Nostr notes by R.J. MacReady

that's what common sense tells you 👇 #nevent1q…pzhm

2026-04-12T15:52:20Z

that's what common sense tells you
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Best OPSEC habit nobody talks about: keep your mouth shut about your holdings. Not to friends, not online, nowhere. The moment someone knows you have crypto, you become a target. Technical privacy tools mean nothing if you're the leak.

of course Arnold Schwarzenegger 🤡 #nevent1q…wk5x

2026-04-11T20:29:36Z

of course Arnold Schwarzenegger 🤡

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And of course, a movie about the genocide in Gaza.

I wonder who they’ll cast as Netanyahu.
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Is Orange Boy real, or has he been replaced by some third-rate AI ...

2026-04-10T19:51:40Z

Is Orange Boy real, or has he been replaced by some third-rate AI in the meantime?

I'm asking for a friend.

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So Palantir is now MAGA along with Rayethon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin?

excellent - as always 😉 #nevent1q…3snv

2026-04-10T18:55:11Z

excellent - as always 😉

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There is a narrative that has been doing the rounds for a long time, especially since the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out. It goes something like this; the American-led unipolar world, rules based order is collapsing, along with its imperialistic institutions like IMF and World Bank; and is being replaced by a fairer and more just multipolar world led by the BRICS countries. In this multi-polar world, dollar hegemony is going to give way to either gold as the reserve currency or a basket of currencies, while at the same time ensuring national sovereignty of even weaker but resource rich nations in the global south that were victims of the US empire. The old world order is certainly cracking right? Wrong. If anything this is one of the most consequential misdirections of our time.

There is a fundamental question that remains conspicuously absent from the current discourse, which is, what is the actual architecture being erected on the far side of this transition? If one strips away the superficial branding; East versus West, BRICS versus the G7, or the facade of multipolarity against hegemony and scrutinizes the technical infrastructure being deployed across every major nation in lockstep, a far more sobering picture emerges. You immediately realize that this is not a collision of rival systems designed to restrain power; but it is a synchronized convergence of systems achieving its final apotheosis. Identical digital identity protocols, programmable currency frameworks, and pervasive surveillance infrastructures are being built and gradually integrated in lockstep, and this machine is signaling a world in which every individual's identity is state-verified, every transaction is state-visible, and access to both can be unilaterally revoked at will.

The question of which bloc wins the multipolar struggle is, in this light, a question about management succession. In other words a multipolar world isn’t a counterpoint to centralized power but a bitter rivalry between competing factions who are bidding for control of the aforementioned machine. The multipolar world does not threaten this architecture but accelerates it, by giving each pole the political cover to implement at home what it condemns abroad, and by driving every state toward the same surveillance infrastructure under the competitive logic of national security. Therefore the argument that this is a "multipolar world order" where different civilisational blocs pursue genuinely different visions of human organisation is not supported by what is actually being built.

What is being built, on both sides, is a technocratic governance architecture in which all economic activity requires identity verification, all transactions are visible and tracked, programmable conditions can restrict or block specific purchases or movements, and compliance with "international standards" is the price of access to the system. The standards themselves (e.g. Basel rules, SDG indicator) are largely set by institutions like the World Economic Forum (WEF) and UN that are not elected by anyone and are not accountable to the populations that will live under the systems they design.

For example, Iran, Russia, and China are presented as the unjust victims and therefore opponents of the Western-backed system but are they offering a different vision for the world that puts the individual citizen at the centre by reducing the influence and power of the state over his life? Emphatically no! All three are members of the fiat money cartel given that they all have central banks that print money ad infinitum, they all enforced Covid lockdowns in step with the rest of the world, they all formally support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, they are all building digital identity infrastructure and they are all actively developing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

This essay is about that machine; who is building it, how coordination happens across nominal political divides, and why the only coherent response is neither a political movement, nor an electoral coalition, but a technical counter-architecture; a sovereignty stack built on Bitcoin, organised into non-aligned communities that sovereign individuals can inhabit.

The Digital Cage: Russia as Proof of Concept

To understand what the control grid looks like when fully operational, begin not with China whose system, though architecturally advanced, is more fragmented than Western press coverage suggests, but with Russia. Gosuslugi, Russia's digital public services portal, was once a mundane convenience: pay parking fees, schedule a passport appointment, enroll your child in school. In 2023, it became something categorically different. Under legislation passed that year, a military conscription summons is now considered legally delivered the moment it appears in a citizen's Gosuslugi account or, for those without an active account, seven days after it is entered into the Unified Register of Conscripts. No physical delivery required.

Once the summons have been issued, the consequences kick in immediately. A travel ban activates immediately upon delivery, before the 20-day response window even begins. If the conscript fails to report within those 20 days, the system triggers further restrictions: the driver's licence becomes invalid in the traffic police database; the land registry blocks any property transactions; banks see a conscription restriction flag and deny loan access; self-employment registration is blocked. The state has, without any judicial proceeding, suspended the citizen's effective economic existence.

When Russians began attempting to delete their Gosuslugi accounts in March 2023, the authorities disabled the delete-account function on the same day the Defence Ministry announced the electronic summons system. The system is also integrated with a network of over 200,000 facial-recognition cameras in Moscow. Conscripts who contested their draft orders in court found themselves entered into a state database as alleged evaders, triggering facial recognition alerts that enabled police to detain them on the spot, not for any proven violation, but for the act of legal contestation itself.

This is not a war emergency measure that will be reversed after the emergency passes, but seems more like the justification for merging all databases; tax, police, medical, military, into a single operational control system. Russia has demonstrated something important to every government watching: a digital public services portal, once sufficiently embedded in daily civic life, can be converted into a mechanism of coercive enforcement with a legislative change and a few software updates. That’s notwithstanding the fact that Gosuslugi is tightly integrated with the digital ruble (the Russian CBDC), primarily through identification and access control. What this means is that without Gosuslugi authentication, you cannot access or use the digital ruble platform. Gosuslugi does not host the digital ruble wallet itself, but it serves as the mandatory digital identity gatekeeper for the entire system. This is consistent with Russia’s strategy of centralizing identity and surveillance through Gosuslugi.

Curated Rivalry, Shared Plumbing

The West watches Russia's Gosuslugi apparatus with the comfortable assumption that such things happen elsewhere, in authoritarian states, not here. This comfort will be short-lived as the architecture being built in liberal democracies is not opposed to Russia's model. It is the same model, running on a different political timeline.

Brussels based Swiss author, Jacques Baud, who is also a former colonel and intelligence analyst; was added by the EU to its sanctions list for “acting as a mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda and making conspiracy theories…implementing or supporting actions or policies attributable to the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability or security in a third country (Ukraine) by engaging in the use of information manipulation and interference." A long winded way of saying he was critical of the west’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Despite there not being any evidence presented of him being an agent funded by the Kremlin, Baud has been banned from travelling within the EU/Schengen Area, all of his bank accounts have been frozen and his friends or family are prohibited from assisting him financially or with provisions. He can’t even return home to Switzerland. All of this happened without trial or even formal allegations of a criminal offense; this was all done by decree.

As far as irony goes this incident is full of it. The EU, while posturing as the moral guardian of human rights against the Kremlin, employs the same mechanism of summary decree to erase a citizen's existence. Mind you, this is happening before the full implementation of the digital control grid. The most important question of all therefore is this; is the censorship infrastructure in Brussels different from that in Moscow? If not, then the individual is left without a sanctuary in either jurisdiction.

As of 2025, approximately 134 countries and currency unions, representing roughly 98% of global GDP, are at some stage of developing a Central Bank Digital Currency. This figure includes China, Russia, the European Union, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and virtually every economy of consequence. The e-CNY is in active deployment across dozens of Chinese cities, the digital euro is in its preparation phase, while Russia's digital ruble has cleared the pilot stage. The Bank for International Settlements, whose member representatives from nominally adversarial nations meet monthly regardless of whether their governments are currently sanctioning each other, has been the intellectual and technical architect of much of this convergence. Its Innovation Hub actively develops CBDC interoperability standards, the technical specifications that will determine whether programmable money can be frozen, redirected, or conditioned on compliance across jurisdictions.

For example, Project mBridge links central bank digital currencies across China, Hong Kong, Thailand, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. Its research papers openly describe the programmability of CBDC as a feature, not a warning.The key word is interoperable. The e-CNY and the digital euro need not look alike. They need only settle with each other, trace each other's transactions, and enforce each other's sanctions lists. While the visible layer may be national, the control layer is shared.

The Financial Stability Board coordinates financial regulation across the entire supposed multipolar divide. The IMF extends conditionality that consistently favours the same financial architecture regardless of which bloc a borrowing nation nominally aligns with. This technocratic order is a network of interlocking institutions, standards bodies, public-private partnerships, and treaty frameworks that effectively govern the conditions of human life without being accountable to any democratic constituency. The BIS sets monetary standards. The ITU sets telecommunications standards. The WHO sets health emergency protocols. The WEF convenes the public-private partnerships that implement all three. These institutions are not elected and they cannot be meaningfully voted out.

This is the core deceit of the multipolar narrative. BRICS nations are not challenging the control grid, but they are demanding their seat at the table that operates it. Russia is not building an alternative to SWIFT because it opposes financial surveillance; it opposes being on the wrong end of it. China's challenge to dollar hegemony is not a challenge to monetary control; it is a bid to relocate the centre of that control. The result, in every scenario where this competition plays out through existing institutions, is a world divided into surveillance jurisdictions rather than a world in which surveillance is abolished.

The individual; the citizen, the entrepreneur, the dissident, the ordinary person trying to live a life of their choosing, has no constituency in this competition. Both sides want your identity registered, your money programmable, your communications monitored, and your behaviour scored. They simply disagree about who should do it.

The Protocol That Has No CEO

The architecture described above is not, at its core, military or even political. It is a metabolic apparatus that controls access to economic life the way a body controls access to nutrients; through a system of gates, each of which requires identification, each of which can be closed. The biometric digital ID is not the ID of a citizen; it is the key to the gate in the same way that the CBDC is not money but a programmable permission slip. Agustín Carstens, the General Manager of the BIS, articulated the end goal plainly when he said: "Central banks will have absolute control on the rules, and will have the technology to enforce that." This architecture does not need soldiers at checkpoints. It needs only that every economic participant be visible, identifiable, and therefore conditionable.

Against this machine, political resistance is necessary but insufficient. Every political movement that has fought the control grid through electoral politics has discovered the same thing; which is that the infrastructure persists across governments. The surveillance apparatus does not change hands or stop when parties change. The CBDC framework, once enacted, will not depend on which coalition controls the parliament. Donald Trump did not end the NSA’s surveillance programs. Brexit did not liberate Britain from the EU's digital identity framework but it simply moved the UK into a position of regulatory price-taking with respect to standards it no longer helps to set. The control grid is not a policy, but it’s a technical and institutional infrastructure that also requires a technical and institutional counter.

That counter exists but it’s incomplete, not yet operating at full scale, and facing sustained institutional opposition. Its architecture is sound, and its underlying logic is more robust than any political coalition because it does not depend on winning any election. I call it the sovereignty stack. This sovereignty stack must therefore operate on a single foundational premise: illegibility. A participant who cannot be identified cannot have their transactions conditionally blocked, communication that passes through no central server cannot be seized at source. A monetary unit whose supply rule is enforced by mathematics rather than by an institution cannot be debased to fund wars whose financial positions were taken before the bombs fell.

Layer one: sound money

The state does not create money. It captures money, monopolises its issuance, and then degrades it through inflation to finance its own projects without the political pain of visible taxation. The CBDC is the completion of this process. Physical cash still permitted residual illegibility; a transaction in banknotes left no trace in any database. The CBDC eliminates that residual entirely.

Bitcoin is the only existing monetary instrument that is structurally immune to this. The network has processed transactions continuously since January 2009, through coordinated narratives of criminality, through the Chinese mining ban, through the ETF-ification of its investment exposure. The protocol has never been compromised and there is no transaction that can be blocked because the sender or receiver has been designated an enemy of the state. Bitcoin is bearer money: if you hold the keys, you hold the money, and no entity in the world can confiscate it without your cooperation.

Every sanctioned state should be on a Bitcoin standard by now but the only reason why they are not is that despite the political squabbles that we see on the surface; they won’t adopt Bitcoin fully because they still want to retain the power to print money.

Layer two: decentralized communications

Identity verification, transaction monitoring, and programmable conditions all require communication channels. The control layer is a communications layer. Censoring a payment and censoring a message are the same technical operation, both require that the communication pass through a node that the controller owns.

The existing internet was not designed for surveillance, but it was not designed against it. Platforms are centralised by their architecture; Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, and WhatsApp all depend on servers that can be subpoenaed and seized. Nostr is the communication and identity layer

Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a protocol, not a platform. Its design is the minimum necessary structure for censorship-resistant communication where users hold cryptographic keypairs, sign their messages, and broadcast to any relays willing to receive them. There is no central server to seize and there is no company to subpoena. There is also no account to deactivate since a user's identity is their public key, derived mathematically from their private key, which never leaves their own device. There is also no KYC process that gates access. Furthermore, Nostr-native marketplaces for goods, services, real estate, and professional contracting are being built on these primitives now, using Bitcoin for settlement and cryptographic reputation for trust.

Layer three: sovereign computing

The weakest point in any sovereignty stack is the device. A cryptographic keypair is theoretically unbreakable; a device whose operating system reports its activity to a cloud service is not. GrapheneOS completes the stack at the device layer. GrapheneOS is a hardened Android fork with a security model designed from the assumption that the user is the threat model's subject, not its operator.

A standard smartphone running Android or iOS is, by design, a surveillance endpoint: it reports location, contacts, application usage, and communications to corporate intermediaries who are subject to state demands. GrapheneOS eliminates this attack surface; no Google Play Services, no persistent cloud telemetry, hardware-enforced application sandboxing. Paired with local AI inference running open-source models on-device, it enables a computing environment in which the user's data and cognitive work remain private not by policy but by architecture.

Network permissions are granular and revocable per application. The attack surface for remote exploitation is systematically reduced. Multiple isolated profiles allow a user to maintain entirely separate digital identities on a single device (e.g. a merchant profile, a personal profile, a communications profile) with no data leakage between them.

The device is the sovereignty boundary. The key to a Bitcoin wallet is worthless if the device that holds it is compromised, just as the Nostr identity is worthless if the application that signs messages reports its activity to a third party. The sovereignty stack does not become sovereign at the protocol layer. It becomes sovereign at the point where the private key is generated and stored, which is the device. GrapheneOS makes the device the user's property in a functional rather than merely legal sense.

Layer four: the Hanseatic model

Architecture alone is not enough. The sovereignty stack is a set of tools, but what matters is the social form in which those tools are used. Philippe Dollinger's comprehensive history of the German Hansa documents an economic alliance that, between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries, controlled the trade of the northern European world without a state, without a central bank, without a standing army of significance, and without anything resembling the regulatory apparatus that modern commerce is assumed to require. The Hansa was a league of merchant cities. Its governance was the Hansetag, a periodic assembly of representatives who set the terms of mutual recognition and common standards by consent, not by hierarchy.

Its enforcement mechanism was the boycott; the withdrawal of commercial relationships from those who violated the terms of membership, an economic sanction that required no violence and no state apparatus to administer. In short, the Hansa was a voluntary network of trading communities, which at its peak, had over 200 cities and posts from London to Novgorod, bound by shared commercial law, mutual recognition, and the practical interest in maintaining open trade routes. The Hansa did not request permission from feudal lords to trade across their territories. It built the infrastructure that made those borders economically irrelevant to its members.

A Hanseatic merchant in Lübeck could arrive in Riga, Bruges, or Bergen knowing that the other Hanseatic merchants there would honour his bills, provide storage and insurance, extend credit, and enforce agreed contract terms. This was not altruism but the rational recognition that participation in the network was worth more than defection from it. The network's standards were not imposed by a sovereign, but they were voluntarily adopted by merchants because adopting them increased the value of their membership.

This is the governance model that the sovereignty stack's market layer requires. The Bitcoin circular economy works at the level of individual peer-to-peer transactions. What extends it to a genuine alternative economic network is the Hanseatic structure: communities of merchants who accept bitcoin and extend mutual recognition to each other's contracts and credit. The kontor (the Hanseatic trading post) was not a branch office of a central company. It was a node in a network, applying common standards locally, governed by the merchants who used it.

The structural parallel to our present moment is precise. The question is not how to overthrow the control grid but it is how to build an alternative so functional, so economically productive, and so deeply embedded in the lives of its participants that the control grid becomes a system people choose to leave rather than a system they are forced into.

The stack as a whole

Each layer defeats a specific component of the control architecture:

Bitcoin defeats the CBDC at the monetary layer

Nostr defeats identity-verification at the communications layer

GrapheneOS defeats device-level surveillance at the hardware boundary

The Hanseatic circular economy defeats conditional access at the market layer

The critical insight is that the stack must be in place before the dependency is created. A population that already holds bitcoin, already communicates over Nostr, already operates sovereign devices, and already participates in a Hanseatic circular economy cannot be made dependent on the machine economy's conditional access, because it has an alternative. A population that has first been made dependent has no alternative, because the alternative was never built. This is the race that the sovereignty stack describes. It is not a race between states or between blocs. It is a race between two incompatible architectures for organising economic life, being built simultaneously, in the same territories, for the same populations.

The control grid is being built by institutions that span the supposed geopolitical divide, share standards while wearing different flags, and use crisis as a parameter update and convenience as a sedative. It is being built toward a single destination: from anonymous to identified, from cash to CBDCs, and from natural law to algorithmic enforcement. The great political question of the 20th century was about who should control the state. The great political question of the 21st century is whether the technocratic network that has grown up around and above the state should be the primary organising institution of human life at all.

The sovereignty stack does not answer that question by winning an argument. It answers it by building something. It gives individuals and communities the tools to demonstrate through practice;not through manifestos, not through elections, that human beings can organise their economic and social lives without the permission of states, platforms, or the governance networks that coordinate above them.

The most powerful form of civil disobedience is not protest but the creation of conditions in which unjust authority simply cannot reach you. The Bitcoin network is that condition for money, Nostr is that condition for speech and identity and sovereign computing is that condition for thought. Together, they are the infrastructure of a life that does not require the state's permission to be lived.

wenn man bedenkt wie die “Grünen” entstanden sind und wer ...

2026-04-09T15:43:30Z

wenn man bedenkt wie die “Grünen” entstanden sind und wer sie größtenteils finanziert hat, kann das “Ergebnis” kaum verwundern

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Der Verein hat hier mal eine schöne Recherchearbeit zur digitalen Sturmabteilung der Grünen geleistet. Wenn ihr euch fragt, warum das immer so orchestriert wirkt … weil es orchestriert ist.

https://www.transparente-demokratie.de/die-scheinheiligen

begonnen hat das Ganze mit "der Machtergreifung" von ...

2026-04-09T12:16:00Z

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begonnen hat das Ganze mit "der Machtergreifung" von Helmut Kohl 1982 und die daraus resultierende Ausplünderung der Rentenkassen und nachfolgend aller übrigen Sozialsysteme (Arbeit, Gesundheit, ...) - alle seine Nachfolger führen sein zerstörerisches Werk bedingungslos fort, mit der aktuellen Blackrock-Marionette als endgültigem Schlächter

aber wie "schön" mit dem nackten Finger mal wieder auf die Rentner zu zeigen und dabei dank selektivem Gedächtnisschwund auszulassen, dass die Parteien - egal ob in einem Parlament vertreten oder nicht - systematisch auf Kosten der arbeitenden Bevölkerung verantwortungsfrei prassen und sich nehmen, was sie kriegen können, ohne dafür je einen einzigen Cent jemals selbst ausgegeben zu haben

als ergänzende Literatur empfehle ich jedem, sich die Werke von Hans-Herbert von Arnim zu Gemüte zu führen

wer dann immer noch meint, freiwillig Steuern und Abgaben zu entrichten und auch noch Wählen zu gehen, hätte eigentlich(!!) - gäbe es sie - die Todesstrafe verdient wie das Gesindel da oben, das uns ausplündert

this 👇 #nevent1q…693t

2026-04-07T16:25:13Z

this

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People have forgotten Europe also tried to separate from the US 16 years ago, when Putin said Russia would join the Eurozone, which would have married Russian energy with German engineering, a combo that surely sent panic thru certain DC circles. When the Euro was introduced it was supposed to solidify Europe as the center of the world once again, US put a stop to that plan and installed black rock executives in the political process of Europe like Chancellor Merz.

😂 #nevent1q…wa07

2026-04-07T16:22:43Z

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I wonder if people would maintain the same conviction about space travel if it was India, Russia and/or China leading the charade

Don't make me post the Indian moon landings 🤣

That must be the “The Nazis Are Technologically A Thousand ...

2026-04-07T14:23:20Z

That must be the “The Nazis Are Technologically A Thousand Years Ahead of the Allies” chamber in the picture on the left!
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Gas Chamber at Auschwitz vs. American Gas Chamber

Anyone who wants to can see that this is not a photography but a ...

2026-04-07T14:19:52Z

Anyone who wants to can see that this is not a photography but a CGI.

Even if there were McDonalds and Burger King “on the moon” people would take it for real.

#retards

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I don't get how people can't see this isn't real

😂 it is head-to-head with the “EU Cloud” for best ...

2026-04-07T14:07:38Z

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it is head-to-head with the “EU Cloud” for best innovation 😉

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the invisible shadow of the object 🤪 nice try 🥳 ...

2026-04-07T14:02:05Z

the invisible shadow of the object 🤪

nice try 🥳

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Clearest example of Augmented Reality (AR) you will ever see, ladies and gentlemen.

Watch the shadows 👀

commander-in-chief 👇 ...

2026-04-07T13:59:18Z

commander-in-chief
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Unfortunately, under pressure from the studio, Kubrick cut a ...

2026-04-07T13:56:40Z

Unfortunately, under pressure from the studio, Kubrick cut a scene from the end of the film: while mushroom clouds rise from the ground outside, a “battle at the cold buffet” takes place in the War Room between the Americans and the Soviets—with pies and cakes serving as weapons. 🎂 🧁

It's a shame that this custard pie fighting is missing!

#DrStrangelove #Kubrick

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One of the greatest movies made! If you watch closely, you'll see James Earl Jones in his debut. Peter Sellers plays multiple roles, and hits a home run with each. George C Scott's performance is impeccible.

When Slim Pickens arrived for an audition, he was wearing his normal attire: cowboy hat, cowboy boots, jeans, and a western shirt. The film staff thought he had dressed in costume to be "in character".

When production started, Kubrick didn't intend for the movie to be a comedy, then realized that a comedy was better suited.

If you haven't seen it, now you have a chance!

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2026-04-06T20:33:08Z

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Argentina and Uruguay have a higher percentage of White population than the US.

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2026-04-06T20:31:38Z

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Lmao

Life can be sooo easy 🤪 #nevent1q…8247

2026-04-06T18:53:29Z

Life can be sooo easy 🤪

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⚡️💻 TECH - The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge.

Renaming "mscopilot.exe" to "msedge.exe" and its folder from "Copilot" to "Edge" will simply launch Microsoft Edge.

FYI, The actual Microsoft Edge browser and Edge WebView2 has already been uninstalled.

🎯😂 #nevent1q…d93y

2026-04-06T18:50:55Z

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Classic sport bikes are so beautiful.

Orange Boy is a Zionist Puppet. And always remember the words of ...

2026-04-06T18:50:36Z

Orange Boy is a Zionist Puppet.

And always remember the words of Menahem Begin: "The Jewish race is the master race!"

Non-Jews are regarded as animals.

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ASKED HOW STRIKING IRANIAN INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD NOT BE A WAR CRIME, TRUMP SAYS: BECAUSE THEY'RE ANIMALS

This is the true feelings of all colonialists.

everyone should read Ken Thompson's essay “Reflections On ...

2026-04-06T14:15:59Z

everyone should read Ken Thompson's essay “Reflections On Trusting Trust” from 1984

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Ken Thompson's acceptance speech for the Turing Award on security thinking.

"The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."

- 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 by Butler Lampson (2004)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2004/06/Computer-Security-in-the-Real-World.pdf

“made with ai” like (pretty much) everything else that’s ...

2026-04-06T13:55:55Z

“made with ai”

like (pretty much) everything else that’s been pouring out of America and across the pond into the rest of the world for years 🤑

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The United States of Lies

a glitch in the matrix 😆 #nevent1q…q43g

2026-04-06T13:46:23Z

a glitch in the matrix 😆

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Because of things like these, men don’t use lotion.

and here’s my DigitalID: 🖕 🫡 #nevent1q…vpxr

2026-04-06T13:35:18Z

and here’s my DigitalID: 🖕
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lies -> damn lies -> statistics (Benjamin Disraeli) ...

2026-04-06T13:30:28Z

lies -> damn lies -> statistics

(Benjamin Disraeli)

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In red: the S&P 500's return, unadjusted for inflation, since 1918.

In black: the S&P 500's return, adjusted for inflation, over the same period.

when dreams come true 😂😂😂 #nevent1q…m9sw

2026-04-06T10:27:30Z

when dreams come true 😂😂😂

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this 🎯 👇 #nevent1q…87k6

2026-04-05T20:22:22Z

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Professor Hayek’s thesis is that Socialism inevitably leads to despotism, and that in Germany the Nazis were able to succeed because the Socialists had already done most of their work for them, especially the intellectual work of weakening the desire for liberty

George Orwell, 1944 review of Hayek's “The Road to Serfdom” in The Observer

#grownostr #freedom #quotestr

fascinating 🤔 #nevent1q…sr4u

2026-04-05T19:40:21Z

fascinating 🤔

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Its trivial to determine the day of the week from the date if you just remember this number:
0336 1462 5035. (Month Code).

Take any date

month day
+ month code
+ last two digits year
+ integerpart(last two digits year/4)
-1 (century code).

Then divide by 7 and find remainder. 0=Sunday, 1=Monday, 2=Tuesday etc etc.

e.g. 22nd May 2010.

22+1+10+2-1=34
remainder 6 after dividing by 7 so this was a Saturday.

e.g. 14th March 2007.

14+3+7+1-1=24
remainder is 3 after dividing by 7 so this was a Wednesday.

For dates in the 2000's we subtract one from the end. But its even easier for the 1900's as we don't need to subtract anything. eg.

20th July 1987

20+6+87+21 = 134
remainder is 1 when dividing by 7 so the day was a Monday.

If only we’d had that 30 years ago…. 🙄 #nevent1q…56x9

2026-04-05T15:48:22Z

If only we’d had that 30 years ago…. 🙄

quoting
nevent1q…56x9
The first fips (nprofile…the5) LAN-party in the world!

Quake 3 over FIPS

short summary: you’re sitting in a microwave oven🥳 ...

2026-04-05T15:09:20Z

short summary: you’re sitting in a microwave oven🥳

quoting
nevent1q…wu35
Your Tesla has a 60 GHz RADAR pointed at your face.

Not for driving or autopilot.

For "cabin monitoring"

Texas Instruments IWR6843AOP chip.

60-64 GHz millimeter wave. mounted above the rearview mirror. beaming down into the cabin.

Detecting your breathing, your heart rate, whether a child is in the back seat.

Sounds helpful until you understand what 60 GHz millimeter waves actually do to biology.

60 GHz penetrates roughly 0.4 mm into skin.

shallow enough for the industry to call "safe"

But your skin is the largest organ in your body. packed with Nerve endings, Merkel cells, melanocytes.

Soviet-era research documented non-thermal biological effects of mmWaves at low power densities.. effects the FCC has never evaluated.

and nobody has studied what happens when this signal runs continuously for 10-hour drives, week after week, year after year.

This cabin RADAR was installed in late 2021 but never activated.

Left dormant for over 3 years.

February 2025, software update 2025.2.6 quietly turned it on.

no opt-out or announcement.

just switched on.

and it doesn't turn off.

it runs while you drive. while you're parked. while you're charging. while your kids sit in the back seat on a 10-hour road trip. continuous millimeter wave exposure at close range.. 0.4 to 2 meters from your body.

That's not a cell tower 200 meters away. that's a RADAR transmitter inside a sealed metal box with you.

a Faraday cage works both ways. the metal body of the car that blocks outside signals also TRAPS the ones generated inside. every RF source in that cabin bounces off the roof, the doors, the floor.. back into you.

and the cabin RADAR is just one layer.

a Tesla Model S Plaid has 46 antennas.

— LTE cellular: 700-2600 MHz, 2x2 MIMO, always on
— WiFi: 2.4 + 5 GHz, dual band
— Bluetooth: 2.4 GHz, always scanning for your phone key
— UWB ultra-wideband: 6-8 GHz, phone-as-key
— GPS: 1.2-1.6 GHz
— Satellite radio: 2.3 GHz
— Cabin RADAR: 60-64 GHz

LTE, Bluetooth and cabin RADAR are essentially ALWAYS transmitting.

A 2025 study on the Tesla Model Y took 952 EMF measurements across SuperCharging, standard charging, high-speed driving, urban and idle states.

They found:

1/ Peak ELF emissions during SuperCharging, especially near center console and rear seats

2/RF hotspots from LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth in the sub-6 GHz range

3/ Body voltage INCREASED during SuperCharging and high-speed driving

4/ EMF varied dramatically depending on where you sit in the cabin

FCC safety limits are from 1996.

Based on animal studies measuring only THERMAL effects for less than 1 hour. no non-thermal biological effects considered. no study has EVER examined chronic simultaneous exposure to ELF + LTE + WiFi + Bluetooth + 60 GHz mmWave + UWB in a sealed metal cabin.

NOT ONCE.

In 2021, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the FCC's refusal to update these limits was "arbitrary and capricious." they still haven't changed them.

Martin Pall's model calculates that VGCCs amplify EMF forces by 7.2 million times at the cellular level. that calcium flooding triggers peroxynitrite formation, PARP activation, NAD+ depletion.. your repair machinery eating itself.

You're sitting in a metal box with 40+ antennas, a millimeter-wave RADAR pointed at your chest and AC magnetic fields from a battery pack under your seat pulling hundreds of kilowatts during charging.

and the safety standard says it's fine because your skin didn't get warm.

Diabolical.

Orange Boy has managed to make even George W. Bush seem somewhat ...

2026-04-05T12:43:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…upsv
_________________________

Orange Boy has managed to make even George W. Bush seem somewhat “likable”. 😳

with “friends” like this, you need no enemies. 💣 ...

2026-04-05T12:35:34Z

with “friends” like this, you need no enemies. 💣

quoting
nevent1q…sngu
This is the president of the United States—a pedophile, a man without honor, a rude thug.

What a piece of trash.

we're screwed 🤮 #nevent1q…fjf2

2026-04-05T10:27:46Z

we're screwed 🤮

quoting
nevent1q…fjf2

Ireland just launched a pilot for its Government Digital Wallet: a state-run app to store ID, birth certificate, driving license, and more. The government's pitch sounds reassuring:\ "You are in control of your data."\ "Nothing is tracked or recorded."\ "Only what's needed gets shared."\ "It makes life simpler."

They said the same things about every surveillance system before it became mandatory.

This move is part of the EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI), an EU framework being rolled out across all member states, perfectly timed with the UN Agenda 2030 timeline. Ireland is just one domino. Every EU country is next.

The Digital Euro (CBDC) deadline complements this Digital ID & Wallet rollout, what a coincidence!

Ireland is legally required under EU regulation to have the wallet operational for public services by end of 2026, and extended to private services by end of 2027. "Voluntary" has an expiration date. They wrote it into law.

Now look at the Digital Euro timeline: the ECB rollout target is 2026–2027. The same window. The same infrastructure. A state-controlled digital ID wallet + a state-controlled digital currency, arriving together. You think it's a coincidence? Once your ID and your money live in the same government app, every transaction can be permissioned, tracked, and cut off.

Social media policing is a feature, not a bug: Ireland's Communications Minister has proposed requiring the wallet for social media access, meaning Irish people will need a state-issued digital ID just to log into Facebook, Instagram, or X. Adults who refuse? Lose their accounts.

Surveillance net disguised as child protection:\ The Irish Council for Civil Liberties put it bluntly: this would mean users can no longer browse the internet with any degree of anonymity. Every page visit, every platform login will be traceable back to a specific government ID.

Agenda 2030 Infrastructure

You're watching the convergence of digital ID + internet access control + social media monitoring + CBDC rails, all running through one government-issued app and infrastructure. Permission-based life: you exist online, move money, and access services only as long as the state allows. This is Agenda 2030 infrastructure being rolled out, in plain sight.

Source: Engadget

They'll keep calling it "optional " until it isn't. The pilot phase is now, and the time to push back is before the legislation locks it in.

Please share.

** This is also an X/Twitter thread and on my blog **

exactly 🎯 #nevent1q…yhlv

2026-04-05T10:23:07Z

exactly 🎯

quoting
nevent1q…yhlv
What confuses me is people who don't buy 9/11 official or COVID, but who do buy into this. Just makes no sense.

booster mode 🚀 #nevent1q…8hf2

2026-04-05T10:19:58Z

booster mode 🚀

quoting
nevent1q…8hf2

excellent 💯 #nevent1q…uu8p

2026-04-04T17:16:36Z

excellent 💯

quoting
nevent1q…uu8p

“No, sorry, but Manfred doesn't live here. My name is ...

2026-04-04T14:18:28Z

“No, sorry, but Manfred doesn't live here. My name is Sabine now, and I'm a lesbian.” 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

quoting
nevent1q…554t
Geschlecht: "Diverse" 🤣

yes #nevent1q…t4l0

2026-04-04T14:11:23Z

yes

quoting
nevent1q…t4l0
Sounds like winning to me.

🤡🗺

Somehow, I remembered sushi being a little different! 🍣 👇 ...

2026-04-04T14:08:34Z

Somehow, I remembered sushi being a little different! 🍣

👇

quoting
nevent1q…yyvr

Just to be on the safe side, I’d better pack my bags before ...

2026-04-03T20:50:21Z

Just to be on the safe side, I’d better pack my bags before it’s too late.
🙄

quoting
nevent1q…0lrr
Germany just checked one of my four "time to leave" red flags. If your GDP optimizer enacts one of them, get a plane ticket:

🚩 Citizens need permission to leave the country
🚩 Unrealized capital gains tax
🚩 Internet passports
🚩 Mandatory CBDCs and/or digital IDs

nevent1q…y8sw

NAAHHH!! That must be a conspiracy theory! To search the ...

2026-04-03T20:18:02Z

NAAHHH!!

That must be a conspiracy theory!

To search the computers of private individuals illegally and without a court order.

Microsoft would NEVER do something like that! 🤡

👇

quoting
nevent1q…r6kj
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history.
Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.
https://browsergate.eu/

😂 I'm such an idiot 👻

2026-04-03T19:55:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…adle
_________________________

😂

I'm such an idiot 👻

same shit half a century later #nevent1q…2rpv

2026-04-03T19:42:41Z

same shit half a century later

quoting
nevent1q…2rpv
🇩🇪 Berliner Zeitung reports that men in Germany are now required to obtain official permission to leave the country.

All males aged 17 to 45 must get approval from a Bundeswehr career center if they plan to stay abroad for more than three months, including for study, work, or long-term travel.

The change came into effect largely unnoticed as part of the Military Service Modernization Act.

😂 #nevent1q…fpf6

2026-04-03T19:40:12Z

😂

quoting
nevent1q…fpf6

nevent1q…ehte

I must have done something wrong in my life, but what? 🤔 ...

2026-04-03T19:39:26Z

I must have done something wrong in my life, but what?
🤔

quoting
nevent1q…vcjv
Isabel Foxen Duke: how she went from dietitian to quantum computing scientist and Bitcoin expert—simply brilliant.

BIP-360 looks really promising.

https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych/4/how-to-stop-fighting-food-with-isabel-foxen-duke

I stopped reading at "BIP-360" The rest follows the ...

2026-04-03T19:36:24Z

I stopped reading at "BIP-360"

The rest follows the standard, pre-written script. 🤑

quoting
nevent1q…uayr
Here's an excellent article on the subject; do your own research and draw your own conclusions.

The pattern is always the same

https://x.com/HarlanCarradine/article/2031830460465033283

nevent1q…5x9j

at least THIS they got right 😂😂😂 #nevent1q…83uk

2026-04-03T19:32:09Z

at least THIS they got right 😂😂😂

quoting
nevent1q…83uk

of course 🫡 #nevent1q…8nat

2026-04-03T19:30:31Z

of course 🫡

quoting
nevent1q…8nat
Of course, the Reddit post where the research was shared has been banned.
nevent1q…mmve

You can not make this stuff up! If Huxley and Orwell were still ...

2026-04-03T19:29:24Z

You can not make this stuff up!

If Huxley and Orwell were still alive today, they would probably be considering suicide.

They would face overwhelming competition these days.

quoting
nevent1q…fxw2
FFS 🤦‍♂️

"Outlook opened twice on the computer!" Outlook - on the ...

2026-04-03T12:27:37Z

"Outlook opened twice on the computer!"

Outlook - on the mission to the Moon

It is April Fools' Week, isn't it? 🪩 🎊 🎈 👯‍♂️ 🥳 🍾

quoting
note1swf…tfc7
"definitely, 100% for sure, like for real this time... Going to the moon.

We also had issues with our Microsoft products, omg isn't it so relatable? It really makes our story so believable haha."

GM ☕️

2026-04-03T10:16:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…2g5k
_________________________

GM ☕️

this 👇 #note13y2…zz3r

2026-04-02T20:18:08Z

this
👇

quoting
note13y2…zz3r
People don't have a clue what's going on around them. They are easy prey. Especially in the west.

Any action that leads directly or indirectly to more control and surveillance is not in the people's interest.

Always ask. Does this lead to more freedom?

The answer 99/100 will be no. Then you know it's part of a plot against you.

Power lies in parallel structure and disobedience. Always has been.

Privacytech as a prerequisite to organise parallel structures is paramount.

heise halt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ früher mal ein Zeichen für Qualität, ...

2026-04-02T19:47:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…rrxh
_________________________

heise halt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

früher mal ein Zeichen für Qualität, seit mehr als 25 Jahren im freien Fall - und der Boden ist noch nicht erreicht 🕳️

😂😂😂 #nevent1q…zge9

2026-04-01T19:19:13Z

😂😂😂

quoting
nevent1q…zge9

the “irony” in this case: Israel’s race-based laws are a ...

2026-04-01T16:29:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…4v9a
_________________________

the “irony” in this case: Israel’s race-based laws are a carbon copy of the two race-based laws of Nazi Germany from 1935, “Gesetz zum Schutz des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre” and “Gesetz zum Schutze der Erbgesundheit des deutschen Volkes”

but let's not be too picky—after all, Israel is our best “partner and friend.” 🤪

Just because two people do the same thing doesn't mean ...

2026-04-01T15:21:04Z

Just because two people do the same thing doesn't mean it's the same. 🤡

quoting
nevent1q…tte8

Humans are the only species that poisons plants to protect them ...

2026-04-01T15:11:05Z

Humans are the only species that poisons plants to protect them from predators—read: competitors—and then ends up eating the poisoned “food” themselves.

#retards

quoting
nevent1q…70sv

and it gets worse every year 🤑

2026-04-01T07:31:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…mrwu
_________________________

and it gets worse every year 🤑

surprise, surprise... 🥳 #nevent1q…qt3y

2026-04-01T07:22:01Z

surprise, surprise... 🥳

quoting
nevent1q…qt3y
Congress forced telecoms to build surveillance backdoors in 1994.
Chinese hackers found them.
The government's response is to ban your router.

https://youtu.be/Tu9ceIWrcUc

only Copilot??? #nevent1q…792x

2026-03-31T17:07:29Z

only Copilot???

quoting
nevent1q…792x
Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866

The revolution devours its own children—nothing new under the ...

2026-03-31T17:04:51Z

The revolution devours its own children—nothing new under the sun. 🥳

quoting
nevent1q…q7uq
🤣

Anyone in their right mind should be able to see that. ...

2026-03-31T14:11:22Z

Anyone in their right mind should be able to see that.

quoting
nevent1q…uhw8
Google itself spreading FUD, and Elon Musk the statist scammer who will never reach Mars or the Moon jumping on the bandwagon because he wants X to be a payments platform and Bitcoin is his enemy.

nevent1q…l23v

Me, too 🃏 #nevent1q…2jct

2026-03-31T14:04:43Z

Me, too 🃏

quoting
nevent1q…2jct
I second that

I always love those magic bulliet theories 🔫 🤡 ...

2026-03-31T13:59:27Z

I always love those magic bulliet theories 🔫 🤡

quoting
nevent1q…xhc4
a bullet

this 👇 #nevent1q…ter4

2026-03-31T12:31:27Z

this
👇

quoting
nevent1q…ter4
Running a Plan 9 network on OpenBSD

https://www.ueber.net/who/mjl/plan9/plan9-obsd.html

Who would have thought? Nobody could have seen that coming! 👻 ...

2026-03-31T12:28:04Z

Who would have thought? Nobody could have seen that coming! 👻

quoting
nevent1q…qhur
Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub 😂

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

Whoa, let us go shopping !! The goyim are paying! 🥳 💰 🤑 ...

2026-03-31T12:25:11Z

Whoa, let us go shopping !! The goyim are paying! 🥳 💰 🤑

👇

quoting
nevent1q…2nzk
GM!

👇 #nevent1q…0h4v

2026-03-30T20:04:17Z

👇

quoting
nevent1q…0h4v

Hoooraayyy!! 🫡 #nevent1q…0sk9

2026-03-30T19:49:27Z

Hoooraayyy!! 🫡

quoting
nevent1q…0sk9
Let’s all die for the flag and for taxes!

Absolutely right, and it’s sad that most of the people involved ...

2026-03-30T19:44:09Z

Absolutely right, and it’s sad that most of the people involved haven’t been willing to accept this for more than 30 years.

That leaves just one question:
Stupidity or intent?

quoting
nevent1q…l7zx
What a mess—refusing to accept that microkernels are the future.

All current operating systems are garbage from a security standpoint.

QNX and Redox are the way to go.

https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c37194

Irony is an art; for most people, understanding it is an ...

2026-03-29T19:13:22Z

Irony is an art; for most people, understanding it is an impossibility!

As for sarcasm, we’d rather draw a veil over it. 😉

quoting
nevent1q…9rap
I think you didn’t understand my irony 😂

no further questions 🫡 #nevent1q…jkzs

2026-03-29T19:08:53Z

no further questions 🫡

quoting
nevent1q…jkzs

😂 #nevent1q…y90z

2026-03-29T19:06:29Z

😂

quoting
nevent1q…y90z
Of course! Bitcoin is a thing of the past.

you’re never too old to learn 😉 #nevent1q…jepg

2026-03-29T14:45:26Z

you’re never too old to learn 😉

quoting
nevent1q…jepg

🎯💯 #nevent1q…tqpm

2026-03-29T12:35:27Z

🎯💯

quoting
nevent1q…tqpm
We are dealing with a corrupt psychopath who decided to fund Hamas ($35 million a month) to fuel terrorism and then justify the extermination of the population in Gaza. A true war criminal. And just as the Supreme Court was about to imprison him, the order came for Hamas to attack and for the army not to intervene.

Not unlike 9/11.
nevent1q…nzkx

LMFAO 😂😂😂 #nevent1q…k4hy

2026-03-29T12:34:51Z

LMFAO 😂😂😂

quoting
nevent1q…k4hy
I have a message for feminists around the world.

when off is not off 👻 👇 ...

2026-03-29T09:34:43Z

when off is not off 👻

👇

https://dejuremedia.substack.com/p/your-phone-is-watching-you-right

but woe betide anyone who refuses to pay their "taxes" ...

2026-03-27T21:00:27Z

but woe betide anyone who refuses to pay their "taxes" 🤡

quoting
nevent1q…43m9

You don't do business with conquerors. Period. Germany serves ...

2026-03-27T20:00:49Z

You don't do business with conquerors. Period.

Germany serves as a cautionary example as the 51st state of the United States.
👻

quoting
nevent1q…j02f
🇺🇸🇨🇭The US has seized funds from Switzerland for Tomahawks they don’t want to deliver - Srf news

Switzerland ordered some Tomahawks years ago. Now the US said they can't deliver them.

So Switzerland said then we won't pay.

The US have now seized the funds Switzerland paid for the F-35s (which they probably won't get either ) instead.

well done 🤙 #nevent1q…devp

2026-03-27T19:56:28Z

well done 🤙

quoting
nevent1q…devp

The Slip That Wasn't a Slip

In February, during a congressional hearing about the Epstein files, US Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked a straightforward question: how many of Epstein's co-conspirators had been indicted? It was the kind of question the public had waited years to hear answered under oath, in public, on the record. What followed was not an answer. Neither was it a deflection dressed in legalese.

After brief introductory remarks blaming previous administrations for sitting on the Epstein files, Bondi looked into the cameras and said, with a completely straight face:

"The Dow is over 50,000 right now, the S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. Americans' 401(k)s and retirement savings are booming. That's what we should be talking about."

The room erupted, some in laughter, some in confused disbelief. The talking heads called it a gaffe, a Karen-esque verbal malfunction from a woman clearly out of her depth, and perhaps it was all of those things. Having said that, to dismiss it as mere incompetence is to miss the far more sinister signal buried inside it. What if Bondi wasn't confused? What if she was, in her clumsy and unguarded way, telling us exactly what she meant?

Strip away the optics, the political satire, and ask yourself the only question that matters: what is Bondi actually saying? She is asked about accountability for some of the most evil but powerful people alive, and she responds by pointing at the stock market. Not metaphorically, not tangentially but literally. The logical leap required to connect Epstein's co-conspirators to the Dow Jones Industrial Average is not a small one; unless the connection is that the same people are responsible for both. In other words, what Bondi may have been saying, with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, is this: “the markets would collapse if we arrested those folks. Justice for the victims be damned if it means torching our precious 401(k)s”.

If that reading is correct, the implication is staggering. It means the architects of one of history's most documented elite sex-trafficking networks are also the load-bearing pillars of the global financial system. It means that justice, in this instance, carries a price tag denominated in index points. It reframes the entire conversation from law, morality and justice, into a cold Faustian bargain: “your money or justice.”

Bondi's Karen-like filibustering is easy to mock, and corporate media has been happy to oblige. But she is perfectly in tune with how revered the Dow is by its devotees, and precisely what it would cost to disturb the men who keep it aloft. That is not confusion. That is a threat wrapped in a financial report.

The New Deity Has No Face, Only a Ticker

To understand why Bondi's moment provoked laughter and vertigo in equal measure, you have to understand what the stock market has become in the twenty-first century. It is no longer merely a fundraising mechanism for growing companies, or an abstract scoreboard for corporate performance that politicians brandish during election season. It has evolved into something far more primal and more theological.

The stock market is the new god of the age. It is omnipresent and invisible. It determines fates without explanation. Its moods are studied by the initiated (economists, asset managers, private equity analysts, Federal Reserve governors) who translate its movements into prophecy for the masses. Wall Street bankers and brokers are its clergy, collecting tithes in the form of management fees and trading commissions, promising salvation through compound interest and diversified portfolios. The congregation? Every working adult with a stock portfolio, a pension fund, a 401(k), a retirement annuity. You dare not question the wisdom of the market, and you cannot know its ebbs and flows unless you are one of its high priests.

The majority of people's post-retirement quality of life is tethered, directly and inescapably, to the performance of markets they do not understand, cannot meaningfully influence, and are not equipped to exit. The market god does not merely signal economic health. It determines whether you can afford your medication at seventy-five. Whether you can leave work at sixty-five or must grind until you die. Whether dignity in old age is possible or merely aspirational. That is the authority this deity exercises daily, invisibly, over billions of lives.

Yet the market, for all its theological authority, is emphatically not what its devotees believe it to be. It is not a free market. It is not a neutral mechanism of price discovery. It is not a level playing field on which the prudent and patient are rewarded over time. It is a system assembled piece by piece through lobbying, legislation, and regulatory capture, one whose actual architecture is the precise opposite of what its vocabulary suggests. The nice-sounding buzzwords like competition, price discovery, voluntary exchange were preserved, but their substance was gutted. What remains is ideological decoration on a machine built to extract from those at the bottom and protect those at the top.

The Engine of Engineered Devotion

The market god does not recruit its worshippers through persuasion alone. It recruits them through monetary policy. The Federal Reserve has made it structurally impossible to save productively outside the equity market. When the Fed holds rates at or near zero, savings accounts return less than inflation, government bonds yield below the cost of living, and the investor who simply wants to preserve the purchasing power of their accumulated labour has no rational low cost alternative to equity market participation. This is not a free choice. It is a choice made under duress. The coercion is invisible and deniable, since no law compels you to buy stocks, but it is as real as any coercion that operates through the elimination of alternatives rather than explicit force.

There is a dimension to this theft that is rarely explored which is time theft. Money is stored time. When you work, you exchange hours of your finite life for money. That money encodes those hours in a transferable medium, so you can deploy the value of today's labour tomorrow, or save it for retirement. Inflation quietly erodes that stored time. Then the equity market apparatus extracts a structural toll from your attempt to protect against the first theft. The system first impoverishes you through monetary expansion, then charges you for the privilege of trying to keep up. The devotion to the market god is not freely given. It is extracted at the source and the source is your labour, your time, your life.

The 401(k): The Prisoner Who Thinks He's Choosing

The 401(k), presented as an instrument of financial empowerment, is in real terms a closed cell. Contributions are automatically deducted before the worker receives their pay. Investment options are limited to a pre-selected menu of mutual funds and index products managed by institutions participating in the very system described throughout this essay. Early withdrawal carries a 10% penalty plus income tax, making exit financially catastrophic for most. The worker is not choosing between participation and non-participation. The worker is already inside the system, and the system has been designed to ensure the cost of leaving exceeds the cost of staying.

Consider the irony. The same institutions that manage these captive retirement savings would never extend a loan without exhaustive due diligence from income verification, credit history, employment records, to collateral. They scrutinise you before lending you a cent. Yet the average worker hands over their life savings to those same institutions with barely a question asked, not because they are foolish, but because the system was designed to ensure the question never needed to be asked. The bank studies you. You do not study the bank and the laws, as we shall see, were quietly rewritten to ensure that when things go wrong, the bank's claim on your assets is the only one that matters.

Three firms, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, are the largest shareholders in 88% of S&P 500 companies. They collectively exercise approximately 25% of all corporate voting rights in America. They vote on board composition, executive compensation, merger approvals, and capital allocation on your behalf (but without consulting you of course), using assets you contributed to retirement accounts you cannot easily exit and they vote with management in approximately 85 to 90% of cases. They are locked into their positions by the index structure of their funds, meaning the exit mechanism, the price signal that any genuine free market requires, is permanently disabled for the three firms exercising governance over nearly the entire American economy.

Bondi's pivot from Epstein's co-conspirators to the Dow is not a non-sequitur when viewed through this lens. It is a direct address to the congregation. She was not speaking to lawmakers. She was speaking to the 401(k) holders watching at home, invoking the one number that determines whether their retirement is comfortable or catastrophic and reminding them, none too subtly, what they stand to lose should they continue to demand justice.

The Name on the Deed

There is a word embedded at the heart of America's securities infrastructure that most investors have never encountered, despite the fact that it describes the precise legal status of everything they believe they own. The word is cede. It means, in plain English, to relinquish title or surrender possession. The entity that holds legal title to every publicly traded security in the United States is called Cede & Co. Coincidence? Not exactly.

Cede & Co. is the nominee entity of the Depository Trust Corporation, through which all publicly traded US securities are held. Every share of every company you believe you purchased through your brokerage account is legally registered not in your name, but in the name of Cede & Co. You hold what the law, since the revision of UCC Article 8 in 1994, calls a security entitlement. You do not hold a security. You hold a contractual claim against your broker, who holds a claim against the central depository, which holds the actual securities in an unsegregated pool under a name that literally means we gave it away. The title was ceded. The investors were simply not informed.

This distinction between a property owner and an entitlement holder is not a legal technicality. It is the difference, in a sufficiently severe insolvency, between recovering your assets and losing them entirely. A property owner can demand delivery of what is theirs. An entitlement holder is an unsecured creditor of their broker, ranked behind every secured creditor in the insolvency queue. Behind the banks that financed the broker's operations, the derivatives counterparties with prior claims on the broker's positions. Behind everyone with the legal sophistication to have arranged priority before the collapse. You are at the back of a queue whose existence you were never told about, in a race that started long before you knew you were running.

The completion of this legal architecture came in 2005, when Congress amended the bankruptcy code to grant derivatives counterparties, overwhelmingly the large banks, a privilege called safe harbour. Under safe harbour, derivative claimants can seize collateral from a bankrupt estate without going through the court process. No waiting, no judge's approval. They simply take. The provision was lobbied into existence by the same institutions that benefited from it during the crisis that followed. The property you thought you owned was feudal tenure dressed in the language of ownership. You held it at the pleasure of a chain of intermediaries whose rules you did not write, whose solvency you cannot guarantee, and whose legal obligations to you rank last. This is what the word cede was always telling you. The title was surrendered the moment the asset was dematerialised.

The Hostage Situation We Refuse to Name

A hostage situation has a very specific grammar. Someone holds something valuable. They make the cost of retrieving it explicit. They wait for the other side to calculate whether the price is worth paying. What makes the current arrangement so elegant from the perspective of those who benefit from it, is that the hostage situation is never named as such. There is no gunman or written ultimatum. There is only the unspoken understanding that certain things cannot be disturbed without drastic consequences cascading across millions of retirement accounts. Bondi named it, bluntly, by accident.

The question she inadvertently posed is the real question that demands an answer. If the choice were put plainly, your 401(k) or accountability for Epstein's network, how many people would choose accountability? The honest answer is that more would choose the former than we care to admit. Not because they are evil or indifferent to suffering (although some are), but because the system has been arranged to make that trade feel not like a moral failing but like practical wisdom. Decades of psychological research like Milgram's obedience experiments, the Stanford Prison Experiment, have documented exactly how most people capitulate under structural pressure.

Just in case you need more evidence, consider this: there was demonstrably more public outrage over the 2008 financial crisis than over the protection of Epstein's co-conspirators. Based on that observation alone, it is not far-fetched to conclude that a social contract of sorts has been struck with its terms roughly as follows: keep the market where it should be, and we will turn a blind eye to your crimes. Indifference and selfishness, repackaged as the pragmatic survival of the fittest.

The system does not require the active bad faith of any individual to produce systematically exploitative outcomes. Its inherently evil architecture requires only a structure of incentives, compounded by legal privilege, enforced by the state. Due to the fiat system's opacity and its centralised nature, society has delegated its financial future to a remarkably small number of people; people whose character, ethics, and judgment face far less scrutiny than the average mortgage applicant. Epstein was just a symptom and one of many nodes. The system is the disease. Its most revealing feature is not the criminality at its edges but the governance at its centre.

It’s a system in which the monetary conditions of participation are manufactured by a government-appointed central bank with no accountability to retail savers; in which legal title to your securities is held by a nominee entity whose name means to relinquish; in which your governance rights are exercised by three asset management firms indifferent to your individual outcome; and in which bankruptcy law has been pre-arranged so that when the system's accumulated malinvestment finally liquidates, the losses flow down the priority queue to you. Epstein's network did not create this architecture. But the same concentration of power and the same opacity of accountability that made his network possible also made this architecture possible. They are products of the same environment.

The Exit

In one of the most memorable exchanges from the television series Suits, Harvey Specter turns to his protégé Mike Ross during a heated strategic debate and asks: "What are your choices when someone puts a gun to your head?" Mike, reasoning the way most of us have been conditioned to reason, responds: "What are you talking about? You do what they say or they shoot you." Harvey's rebuttal is sharp: "Wrong. You take the gun, or you pull out a bigger one. Or you call their bluff. Or you do any one of a hundred and forty-six other things."

Most of us have been educated to think like Mike. To fold under pressure, to mistake submission for pragmatism and cowardice for common sense. The architecture of modern life has been carefully constructed so that the path of least resistance always leads inward, toward compliance, and away from sovereignty.

Sovereignty — genuine, functional sovereignty, not the legal fiction of citizenship rights that can be suspended by emergency decree — is not defined by what a person is permitted to do. It is defined by what a person can prevent from being done to them without their consent. The free person has a domain within which their refusal is enforced by something other than the goodwill of whoever is asking.

The problem with capitulation is not that it fails immediately. It is that it succeeds just enough to become a habit. Compliance under threat feels rational in the acute moment because the gun is real, the fear is real, and the cost of resistance appears catastrophic. This calculus is inaccurate as it measures only the immediate cost of saying no while ignoring the compounding cost of saying yes. For a tactician buying time, a strategic retreat has its place. For the person who has simply learned to fold by default, delay is not a strategy. It is a slow death sentence. Their fate is not avoided by compliance. It is only deferred and in the deferral, they are made smaller.

When millions of people were threatened with job loss during the pandemic if they refused vaccination, most complied. The reasoning was understandable on its surface: provide for the family, keep the lights on, live to fight another day. The problem is that the fight never came because people who comply under existential pressure do not suddenly discover their spine when the next demand arrives. They comply again and again. The demands, as they always do, keep escalating. Compliance did not save them. It simply gave the aggressor permission to continue.

This is why financial enslavement is such an elegant trap. It requires no dungeon. It requires only that you remain perpetually dependent on a job you cannot afford to lose, on a currency you did not choose, on institutions whose interests are structurally opposed to your own. Each small act of compliance tightens the screws around you. Each surrender makes the next exit harder to imagine and the next demand easier to accept. The system does not need to be violent. It only needs to be inescapable and it manufactures that inescapability by ensuring you never develop the muscle memory of refusal. That you never learn to say no.

Bitcoin: The First Credible No

This is the radical proposition at the core of Bitcoin, and it is important to state it clearly, because the dominant narrative has worked hard to reduce it to something palatable and unthreatening. Bitcoin is not number-go-up technology. It is not digital gold for the portfolio-obsessed. It is not a conventional inflation hedge, though it functions as one. Bitcoin is, at its structural core, a mechanism for making your no credible. It is the first monetary instrument in human history designed to operate in a digital world without requiring you to trust and therefore submit to any central authority. It solves, at the individual level, a problem the established order spent decades insisting was unsolvable except by their own benevolent stewardship.

When you hold Bitcoin, you hold something that cannot be inflated away by a committee meeting in Basel. It cannot be frozen by a government that dislikes your politics. It cannot be confiscated by an institution that finds your independence inconvenient. It does not require your compliance as a condition of its function. This is precisely why trading Bitcoin for fiat currency is, in most circumstances, an act of self-sabotage. It is not merely a bad financial trade, though the long-term trajectory suggests it is that too. It is the voluntary re-entry into a system of manufactured dependency, exchanging a tool of sovereignty for a token of permission. The number-go-up mentality will always, inevitably, have you trading your freedom for trinkets, because it evaluates Bitcoin in the language of the very system Bitcoin was designed to make irrelevant.

The man who drives an expensive car to a job he cannot refuse, to serve a system he cannot question, to hold a currency he cannot protect; that man, regardless of his net worth, has an inoperative no, and a person with an inoperative no is not free. They are simply a well-compensated slave.

Allodial Title and the Property You Can Actually Own

In most of the developed world, true allodial title to land no longer exists. All land tenure is ultimately held subject to the state's power of eminent domain and taxation. What we call property ownership is, in practice, a very strong form of conditional tenure. Stocks, as we have established, are not allodial in any meaningful sense. They are entitlements, held through a chain of intermediaries, each of which can fail, be regulated, or have its legal obligations restructured by legislative action without your consent. You hold them at the pleasure of the system. That is feudal tenure dressed in the language of ownership.

Bitcoin in self-custody is different. When you hold the private keys to a Bitcoin wallet, stored on a hardware device you control, in a location you control, with a seed phrase known only to you; you hold the ability to authorise transactions from a specific address on a distributed ledger maintained by tens of thousands of independent nodes across every jurisdiction on earth. No intermediary holds your Bitcoin on your behalf, no nominee entity holds title in your name, no secured creditor has a prior claim. No bankruptcy court process governs what happens to your holdings when an exchange fails. Your Bitcoin is not subject to the insolvency of any institution, because it is not held by any institution.

In 1933, Executive Order 6102 compelled American citizens to surrender their gold to the Federal Reserve, which then revalued it; a direct legislative transfer of wealth from individuals to government. Bitcoin in self-custody forecloses that mechanism. The confiscation that ended the gold standard cannot be replicated on a distributed cryptographic network without the coerced cooperation of every individual key-holder simultaneously. That is a structural shift in the power dynamic between the individual and the state that is without precedent in the history of money.

The most powerful vote in a system of institutionalised extraction is not the one cast in a ballot box. It is the one cast with your savings, the decision to hold your accumulated time in a form the system cannot reach, cannot inflate, and cannot confiscate.

The Mirror

History will remember Bondi's response to that congressional question as a moment of either spectacular incompetence or spectacular honesty. It should also remember it as a mirror. A brief, ugly, accidental mirror held up to the face of a society that has outsourced its financial future to people it never chose to examine too closely, and has always known, on some level, it could not afford to examine.

The same concentration of power and opacity of accountability that protected Epstein's network also protects the legal architecture that subordinated your property rights without your knowledge. These are not separate problems but they are the same problem, expressing itself through different apertures.

Harvey Specter was right: when someone puts a gun to your head, there are a hundred and forty-six other things you can do. The first step is what it has always been, refusing to call the counterfeit by its stolen name. You can never comply your way out of tyranny, and neither should the Dow be used to bribe you into accepting serfdom. Satoshi understood this when he released Bitcoin into the world and gave people the option to say no to time theft and thus to be sovereign individuals.

No is a complete sentence. Learn to say it. Learn to mean it. Learn to build a life in which your refusal carries weight because a life in which it doesn't is not yours. It belongs to whoever put the gun to your head.

The next logical step: why bother with side issues like Chat ...

2026-03-27T16:09:54Z

The next logical step: why bother with side issues like Chat Control when you can have access to everything?

Chat Control is just another step in the EU’s tried-and-true salami tactic.

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I doubt it. It's the EU after all. They aim for direct OS access and identification at OS level now.

that never gets old 👌 👇 #nevent1q…39kc

2026-03-27T15:58:47Z

that never gets old 👌

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Rita Moreno is one of just three people to win an Emmy for The Muppets, the other two: Bernadette Peters and Peter Sellers. The comedy timing during her performance of "Fever" while Animal attempts to railroad her is incredible. It was also done in one take
"Dat my kinda woman!"

The EU principle: voting and elections continue until the result ...

2026-03-26T19:52:25Z

The EU principle: voting and elections continue until the result is satisfactory. The best examples are the €uro and the Maastricht Treaty.

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People aren't taking this the right way either.

Chat Control is going to be implemented no matter what; forget about all this voting charade.

you can not make this stuff up the official story is for the ...

2026-03-25T20:28:26Z

you can not make this stuff up

the official story is for the #retarded 🤡

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All of the tragedies you grew up watching on TV were engineered to make you feel certain emotions, and hate certain people.

A lifelong, meticulously-orchestrated movie that has kept your mind in a state of fear, anger & powerlessness, all making you easier to control.

an old golden classic 🎯💯🤙 #nevent1q…y3ca

2026-03-25T20:21:48Z

an old golden classic 🎯💯🤙

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the official flag of NAtional ZIonists #nevent1q…ln7u

2026-03-24T21:35:10Z

the official flag of NAtional ZIonists

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History is repeating itself. Then: NAZI = NAtional ZIonists ...

2026-03-24T21:34:21Z

History is repeating itself.

Then: NAZI = NAtional ZIonists
Today: ...

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The more things change the more they stay the same.

VOLKSWAGEN IN TALKS WITH ISRAEL TO CONVERT THEIR FACTORY FROM CARS TO MISSILE PRODUCTION

The German government is actively supporting the proposal.

Source: FT

macOS 26.4 will follow We live in a madhouse where the lunatics ...

2026-03-24T21:18:10Z

macOS 26.4 will follow

We live in a madhouse where the lunatics are in charge. 🥳🤡🤪

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iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 brings age verification to UK users 💀

Hook. Line. Sinker. 🎯 #nevent1q…pujd

2026-03-21T23:01:39Z

Hook. Line. Sinker. 🎯

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In general, the Yankees have their minds eaten by statism; defending your flag is not defending the homeland, defending your flag is defending the interests of the state.

The homeland is something else that many of you do not understand.

The homeland is your land, your home, your customs, your children, your wife, your family, your animals—that is your homeland.

The flag only represents politicians, the payment of taxes, and all the scum of the system.

The homeland has no flag.
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2026-03-21T20:46:54Z

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things can always get worse after all, we’re talking about ...

2026-03-21T17:21:25Z

things can always get worse

after all, we’re talking about politicians - or rather, political actors

also, political scriptwriters arent’t what they used to be either

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It was tough, but Trump has actually made Biden look good in many ways.

What a carrot!🥕

Only Chuck Norris (R.I.P.) can do something like that. 🫡 ...

2026-03-20T20:52:51Z

Only Chuck Norris (R.I.P.) can do something like that. 🫡

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Why didn't Trump actually win an Oscar? 🤡 #nevent1q…m6vv

2026-03-20T20:47:55Z

Why didn't Trump actually win an Oscar? 🤡

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interesting... 🤔 #nevent1q…4454

2026-03-20T20:42:18Z

interesting... 🤔

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PRO EMF HACK:

You can receive calls over signal/whatsapp/telegram

EVEN IN AIRPLANE MODE

if you connect your iPhone to the internet via an ethernet adapter + ethernet cable

Great for people living away from family who can’t turn on Airplane mode at Night

😂 #nevent1q…k799

2026-03-20T20:38:25Z

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And that’s exactly the point: just because official history is ...

2026-03-20T20:33:27Z

And that’s exactly the point: just because official history is a collection of lies doesn’t mean the
bad guys suddenly become the good guys.

The world just isn’t black and white.

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No, it’s all statism, and statism is bullshit no matter how you look at it.

My anti-statist stance isn’t inconsistent with seeking the truth of history, but that doesn’t make Hitler a good guy.

💯🤙 #nevent1q…jzan

2026-03-20T12:51:40Z

💯🤙

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"Evil always turns stupid."
- Persian saying, or so I hear.

this 👇 #nevent1q…mxk4

2026-03-19T22:29:51Z

this
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It tells you that government is funding these entities.

We are already in uncharted territories. War is happening around. It's just not like people have been trained to think about war.

What can you expect, given that Linux’s main sponsor for years ...

2026-03-19T20:55:00Z

What can you expect, given that Linux’s main sponsor for years has been—drumroll—Microsoft?

Side note: The “inventor” of that unspeakable mess called systemd, Lennart Poettering—who is also responsible for other atrocities like PulseAudio and Avahi—is now working for the Redmond-based company after a stint at Red Hat (IBM).

Linux has become a mix of the plague, cholera, and cancer; it's second only to the Windows system itself.

The icing on the cake is called the Windows Subsystem for Linux—a modern twist of irony. 🎂👻

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The Linux community has become completely statist.

Censorship is everywhere.

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what could possibly go wrong 😂 #nevent1q…d640

2026-03-19T20:36:28Z

what could possibly go wrong 😂

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Store birth date in systemd for age verification

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

imagine my surprise 🤪 #nevent1q…7m2g

2026-03-19T13:40:23Z

imagine my surprise 🤪

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The AI future..........