Shawn

Data brokers.

Me, Cory Doctorow, and Bitcoin. You're gonna love this one. Shout out to nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak. Full episode of nostr:npub1trustldqg4fnp40f3g75mu0p03zj4dxpa4jg7dclzqp9g3aunsgs4a4j8j coming this Wednesday. https://blossom.primal.net/c9479b314e9f14c89552f9c36e27c99083f49b83b3f4a6a3530506bd4da79811.mp4

80s all the way.

Christmas #coffeestr

Don't f*ck with government grift. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/doge-days-are-over-as-trump-disbands-elon-musks-team-of-federal-cost-cutters/

Matrix multiplication that's too big to fail.

nostr:nprofile1qqszsedyheuzsdrp4dqvc5raarvcmhvhkaqapvxy60vdcmwjytexe8cpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzxrhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7ecf6g6 needed to boost these little houses up above the garland on our mantle. She chose bone broth. One of a million reasons I love my wife.

Authenticity never goes out of style.

"Here’s the outlier that could create a true Economic Singularity. A brilliant entrepreneur builds hosting facilities in a remote location; orbital solar array-powered data centers would be ideal, providing an autonomous zone that is free from national political pressure. Incorporated AIs operating from these locations would utilize corporate tax avoidance strategies to deliver services globally while minimizing their tax burden." https://open.substack.com/pub/johnrobb/p/an-economic-singularity

gm, good people. ☕

1993: On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. 2025: On X, n̶o̶b̶o̶d̶y̶ everyone knows you're a Qatari. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog

Tomorrow, I record nostr:nprofile1qyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxyh8jcttd95x7mnwv5hxxmmdqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqgzclyzlmgz92vcdt6v284xlrctug54tfs0dvj8nw8csqf2y00yuzysxpv9s with Cory Doctorow. He occupies a liminal space between strident advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights and capitalism-and-regulatory-failure-are-at-fault. Here's an excerpt from his latest book, Enshittification: “Here’s some context: Most payments go through a cartel of massive credit card companies (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and sometimes Discover). These processors have a well-earned reputation as price-gouging scum—for one thing, they have raised the cost of payment processing by 40 percent since the pandemic, even as their costs declined (and Visa is—as of the time of this writing—the target of a DOJ antitrust enforcement action for monopolizing payments).”

This is wild to watch. Maybe it's a net positive for domestic affairs, but also only possible on a centralized platform. https://www.piratewires.com/p/foreign-rage-farmers-exposed-by-x