Agree. Besides, purple pill is already used by the TRP community as a term for someone who's not fully red-pilled.

I think it's fine for now, bit it'll become contentious when public figures join and they attract imitators. When that happens, integrations with other decentralised identity management systems (KILT protocol etc) will become more important, IMO.

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The pity is that we can clearly see, from veterinary diseases like Marek's disease, that 'leaky' vaccines cause great harm - even before we consider phenomena like antibody dependent enhancement and original antigenic sin. But politicians don't want to know; the media is bought; and scientific establishments are ideologically compromised.

In a few years people will look back at this time as a period of exceptional hubris, orders of magnitude worse than the Thalidomide scandal, and scream "why didn't you warn us?"

Sadly, we did.

Yes, I've seen - but presumably that pseudonymous address is still associated with my account within Telegram.

In my mind, one alternative timeline could have seen Twitter become the Outlook for open social media: ie. focussed on front-end features (customisable algorithms, lists, search, etc) with the protocol open, like Nostr is. Sure, it would have invited a lot of competition, but it would also have *reduced* it in many other dimensions (e.g. entirely different social networks). Still not sure why that didn't happen, TBH.

#[4] - I'm curious. You once said (in the context of Bluesky) that you envisaged Twitter being a client of open protocols. Why didn't you pursue that vision? Was it already too commercial by that point?

+1 for Ln.tips *BUT* I dislike the fact that it's tied to telegram and hence your phone number, so not ideal if you want full anonymity.

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I like this; we need more initiatives like it. It's all very well encouraging people to hodl bitcoin, but it will never become a fully-fledged financial system unless we get people trading staples, like food, with it.

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Thanks to all my zappers! Sorry I can't thank you individually!

Thank you for educating me!

Expect nothing useful from this account. Some of us are just here to shitpost whilst also helping overthrow the existing global financial system...

The much-publicised 'bans ' on BTC from 2021 didn't apply to HK, or were they never targeted at individuals? (Not that they would be easy to enforce, either way...)

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Bullish. But I wonder to what extent the move to create a 'crypto hub' is simply an attempt to prop up the failing property market there, and will backfire if investors see bitcoin as a safer haven than property or HK banks? If so, expect their Securities and Futures Commission to backtrack hastily in a few months...

IMO the lack of conflict here is due to:

(i) Early adopters having more in common with each other (e.g. love of tech); and discussions are more about building than politics

(ii) Even where we don't have opinions in common, we don't feel that 'wrong' opinions should be condemned or censored

(iii) Zaps & tips encourage positivity & cooperation rather than conflict

(iv) Also, lack of ease of quote retweeting helps, IMO: heaps of quote tweets on the bird app are encouraging followers to mock someone else.

Not much yet. I suspect it's partly because most early adopters have more in common than on twitter - though this will likely change as adoption increases. But also, I think the fact that it's more difficult to 'quote tweet' helps: many of the quotes on twitter are simply inviting followers to ridicule someone.

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Depends on age but: Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, 1984, Animal Farm, Robinson Crusoe, Brave New World, Farenheit 451, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, some Shakespeare & Dickens, How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes. Maybe then Lord of the Flies, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Gulag Archipelago, Atlas Shrugged, The Odyssey & The Iliad, The Trial.