New substack about tech authoritarianism. Highlights from the first three editions: "Flock: You’re either pro-surveillance or you’re a terrorist." "America should out-open China on AI" "An American faces prison because GrapheneOS worked" "India fails to restrict Bitchat" p2p.coincenter.org

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Coin Center has a new publication focused on open & permissionless tech. In this issue of p2p: - Bitchat vs. India - GrapheneOS border search case - A collection niche items on open models and a bunch more stuff we found interesting p2p.coincenter.org/p/india-fail...

India fails to restrict Bitchat

+ GrapheneOS, a lot on Open Models, and more.

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America Should Out-Open China

Open networks won us the internet. Losing sight of that now would be a mistake.

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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.

Neeraj K. Agrawal@neerajka.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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.

Hong Kong police issues cash bounty for exiled democracy activists | CNN

Hong Kong police on Monday placed bounties on eight prominent democracy activists in self-imposed exile overseas, offering HK$1 million ($127,603) rewards each for information leading to their arrests...

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we're in the lifeboat folks

Bluesky@bsky.app · 3y ago

We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues. We’ll keep you updated when invite codes will resume functionality. We’re excited to welcome more users to our beta soon!

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