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[Decentra Suze @DecentraSuze]

The US government said you already have enough privacy and then 153 million driving licences went up for sale on the dark web.

In the Tornado Cash trial, prosecutors told the jury a bank account or a Coinbase login was 'privacy enough'.

Their expert said the responsible version of the software was a login screen and a database linking every user to every transaction.

That is the same architecture used by the company that scans licences at hotels, rental desks and dispensaries.

Scans of ordinary people and senior officials appeared for sale on the dark web, along with data that could expose people hiding from abusers.

Storm built software with no middleman holding the data:

- no company
- no server
- no identity file

That was treated as the crime.

Data collection is not the same thing as safety. You cannot leak what was never collected.

[Nivea @alenchica]

@BTCsessions @freddienew @RunwithBitcoin How it’s no KYC if it runs on VISA rails?

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Palantir were kind enough to sum up its hideous ideology in 22 points. And I have taken the liberty of annotating each one of them. Here is my interpretation of all 22 of them (preserving the original numbering - for the original see their tweet below):

1. Silicon Valley owes an immeasurable debt to the ruling class who bailed out the criminal bankers that wrecked the livelihood of the majority of Americans. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley will defend that ruling class to the death (literally!), in the name of the majority of Americans whom they treat with contempt – i.e., like cattle that have lost their market value.

2. Palantir is eyeing the Apple Store, salivating over the prospect of creating its own technofeudal estate. Time to replace the iPhone with another device that dissolves what is left of people’s privacy.

3. Palantir shall give nothing away for free. It cares uniquely over its own growth which it pursues by sowing fear so that it can sell a fake sense of security.

4. Glory to brute force! Ethics is for suckers. The West needs more of Palantir’s murderous software.

5. AI-powered killer robots are coming. The task is to profit magnificently by building killer robots first and ask questions later. To be able to do so, Palantir will do whatever it takes to avoid at all cost any international treaties that limit AI-driven killer robots.

6. Every poor sod (lacking the connections to avoid being thrown into the trenches with killer drones targeting them from the sky) must be drafted into the army. Forget paying soldiers a salary. All payments should be directed to Palantir, where our own people will be serving their ‘national service’ – leaving the dying to non-shareholders.

7. Palantir works overtime to equip US Marines with killer bots that take away from the US Marines whatever remnants of ethical judgment they are left with on the battlefield. American society should be rendered perfectly incapable of any debate that restricts Palantir’s capacity to get the US Military to eliminate any remaining opportunity to reject its software’s choice of targets.

8. Palantir deplores the fact that the public sector is still not totally devoid of a conscience. Public servants must be fired en masse, except some very few approved by Palantir who will receive huge salaries, paid by taxpayers.

9. Palantir thinks that Donald Trump must be beatified for throwing himself into public service. Not forgiving folks like Trump everything risks our soul, not to mention that it raises the prospect of officials that restrict Palantir’s evil project.

10. Politics needs to be AI-like, devoid of anything that can be mistaken for human empathy. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self must be sent to the gulag forthwith!

11. There are some people too eager to hasten Palantir’s demise. They should rethink, or else!

12. Palantir makes no nuclear weapons but is happily developing other weapons of mass destruction. We proudly announce that we are now ready to add to nuclear Armageddon the AI-driven threat to humanity’s existence.

13. No other country in the history of the world has committed so many war crimes in the name of progress and freedom. The United States offers infinite freedom to people like Palantir’s founders to profit so handsomely by inflicting so much damage upon humanity.

14. American power has feasted on causing one war after another, one putsch after another, one avoidable financial disaster after another. Too many have forgotten or perhaps have taken for granted America’s capacity to pursue forever wars in the name of peace and democracy.

15. German and Japanese Fascism must be made great again. The denazification of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly misplaced commitment to Japanese pacifism must also end immediately!

16. We should applaud those who attempt to monopolise everything by means of generous government contracts. Billionaires must not be satisfied merely with their billions. To become even more obscenely rich they need grand narratives that help them convince the poor to use their freedom to keep them, the billionaires, in power. And, by the way, Palantir loves Elon, especially his grand apartheid-inspired narrative.

17. Silicon Valley must be free to do in America’s cities what it did in Gaza. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it came to granting Palantir the right to annihilate all remaining civil liberties and human rights. This must end.

18. Epstein’s syndicate should be forgotten lest lovely people like Trump and the Clintons are deterred from entering government. The public arena must be scrutiny-free unless subversives like Sanders or Mamdani enter it.

19. We love banal public figures as long as they give Palantir all the juicy contracts. We also love colourful public figures who give Palantir all the juicy contracts.

20. We need more opium for the masses, as they are not sufficiently inebriated for us to be unimpeded in the pursuit of their complete subjugation. Questioning organised superstition is dangerous and must end.

21. Time to bring back Hitler’s hierarchy of races, with Palantir’s founders and Elon at its Aryan pinnacle. The idea that it is wrong to judge someone by the colour of their skin or their ethnicity or their religion must be jettisoned.

22. Blacks, Muslims, most Asians, and of course women, are inferior untermensch. Blokes in America, and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted putting these subhumans in their places in the name of inclusivity. It was a mistake. Such subhumans must never be allowed in, except as servants or sex service providers – at least until we can improve our robots, in which case we won’t need them at all.

[Nivea @alenchica]

@JeffBooth @BerwickJeff

[Aesi @AesiWallet]

How privacy works in ÆSI:

1. You load digital notes to your device
2. Notes carry cryptographic proof of value
3. Payment: notes transfer device-to-device
4. Recipient verifies the math, not your identity
5. No server sees the transaction in real time

No names. No location data. No purchase history.

The protocol validates value.
Not people.

[Aesi @AesiWallet]

Every great infrastructure shift follows the same pattern:

Centralized → Distributed → Device-native

Computing: Mainframes → Cloud → Edge/Local
Intelligence: Institutions → APIs → On-device AI
Payments: Banks → Card networks → ???

The "???" is bearer instruments on devices.

We keep rediscovering that the most resilient architecture puts capability at the edge.

ÆSI is payments catching up to where computing already went.

[Aesi @AesiWallet]

Introducing ÆSI.

Offline-first digital cash that works without internet, card networks, or authorization servers.

How it works:
→ Digital bearer notes stored on your device
→ Transfer via Bluetooth, NFC, or QR
→ Internet sync optional, not required

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Hello, this is Yanis Varoufakis with a piece of news that would have been hilarious if it weren’t so scary. This morning, two policemen appeared on my doorstep to serve a summons ordering me to the police headquarters to be interrogated by the Greek DEA, our drug busting police department. Not as a witness, expert or not, but as the accused. Accused of what?

Shortly after New Year’s, I appeared on a podcast organised by young people to answer their questions on everything that concerns Gen Z today: social media, the meaning of life, their job prospects, what I call technofeudalism etc. At some point, they asked me if I had ever used drugs. Determined not to do a Bill Clinton (remember the laughable “I didn’t inhale”?), I said I had. Apart from pot, I told them, I had one experience of taking ecstasy in Sydney 36 years ago. It was pleasant, I danced for 16 hours effortlessly but then, I added, it gave me a migraine for a week – and so I never used again. That was my introduction to making the point that, however pleasant drug taking may seem, there is a price to pay. And that the ultimate price is dependence, addiction – “the end of liberty”, I said emphatically.

Do you see where this is going? Yes, the Greek police have opened an investigation of me under the charge of... aiding and abetting the narco-mafia. [Do me a favour folks: Please don’t tell Trump, OK?]

Seriously now, at a time of war, genocide, stupendous exploitation and so on, my little trouble with the inane Greek police is neither here nor there. But it is important. Here, in Europe, many people still live under the illusion that we have liberty, rationality and freedom. We don’t. Dark forces are at work, pushing us into a postmodern version of the Dark Ages.

So, beware, people! They are out to take away the last remnants of autonomy and freedom we have left. Resistance is, literally, existence.

[Nivea @alenchica]

@foilmanhacks @naomibrockwell @cloaked @SimpleLogin @PrivacyHQ I wonder the same. What app do you use outside of the USA?

[Nivea @alenchica]

@SimonDixonTwitt Woohooo

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

“People will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly watching/recording everything.”

A breathtakingly naïve response to surveillance/digital IDs. It assumes govt is always benevolent & its rules always just.
History shows the opposite.
It's a fast-track to tyranny.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Over 50 boats, from 44 countries across 6 continents

The largest flotilla in modern history

Sailing to break an 18yr illegal 🇮🇱 siege of Gaza 🇵🇸
To feed starving children
To stop a genocide

Mainstream media is silent
And western ‘leaders’ are silent.

https://t.co/tergO2wYLe

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

The Future with CBDCs

Another banger from @TFTC21

[Nivea @alenchica]

@stacyherbert Will you be talking in person? If so we’re coming too!

[Free Armenian Prisoners @FrArmPrisoners]

On September 16, the latest hearing on Ruben’s case took place in Baku.

Visit https://t.co/qt8ATYWCDt… to find out more about the hearing.

[Nivea @alenchica]

@M_Solidus What do you use for maps on Graphine?

[Nivea @alenchica]

@SimonDixonTwitt Yes would love to hear more about the stealing rats plan.

[Nivea @alenchica]

@SimonDixonTwitt Great post, Simon! Which countries are the global south?

[Nivea @alenchica]

@SimonDixonTwitt What’s their master plan for the Latin America? I’m particularly interested in Colombia and Argentina. Will they prosper with the global shift of capital?

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

'I $hit You Not': Rainforest Decimated To Build Mega Road For UN Climate Change Summit https://t.co/Wadnn9su5k

[Marcus Alburez @marcusalburez]

The government of Bolivia just rugged everyone holding dollars in their bank accounts, and instead is telling people they will get the commensurate amount in the local currency, bolivianos - which is redeemable back to USD for 50% less.

This is why Latin America needs crypto.