caliper-wielding grifters who claim they can use your phone's camera to distinguish a child who is 17 years, 364 days old from an adult who's just turned 18
ShopinBit behauptet zudem, der weltweit einzige Reisedienstleister zu sein, der mit Monero bezahlt werden kann.
ShopinBit behauptet zudem, der weltweit einzige Reisedienstleister zu sein, der mit Monero bezahlt werden kann.
Stablecoins did not invent dollar access for the global poor. They inserted an opaque counterparty into a route that already existed, and they market the substitution as if it were the dollar itself.
The Stasi didn't need to arrest everyone; they just needed everyone to know they could be arrested. The modern digital equivalent is knowing that your "suspicious" AI queries are logged under your real name.
The implications for political dissent, intellectual exploration, and human autonomy are catastrophic. When your AI queries are tied to your legal identity, you will self-censor. You will avoid controversial topics. You will stick to safe, state-approved inquiries because the cost of curiosity is too high. The Stasi didn't need to arrest everyone; they just needed everyone to know they could be arrested. The modern digital equivalent is knowing that your "suspicious" AI queries are logged under your real name.
The Fable 5 suspension was never about genuine national security concerns. It was the manufactured crisis that justified the solution they already wanted to implement. Create the problem, offer the pre-planned remedy. It's the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook,
My Spidey senses are leaning hard toward an uncomfortable truth, which is that KYC was always the endgame. The Fable 5 suspension was never about genuine national security concerns. It was the manufactured crisis that justified the solution they already wanted to implement. Create the problem, offer the pre-planned remedy. It's the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook, and Silicon Valley is now reading from it verbatim.
This is what people did in 1992 when they elected John Major, they stuck at it, showed resolve, with good humour and a stiff upper lip. They were the Stoics that contributed to “peak human civilization”, people may disagree with this statement, am I right? Definitely maybe.
This is what people did in 1992 when they elected John Major, they stuck at it, showed resolve, with good humour and a stiff upper lip. They were the Stoics that contributed to “peak human civilization”, people may disagree with this statement, am I right? Definitely maybe.
signed receipts at each relay
What is interesting about Thurn und Taxis for the builder of modern decentralized logistics is the way the network managed trust at scale. The family could not personally vouch for each of twenty thousand employees. Instead the system relied on standardized procedures, sealed pouches, signed receipts at each relay, and a culture of accountability enforced by the knowledge that the family's commercial existence depended on the integrity of its couriers. When letters were lost or tampered with, the family conducted internal investigations, fired the responsible parties, and compensated the senders. The reputation of the network was a capital asset, and the family invested in protecting it the way a modern firm invests in its brand.
“A gente começa porque tem jeito para escrever e depois termina porque não tem jeito de parar. O prazer de escrever, eu não tenho. O que eu gosto, realmente, é de reescrever o material – alguns não gostam. A página em branco me dá uma grande angústia. Não sei se a frase seguinte vem, se vou conseguir fazer o segundo capítulo... Tenho um sentimento de impotência quando termino um livro; acho que não vou conseguir fazer outro nunca mais e fico muito conflituado; as pessoas começam a exigir que escreva outro livro. Acho que escrevo um livro exatamente porque fracasso. Se fizesse um bom livro, que satisfizesse plenamente, não precisava escrever mais. A gente escreve porque fracassa, e fracassa menos quem ambiciona mais.”
importante é entender o porquê desejamos tanto escrever, mas não podemos nos tornar escritores.acredito que seja porque, para se tornar um escritor, seria preciso adular as pessoas corretas, que são gatekeepers de novos escritores; seria necessário frequentar cursos e grupos pagos, e investir muito tempo e dinheiro nesses meandros que nos dão o segredo - não o segredo da arte literária - mas dos afetos e reconhecimentos que abrem nosso caminho para um prêmio ou contrato com uma editora.
The most viral and innovative element of Nostr, a feature called by some “the moat” of Nostr apps, is, of course, the Zap.
Unless theapostle John is 2000 years old and still living somewhere, the Bibleteaches the coming of Christ is in our past, not in our future
ultimately, the Old Covenant is the covenant of the original garden of Eden. Ultimately there are two covenants, Old and New. There are two Adams, Adam and Jesus. There are two heavens and earth, the first in Adam and the second in Christ.
Inequality, they all understood, isn’t the envious complaint of petty people. It is, indeed, a plague.
Six years ago, Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now was a runaway bestseller. Though stuffed with references to figures like David Hume and Immanuel Kant, it was sold in airport bookstores along with the latest offerings from Bob Woodward and Stephen King. In a chapter on inequality, the Harvard psychologist described “the second decade of the 21st century” as a time when “economic inequality has become an obsession.” He cited Pope Francis, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump, all of whom seemed to assume in one way or another that rising inequality was a problem. Pinker was puzzled by this “obsession.” Perhaps, he speculated, these critics were mixing up inequality with some distinct concept like poverty.
If the rules of meritocratic competition are reasonably fair, and no one at the bottom is starving, wrote Pinker, what reason could there be but “spiteful envy” for caring if the gap between the top and the bottom is two to one or three to one or a million to one? Why should anyone mind if some people live in mansions, attended by small armies of servants, while others worry about how to pay the rent for their cramped apartments? So long as the best and brightest people who grow up in those apartments can make it to Harvard, and none of them ends up living under bridges, all is well with the world.
Commenting on this in his new book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, David Lay Williams notes that it is “perhaps unsurprising” that “Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest men in the world,” championed Enlightenment Now as his “new favorite book of all time.” While future editions of The Greatest of All Plagues are unlikely to come with glowing quotes from the likes of Gates, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos, Williams’s book has several virtues. The first and most obvious is that it puts to rest the idea that concern about economic inequality is a peculiar obsession of our own century. As with Enlightenment Now, its subject matter falls within the standard Western canon of “great books.” There are chapters devoted to Plato, the New Testament, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx. There are also substantial guest appearances by everyone from Plutarch and Thucydides to Aristotle to Alexis de Tocqueville to John Rawls. The reasons these figures worried about inequality sometimes overlapped and sometimes diverged—but they all saw it as a serious problem. Inequality, they all understood, isn’t the envious complaint of petty people. It is, indeed, a plague.
Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Plato wrote, “it is impossible that those who become very rich also become good.”
It’s no wonder that when Socrates reflected on inequality in Plato’s “Republic,” he observed that a state characterized by significant wealth disparity is not a state at all but rather “two states, the one of poor, the other of rich men, and they are living on the same spot and always conspiring against one another.”
For Plato, the source of inequality was a disease of the soul that the Greeks called pleonexia — a kind of insatiable greed. In Plato’s “Gorgias,” Socrates likened this condition to a leaky jug: No matter how much water one pours into it, it will demand more. For some, the desire for money extends only so far as is necessary to cover their needs; for others, the desire is infinite. Plato likened those insatiable souls to slaves who are ruled by their desires.
Someone consumed with his unquenchable desires comes to love himself far beyond what he can feel for the rest of humanity. He was, for Plato, “a poor judge of what is just and good and noble,” because he would always treat his desires as more valuable even than the truth. As a consequence, Plato wrote, “it is impossible that those who become very rich also become good.”
A 100-foot long boat that’s 99% complete is going to sink before it leaves the dock. That gaping hole is more than enough to do it in.
On the other hand, a baked ziti that’s 99% as good as the best baked ziti ever made is exactly good enough to serve in any setting.
W Social is what happens when the establishment decides again that it wants its own internet: it finds the nearest community-built toolkit, rebrands it, performs openness long enough to land institutional credibility, then closes the door. The users become the product. The community becomes the unpaid resource. The mission statement becomes the marketing. Every platform that has ever done this looked like W Social at launch.
institutional credibility, then closes the door. The users become the product. T W Social is what happens when the establishment decides again that it wants its own internet: it finds the nearest community-built toolkit, rebrands it, performs openness long enough to land institutional credibility, then closes the door. The users become the product. The community becomes the unpaid resource. The mission statement becomes the marketing. Every platform that has ever done this looked like W Social at launch. : community infrastructure accountable to the people who use it, because those p
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Because a big part of this equation is people care, and people need care if they are to care for the land.
“Somente os totalitários parecem saber claramente como querem alcançar um resultado. O mundo livre tem apenas suas conquistas passadas para mostrar, sendo, por sua própria natureza, incapaz de oferecer qualquer ‘plano’ detalhado para um crescimento futuro.”
— Friedrich Hayek
Es braucht deshalb einen Airbus
für künstliche Intelligenz
Der Fall Anthropic zeigt, dass digitale Souveränität eine ökonomische Überlebensfrage ist...
Der einzige europäische KI‑Anbieter, der in dem Feld noch unterwegs ist, ist Mistral in Paris. Und selbst der tut sich schwer. Mistral konnte bislang bei Investoren vier Milliarden Dollar einsammeln. Der US-Rivale Anthropic dagegen etwas über 160 Milliarden Dollar.
Es braucht deshalb einen Airbus
für künstliche Intelligenz
Builders
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"I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos."
"I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos." [25]
O governo federal regulamentou uma norma que estabelece os procedimentos para a responsabilização tributária "solidária" de instituições financeiras, de pagamento e instituidores de pagamento que contribuam para a exploração irregular da modalidade lotérica de apostas de quota fixa, fortalecendo os mecanismos de fiscalização e controle do setor.
De acordo com a equipe econômica, a responsabilidade tributária solidária poderá ser caracterizada quando essas instituições, após comunicação formal e específica da Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas, continuarem permitindo ou processando transações destinadas à realização de apostas com empresas que não possuam autorização para operar no país.
"Se essa fintech movimentar recursos da bet, nós vamos cobrar o imposto que não é pago pela bet, nós vamos cobrar dessa fintech. Vamos cobrar imposto de renda, o Pis/Cofins, a contribuição destinada ao Ministério da Saúde. É isso que significa essa responsabilidade solidária das instituições financeiras e de pagamento", disse Barreirinhas.
Para o secretário da Receita Federal, a penalização dessas fintechs é necessária porque elas viabilizam a manutenção da atividade ilegal no Brasil.
"Portaria publicada responsabiliza as fintechs que insistam a fazer movimentação criminosa de recursos, que insistam em movimentar recursos de bets ilegais. A bet ilegal não existiria se não tivesse essa movimentação financeira", declarou.
AI systems generally perform better when everything is presented as text. Once they are forced to work with supporting documents, figures, or complex datasets, performance drops noticeably. GPT-Rosalind’s pass rate fell from 45.1 percent on text-only tasks to 28.1 percent on tasks involving artifacts or URLs.
the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33-52 percent of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15-44
A working paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research this month seemed like the most promising single-factor explanation yet: “Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence From AT&T’s 2007-2011 Carrier Monopoly” uses a natural experiment to correlate fertility decline with smartphone use. When Apple first rolled out the iPhone in June 2007, it was available only on AT&T’s network. The researchers mapped the geographic rollout of the phone between June 2007 and February 2011 (when AT&T stopped being the exclusive carrier) to compare fertility rates in those parts of the United States with and without the mobile phones.
“Overall,” the authors found, “the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33-52 percent of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15-44,” with the greatest decreases concentrated among teenagers and young adults from ages 15 to 24.
when you purchase shares through a brokerage, you do not, in any meaningful legal sense, own those shares. You own a "beneficial interest" in shares that are held in the name of the Depository Trust Company, a privately held monopoly that serves as the central securities depository for virtually all U.S. equities
The Federal Reserve's manipulation of price signals and BlackRock's dominance of index capital flows are visible mechanisms of market control, subjects of public debate, however inadequately reported. The mechanism turns on a legal distinction that almost nobody who owns stocks actually understands. As we have discussed in previous articles, when you purchase shares through a brokerage, you do not, in any meaningful legal sense, own those shares. You own a "beneficial interest" in shares that are held in the name of the Depository Trust Company, a privately held monopoly that serves as the central securities depository for virtually all U.S. equities. The DTC, through its subsidiary DTCC, is the registered owner of record for the overwhelming majority of publicly traded securities in America. You are, legally, an unsecured creditor of your broker, who is itself an unsecured creditor in a chain that terminates at the DTC.
The internet isn't territory the Crown grants entry to, but it's a decentralized mesh of voluntary connections, private servers, private devices; and the correct response to a state trying to install checkpoints on it, is to build around them.
Furthermore, the state has no legitimate property claim over the internet nor can the UK government claim jurisdictional authority over online activities. The internet isn't territory the Crown grants entry to, but it's a decentralized mesh of voluntary connections, private servers, private devices; and the correct response to a state trying to install checkpoints on it, is to build around them. The state's claim to "permission" who may speak, read, or associate online is a claim of ownership over other people's property and other people's minds. Mesh networks, peer-to-peer tools, decentralized identity systems that an individual controls rather than hands to a verification vendor, all of it routes around the chokepoint instead of asking the chokepoint nicely to be smaller. A petition to repeal the Online Safety Act has already cleared 450,000 signatures, and the VPN surge that followed Britain's earlier age-verification rules shows the public already understands this instinctively, even when the politicos don't.
"Ban VPNs" sounds, to most ears, like banning a niche tool for privacy enthusiasts. It isn't. A VPN is, at root, an encrypted tunnel, the same fundamental technology as the TLS connection your bank uses to verify your password, the HTTPS padlock on every checkout page that's ever held a credit card number
"Ban VPNs" sounds, to most ears, like banning a niche tool for privacy enthusiasts. It isn't. A VPN is, at root, an encrypted tunnel, the same fundamental technology as the TLS connection your bank uses to verify your password, the HTTPS padlock on every checkout page that's ever held a credit card number, and the encrypted link a remote employee uses to reach a company server from home. Legislating against "encrypted tunnels used to evade age checks" without legislating against encrypted tunnels as a category is not technically coherent, because the protocol has no way of knowing or caring what it's being used for. A law that meaningfully restricts VPN technology either fails against anyone determined to use one, obfuscation already defeats most detection; or it succeeds by weakening the infrastructure that e-commerce, online banking, and remote work all depend on. There is no version of this that inconveniences only teenagers.
Most people think in weekends.
Governments think in election cycles.
Corporations think in quarters.
Bitcoiners learn to think in decades.
The future belongs to those who can delay gratification longer than everyone else.
Most people think in weekends.
Governments think in election cycles.
Corporations think in quarters.
Bitcoiners learn to think in decades.
The future belongs to those who can delay gratification longer than everyone else.
A society committed to equal liberty must enforce the norms that allow millions of strangers to coexist in dense urban environments. When homeless encampments colonize public parks, or the mentally ill take over public bathrooms, or addicts shoot up and drop needles in school zones, a small number of disruptive actors are effectively allowed to privatize public space. Everyone else loses the freedom to use it.
This conflation leads us away from solutions and toward the sad conclusion that urban disorder is the inevitable price of American liberty. But it’s actually the opposite that’s true.Disorder is not a consequence of political individualism. It’s a failure to enforce it.
Starmer's plan also requires manufacturers like Apple and Google to build content-filtering software directly into devices sold in the UK, unlockable only by proving you're an adult, with fines and criminal liability for noncompliance. The state isn't regulating an app anymore, but is reaching into the hardware as well.
This diabolical plan doesn't stop at the platforms. Starmer's plan also requires manufacturers like Apple and Google to build content-filtering software directly into devices sold in the UK, unlockable only by proving you're an adult, with fines and criminal liability for noncompliance. The state isn't regulating an app anymore, but is reaching into the hardware as well. As history has shown many times before, once that capability exists; the facial scans, the ID uploads, the device-level gates, it does not stay quietly confined to the original justification. Infrastructure built for one emergency is infrastructure available for the next, and the one after that.
Apple muda iOS no Brasil após acordo com órgão regulador
Usuários poderão abandonar a App Store e baixar aplicativos de marketplaces alternativos.
Official EU institutional data, moved to a private, for-profit, Swedish-incorporated company, one that had, the very same weekend, quietly deleted its public source code repository. The institutions that moved may not have known. That's arguably more alarming than if they had.
When Donald Trump launched TruthSocial in 2021, his team needed a social network fast. So they took Mastodon, a free open-source platform built by a community of volunteers, stripped out the branding, and relaunched it as their own.
W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent. Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.
The global shift, she continued, can be traced to one common cause: the increased agency of women
“The fertility decline is just about everywhere,” said Goldin...
The wealthier Middle Eastern countries had birth rates around six or seven children per woman, but the United Arab Emirates “has a birth rate now that is lower or about the same as baby-scarce Japan,” dipping “to about 1.2,” Goldin said, while the birth rate in Saudi Arabia is 2.3...
The global shift, she continued, can be traced to one common cause: the increased agency of women
Voxboard is a public feedback board (in the spirit of Canny or Featurebase), built entirely on the Nostr
protocol. Boards are NIP-72 communities, ideas and replies are NIP-22 comments, votes are NIP-25
reactions, and tips are NIP-57 zaps. There is no custodial database of record: clients sign and publish
to relays, and the app aggregates the result at read time. (NIP-72 is marked "unrecommended" in favor of
NIP-29, which puts the relay in charge of the group. Voxboard stays on NIP-72 so the owner stays in charge
and boards stay portable.
Brazilians love a word ending in -agem: bobagem, sacanagem, bagagem, viagem, mensagem, imagem, garagem, passagem, paisagem, vantagem, desvantagem, coragem, homenagem, reportagem, filmagem, lavagem, montagem.
Fuck cancer.
Supporters of open source protocols argue that instead of handing power to state regulators or Silicon Valley, protocols like Nostr strip away corporate data tracking and predatory algorithms entirely. On a decentralized architecture, families can subscribe to customized, moderated relays or use cryptographic keys to co-manage accounts without relying on third party digital identity. Nostr projects like Kubo and active applications like Ditto prove that transparent, non-predatory social spaces are already viable.
As John Quiggin writes, the pre-2020 Musk was the Musk of Tesla, batteries and Starlink. The post-2020 Musk is the Musk of Starship, robotaxis, Cybertrucks and Twitter – a string of commercial flops and assets that literally exploded. I would add that post-2020 Musk created the world's hungriest money-furnace, an automated child-porn production tool called "XAI":
https://crookedtimber.org/2026/06/15/one-big-grift/
Callback’s custom software was developed with Jolla, the legendary ex-Nokia engineering team behind Europe’s independent, Sailfish OS.
“We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, Facebook, etc. can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently,” Triedman told 404 Media.
Mas ali a história era maravilhosa ― era a de um menino bem menor do que o garoto que controlava o cinema do avô. O neto mostrava o aquário para o velho, pois o avô era cego. Ele, o pequenino, descrevia tudo, com uma grande excitação; desde os tubarões mortíferos e assustadores até as engraçadas tartarugas e o velho se assombrava com ele, e se ria com ele. Depois, ao ar livre, pegando a mão do avô, o menino mostrou cabritos monteses e ambos riram alto, numa alegria partilhada em delícia. Mais adiante, pararam na pequena comunidade dos macacos e, diante da descrição do neto, o senhor alemão gargalhou a ponto de chorar pelos olhos vazados ― sabe Deus se pela guerra.
If we have a persistent, biometrically-protected, cross-device key, what if we could use it to do arbitrary cryptography rather than just authentication? As it turns out, we can. The WebAuthn PRF extension – while still relatively new – is now beginning to see fairly wide support:
fractional indexing inside encrypted blobs, sorted client-side – is nice because it hides everything. The server learns nothing about your folder names, nothing about their order, nothing about how often you rearrange them. All it sees is a collection of opaque ciphertexts and timestamps.
The main insight is that strings, unlike integers, have infinite room between any two values. Between “a” and “b” there’s “aV”. Between “a” and “aV” there’s “aK”. You can always find a midpoint. No matter how many times you reorder, you only ever update one folder.
just burned $3,200 USDC by sending to the all CAPS version of my own solana address.
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