Mark Evenson

He's just zis guy, y'know?

[Mark Evenson @ineluctablymod]

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[Mark Evenson @ineluctablymod]

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[Mark Evenson @ineluctablymod]

"Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"
Tanya Klowden, Terence Tao
<https://t.co/iP5uCT7RNk>

[Armed Bear Common Lisp @ArmedBear]

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The Bear will miss you. See y’all in Krakow.

[Mario Havel @TMIYChao]

Prague community stays strong and builds for the long term. Join us as we unveil our new humble @BordelWTF space during EthPrague

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

Financial privacy is a competitive moat.

A business whose margins aren't legible can't be undercut by a competitor who reverse engineered their cost structure.

A supplier relationship that exists outside visible payment rails can't be poached by someone who noticed the transaction pattern.

A cash reserve that doesn't show up in the readable profile of your business doesn't signal weakness during the quarters you're investing in growth.

Let there be Dark!

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

Her bank knew she was pregnant before she did.

A statistician at Target built a model in the early 2000s to identify pregnant customers through purchase patterns.

The algorithm predicted due dates within a few weeks.
Target mailed pregnancy coupons to customers who'd never disclosed a pregnancy.

One father in Minnesota got the mailer, confronted his teenage daughter and called Target.

She was pregnant. He didn't know. The algorithm did.

This was 2002.

Before smartphones.
Before behavioral biometrics. Before machine learning was a commodity. Before your bank had 20 years of granular transaction data, before insurance algorithms, before fintech data brokers who buy and resell your financial patterns to anyone with a budget.

Think about what is possible today.

Your stress levels - pharmacy purchases spike before major life events. Your relationship status - spending shifts at predictable milestones. Your political leanings - donations, subscriptions, events attended. Your health conditions - specialty pharmacies, supplement patterns, clinic co-pays. Your financial fragility - overdraft timing, the exact rhythm of living paycheck to paycheck.

None of this is hypothetical. All of it is for sale.

The Target story got press because it was awkward.

What doesn't get press is the infrastructure that makes it routine.

Let there be Dark!

[ibisum @ibisum]

Andrew ‘bunnie’ H is really kicking ass .. solving the unauditable CPU problem by just flat out designing an open one that’ll get some serious production .. Can’t wait to have Baochip on my desktop ..

https://t.co/wl3ADzIwOE

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

Prohibition didn't stop drinking. It created the mafia.

The war on drugs didn't stop drug use. It filled prisons and funded cartels.

Banning encryption won't stop secrets. It'll just make criminals out of citizens.

This is the oldest pattern in civilization: ban a fundamental human behavior and watch it go underground. The behavior doesn't disappear. It just becomes dangerous, unregulated, and controlled by the worst people instead of the best.

Privacy is a fundamental behavior. People have always whispered. Always kept things from others. Always kept parts of their lives separate from other parts. This isn't deviance, it's architecture. The human psyche requires rooms with doors.

When governments push to ban strong encryption, mandate backdoors, or outlaw privacy tools, they're not preventing crime. They're creating a world where only criminals have privacy because criminals don't follow bans.

Law-abiding people surrender their encryption keys. Criminals don't. Law-abiding people use KYC exchanges. Criminals don't. Law-abiding people comply. Criminals route around.

The result? The people who need privacy most - journalists, dissidents, abuse survivors, activists - lose it. The people doing actual harm were never using compliant systems anyway.

Every privacy ban is a prohibition. And every prohibition creates the exact underworld it claimed to prevent.

The alternative: build privacy into infrastructure so well that it's not a choice. Not a political stance. Not suspicious behavior. Just how the system works.

The way cash always worked.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨NEW at @DropSiteNews: Trump Might Want to End the War. Iran Won’t Do It on His Terms.

Iran says the U.S. and Israel underestimated its military capacity and will to fight, as Trump careens toward a quagmire.

Report by @JeremyScahill and @MazMHussain

https://t.co/B7saw5Ixv4

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

With everything happening, we must keep an eye on Rojava and the Rojava Revolution.

[Mark Evenson @ineluctablymod]

Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://t.co/FpFGB9nbV6

[Mark Evenson @ineluctablymod]

Capsicum vs seccomp: Process Sandboxing — Vivian Voss https://t.co/5I1ljjaU6T

[r4bbit @0x_r4bbit]

Here's the slides of our talk on
"Writing Programs for the @Logos_network Execution Environment"
at the Parallel Society conference.

Thanks everyone for coming!

https://t.co/vIk4PfRXuz

[Russ Smith @MUGGER2023]

New John Mac Ghlionn: The state calls this “age assurance.” That sounds clinical and harmless, which is the point. What it actually builds is a persistent identity layer soldered into your machine’s logic. Not a policy or guideline, but architecture. https://t.co/M41UGwRYmh

[Sentinel @SentinelP2P]

A privacy-focused email provider just helped authorities identify the operator of an "anonymous" activist account

Not by breaking encryption, but by following payment data

The case involves @ProtonMail and the @stopcopcity movement, according to new reporting from @404mediaco

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Just published: first study of Bitcoin's resilience to submarine cable failures, using 11 years of P2P network data & 68 cable fault events. Random cable failures are mostly harmless, but targeted attacks on 5 hosting providers could take out 95% of clearnet nodes. Authors recommend using tor to increase network robustness.
https://t.co/N82Ax9lhbn

[Nym @nym]

Should the government poison the public water supply to starve a few bad actors? No!

Say no to backdoors on encryption.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

"You can cover your faces, we can still tell you're pigs"