freedomfaber

When computer philosophers will have done their work the world will never be as we have known. But it will be a new World.

[freedomfaber @freedomfaber]

Cara @Internazionale te ne vai da X? Come @lemondefr, La Vanguardia, Mediapart, Ouest France, Libération, The Guardian, Dagens Nyheter. E noi non vi leggiamo più.

Definire @elonmusk un nazista è, paradossalmente, una delle azioni più antidemocratiche e di destra che si possano compiere. Ciò che rende questa accusa ancora più assurda è che proviene da attivisti e giornali a volte sedicenti di sinistra, gli stessi che lo accusano di diffondere disinformazione. Eppure, Elon Musk ha aperto la sua piattaforma, X, alla libera espressione, dando spazio a una pluralità di voci, indipendentemente dal loro orientamento politico. Ne é la prova che tali calunnie continuano liberamente ad essere diffuse dentro e fuori di X.

Chi davvero alimenta la disinformazione sono proprio quei giornalisti e quegli editori di giornali e tv che, anziché mantenere un minimo di obiettività, sono palesemente schierati e pronti a screditare i propri avversari politici. Talvolta, arrivano persino a utilizzare l'azione giudiziaria come strumento per far prevalere la loro narrativa, comportamento che dovrebbe invece essere rivolto contro chi diffonde calunnie sistematiche.

È ora di mettere fine all'abuso della definizione di "fascista" o "nazista" nei confronti di chi la pensa diversamente. Accusare una persona genuinamente democratica di essere un estremista totalitario è, di per sé, un atteggiamento autoritario e intimidatorio. Questo tipo di vilipendio si manifesta chiaramente nel tentativo di distorcere l'immagine di Elon Musk, che, durante un discorso appassionato rivolto al pubblico, ha condiviso il proprio entusiasmo e la sua visione, interpretati da alcuni contro ogni evidenza, come simboli di nazismo. Accuse del genere non solo sono ridicole, ma mostrano un livello preoccupante di malafede.

Ora, se una parte della stampa tradizionale ha deciso di abbandonare X, non sarà certo una perdita. Questi media, ormai ridotti a strumenti di propaganda per i loro editori e per i partiti politici che li sostengono, sono destinati a perdere rilevanza. La vera informazione oggi non proviene più dalle grandi redazioni, ma dalle persone comuni, stanche di essere censurate e desiderose di condividere liberamente i fatti.

Certamente, l’informazione generata dal pubblico può essere imperfetta, ma sta a ciascun utente verificare le notizie e distinguere tra ciò che è supportato da fatti e ciò che non lo è. Questo è il nuovo paradigma democratico: un’informazione partecipata, non più monopolizzata da pochi editori multimiliardari con interessi di parte.

In sintesi, il messaggio è chiaro: se non sei su X, sei libero di non esserci, ma non aspettarti che le persone continuino a dare credito a chi è palesemente fazioso e schierato. La vera democrazia appartiene a chi è disposto a dialogare, non a chi vive di accuse e censura.
By Freedomfaber

[Internazionale @Internazionale]

Perché Internazionale ha deciso di interrompere la pubblicazione di contenuti su X. L’editoriale di Giovanni De Mauro.
https://t.co/Pg91sIw4ye

[Adam Back @adam3us]

On the filter fork topic.

I don't usually have time, but this morning listened to one of the twitter spaces from earlier in the week, with some well meaning relative bitcoin newcomers, that humanized them, and their concerns and thoughts for why they thought that made it logical to support 110.

My feeling after listening, is if these are the people with #110 in their handles, I'm sad to see them about to fork off and get disillusioned without understanding why bitcoin rejected 110 robustly.

So here's a more empathetic, constructive higher level version of explaining why not. I hope it's high-level and first-principles enough that everyone can follow.

They seem to want to understand what makes people tick, and are suspicious of intent. So, if someone asked me why is Bitcoin important and what is it, I'd say my (personal) mission and hope for bitcoin is to build the cypherpunk future, that "Snow Crash" was a blueprint, and work backwards from there. Bitcoin I hope leads to fully free markets via bearer unseizable, hard mathematically dependable money. Not everyone is comfortable with that level of freedom, but that's my view. And at this point, I believe that surprisingly, even now many governments have come to understand and value bitcoin's gold-like mathematical assurance, a positive development. Others may have milder views than myself, but still like hard censorship resistant money.

Because of motive suspicion, if it's not obvious: I hate spam with a passion, that's how I came to design hashcash while researching decentralized bearer money with others, and running nodes in privacy related cypherpunk p2p networks nearly three decades ago.

People seem upset about the default op return policy change in bitcoin. I will just assert, there are extremely robust and simple reasons for bitcoin changing default relay policy, and most just didn't do their research, so don't know what those are, or maybe not technical enough to fully understand though there have been 1000s of posts trying to explain in various simplified ways. So that lack of understanding lends itself to shared build-up of false narratives. So here's my back-to-basics higher level explanation.

The decentralization needed to create cypherpunk money has implications a: side effect of decentralization is that you can't impose your views on others. The very decentralization mechanism that helps that, is working against what BIP 110 wants, which at it's most basic is a quest to police other people. I understand supporters don't see their intent like that, but introspect deeper.

You can modify your software, but not anyone else's. Another critical and incredibly robust technical bitcoin immune system is bitcoin can't have people who don't understand technology basics insist on eroding security, decentralization robustness and core properties. That would end badly, fast, and so people will fight you on that.

So the message is Bitcoin respectfully says "no" to what you want. Sorry, and bitcoiners do genuinely understand and empathize that you mean well, have high level thoughts that make emotional sense, and articulate sensible bitcoin-defensive high level ideas, but they are not grounded and without you seeing it, the way you propose to achieve your ideas, hard-conflict with free cypherpunk permissionless money.

My advice is to listen to more experienced people who understand the system and why it works the way it does, to whatever detail you want to understand the grounded reasons for why this is the implication of decentralization and cypherpunk money.

I guarantee you the developer and protocol ecosystem shares and exceeds your views on bearer hard money (and dislike of spam). You may not agree with individual developers choices, views, way of expressing themselves etc, BUT you also need to understand the IETF-like decentralized technical consensus process creates a protective change resistance, that is highly effective at protecting bitcoin mission. The implication of which is no developer can change anything without technical consensus from hundreds of other developers and protocol observers who are pedantic and extremely knowledgeable clever people who won't let any unaddressed technical question past. The protective change resistance is robust and decentralized in an amplifying way because of this technical consensus.

And the many highly technical mainline developers' cypherpunk mission mindsets are probably far more determined than you can even handle on clarity of understanding and views about freedoms on permissionless networks, as many of you are probably still subconsciously inured by the matrix, where they have transcended that, and grew up immersed in it decades ago. They think natively in this space, while you are just grappling with the surface. Many wont have internalized or have the experience to know how this internet physics works, where there is no policeman, no policy authority, just mathematics, free market and hard money. That has implications for your views also, unfortunately.

Now the tough pill, which is unfortunately true: If you won't listen to reason, educate yourself, learn, the same radical freedom applies to you: your permissionless recourse is to club together and create a fork. But bitcoin won't be joining it. (With respect and no sleight intended.)

Please rejoin bitcoin now, or later if you're not convinced and need to experience 110 forking off and fizzling for yourself to start that journey of introspecting and learning. It would be sad if bitcoin lost people disillusioned due to simple lack of understanding of what's going on there, we're all trying to defend bitcoin and keep it on mission. Including btw the 110 technical promoters, just they wandered off plot somehow.

Join the cypherpunks on bitcoin, come cypherpunk summer🌞 in a few weeks.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 THE AMERICA PARTY: ELON'S VISION TO DISMANTLE THE ESTABLISHMENT

When 5.6 million people tell you they're politically homeless, perhaps it's time to bulldoze the entire neighborhood.

Elon's proposed "America Party" resonated with 80.4% of respondents who are tired of the establishment duopoly.

Gallup shows 43% of Americans claim independence, rejecting both parties.

Among independents, 56% view Elon favorably.

Even 34% of Democrats see him positively.

Republicans love his budget-cutting (72% approval).

He's uniquely positioned to unite anti-establishment forces from both sides against Washington's permanent political class.

Stephen A. Smith, Nicole Shanahan, and countless others sense the establishment's grip weakening.

History warns third parties fail.

But Elon brings unprecedented resources, platform, and timing.

Technology has democratized politics.

"The America Party", in it's elegant simplicity, could finally give the 80% what they want: destruction of the swamp, not just new management.

Source: @NicoleShanahan @stephenasmith WSJ, Fox

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Sounds very fishy

[XPR Network @XPRNetwork]

We are bridging the world to blockchain. $XPR

[Marshall Hayner @MarshallHayner]

It’s time to put the US Treasury on-chain with KYG (Know-Your-Government). All expenses tracked real-time, unalterable and fully transparent to the public. Each government office having their own verified digital identity that can be held accountable via the United States DAO

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨USAID EXPOSED: The Single Largest Criminal Fraud Operation in Human History

The public’s outrage over USAID corruption is now at scale and mainstream. USAID has been fully exposed as a left-wing money laundering criminal organization. Here’s what our researchers were able to find when looking into their expenditures and why President Trump and Elon Musk must shut it down:

- Haiti: Post-2010 earthquake, $1.14 billion was spent on a port and power plant project promoted by President Bill Clinton. The project never built anything.
- Cuba: A 2006 audit showed $74 million in “democracy promotion” funds vanished without oversight.
- Afghanistan: Millions squandered on health scams; hospitals never built.
- Nigeria: Chemonics, a major USAID contractor, was linked to a subcontractor's overbilling scandal. Hundreds of millions lost.
- COVID 19 Funding: USAID sent over $40MILLION in taxpayer money to a scientist located in Wuhan to do gain of function mutations. This directly led to the creation and release of COVID-19
- $2.5 MILLION to DEI in Serbia
- $70,000 onan Irish DEI musical
- $47,000 on transgender operas in Colombia
- $32,000 on a trans comic book in Peru
- Iraq: $20M for an Iraqi version of Sesame Street to promote LGBTQ Agenda
- Egypt & Tunisia: $56M for “tourism”
- Jordan: $40M for “schools”
- Vietnam: $11M to fight “trash burning”
- Central America: $27M for deportee gift bags.
- Trump Lawfare: $27M to fund left wing prosecutions of populist political opponents around the globe, including Donald Trump. Patently illegal.

And countless billions more.

Here’s the thing: The majority of this money never went to the “projects” they claim to be promoting. It’s just pure money laundering from your tax dollars into deep state left wing activists. USAID is likely the largest fraud operation in human history.

Trump and Elon are ending it. Watch who cries the hardest about it — they’re the true criminals.

[iyah may @iyahmaymusic]

I wanted to create a reimagined version of ‘Wish You Were Here’ firstly because it’s a beautiful and timeless song by Pink Floyd and secondly because it resonates deeply with modern times, even 50 years after its release.

At its core I feel it speaks to the recurring human experience of loss, disconnection and yearning for authenticity. Are we as a society repeating history- failing to learn from past mistakes of war, political division and environmental or human neglect? Could we be doing more to learn from our past?

If covering this song showed me anything, it’s that no matter the time in history, humans still share the same emotional and spiritual struggles.
FULL VERSION COMING SOON 😏
@rogerwaters

#coversong #remix #pinkfloyd #truth #freedom

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

People of Europe:

Join the MEGA movement!

Make Europe Great Again!!

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

When a video like this drops I watch what the Tesla community says about it.

Most are missing that this means the Robotaxi network will operate 24 hours a day.

If you get out of a bar at 2 a.m. and a dirty one arrives you'll refuse it, and wait for another, which will take an extra few minutes in a city like San Francisco.

That dirty vehicle will go to a cleaning center where it'll be vacuumed. If something worse has happened, like someone vomitted in the vehicle, it might have to wait for a human team to clean it up, or fix it, if someone slashed the seats, for instance.

This robot will make the decision before revalidating that the vehicle is being put back into service.

This shows the kind of engineering that is going into making every ride awesome.

I've been interviewing @Waymo customers and they say once in a while a dirty one arrives and it reduces their happiness with the experience.

Waymo has nothing like this and doesn't have enough vehicles on the road to fill in. Waits for Waymo's often take 15 minutes, so if a dirty one arrives you will have waited 30 minutes for a drive, which means unhappy customers who probably will just order an Uber.

When I interviewed Travis Kalanick at Stanford University he told me that they knew that the best customer satisfaction came when a vehicle arrived in one minute. Longer meant unhappy customers.

This is why having the supercharger network is so important, too. Adding one of these robots next to a super charger is an obvious move. So a Cybercab will go to charge and be cleaned at the same time. Waymo can't compete with that because it doesn't have a worldwide system of chargers already built.

The other thing most people don't get about robotics is that they get faster over time. So, while this looks slow today, in two years when Robotaxi network really starts up at scale, it'll be dramatically faster than this video shows.

[freedomfaber @freedomfaber]

Great!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Fidias is right!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨LINDA YACCARINO: ELON IS THE GREATEST DEFENDER OF FREE SPEECH AND DESERVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

“Our mission at X is clear: Protect the freedom of speech.

This nomination recognizes not just the importance but the necessity of that right across the world. There has been no greater leader of that crusade than Elon Musk.

From all of us, thank you.

Source: @lindayaX

[Paul Grey @paulgrey]

People are starting to learn about the advantages of @XPRNetwork versus Ethereum and Ripple. Check out some of the clips explaining the differences:

Human Readable Names

Built-in Multi Sig Wallets

Free Transactions (Default)

Transaction Speed

Smart Contracts
https://t.co/2VIWgxRyDX

More to come!

[Andrea Stroppa 🐺 Claudius Nero's Legion 🐺 @andst7]

Di cui un milione da assegnare a progetti di studenti e ricercatori

Questa iniziativa sarà intenzionalmente oscurata dalla maggioranza dei media perché contraria alla narrativa, quindi se volete farla conoscere condividete!

[The Crypto Gateway @crypto_gateway]

O MIO DIO

CALENDA, SENATORE ITALIANO, AFFERMA

"...PENSA SOLO AL BITCOIN LANCIATO DA TRUMP PRIMA DI ENTRARE ALLA CASA BIANCA..." (riferendosi alla sua memecoin)

per poi concludere che bitcoin è uno schema ponzi

sono inorridito dal fatto che con una tale ignoranza alle spalle si permetta di sputare sentenze

voglio tagliarmi le orecchie e buttarle in un inceneritore

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

#Bitcoin price: $0

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

🚨 ELON MUSK: "There's always problems in life but there need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and say I am looking forward to the future."

[Evan @StockMKTNewz]

Elon Musk has initiated conversations about using blockchain technology at the new Department of Government Efficiency - Bloomberg

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 CHAMATH: DUMP NYT, WAPO & WIKIPEDIA — 𝕏 IS THE FUTURE OF NEWS

@chamath:

"If the pace of news in the last few days is any indication of the pace in the next four years, an @X subscription is the critical starting point of a media diet.

Every other outlet just seems to repeat bits and pieces of what is reported here.

No brainer to drop @nytimes, @washingtonpost subscription or stop a donation to @Wikipedia."