Peter Todd
@peterktodd
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The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always…
The sub 1 sat/vbyte adoption story has been easily telegraphable if you: A) understand market incentives B) understand Bitcoin's censorship resistant design it has been frustrating and unexpected if you: A) support filters B) believe things like running Knots prevents spam…
That brings us to ~85% of hashrate now accepting fee rates below 1 sat/vB
WTF
Yesterday I was reminded that since 2021, @nvk has owned and redirected seedsigner.org and seedsigner.net to airgapcomputer.com. This realistically doesn't impact the project much, but is yet another example of his ill will towards @SeedSigner.
Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
It is 100% factually true that young white girls were raped by grooming gangs. This is, in fact, the reason that the grooming gang members have been jailed. If this wasn't true, then there would have been no justification for jailing them.
I'd forgotten about this. Jailed for telling the truth.
A very important point that most people, especially those in the “Free Palestine” movement, fail to acknowledge or are simply too ignorant to understand is that inbreeding is a serious issue in all Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East. Pictures of these kids looking…
Why are you blaming Israel for your kid’s birth defects? We didn’t make you marry your cousin.
Unironically, if Wikipedia just shut down in the UK, it would probably ruffle a lot of feathers in a good way
Wikipedia shouldn't waste money fighting the UK on this. Either do nothing (possibly shutting down UK infrastructure), or ban UK IP addresses. Trying to get an exemption will make this censorship less noticable, and more likely to stay.
Wikipedia shouldn't waste money fighting the UK on this. Either do nothing (possibly shutting down UK infrastructure), or ban UK IP addresses. Trying to get an exemption will make this censorship less noticable, and more likely to stay.
Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK - or even completely blocked - thanks to the Online Safety Act.
This is also a form of Russian propaganda. Only around 0.065% of anti-war activists actually faced jail time (source: OVD) The brutality Moscow inflicts on non-Russians CANNOT be compared to how it treats its own. This way, you're only giving them excuses to play the victim.
Every one of these protestors would be shot or jailed if this was in Moscow.
Couldnt have asked for a more perfect demonstration of why putting your ID online is a bad idea on the same day that the UK gov enacts online ID laws
It turns out that the "Tea" app DOXXES all its users by uploading both ID and face verification photos, completely uncensored, to a public bucket on their server
The government: “Give us your photo ID and credit card details if you want to access adult websites. They will kept confidential.” Also the government: “We accidentally sent the names of 20,000 enemies of the Taliban to the Taliban.”
For everyone that was saying “it’s just to stop kids watching porn” very first day of the restrictions it’s been used to censor “violence” which in this case means police arresting people at protests, well done
If you have a standard X account in the UK - presumably the vast majority of British users - you cannot see any protest footage that contains any violence tonight. Because of the Online Safety Act. A relative in America sent me this screenshot of one blocked post
I just frankly don't care very much about Gaza. They started a war, and now are suffering the normal consequences of war - seen from Stalingrad to Vicksburg to Tenochitlan. The usual escape from these consequences is surrender, and negotiated defeat.
You’ve planned and saved for months to take your family on that dream vacation. You buy amusement park tickets. Then, you go to buy the flights, except all of a sudden… the price has skyrocketed. Why? Because your airline knows you just purchased those tickets.
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I've seen flight attendants do this before. Specifically on a flight from Paris that was carrying a violent illegal being removed from the county. He clearly was a danger being on the flight. And flight attendants were covering it up. Evil.
BREAKING: It’s now confirmed that @vueling forced the Jewish children on board to delete all video evidence. A non-Jewish bystander said the kids weren’t disruptive at all. When they’re sued, add destruction of evidence to the list.