I always felt it will come to this. To finding holes in systems. Not that I desire it, but it will give me pleasure to work around damage which digital panopticons and control grids certainly are.

While we observe, warn, raise alarms, there are two things which give me a hope.

First) Algorithmic and AI systems are essentially stochastic. This means they have holes. A lesson from Lord of the Rings is that the more reach the surveillance apparatus has, the less resolution it has. To the point where 2 litttle hobbits'es can venture through 3 times and take it down.

The Nostr, the VPN, E2E sovereign, encrypted DNS, the tunnels, the Bitcoins, the ecash, the LoRas, the Reticulum Networks, all are the tools to create the pockets of freedom.

Second) These pockets are exactly

digital versions of "paralelni polis", something we've witnessed in soviet satellite states. As the state-approved reality is laid bare even in the eyes of the enforcers, they too have to sometimes step into the freedom pockets to get by. Thus supplanting and slowly eradicating the tyranny from within.

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