According to Dylan LeClair, "It should be said very clearly there is nothing wrong with white glove multisig solutions, collaborative custody, or *gasps* even ETFs." I disagree entirely. There actually is something wrong with ETFs. The west is no longer safe. Governments can and will seize funds for arbitrary reasons, western governments are rapidly becoming very authoritarian. ETFs and custodians might feel safe, but they are most definitely not safe. Any custody solution that involves using your real identity is not safe because of leaks and the criminals who take advantage of these leaks. There are risks and these risks are often withheld from new bitcoiners. I think some bitcoin maxis are more concerned with acquiring new converts for NGU than with being honest about the risks. Bitcoin is not easy, it is not fun, but do it right and it means freedom from slavery. #bitcoin #coldcard

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Isa, im sure many sympathize with your experience here. My general advice: there is no need to have to cosplay as a radical cypherpunk revolutionar...

One of the most terrifying policies of the Trump administration is that you can now land yourself on a fucking FBI terrorism watchlist if an AI model thinks you are expressing views including but not limited to these extremely broad categories of "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;…extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality." Can arguing against statism from an anarcho capitalist perspective be conaidered "anti-American"? Probably. Anything they want can be considered "anti-American"... Bro what the fuck? It's 1950s style McCarthyism supercharged by an AI powered technocracy. If you post anything even remotely controversial it may be time to scrub your timeline and become anon if you are doxxed. It is not safe to be political under your real name. What Republican voters might not understand is that once Trump's FBI pops the Minority Report cherry, there is no going back. The same tools can and will be used by a Democrat administration. This isn't good for ANYONE. #privacy #opsec #trump #AI

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Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list

Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.

If representational democracy worked at scale, America wouldn't constantly be fighting wars that the majority of people don't want to fight. It's a LARP. The ruling class only cares what the "people" want in regards to preventing outright revolt and their own deaths. Beyond that bare minimum, they could care less. The American system of government is just a really fancy way to enslave people without them even realizing they are slaves. It was probably started with good intentions of enabling liberty and peace while restraining government, but that failed a long time ago. You can restart the game 1000 times and it will always fail and end in slavery. Instead of repeatedly failing, we have to install an entirely different game. It's called #voluntaryism.

Another advantage of Graphene OS is that they fix backdoors that Google still refuses to fix.

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Fixing Android's (intentional?) VPN Backdoor Diving in and fixing the Android bug, ignored by Google, that allows a malicious app to see the user'...

Flock Safety is trying to frame being anti flock as a position of the far left. Stopping warrantless surveillance is not a right versus left issue, it has bipartisan support across the country. Flock is desperate, you are going see more of these kinds of tactics. -trying to associate the deflock movement with completely unrelated groups on the far left -swarms of pro flock bots and paid influencers on social media. Anyone expressing pro flock opinions is likely either naive, has been paid, or is a bot. -lots of "we found this missing person or solved this crime with a flock camera" exaggerated and fake news stories. Flock Safety has a huge profit incentive to destroy this movement, the amount of money on the line is staggering. That's because they aren't just selling cameras, they are selling subscriptions to a powerful surveillance database at 3k a year per camera. Do the math, an Orwellian nightmare makes them rich and they will live unsurveilled in gated citadels while the masses are watched 24/7. These pro Flock accounts like AM86613302...here usually have very few followers and screen names with lots of numbers.

Flockhopper is a new app designed to help people plan their routes to avoid as many Flock cameras possible. I haven't vetted it so use at your own risk. #deflock

Flock Safety cameras are being removed from cities across America, both through legal and "illegal" methods. I think the success of the deflock movement is a sign that people have been pushed just little too far by the surveillance state. The frogs have realized the water is boiling and they are trying to jump out of the pot . It is a demonstration of what ordinary people can accomplish. The state is powerful, but it is not invincible. Doomscrolling can make people forget that and lose hope. This is what the ruling class wants, hopeless people who think resistance is futile and just watch more tiktok instead of doing anything about the egregious violations of their rights occuring on a daily basis. But as deflock has shown, things are NOT hopeless as long as people are willing to stand together against those who want to enslave them. So keep fighting the good fight, privacy is an essential element of a free society. There are still many people who don't even realize what a Flock Camera is or why it is so dangerous, so a lot of work remains. If we sustain the momentum we have now though, Flock Safety cameras will be a bad memory soon enough. If so, then what? Well then we move on to the next surveillance apparatus and dismantle it until our privacy, freedom, and dignity are restored. No, you will not be scanning my face. No, you will not be verifying my identity just to use the internet. No, you will not be listening to my conversations. No, you don't need to know what I spend my money on. #Deflock it all. #privacy #flock #surveillance

Give your children the experience of using cash early and often. Normalize it for them or they will end up like all the other kids using payment apps for everything. The government will track every transaction they make from childhood to adulthood. It's up to you to teach them about cash because their peers aren't going to do it.

In Minecraft, it would be cool if some brave soul stuck hidden GPS trackers on every cop car and made a super secret app to track them all 24/7. Then you could theoretically avoid most encounters with the state.

Consider forgoing the incremental gain in convenience you get from using payment apps and debit cards and using cash instead. If people don't use cash, eventually they will be able to get rid of it without anyone protesting. If noone uses cash, businesses won't feel the need to accept it. We will have voluntarily switched entirely to a system where every cent is monitored. We can delay this aspect of our dystopia by simply taking the little bit of effort to use cash more often. This is something anybody can do to make a difference and gain more freedom for themselves and others. There is a pratical advantage as well, it is psychologically harder to spend cash than to swipe a card or use your phone. You are parting with a physical representation of your time and labor, it makes it real. Use cash.

I see a lot of people confused about what Flock cameras actually are. This is not just an automated license plate reader to catch amber alerts and stolen vehicles. It is so much worse. These cameras are logging license plates and car details such as dents and bumper stickers billions (with a B) of times a month, saving those movements into a database and correlating that data with a myriad of other data points. A cop can enter something like a telegram handle, phone number, email, SSN, or even just a keyword and get every car associated with that data point, and study the exact movements of those cars over an extended period of time. All without a warrant. With that kind of data they can learn everything about your entire life. Who you hang out with, who you fuck, what medical problems you have, how often you drink, etc. Why do they need to collect and store this kind of information on law abiding citizens? It's not to protect you. If someone is a danger to society, go present evidence to a judge and get a fucking warrant. Otherwise, fuck off. This kind of surveillance power should not be trusted to law enforcement. There have already been dozens of confirmed cases of police officers using the database to stalk innocent people. If this many have been caught, how many have gotten away with it? Law enforcement officers are well known to commit domestic violence at a much higher rate than civilians. Before Flock the victims of these abusers could at least move away and hide from them, now they can't hide because we have handed their abusers the keys to a powerful surveillance system with little oversight and no warrant requirements. #deflock

Flock Safety's new plant is allegedly located at 1885 Mitchell Rd, Smyrna, GA 30082 https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/TheJeffPutnam/status/2076283984825225677#m #deflock

New Hampshire just signed into law some awesome homeschooling legislation. "- Eliminates mandatory homeschool notification requirements. - Removes mandatory annual evaluation and recordkeeping requirements. - Clearly recognizes a parent’s right to establish a home education program. - Preserves parents’ ability to voluntarily maintain records, transcripts, and certificates of completion. - Limits unnecessary government involvement in home education" I sound like a boomer but there was a time in this country, before boomer existed, when you could be raised/educated and live your entire life without the federal government even knowing you existed. Society did not collapse. Now they are all up in your shit from the second you are born, to a disturbing degree. I sincerely believe keeping your children out of the public school system is important for their future and America's future. Homeschooled students also outperform public school students on standardized tests by 15-25% and are more likely to be accepted to college.

Time to educate some juries about jury nullification, I have a feeling we are going to see more of these cases. Freedom minded people need to make sure that anyone who gets arrested for dismantling #flock cameras should get instantly bailed out and lawyered up and that people know they will be covered if they get caught. It costs more to put these up than it does to destroy them. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/air-force-engineer-accused-cutting-down-ai-cameras-becomes-unlikely-hero-raises-thousands

Kids are cutting down and destroying flock cameras around the country. It warms my heart and gives me hope for humanity.

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I could care less what the will of the majority is. I know the difference between right and wrong and your elections, laws, and judges don't change natural rights. The majority agreeing that a tyrant should be in charge doesn't legitimize tyranny. Legislators voting to spend your money on killing children doesn't make that acceptable. Democracy doesn't make crime ok. If you hurt someone or take their property without their consent, you are a criminal. It doesn't matter what words on a piece of paper say, it doesn't matter what douchebags in robes say, it doesn't matter who voted for what. Crime is crime. Your whole life you have been taught that democracy is some kind of holy system that we should spread around the entire world in some kind of crusade. Democracy, whether representational or direct, is just a scam to make you accept being a slave.

Yes it sucks that Americans get less vacation time or whatever than Europeans. No the answer is not to force all businesses to give employees more paid time off. The answer is to get the government the fuck out of the way so good things can happen naturally for workers. There would be more employers to choose from, more competition for skilled and unskilled workers, and thus better benefits if the government would stop interfering with the free market. They purposely craft regulations to protect a few corporations at the expense of people trying to start new businesses.

Voting for the lesser of two evils just legitimizes evil.