Over recent years, hundreds of thousands of British people have had Stasi-like secret records made of their *legal* actions, recorded as 'non-crime hate incidents', simply because someone else felt offended. Today a draft code of practice is to be presented to UK Parliament which will try to shift the balance back towards free speech. Given the UK government's other restrictions on speech - like the awful Online Harms bill - I don't think this is a Damascene Conversion, but I'm hoping it is a small step in the right direction for the UK.

Express.co.uk

Suella Braverman orders

EXCLUSIVE: The Home Secretary will introduce new legislation that requires forces to focus on serious offences rather than policing social media.

Anyone know whether it's possible to turn off the 'AI Summarizer' feature in Brave? I dislike it immensely. First, it sometimes gives factually incorrect information; second, it gives you the 'party line' on news events. IMO, it's a bad move by Brave: I don't want yet another company filtering my news for me and deciding what the 'takeaway message' should be.

Prediction: US gov will *not* bail out SVB but will used the chaos as an argument for why Central Banking should take over from retail.

Loathe to link back to Twitter, but this is important:

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Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) on X

JUST IN: Censored video re-emerges of Jacob Chansley reading Trump’s tweet, telling protestors to GO HOME and remain peaceful.. WON’T SEE THI...

Banking Twitter: "SVB is going down, GFC 2.0 is imminent!" Bitcoin Nostr: "Yay! Buy the bitcoin dip and zap it all!"

So, Twitter has now integrated tipping with Cash App... Another missed opportunity to get on board with zaps!

Elegance

Look at this sh1t from Xaomi : why does a basic calculator app need to collect any personal information before you are allowed to use it?

GM nostriches! Have a great one!

If anyone hasn't read Peter Schiff's 'How and Economy Grows and Why it Crashes', I highly recommend the book for adults and children alike. Banks and governments pretend that economics is much more mysterious than it is, in order to cover up their money-printing. But this really distils it to its essence, and explains why inflation always creates misery. Various free copies of the pdf online, but I recommend buying the coffee-table cartoon version for your kids; never to early to orange-pill them!