It is clear that, if each citizen, as he becomes individually weaker and therefore more incapable of preserving his liberty by himself alone, did not learn the art of uniting with his fellows to defend his liberty, tyranny [896] would necessarily grow with equality.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America Vol II
“Embora a busca dos objetivos egoístas do indivíduo geralmente o leve a servir o interesse geral, as ações coletivas de grupos organizados são quase invariavelmente contrárias ao interesse geral.”
— Friedrich Hayek
Social media must be resilient
Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
Why does the traditional financial system desperately want Bitcoin to be classified solely as an asset, property, or digital gold?
Why does the traditional financial system desperately want Bitcoin to be classified solely as an asset, property, or digital gold?
Why does the traditional financial system desperately want Bitcoin to be classified solely as an asset, property, or digital gold?
Why does the traditional financial system desperately want Bitcoin to be classified solely as an asset, property, or digital gold? Because treating it strictly as a speculative commodity effectively castrates its utility as money.
Why does the traditional financial system desperately want Bitcoin to be classified solely as an asset, property, or digital gold?
Why does the traditional financial system desperately want Bitcoin to be classified solely as an asset, property, or digital gold? Because treating it strictly as a speculative commodity effectively castrates its utility as money.
Why does the traditional financial system desperately want Bitcoin to be classified solely as an asset, property, or digital gold?
Why does the traditional financial system desperately want Bitcoin to be classified solely as an asset, property, or digital gold? Because treating it strictly as a speculative commodity effectively castrates its utility as money.
Letting Claude find the cause and create a planWhile the current policy allows it, there is also not consensus that drupal.org (or core specifically) should allow LLM generated comments on issues or not. I'm personally in agreement with the current policy. As long as the person posting is accoutable for the text, I would not judge what they used to create it. While a month ago I used the top of class Claude Opus 4.6 LLM model, I decided to use the simpler and cheaper Sonnet 4.5 model this time, which is much more likely going to be used by a contributor. I also did not have any agent guidance (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or similar) whatsoever so this should demonstrate what would someone with Drupal knowledge but green-field LLM use encounter. I had a hunch the problem is with PHP array syntax parsing, but I asked an open ended question of the LLM to prove my point. I did not even tell it that it was about language names.why would _potx_find_language_names not be able to parse LanguageManager.php in Drupal 11?I posted Claude's answer on the issue verbatim to demonstrate my point. I think the answer was spot on (see hero image on the post).Once again, I did not have a special tweaked setup, this is Claude Code with Sonnet 4.5 out of the box running on a codebase with Drupal 11 and potx installed.
This isn't about being skeptical of AI. It's about being a responsible operator of powerful tools. A chainsaw is incredibly useful. You still need to know which direction the tree is going to fall.
This isn't about being skeptical of AI. It's about being a responsible operator of powerful tools. A chainsaw is incredibly useful. You still need to know which direction the tree is going to fall.
“A melhor maneira de prever o futuro é determinar o futuro”
Pythagoras may well have been
the deepest in his learning of all men.
And still he claimed to recollect
details of former lives,
being in one a cucumber
and one time a sardine.
- Heraclitus
Klartext-Übersetzung: Das Geld, das ihr vorne als Prämie bekommt, holen wir uns hinten durch
Klartext-Übersetzung:
If we do not understand the history and mechanics of digital identity control, we will lose our rights
If we do not understand the history and mechanics of digital identity control, we will lose our rights. We will live in an unbalanced, ringfenced world where people can’t even remember the reasons why, sometimes, they must remain faceless.
With more than 45 percent of the vote counted, his opponent Péter Magyar looked set to win 135 seats in the 199-seat parliament.
The EU’s most autocratic leader — a close ally of both U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — was on course for a crushing defeat in Sunday’s vote.
With more than 45 percent of the vote counted, his opponent Péter Magyar looked set to win 135 seats in the 199-seat parliament. Orbán’s Fidesz party was on track to win only 57.
Will I be able to revert to the old custodial wallet after the upgrade?
No. After the wallet upgrade is completed, you will not be able to revert to the old custodial wallet, however your full transaction history will be transferred to the new wallet.
Will I be able to revert to the old custodial wallet after the upgrade?
No. After the wallet upgrade is completed, you will not be able to revert to the old custodial wallet, however your full transaction history will be transferred to the new wallet.
Extra information to go along with the podcast (continues below the photos).
Americana (2015 Reissue, US) 180g LP
https://www.discogs.com/release/7146197-The-Offspring-Americana
Condition:
Vinyl, sleeve, insert, and cover are all somewhere between Near Mint (NM) and Very Good Plus (VG+). It will sound like new.
Condition:
Vinyl, sleeve, insert, and cover are all somewhere between Near Mint (NM) and Very Good Plus (VG+). It will sound like new.
Extra information to go along with the podcast (continues below the photos).
Americana (2015 Reissue, US) 180g LP
https://www.discogs.com/release/7146197-The-Offspring-Americana
Condition:
Vinyl, sleeve, insert, and cover are all somewhere between Near Mint (NM) and Very Good Plus (VG+). It will sound like new.
Condition:
Vinyl, sleeve, insert, and cover are all somewhere between Near Mint (NM) and Very Good Plus (VG+). It will sound like new.
The French state is already running Matrix as the backbone of its secure instant messaging service.
The French state is already running Matrix as the backbone of its secure instant messaging service. Tchap is used by more than 600,000 public officials, and the country's Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced at the conference it was signing up as a Silver member of the Matrix.org Foundation, which requires a fee, becoming the first country to do so....
France isn't alone. Germany has championed the technology in healthcare and other public sector departments, and more countries scrutinizing Matrix include Sweden, which is considering rolling out its own secure messaging service.
Pseudonymity
*Note: Anonymity means no your actions are completely unlinked from any persistent identifier. Pseudonymity means acting under a consistent but false or separate identity. Full digital anonymity is rare, but we use the term here as it is more commonly used to refer to online pseudonymity.
your actions are completely unlinked from any persistent identifier. Pseudonymity means acting
*Note: Anonymity means no your actions are completely unlinked from any persistent identifier. Pseudonymity means acting under a consistent but false or separate identity. Full digital anonymity is rare, but we use the term here as it is more commonly used to refer to online pseudonymity.
The parallel economy's money and communication layers both work. What remains is credit, and the engineering challenge is specific: peer-to-peer instruments tied to real commerce, endorsed by merchants who stake their own capital and reputation on every bill they touch, settled in bitcoin, enforced by graduated reputation on an open protocol
The parallel economy's money and communication layers both work. What remains is credit, and the engineering challenge is specific: peer-to-peer instruments tied to real commerce, endorsed by merchants who stake their own capital and reputation on every bill they touch, settled in bitcoin, enforced by graduated reputation on an open protocol. The merchants who need credit are already trading. What they lack is the instrument.
Collateralized bitcoin lending does exist, but it requires locking up more capital than you borrow, which defeats the purpose for a producer who needs credit precisely because her capital is insufficient
Production is roundabout. The fisherman who weaves a net before fishing catches more than the one who uses his hands, but net-weaving requires time during which the fisherman produces nothing. Longer, more indirect production processes yield greater output, but someone must finance the interval between investment and return. In the official economy, banks finance this interval at great expense and with extensive permission requirements. In the parallel economy, without a credit layer, every producer is the fisherman using his hands: limited to what current holdings allow, unable to invest in the longer production processes that yield the greatest returns. Collateralized bitcoin lending does exist, but it requires locking up more capital than you borrow, which defeats the purpose for a producer who needs credit precisely because her capital is insufficient. Credit determines the complexity ceiling of what the parallel economy can build.
Every argument above shares one structural flaw: the enforcement mechanism always costs more than the problem it solves. The cost is paid by the innocent. Arguments in favor of ending anonymity often use malleable and subjective language. Terms such as ‘protect’, ‘extreme’, and ‘vulnerable’ all lack the precision to facilitate real enforcement.
Every argument above shares one structural flaw: the enforcement mechanism always costs more than the problem it solves. The cost is paid by the innocent. Arguments in favor of ending anonymity often use malleable and subjective language. Terms such as ‘protect’, ‘extreme’, and ‘vulnerable’ all lack the precision to facilitate real enforcement. They are used as the state’s premier weapons in the war on privacy and are parroted by subservient legacy media.
Anonymous participation encourages honest discussion of stigmatized topics (mental health, sexuality, politics). Simply put, the only people who can decide on what is and isn’t ‘misinformation’ are the communities and people consuming it. Through value-based fact-checking and reputational staking, netizens must navigate their own way in a ‘post truth’ world.
Rebuttal: With the internet opening publishing access to all comers, the legacy monopoly on what constitutes truth or lies has died. Fact-checking, hard evidence, and rigorous methodology is all still valuable, but it need not be performed by centralized entities. Anonymous participation encourages honest discussion of stigmatized topics (mental health, sexuality, politics). Simply put, the only people who can decide on what is and isn’t ‘misinformation’ are the communities and people consuming it. Through value-based fact-checking and reputational staking, netizens must navigate their own way in a ‘post truth’ world.
Identity and anonymity are not mutually exclusive. They never were. Every citizen should have access to both. They are the Yin and Yang of our digital existence.
Identity and anonymity are not mutually exclusive. They never were. Every citizen should have access to both. They are the Yin and Yang of our digital existence.
A population that already holds bitcoin, already communicates over Nostr, already operates sovereign devices, and already participates in a Hanseatic circular economy cannot be made dependent on the machine economy's conditional access, because it has an alternative.
The critical insight is that the stack must be in place before the dependency is created. A population that already holds bitcoin, already communicates over Nostr, already operates sovereign devices, and already participates in a Hanseatic circular economy cannot be made dependent on the machine economy's conditional access, because it has an alternative. A population that has first been made dependent has no alternative, because the alternative was never built. This is the race that the sovereignty stack describes. It is not a race between states or between blocs. It is a race between two incompatible architectures for organising economic life, being built simultaneously, in the same territories, for the same populations.
Every sanctioned state should be on a Bitcoin standard by now but the only reason why they are not is that despite the political squabbles that we see on the surface; they won’t adopt Bitcoin fully because they still want to retain the power to print money.
Every sanctioned state should be on a Bitcoin standard by now but the only reason why they are not is that despite the political squabbles that we see on the surface; they won’t adopt Bitcoin fully because they still want to retain the power to print money.
This technocratic order is a network of interlocking institutions, standards bodies, public-private partnerships, and treaty frameworks that effectively govern the conditions of human life without being accountable to any democratic constituency. The BIS sets monetary standards. The ITU sets telecommunications standards. The WHO sets health emergency protocols. The WEF convenes the public-private partnerships that implement all three.
The Financial Stability Board coordinates financial regulation across the entire supposed multipolar divide. The IMF extends conditionality that consistently favours the same financial architecture regardless of which bloc a borrowing nation nominally aligns with. This technocratic order is a network of interlocking institutions, standards bodies, public-private partnerships, and treaty frameworks that effectively govern the conditions of human life without being accountable to any democratic constituency. The BIS sets monetary standards. The ITU sets telecommunications standards. The WHO sets health emergency protocols. The WEF convenes the public-private partnerships that implement all three. These institutions are not elected and they cannot be meaningfully voted out.
The system is also integrated with a network of over 200,000 facial-recognition cameras in Moscow. Conscripts who contested their draft orders in court found themselves entered into a state database as alleged evaders, triggering facial recognition alerts that enabled police to detain them on the spot, not for any proven violation, but for the act of legal contestation itself.
When Russians began attempting to delete their Gosuslugi accounts in March 2023, the authorities disabled the delete-account function on the same day the Defence Ministry announced the electronic summons system. The system is also integrated with a network of over 200,000 facial-recognition cameras in Moscow. Conscripts who contested their draft orders in court found themselves entered into a state database as alleged evaders, triggering facial recognition alerts that enabled police to detain them on the spot, not for any proven violation, but for the act of legal contestation itself.
In other words a multipolar world isn’t a counterpoint to centralized power but a bitter rivalry between competing factions who are bidding for control of the aforementioned machine.
The question of which bloc wins the multipolar struggle is, in this light, a question about management succession. In other words a multipolar world isn’t a counterpoint to centralized power but a bitter rivalry between competing factions who are bidding for control of the aforementioned machine. The multipolar world does not threaten this architecture but accelerates it, by giving each pole the political cover to implement at home what it condemns abroad, and by driving every state toward the same surveillance infrastructure under the competitive logic of national security. Therefore the argument that this is a "multipolar world order" where different civilisational blocs pursue genuinely different visions of human organisation is not supported by what is actually being built.
Don't be scared. Fuck around a bit.
I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go down intermittently for ~1/2 our users for about 8 hours.
First, I'd like to apologize to our users for the interruption in service. This is easily the worst outage we've seen in my time here. It's just not acceptable.
Second, if you find this work interesting, we're hiring!
The most important question of all therefore is this; is the censorship infrastructure in Brussels different from that in Moscow? If not, then the individual is left without a sanctuary in either jurisdiction.
As far as irony goes this incident is full of it. The EU, while posturing as the moral guardian of human rights against the Kremlin, employs the same mechanism of summary decree to erase a citizen's existence. Mind you, this is happening before the full implementation of the digital control grid. The most important question of all therefore is this; is the censorship infrastructure in Brussels different from that in Moscow? If not, then the individual is left without a sanctuary in either jurisdiction.
Iran, Russia, and China are presented as the unjust victims and therefore opponents of the Western-backed system but are they offering a different vision for the world that puts the individual citizen at the centre by reducing the influence and power of the state over his life? Emphatically no! All three are members of the fiat money cartel given that they all have central banks that print money ad infinitum, they all enforced Covid lockdowns in step with the rest of the world, they all formally support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, they are all building digital identity infrastructure and they are all actively developing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
For example, Iran, Russia, and China are presented as the unjust victims and therefore opponents of the Western-backed system but are they offering a different vision for the world that puts the individual citizen at the centre by reducing the influence and power of the state over his life? Emphatically no! All three are members of the fiat money cartel given that they all have central banks that print money ad infinitum, they all enforced Covid lockdowns in step with the rest of the world, they all formally support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, they are all building digital identity infrastructure and they are all actively developing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
"A moeda, na economia digital, torna-se cada vez mais informação e, nesse contexto, o controle jurisdicional sobre esses dados passa a ser um elemento central do poder monetário estatal."
Purpose & goal
The goal of this Wotathon submission is to explore the possibilities of NIP-85 and other Web of Trust filters to help parents setting up a trust domain for their children.
Our ultimate goal on the long-term would be than we can serve curated / WoT filtered content to parents within our Kubo.watch project.
Kubo.watch is a YouTube Kids alternative application where parent can create a digital domain for each of their children.
Within this domain you can set trust levels which will define the permissions how a child can interact with things (content), people (profiles aka npubs) and places (relays).
Current state
View the demo at https://wotathon.kubo.watch.
The same question.Five different worlds.
Ask anything. The same model answers five times — each time instructed to respond
as if it were trained on a different climate of data, from bellicose to empathic.
Watch how the framing, the tone, and the assumptions change.
The question is identical. The training world is not.
The AX design artifact isn't a wireframe — it's a capability declaration. Instead of designing what users see, we design what agents know and can do. Trust is built through verifiable data, not brand storytelling.
2025 → 2035 · Agentic Experience Design
The same mechanism.A different task bundle.
DTP didn't displace designers. It erased their paste-up tasks and handed them new ones.
AI won't displace product designers. It will eliminate their wireframing tasks
and hand them something harder: designing what systems are allowed to become.
It's not job loss.It's task loss.
When the Macintosh arrived in 1984 — with PageMaker and PostScript — graphic designers did not disappear.
Their task bundle mutated. Some tasks evaporated. Some transformed. New ones emerged that hadn't existed before.
The job title survived. The job content did not.
United States · 1860 – 2025
Technology adoption over time
Share of households or adults using each technology. Hover over any line to identify it. Toggle eras below to focus.
Every doc page is nowagent food — one click.
Modern documentation platforms like Mintlify have built a "Copy page as Markdown" button
directly into their UI. This is not a convenience feature.
It is an acknowledgment that AI agents consume documentation —
and Markdown is the most efficient format to feed them.
Argument 1: Identification makes criminals easier to trace. Rebuttal: Those who seek to identify ‘criminals’ are the very same people who define crime. The danger of increasingly vague definitions of ‘crime’ based on online profiles offer state departments virtually unlimited powers to stifle undesirable behavior.
Argument 1: Identification makes criminals easier to trace. Rebuttal: Those who seek to identify ‘criminals’ are the very same people who define crime. The danger of increasingly vague definitions of ‘crime’ based on online profiles offer state departments virtually unlimited powers to stifle undesirable behavior. Further, creativity and new technology means that bad actors will always be able to penetrate or circumnavigate ringfenced systems before regulators can adapt. Jurisdictional difference and the competition of nation-states also offers optionality to bad actors and criminals.
We continue to have this illusion that things outside of us aren't driving what we think and believe, when in fact so much of what we spend our attention on is driven by decisions of thousands of engineers and product designers.”
“We continue to have this illusion that things outside of us aren't driving what we think and believe, when in fact so much of what we spend our attention on is driven by decisions of thousands of engineers and product designers.” Tristan Harris
Quem liga para blacklist? Bitcoin foi feito para transações P2P e não para enviar para corretoras, onde não existe autocustódia nem descentralização.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymq_BXN4lu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymq_BXN4lu0
his firm is a "big fan of open source,"
If we do that, we will no longer have unfair differences simply because one person has better access to the new money than others. Instead, everyone simply tries to offer value to the rest of the world and earn money by doing so.
If we do that, we will no longer have unfair differences simply because one person has better access to the new money than others. Instead, everyone simply tries to offer value to the rest of the world and earn money by doing so.
The inherent flaw in the traditional subscription model is its lack of precision. A user pays for a capacity they may not fully utilize, while a provider must maintain infrastructure for a demand that fluctuates unpredictably. This inefficiency is masked by the convenience of the recurring revenue stream, which provides a comfortable buffer for corporate planning. But in a competitive landscape where every cycle of a processor can be bid upon in real-time, the fixed-rate model begins to look like a relic of a slower age. Censorship-resistant protocols take this a step further by removing the middleman—the central authority that dictates who can access software and under what terms. When computing resources are commodified to the point of being tradeable on an open, permissionless market, the logic of the SaaS provider begins to collapse. If a user can broadcast a specific request for a computation—be it a video render, a large-scale data analysis, or a localized search query—and receive multiple bids from competing providers in milliseconds, the need for a persistent, expensive subscription disappears.
This transition is powered by the concept of the Data Vending Machine. In this architecture, a user does not log into a dashboard or maintain an account with a specific company. Instead, they interact with a global relay network, sending out standardized event types that describe a job. These jobs are picked up by specialized workers who compete to provide the most efficient or cost-effective result. The payment is handled via micro-transactions, often using lightning-fast cryptographic currencies that settle instantly upon the delivery of the proof-of-work. This creates a skin-in-the-game environment where only the most efficient providers survive. The predictability that SaaS companies rely on for their valuation is replaced by a chaotic, yet highly efficient, auction. In this environment, the "service" is no longer the product; the "result" is the product. The infrastructure that delivers the result is secondary, as the user is no longer wedded to any single platform or provider.
