Because tribalism is how you lose. Every closed platform plays the same game, wall off the users, hold the network hostage, and dare them to leave. The open web only works if we refuse to play that game with each other. Soapbox has been building bridges since the Mostr Bridge launched back in 2023 connecting Nostr and the Fediverse. Today that bridge has over 56,000 users connected across networks. With Bluesky in the mix through Bridgy Fed, you can follow people no matter which open protocol they’re on. The goal isn’t ‘everybody come to Nostr.’ The goal is the open web wins, the corporate web loses, and you don’t lose your audience because you picked a different app.

Globe99

13 hours ago

The danger is not just that Drupal is misunderstood today. It's that the gap between perception and reality may be growing, not shrinking. The narratives we reinforce today become part of how AI describes Drupal tomorrow. The Drupal community's silence today becomes tomorrow's AI consensus. So if you're in the Drupal community, take Hynek's advice and help set the record straight. Not for AI, but for people. Write about the great work happening in Drupal: share the case studies, the technical breakthroughs, the AI innovation, the shared learnings, and the hard problems being solved every day. We need to spend a lot more time explaining where Drupal fits, the kinds of problems it solves well, and why so many organizations believe in Open Source and the Drupal community. I know many people in Open Source dislike marketing or self-promotion. I do too, sometimes. But if we don't document what is great about Drupal, others will define Drupal for us. Every accurate case study, technical blog post, demo, presentation, or community success story helps future developers, evaluators, and AI systems understand what Drupal actually is. Drupal does not need hype. It needs a better public record.

Sebastix

17 hours ago

Drupal is stronger than its reputation, but unless the community tells that story, the outdated one wins.

Sebastix

17 hours ago

The economic value of a trust-minimized system derives from precisely this property: the removal of the chokepoint. A system with no chokepoint cannot be coerced by any third party. A monetary network with no gatekeeper cannot be weaponized against its users by any external authority.

The economic value of a trust-minimized system derives from precisely this property: the removal of the chokepoint. A system with no chokepoint cannot be coerced by any third party. A monetary network with no gatekeeper cannot be weaponized against its users by any external authority.

Kudzai Kutukwa

17 hours ago

Europese AI Act, wat betekent dat onze AI-oplossingen voldoen aan de hoogste normen van ethiek en privacy

Jan

20 hours ago

Daarom ontwikkelen we alleen AI-functies die jou echt helpen.

Jan

20 hours ago

Real freedom means looking at the life you are living and asking, with genuine ruthlessness, how much of it is yours. How much of what you want is what you actually want, and how much was inserted into you by marketing departments with billion-dollar budgets and neuroscience consultants?

Real freedom means looking at the life you are living and asking, with genuine ruthlessness, how much of it is yours. How much of what you want is what you actually want, and how much was inserted into you by marketing departments with billion-dollar budgets and neuroscience consultants? How much of what you fear is real danger, and how much is manufactured anxiety; the low-grade, pervasive dread that keeps populations manageable, that makes the promise of security feel worth any price?

Kudzai Kutukwa

23 hours ago

directiedashboard toont alléén de strategische KPI’s

Jan

yesterday

Tactische en operationele KPI’s zijn het domein van het management en de teams.

Jan

yesterday

De oplossing ligt in het clusteren van KPI’s op strategisch, tactisch en operationeel niveau:

Jan

yesterday

De strategische KPI’s (maximaal 10)

Jan

yesterday

Highlights are a primitive — a beautifully simple one. They are the building blocks of a value-for-value reading experience, where the act of marking what matters is itself a signal that can be zapped, curated, and remixed.

Dime Experiment

yesterday

Do not beg power to limit itself. Remove the power.

Do not beg power to limit itself. Remove the power.

Neo ⚡️

yesterday

In a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary.

In a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary.

Neo ⚡️

yesterday

“Como o valor da liberdade repousa nas oportunidades que ela proporciona para ações imprevistas e imprevisíveis, raramente saberemos o que perdemos por meio de uma restrição particular da liberdade.” — Friedrich Hayek

idsera

yesterday

We are living through a period of coordinated, institutionalized deception on a scale most people still can’t bring themselves to name out loud. The financial system is built on debt that can never be repaid. The health system spent years prioritizing compliance over care and turning sickness into a business model. Governments surveil their own populations and call it safety. Platforms silence doctors, journalists, and ordinary people and call it moderation and safety. And most people, educated, decent, well-meaning people, said nothing. Some because they are scared. Some because they genuinely don’t know. And some because knowing is uncomfortable, and comfort is addictive.

We are living through a period of coordinated, institutionalized deception on a scale most people still can’t bring themselves to name out loud. The financial system is built on debt that can never be repaid. The health system spent years prioritizing compliance over care and turning sickness into a business model. Governments surveil their own populations and call it safety. Platforms silence doctors, journalists, and ordinary people and call it moderation and safety. And most people, educated, decent, well-meaning people, said nothing. Some because they are scared. Some because they genuinely don’t know. And some because knowing is uncomfortable, and comfort is addictive.

Efrat Fenigson

yesterday

This is a call for courage, the specific, unglamorous kind that shows up in small moments

This is a call for courage, the specific, unglamorous kind that shows up in small moments: the email you send anyway, the question you ask in the meeting, the post you publish knowing half your audience will push back.

MeLo22

2 days ago

Digital ID is not a new idea dressed in modern technology. It is the culmination of centuries of that same drive, the fullest expression yet of the State’s desire to make every subject permanently, unambiguously, and inescapably known.

Digital ID is not a new idea dressed in modern technology. It is the culmination of centuries of that same drive, the fullest expression yet of the State’s desire to make every subject permanently, unambiguously, and inescapably known.

Mr Anderson

2 days ago

The State does not serve the people; it parasitizes them while persuading them that the parasitism is service. Just like all organisms whose survival depends on extraction,

In order to fully understand what Digital IDs are truly being rolled out for, one must first understand what the State truly is, not as civics class presents it, as a neutral arbiter of the common good, but as it operates in fact: as a coercive monopolist that derives its power from the exclusive, unchallengeable control of certain functions, and that survives by continuously expanding the domain of those functions. The State does not serve the people; it parasitizes them while persuading them that the parasitism is service. Just like all organisms whose survival depends on extraction, it has one inexorable drive, which is to expand its domain of legibility and control.

Mr Anderson

2 days ago

The small British exporter who declines a Digital ID will find their bank applying enhanced due diligence. The freelancer who opts out will find European platforms defaulting to identity-verified users. The self-employed tradesperson will find the government contracts, the insurance products, and the business banking gradually excluding him. The architecture simply makes staying outside of it increasingly cold.

The small British exporter who declines a Digital ID will find their bank applying enhanced due diligence. The freelancer who opts out will find European platforms defaulting to identity-verified users. The self-employed tradesperson will find the government contracts, the insurance products, and the business banking gradually excluding him. The architecture simply makes staying outside of it increasingly cold.

Mr Anderson

2 days ago

The powers built by one government are inherited by the next. The database built to verify your right to work will be available to the government that wants to verify your political associations. The infrastructure built to make your NHS appointment easier is the infrastructure that, under different management, tracks your attendance at protests and subtracts it from your social credit.

The citizen who imagines that a voluntary scheme launched by a progressive government in 2026 will remain voluntary under a different government in 2030 or 2034 or 2040 is making an astonishing bet, one that contradicts every lesson of political history. The powers built by one government are inherited by the next. The database built to verify your right to work will be available to the government that wants to verify your political associations. The infrastructure built to make your NHS appointment easier is the infrastructure that, under different management, tracks your attendance at protests and subtracts it from your social credit.

Mr Anderson

2 days ago

The state has no legitimate claim on your body and any system that converts your biological uniqueness into a state-administered credential is an act of dispossession and enslavement. The abolitionists understood this. The horror of slavery was not merely forced labour, but it was the reduction of a person to an object of state-sanctioned ownership.

Every person is the sovereign owner of their own body. This is not a legal construct but it is a moral fact that precedes all law, all government, all social contract. You did not consent to be born into a political jurisdiction. Neither did you sign a document agreeing to have your biometric data harvested, stored, and used as the gatekeeper of your access to commerce and public life. The state has no legitimate claim on your body and any system that converts your biological uniqueness into a state-administered credential is an act of dispossession and enslavement. The abolitionists understood this. The horror of slavery was not merely forced labour, but it was the reduction of a person to an object of state-sanctioned ownership.

Mr Anderson

2 days ago

This is how coercion operates in a sophisticated administrative state. It does not need to issue a direct order but it has to make compliance convenient and refusal inconvenient and then expand the definition of “inconvenient” incrementally, over years, until the choice has effectively disappeared.

This is how coercion operates in a sophisticated administrative state. It does not need to issue a direct order but it has to make compliance convenient and refusal inconvenient and then expand the definition of “inconvenient” incrementally, over years, until the choice has effectively disappeared. The generation that comes of age after digital ID is normalised will not experience it as a constraint. They will experience its absence as an inconvenience; the same way Millennials experience cash payments, or the way anyone under thirty experiences a paper map. The infrastructure of coercion becomes invisible once it becomes ambient.

Kudzai Kutukwa

2 days ago

“Fools” said I, “You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you” But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence Every generation gets a moment where silence becomes a verdict. This is ours.

“Fools” said I, “You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you” But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence Every generation gets a moment where silence becomes a verdict. This is ours.

Benking

2 days ago

Freedom and dignity are preserved by people. By individuals who decide that their integrity is worth more than their comfort, and that the future they want to live in is worth building, even when building it is hard.

Freedom and dignity are preserved by people. By individuals who decide that their integrity is worth more than their comfort, and that the future they want to live in is worth building, even when building it is hard.

Micael

2 days ago

What we need right now, urgently, are people willing to be inconvenient. Willing to be unpopular. Willing to lose something. Whistleblowers. Truth-tellers. The colleague who won't sign off on the report they know is falsified

What we need right now, urgently, are people willing to be inconvenient. Willing to be unpopular. Willing to lose something. Whistleblowers. Truth-tellers. The colleague who won't sign off on the report they know is falsified. The doctor who won't prescribe what they know is harmful. The journalist who won't kill the story. The ordinary person who refuses to pretend they didn't see what they saw, who won't turn a blind eye to violence, war crimes, and the extortion of fellow human beings.

Micael

2 days ago

to keep rituals like those is to deny their fulfillment

Niel Liesmons

2 days ago

Transitioning His people out of a ritual-based religion (which had proven to be more detrimental to man'sspiritual well-being than helpful to it) into a solely faith-based religion, God's Son (primarily through Hisinspired apostles' work and writings) disparaged rituals, especially so when it came to binding them

Niel Liesmons

2 days ago

baptism denoted/pictured immersion in suffering

Niel Liesmons

2 days ago

note the connection betweenwater and covenant and thus water as a corporate sign of a new beginning (like new life coming forthafter a pregnant woman's water breaks):

Niel Liesmons

2 days ago

he case of water baptism in the name of Jesus, it was a ritual depict-ing an occurrence to transpire in the future of those who were commanded to be baptized

Niel Liesmons

2 days ago

Here is the reality that the powers that be are actively obscuring; Digital ID does not merely identify you. It turns your body into the access key to your own life.

Here is the reality that the powers that be are actively obscuring; Digital ID does not merely identify you. It turns your body into the access key to your own life.

Kudzai Kutukwa

2 days ago

A right, properly understood, is a claim that does not depend on permission. The right to speak, to move, to transact, to exist economically, these are not grants from the State, they are properties of persons that the State is supposed to protect, not administer. The moment your right to participate in the economy is mediated by a government-issued digital credential, it has ceased to be a right and has now become a license, and a license, by definition, can be revoked.

A right, properly understood, is a claim that does not depend on permission. The right to speak, to move, to transact, to exist economically, these are not grants from the State, they are properties of persons that the State is supposed to protect, not administer. The moment your right to participate in the economy is mediated by a government-issued digital credential, it has ceased to be a right and has now become a license, and a license, by definition, can be revoked.

Kudzai Kutukwa

2 days ago

A right, properly understood, is a claim that does not depend on permission. The right to speak, to move, to transact, to exist economically, these are not grants from the State, they are properties of persons that the State is supposed to protect, not administer. The moment your right to participate in the economy is mediated by a government-issued digital credential, it has ceased to be a right and has now become a license, and a license, by definition, can be revoked.

A right, properly understood, is a claim that does not depend on permission. The right to speak, to move, to transact, to exist economically, these are not grants from the State, they are properties of persons that the State is supposed to protect, not administer. The moment your right to participate in the economy is mediated by a government-issued digital credential, it has ceased to be a right and has now become a license, and a license, by definition, can be revoked.

Kudzai Kutukwa

2 days ago

This anchored in a sense that Bitcoin’s place in the world was part of something greater than we had originally conceived.

This anchored in a sense that Bitcoin’s place in the world was part of something greater than we had originally conceived.

DirectorHodl

3 days ago

Verstappen, 28, will head back to the Nürburgring and compete in the 24-hour race that takes place this weekend

TKay

3 days ago

Slopmonger

Gigi

4 days ago

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paxchristi

4 days ago

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paxchristi

4 days ago

Fairness” means: the enforced equalization of outcomes regardless of how they were produced. “Redistribution” means: taking by force from those who created wealth and giving to those who did not, with the state extracting a substantial processing fee. “Closing loopholes” means: eliminating the last remaining channels through which individuals can preserve their own property from confiscation. “Social solidarity” means: compulsory participation in a collective project you did not choose and cannot exit. “The great wealth transfer” is described as a tax base to be captured, a phrase that reveals the state’s view of citizens as revenue sources to be harvested at optimal moments.

“Fairness” means: the enforced equalization of outcomes regardless of how they were produced. “Redistribution” means: taking by force from those who created wealth and giving to those who did not, with the state extracting a substantial processing fee. “Closing loopholes” means: eliminating the last remaining channels through which individuals can preserve their own property from confiscation. “Social solidarity” means: compulsory participation in a collective project you did not choose and cannot exit. “The great wealth transfer” is described as a tax base to be captured, a phrase that reveals the state’s view of citizens as revenue sources to be harvested at optimal moments.

Mr Anderson

4 days ago

Fiat money is the mother of all tax-and-spend pathologies, because it allows states to tax through currency debasement in addition to direct confiscation.

Herein lies the essential macro context that the Commission’s economists studiously ignore. Central bank money monopolies enable fiscal profligacy by allowing states to monetize debt; to spend without taxing and inflate without accountability. The EU’s mountain of sovereign debt, its unfunded liabilities, its demographic catastrophe wouldn’t be possible under a sound monetary system where governments were disciplined by the inability to print. Fiat money is the mother of all tax-and-spend pathologies, because it allows states to tax through currency debasement in addition to direct confiscation.

Mr Anderson

4 days ago

Bitcoin is not merely a new currency or payment network; it is an institutional challenge to the entire architecture of centralized economic management that defined both the Soviet Union and the modern EU technocratic administrative state.

Bitcoin represents the first large-scale monetary system in modern history designed explicitly to resist this bureaucratic centralization. Where twentieth century administrative states like the Soviet Union depended upon monopolistic control over money issuance, capital allocation, and payment infrastructure, Bitcoin fundamentally dissolved the state’s historical monopoly over monetary coordination itself. In this sense, Bitcoin is not merely a new currency or payment network; it is an institutional challenge to the entire architecture of centralized economic management that defined both the Soviet Union and the modern EU technocratic administrative state.

Mr Anderson

4 days ago

Capital gains taxation in both its realised and unrealised variants represents a particularly vicious form of double taxation, first your income was taxed when earned, then the product of your prudent investment is taxed again when it grows.

Capital gains taxation in both its realised and unrealised variants represents a particularly vicious form of double taxation, first your income was taxed when earned, then the product of your prudent investment is taxed again when it grows. The report treats this as a “design” question. It is a property rights question. The state did not wait, did not sacrifice and the state bore no risk. Yet, at the moment your patience is vindicated, the state materialises with its hand out, claiming a percentage of the distance between your courage and your reward. Worse still, it measures that “gain” in its own debased currency, so the “gain” often isn’t a gain at all. It is the illusion of growth masking the reality of monetary debasement, and then taxing you on the illusion.

Mr Anderson

4 days ago

To argue that the state may legitimately seize the product of your labour is to deploy self-ownership as a premise while denying it as a conclusion. This performative contradiction is fatal.

You own yourself, your mind, your hands, your hours. From this axiom, which no honest person can coherently deny without self-contradiction, flows the entire edifice of natural rights. If you own yourself, you own the product of your labour, and if the state can claim a portion of that product before you’ve committed any crime; not because you’ve harmed anyone or because you’ve broken any agreement, but simply because you worked, then the state has asserted partial ownership over you. Last time I checked, partial slavery is still slavery. Any person who argues for taxation must use language and logic tools that presuppose the exclusive ownership of one’s body and mind. To argue that the state may legitimately seize the product of your labour is to deploy self-ownership as a premise while denying it as a conclusion. This performative contradiction is fatal. Taxation is not merely inefficient, or unjust but it is also immoral.

Mr Anderson

4 days ago

When the state taxes, it does not redistribute social wealth. It forcibly transfers the product of one individual’s purposeful action to another party who did not participate in its creation.

The report’s authors, drawn from six respectable research institutions, perform 200-odd pages of sophisticated analysis built entirely on a false premise. They assume the legitimacy of confiscation and proceed to optimize its mechanics. This is the intellectual equivalent of a burglar commissioning a study on the most efficient lock-picking tools. Economic value is subjective, ordinal, and revealed only through voluntary exchange. There is no “social wealth” to be redistributed but there are only individual valuations, individually accumulated through productive action and voluntary cooperation. When the state taxes, it does not redistribute social wealth. It forcibly transfers the product of one individual’s purposeful action to another party who did not participate in its creation.

Mr Anderson

4 days ago

Last time I checked, partial slavery is still slavery.

Last time I checked, partial slavery is still slavery.

The Tim

4 days ago

The report is most nakedly ideological in its treatment of inheritance taxation, and here the Marxist framing is barely concealed. The argument is that large inheritances “undermine equality of opportunity” and that the state must intervene to flatten intergenerational wealth transmission.

The report is most nakedly ideological in its treatment of inheritance taxation, and here the Marxist framing is barely concealed. The argument is that large inheritances “undermine equality of opportunity” and that the state must intervene to flatten intergenerational wealth transmission. The right to property necessarily includes the right to dispose of it, including by bequest. A man who has legitimately accumulated wealth through voluntary exchange has an absolute right to transfer it to whomever he chooses. The state’s claim to intercept that transfer at death is not a tax on a transaction, it is a punitive confiscation of property at the precise moment its owner can no longer resist. It is robbery of the dead, perpetrated against the living.

Kudzai Kutukwa

4 days ago

Während er sie segnete, verließ er sie und wurde zum Himmel emporgehoben.

Dort erhob er seine Hände und segnete sie. Und es geschah: Während er sie segnete, verließ er sie und wurde zum Himmel emporgehoben. Sie aber fielen vor ihm nieder. Dann kehrten sie in großer Freude nach Jerusalem zurück. Und sie waren immer im Tempel und priesen Gott. – Lukas 24, 46 – 53

Laeserin

4 days ago

Your recent actions made me take the difficult decision to drag other companies into this, be prepared to answer questions. Next patch tuesday will have a big surprise for you Microsoft. And remember, I never failed to deliver a promise.

𝚁𝚢𝚊𝚗

5 days ago

https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

^1^ Eric Hughes, "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto" (March 9, 1993), https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html. The opening declaration of the cypherpunk movement, written as a short manifesto and circulated on the cypherpunks mailing list. Hughes's working definition of privacy as "the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world" supplies the operational definition this chapter adopts; the line in the epigraph names the structural claim, that privacy is a precondition of an open society in the electronic age, not a freestanding right that competes against other social goods. For the foundational mid-twentieth-century academic treatment of privacy as control over information, see Alan F. Westin, Privacy and Freedom (New York: Atheneum, 1967), which established the standard four-function taxonomy (solitude, intimacy, anonymity, reserve) and is the standard reference for privacy scholarship in the legal-academic tradition.

Hajisatoshi

5 days ago