Human action is purposeful behavior, and any argument against the claim must itself be purposeful behavior aimed at convincing someone. The denial performs what it tries to refute. From that starting point, descriptive facts about privacy follow. Deliberation occurs in the actor's mind, valuation lives in individual acts of valuing, and the information asymmetry between actor and observer is built into how purposeful behavior works. View article →

Two traditions developed apart and reached the same conclusion about privacy. The Austrian line worked by deduction from human action. Cypherpunks worked by engineering, building tools that made privacy a property of the system instead of a promise from authorities. Convergence from opposite directions counts as evidence. Konkin's counter-economics bridges the schools, taking Austrian critique into a program of transition the cypherpunks made operational. View article →

After years of living in a truck I wrote a script that finds the parking spots long-term vehicle dwellers converge on: end-of-road clearings deep in forest, used by hikers during the day, empty after dark. I ran it for every country in Europe and the output is about forty thousand candidates, color-coded by tier, free to download. This post makes the case for sleeping in forests over supermarket lots, and explains how the discovery works. View quoted note →

We gotta ship freedom tech 10x faster.

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I've migrated 1000 of my video and podcast appearances to nostr & blossom! Still some missing metadata thats being fixed now. I've backdated them to when they were actually published, so to not spam your feed now. Best way is probably to check towardsliberty.com/media for a full feed and search. But any NIP71 client should get them. It still blows me away that this is even possible with nostr, I always wanted a self hosted archive of my shows.

My book got a shoutout on Kinsella's website. Nice. Definitely check out his site and work, Amazing thinker!

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Max Hillebrand, <em>The Praxeology of Privacy</em>

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The 'nothing to hide' line works by smuggling in a false definition. Privacy is control over disclosure, not concealment of guilt. Once that is fixed, secrecy and anonymity separate from privacy proper, and the surveillance argument loses its grip. Observation is the first move of every targeted intervention. A key pair costs nearly nothing while a national surveillance program runs into billions. The asymmetry is the cypherpunk case. View article →

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Most important file of my book is now available: The dark mode edition. I value the eyes of my readers and don't want them to bleed, pitch black pdf is the way to go! Also epub and summaries are now available. Towardsliberty.com/pop