Use encryption and privacy preserving money

I think they are literally thinking along the lines of "i don't like crypto; ergo the risks that apply to the crypto sector do not apply to me"

This discussion of the legal risks in sending aid money to Palestinians is interesting

A friend's relative spent 15 years in prison for doing what Shah is asking randos to do online here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafil_A...

I hate the little airport bus with my life, I'm here to go whoosh through the sky, not to suffer through the indignity of driving around the tarmac in a shoddy vehicle

It seems substantive discussion of crypto policy has moved here so I’ll be here more too

Behind enemy lines

If people started using crypto to avoid this tax and lawmakers tried to close the loophole with unconstitutional restrictions on speech and software publication we'd happily fight it out in the courts.

The proposed 5% remittance tax in the ‘Big Beautiful Tax Bill’ does not apply to crypto transactions sent from self custody. And may not apply to transactions sent from hosted wallet providers either. New from Coin Center: www.coincenter.org/what-the-pro...

Back here to say watch out for impersonators on this platform too

this one is better

“decentralization” can be a scary word but eg look at custom feeds instead of our own blackbox algorithm, we’re turning it over to third-party users to create a marketplace of feeds that anyone can subscribe to. for us, third-party should feel as seamless as first-party — that’s decentralization

Hong Kong authorities have placed a HK$1 million bounty on the arrest of eight democracy activists living in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia.

we're in the lifeboat folks

i think i can say it here more safely so: the prometheum guy looks like an oblivion character

is pickleball really that annoying or is this another "lake is like a hot tub" situation

NOOOOO TURN TWITTER BACK ON I WAS A NICHE INTERNET MICROCELEBRITY

i'm beginning to suspect the destruction of twitter was orchestrated by my fiancé to get me off my phone

one of these would literally kill me. what am i gonna do with all this

realized it’s safe to talk about wedding stuff here bc a) there are fewer stalking freaks and b) i’m not giving her an invite

Nothing brings everyone together better than a classic Gensler Reg proposal

been going down a youtube rabbit hole of serial police impersonators getting arrested lately. it’s amazing how many there are. weird combo of ego, failing out of becoming a real cop, and (i assume) weird guys using their fake job to impress women

there were too many fawning articles about how great bluesky is a the twitter without elon. made this place kind of cringe for a minute

youtube shorts is a sleeper. tiktok rose on the strength of its recommendation algorithm. no one does that better than youtube

why did so many people assume elon paid for tucker to post his videos on twitter

Dearest mutuals, How are things back home? We hear that the king’s actions grow more vile, and the new aristocracy he has empowered are cruel. It is a wild but hopeful land here. Many have made the trip over. We still cannot block, which engenders much unpleasantness, but also opportunity.

bluesky now vs bluesky soon

joe forgot to mention that in the hypothetical tweet, the source ends up being a clip of the minister jokingly saying “sure why not (audience chuckles)” when asked the question

True moderation™ has never been tried.

everyone who is coming here talking about how it’s such a breath of fresh air and so much better than twitter is going to freak the fuck out when decentralized moderations starts to show its trade offs

met a genius today

it’s a race to get your tribe in here first so you have backup when people start bumping into each other

the other alt-twitters are too niche. this one has done a good job of attracting generalist posters who aren’t really experts in any one thing and more just in it for love of the game

we went thru this entire cycle already on masto where the nice well meaning progressives were outraged by "Mastodon" not being able to stop The Nazis from running their own servers with their own norms no one actually wants free speech

i don’t think the next generation cares if stephen king is on twitter. all the new celebrities are internet people who inexplicably have millions of followers. they will pay for twitter/social because that’s how they got famous to begin with

the first discourse has hit bluesky

german police are being sent to harass people who post porn on twitter https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/21/german-legislator-sends-cops-to-literally-police-twitter-for-porn/

good article about chainalysis https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/business/crypto-blockchain-tracking-chainalysis.html

costco hotdog blockchain oracle

wef is cooking with these 15 minute cities

how can i get ig the algorithm to show my fiancé anti-car anti-suburb propaganda

i don’t have the drive to be good on another social platform because i’m not depressed anymore

the horrible indian dude from love is blind is such a fascinating example of a type of indian guy that definitely exists irl

calling it now. this one has legs

it’s not a bbq until someone says maillard

not surprising but amazon delists items and censors information at the behest of authoritarian governments https://restofworld.org/2023/amazon-product-takedown-transparency/