Isiah Aslam

Crypto Broker · CDAA ·

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

a hail mary from the US gov to have citizens adopt Bitcoin in efforts to thwart BRICS seems more believable by the day

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

what does a canadian telco mixer look like

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

i insist on saying “take care” as a Canadian and Drake fan

starting to hear it back more too

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

do you feel protected?
https://t.co/oB1QKAFXBz

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

the ATM already reports suspicious transactions to the government
required by law

every time

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

the ATM has fraud warnings on the screen

KYC at every transaction

more consumer protection than the phone that delivered the scam

[orph @orphcorp]

information is free because saturating your cognition & preventing you from taking action is the product

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

building in 2026

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. https://t.co/yfhmXPTYWt

[River @River]

Out of hundreds of currencies, Iran chose to take payment in a dying Ponzi scheme that will be destroyed by quantum computers and is backed by nothing.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.

Historically, it is the governments that act to make society legible (e.g. "Seeing like a state" is the common reference), but with AI, society can dramatically improve its ability to do this in reverse. Government accountability has not been constrained by access (the various branches of government publish an enormous amount of data), it has been constrained by intelligence - the ability to process a lot of raw data, combine it with domain expertise and derive insights. As an example, the 4000-page omnibus bill is "transparent" in principle and in a legal sense, but certainly not in a practical sense for most people. There's a lot more like it: laws, spending bills, federal budgets, freedom of information act responses, lobbying disclosures... Only a few highly trained professionals (investigative journalists) could historically process this information. This bottleneck might dissolve - not only are the professionals further empowered, but a lot more people can participate.

Some examples to be precise: Detailed accounting of spending and budgets, diff tracking of legislation, individual voting trends w.r.t. stated positions or speeches, lobbying and influence (e.g. graph of lobbyist -> firm -> client -> legislator -> committee -> vote -> regulation), procurement and contracting, regulatory capture warning lights, judicial and legal patterns, campaign finance... Local governments might be even more interesting because the governed population is smaller so there is less national coverage: city council meetings, decisions around zoning, policing, schools, utilities...

Certainly, the same tools can easily cut the other way and it's worth being very mindful of that, but I lean optimistic overall that added participation, transparency and accountability will improve democratic, free societies.

(the quoted tweet is half-ish related, but inspired me to post some recent thoughts)

[The Carney Files 🇨🇦 | Sourced @TheCarneyFiles]

That’s the thing — you don’t need to risk your life. You need a screenshot and a URL.
When one person posts receipts, they’re a target. When thousands do it, it’s a movement they can’t contain.

Every Canadian with a phone can pull a corporate filing, a parliamentary record, or a lobbying disclosure. Post it. Tag it. Let it spread. They can’t silence what’s already public and everywhere.

They need us running their economy, paying their taxes, and staying quiet. The moment enough people stop being quiet — with facts, not rage — the math stops working for them.

Document everything. Source everything. Post everything. That’s how this changes.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Sending bitcoin over Bluetooth.

@callebtc uses Bitchat to move Cashu e-cash directly from Android to iPhone, phone to phone, no internet needed on the sender side.

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

"secured with Bitcoin" might be the sleight of hand of the century

[Isiah Aslam @fillmorepunk]

@AtilaRist https://t.co/9gHzoeAYS9

[Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @alanfryermedia]

BREAKING: CBC discovers there are Canadians with differing viewpoints. Asks for 5 years to to study and try to understand this strange phenomenon.