Fascinating to observe the almost total silence from loudly pro-Palestinian celebrities & media figures re the courageous Iranian protestors
risking their lives for freedom and democracy. Suggests their hatred of Israel overrides intellectual honesty and principle.
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.
In 5 years the world will be grateful the cryptoeconomy was built out over the past decade.
As capital controls tighten and money becomes weaponized, permissionless financial rails may prove to be the most vital infrastructure of our time keeping the globalization dream alive.
Ripple is precisely the problem bitcoin was created to solve: printing fake money for political gain
A Tradfi conference I'm speaking at wants to me address Ripple so I just had to waste an hour of my life researching it and here's the notes:
Turn your phone off. Lose yourself in a book, conversation or game. You’ll feel rejuvenated. The feeling of missing out is an illusion and a trick being played on you.
same party that thinks validators should do KYC/AML on all p2p transactions to 'prevent fentanyl' also thinks any kind of identity requirements on voting are illegal
the brainrot is real
To close our special series, I sat down with Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) to reflect on what is now over one year since October 7th. Now available on YouTube and in podcast form - watch here: https://t.co/M9AGzeZvTW