NickW

Starter / artist / problem solver / dreamer / designer / blockchain enthusiast @molochresearch @0xnavir

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@HunterBiden @hair_balll Lmao truth

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@CalltoActivism ICE = cowards

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@AGPamBondi Ok whatever you say. Traitor. Release the gd #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinTrumpFiles

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@jurgen_nauditt Yea, it's pretty bleak here. Just a matter of time before ICE comes to wreak havoc in all cities if we don't do something. Please do something @HouseDemocrats

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What are you guys doing about this?? Why aren't local police stepping in to help the community?? Is there not a state or federal judge who can stop this madness and get them out? If @ICEgov isn't legally welcome then we should be deporting them from the state. Please do something @HouseDemocrats

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@ReallyAmerican1 @ICEgov the cowardly lapdogs to the depraved and anti-american @POTUS. Make America great again you nazi shitheads

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@nowthisimpact @ICEgov when this is all over you'll have to answer to the world for your crimes. You're a bunch of cowardly gestapo thugs attacking your brothers and sisters for a madman's sick pleasure. You've lost your humanity, and your souls.

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@Acyn @AGPamBondi @PamBondi get fucked you right-wing coward

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@StephenM You are a dick bag. Go back to 1940s Germany and leave us be.

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@trouble_man90 They also telling us that prices are indeed lower and that anyone who says otherwise is a left-wing terrorist or a paid agitator. Make America great!

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@DHSgov You guys are literally the lapdog of the devil. Lies and lies and lies to the American people. Get fucked.

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@AttorneyCrump Make America great again, am I right? Everyone who voted these monsters into power should pat themselves on the back for helping to usher in the end of America. Nice work shitheads.

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@atrupar Yes we understand this is all so fucking terrible, but wtf are you guys doing to stop it??? Hold these shitheads accountable already. Please do something!

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@krassenstein Seriously wtf with this shit. WHO is their right mind is OK with this happening?? This is all a distraction from the EPSTEIN FILES

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@usaforopengov @POTUS you suck, you're dispicable, and you're a shit stain on America.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I agree with maybe 60% of this, but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really, the corposlop web), and "the sovereign web".

https://t.co/w7Vtbn7uFt

This is a distinction I did not realize until recently, and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs, tokens other than bitcoin, arbitrary financial applications, etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or user disempowerment (keeping bitcoin script limited, and rejecting many categories of applications entirely), but their fear was real.

So what is corposlop? In essence, it is the combination of three things:

* Corporate optimization power
* An aura of respectableness of being a company with sleek polished branding
* Behavior that the exact opposite of respectable, because that's what's needed to maximize profit

Corposlop includes things like:

* Social media that maximizes dopamine, outrage, other methods of short-term engagement, at the expense of long-term value and fulfillment
* Needless mass data collection from users, often followed by managing it carelessly or even casually selling it to third parties
* Walled gardens charging monopolistic high fees and actively preventing people from even linking to other platforms
* Hollywood releasing the 7th sequel to some tired franchise, because that's the most risk-averse thing to do
* Every corporation that rallied around slogans of diversity and equity and the need to overturn society to fight racism in 2020, and then publicly mocked those causes for engagement in 2025

This is all digital corposlop; there are big and important analogues to this in the physical world too.

Corposlop is soulless: trend-following homogeneity that is both evil and lame https://t.co/FZwqwujAGb

These are things that appear to serve the user, but actually disempower the user.

I have many qualms with Apple, but aside from their monopolistic practices, they actually have many non-corposlop traits. They serve users not by constantly asking "what do users want this quarter", but by having an opinionated long-term vision. They have a strong emphasis on privacy. They resist and create trends rather than following them. I just wish they could take the brave step of ending their monopolistic practices and switch to an open source first strategy. It may damage their market cap, but man must live for something higher than market caps.

Zac from Aztec was also early to recognize the importance of this, with a post that is on the whole very pro-freedom, but at the same time does not shrink back from labeling what is essentially corposlop a primary enemy, even when it does not violate the libertarian non-aggression principle.

https://t.co/PsbySLhLWU

In 2000, the understanding of "sovereignty" largely focused on avoiding the iron fist of government. Today, "sovereignty" also means securing your digital privacy through cryptography, and securing your own mind from corporate mind warfare trying to extract your attention and your dollars. It also means doing things because you believe in them, and declaring independence from the homogenizing and soul-sucking concept of "the meta".

These are the kinds of tools that we should build more of. Build tools like:

* Privacy-preserving local-first applications that minimize dependence on and data leaks to third parties
* Social media platforms and tools that let the user take control of what content they see. Appeal to people's long-term goals, not short-term impulses
* Financial tools that help users grow their wealth, and do not encourage 50x leverage or sports betting or taking out a loan to pay for a burrito
* AI tools that are maximally open and privacy and local-friendly, and that maximize productivity from merging the power of human and bot, rather than encouraging the user to sit back and let the bot do all the work, so they learn nothing
* Applications, companies, and physical environments that take an opinionated view on the kind of world they want to see, and have an opinionated culture
* DAOs that can support organizations and communities that steadfastly pursue a unique objective, and do not all get captured by the same groups. Privacy-preserving and non-tokenholder-driven voting can help here

Be sovereign. Reject corposlop. Believe in somETHing.

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@Sec_Noem You are a despicable human being. Go fuck yourself.

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@Matt_Pinner Frank Stallone

[Bushi @bushibuilds]

I built this on paternity leave.

With two kids now, my hands are full.

So I built a way to code hands free.

Voice in. Voice back. GitHub connected. PRs from anywhere.

Afk: voice-first coding for builders who can't sit still.

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@bushibuilds Amazing