Good to see this topic getting more attention: View article → View article → View quoted note →

Where is the Beef? Regulatory Barrier to Entry and Competition in Meat Processing "In short, regulatory extortion tyranny. Inspection regulations are size prejudicial. I know one facility that was ordered closed because it wasn’t processing fast enough. The Food Safety Inspection Service measures its efficiency by pounds inspected per personnel-hour, creating an adversarial discriminatory attitude toward small plants. In 1906 when Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle 7 large companies controlled half the nation’s meat processing capacity. After a century of government intervention, 4 now control 85 percent. When licenses and compliance make entering and maintaining an abattoir more burdensome to small facilities than large, concentration and centralization is not an anti-trust issue; it’s a discriminatory regulatory issue." —Joel Salatin Video: Full testimony: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/salatin-testimony.pdf

TROPIC01 secure chip now in Trezor!

Interesting interface for contracts. View quoted note →

Live vehicle tracking with many Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) devices. View quoted note →

Quite a different direction than the original goals of the Andriod team. View quoted note →

"We're currently working with a major OEM towards future generations of their devices meeting our requirements and providing official GrapheneOS support." View quoted note →

This is one of the few books that has the history of Tor correct with origins beginning with Chaum mixnets, Cypherpunk remailers, Mixmaster, Free Haven... and NRL Onion Routing. NRL is sometimes cited as the origin. They built on previous ideas and expanded it to TCP/IP. Folks from Free Haven later joined and implemented it into Tor, combined with other prior research and development.

This is pretty huge! Nostr + MLS w/ @niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 and @Max on bitcoin++ Insider Edition. Full episode: