Pinebronze Ballachulish

Madman

[jack @jack]

"In recent days, Bitchat has seen a sharp rise in popularity in India. Market intelligence provider Sensor Tower shared data with TechCrunch that showed that India accounted for about 85% of the app’s global downloads between July 17 and July 23, compared with about 1% over the previous 30 days. Bitchat was downloaded more than 91,000 times in India over the past five days, after downloads jumped thirty-two-fold on July 19 from the previous day. The app’s daily active users in India also reached more than 330,000 on Thursday, the highest level recorded for the app in the country."

[Crypto Jargon @Crypto_Jargon]

THIS IS INSANE. 🤯

India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.

By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.

Here's what happened:

• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch

The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.

It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.

Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.

India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.

You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.

Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.

[Scipio @hosepipehitter]

After Bob almost died last weekend I decided to donate monthly to this man's charity organization

He does brilliant work

[Pinebronze Ballachulish @pinebronze]

@MilitarySummary See what goes on when they start that game.....

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Everyone seems to have the same feeling in the air now. Iran War is about to turn a different level of disastrous. Trump has no idea what he’s doing and the only people he’s listening to are the deranged psychopaths from the Israeli government. This is about to get super ugly.

[Pinebronze Ballachulish @pinebronze]

@UnityNewsNet The video is impressive.

[CHOB! @Chxbdev]

@PolitlcsUK half price steak bakes with every general election

[Pinebronze Ballachulish @pinebronze]

@PolitlcsUK Is that real? - I mean, honestly?

[Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer @EvanKirstel]

@Megatron_ron

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The Pentagon has declared two of China’s top universities—Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University—a threat to U.S. national security, placing both on its blacklist.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

My committee combed through millions of COVID documents, and what did we find?

Anthony Fauci destroyed records. He told others to delete emails. And then he told them to delete them from deleted files.

He and his allies privately doubted the "implausible" line on a lab leak while publicly attacking anyone who raised it.

And he never took responsibility for funding dangerous research in China.

Next week, Dr. Fauci goes under oath in front of my committee, and he’s going to answer for everything we’ve found.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

THIS IS AN ENTIRE SELF CONTAINED $8 AI COMPUTER!

ESP32-AI adds a 28.9M LLM to a microcontroller. It can store 28.9 million parameters; for context, the very first version of ChatGPT had 117 million parameters. Thus, this ESP32 project only has about a quarter of the smarts of OpenAI's first model, but given how this thing was squashed onto an ESP32 device, that's a far more impressive feat than it might sound at first.

This opens up a massive opportunity for dozens of these devices in a network working on specific domains and returning results to a master ESP32.

This is my plan…

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Rayner's justification for keeping the £17,000 you paid for:

"My severance payment was given to me at the time, I had worked in government for a period of time and then I came out of government for just under a year."

When the Tories kept their severance pay, Rayner said they had a "staggering lack of shame".

[Gareth Icke @garethicke]

People ask "why are you still banging on about Covid?"

This is why.

No justice, no peace.

[Pinebronze Ballachulish @pinebronze]

@WilliamShatner If only we could teach more kids the lessons you encapsulated so well in those classic episodes.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Eight people sealed themselves in a glass dome to prove humanity could feed itself on plants, and spent two years starving in front of the world's press.

Biosphere 2 cost a hundred and fifty million dollars. Three acres of Arizona desert under sealed glass, eight crew, door shut on 26 September 1991, nothing in or out for two years. The farm inside was worked intensively and by any agronomic measure it was superb, out-producing the most efficient smallholder farming on earth by a wide margin.

It produced 83 per cent of what they needed.

Which left Roy Walford, the crew doctor, in a sealed box with seven hungry colleagues and his own life's work. Walford was a UCLA pathologist who had spent thirty years arguing that severe calorie restriction extends lifespan. He had doubled it in mice. And here was reality handing him his own hypothesis with the door welded shut.

So he called it a health programme.

The menu became vegetables, half a glass of goat's milk a day, and meat or fish about once a week. The men lost close to a fifth of their body weight, the women about a tenth. And the markers Walford cared about behaved impeccably: blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides all down at least twenty per cent, into ranges any doctor would frame. He published it in PNAS in 1992.

The bloodwork was magnificent. The people were falling apart.

Jane Poynter wrote the book afterwards. Fatigue, depression, mental fog, and a preoccupation with food that ate the entire interior life of the crew. They stole from each other. They split into two factions that stopped speaking. The ecological research the building had been constructed for was largely abandoned by people who no longer had the headroom for anything past the next meal. The ants and cockroaches, by contrast, were thriving.

The air was leaving too. Oxygen started at 20.9 per cent and kept dropping and nobody knew where it was going. Columbia eventually worked it out: the concrete was quietly eating it. So oxygen had to be pumped in from outside, which is an interesting result for a sealed world.

Walford's verdict on the mutiny is the whole thing in one sentence. He said afterwards that any other physician aboard would have panicked and declared they were starving, but that he knew they were on a programme of health enhancement.

He knew. Seven other people, visibly wasting, were simply mistaken.

He came out in 1993, developed ALS, blamed the conditions inside, and died in 2004 aged 79 after years on 1,600 calories a day in pursuit of a longer life. The mice got double. He did not make it to average for an American professor.

Every argument you have heard this decade was already in that building. Grow it locally. Take the animals out. Eat less. Watch the numbers improve.

Eight of the most motivated humans alive, handed three acres of the best-managed farmland on the planet and no meat, could not feed themselves.

The press reported the fighting as a personality clash.

[Pinebronze Ballachulish @pinebronze]

@liarpoliticianz @zatzi @Nigel_Farage If you get rear ended - NEVER get out of the car, stay put, put on hazards and say your neck hurts. Can't be too careful....

[Jeff Berwick @BerwickJeff]

EVERYTHING is a script. The war, the ritual sport-casting, the controlled opposition “influencers” sweeping along their mind-controlled disciples. Let’s be real: if you’re still waiting for a politician to save you, you’ve already lost. You’re playing a game where the rules were written by people who view you as livestock. And it seems the Dollar Vigilante is the only newsletter in the world that’s talking about it. Sign up for our FREE TRIAL right now.

[The Sirius Report @thesiriusreport]

Operation throw the leader under the bus.

Rubio: Trump is the one holding talks with Iran.

[Pinebronze Ballachulish @pinebronze]

@WireSpy92