Been doing a lot of “save in bitcoin and focus on your craft” lately but hoping to go back to “focus on bitcoin and save your craft for later” soon enough.

@OpnState warned us that FATF was working on this months ago on the @Stephan Livera podcast. It’s happening. We can also fully expect our beloved tools like Electrum to come under attack any day now. Keep building, anon. The politicians only know how to do the wrong thing. Don’t expect them to help. View quoted note →

Youtube has become unusable. I refuse to sign in to watch videos and now it’s refusing to show videos unless I sign in. GFY google.

Don’t let the AI break you, anon.

Futurism

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

Where’s the NIP for posting government issued ID and a signed permission slip? View quoted note →

An Internet connected door cam with microphone can be legally used against you? Shocking! Who could’ve predicted that?

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach ...

The government playbook: approve and encourage bitcoin ETFs, tell people they’ll have their fingers chopped off and they’ll lose their keys, praise “bitcoin treasury companies”, let banks custody and lend/borrow against it for fiat, and make the taxes complicated for direct usage. You’ll unsurprisingly reduce adoption. Throw in plenty of collaborative custody solutions so you can keep tabs on the ones who stay outside the system and suddenly bitcoin doesn’t seem so scary!