We colonize to build a better world. Better than the world we leave behind and better than the new world we conquer. Always looking upward, we strive to improve all that we touch.

We conquer territory in order to provide a landscape where our posterity can flourish. It is our duty and our right to do so. Our duty because we owe it to ourselves to raise up generations of improved humans - joy is found there. Our right because we take it upon ourselves and won't be denied.

Thanks to the cypherpunks, we now have the ability to control digital territory without controlling the physical machines on which that territory lives. Cryptography gives the data owner the ability to deny access to the data from anyone - even the computer owner. This is not new technology, so why don't more people take control of their digital territory? What holds you back, anon?.

What determines ownership of a piece of territory? Who decides if the territory belongs to you or to another? Control. Whoever controls the territory owns the territory. This is true in both the digital and physical realms.

I talk a lot about digital territory - conquering and securing it. This remains a very important cause and you should pursue it if you value freedom. However, do not lose sight of the importance of physical territory. There is no digital territory absent physical territory.

People need to stop worrying about the immoral over-reaches of the government and start conquering territory of their own. Start with the digital realm if unsure. If you have the capacity to conquer physical territory, do it. Complaining about the moral depravity of your overseers won't get you anywhere.

Gun haters: The 2A won't help you against F-15's and tanks. It was meant for another time when everyone just had muskets. 2A: That's why I say "arms" instead of "muskets". Own whatever level of weaponry you need to maintain your freedom.

Nostr is an incredibke tool for capturing digital territory. Thank you to all nostr devs for continuing to push this program.

How many of us have neglected to learn the digital landscape because it seemed too tedious an endeavor?

The boomers didn't give us an awful world. There has never been a world more abundant with opportunities for the average man to conquer territory. Especially in the digital landscape.

Your will2power must extend into your digital identity. We need conquerors here.

Your online identity should be anonymous and protected.

Kids games are territorial battles. Capture the flag Soccer Football (the real kind) Basketball Kick the can King of the hill It's ALL about conquering/securing territory. It's what we're built for.

Privacy on bitcoin is so much more important than anyone is telling you. If you can't have privacy, the state will never leave you alone about it. In fact, they can't and they shouldn't. If not for tools like @SamouraiWallet 's Whirlpool, I would have given up on bitcoin.

THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL TERRITORY Territory is more important than you have probably ever imagined. If you have conquered territory and learned to secure it, you are almost certainly a very happy man ( @meta_trav has written much on this). I am not referring solely to physical land here - although that is an important form of territory. Right now, we need to discuss your digital territory. See, all territory is an extension of you. If you are a conqueror, you will acquire territory. If you are a protector, you will secure your territory. If you are a king, you will rule your territory. If you are a slave, you will live under the authority of someone else's territory. It all starts with you - your beliefs, your values, your thoughts. Who are you on the inside? We live in the information age. I heard recently that humans today take in more information in a week than 19th century humans did in a lifetime. I don't know if that's accurate but certainly we are bombarded with information today. All of that information has a serious impact. Over time, we will become the information we consume. We will adopt the beliefs, values, and thoughts of the posts we read, the movies we watch, the podcasts we listen to, and the books we read. Perhaps you see why conquering, securing, and ruling our own digital territory is so vital. All things digital are nothing more than information. Literal 1s and 0s interpreted by the machines in our pockets and desktops and presented in a form palatable to our eyes and ears and then interpreted by our own brains. It's all just information - and it consumes us, forging neural pathways and patterns of thought. If we don't control it, we are slaves to those who do. Fortunately, digital territory is probably the most vulnerable and easily conquerable territory today. I am conquering more of it every day. There are many places to start, but you might want to take a look at how much information (territory) you're giving up. How much information are you giving away without a thought? This is why digital privacy matters. This is a war for your territory. Before you can go forth and conquer, you'll want to secure what territory you already have.

Remember that scene in Zoolander... the files are in the computer? This was hilarious because computers were still so foreign to most of our population. Fast forward 22 years and most of us still don't understand what's going on inside the machines we carry in our pockets everyday. Our ignorance -> our enslavement

I'm here for one reason: To destroy these weak fools. I giggle just thinking about it.

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BEYOND THE DIGITAL SANDBOX The modern internet is dominated by the top tier tech companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, X, AWS, etc. Most folks who complain about this setup seem to be primarily worried about the amount of data these companies are sucking up about you. I admit, this is a potential threat to your sovereignty. They can and do collude with governments to enforce tyrannical laws against you using the data you provided them. However, there is a far more immediate threat. Because these companies control so much of the information flow, and because everyone uses their products, they are able to build walls around the types of things you are allowed to do online. This is obvious and hamfisted in the censorship examples we've seen so much of in the over the last decade. Very powerful and influential people can be deplatformed at the whims of tech executives. Most of us can be deplatformed at the whims of even lesser beings in some back office of X. Censorship like this is bad. It means someone else is controlling the conversation by dictating the boundaries of the conversation. But what if it's even worse than that? Large tech companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft don't just control the boundaries of conversation, these guys control the boundaries of digital activities entirely. iPhone is about 20% of global smartphone market share with Google's Android making up the other 80%. All iPhone users can only download apps from the App Store. Android users can download/install apps from other sources, but most just use the Google Play store. When we opt-in to their app stores on their operating systems on their devices, we are only playing within a very small sandbox of what is possible. Most users have no idea what their phone is really capable of doing for them because they've never looked beyond the walls of the sandbox. They remain within, only playing with the toys that Apple and Google have provisioned them. The cost of this is unknowable. What could be if every user broke free from the confines and explored the limits of the digital world? There is only one way to know. We must break free. We must explore, colonize, and conquer as previous generations of men have done. It can be done. Success is greater when men work in teams. I'm here on X to find other men who will explore and conquer.

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The biggest mistake I ever made regarding digital privacy was carrying an iPhone everywhere I go with all the apps I could load on it that were tracking my every move. Like some kind of absolute slave.