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Vibe coded my first actually helpful thing (for me personally) in the last day, with help from @Justin Moon via Claude code desktop I made an app that rips YouTube videos (or any video file) and auto-hardcodes really good captions and gives you a nice little file ready for sharing on social. Really fast. Vibe-coded a nice chrome extension for it as well. My sense is 90% of the vibe coding posting stuff and slop on social is hugely exaggerated (“one-shotting”) but that in a matter of hours a non-technical person can accomplish some really interesting stuff, esp if they can get some advice from a good coder And this will only get more crazy in 6 and 12 and 18 months… Huge implications for scaling activism and empowering the individual

Nostr has 5x as many monthly publishing users as Farcaster has monthly active users 1.5M to 250k Not exactly apples to apples but still!

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Davos in a nutshell, every year

AI Hack for Freedom liftoff!

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Follow Ziya if you want to learn more about what’s going on in Iran (and separate signal from all the disinfo out there) A leading educator and promoter of Bitcoin privacy software, for a very long time 🙏 View quoted note →

An exciting round of Bitcoin Development Fund grants to start 2026 1.3 billion sats to 22 killer projects Take a minute to read through these, it's really amazing what's happening out there in the freedom tech streets We are proud to support!

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Sat down in person with Balaji recently for his Network State show We talked Bitcoin, freedom tech, global economics, and how open source software is changing the world: