Opting out of facial recognition ends 30 Sept 2025...... Enjoy your flight.

The OMB control number for CBP’s collection is 1651-0138, which expires on September 30, 2024.

In the end, CBP hopes that travelers will choose to enjoy the many benefits of biometric facial comparison, including the time it saves and how easy and smooth it makes the travel experience.

https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8322.70010

"Bitcoin and the anthropology-economics divide"

In the latest edition of Anthropology Today, BPI Senior Fellow @NSmolenski examines money as a social institution and Bitcoin’s role as a nonstate medium of exchange.

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

Not a bad time to review this essay once again or for the first time.

Tuesday morning, the daughter of a cryptocurrency leader was the target of an attempted kidnapping in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. Three hooded men attempted to force her into a van.

https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/paris-des-proches-dun-patron-dune-societe-de-cryptomonnaie-echappent-a-un-enlevement-en-pleine-rue-13-05-2025-XAVCRDAHFBAY5KZDI6SC3KFBGY.php?xtor=AD-366

I read Anathem twice this year, really enjoyed it. Finished the rest of this list in the past few weeks. Do you have anything awesome to recommend?

Anathem
Termination Shock
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Snow Crash



#Bookster

Who will be first to turn a DECENTRALIZED WHIRLPOOL COORDINATOR back on?

We win not when the enemy is destroyed but when calling them an enemy no longer makes any sense.

Four alleged European hackers have been arrested in Phuket for deploying ransomware on the networks of 17 Swiss firms. The suspects are accused of causing significant damage and stealing $16 million in #Bitcoins from 1,000 global victims.

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40046122

The questions we must ask mirror this ancient text:

What is *our* season?
What is *our* purpose?
What is *our* time to live, and *our* time to die?
What shall *we* plant, and what shall *we* harvest?
What shall *we* kill, and what shall *we* heal?
What shall *we* tear down, and what shall *we* build?

Every individual person must answer these questions for his or her own life. And every community--that collective of shared will and action--gets to answer them for itself as well

"The Satoshi Papers" is now available!

Together in truth and self-sovereignty! #Bitcoin #SatoshiPapers

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/pages/the-satoshi-papers?_pos=3&_sid=aa9a82d9b&_ss=r