Top 15 Freedom Tech Projects of 2025 - Human Rights Foundation

https://hrf.org/latest/top-15-freedom-tech-projects-of-2025/

Some cool shit in there

If the below is correct, sparrow could be behind on privacy 😳

Current State: Sparrow Wallet has excellent support for BIP 78 (Classic Payjoin), where you must share a specific endpoint and be online.

• Async Plans: There is no public roadmap or active GitHub Pull Request indicating that BIP 77 support is imminent for Sparrow.

• The Likely Obstacle: Sparrow is built in Java, while the reference implementation for BIP 77 is in Rust.

• To support it, Sparrow would likely need to implement FFI (Foreign Function Interface) bindings to bridge the rust-payjoin library into their Java environment. This is a non-trivial engineering task compared to native Rust wallets.

Fascinating: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/12-nasa-satellite-images-that-tell-the-story-of-earth-in-2025/

Massive

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Change my view: voluntary outlasts coerced every time, all the time.

In the new Cold War, the United States should once again stand for freedom. When china tracks 1.4 billion individuals, the US should let its people live free. Free to think, free to express themselves. Free to spend and save without tracking, be it commercially or legally-motivated. Lead for freedom in allied nations as well. The US should remain a beacon of hope for those who will not accept being indirectly controlled at every turn.

I could see a bunch of people falling for this guy

A millionblocks in May 2028?

Can we stop calling it ad tech and start calling it what it is? Spying.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4gSokjaAfP1W9NTfkolzdJ

So epic

https://open.spotify.com/track/4SSvqXTOmiakqRc8NhxHBb?si=HJ-CDkYwRH6q3S29saI6BQ

I loved reading this article by the rage. They’re doing really good work over there https://www.therage.co/foucault-would-have-loved-balenciaga/

Panopticore

:(

#TheRage

2026 prediction: Apple wins big in AI.

They have the high efficiency chips. It will run locally. They get to flex privacy again.

You’ll know the empire has taken a knee when most of the culture it consumes comes from outside

Arc raiders is the multiplayer fallout that should’ve been

Unexpectedly, prediction markets will fix our loss of truth by enshrining trustworthy oracles.

https://electrek.co/2025/10/29/tesla-robotaxis-keep-crashing-despite-safety-monitors/#:~:text=when%20it%20comes%20to%20both%20ADS%20and%20ADAS%20crash%20reporting%2C%20Tesla%20abuses%20the%20redacting%20capacity%20and%20hides%20most%20information%20about%20its%20crashes%2C%20unlike%20most%20of%20its%20competitors.

Tonight in selfhosted land I faced a recalcitrant ghost/orphan container problem while trying to stand my fulcrum server back up. ChatGPT 5 helped me waste about an hour mostly doing the same thing over and over in different ways. Gemini 2.5 Pro nailed it in 10 minutes.

Some dude literally dropped a small bag and a tiny little spoon in my hand last time I was waiting for my friend in front of the restrooms at an EDM concert. Not just offered: given.

There’s no free lunch though. Still happy and proud I returned it all pronto, untouched.

I still love being able to stand but i find myself using it less and less as I’ve been ramping up working out.

What’s a good NIP-EE adoption tracker?