While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us. Writers like Maureen Tkacik:
https://prospect.org/topics/maureen-tkacik/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless
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Right to repair and no copyright can be a national and individual counter strategy to aggression.
Who's human nature ? Several indigenous cultures do not have market economies.
So even from a linear perspective where civilization has progressed from primitive to advanced societies, the true "human nature" you are referring to would be in the past or right with us now too, far away from market economies.
Tzm is on x. Substack and patreon is best for him directly. He is very against crypto for good reasons.
There is a monero fork of nostr
Gold has an unlimited total supply and is similarly non-auditable. We will never know how much gold exists for certain the way we do bitcoin, and yet gold has been a SOV for centuries.
I know you know all this already, because others have tried to communicate these facts to you for a year if not two on Nostr.
Your best privacy deploy is not scalable to 8 billion people or even 1 billion.
Non technical people do not enjoy doing or want to do this kind of grinding just to use money.
Xmr is default private, custodial and as easy to use as a wallet app.
Hard forks are not a moment for a major community political mental breakdown in more focused projects.
1) show me where he actually linked that video. he didn't (and wont) because ot plays like a monero commercial.
2) here is that video. actually watch it and you'll see that they CANNOT "trace monero transactions." unless someone has connections to their malicious node without a proxy they aren't getting significant data about a sender.
https://v.nostr.build/D4Nzp22vRF35IRnz.mp4
3) you have no idea, as an end user , what privacy protections you are getting in any given LN tx. bolt12 is awesome and I look forward to to actually being functional tech. Until it is implemented and battle tested, it is NOT a privacy solution.
He did link, but your nostr client might have cut off the very last link