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Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
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Max 3 months ago
OpenClaw arrived in late January 2026 with 229,000 GitHub stars and a pitch that resonated: a personal AI assistant you run on your own devices, connected to whatever messaging platforms you already use. The premise is correct. Your AI assistant should run locally and answer only to you. The question is how that premise gets implemented, and implementation is where the two projects diverge completely. View article →
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Max 3 months ago
Mesh protocols have proliferated, each generating separate cryptographic identities with no relationship to anything you already own. FIPS, announced yesterday by GNU Radio's former Chief Architect, takes a different approach: your existing Nostr keypair becomes your mesh address. View article →
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Max 3 months ago
War is a business with concentrated beneficiaries and dispersed victims. The defense industry has already won the arithmetic of democratic politics: small groups with large stakes outorganize large groups with small ones. Moral arguments against war fail because they address the powerless while ignoring the powerful. Peace will prevail when the incentive structure that makes war profitable is redesigned to make peace more profitable. View article →
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Max 3 months ago
Looks like we'll have the next @White Noise release tomorrow! This is gonna be a big one, it'll finally "just work". @Amber support coming too!
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Max 3 months ago
Got any book recommendations?