Build, above all, a conception of yourself as a sovereign individual: not a subject, not a consumer, not a demographic, not a managed risk in someone else's actuarial table. A person. With irreducible agency. With a life that is, in the most radical and demanding sense, your own.
Build, above all, a conception of yourself as a sovereign individual: not a subject, not a consumer, not a demographic, not a managed risk in someone else's actuarial table. A person. With irreducible agency. With a life that is, in the most radical and demanding sense, your own.
9 hours ago
Which means the most revolutionary act available to you is not a protest. It is not a vote. It is not a post. It is a quiet, structural, compounding exit from the systems that depend on your participation to sustain themselves.
Which means the most revolutionary act available to you is not a protest. It is not a vote. It is not a post. It is a quiet, structural, compounding exit from the systems that depend on your participation to sustain themselves.
9 hours ago
Freedom and sovereignty are transactional in the most ruthless sense: you receive exactly as much as you are willing to claim and defend.
When you are free — genuinely, uncomfortably, nakedly free — you cannot blame the system for your outcomes, because you have stepped outside the system's protection as well as its control. You cannot appeal to institutions you have refused to recognize as legitimate. You cannot demand rights from a state whose authority you have rejected. Freedom and sovereignty are transactional in the most ruthless sense: you receive exactly as much as you are willing to claim and defend.
9 hours ago
It is easier to believe you are free and the system is just than to confront the alternative. The alternative is the abyss, that the institutions you were raised to revere exist primarily to manage and extract from you, and that your consent, manufactured from birth, is the most valuable commodity they produce.
This voluntary blindness is not stupidity. It is something more tragic. It is the profound human need for the story to make sense, for the authorities to be trustworthy, for the sacrifice to be worth something. It is easier to believe you are free and the system is just than to confront the alternative. The alternative is the abyss, that the institutions you were raised to revere exist primarily to manage and extract from you, and that your consent, manufactured from birth, is the most valuable commodity they produce.
9 hours ago
This is the ratchet mechanism of the modern state; it always clicks forward with every crisis, every panic, every solemn declaration that extraordinary measures are temporarily necessary. It never clicks back.
This is the ratchet mechanism of the modern state; it always clicks forward with every crisis, every panic, every solemn declaration that extraordinary measures are temporarily necessary. It never clicks back. As I write this, Tunisia has been living under a state of emergency since 2015 and it was recently extended by another 11 months to 31 December 2026. When the state of emergency was initially imposed, it was meant to be temporary. 10 years later here we are. The emergency powers of yesterday become the administrative infrastructure of tomorrow, and within a generation, no one remembers what it looked like before the ratchet turned.
9 hours ago
These agentic AI users don't care about curl. They don't care about Daniel or other open source maintainers. They just want to grab quick cash bounties using their private AI army. It's gotten so bad, GitHub added a feature to disable Pull Requests entirely. Pull Requests are the fundamental thing that made GitHub popular. And now we'll see that feature closed off in more and more repos.
11 hours ago
Gentoo is specifically migrating away from GitHub because Microsoft just can't keep its AI hands to itself. In its 2025 retrospective, published last month, Gentoo announced an initiative to migrate its mirrors from GitHub to Codeberg, "mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories."
17 hours ago
It does not arrive with a community of like-minded individuals who will affirm your choices and tell you that your liberation is valid and your journey is brave.
It does not arrive with a community of like-minded individuals who will affirm your choices and tell you that your liberation is valid and your journey is brave.
17 hours ago
Real freedom is challenging because it is inseparable from real responsibility.
Real freedom is challenging because it is inseparable from real responsibility.
17 hours ago
The cage builds itself around you while you argue about which cage decorator you prefer.
The cage builds itself around you while you argue about which cage decorator you prefer.
18 hours ago
The cage is most effective when the bird cannot conceive of the sky.
The cage is most effective when the bird cannot conceive of the sky.
19 hours ago
T​he cage is
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19 hours ago
Real freedom means looking at the life you are living and asking, with genuine ruthlessness, how much of it is yours. How much of what you want is what you actually want, and how much was inserted into you by marketing departments with billion-dollar budgets and neuroscience consultants?
Real freedom means looking at the life you are living and asking, with genuine ruthlessness, how much of it is yours. How much of what you want is what you actually want, and how much was inserted into you by marketing departments with billion-dollar budgets and neuroscience consultants? How much of what you fear is real danger, and how much is manufactured anxiety; the low-grade, pervasive dread that keeps populations manageable, that makes the promise of security feel worth any price?
20 hours ago
Bitcoin does not fix human nature. It does not make evil people honest or powerful people humble. What it does is narrower and far more important: it creates an exit from a specific type of coercion; the monetary kind. The kind where your savings can be diluted by decree. The kind where your account can be frozen by a phone call. The kind where capital flows toward the politically connected and away from everyone else through mechanisms rendered invisible because they run through institutions you were taught to trust.
Bitcoin is not a revolution. It does not petition. It does not protest. It simply runs, indifferent to whoever is in office, whoever controls the courts, whoever owns the media cycle this week. Bitcoin does not fix human nature. It does not make evil people honest or powerful people humble. What it does is narrower and far more important: it creates an exit from a specific type of coercion; the monetary kind. The kind where your savings can be diluted by decree. The kind where your account can be frozen by a phone call. The kind where capital flows toward the politically connected and away from everyone else through mechanisms rendered invisible because they run through institutions you were taught to trust.
20 hours ago
You cannot reform an institution whose fundamental architecture is designed for your containment. You cannot petition your way to sovereignty. You cannot vote your way out of tyranny or for a candidate who will dismantle the very machinery that elevated them. Revolutions beg the old power to step aside and usually install a new version of the same arrangement.
You cannot reform an institution whose fundamental architecture is designed for your containment. You cannot petition your way to sovereignty. You cannot vote your way out of tyranny or for a candidate who will dismantle the very machinery that elevated them. Revolutions beg the old power to step aside and usually install a new version of the same arrangement. The state does not produce liberty but it only produces managed, licensed, permissioned approximations of liberty, and it extracts a toll for every inch.
20 hours ago
1. Isso é bem mais complexo do que você imagina. Há três realidades que precisam ser entendidas: o fato de que todos são imagem de Deus (há algo bom); de que todos são pecadores (há algo mau a ser abandonado) e de que a transformação vem por meio da união com Cristo (Evangelho). 2. Ninguém melhora se não aceitar os dois primeiros fatos (a imagem de Deus e o pecado). Só aí o Evangelho se torna transformador. E só o Evangelho transforma de verdade.
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“I've got three little kids,” he says, “and we're at the point where our oldest is starting to use digital things. It's a one-way door, right? Every time you add your name to a website, every time you put a picture of yourself online, you really can't get it back. The Internet is a copy machine.”
2 days ago
Be a parent. It is not the internet’s job to cater to your lack of parenting by just letting your kid online. Fucking lazy trash ass parents just sit a kid in front of a computer or an iPad and then are stunned when apparently they find bad shit. Be a parent. Be involved in your kids’ life. Raise your children. Don’t make it the internet’s job to do that for you. 
#kubo #kidstr
2 days ago
DMCA notices have been sent to all publicly available “Nintendo Switch emulators” and “Yuzu-based forks” on GitHub, and the emulation community is in an uproar. The repositories hosting these are highly likely to be deleted or disabled as early as tomorrow or within the next few days.
3 days ago
making the cost of deletion prohibitive.
Both realize that information can and should be copied, as it can be perfectly read and easily spread, always. Both understand that resistance to censorship comes from writing to many places, making the cost of deletion prohibitive.
making the cost of deletion prohibitive.
Both realize that information can and should be copied, as it can be perfectly read and easily spread, always. Both understand that resistance to censorship comes from writing to many places, making the cost of deletion prohibitive.
s of information, not against them. Both realize that information can and should be copied, as it
The signal is: when the bank that tried to kill Bitcoin is telling you it’s cheap, and the fear index is in the teens, and positioning is washed out… That’s the setup. Pay attention.
The signal is: when the bank that tried to kill Bitcoin is telling you it’s cheap, and the fear index is in the teens, and positioning is washed out… That’s the setup. Pay attention.
4 days ago
The form of credit an economy uses determines the form of society it produces. The bill of exchange was the credit instrument of a society organized around production; the government bond is the credit instrument of a society organized around extraction.
The form of credit an economy uses determines the form of society it produces. The bill of exchange was the credit instrument of a society organized around production; the government bond is the credit instrument of a society organized around extraction.
4 days ago
The relay accepted the event. No committee. No review board. No permission required.
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5 days ago
He built things. She wrote things. Somewhere in between, they started building something neither had planned.
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5 days ago
Permission granted. Two words that meant nothing on a permissionless protocol.
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5 days ago
Every conference was the same — men explaining Bitcoin to each other while pretending to listen.
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5 days ago
Shittier Twitter. That's what her friends called it. She'd stopped correcting them.
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5 days ago