If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. Julian Assange

Current read/rec:

Goodreads

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's…

The author has written a study that places George Orwel…

My mother was a voracious biography reader and so so was I at one time - so much context in them.

Bitcoin is still for enemies..

Wen Goose put ecash in its README emojis…

So easy to freeze 86 million bank accounts in Vietnam… Wake up and focus on how to stop that!

Bitchat is also for everyone .. ..even your enemies.

NGU can be used to tip better - Service workers, people who do work for you, etc #livevalues

Venn diagram of Bitcoin is cybersecurity solution (JLow cult) and Knots group…

Past age 18, people seem to not like getting older, or not realize they too will be whatever they deem as old. IF and only IF they are lucky. The alternative to aging is death by accident/disease/war/etc. "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love" - Marcus Aurelius tl;dr Check your "still living" privilege...

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.