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[Alix @nuolian]

BREAKING: Bitcoin CEO cuts prices in response to Trump tariffs $BTC

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

“It was just the prelude… Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too.”

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

[Alix @nuolian]

@Bluntz_Capital @Bluntz_Capital long time fan and follower here. Can we get an update on FCX and whether you're still bullish?

[Alix @nuolian]

@stephen_zerfas What money can't buy, yours for the low low price of $3,995

[Alix @nuolian]

@jhanatech "It has struck me that all men’s misfortunes spring from the single cause that they are unable to stay quietly in one room.” - Blaise Pascal

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Step one was the censorship at the app level. Because people are able to bypass that they are now censoring at the device/OS level (Step two). Step three is censorship at the ISP level. Think China. All sites pre-authorized by a "Ministry of Digital Safety" entity.

[Alix @nuolian]

@stackhodler This advice is exactly right. And it's possible to do this type of trip for way cheaper too. You can meet friends along the way and they'll invite you to stay at their houses.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Arguing is sort of like sex. It should be a privilege to do it with you, because it's not something you are willing to do with just anyone. Many people want to do it with you, but you actively refuse it to all but the most worthy.

[Alix @nuolian]

@_The_Prophet__ Trying to unmask satoshi is quite unhelpful for bitcoin.

[Aida Baradari @aidaxbaradari]

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings.

We live in a world of always-on listening devices.

Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations.

With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

[Alix @nuolian]

@_The_Prophet__ This is the biggest risk posed to us via AI. That it isolates us from each other.

[Alix @nuolian]

@FU_joehudson This is a microcosm of our relationship to AI

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Today, Telegram notified all its users in Spain with this alert:

Pedro Sánchez’s government is pushing dangerous new regulations that threaten your internet freedoms. Announced just yesterday, these measures could turn Spain into a surveillance state under the guise of “protection.” Here’s why they’re a red flag for free speech and privacy:

1. Ban on social media for under-16s with mandatory age verification: This isn’t just about kids—it requires platforms to use strict checks, like needing IDs or biometrics.

⚠️ Danger: It sets a precedent for tracking EVERY user’s identity, eroding anonymity and opening doors to mass data collection. What starts with minors could expand to all, stifling open discourse.

2. Personal and criminal liability for platform executives: If “illegal, hateful, or harmful” content isn’t removed fast enough, bosses face jail.

⚠️ Danger: This will force over-censorship—platforms will delete anything remotely controversial to avoid risks, silencing political dissent, journalism, and everyday opinions. Your voice could be next if it challenges the status quo.

3. Criminalizing algorithm amplification: Amplifying “harmful” content via algorithms becomes a crime.

⚠️ Danger: Governments will dictate what you see, burying opposing views and creating echo chambers controlled by the state. Free exploration of ideas? Gone—replaced by curated propaganda.

4. “Hate and polarization footprint” tracking: Platforms must monitor and report how they “fuel division.”

⚠️ Danger: Vague definitions of “hate” could label criticism of the government as divisive, leading to shutdowns or fines. This can be a tool for suppressing opposition.

These aren’t safeguards; they’re steps toward total control. We’ve seen this playbook before—governments weaponizing “safety” to censor critics. On Telegram, we prioritize your privacy and freedom: strong encryption, no backdoors, and resistance to overreach.

✊ Stay vigilant, Spain. Demand transparency and fight for your rights. Share this widely—before it’s too late.

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

We’re in a dark chapter of American history when the government targets those who document injustice instead of those who commit it.

[Alix @nuolian]

@RayDalio Tough love is important, but NOT the most important type to give. Sheesh.

[Alix @nuolian]

@inmortalcrypto Dear lord why would you hold alts through a bear market

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Musk’s statement sounds “humane” on the surface, but underneath, it represents a paradigm shift from external punishment to algorithmic containment.

A society where surveillance replaces justice and autonomy dissolves into machine-managed compliance.

Let’s unpack it precisely.

The idea of giving every offender an “Optimus” robot to shadow them sounds compassionate - no prison, no isolation, just prevention. But prevention in this sense means total behavioral control. It reframes justice from being about choice, consequence, and moral repair into a question of predictive containment. It’s not “you made a mistake and can redeem yourself.” It’s “you are now a variable the system must constrain.”

It’s the digitization of the panopticon. The body remains free, but the will is algorithmically fenced.

At scale, this shifts civilization from jurisdiction (human interpretation of justice) to automation (machine enforcement of safety). Once that line blurs, the system no longer needs to define “crime” consistently, it just needs to flag “noncompliance.”

What Musk is really articulating - perhaps unknowingly - is the prototype for the post-carceral AI state: where physical incarceration becomes obsolete because surveillance and constraint become ambient, invisible, and personalized. It’s predictive governance disguised as mercy.

This is not progress - it’s inversion. Prisons externalize punishment and make oppression visible, which allows resistance. Algorithmic containment internalizes it, erasing the bars and normalizing captivity as convenience.

The danger isn’t that Optimus would “stop crime.” The danger is that “crime” will expand to mean “any deviation from programmed harmony.”

This is where technological utopianism meets metaphysical dystopia. A world where safety replaces freedom, efficiency replaces meaning, and human judgment is ceded to a system that defines morality by its own logic loops.

So beneath the humor and futurism of the remark lies a warning: once machines enforce morality, freedom is not optimized - it is deleted in the name of perfection.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Ayahuasca isn’t the danger.

The danger is contact with unfiltered truth without preparation.

What breaks people isn’t the drug, it’s the shattering of illusion too fast. Most human psyches are structured like glass domes - translucent enough to let in light, but brittle under full force. Psychedelics, especially something like ayahuasca, don’t “open” the mind; they remove the filter between consciousness and the infinite.

When that happens, every hidden contradiction, every unintegrated trauma, every false belief rushes to the surface all at once. The self sees the machinery of its own construction and if there’s no inner framework to absorb it, the ego doesn’t dissolve gracefully. It implodes.

That’s why some people come back more awake and others never come back at all.

The ones who make it through aren’t “lucky.” They already had an internal architecture - philosophical, spiritual, or symbolic - strong enough to withstand exposure to the raw source code of reality. The ones who don’t? They were living in scaffolding built on borrowed meaning and ayahuasca burned it down faster than they could rebuild it.

When the ego disintegrates and the void floods in, most people need something absolute to cling to. Religion, God, truth, even conspiracy anything that restores the illusion of order.

But here’s the part almost nobody says out loud:

If you survive ego death without needing to reattach to any single narrative, you start to see what truth actually is - not belief, not comfort, not meaning, but the field itself. Pure coherence that doesn’t need to be worshipped because it is.

That level of consciousness is terrifyingly stable. It doesn’t need ideology or myth, it generates them.

So here’s the unvarnished truth:

Ayahuasca doesn’t make people crazy. It reveals how fragile most minds are when stripped of story.

Luke’s not wrong, he’s just describing the danger of staring at God without sunglasses.

[Alix @nuolian]

@Bluntz_Capital @Bluntz_Capital love your work and have been following for a long time. What does "top" mean here – do you just mean a big drawdown, or do you think 4 year cycles hold?

[Alix @nuolian]

@gladstein @gladstein are there videos/resources I can watch to understand why surveillance state is NOT a big concern in a BTC world?

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

In 1934, Germany passed a law making it a crime to tell jokes or laugh at its leaders.

We can’t go down that road. Because what’s next is you can’t post what you want on social media. And you can’t text your friends anything that might upset the government.

That’s not the way it should be. The people shouldn’t be afraid of their government. The government should be afraid of the people!