Finally got to bitchat irl proximity with someone at a bitdevs meetup. We were having side convos about the content being presented.. …and I had/have no idea who it was.

The government understands the Prisoner’s Dilemma game theory way better than you… Get each side to be against the other so neither wins…

The right response is always to keep on trying to do the good you do with your one precious life…

No browser is perfect but I find that encouraging people to use Brave - for any reason - then gets them exposed to Brave’s “Privacy is Normal” messages. The more times you see it …

Going to a bitdevs where the first 3 agenda items are Core, Knots, Knobs. …

Talk with people about why privacy matters to them….every day. You will go to sleep having accomplished at least one good thing.

Be what you say you support in the world … ..to everyone. Act not talk (or just promote in bio)

This year is the last batch of high school and college coders who would have learned how to code manually. They are having a hard time getting hired now, but they may be much more valuable in the future (along with all of us who learned by manual coding and also appreciate vibe coding). Especially when the LLMs go down. We need a #bitchat LLM.

Security people go to events and mainly talk to security people. Privacy or cyberpunk people go to events and mainly talk to same. Bitcoiners go to Bitcoin events and same. It’s great for learning, ideas/sharing, hacking, and socializing. But it’s usually not changing the security, privacy and Bitcoin perspectives of the wider world. People every day on the ground taking the time to talk in their local and wider communities - do. And do.

Preaching to the choir is mainly about validation/likes and not changing the world.

Love the new #bitchat where I am not just bitch@‘ing at myself …

Brb.. Gonna fix a typo and become the next Knots “ConTrIBut0r ! For real!!!!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead would have said about #bitchat

Besides Venmo, another good way to talk to people about financial privacy and censorship is via its motherdeath ship PayPal. It’s an easy one to bring up in a lot of circumstances. For example: Was on a work mtg yesterday and was talking about common payment integration options on calendar services—-casually mentioned I won’t use PayPal. Why not, someone asked.

Really not a fan of the proclamation “Few” If few understand and you think it’s important, why are you not doing more to make it more than few.. More than a few who do that instead …

Free speech, but the unexamined, unresearched speech —might not be worth saying …

I just read this in a book (similar to the same for coding) ‘AI won’t take your pathologist job but pathologists using AI will take your job’

Inflation (PPI) came big for the veggies, and the veggie-haters said nothing. "Wholesale vegetable prices rose nearly 40% from June to July"

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Inflation Is Coming for Your Vegetables

Wholesale vegetable prices rose nearly 40% from June to July

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People often seem surprised that large corporations act like psychopaths. There was actually a 2003 documentary where they diagnosed corporations per the DSM - as just that.

The Corporation (2003 film) - Wikipedia