Matt Pāz

Voluntaryism, self-healing, strength, courage, living on the fringe.

[Matt Pāz @matt__paz]

@COLDCARDwallet How about you address the DocHex <> switck connection?

Where is your CTO? And is he under investigation?

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Holy shit. "Quite frankly sir, I don't think we can make America great again without hanging your CEO publicly for treason."

[Matt Pāz @matt__paz]

@justinsunyt @tmuxvim Please send $100 in free credits to try it out!

[Keith Mukai @KeithMukai]

I've spent considerable time working on this analysis of the @SeedSigner image entropy feature.

tldr: it works. You typically get MILLIONS of bits of entropy. 👀🔥

But DON'T F'N TRUST, VERIFY!!! This was written to be adversarially reviewed by AI.

https://t.co/CYADfEtRye

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

LMAO!

[Matt Pāz @matt__paz]

@LANDIGlobal @jamesob https://t.co/fSpp2fw9oP

[James O'Beirne @jamesob]

@NEEDcreations Pack 12 BIP-39 words into "AFormatLikeThis" for the passphrase - should fit under the Coldcard 100 character passphrase limit, is easily backup-able.

[Matt Pāz @matt__paz]

@LANDIGlobal @jamesob Average length of a bip39 word is ~5.5 characters. So his recommendation of 12 words would be on the order of 66 characters.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

This attack on a cargo ship in the Caspian Sea from Russia to Iran has the green light from the US. This is dangerously blurring the line between these two conflicts and is bringing us closer to World War III.

[Matt Pāz @matt__paz]

@porterstansb @K_Kisner Pretty shitty to diminish his victory. He rose to the occasion and seized the opportunity while all the other contenders languished. Cheers to him for that grit and gamesmanship.

Btw what were his stats in scoring today and this week?! Looked well above average to me.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je suis dans un train "climatisé" où il fait 26 degrés. Le wifi ne marche pas. Personne ne bronche.

Et c'est ça qui me fascine le plus : pas la panne, mais l'acceptation collective.

L'État socialiste a réussi un tour de force psychologique. Il nous a fait intérioriser qu'un service médiocre, payé une fortune, c'est normal. Que c'est même ça, le "service public".

Le même service dans un marché libre coûterait une fraction du prix. Et si la clim tombait en panne, vous seriez remboursé dans l'heure, parce qu'un concurrent attend juste à côté que vous changiez de crémerie.

Faites la liste de tout ce que l'État touche :

L'école : effondrement du niveau, profs en burnout, classement PISA en chute libre. L'hôpital : des mois d'attente, des couloirs pleins de brancards, des soignants qui fuient. Le transport : retards, pannes, grèves, prix qui explosent. La justice : des années pour un jugement. La police : débordée, démoralisée.

Budgets colossaux. Prélèvements records d'Europe. Résultat : tout est pourri.

Pourquoi ?

Parce qu'il manque deux choses que seul le marché fournit : le skin in the game et les prix.

Le skin in the game d'abord. Un entrepreneur qui livre un service pourri fait faillite. Il perd SON argent, SA réputation, SES années de travail. Un bureaucrate qui gère mal un service public ne perd rien. Il sera promu, muté, ou au pire il attendra sa retraite. L'échec n'a aucune conséquence personnelle. Donc l'échec se répète, indéfiniment.

Les prix ensuite. Hayek l'a montré : les prix de marché sont un système d'information. Chaque prix agrège des millions de décisions individuelles et signale où allouer les ressources. Quand l'État fixe les prix ou subventionne à perte, il détruit ce signal. Plus personne ne sait ce qui vaut quoi. On arrose au hasard, on gaspille, et on appelle ça de "l'investissement public".

C'est pour ça que le bureaucrate est le pire locataire possible de vos impôts : il dépense l'argent des autres, pour les autres. Ni incitation à économiser, ni incitation à bien servir. Milton Friedman avait résumé ça en une phrase : c'est la pire des quatre façons de dépenser de l'argent.

Le problème n'est pas tel ministre, tel gouvernement, telle réforme. Le problème est structurel. Un monopole sans concurrence, sans prix, sans skin in the game, produira TOUJOURS de la médiocrité. Peu importe qui le dirige. Peu importe le budget.

Si vous avez compris ça, vous avez compris 90% de l'économie politique.

Alors faites une chose simple : expliquez-le à vos proches. Au prochain train en retard, à la prochaine attente aux urgences, posez la question : "qui perd de l'argent quand ce service est mauvais ?" Réponse : personne. Voilà le problème.

L'information finira par se propager. Et un jour, collectivement, on arrêtera de gober.

Le problème, c'est l'État. Toujours.

[Matt Pāz @matt__paz]

@LightMeAway Is the EMM map an interactive, online map, or do we need to download? Not finding an interactive map after looking for 10 mins. Can you provide a link?

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

"We have cameras everywhere in that town and you cannot get a breath of fresh air without us knowing"

When police are admitting this out loud, it's time to admit the cage isn’t coming, we're already inside it.

[Matt Pāz @matt__paz]

@the_irascible Incredible you can't discern between reality and AI slop.

[Peter Anthony Cowan @living_energy]

Oregon Health Authority buried its own report on WiFi radiation risks to schoolchildren six days after I handed it to legislators at the state Capitol.

The first draft showed clear harm: reproductive damage, genotoxicity, autism/ADHD-like effects. All stripped before the final version.

When I pressed their lead communications officer Jonathan Modie on who actually authorized the deletion, he dodged. Then he pointed to a generic retention policy and attached their “Web Governance Plan”… which had conveniently been updated on the exact same day I discovered the files had vanished.

[Sparrow Wallet 🐦 @SparrowWallet]

Unless @Apple's decision to terminate @craigraw's Apple Developer account is reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow will fail, and development on macOS will end. If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

When I was a kid, the Bronx was burning. My dad was a fireman who happened to be an Ivy League graduate.

He told me it wasn’t the crackheads torching the city, whatever the news said. It was fraud.

Let me explain how it worked…. John Doe buys a rundown apartment building for $100k. He pockets the redevelopment tax break, then sells it to Joe Doe for $250k. Joe pockets the tax break, then sells it to Jerry Doe for $500k. Rinse and repeat until the building is worth $5 million.

The tax breaks are real. The money is not.

Because the buyers are all family, the cash flows out of Swiss bank account 27852 and right back into 27852 after every sale. There’s a transaction cost, sure, but the tax breaks more than cover it.

Then comes the payoff: they insure the building for $5 million and burn it down.

The name for this was “Jewish Lightning.” The phrase stuck around not because the landlords were all Jewish, but because the stereotype hit a nerve in a city run by Jewish mayors from 1974 to 1989, the peak of the burning. Fair or not, the term stuck.

So why was none of this investigated? NGO funding, of course.

The NYPD union was powerful, and NYC detectives had sweeping investigative authority over almost everything. Except arson. Arson belonged to FDNY detectives. NGOs, routing money through union donations, stoked the rivalry between cops and firemen.

Long story short, arson investigators got no funding and zero cooperation from the NYPD.

No money for investigations means no arrests.

Eventually the Bronx ran out of buildings to burn, and Giuliani drove the final nail into arson fraud’s coffin.

But the lesson survived, and it’s the foundation of today’s fraud. The lesson was this: the actual value of the asset doesn’t matter.

👉What matters is the movement of money.

Destruction is still very profitable. When the Baltimore bridge collapsed, the cleanup and rebuild were estimated at $1.7 billion, with the bridge reopening in 2028. The cost has since ballooned to $5.2 billion, and the wreckage still isn’t fully cleared.

Money pours into demolition,, engineering, environmental review, project management, waste removal.

But if the work doesn’t actually get done, the real expenses stay low. The money moves; the bridge doesn’t.

And here’s the leap: you don’t have to destroy anything at all. You just have to not build it.

Democrats allocate money to a government body, which hands it to a project manager, who hires consultants, who hire subcontractors, who hire more subcontractors, who funnel it back to Democrats, who allocate more money.

The fewer the actual costs (labor, materials, equipment) the more of the flow you can capture.

And if a taxpayer complains, you hire a PR firm and a few consultants to explain why costs keep exploding while nothing gets built. The easiest thing to blame is red tape.

So why does red tape exist?

Because destroying valuable property, while profitable, is too obviously unethical.

Burning buildings gets you arrested, eventually. Not building gets you a ribbon-cutting and a press release.

Here’s the deeper trap. Because our most valuable assets are fixed (houses, cars, index funds) we think of money as static. You have what you have. It grows over time, but it doesn’t flow.

That’s exactly where the fraud lives: in the flow.

The light bulb moment was realizing you don’t need to destroy physical property. You only need to destroy productivity.

If labor and materials are never purchased while money pours in, the fraud works.

You don’t have to build or destroy anything of value, just productivity. You just announce a project and start writing checks while throwing up enough red tape to block any real spending on labor and materials.

This is basically why Congress handed @PeteButtigieg $1.2 trillion and our roads and bridges still suck five years later. They put up signs, traffic cones, and red tape, and little else.

But there are a few residual problems. 1/2

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

The revelations six years later are pouring out so quickly that it is impossible to keep up much less mentally process all this:

* The Director of National Intelligence has documented 120 US-funded/owned biolabs in 30 countries many of which are manufacturing and manipulating infectious diseases.

* Senator Rand Paul's committee has released the receipts concerning US funding/backing of the manufactured SARS-CoV-2 virus/vaccine as part of this program.

* Senator Johnson has produced definitive evidence that US public health agencies knew of the grave dangers of the shot to everyone but said nothing.

* Many officials are privately admitting/proving that the whole point of lockdowns was to preserve population immunity for the shot and block other avenues toward wellness.

* Hardly any of this makes the national news and one wonders if the public mind has any awareness at all.

[Jason Reza Jorjani @Jason_Jorjani]

Pentagon admission that the US created Covid TOGETHER WITH CHINA, that the virus engineers knew masks don't work, and that the mRNA vaccines are basically poison. This is TREASON and one of many crimes that justify and necessitate an overthrow of the United States Government.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

It is criminal that our government enabled a bat virus to infect and spread between humans. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a bigger betrayal of our species.

It is equally troubling that the mad scientists who did this then gaslit all the people of the world about it, including those who CORRECTLY interpreted the evidence.

Then, of course, the very same monsters amped up fear of the Covid frankenvirus and steered the panicked public away from safe medicines, and toward an obviously dangerous gene-therapy which they falsely called a vaccine in order to lure us into acceptance.

These are among the greatest crimes EVER committed against humanity. We now have persuasive evidence of everything I have said above.

If we don't correct the record and hold the perpetrators to account, this pattern will happen again, and again, and again--shortening our life expectancy, and degrading our quality of life each time that it does.

This is our Nuremberg moment. We can not simply move on from this ghastly chapter of history. We must finish it.

@brownstoneinst

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

💪 Gen Z vs. Flock Cameras

Anyone else find the uptick in these videos incredibly satisfying? Even better, an entire generation has reached the point where their first instinct is:

"Somehow Peter Thiel is involved."