I fear this chart of cannabis prohibition also shows the future of permissionless crypto

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I've spent the last few weeks building

Cannabis Freedom Index

Cannabis Freedom Index: cannabis laws and legality in every country

Where is cannabis legal? Cannabis laws in 196 countries, each scored from 0 to 100 for possession, home growing, penalties and legal access, with a...

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Cannabis Enforcement Tracker

Cannabis Enforcement Tracker: cannabis eradication, seizures, arrests and sentences worldwide

A sourced world record of cannabis enforcement: 9,479 reports of eradication, seizures, raids, arrests, prosecutions, sentences and executions in 2...

I don't know if anyone will care about these projects. But I do, and that's enough.

Perhaps the greatest triumph of statism isn't its ability to impose obedience, but its ability to make people mistake obedience for civilization.

It's interesting how different anarcho-capitalism seems in American and European circles. European anarchism has a long history of questioning both state and economic domination. American ancaps often seem focused only on the state. Maybe that's why the idea of network states is so appealing to them. Escape the old state, build a new one where they can finally be free. They imagine a world without rulers, but somehow always leave room for themselves to become one.

“Marijuana, the burning weed with its roots in hell.”

Cannabis Freedom Index

Reefer Madness · Exhibition 001

Exhibition 001, Reefer Madness: the invention of a monster. The original trailer, the claims and their verdicts, the machinery of a moral panic, th...

To fight centralization, let's fly 10,000 people to one centralized conference to hear why centralization is bad.

AI is making software abundant, but discovery remains broken. The problem is no longer what we can build, but what we can find. We're solving the scarcity of creation while deepening the scarcity of attention.

MeshCore Solo is definitely the coolest firmware for the Wio Tracker L1. Awesome work!

MeshCore Solo

Off-grid messaging that doesn

The question is not whether the future changes, but which direction it takes.

I haven't read something so dystopian in a long time

Farcaster

The Social Smart Contract and the Network Code

The rules for the Farcaster client, and how to appeal a moderation decision.

Imagine three components working together: 1. Palantir-style surveillance: the system knows what you're doing 2. NS-style behavioral governance: algorithms evaluate whether your behavior is socially desirable 3. UBI: economic dependence gives authorities leverage over behavior

My fav movies 25 years ago

Early 2000s piracy gave a whole generation its first real taste of a permissionless internet. Chaotic, free, and beautifully uncontrollable. We used to download things from complete strangers, share everything, and give zero fucks about permission. Today we rent access to everything through corporate platforms and call it progress. I'm glad I experienced the wild internet before it was domesticated. My favorite client was Czech-made StrongDC++, what was yours?

There is nowhere on Earth where you can establish a truly voluntarist community beyond state authority. Nowhere you can freely grow even a cannabis plant without some government claiming authority over it. We live under a global monopoly of state domination.

Maybe the follower model social media sells us is deeply broken. It exploits our need for belonging, turns recognition into status, and status into power. Instead of challenging existing social structures, it quietly reproduces them. View quoted note →

Having thousands of followers taught me something: either you become a prisoner of their expectations, or they become prisoners of your influence. Maybe this power game makes sense under capitalism, but I find the whole obsession with followers and numbers deeply sick now. So I don't care about followers anymore. I just want to have way how to express my opinions, see opinions of my peers and eventually have discussions with people who accept me as I am.