyranny.

We can see the numbers of low levels of testosterone, but we don't even need statistics, just look at how governments can pass draconian laws without any real resistance from citizens. Everyone is just complying with no real pushback from men.

Our bodies are being constantly attacked with chemicals, low nutritional foods, fluoride, heavy metals, and synthetic drugs i.e modern medicine. Add to this the endocrine disruptors, artificial blue lights, EMFs and polyester. This are not unrelated factors, they are all silent weapons for a quiet war.

But the biggest battle is the battle for our attention and this is an ongoing battle, that we fight every day and that we can win sometimes while losing other times. We have to understand this war and the implications it has so we can be more aware on how to reclaim our focus and our minds.

ATTENTION PLEASE

If we take close attention our mind is the main target of this quiet war... Indoctrination, mainstream media and social media are the primary weapons. The main goal of this institutions is to control our minds hijacking our attention. The more sick and distracted we are the less energy we have and the less capacity to question and critical thinking.

This mechanism has been constantly improved for more than a century. Smartphones and social media are the culmination of this work; peak performance for mind control and attention harvesting.

If you have a group of psychopats ruling the world and trying to establish a worldwide technocracy and tyranny (The New World Order), the main thing you should do is to distract the masses as much as you can so there's no real resistance.

And this is exactly what we are witnessing.

IDENTIFY THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS

The first thing we should realize is how this distractions are affecting our lives, our world and our energy in general. It's not that we are just being lazy our underperforming, our attention is being hijacked and as a result our focus is being affected negatively.

This is also affecting our sleep and our capacity to rest and restore our mental energy.

For example, at a personal level I realized I was feeling drained and that I was not accomplishing all of the things I should be according to myself. I knew that I should be doing XYZ but I was not being able to do those things that i knew i should be doing. And this generates negative feelings that drain you energy and make you feel like shit.

It wasn't until I was talking to my friend and she told me to read the book: "The Value of Attention: Why It Was Stolen From Us and How to Get It Back" by Johann Hari. And this was exactly what I needed right now.

I remember back in 2019 I bought a blackberry to go back to calls and sms only for a period of time. At was at high school back then and I remember this feeling of dependency that I was generating with my smarphone and how bad it felt for me. I mean, can you imagine living in 2026 without a smart phone? Can you even drive without your map? Can you live in peace without the constant noise of "news" or details from social media "friends"? Can you enjoy life without showing others how are you enjoying life? This were some of the questions coming through my mind back then.

RECLAIM YOUR FOCUS

Humans are not machines, even do we can point to some similarities with computers on how we process information, we are limited to focus at one thing at the time.

"Multitasking" is a scam, our minds cannot do many things at the same time while being efficient at all of them. We are literally fragmenting our energy and reducing our efficiency. And if we say otherwise we are lying to ourselves.

Since the occultist that run the show know exactly how the human mind works, they understand perfectly that if we are paying attention to one thing, we cannot be paying attention to another thing. This is the reason why we have so many distractions all the time: the news, social media, elections, the world cup, the olympic games, celebrities, movies, series, etc, etc, etc.

The capacity of our minds to concentrate and enter a flow state are gigantic, but as soon as we get distracted with a phone notification or some external noice or event our capacity to get back to that flow state collapses.

This is WHY is so important to RECLAIM OUR FOCUS. It does not matter what you do or what you want to accomplish, if you reclaim your focus, you regain you capacity to enter the flow state, you'll unlock more energy, and you'll be MUCH MORE EFFICIENT IN EVERYTHING.

The fact that we are constantly targeted by distractions, PSYOPs, news, and cheap fiat information is the proof that the controllers don't want you to FOCUS, they need you distracted, drained, weak, tired and inefficient. They want living zombies not awakened minds and souls.

WHO CONTROLS WHO

Sometimes the answers to complex questions can be simple. You don't have to be a genius to realice that our mental health and our capacity to focus (along with other things) was better before than now.

So what were we doing that we are not doing now? I'll say the main thing is being present without distractions. We are constantly walking around with a noisy device in our pockets that is trying to distract us from the present moment and hijacking our attention.

Of course a smartphone is just a tool and it can be used wisely too. But we have to ask ourselves; do we control our smartphones or our smartphones control us? We know the answer in most cases. We are vulnerable to manipulation and those behind the black box are social engineers with military industrial complex capacities and virtually infinite funding.

We can win some battles, but we'll surely lose most of them. Because again, this is an ongoing war, and our vulnerabilities are going to be exploited every posible time. So what can we do? How can we reduce the attack surface? How can we increase our winning without going in the middle of the woods with no tech?

START SMALL

Of course the main thing is to be aware of this. We need to limit the capacity of our smart phone from distracting us from the present moment and killing our flow states while working. But not only from our smartphone, cause many of us work from our computers so is tech in general that we need to control, because if we don't; it will control us.

Reduce some unnecessary distractions: eliminate some apps, reduce news, movies or series. Try to keep just your favourite ones and eliminate the majority of them. Social media is defiantly the main distractor. The easiest thing you can do is to deactivate all the unnecessary notifications.

Set limits for certain apps. Example: after 1 daily our of using twitter block the app. This will help you being more aware, but you have to be strong enough not to extend your time.

Read real physical books so you can train your mind to be mindfully focusing on one thing at the time. Start small 15/20 min. But try to achieve 1 hour of flow state, reading without distractions. If you can do this in 2026 you are WAY ahead of the curve.

Reclaim your sleep. Try now to use screens and artificial lights before sleeping. Sleep at least 7 to 8 hours and avoid using estimators such as caffeine or sugar to wake you up. Follow the sun, wake up with the sunrise if posible and go to sleep with the Sun Set if posible.

Start being more awake and take small steps to reclaim your mind and your focus, because if you don't you will be easy controlled and manipulated.

Your time is your biggest wealth

Your mind is your biggest weapon

Your smart phone is stealing both of them at the same time.

Take action before is too late.

Micael highlighted
Jul 15, 2026

We talk a lot about how our monetary system is rigged, how the media spread lies and how fucked up our modern world is. It's obvious at this point that there are evil forces trying to enslave humanity, making men weak, stupid and fat so there's no real resistance against tyranny.

We can see the numbers of low levels of testosterone, but we don't even need statistics, just look at how governments can pass draconian laws without any real resistance from citizens. Everyone is just complying with no real pushback from men.

Our bodies are being constantly attacked with chemicals, low nutritional foods, fluoride, heavy metals, and synthetic drugs i.e modern medicine. Add to this the endocrine disruptors, artificial blue lights, EMFs and polyester. This are not unrelated factors, they are all silent weapons for a quiet war.

But the biggest battle is the battle for our attention and this is an ongoing battle, that we fight every day and that we can win sometimes while losing other times. We have to understand this war and the implications it has so we can be more aware on how to reclaim our focus and our minds.

ATTENTION PLEASE

If we take close attention our mind is the main target of this quiet war... Indoctrination, mainstream media and social media are the primary weapons. The main goal of this institutions is to control our minds hijacking our attention. The more sick and distracted we are the less energy we have and the less capacity to question and critical thinking.

This mechanism has been constantly improved for more than a century. Smartphones and social media are the culmination of this work; peak performance for mind control and attention harvesting.

If you have a group of psychopats ruling the world and trying to establish a worldwide technocracy and tyranny (The New World Order), the main thing you should do is to distract the masses as much as you can so there's no real resistance.

And this is exactly what we are witnessing.

IDENTIFY THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS

The first thing we should realize is how this distractions are affecting our lives, our world and our energy in general. It's not that we are just being lazy our underperforming, our attention is being hijacked and as a result our focus is being affected negatively.

This is also affecting our sleep and our capacity to rest and restore our mental energy.

For example, at a personal level I realized I was feeling drained and that I was not accomplishing all of the things I should be according to myself. I knew that I should be doing XYZ but I was not being able to do those things that i knew i should be doing. And this generates negative feelings that drain you energy and make you feel like shit.

It wasn't until I was talking to my friend and she told me to read the book: "The Value of Attention: Why It Was Stolen From Us and How to Get It Back" by Johann Hari. And this was exactly what I needed right now.

I remember back in 2019 I bought a blackberry to go back to calls and sms only for a period of time. At was at high school back then and I remember this feeling of dependency that I was generating with my smarphone and how bad it felt for me. I mean, can you imagine living in 2026 without a smart phone? Can you even drive without your map? Can you live in peace without the constant noise of "news" or details from social media "friends"? Can you enjoy life without showing others how are you enjoying life? This were some of the questions coming through my mind back then.

RECLAIM YOUR FOCUS

Humans are not machines, even do we can point to some similarities with computers on how we process information, we are limited to focus at one thing at the time.

"Multitasking" is a scam, our minds cannot do many things at the same time while being efficient at all of them. We are literally fragmenting our energy and reducing our efficiency. And if we say otherwise we are lying to ourselves.

Since the occultist that run the show know exactly how the human mind works, they understand perfectly that if we are paying attention to one thing, we cannot be paying attention to another thing. This is the reason why we have so many distractions all the time: the news, social media, elections, the world cup, the olympic games, celebrities, movies, series, etc, etc, etc.

The capacity of our minds to concentrate and enter a flow state are gigantic, but as soon as we get distracted with a phone notification or some external noice or event our capacity to get back to that flow state collapses.

This is WHY is so important to RECLAIM OUR FOCUS. It does not matter what you do or what you want to accomplish, if you reclaim your focus, you regain you capacity to enter the flow state, you'll unlock more energy, and you'll be MUCH MORE EFFICIENT IN EVERYTHING.

The fact that we are constantly targeted by distractions, PSYOPs, news, and cheap fiat information is the proof that the controllers don't want you to FOCUS, they need you distracted, drained, weak, tired and inefficient. They want living zombies not awakened minds and souls.

WHO CONTROLS WHO

Sometimes the answers to complex questions can be simple. You don't have to be a genius to realice that our mental health and our capacity to focus (along with other things) was better before than now.

So what were we doing that we are not doing now? I'll say the main thing is being present without distractions. We are constantly walking around with a noisy device in our pockets that is trying to distract us from the present moment and hijacking our attention.

Of course a smartphone is just a tool and it can be used wisely too. But we have to ask ourselves; do we control our smartphones or our smartphones control us? We know the answer in most cases. We are vulnerable to manipulation and those behind the black box are social engineers with military industrial complex capacities and virtually infinite funding.

We can win some battles, but we'll surely lose most of them. Because again, this is an ongoing war, and our vulnerabilities are going to be exploited every posible time. So what can we do? How can we reduce the attack surface? How can we increase our winning without going in the middle of the woods with no tech?

START SMALL

Of course the main thing is to be aware of this. We need to limit the capacity of our smart phone from distracting us from the present moment and killing our flow states while working. But not only from our smartphone, cause many of us work from our computers so is tech in general that we need to control, because if we don't; it will control us.

Reduce some unnecessary distractions: eliminate some apps, reduce news, movies or series. Try to keep just your favourite ones and eliminate the majority of them. Social media is defiantly the main distractor. The easiest thing you can do is to deactivate all the unnecessary notifications.

Set limits for certain apps. Example: after 1 daily our of using twitter block the app. This will help you being more aware, but you have to be strong enough not to extend your time.

Read real physical books so you can train your mind to be mindfully focusing on one thing at the time. Start small 15/20 min. But try to achieve 1 hour of flow state, reading without distractions. If you can do this in 2026 you are WAY ahead of the curve.

Reclaim your sleep. Try now to use screens and artificial lights before sleeping. Sleep at least 7 to 8 hours and avoid using estimators such as caffeine or sugar to wake you up. Follow the sun, wake up with the sunrise if posible and go to sleep with the Sun Set if posible.

Start being more awake and take small steps to reclaim your mind and your focus, because if you don't you will be easy controlled and manipulated.

Your time is your biggest wealth

Your mind is your biggest weapon

Your smart phone is stealing both of them at the same time.

Take action before is too late.

paul keating highlighted
Jul 14, 2026

Of course a smartphone is just a tool and it can be used wisely too. But we have to ask ourselves; do we control our smartphones or our smartphones control us? We know the answer in most cases. We are vulnerable to manipulation and those behind the black box are social engineers with military industrial complex capacities and virtually infinite funding.

Napoleao highlighted
Jul 12, 2026

@Johnathan Corgan v0.4.0 ships a Nym mixnet transport and mDNS LAN discovery, wire-compatible with v0.3.0. Whitenoise Linux (@White Noise), Nostr Codex Phone (@Tom), CustID (@FBO Developments Sàrl), and myco (@Arjen) launch. npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq6q6q lands NIP-37, NIP-52, and NIP-22 in one week. @Amethyst builds NIP-89-aware UI and NIP-77 negentropy sync.

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 11, 2026

About two weeks ago Rigly, the hashrate marketplace, hit a major milestone when they found their first block during one of their block parties. While this didn't happen overnight, this was a feather in the hat of solo miners. The point is that every time a solo block is found it becomes a signal of what's possible and what's at stake. When an individual mines bitcoin, newly issued coins are earned through the expenditure of computational work rather than purchased through identity-linked financial institutions. Granted, mining is not a guarantee of anonymity and participants must still comply with applicable laws, it greatly reduces reliance on custodial acquisition methods that routinely collect extensive personal information. This is why the ghouls hate it

Mr Anderson highlighted
Jul 10, 2026

The state has centuries of experience in this art and also used it to lull some Bitcoiners into a deep slumber of inaction, while being hustled for political donations. The powers that be know that infiltration is often cheaper than confrontation and that that the most effective way to kill a threatening movement is not to oppose it, but to embrace and eventually co-opt it. This ensures that the system remains intact while its loudest critics become stakeholders in its continuation. Talk about bringing the fox into the hen house.

Mr Anderson highlighted
Jul 10, 2026

None of these ideas are realistic but a lot of folks, due to craving legitimacy from the same system they were meant to obsolete, applauded these statements. Bitcoin became a political talking point, that would be conveniently mentioned during political fundraisers and was thus exploited by the marauding charlatans running for office, while looking to fill their coffers with the donations of gullible Bitcoiners who would become moonstruck whenever Bitcoin was mentioned, along with the ever elusive SBR.

Mr Anderson highlighted
Jul 10, 2026

If the state's only goal is the expansion of its power then how does adopting Bitcoin over the USD, sterling or Euro further that goal? It doesn't. The printing press finances wars that taxpayers would never willingly pay for. It also finances sprawling bureaucracies, surveillance programs, intelligence agencies, subsidies, political patronage, and endless deficits that no private institution could survive. Fiat money allows governments to consume resources before anyone notices the theft. It socializes the costs while privatizing the gains.

₿k highlighted
Jul 10, 2026

Without energy, there is no economy and ultimately no sovereignty.

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 10, 2026

The truth of the matter is that genuine social transformation rarely emerges through political participation in the state’s institutions and political processes. States possess overwhelming advantages within their own arenas because they write the rules, interpret the rules, and enforce the rules. Genuine change happens through building parallel institutions and the network of voluntary exchanges that operate outside the state's regulatory and taxation frameworks. Bitcoin perfectly embodies this and it spread because individuals found it useful, not because governments endorsed it. Its success has always been bottom-up and never top-down.

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 10, 2026

It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of both Bitcoin and the state. Bitcoin cannot "back" the dollar any more than gold could back the assignat. The dollar is a debt instrument, a claim on future taxation and inflation. Bitcoin is a bearer asset in a decentralized settlement network. The two are structurally incompatible.

BTCOGMAXI highlighted
Jul 10, 2026

Our online identity is our most valuable digital asset. Just as you shouldn't trust a bank to hold your wealth, you shouldn’t trust a Silicon Valley CEO to hold your online identity.

Jul 10, 2026

every time a solo block is found it becomes a signal of what’s possible and what’s at stake.

liminal 🦠 highlighted
Jul 10, 2026
This is a test of The Emergency Beaver System.
Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 9, 2026

Where AI data centers are now the epitome of centralized hash power, Bitcoin mining is the antithesis of this. It became the crack in the dam that proved that energy production could be profitable, decentralized, and sovereign; that a village in Zambia or a province in Argentina could bootstrap its own grid without an IMF structural adjustment program. It proved that money and energy are two sides of the same coin, and that whoever mints both controls their own destiny. Thus sovereignty over one's own energy production, is a bypass around the entire postwar architecture of conditional development finance.

Kudzai Kutukwa highlighted
Jul 9, 2026

Human progress can be traced through successive leaps in our ability to command greater quantities of power, from fire to animal labour, from water wheels to steam engines, from coal to oil, from electricity to nuclear energy. Every major economic revolution has been preceded by an energy revolution. Prosperity follows abundance and stagnation follows scarcity. Energy poverty has never liberated anyone. It has only made populations poorer, weaker, and more dependent.

JSKitty highlighted
Jul 8, 2026

The last shipped build was v2026.5.22+25, back at the end of May. The commit graph on the Flutter app went quiet on June 9. There were zero conference talks in June. The team went dark, and the app on your phone kept working most of the time and failing in the ways it had been failing for a while.

JSKitty highlighted
Jul 8, 2026

The last shipped build was v2026.5.22+25, back at the end of May. The commit graph on the Flutter app went quiet on June 9. There were zero conference talks in June. The team went dark, and the app on your phone kept working most of the time and failing in the ways it had been failing for a while.

JSKitty highlighted
Jul 8, 2026

The last shipped build was v2026.5.22+25, back at the end of May. The commit graph on the Flutter app went quiet on June 9. There were zero conference talks in June. The team went dark, and the app on your phone kept working most of the time and failing in the ways it had been failing for a while.

paul keating highlighted
Jul 8, 2026

Mental clarity. I always experience more focus and productivity when fasting

Gigi highlighted
Jul 7, 2026

Er ist ein Geschäftsmann, der den seiner Meinung nach profitabelsten Weg für sein Unternehmen gewählt hat und der Aktienkurs über die letzten Jahr gibt ihm recht.
Jede Minute, die man damit verbringt, sich mit Michael Saylor zu beschäftigen, ist eine verschwendete Minute.

Micael highlighted
Jul 6, 2026

“—Do you think we want those laws observed? …What we want is for them to be broken… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, you make them.”

Micael highlighted
Jul 6, 2026

You do not have to look through other people’s eyes. Hold on to your own. Defend your judgment. You know that what is, is. Say it out loud, like the most sacred of prayers, and let no one tell you otherwise.

What The Flock? Pt II

The surveillance state isn't coming, it's already here, quietly assembling itself through a web of AI-powered cameras, data brokers, financial monitoring, and smartphone tracking that most people never notice until it's too late. This is a deep dive into the infrastructure reshaping the relationship between citizens and power, and why understanding it may be one of the most important acts of self-preservation in the digital age.

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walden, but with deet

spent a few sundays rebuilding the old backyard pond while trying to make this house feel more like mine after years of building spaces for other people. now there are six shubunkins, a waterfall, one annoyed groundhog, two bee stings, and still somehow all the mosquitoes in west philly. walden, but with deet.

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What The Flock?

Right now, tens of thousands of unmarked black boxes are bolted to poles across your city, silently photographing every car that passes and feeding it into a searchable national database that any of a thousand police departments can query without a warrant, without probable cause, and without you ever knowing. The ultimate dystopian nightmare arrives when this physical panopticon merges with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and predictive AI, in a pre-crime world, driving to an unapproved political rally won't just put you on a watchlist; a Flock camera ping will instantly throttle your digital wallet, starving you of your own money for stepping out of line.

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Why Freedom Creators Need to Publish a Book

You’ve got the podcast. The 50k+ X account. The growing Youtube channel. Maybe a paid Substack or Patreon. You already have your big idea. Even if you haven’t said it out loud, it’s the reason your audience returns to your socials or show. This idea is embedded within your opinions, your personality, the way you present yourself.

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The Couriers Knew

Centuries before encrypted email existed, merchants and dissidents moved letters and packages through private courier networks that outran every imperial monopoly.

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Twenty-Four Words for an nsec

Every Nostr private key ever generated can be losslessly encoded as twenty-four words, recovered byte-for-byte forever, stamped onto Bitcoin steel plates.

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Papers Please!

Keir Starmer wants to ban children from social media, and he's promising it as a gift ; more childhood, more safety, more freedom to grow up. What he isn't saying is that the only way to enforce a ban on some users is to identify all of them, which means the actual product on offer isn't child protection but a national identity checkpoint wearing a parenting costume, built one biometric scan and one device-level filter at a time. This is the oldest move in the state's playbook: when confronted with a technology it can't yet control, slap a permission slip on it, and call the leash a seatbelt

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The Cost of Borrowed Maps

Google Maps charges you in surveillance on every trip. OpenStreetMap and Organic Maps let your phone route locally, third parties excluded.

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Capital Destruction Is The New Business Model

Today's $1.75 trillion SpaceX IPO isn't just the largest in history, but it may be the clearest signal yet that American capital markets have become completely detached from the profit-and-loss system that's supposed to govern them. So before you pile your savings or pension into this IPO, ask yourself: if AI is a "national security priority" and your subscription doesn't cover the real cost, who's actually footing the bill and who's the real customer being served?

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Building the Parallel Economy

Praxeology joins cypherpunk cryptography: privacy is a fact of action, a defensible norm, and a buildable property under pressure.

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The Last Honest Block

Four mining pools control two-thirds of Bitcoin's hashrate. Behind each one sits a publicly traded corporation with shareholders to appease, regulators to placate, and a board of directors one bad quarter away from pivoting to AI, as Bitfarms already has. This is about who gets to produce money, who gets to secure the network, and whether Bitcoin remains a peer-to-peer system built by individuals or becomes yet another financial infrastructure owned by institutions too large to fail and too regulated to resist.

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Implementation Strategy

Privacy implementation is progressive. Each tier addresses a different adversary and stops where its threat model is covered.

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Operational Security

Cryptography fails when humans fail. OPSEC ties each defense to a specific adversary and sustains the discipline over time.

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Why GrapheneOS Matters to Bitcoiners

What if the greatest threat to your Bitcoin sovereignty isn't just the financial system at all, but it's the smartphone in your pocket? While Bitcoin eliminated trusted third parties from money, most Bitcoiners still access that freedom through devices controlled by Apple and Google. As governments push toward digital IDs, age-verification mandates, and compliance-by-design operating systems, the battle for financial freedom is quietly moving beyond Bitcoin itself and into the devices that connect us to it. GrapheneOS has emerged as one of the most important tools in the modern cypherpunk arsenal and why sovereign money ultimately requires sovereign devices.

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The Unsellable Identity

Nostr accounts cannot be sold because sellers cannot prove they forgot the private key, which collapses the market for reputation handoffs.

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Computing on Secrets

Homomorphic encryption, MPC, and trusted enclaves each run a computation on inputs the executing party is not permitted to see.

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The Private Money Hypocrisy

The Wall Street Journal warns you about the dangers of “private money” called stablecoins, while defending a dollar system that is nothing but a pyramid of bank-created IOUs backed by debt and the state’s monopoly on violence. The truth is that private, apolitical money isn’t the risk, but it’s the only escape from a collapsing fiat empire The real divide is no longer between regulated and unregulated money, but between systems that require trust in power and systems that remove it entirely.

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Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Zero-knowledge proofs separate what is verified from what is revealed, ending the forced choice between participation and privacy.

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Cryptographic Foundations

Cryptography shifts trust from institutions to mathematics, and that shift carries every privacy primitive the book later builds.

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The Crypto Wars

Crypto controls failed against builders, held against defaults, and locked in the two-tier privacy equilibrium thirty years later.

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The Analytics Stack

Commercial firms assemble surveillance no agency could lawfully build, and the state buys the output as a service.

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Money and Privacy

Money emerges by market process. Sound money carries privacy alongside its three classical functions; fiat lacks all four.

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Privacy as Capital

Privacy tools are capital that compounds across uses; institutional promises last only as long as state goodwill does.

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The Economic Value of Privacy

Privacy aids exchange by guarding deliberation and negotiation from observation that chills marginal trades and distorts the rest.

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Sleep in a Net

Mexican matrimonial hammocks beat beds for comfort and free the whole room when unhooked. Sleep diagonally, flat back, anywhere on earth.

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Heating and Dissolving

Through observing myself, I identified two tools for solving any form of problem that arises on the path.

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