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[shu @andreiashu]

just released "The AI Manifesto" a call to reclaim agency in an algorithmic world: https://t.co/evThqVI674
#AI #Privacy #Decentralization #EdgeComputing

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

I think Trump may have been right about "Low IQ Alex Jones." Find out the shocking truth here.
@RealAlexJones

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

Here is my apology for criticizing Israel. I've voiced criticisms in videos recently and I now realize I was wrong. I am sorry.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇳🇮🇱 UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese tears apart the question about Israel's "right to exist"

https://t.co/YfHBGYGEyo

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

How Israel hijacks politicians in America...

[0xSero @0xSero]

Putting out a wish to the universe.

I need more compute, if I can get more I will make sure every machine from a small phone to a bootstrapped RTX 3090 node can run frontier intelligence fast with minimal intelligence loss.

I have hit page 2 of huggingface, released 3 model family compressions and got GLM-4.7 on a MacBook https://t.co/lorDSUEYCL

My beast just isn’t enough and I already spent 2k usd on renting GPUs on top of credits provided by Prime intellect and Hotaisle.

———

If you believe in what I do help me get this to Nvidia, maybe they will bless me with the pewter to keep making local AI more accessible 🙏

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

How to get rich in 2026 😂

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[Molly Cantillon @mollycantillon]

THE PERSONAL PANOPTICON.

A few months ago, I started running my life out of Claude Code. Not out of intention to do so, it was just the place where everything met.
And it just kept working.

Empires are won by conquest. What keeps them standing is something much quieter.

Before a king can tax, he must count. Before he can conscript, he must locate. Before he can rule, he must see. Legibility is the precondition for governance.

The pre-modern state was blind. It knew precious little about its subjects, their wealth, their landholdings and yields, their location, their very identity. So it built the apparatus of sight: censuses, surnames, maps. Over centuries, the invisible became visible, the illegible became legible, and populations that could be seen could finally be controlled.

Now, you are one of n: tracked, monitored, studied by systems you cannot access, much less interrogate. Data is siphoned for purposes you will never fully know. The arrangement is brutally asymmetrical: visibility without reciprocity. A panopticon whose gaze travels outward and never back.

The watchtower has multiplied. Today, corporations harvest terabytes of behavioral exhaust, gatekept behind competitive moats, legible only to algorithms optimizing against your interests. Corporate legibility is created by closed joins: they can join your behavior to their ontology, but you can’t join your own behavior across systems.

We are drowning in data about ourselves and yet we remain catastrophically blind.

Thousands of messages across twenty inboxes. Notifications exile you to a perpetual state of Do Not Disturb. A WHOOP recovery score that decides your mood. Commitments that exist in six places and cohere in none. You are the most measured human in history and the most opaque to yourself.

States built legibility infrastructure to govern. Corporations built it to sell. Neither gave you the keys to the tower.

The first thing Claude solved was product blindness. NOX now runs on a cron job: pulling Amplitude, cross-referencing GitHub, and pointing me to what needs building. It handles A/B testing, generates winning copy, and has turned customer support into a fully autonomous department.

Once I saw this was possible, I chased it everywhere. Email, hitting inbox zero for the first time ever, with auto-drafted replies for everything inbound. Workouts, accommodating horrendously erratic travel schedules. Sleep, built a projector wired to my WHOOP after exactly six hours that wakes me with my favorite phrases. Subscriptions, found and returned $2000 I didn’t know I was paying. The dozen SFMTA citations I'd ignored, the action items I'd procrastinated into oblivion. People are using it to, I discovered, run vending machines, home automation systems, and keep plants alive.

The feeling is hard to name. It is the violent gap between how blind you were and how obvious everything feels now with an observer that reads all the feeds, catches what you've unconsciously dropped, notices patterns across domains you'd kept stubbornly separate, and—crucially—tells you what to do about it.

My personal finances are now managed in the terminal. Overnight it picks the locks of brokerages that refuse to talk to each other, pulls congressional and hedge fund disclosures, Polymarket odds, X sentiment, headlines and 10-Ks from my watchlist. Every morning, a brief gets added in ~/𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜. Last month it flagged Rep. Fields buying NFLX shares. Three weeks later, the Warner Bros deal. I don't always trade, sometimes I argue with the thesis. But I'm never tracking fifteen tabs at 6am anymore.

It feels borderline unfair seeing around corners, being in ten places at once, surveilling yourself with the attention span of a thousand clones.

A panopticon still, but the tower belongs to you.

A few weeks ago, five friends and I tore into the Epstein files the night they dropped. Thousands of documents parsed into a searchable index: flights, texts, photos, Amazon purchases, properties. By 4am, sleep deprivation bled into something stranger: the disbelief that it just kept working. We were outpacing entire newsrooms. By 7am we shipped Jmail. 18 million people have since searched an inbox that belonged to a dead man. A decade ago this would have taken a team and a quarter of runway. We did it in one night, on pure adrenaline and tools that finally match the pace of ambition.

Over Christmas, I watched my parents learn the command line. These are people who never migrated off Microsoft Teams, who treat software updates as personal attacks. I didn't pitch it as coding. I set up an alias, just `𝚌`, and said:  'Type what you want to happen in plain English.' My mom stared at it for a minute, then typed: 'Show me everyone who hasn't paid an invoice in the last 90 days.' She looked at me like I'd performed a magic trick. Within days, they were running my dad’s accounts receivable through it. For twenty years, software made them feel stupid. Now they tell it what to do.

When you have an entire model of reality around certain things being hard that shifts for the first time, the world unravels.

This is the default now. The bottleneck is no longer ability. The bottleneck is activation energy: who has the nerve to try, and the stubbornness to finish. This favors new entrants. People who question unquestioned assumptions because they don't know any better. The founders who sprint through walls and will their dogged pursuits into existence.

Here’s what my tower looks like mechanically. I run a swarm of eight instances in parallel: ~/𝚗𝚘𝚡, ~/𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚜, ~/𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕, ~/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚝𝚑, ~/𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜, ~/𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑, ~/𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐, ~/𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕. Each operates in isolation, spawns short-lived subagents, and exchanges context through explicit handoffs. They read and write the filesystem. When an API is absent, they operate the desktop directly, injecting mouse and keystroke events to traverse apps and browsers. 𝚌𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎 -𝚒 keeps the system awake on runs, in airports, while I sleep. On completion, it texts me; I reply to the checkpoint and continue. All thought traces logged and artifacted for recursive self-improvement.

Sometimes the tower has a landlord. Anthropic sees every query you make. The value exchange is explicit: their visibility into your thinking for access to a thousand-clone attention span. In this case, chosen beats imposed. For now, that's enough.

There is a case for productive illegibility. For forgetting, for serendipity, for negative capability—the dark fiber in ourselves that loses something the moment you start measuring its throughput. Goodhart says optimize for a metric and you game your way to hollow victory. High modernism tried to iron the world into a grid, and killed what made it work. These failures share a structure. The map-maker doesn't live in the territory. When WHOOP says recovered and I feel like death, I notice. When the ~/𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜 thesis is wrong, I lose money. Metis, the local knowledge that external schemes delete, is what built the grid here. There's a meta-level outside the system, self-authored and continuously revised, that argues with the brief for days, notices when a metric has become a game, that can delete ~/𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑 tomorrow if it stops serving. Goodhart operates when you can't escape the loop. We must continue to live outside it.

I felt that tension most clearly watching Pluribus, where eight billion minds are joined into one consciousness. Only thirteen remain outside including Carol, the resistant misanthropic protagonist you want to root for, even if the hive offers peace, equity, and the end to all crime. An LLM already feels like that: a lossy compression of humanity speaking in one voice. When your whole life runs inside a Claude Code directory, you feel the pull toward the merge. The price is quiet but total. You trade away what is yours alone, the private texture of emotion, the right to be wrong, your jagged iconoclasm. Opt out and you fall behind. Take the tower early. Do not let it take you.

We are early on a big open secret. Karpathy put it correctly, failing to claim the boost now feels decidedly like a skill issue.

For centuries, legibility flowed one direction: upward. You were the subject. Institutions were the seer. In this quasi-libertarian arbitrage window, that direction has reversed. The tools of synthesis belong to the individual now.

Govern yourself accordingly.

[Sam Brokken @RealSamBrokken]

The EUs hypocrisy is flabbergasting. I lost my livelihood in 2021 for debating the Covid-19 measures on public TV. Cancelled, social media accounts taken down, ridiculed, smear campaign, silenced, followed, and bank accounts blocked. I left the EU for a reason. Free speech?

[Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ @alexandrosM]

You froze the bank accounts of Jaques Baud, a Swiss citizen residing in Belgium, and banned every EU businesses from transacting with him such that he can't even buy bread or pay rent, and your own rationale is that you didn't like what he was saying. You did this with no due process, no right of appeal, and no way to defend himself from your slanderous and ruinous accusations. And he's not the only one.

You obviously have no comprehension of the terms you use, what their meaning is, or what is the purpose of the principles you so easily throw around.

Unfortunately, EU citizens never elected you, so they can't unelect you. You'll keep turning the EU into USSR until your failed experiment comes crashing down. Until then, spare us the lectures. Your actions are deafening.

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

Very embarrassing

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@SecWar There must be some really bad stuff in the Epstein files.

[Coinjoined Chris ⚡ @coinjoined]

To my friends on the other side of this debate: Please don't let yourselves get herded into a fork because a few podcasters discovered a nifty way to farm outrage-based engagement. None of these panic narratives survive contact with the actual history or the actual code. Bitcoin has survived a decade of real attacks by refusing to let every loud opinion rewrite the rules. Don't throw that away. Don't be scaredy cats nudged into breaking consensus changes by people who couldn't explain what a ScriptPubKey is if their sponsorship deals depended on it.

Anyone claiming Bitcoin is "about to die" or pushing for rushed changes is selling something. Mining centralization is a real threat, lack of privacy is a real threat, quantum may eventually be real threat - those deserve serious work. Splitting the community over invented grievances and drowning developers in personal attacks and noise is what actually endangers this project.

Keep calm and don't fork off.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇷🇺: Illegally annexes

🇮🇱: Changes the map

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now.

Our App Store verifies the app store metadata with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with verification of the packages. Android's package manager also has another layer of signature verification and downgrade protection.

Our System Updater verifies updates with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with another layer of both in update_engine and a third layer of both via verified boot. Signing channel release channel names is planned too.

Our update mirrors are currently hosted on sponsored servers from ReliableSite (Los Angeles, Miami) and Tempest (London). London is a temporary location due to an emergency move from a provider which left the dedicated server business and will move. More sponsored update mirrors are coming.

Our ns1 anycast network is on Vultr and our ns2 anycast network is on BuyVM since both support BGP for announcing our own IP space. We're moving our main website/network servers used for default OS connections to a mix of Vultr+BuyVM locations.

We have 5 servers in Canada with OVH with more than static content and basic network services: email, Matrix, discussion forum, Mastodon and attestation. Our plan is to move these to Netcup root servers or a similar provider short term and then colocated servers in Toronto long term.

France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects. They expect backdoors in encryption and for device access too. Secure devices and services are not going to be allowed. We don't feel safe using OVH for even a static website with servers in Canada/US via their Canada/US subsidiaries.

We were likely going to be able to release experimental Pixel 10 support very soon and it's getting disrupted. The attacks on our team with ongoing libel and harassment have escalated, raids on our chat rooms have escalated and more. It's rough right now and support is appreciated.

[Yannik Schrade (ARX MODE) @yrschrade]

The EU’s new surveillance law proposal conveniently exempts EU officials and politicians from having their own messages scanned.

Only your private messages will be scanned.

Now ask yourself why the people writing the law didn’t want it applied to themselves.

[AlternativeTo @AlternativeTo]

GrapheneOS has shut down operations in France due to pressure from law enforcement and media, citing risks for privacy projects and demands for a backdoor. Servers are being moved to Toronto and Germany, and developers are barred from entering France https://t.co/36b1JKmZjO

[Eli Clifton @EliClifton]

Ms. Rachel responds to Sarah Hurwitz’s complaint about trying to talk “through a wall of dead children.”

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

@SenRickScott You are a legislator. You and your fellow Senators can make new laws and repeal old ones. So stop pontificating and repeal the "Patriot Act" and other laws that empower our secret police agencies to spy on their fellow Americans.