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just paid a 50% tariff on a t-shirt and I'm once again radicalized for free trade
how about you?
Yaël
yael@yael.at
npub15dnl...3lfc
deputy director @ consumer choice center
fellow @ bitcoin policy institute
québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien
we really do live in the best timeline
they really are truly choking off the web experience w/ VPNs
What are the best npubs to follow for all the latest innovations on nostr?
feel like an absolute dolt as I changed my server and my LNURLp was incorrect for a few days.
all those missing sats!
would love to learn how the privacy of 
holds up
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midjourney interpretation:
‘Green bubble’ texts on iMessage are not the FCC’s problem to solve
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/technology/4478793-green-bubble-texts-are-not-the-fccs-problem-to-solve/
wasn't there initially a move by Elon to implement encryption in Twitter DMs? nostr far superior here
Should make @jb55 proud — I snuck in a mention of Damus and nostr in my op-ed article in The Hill this week:
“In 2023, Damus, an iPhone app for the decentralized messaging protocol known as Nostr, revealed Apple was threatening to delist their app if it allowed users to make Bitcoin payments for content instead of Apple Pay”
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/technology/4478793-green-bubble-texts-are-not-the-fccs-problem-to-solve/
‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship
Consumer Choice Center
‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship
Washington, D.C. – This week, a bipartisan cohort of US Senators unveiled a new version of the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that aims to impose...
Samui Airport, Thailand. Blissful scenery, and totally private. Built + operated by private industry 💪
It took coming to Southeast Asia to get a plastic straw again
It’s really quite simple.
❌ Don’t ban:
books
booze
bitcoin
nicotine
nuclear energy
oil pipelines
free trade
immigration
social media
large sodas
cuban cigars
porn
free speech
happy hours
single-use plastics
freedom of contract
✅ and you’ll have a happy, prosperous society
1 day in Bangkok and already got spotted by a Bitcoiner because of my Sparrow Wallet hat. Bad opsec, but I’m far away from my private keys
Bangkok 🇹🇭 
is there consensus that Bitcoin Core 26.0 is pretty secure and there are no bugs? Not sure whether to update my nodes
if any other bitcoiners are braving it among the elite in Davos this week, drop me a line! I'll be there spreading the gospel
went from running umbreOS for my Bitcoin node on a raspberry pi to running it on a virtual machine within my server -- literally all headaches gone
Thomas Sowell’s constrained vs. unconstrained visions (“A Conflict of Visions”) are a constant refrain in my head when I write
It’s exhausting how ingrained the unconstrained vision is — modern politics, media and activism
The counterculture is constrained. For choice + liberty
Does anyone have the video clip of that guy on CNBC who talked up a stock and then had “technical difficulties” when he was quizzed on it? “What kind of company is it” he couldn’t answer