Anders

Speak what you believe is true, walk in freedom direction

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Obviously this little freak could go volunteer to fight the war himself, but of course he won’t. He’s got no interest in making any kind of personal sacrifice. None of them do. Israel’s finance minister bragged the other day that having American soldiers fight Netanyahu’s wars “is the best for us.” Smotrich doesn’t want to die for Israel. Neither does Ben Shapiro. Dying for Israel is your job. You’ve got to wonder how people like this — liars without honor, wisdom or loyalty to the United States — wound up in positions of such profound influence throughout our society. How did Mark Levin get the president’s cell phone number? Why is Adm. Brad Cooper, the man in charge of the Iran war, secretly taking strategic advice from crazed Israel shill Mark Dubowitz? It’s all so nuts, and ultimately suicidal. Future generations will struggle to understand it. In the meantime, Trump will likely obey Ben Shapiro, as he has consistently for months. We can predict the results, because every neocon “victory” is identical: huge numbers of innocent people killed, disproportionately Christians, economic destruction, famine, mass migration and deepening authoritarianism at home. That’s what they’re demanding because that’s what they want. What can we do to stop it? Apparently not much. But we can remember what happened and why, so that history records the truth. Otherwise, when the war ends in disaster, as it inevitably will, Ben Shapiro will be able to blame you for it.

[Anders @bjorkmanders]

@StableTrack3r Ouch

[Anders @bjorkmanders]

@StableTrack3r keep minting on solana

[Anders @bjorkmanders]

@StableTrack3r Big chunks, is it big players entering

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

A false narrative is being pushed about GrapheneOS claiming we're ending operations in France due to the actions of 2 newspapers. That's completely wrong. If both newspapers and the overall French media had taken our side instead of extreme bias against us, we'd still be leaving.

[Nicklas (MED) 🇸🇪🚗🚀✨ @NicklasNilsso14]

Sweden 🇸🇪 has the WORLD’s highest taxes – and almost ALL media is state-funded and hard-left biased.
@elonmusk

Today, just a few hours ago Henrik Jönsson said: “Enough is enough.”

He just launched 100% – a completely independent news platform. No state money. Only the people.

Here’s a few clips from the launch (English ai translation)

This is Sweden’s “Twitter moment”.
Elon, you inspired him.

Now he’s doing it.
Time for Swedish legacy media to wake up or die.
Who’s with the people? 🚀🇸🇪

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ A very important announcement from the GrapheneOS devs:

GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won't include backdoors for law enforcement access. They're conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code.

Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They've made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors.

Due to this, we're leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms.

People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS including spreading false narratives about it not being for regular people which helped to support the false narratives being propagated by French law enforcement. /e/ receives substantial government funding.

Both are extremely non-private and insecure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding.

We need a lot more help than usual and we're sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.

[Anders @bjorkmanders]

@StableTrack3r Much printing on ethereum

[Anders @bjorkmanders]

https://t.co/C6NorVn0P4

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

I'm German.

16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck.

Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined.

Here's the devastating truth behind Europe's ongoing economic suicide 🧵:

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

El Salvador Gov holds a fraction of its assets in Bitcoin ( the best performing financial asset since it came into existence 15 years ago)

The US Gov has $35 trillion of debt (growing $2t per year, substantially outpacing GDP or tax receipt growth) on which the entire global bond market rests.

The IMF is concerned about the former.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

War is the consequence of state.

It is the inevitable outcome of the human impetus toward centralized coercive power.

Nearly all policies of government are manifestations of this impetus, masquerading as various forms of protection.

The authority gathers. The power grows and entrenches. And like the tectonic plates under the Earth, when these leviathans collide, horrific violence is unleashed.

It is against this *process* that the good ones dissent, for it needn't be inevitable. A society could observe the impulse and learn to avoid it.

A culture could learn to reject collectivism.

And in so doing, save its individuals.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

The "left right political spectrum" is a woefully inadequate model to understand political ideology. It leads to a great deal of confusion.

This quadrant model is much better.

"Left" tends to mean "willingness to coerce economically"

"Right" tends to mean "willingness to coerce socially"

The left and right both believe they are relatively pro-freedom, and both are relatively wrong... their moral premises happily permit coercion, so long as it is of their type.

Top left would be someone who would do anything to control economic outcomes.

Top right would be someone who would do anything to control social outcomes.

Hitler/Stalin/Mao all belong top center.

I'd be interested to know of any famous extreme authoritarians who were solely concerned with economic coercion (left-authoritarian) or social coercion (right-authoritarian), but not the other.

Bottom left would be someone who strongly advocates for certain economic outcomes but generally abstains from using coercion (ie the state) for achieving it. (Gandhi?)

Bottom right would be someone who strongly advocates for certain social outcomes but generally abstains from using coercion (ie the state) to achieve it. (Jesus?)

imho - the best humans are found toward the bottom, regardless of ideology. The worst are found toward the top. Toward the bottom one becomes more peaceful and tolerant as a human (though this doesn't mean pacifist necessarily, indeed radical libertarians are always the best armed).

To overgeneralize: The average American used to be in the bottom half—emerging/escaping from a culture of European coercion—but today is in the top half (but not the extreme top). The average European has always been in the top half (again not the extreme top). Obviously exceptions apply.

"Capitalism" exists in the bottom right quadrant
"Socialism" exists in the top left.

Interestingly, those with socialist tendencies (being in the top left) generally see themselves as being in the bottom left, for they lack the self-awareness to recognize their reliance on violence/coercion. Those in the top right quadrant, generally referred to as fascist, aren't as deluded about their embrace of coercive means. I'm not sure what's worse.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

https://t.co/iUPC8ijDPN doest't spy on users: doesn't see or save any convos, everything is stored locally in user's browser only. Privacy by default, by design, regardless of how you use it.

Use for free, or pay with crypto, no name or email even necessary.

No central party ought to know all the world's conversations, whether human to human, or human to machine.

vires in numeris

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

https://t.co/m2jsJuDuXS is now web-enabled

This means you can use Venice as your search engine.

No ads, and no Google spying on you

Citations/links included in results.

Super fast, try it without an account: https://t.co/m2jsJuDuXS

[Neal Taparia @nealtaparia]

Your 9-to-5 job is dying.

By 2034, it'll be extinct.

That's Reid Hoffman's latest prediction – the founder of LinkedIn who predicted the rise of social media in 1997.

Here's what he said next:

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Biden wasn't a terrible president.

He was average. He was mid.

He did nothing extraordinarily good nor bad.

He represented merely the inertia of the state.

Uninspiring, disconnected from any coherent moral or economic principle. His greatest accomplishment was debt, and yet that too would've comfortably happened without him.

He was the lethargic face of the world's most wasteful machine, a scarecrow in a field where noxious seeds are continually planted and 300 million onlookers wonder why nothing grows.

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

Peter Thiel: I went to the World Economic Forum in Davos the last time in 2013, and of course, they have the same ideas as the mob. And in some ways, it is a mob.

And people are there only in their capacity as representatives of corporations or of governments or of NGOs.

And it really hit me: There are simply no individuals. There are no individuals in the room. There’s nobody there who’s representing themselves.

And it’s this notion of the future I reject. A picture of the future where the future will be a world where there are no individuals. There are no people with ideas of their own. There’s nobody to say, this is wrong. This doesn’t make sense. And I’m going to think differently. I’m going to think for myself.

[Eric Wall @ercwl]

bullpost:

1. the period between agi and asi matters. even if the agipocalpyse is real and approaching, there will probably be a year or two between agi and asi. this period, even though brief, will be extremely interesting and important financially.

how you play your cards in this period (and how you prepare for it) may matter more than anything else you've ever done for the continued existence of your consciousness. bitcoin may be relevant in this period (see points below).

2. changing of the world order. as ai-powered robo-mosquitoes are assassinating political leaders and business leaders en masse, nation states will crumble and fall (as it becomes increasingly complex for a nation state to provide basic safety).

similar to how the invention of the stirrup turned knights into one-man armies and redrew the physical battlefield of the 10th century in favor of feudalism (read: the sovereign individual, 1997), ai and 3d printing might as well turn nerds into one-man armies and bring equally disruptive redesigns of the social order.

even if that's too farfetched, it's not strange to assume that agi when channeled by nation states rather than by individuals (or rogue organizations) should exacerbate conflicts, political psyops and cyber warfare. even in the non-adversarial case, the economic disruptions alone will cause nation states who aren't keeping up to crumble/quickly fade into irrelevance.

3. the fiat printers will go wild at a scale never seen before. if a nation state's existence is threatened (and in short time scales) and it needs to make competitive moves in the agi-sphere to survive versus other growing economic powers (and it also needs to transform itself fundamentally to provide domestic security for its citizens), fiat currency will get turbo-printed (think of germany during ww2).

as geopolitical alliances are redrawn and every country is motivated to act in extreme shortsighted self-interest, international trust in fiat currency will evaporate completely. this is likely to happen during the agi => asi transitional period, but during that period, there will still be a need for international trade and monetary exchange for extreme low-trust periods.

4. the need to transact remains. as international trust evaporates and fiat currency becomes worthless, using commodity-based assets as a backup internationally won't be an option either (gold, barrels of oil, energy contracts etc.). anything that relies on shipping, trusting a certain economic power/nation—it all becomes too uncertain.

but the need to transact will still remain, into the last second of the last minute on the doomsday clock.

5. stablecoins will continue to thrive before this. ignoring everything above, the stablecoin industry is still likely to keep growing. stablecoins are a genuinely superior product to current financial rails. as stablecoin adoption continues to surge across the world, the need for financial applications (L1, L2s, dapps) will grow organically alongside stablecoins.

while its true that stablecoins will need to be abandoned if the US dollar or its supporting institutions collapse, they'll be extremely useful until then, and help prime the world for a transition into some other digital asset.

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in closing, crypto may not feel like the most interesting sector on the planet during the agipocalypse (and it probably won't be), but it might still play an extremely important role.

bonus thesis: it might not be bitcoin that is best suited to survive in this kind of scenario. mining facilities may prove to be too easy targets, and it also might be very hard for bitcoin to compete for energy sources to safekeep itself if an arbitrary ai farm uses an order of magnitude more energy than the entire bitcoin network (not super unlikely during an agipocalypse?).

[Christine Anderson @AndersonAfDMdEP]

🇬🇧|Total surveillance with the state in the passenger seat! A committee of the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) dominated by police and intelligence services is currently working unnoticed on the future mass surveillance of vehicles in real time.

Position data from the navigation system will then provide a permanent movement profile. Speed, fuel level, open windows and doors will be transmitted, as well as the number of people currently sitting in the vehicle and the IDs of all smartphones connected to the infotainment system. By linking the vehicle identification number (VIN) with the smartphone IMEI, remote access to certain functions of the on-board electronics will also be possible from the outside.

🚘👀❗️ Complete madness! ! This means large-scale, unprovoked surveillance of citizens by the minute without any search warrant. First data is collected, then it is misused. And any additional power that the state seizes today will also be abused against us tomorrow. Time to finally send these false elites packing ���️
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