Privacy matters https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/fitness-app-strava-gives-away-location-of-biden-19868680.php

Sad to see what’s happening in the Republic of #Georgia (Sakartvelo 🇬🇪💪). I see many large bird app accounts talk about a US-imposed “color revolution” and other kinds of insanity who know nothing about the country but want to simp for Russian interests. It was obviously a sham election. Anyone who’s been to Georgia understands what’s at stake and just how different it is. Its young people are some of the most libertarian and capitalistic because it’s burned in their anti-Soviet mentality. Freedom is the counterculture. In the late 1990s and through the early 2000s, the country was a libertarian paradise: low taxes, fast innovation, no corruption, and the ability to open businesses and trade within minutes. Most of the government ministers were Hayekians who quoted Milton Friedman and even Murray Rothbard. Free market reforms were quickly imposed and raised the standard of living lightning fast. Bitcoin mining was already a big industry by 2014-2015, and they had a huge entrepreneurial class building crypto tools. In the last decade, Russian money and influence has streamed in and slowly eroded all these market reforms to make it a client state of Putin. A lot of the young people I know there want to tie their fate to the EU not because Europe is some promise land, but because it’s better than being a conduit for Russian bankers and mobsters.

My meat delivery guy messaged me in a panic last night and apologized...since my order could only arrive tomorrow rather than today. Customer service FTW!

"But though this technique of creating an order is indispensable for organizing the institutions of government and all the enterprises and households which form the elements of the order of society as a whole, it is wholly inadequate for bringing about the infinitely more complex overall order. We have it in our power to assure that such an overall order will form itself and will possess certain desirable general characteristics, but only if we do not attempt to control the detail of that order. But we jettison that power and deprive ourselves of the possibility of achieving that abstract order of the whole, if we insist on placing particular pieces into the place we wish them to occupy. It is the condition of the formation of this abstract order that we leave the concrete and particular details to the separate individuals and bind them only by general and abstract rules. If we do not provide this condition but restrict the capacity of the individuals to adjust themselves to the particular circumstances known only to them, we destroy the forces making for a spontaneous overall order and are forced to replace them by deliberate arrangement which, though it gives us greater control over detail, restricts the range over which we can hope to achieve a coherent order." –F.A. Hayek, Kinds of Order in Society

Einen schönen #Nationalfeiertag! 🇦🇹

Of course we all dream of this

Picked up a new node while I’m in Bratislava. Hell yes! Just really need to tweak the MQTT config as my device hasn’t popped up on there yet #meshtastic

Are there any Meshtastic specific relays/follow lists to subscribe to? It seems a lot of the community are in fbook groups (wut) or discord, but surely there’s a better nostr way

I just published a new read on Nostr! Self-custody is Nonnegotiable As policy advocates who seek to influence smart, defensive rules on Bitcoin, our prime directive must be protecting, defending, and demarcating self-custody from custodial solutions. Check it out: [https://highlighter.com/yael/Self-custody-is-Nonnegotiable-crce0r](https://highlighter.com/yael/Self-custody-is-Nonnegotiable-crce0r) View article → https://highlighter.com/yael/Self-custody-is-Nonnegotiable-crce0r

Now at *4* state-level Bitcoin-friendly bills signed into law via open-source model policy while 3 more await votes. Both the “Reject CBDCs Act” and “Smart Cryptocurrency Rules Act” remain open on GitHub for adaptation and forking for state legislators. Happy to chat to anyone on ways to improve or you can directly make a pull request. These model policies are “negative rights” bills. The goal is to restrain government’s ability to implement bad policies for Bitcoin.

GitHub

GitHub - yaeloss/Bitcoin-Model-Policies: Model policies for Bitcoin

Model policies for Bitcoin. Contribute to yaeloss/Bitcoin-Model-Policies development by creating an account on GitHub.

@dm-reporter is a spook

All charges against Binance employee + former IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan have been dropped after months of pretty awful detainment by Nigeria. Binance was accused of "money laundering" by authorities and they arrested him because he was an employee

Politics Nigeria

BREAKING: FG Drops All Charges Against Binance Executive Gambaryan

The federal government has dropped all charges against Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance Holdings executive who has been detained since April and facing ...

We now have an excellent Senate bill for consumer privacy and no CBDCs, the "Saving Privacy Act" introduced by Sens. Mike Lee and Rick Scott. –Repeals the Bank Secrecy Act’s SAR and CTR reporting requirements while maintaining recordkeeping provisions. –Repeals the Corporate Transparency Act. –Strengthens Fourth Amendment protections, bolstering warrant requirements in the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978. –Repeals the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) database. –Requires congressional approval for any new databases that collect personally identifiable information of U.S. citizens. –Prohibits the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency. –Requires congressional authorization for financial regulations deemed major rules. –Institutes penalties for federal employees who illegally seek constitutionally protected financial information. –Establishes a private right of action for Americans and financial institutions harmed by illicit government activity. Very happy to have my supporting comments attached to the bill.

U.S. Senator Rick Scott

Sen. Rick Scott Joins Sen. Mike Lee to Introduce the Saving Privacy Act to Protect Americans' Financial Data

The social graph be damned

It seems Madrid has similarly capitulated to the taxi lobby and the KYC police state panopticon View quoted note →

Diarios de motocicleta, but non-communist, non-Che version where it’s a couple of guys who like beer, Bitcoin, and ham radio

The simplest and best hack to take back your time and your life is an alias email service with disposable addresses.

Bringing Meshtastic on my trip to Madrid. You think doing LoRa on the plane is kosher?

No thanks bro

WIRED

Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door

The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”

I had no idea they raided Próspera What a sad turn of events for a project that had such potential for human flourishing without coercion