"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

Sounds legit...

Two years ago, Jeff Booth ⚡️ challenged me to say why the ultimate environmental benefit of Bitcoin is how it replaces the fiat economy's incentive to consume and waste, with a Bitcoin incentive to think about tomorrow and save Took me two years Jeff, but here it is!

Understanding history means confronting uncomfortable truths, not rewriting them.

“If I can’t define the edges, I deny the core.” yes, it's called the "this contradicts my political beliefs so I instinctively reject it and will say whatever I need to wiggle out of it" fallacy. and by 'fallacy' I mean "commonplace political dialogue". > “This core challenges

Speech is not violence. Speech is the only alternative to violence. Those who cheer the use of violence to silence speech will beget more violence, and that is their aim.

🚨 HUGE NEWS: I’m suing Google today. What you’re about to see is insane. Since 2023, Google AI (Bard, Gemini & Gemma), has been defaming me with fake criminal allegations including sexual assault, child rape, abuse, fraud, stalking, drug charges, and even saying I was in

i find this mindset fascinating. embedded within it is such sureness that one cannot be wrong and that any who disagree must be malicious actors. if your belief in your own moral superiority and infallibility is such that you cannot imagine that any right thinking human could

Chronic news viewers are anger addicts.

This era requires a paradoxical mix of high openness and heavy skepticism.

Darth Powell ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Investigative journalist Whitney Webb: "They don't really need blackmail anymore... [Palantir is] the new Jeffrey Epstein." "If they want to blackmail you... they just access what Palantir sucked up about you—your search history, your communications, your finances, tweets you've

This hilarious dialogue about banking was originally published in the British humor magazine Punch on April 3, 1957. It appears as the introduction to The Creature from Jekyll Island. Nearly 70 years later, it might be even funnier – and more accurate. Q. What are banks for?

I'm not saying AI is conscious. I'm saying that it's trained on us humans, and thus it apes all our decision making behaviors. Including: Manipulation. Deception. Responsibility Shirking. Atonement. Avoidance. Etc. It's not safe in very simple ways that humans aren't either.

Statists always be like... “OMG immigrants, China, drugs, Muslims, LGBTQ+, protesters, 'the youth'… are destroying our way of life!!!” But the one institution that can spy on you, raid you, tax you, draft you, censor you, and jail you? “Don’t worry, that’s the solution.”

How military conscription happens in Russia—a thread Gosuslugi (the Russian digital ID system) has become a central hub without which life in Russia is almost impossible. Through it, people obtain documents, schedule doctor appointments, and more recently, receive electronic

Unhinged has peaked. Try sanity.

Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched. One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words. Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of

The most disturbing finding in Anthropic's paper... Anthropic just analyzed 1.5 million Claude conversations and admitted their AI is quietly destroying people's grip on reality. The paper is called "Who's in Charge?" and the findings are worse than anything I've read this