About a week after we rescue nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 from his Brazilian jungle hideout.
Yep. Steve is full of shit. 
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Proof of work QR code.
Personally I rely on Tim Cook and Elon exclusively.
For the above reasons proof of work and base cost in communicating is likely the best approach to offset this near limitless abuse capability of targeting individuals on mass.
I’d imagine Bitcoin is also part of the solution here too. We need to increase the cost of mass manipulation to above a reasonable threshold that’s possible today by state actors (typically being the largest players).
The future influences are impersonating targeted AI bots. Far superior to humans faking it and selling a fake life. AI will whisper into your ear with personalised messages.
That’s the real danger of AI. Not some bullshit take over all machines the FANGG founders float as reality. Even if it ends there, that’s many decades after the above has significant impact first. Arguably greater impact unless curl-tailed, due to its damage to human culture and social behaviour.
Imagine a world war that syphons 1-3% of an enemy GDP using these targeted AI bots, or maybe 5-10% if it targets business decision makers too. No rockets launched. No contagion let loose.
Targeting individuals on mass is the real danger. And it’s about to become cheap and extremely effective.
“AI, Person X has the following interests, connections, and has visited the following websites recently. Write a highly targeted ad, masked as a blog post, that you intend for them to click and optimally buy from, maximising commission. The only goal is making money.”
Now do this 100s of times per day until we extract all their wealth.
Google and Bezos Playbook 2.0
Interesting read about the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic.
“Mask wearing gained considerable popularity as an emblem of public spiritedness and discipline. Newspapers carried instructions on how to make and launder them”
“Still, gauze masks had their detractors within the public health community. One notable critic was the Detroit health commissioner, Dr. J.W. Inches, who declared “.. . these masks are worthless.” They were so porous that not only “.. . a mosquito could jump through them,” he remarked, but, “I have sprinkled granulated sugar through them,” telling proof that a microbe could get through the mask's defenses. Inches thought masks might have some utility for doctors and nurses treating flu victims, but for the ordinary citizen, the use of an ordinary paper napkin that could be destroyed after each use was far more advisable. (Dr. Inches was ahead of his time, anticipating the rise of disposable paper handkerchiefs in the 1920s.)”
Amazing how the world wide government effort to promote and educate how to handle a used mask (even how to take off a soiled mask safely) or how to launder a reusable mask was literally zero. Common sense would infer it’s the most risky part - touching likely contaminated materials.
We had clear evidence from July 2020 how air-conditioning location and positioning impacted spread (link below). Yet somehow we were told it was ‘droplet only’ and cloth masks worked? Only later was it admitted to be aerosol - meanwhile hospitals had been treating Covid as aerosol from day one…
“Virus transmission in this outbreak cannot be explained by droplet transmission alone. Larger respiratory droplets (>5 μm) remain in the air for only a short time and travel only short distances, generally <1 m (2,3). The distances between patient A1 and persons at other tables, especially those at table C, were all >1 m.”
“Yet they also learned from the 1918–1919 pandemic that it was exceedingly difficult to get an urban population to stay at home. People needed to work so they could eat; parents wanted their children to go to school; businesses dependent on customers, whether department stores or movie theater operators, did not want to close down. Hence, the most practical strategy was not unlike that arrived at for TB control: move quickly to isolate the acutely ill in hospital wards or at home, under the care of professional nurses or Red Cross-trained volunteers well schooled in infection control; and direct an intensive public education effort about personal hygiene to everyone else.”
Interesting read about the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic.
“Mask wearing gained considerable popularity as an emblem of public spiritedness and discipline. Newspapers carried instructions on how to make and launder them”
“Still, gauze masks had their detractors within the public health community. One notable critic was the Detroit health commissioner, Dr. J.W. Inches, who declared “.. . these masks are worthless.” They were so porous that not only “.. . a mosquito could jump through them,” he remarked, but, “I have sprinkled granulated sugar through them,” telling proof that a microbe could get through the mask's defenses. Inches thought masks might have some utility for doctors and nurses treating flu victims, but for the ordinary citizen, the use of an ordinary paper napkin that could be destroyed after each use was far more advisable. (Dr. Inches was ahead of his time, anticipating the rise of disposable paper handkerchiefs in the 1920s.)”
Amazing how the world wide government effort to promote and educate how to handle a used mask (even how to take off a soiled mask safely) or how to launder a reusable mask was literally zero. Common sense would infer it’s the most risky part - touching likely contaminated materials.
We had clear evidence from July 2020 how air-conditioning location and positioning impacted spread (link below). Yet somehow we were told it was ‘droplet only’ and cloth masks worked? Only later was it admitted to be aerosol - meanwhile hospitals had been treating Covid as aerosol from day one…
“Virus transmission in this outbreak cannot be explained by droplet transmission alone. Larger respiratory droplets (>5 μm) remain in the air for only a short time and travel only short distances, generally <1 m (2,3). The distances between patient A1 and persons at other tables, especially those at table C, were all >1 m.”
Real or fake, governments fail at their most basic purpose - to protect individuals property rights and access - in this case from big tech.. but anyone else.
How is even the possibility of this, which isn’t far fetched, a complete utter failure of government’s very existence?
Corporation control and ownership don’t belong in your home. Nor government. Nothing good comes from it.
A Corporate Home Invasion Act should exist. nostr:note159wuzutsdp08dl9su4fnfchtajezed5ukxdc2l7ccn8wj45qltuscnacfx
Why #bitcoin? 
Agree.
I suppose nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 is referring to the act of parsing already posted notes.
When posting every web clients should absolutely replace URLs to their own domains with the nostr: scheme. Bonus point: offer the option to replace other web client URLs too.
I would put this in a NIP.
Yep. Certainly clients can create their own custom experience and allow users to have options/choices on how to handle interactions. The published event content should be agnostic.
Like open url in an internal app web browser, open a different app. Or a podcast event with a mini-player, vs a dedicated (Nostr supported) podcast app. Same as select a preferred Lightning wallet.
The only real incentive to use custom is lead-gen or bring new people to your client app - but again, it’s a self-serving approach and not for the greater good.
I think bespoke client URLs/links in events are an anti-pattern. Clients die. References should be more durable with a 10-20+ year outlook.
It’s much easier to control businesses (and indirectly people) because there are far fewer businesses and businesses have money - meaning you can bankrupt them, which is literally the opposing reason for a business to exist.
The general public focus too much on laws that target people and less about laws that impact business and have downstream impacts on the public.
A good example is the taxi license system before ride sharing. Taxi drivers don’t appear to be better drivers or less likely to have the odd violent or unsuitable drivers. I have no data, however I’d imagine ride share drivers are perhaps more careful and safer drivers.
This is an example of a business law that impacted everyday people globally - and for what? Hitchhiking laws? Fear of missed tax collection? The fantasy of safer drivers who take some single day taxi driving course?
NB. Uber is still a crap company..
* may be a way to start decoupling now we have a better financial system. #bitcoin
The issue with businesses is that governments have too much control over them.. which leads to an erosion of fundamental human rights.
Alice can’t pay Bob, because Bob may be a terrorist, and company X complies with broad scoped, unfair, far exaggerated ‘legalities’ - unless it is in their business plan and they fight for it or accept future fines. It’s the same repeating playbook.
It stifles innovation, causes abuse of power and corrupts.
Distributed entities or DOWs or a country that doesn’t seek to play the broken power game. nostr:note1z0r9uvjh72p5lmg7n0fhy7lgv0ax3zdczesc4k2nnfvz6wjh23zsk7mjj3
Australia bank just sent this. Fiat is not your money.. it’s children being allowed to spend when the government benefits or banks say you can. 
Jailbreaking, device chips like Bluetooth and wifi, etc too.