I closed my Mastodon account (Vivaldi.social). I still have multiple Pleroma / Akkoma / GnuSocial accounts, so I'm still active in the Fediverse. I just don't like the MastoUI and I didn't feel that my direction is compatible with Vivaldi's.

Replies still mostly spammers. At least Amethyst has "report and block". Some clients don't even have that yet.

Fortune

The co-founder of OceanGate, the firm whose CEO died on a deep-sea dive for the Titanic, now wants to send 1,000 people to Venus | Fortune

"Forget OceanGate. Forget Titan. Forget Stockton," he said, referring to his deceased co-founder. "Humanity could be on the verge of a big breakthr...

People living on Venus? I don’t see it myself. Maybe they can send sulfur eating bacteria, but not people.

So I spent a little time reading the #Worldcoin white paper. Despite that, I am not convinced that "privacy preserving" and "biometric verification" ever belong together. I think it has to show how that is true beyond "trust us". I don't think they succeeded. Maybe this is secretly backed by the TSA or something. You can read it yourself at

World Whitepaper

World Whitepaper

I know this is Craig Wright's own BSV propaganda site, but this is still very bad news:

CoinGeek

UK Court of Appeal rules Craig Wright’s copyright claim over Bitcoin file format can proceed

As a result, Dr. Craig Wright’s copyright and database rights case against the BTC partnership—which includes Core developers and entities with...

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