Over a year ago, I wrote about Proof of Humanity (PoH). In the current context of governments seeking to implement digital identity, you will see how this publication makes more sense. In the article, I explored the development of digital identity validation and the role of AI in improving security. I posed a paradox in which #AI becomes a threat: as it gains independence, it may attempt to acquire a “human identity” to achieve the autonomy that humans do not grant it. Here is my article: Proof Of Humanity: A Nightmarish Identity Validation System https://liberlion.medium.com/proof-of-humanity-a-nightmarish-identity-validation-system-67097b20c556

THE SYNTHETIC TRAP The internet is mutating from an open and anonymous space to a closed one, with identity and right of admission. From a global agora to an automated theater of psychological warfare. A space contaminated by synthetic noise from bots that are designed to justify the digital identity managed by the technological oligarchy for governments.

THE CODE IS LAW Open Source or Free Source? "Proprietary software is an injustice. It denies users freedom and keeps them divided and helpless." Richard Stallman didn’t drop this line just to sound nice; he said it because he saw, before anyone else, that if you don’t own the code you use, the code owns you. To understand this, you have to travel back to the 70s at MIT. Stallman lived in an era where sharing code was the norm, as natural as sharing cooking recipes. But corporations arrived, turned off the tap, and slapped copyrights on everything. Suddenly, helping your neighbor became "piracy." The definitive mental click was a Xerox printer that kept jamming. RMS wanted to fix the code so it would notify users of the error, but Xerox refused to give him the source code. That’s when he understood everything: trade secrets had been placed above utility and community. In 1983, he flipped the table and announced the GNU Project. His goal was to create a complete, free operating system. And mind you, this wasn't a technical mission, it was a moral one. If software is the foundation of modern society, that foundation cannot be a black box controlled by a corporation. Free Software guarantees four non-negotiable rights: use, study, share, and improve. Without these freedoms, you don't own your technology; you are merely a digital tenant. This entire philosophy is captured in his book Free Software, Free Society. "Free" means liberty, not zero cost (free speech, not free beer). "Open Source" was coined later to strip away Stallman's uncomfortable ethical philosophy and make the concept palatable to corporations. They wanted to sell the idea to companies without scaring them off with speeches about freedom. So they created the term "Open Source." The difference is fundamental: Free Software is an ethical philosophy stating that closed code is immoral because it subjugates the user; Open Source is a development methodology that allows more eyes to find bugs. Open Source won the corporate marketing war—Google and Facebook love it—but Free Software keeps the soul. You can have Open Source that spies on you, like the base of Android, but real Free Software seeks to empower you and protect your privacy.

DEAD INTERNET: VERIFY OR DIE. A TECHNOCRACY STRUCTURE. Synthetic Web. The death of the open web. Fact: We are already a minority. The dead internet is no longer a conspiracy theory. The barrier has been broken. For the first time in the history of the internet, human traffic has fallen below 50%. The increase in algorithmic traffic is accelerating further with AI. You read that right: most of the “users” you see online do NOT exist. They are bots, scripts, and click farms simulating life. Imperva and Thales (cybersecurity) have already confirmed it: we have crossed the point of no return. The network we built to connect people is now a playground for machines. If you thought the internet was “weird,” it's not you. It's just that you're alone. Have you noticed that comments on social media are becoming increasingly generic? That discussions feel artificial? That's because they are. Generative AI has accelerated all this and sent traffic from “bad bots” (malicious ones) to record levels. It's no longer just spam; it's AIs talking to other AIs, creating fake traffic, inflating metrics, and manipulating public opinion in a loop. What you consume, what you read, and what outrages you... was probably designed by an algorithm to get you to react. Your digital “reality” is a synthetic mirage. The result? The internet has become an empty echo chamber. Real humans are retreating to closed, private communities (the “Dark Forest”) because the digital public space is contaminated. And, of course, the great opportunity for technocracy (political caste + technological oligarchy): online bureaucracy and “necessary” Digital ID. “Verify or Die”: To prove you're not a bot, they'll ask you for more and more data: phone number, ID scan, or even biometrics (like Worldcoin). The death of the open web. The internet is going to become a series of “private clubs” where you can only enter with verified digital identification. Goodbye to real privacy. As you continue scrolling, remember this: in this new ecosystem, you are no longer the customer or the product. You are merely a validation obstacle (CAPTCHA) for bots to continue operating. Welcome to the Synthetic Web. Enjoy it... if you can find anything real.

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#Monero vs #Zcash Does the end justify the means, or are there rules that remain sacred? When you understand the history and concepts, you can make better decisions. Which side are you on? Let's see... There is a fundamental conflict, very topical, already raised philosophically some time ago, between deontology, where principles reign, and utilitarianism, where results prevail. This is not just an academic question. Applied to the crypto field, it is the very distinction between sovereign money and compliant assets. Deontology (Kant) represents the ethics of duty. Here, lines are drawn that cannot be crossed, regardless of the consequences. The morality is inherent in the action itself; it is about absolute integrity. Utilitarianism, (Bentham/Mill) however, is the ethics of calculation. It seeks the greatest good for the greatest number, making everything negotiable if the final outcome "adds up." It is a form of pragmatism that easily becomes dangerous. Monero ($XMR) stands as the embodiment of Deontology. With mandatory privacy by default, it doesn't care about exchange delistings or regulatory appeasement. It treats privacy as a non-negotiable human right, doing what is inherently right rather than what is expedient. Zcash ($ZEC), by contrast, is a utilitarian toaster. By making privacy merely "opt-in," it sacrifices principle to maximize the "utility" of regulatory acceptance. It is not a tool for freedom; it is a docile device that adapts functionally, even when a certain degree of privacy must be sacrificed for the "good" of continuity. And so "useful privacy" is negotiable, and lines that should not be crossed are crossed. Monero is dying with your boots on, and Zcash is a soldier who flees can fight another battle.

I have anticipated the change in narrative on climate change, and its motives. You will see more and more signs to adjust policy in line with Technocracy. "Ban on gas car sales walked back by EU" https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/eu-2035-gas-car-ban-evs-9.7018046 View quoted note →

ICYMI I explained why I believe VPN technology will be useless in the near future, from both a regulatory and technical standpoint. View quoted note →

Brilliant choice! Who wants the immense responsibility of being free when they can aspire to be a well-cared-for state pet? Please install more microphones and cameras, as the silence of my own thoughts terrifies me. There is no greater “security” than handing over the leash to the jailer and thanking him for the daily walk.

In analog democracy, the current form of democracy, banks act as agents of financial surveillance for the state. In algorithmic democracy, technocracy, Big Tech companies act as agents of financial and social surveillance. In technocracy, the scale and cross-cutting nature of data is much greater. Incentive -> Scale -> Control -> Power

Believing that power is self-limiting is like assuming that an algorithm will resign for ethical reasons.

Glory to the martyr of contradiction! You are terrified that a barbarian foreigner dares to look at your secrets, but you kneel and kiss the ring of the Leviathan that has you chained, registered, and watched. Your fear is an insult to freedom: you protect your chains from a thief, only so that the King remains the sole owner of your prison.

You fear the thief in the night. Not the architect of the system.

Freedom exists only where time has not been expropriated and privacy still protects the inner space from which a decision can arise without coercion. **Your time and privacy exist before your freedom.**

Regulators want your freedom so much that they are going to store it in a database so you don't lose it. To think that governments won't use AI, that politicians won't concentrate power while preaching privacy, and that the state won't merge with tech oligarchs to better monitor you requires admirable faith. Childish, but admirable. Tell me something: does Santa Claus come with his own algorithm, or do they outsource it to Silicon Valley?

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Blockchains such as Bitcoin are the perfect panopticon for the technocracy that states are implementing. That's why #Monero

Algorithm (Noun): A magic word used by programmers when they don't want to explain what they did, and a universal excuse used by influencers when no one likes their photos. Basically, it's an opinion dressed up as mathematics so that you don't dare to argue with it.

There is no doubt now, the race is on. Bitcoin is seeking to become the largest institutional asset. Are you happy? Would Satoshi be happy?

Lately, as AI is increasingly used for everyone, anyone who lacks the practice of critical thinking and writing skills, reads my posts, and instead of debating the content and trying to refute my rationale, they say this 👇 PS: I made this image with AI, boludo! (search with AI what boludo means!)

What is Conspiracy? The official definition, according to the Oxford English Dictionary: "An agreement between two or more persons to do something criminal, illegal, or reprehensible (especially in relation to treason, sedition, or murder); a plot." The revisionist definition: "A term used to discredit anyone who notices a pattern in real-time, effectively distinguishing them from historians, who are paid to notice the same pattern fifty years later."