I've said this before but given "current topic", time to say it again: pattern-matching to the 90s winning of the crypto wars is just wrong. The political forces leading to full ID and monitoring of e...
I have mad respect for everything you've done for bitcoin privacy, but this post seems very blackpilled. I personally feel like all of these restrictions on Google and Apple devices are gonna make people want to use open source (and open hardware) even more.
Every time I read about restrictions going up in a part of the war, I also read about how vpn downloads are off the chart, etc.
With all of the craziness, I feel like we've hit peak tyranny in the sense that people are just not gonna go along with it. Maybe NPCs will go along with it, but I think the ranks of the awake are gaining in numbers.
Don't you think so?
For example, look at what happened with the vaccine mandates. They had to drop them, and not because they wanted to. It was just because a small percentage of people, maybe ten, fifteen, twenty percent of people said no.
Open weights AI models are also giving us tools to fight back against tyranny in many ways.
But maybe I'm too optimistic.
Every time I read about restrictions going up in a part of the war, I also read about how vpn downloads are off the chart, etc.
With all of the craziness, I feel like we've hit peak tyranny in the sense that people are just not gonna go along with it. Maybe NPCs will go along with it, but I think the ranks of the awake are gaining in numbers.
Don't you think so?
For example, look at what happened with the vaccine mandates. They had to drop them, and not because they wanted to. It was just because a small percentage of people, maybe ten, fifteen, twenty percent of people said no.
Open weights AI models are also giving us tools to fight back against tyranny in many ways.
But maybe I'm too optimistic.
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