It's wild to me to hear politicians hinting at the possibility of armed conflict with China over Taiwan in the name of "national security", when by "national security" they really just mean the ability of US corps to use global labor arbitrage to get cheap silicon for their products so they can maximize their profits. Like, if Apple, Google, etc need Taiwanese silicon to keep their companies in the black, then they can feel free to send security forces over there. Don't ask me to help pay for it.
Maybe we can convince NPR to come on over.
I was actually just wondering yesterday if it would be possible to migrate Twitter onto the nostr protocol.
Fun fact: Blockstream Jade is one of only two hardware wallets that have implemented anti-exfil, a mitigation that keeps your hardware wallet from leaking private key material i.e. all of your bitcorn. https://help.blockstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/9641573399961-What-is-Anti-Exfil-and-how-does-it-work-
What’s the other? ColdCard?
Somewhere out there is the person who will be the last remaining Elon stan, and that person will have a solid claim to being the saddest person on Earth.
Great piece. As others have mentioned already, you should set up zaps so we can tip you for the article. Micropayments are the future.
Cut my grass for the first time of the year today while listening to you read “The Fiat Standard” actually. It was a good weekend.
Couldn’t read the article because of the paywall but this is one of the dumbest tweets I’ve seen in awhile.
I live in MS and didn’t realize this. Great to hear.
Imagine paying $8/mo to the richest man in the world to use a free website where he gets to decide what content you get to share.
Every decision he makes is the decision you would make if your goal was to hasten the demise of Twitter.
A feed that contains all the notes from everyone I follow in chronological order. Amazing!