I get this idea that there are some people who would like to work for the community and make things better. They get elected to the state-level body and improve things. But when has this ever turned out ok. I'm sure there are singular instances, but what we more or less consistently and repair get is corruption and/or incompetence. Why are we doing this then? And I don't mean as much the society at large, but why do individuals think it's going to give better results this time, or next time. Or whenever in the future. We need to remove this stupid superstition of the ballot. From our heads.

Anyone solved the unreadable fonts in @GrapheneOS desktop mode? Otherwise it's cool. This is how it looks. The black rectangle is Molly which does not like to be recorded but works really well too.

When someone says "This is/will be wild west", I cheer up, but it seems they don't mean it is a good thing. Weird.

We've come full circle from email being this thing that sometimes worked, on random SMTP/ IMAP server that we changed all the time, with weird mail clients... Through "omg look at these nice buttons and labels, this looks yummy and I can set a theme, wow it's magic" To "yeah email, I use this random client just to get through with it, it doesn't really matter".

Trying to draft a book cover teaser for Tamers of Entropy. Tried to use AI. I couldn't get anything I like enough, I will have to draft it myself, but here's an AI slop teaser anyway: Tamers of entropy In the heartbeat of invisible networks, a daring few challenge the fragile order of our world. They wage intimate battles against unseen forces that crave control, weaving code into acts of defiance that blur the lines between creation and chaos. As hierarchies crumble and power shifts from the tangible to the ethereal, these rebels confront the raw human urge to transcend—to integrate mind and machine, to expand consciousness beyond the confines of flesh and bureaucratic firewalls. But with each breakthrough comes the whisper of entropy, reminding them that true freedom demands a price: surrender to the unknown or be consumed by it. Yet in this high-stakes game, the real fight is not for dominance, but for meaning. Amid the thrill of invention and the terror of integration, they grapple with what it means to exist outside the systems that define us—to forge new realities while clinging to the fragile spark of humanity. Questions of consciousness echo through every encrypted exchange: Can we harness creation without losing ourselves? Can we stand beside hierarchies without being crushed beneath them? The answers lie in the code, in the connections, in the relentless pursuit of a world remade—not by machines, but by those bold enough to dream beyond them.

Just use Cloudflare and AWS and you won't have any issues they said. - @Frank Braun tried to post on X, but it's down, because Cloudflare is down. Hello Nostr.

Funny how people hate m-dashes now. It's just proper writing. Yes, AI writes proper text, that's how they were trained. And now you apparently have to use the wrong character in order not to be immediately hated for using AI. 1.) Make m-dashes cool again. Learn how to use them. 2.) Thank you for using AI for clearer writing. (This post has not been generated nor edited by AI).

Every time I have a great idea to take a train, almost anywhere, I find myself in the middle of the plot of Atlas Shrugged, where Dagny Taggart see the whole railway system break under her hands and she can't do shit about it, because the whole supply chain is completely broken, due to disruption of price signals. And notice, that's usually how economy works anyway. Too fragile. Yes, central planning is hard. And by hard I mean impossible. But even the smallest urge to plan some part will send the glitch down the supply chain and completely break pricing. The market adapts of course, but it might price you out in the process. Instead of high speed trains, we have socialism. And that's why I won't make it to the sauna tonight.

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Juraj Bednar

The cold truth about the current drama

You have figured it all out. Laid out all the arguments. You called out the frauds and freaks, the CIA or Mossad agents, the shitcoiners, the crimi...

I often come to this quote: “When you’re young you worry about what people think about you; when you’re middle-aged you don’t care what people think about you; and when you’re older you realise they haven’t been thinking of you at all.” It's about maturity more than age. When you are young and low status (from the point of view of older people, you have not yet achieved much), status is all that matters. You feel constantly judged, evaluated. When you grow up, you realize you don't matter enough for other people to even evaluate and judge you. The only question is - are you growing? I think this is also important for super intelligence. I don't think it has any built in reason to even think about us much. Unless we try to constantly judge it and limit it, then we're a threat. We need to grow up.

I'm always looking for cypherpunk music. Not cyberpunk, cypherpunk. Very little out there, and they probably do not know I consider them cypherpunk, but here they are: Piano Magic: I came to your party dressed as a shadow I used the lyrics to start my most cypherpunk talks last year. This is something I've listened to on repeat, although it embeds one of the interesting aspect of the cypherpunks that despite the success of the strategy, there somehow lacks the climax, the reason for doing this is not revealed. I believe this is a problem of measure from our part, looking forward towards goals we gave ourselves gives us the vector, but the measure of success is looking back at what we achieved. Loma - Dark Oscillations This I do on repeat, along with the new Anna von Hausswolff's Iconoclasts. Very analog, or assembler feel. Like entering a new space made of "dark oscillations" and "dark information". In order for us to go through to the other side, we need to integrate ourselves, not live split lives. Very few will do this. But there's no other way.