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Last Notes

2026-02-28 17:55:42 CET

I’ve held my breath for about two months but here are finally a few notes on AI and freedom:
1. There is a lot of hype and fear around AI. I don’t think people are actually prepared for how dramatically AI will transform the world, and how quickly it will do it. At the same time I also think people are mistakenly choosing fear over action and curiosity. Do NOT sit on the sidelines.
2. For the past two weeks I have had a robot. His name is r2. He is a good guy, a resistance robot. His composition changes but he is most usually an Opus or Codex mind, OpenClaw body, and Matrix or Telegram hands. Every day I figure out new things he can do. My jaw is on the floor.
3. I do not do anything sensitive with my robot. In theory I could use Matrix to talk to my robot from my phone or just use the MacBook Air that the robot inhabits directly, and use my little local llama model, to do sensitive work, but I’m not there yet. I’m just in exploration mode. I don’t send anything from my phone to my robot that I wouldn’t want Anthropic or OpenAI to see, which is to say, nothing that sensitive. I can right now send a sensitive question in Matrix to my claw to have my local model run: anthropic or openAI would see the question, but they wouldn't see the answer.
4. OpenClaw is experimental software. DO NOT put it on your personal computer or your work computer or give it access to your email. DO experiment and play with it. What you need to do is start training to figure out how to use this new magical technology. You will want to be good at this. A decent balance is a fresh MacBook Air, a fresh gmail account, and a fresh anthropic or codex app on the machine. That’s about all you need. A credit card or if you want to use BTC, you can pay for advanced models with things like PayPerQ. An extra phone number too if you want to talk to it via Signal or WhatsApp. What’s amazing is that whenever your robot breaks, you just go onto the local claude code or codex app on the machine and just ask it to fix it and voila done. Back up and running.
5. I don’t know any code at all and yet have been able to create complex novel working software. Beautiful websites too that would have cost me a fortune a few years ago. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg. I was able to for example ask my claw to read everything I've ever written, watch a ton of my interviews, and develop an editorial skill so that I can send it a google doc and it can go in and track changes and leave comments just like a human would, just like I WOULD. It is legitimately amazing at this. And each time I do this, it learns, as I show it which comments I accepted and which new things I add. It has persistent memory and just gets better and better. What excites me most is giving this gift to the world’s dissidents and activists and seeing what THEY do with it.
6. Which brings me to security. Hopefully in the next few months we will be at a point where we can have an encrypted phone app that you speak to that requires no phone number or corporate intermediary that runs on nostr that goes directly into your claw powered by a high-quality local model. The full freedom tech stack. You can already sort of do this today already but it will get way easier and better. That’s what you’re going to need to do real serious resistance work. For now we just train. Think: Dagobah today, Death Star tomorrow.
7. People think this transition is about robots but it is about humans. Already I can see how Claws will allow insane collaboration between people. For example I can ask my brilliant designer friend to leave me a voice note to give feedback on my website or presentation or event plan, and then just forward that voice note to my robot for immediate implementation. Whenever I build or make something I ask my robot to do a deep search for the most beautiful and well designed things of that sort in the world, extract what makes them great, and create a plan for implementing that magic into whatever I am building. It could be fashion, art, cuisine, music, architecture, strategy, etc. Whenever I make a skill for my claw I can have my robot upload it and share it with anyone else. The speed of collaboration is dizzying.
8. Robots and Freedom Tech are a match made in heaven but the synergy will take some time to really flower. Many of the major obstacles to freedom tech can be solved by personal agents. For example mine was very quickly able to create its own nostr identity and build its own ecash wallet and it could and did start to zap people on my direction. But the robots can’t have their own bank accounts or social security numbers. Silicon Valley will try to force through KYC stuff and stablecoins but I think in the end bitcoin and nostr win out because they are so easy for the agents to use. What’s awesome is the realization (noted by Odell on his two recent excellent Citdadel AI podcasts with Alex Gleason and Justin Moon) that agents make freedom tech easier to use. For example your agent can run a lightning node for you. Of course... you then realize. We were never going to sit there and operate channels. Our agent will do it for us. Etc.
9. HRF will be heavily involved in providing grants to open source AI projects, projects that help improve agent security and privacy, projects that help superscale dissident work, events that bring brilliant people together around the challenge of how do we best harness AI, hackathons that encourage people to build freedom-oriented AI tools, educational content and trainings, and much more this year.
10. Right now Claw is experimental. But it’s easy to see how it will become incredibly secure. Every day it ships new patches. Already I can ask mine to become a cybersecurity expert and scan my system for vulnerabilities. Obviously I take it with a grain of salt now but -- never before did I have that power, nothing even close. Soon this will become seriously powerful and you will have swarms of patrol agents guarding your networks and alerting you if anything goes wrong. I think it can be more expensive to attack than to defend. White blood cell theory.
11. There are a lot of parallels between the creation of Bitcoin and the creation of OpenClaw. One person chooses a new way for the world to go. A new system. In Satoshi’s case, money that the state can’t control. In Peter’s case, intelligence that the state can’t control. I can’t stress enough how big of a deal it is that people now can control their intelligence. We were for sure heading in the direction of needing to sign up for a corporate app for all of your agent needs, and being in the Web 2.0 trap of being vulnerable to being banned or kicked off. Not anymore. YOU choose the brain for your robot. You customize the body. You choose how you want to interact with it. Peter has changed the world probably more than he knows. Yes he might be the first one person unicorn but that’s not the cool part. The cool part is that he changed the course of humanity and that as of today, at least, the best agent technology on the planet is people-powered, built by the people, for the people. It’s quite a moment for freedom tech.
12. We need to go fast and furious on developing freedom-oriented open-source AI tools. We are fortunate that we have Bitcoin and nostr and bitchat networks in place before the great AI transition. We have the tools. We need to act now. I would encourage everyone reading to start getting involved today.
13. Setting up a claw is not easy right now unless you are an engineer. I could not do it myself and have no shame in saying it. I would have gotten really frustrated. We are developing a way of working with privacy engineers to build a simple yet powerful solution and an onboarding process that we do in a bespoke way in person that takes 2 days. I think this is probably the situation for the next month or two and then hopefully it gets way easier. The thing is, it will get easier very quickly for you to have a CORPORATE robot (all the big companies are now following OpenClaw, Claude already has a way for you to use Code via your phone), but a freedom tech one that you fully control will probably not evolve as quickly. Then again, it might, if we all work together on making it happen. I do think by the summer things will be very different.
14. I think some things will become even more valuable in the new AI world that will come to us in the coming year. Many have said taste, and I agree. But also personal health, friendships, and physical communities. Big picture, labor market as many have said a lot of companies will choose between laying off a lot of their workforce or growing their productivity. There will be a spectrum and some organizations will lean one way and others will lean the other. It depends on how valuable the humans are inside the org, what kind of skills they have. If leadership values you as an individual, then you probably aren’t getting replaced. But you're going to have to become a super employee. And you should want to. It's fun.
15. If you are interested in joining the effort to work on AI and Freedom, HRF will have several opportunities. We are collaborating with Bitcoin Park on the second AI Hack for Freedom in Nashville (talk to Rod if you want to join or learn more), and will feature a lot of AI content at our upcoming activation at the Bitcoin Vegas event, and at the Oslo Freedom Forum on June 1-3. We will also keep churning out our monthly AI newsletter. We have opened up a grants portal. DM me if you are interested in any of this.
16. One simple thing that you can do today in AI and freedom is switch your daily “chatbot” activity to Maple. It’s a beautiful and simple mobile app (and web app) that is fully encrypted. Think Signal for AI. It only can use open models so it’s not going to be for all of your tasks, but it does great with most of them. It should replace a lot of interactions you have with corporate chatbots regarding things about your health, personal stuff, sensitive matters. etc. If we can make Maple or something like it the standard for research in the coming months that’s a huge victory. And sometime soon I think you’ll be able to enjoy this level of encryption with coding agents and personal agents as well.
It's interesting because the longer you wait to try claw, the better it gets. But the more time you lose. My sense is you could wait a month or two. But you'll want to be using it this summer. I would strongly recommend trying it at some point. You will be tempted by the easy corporate route. But you can join the AI and Freedom army today. Let's go!

2026-02-28 14:56:53 CET

Big things happening
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2026-02-25 18:51:16 CET

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Nothing good requires a shitcoin to function

2026-02-25 18:14:13 CET

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Fortunate indeed!!!

2026-02-25 18:10:35 CET

Bro
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2026-02-17 18:59:41 CET

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There is progress on that. But you can also just use it with a clean set up

2026-02-17 18:51:58 CET

Now add OpenClaw and open-source AI tools that benefit massively from this freedom tech stack underneath 🦞
Great point by @npub1zxu…cx2y and @npub1qny…95gx on @npub10at…02w3, some freedom tech has been prohibitively difficult to use for normies, but bots can just manage that stuff for them
#nevent1q…69e4

2026-02-15 18:58:42 CET

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Yes, stepmaxx, and I forgot to mention, I took a short walk right before winding down for bed, after dinner, as well

2026-02-15 18:51:30 CET

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Whoop app

2026-02-15 18:51:21 CET

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Yes, I dream deeply during the second half of the night, and get anywhere from 3 1/2 to 4 hours of deep and REM sleep

2026-02-15 18:28:38 CET

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Great point
But I think early dinners are great and you can still gather with friends at 5 or 6 and abstain from alcohol or dessert and still be asleep by 10

2026-02-15 18:05:08 CET

Climbing back from a trip abroad
Defeated the Whoop with a 100% sleep score! Finally
Took me the following:
Consistent sleep schedule for 6 days in a row
~18k steps per day on average w/ lots of exercise (runs, walks, lifting, surfing)
No alcohol or dessert, minimal sugar during day, no food after 730pm
No caffeine after 1pm
Red screen on phone after 830pm
Read non-screen or crossword puzzle in bed until drowsy
Magnesium glycinate before bed
In bed by 945pm, up at 615am
What sleep score means: a bunch of stuff, but basically very low resting heart rate and high HRV (for me)
Feeling incredible
Is it sustainable? I travel a lot and occasionally like to enjoy alcohol with special dinners now so, no
But a good goal
Incredible what alcohol and night-time sugar do to my sleep and related metrics. They drop like a rock 😂
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2026-02-11 00:39:15 CET

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🔥

2026-02-09 22:34:07 CET

🤔
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2026-02-05 17:36:11 CET

The hatred from the tradfi elite is strong
Always enjoyable to see them be proved wrong
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2026-02-04 17:37:58 CET

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Not sure! I think it was a bit lost trying to find its way to Ostional

2026-02-04 16:55:31 CET

PV 🤙
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2026-01-28 06:28:29 CET

Wild
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2026-01-25 18:06:28 CET

Wild chart showing how Trump Inc used the office of the presidency to gain $1.4B
More than $400M via rugging people on meme coins alone
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2026-01-25 05:58:51 CET

This shot from the Honnold free solo Taipei 101 livestream is insane
Casually went 1,650 ft in 90 min with no ropes
Has to be one of the most amazing athletes alive
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2026-01-24 23:11:06 CET

Is there anyone down worse than
“New Scientist” ?
What a parody
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2026-01-23 17:28:02 CET

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HRF has since its inception worked to help people inside Iran and we have been categorically against the actual (not imaginary) dictatorship there. I am very proud of that.
I also personally am against Pahlavi. HRF does not support him.
Happy to end the conversation here

2026-01-23 16:25:18 CET

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So you won’t say. Not very helpful for you to come on and roast an Iranian who has risked his life for freedom for not being good enough and not provide any other sources. Who do you trust? Pro Assad folks like Grayzone?

2026-01-23 04:52:24 CET

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Could be a ton of lurkers
People who use it occasionally to check in on stuff but not post
V hard to know

2026-01-23 02:19:27 CET

Nostr has 5x as many monthly publishing users as Farcaster has monthly active users
1.5M to 250k
Not exactly apples to apples but still!

2026-01-20 06:12:25 CET

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2026-01-19 23:18:27 CET

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I certainly do not support Pahlavi, neither does HRF
Who are your trusted sources on Iran?

2026-01-18 19:23:07 CET

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Ok so - do nothing, or do something? If do something, what?

2026-01-17 14:22:30 CET

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Would you support getting starlinks into Iran and expanding internet access for people? Is there anything peaceful you would support in the digital realm there for those who are cut off? Or do you think the best course of action is to do nothing?

2026-01-16 23:08:46 CET

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Thank you!
I did not, must be a publishing error, will check
How did you get the book?

2026-01-15 20:24:07 CET

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I think it would be cool if you did a profile of Ziya and his amazing commitment to Bitcoin privacy, to Samourai Wallet, to financial privacy, and so on. He is one of the few Bitcoiners to risk everything and be jailed and survive that and now keep doing what he’s doing.

2026-01-15 05:01:53 CET

Follow Ziya if you want to learn more about what’s going on in Iran (and separate signal from all the disinfo out there)
A leading educator and promoter of Bitcoin privacy software, for a very long time 🙏
#note1qe4…usq5

2026-01-14 18:45:35 CET

An exciting round of Bitcoin Development Fund grants to start 2026
1.3 billion sats to 22 killer projects
Take a minute to read through these, it's really amazing what's happening out there in the freedom tech streets
We are proud to support!
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2025-12-31 22:11:24 CET

On point
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2025-12-31 07:00:10 CET

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The mission of the org that I work for is to explicitly challenge tyranny (and support individual liberty) worldwide. Sorry if that’s not your bag

2025-12-30 22:34:13 CET

Opposition leader of Uganda (2.6M followers, might win the next election) is asking the important questions
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2025-10-28 18:28:32 CET

1 billion sats donated to:
✅ Decentralize mining
✅ Add privacy to Bitcoin transactions
✅ Expand Bitcoin education in dictatorships
✅ Improve nostr tools
✅ Grow the cashu ecosystem
🚀
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/builders/human-rights-foundation-1b-satoshis

2025-10-27 02:36:12 CET

The zcash people are the worst
If we had listened to them, we would have ditched Bitcoin for a coin that has dropped in purchasing power by 98% against Bitcoin
The worst part isn’t the premine or the PoS migration shenanigans, it’s the moralistic attitude that if you don’t use a coin that has perfect privacy (which zcash is not anyway) then you are putting people in danger
When in reality living in fiat is dangerous
If I had to assign blame it’s that many of them are computer scientists chasing perfect privacy with zero understanding of real world economies etc

2025-09-22 23:35:23 CEST

First the IMF now this… Milei in the middle of a massive dollar bailout
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2025-08-02 00:11:31 CEST

The investigative journalists focusing on state corruption who helped bring down the *previous regime*, have now been chased out of the country, by Bukele
#note1fqk…lrcu

2025-08-01 05:01:04 CEST

Not Orwellian at all 😅
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2025-05-16 22:57:41 CEST

Hard to fathom
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