You have the right to remain private. Any data you leak can and will be used against you. You have the right to cryptography. If you can not afford your own cryptography, it will be provided for you by the open source community.

The key to success nowadays is accurately sorting out which parts of your social graph are pulling you into *long tail opportunities with asymmetric impact* & which are pulling you into *deadend rabbit holes driven by schizophrenic autism*. The very same groupchat can have both.

Not all optimists succeed. But only optimists succeed.

the free and open Internet is dying in front of our eyes and the world is simply watching. we're building the alternative on nostr, one app at a time. join us. we need your help.

The way to win the geopolitical battle on stablecoin uptake is to lobby for horrible regulatory approaches in the jurisdiction of your geopolitical rivals. The more friction you can add, the more useless - and the less adopted - a stablecoin issued by geopolitical competitors

Clandestine sabotage is a well-established and - depending on the skills and strategic acumen of the operators and decision makers - highly effective means of irregular warfare. Economic warfare has been waged to topple, undermine and control opposing forces for a long time.

The West needs its own century of humiliation to reconnect with some basic realities. The current levels of hubris and arrogance simply do not allow the possibility to even consider that those “yellow/brown people over there” might have figured something out worth studying. Be

No shadow bans neither.

I often have flashbacks to 2020-23 and I'm stunned we lived through it all, the insane witch-hunts for dissidents, the professional punishments for daring to ask questions, the public shaming and hate unleashed on scholars and scientists who said perfectly normal things.

It is your duty to cultivate an environment that views children as a blessing. As that is the society that will prevail.

Interesting. Treasury companies as proverbial "sitting ducks" for "budget neutral" Bitcoin acquisition.

The 1% are the 1% because they have an excellent capacity for discernment. If you talk to them in AI slop - they will remove you from your life forever, fast. Never to be seen or heard from ever again. If your target is "the masses"? Sure, they'll eat up *any* slop without

Thinking deeply about this chart is one of the highest ROI activities you can undertake.

These things are so obvious, that a child can understand them. But give it a few decades of “education,” and suddenly you believe the strangest things - while feeling smug about it over those still using plain common sense.