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[Freddie New @freddienew]

A couple of reasons:
- they can't ban kids of any age unless they require us all to prove how old we are. So this is a backdoor way to introduce digital ID or verification for us all to use the internet, effectively.
- this ban will be trivially easy to bypass, but will likely drive kids to use far less safe and less regulated platforms that do not or cannot comply, likely beyond the scope of existing parental controls, and will likely lead to far more harm from dark corners of the deep web than they suffer from Facebook or TikTok

[george hotz archive @geohotarchive]

AI will be massively deflationary https://t.co/oZNcsQfcRB

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> protect the kids
> look inside
> mass surveillance

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

"Entrepreneurs all over Britain are asking this question... Why not take a comfortable public sector job, collect the salary, enjoy the pension, work from home, avoid the stress and leave somebody else to create the wealth? Why bother? What's the point?"

We have exactly the same problem in Canada. Entrepreneurship and public sector employment are almost perfectly anticorrelated. The more onerous the regulatory state becomes, the more luxurious the lifestyles of its parasitic administrators.

[Shring @Shringmusic]

@faychuk @dhh @Dell

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

The bitter lesson in 26 words:

Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically.
Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.

That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.

Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.

A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

In every single country that passed age verification laws:

1) databases got leaked
2) innocent websites got censored
3) governments became more censorship heavy
4) protests became more criminalized
5) information got harder to find

[Rich @rich_rdctd]

Me, driving to work, in a car I'm taxed to buy, taxed to use, taxed to fuel, to a job where I'm taxed for being productive, where my employer is taxed for creating a job that provides revenue which is taxed.

Only for me to end the day and drive back to my home which I was taxed to buy, taxed to live in, taxed to keep warm, and taxed when I upgrade it or buy anything for it.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Remember kids and govs, if you put your biometric info online and it leaks because of a hack (it will) your biometric info is out there in the world for evil men to use forever.

And unless you can grow new fingers or a new face, it is not possible to reset your "password."

[Schrödinger @OF_Schroedinger]

We need the VPN to be safe from YOU. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Wealth taxes are how you turn the EU into a distressed asset for private equity acquisition.

Remember: a wealth tax on unrealised gains leads to forced asset selling by average Europeans, while carve-outs exist for those using offshore corporate vehicles.

Any country implementing this policy (such as the Netherlands) is engineering a market crash and distressed acquisition strategy, designed to transfer wealth from retail investors to institutions, all wrapped in a “tax the rich” narrative.

As with policies like this, it will be structured to transfer wealth upward, just like the current closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

This is a real endgame asset-stripping policy, deliberately designed to engineer a crisis that would otherwise have been allowed to occur through normal market corrections.

Manufactured crisis is the policy.

And only those with offshore corporate structures and hard money to invest during distress will survive it.

Of course, if you own a money printer connected to a central bank, then you will create the money needed to acquire distressed assets and privatise the gains while socialising the losses.

Everybody needs to become far more financially savvy to survive the crises these policies engineer.

[calle @callebtc]

Age verification is the Trojan horse for complete control of the internet.

Imagine you'd have to register your identity to read a newspaper. That's what this is about.

They say it's for the children, but it really is about taking away your right to use the web anonymously.

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

At the end of 2023 I met the person who ran GreenpeaceUSA's campaign against Bitcoin. I expected it to be tense.

But it wasn't.

He told me he'd read almost all of my responses to the posts they'd made on Twitter.

"I wish we'd engaged with you and people like you from the outset," he said.

Two months later he left Greenpeace.

A few months after that they ended the campaign entirely.

It was the most well-funded, yet the worst result in their history. I keep coming back to that phrase.

"People like you." Not me, but a whole group: Troy Cross, Margot Paez, Elliot David, Susie Violet Ward and many others.

We were working independently, with no budget and no coordination.

We just shared data and conviction. It is a great story of a decentralized response beating a multi-million dollar centralized campaign, by a combination of having the truth behind us, and expressing that truth in such a way that reasonable people could see.

That recipe has two parts, and it's like giving a glass of water to someone dying of thirst.

The first part is truth, there must be water in the glass.

The second part is the container, how you hold and deliver that truth matters just as much.

You can have perfect data and still lose people if the glass doesn't reach them, or if the energy behind it makes them flinch instead of drink.

We won because the data was right AND because enough people delivered it with the kind of energy that made opponents think rather than react.

And this recipe, we can use again and again throughout Bitcoin's adoption journey, and each time a Bitcoiner builds a new Bitcoin project that involves outreach to non-Bitcoiners.

[kache @yacineMTB]

As everything gets hacked, no one will tolerate closed source software or hardware anymore

Closed source will become default insecure

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

A number of great accounts popping up
1. @UKGovscan - Independent transparency project.
2. @GreatBritishTT - Data-driven analysis of UK gov spending.
3. @UKDecline - Keeping track of the UK's spiralling decline statistics.
4. @HoTPOfficial - Vote on every bill and law ever debated in Parliament.

Send others you know of, I am keeping a list.

Pimp and share - data is a weapon.

[UK Decline Statistics @UKDecline]

💀 The government spent £6,400,000,000 on a national NHS IT system.

Then scrapped it.

That's one of 38 entries on our new Failed Projects page.

https://t.co/RIimS2f3le

[Zynx @ZynxBTC]

The UK has a far flatter income distribution than the Communist Soviet Union.

The UK take home minimum wage for working a full time job (40-hours) is now £22,555.

At £100k salary, the take home is £68,558.

That is a net income ratio of 3.04:1

We are now at the point where the wage compression and taxes in the UK means that the difference between minimum wage and a top 5% salary is a net income difference of only ~3x.

In the USSR using the same comparison, this figure never fell below 5:1

It's actually even worse in reality because the person earning £100k in the UK often has student loans.

Britain is nominally capitalist but functionally communist. China is nominally communist but functionally capitalist.

Funny how that works.

[Shring @Shringmusic]

@ZynxBTC Yet another banger