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Alan Siefert
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The final attack on Bitcoiners will be sanctions. I.e “if you do business with these people your company is done.”

How dependent are Central and South American countries, generally, on the IMF’s good graces?

Getting message that you didn’t set up your LN wallet.

I’m white and almost 7ft tall…but nothing AI can’t fix!

What should my fake job history for the eventual Meta/LinkedIn nuke be? I must be able to associate convincing AI-generated pics. Best idea before the end of the night gets 1000 sats.

Glad I deleted Twitter long ago. Strongly considering replacing my LinkedIn and Facebook accounts (neither of which I’ve updated in years) with fake chaff information and AI generated pics. nostr:note1qkjeksmmpfp78kzxensumw95c32k99cmw8ay8vzrmdclupcqueks5yupp7

This is pretty wild. The tech will only improve and get more ubiquitous. Don’t expect privacy in public places. https://www.engadget.com/wearables/students-used-metas-smart-glasses-to-automatically-dox-strangers-via-instagram-streams-170228496.html

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Lots of chatter on the airwaves and in print lately probing the limits of free speech, the justifications for censorship and the future viability of the US constitution. It was a talking point in last night's VP debate as well, during which Walz recited the folk-loresy understanding of the issue: "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater."

Here's a PSA on this little gem a bit in case you ever find yourself up against it.

The phrase comes from supreme court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr during the 1919 case Schenck v United States. Anyone unfamiliar with this case might be shocked to learn that it had nothing to do with shouting fire, or with any kind of mischievous, anti-social trouble-making whatsoever. At stake was the printing and mailing of pamphlets to draft-eligible men that made the case that the draft was against their constitutional rights and inviting citizens to peacefully abstain. In other words, what was at stake in the trial were the defendants right to criticize perceived government transgression of the constitution, exactly what the first amendment was designed to ensure.

Amazingly, what was passed down to our collective memories about this episode is not the hard truth that governments will attempt to violate constitutional rights for their own, arguably nefarious, ends (a conceptual inheritance that would strengthen civic support for free speech), but rather the wildly inaccurate analogy of the crowded theater (an Orwellian description of the case that suggests government censorship is there to protect us and keep us safe). And even though the precedent of Schenck was overturned in 1969, the "fire in a crowded theater" litmus test still lingers as the operative heuristic for a great many Americans, including, apparently, one of the candidates for Vice President of the country.

“You can’t tell fire in a crowded theater” = “we can interpret whatever we want to be dangerous illegal speech.”

Unfortunately “Bitcoin is a risk-on asset” degens have deeper pockets than us.

The only nuclear power that I can see possibly becoming suicidal is a Russia that manages to stay unified behind Putin after a decisive loss in Ukraine. I see that as impossible though - if Ukraine is a decisive loss, Putin loses his head and Russia is under a new government. If (more likely) Ukraine ends in a ceasefire with frontlines relatively frozen at where they are now, Russia will call it a “win” and then gradually try to get on peaceful terms with everyone again and have sanctions lifted. Aggressive Russia will be nowhere to be found for a decade at least.

No, it’s not WWIII. The massive US show of force sent across the world combined with its global surveillance is going to work to prevent it. Because it works, you will be taxed much more heavily going forward to make GLOBAL POLICE even more powerful.

No WWIII

Yes higher taxes

The only thing that will stop this is the collapse of the US.

Eh, not really. It was designed to be easily compatible with C and not have to deal with the frustrations imposed on you by Rust.

The gravity of 58k sure is strong.

Hypothetically, what would happen if the US stopped propping up Israel with massive defense spending?