I have seen a lot of posts talking about VPNs this last week. Such posts are truly sickening. Every time a VPN is downloaded a child is harmed.

Just going to leave this here for anyone who may or may not live somewhere that requires them to prove their age via a face scan before accessing the internet.

GitHub

GitHub - hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam: real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image

real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image - hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

Without government who would keep us safe from testosterone?

Everyone talks about inflation and how $100 today has the value of only $5 one hundred years ago. Today you can buy a smartphone for $100 and have access to a camera, access to the music catalogue of the worlds greatest composers performed by the worlds greatest musicians, the ability to read every book ever written, the ability to communicate instantly with anyone, the ability to teleport digital value to anyone anywhere in the world and so much more. Good luck going back one hundred years and doing that with $5 or $5,000 or any amount of money. It is easy to imagine inflation into the future but it is hard to imagine deflationary abundance.

Do you think God looks at the rises and falls of civilisations like we look at bitcoin cycles? Civilisations collapse and the angels start printing articles about how humanity is dead but God just hodls on knowing there will be another bull market?

Every app and company wants to scan your face. KYC It’s everywhere. If you actually ready any of the terms of service or privacy policies you will go crazy! What do you do? So tempted to just give in and give up. Fine have my face. Put me in your databases. It’s so exhausting to always be trying to fight the ever encroaching surveillance state.

Three days in a row as I walked through the station subway the busker was singing “Yesterday” by the Beatles. The ambiance and the choice of song really made me feel like I am living through my own Groundhog Day type movie.

It amazes me that we have the technology to permissionlessly teleport money around the world but I still can’t connect seamlessly to a printer in the next room. How was central banking an easier problem to solve than connecting to a printer?

Every time I read something like this my drive to escape to a cabin in the woods grows one notch higher. View quoted note →

You never quite realise how nasty the old sponge was until you crack out a new one.