🚨🔒🧠 CALLING ALL CYPHERPUNKS! 🧠🔒🚨 We predicted this world. In some sense, we've been preparing for it our entire lives. Mass surveillance. Mega corporations. Government censorship. Intelligence agencies run amok. The NSA's spying capabilities naturally increase with Moore's Law, and their budget only grows. The UK jails thousands of its own citizens per year for (very) mean tweets. Tech giants and advertisers spend billions to data mine algorithmically manipulate us all into serving their ends. Your government's leaders want you to believe they can only keep you safe if they are able to store in their database every thought you have ever communicated to another mind. How can one possibly hope to protect the world from these escalating injustices? Which community has the skills, the wit, and the boldness to dare defend humanity against these tech-enabled tyrants? After 13 years of cypherpunk work, including a DEF CON talk, three international innovation awards, and designing, building, and shipping real software that protects real people, I have reached a surprising conclusion about our would-be permanent overlords: They don't stand a chance. "How could that be?!", you ask? You see, our asymmetric advantages are extraordinary. Infinite digital surveillance can be defeated by a single mixnet. All computing power on Earth is insufficient to break but one encrypted message. As Julian Assange once said: "Encryption is an embodiment of the laws of physics, and it does not listen to the bluster of states, even transnational surveillance dystopias. It isn't obvious that the world had to work this way. But somehow the universe smiles on encryption." We learned from the Snowden revelations that even the supposedly all-powerful NSA has privately deemed Tor to be "catastrophic" to its surveillance efforts. To defend the world from centralized control and achieve cypherpunk utopia, a surprisingly small number of additional tools and technologies must be built. But they must be built correctly. Simply. Scalably. With an eye toward anonymity and usability. And soon. Beginning in three weeks, from October 25th to November 15th, in the Andes mountains of Argentina, as a residency residing within @JoinEdgeCity's even faster-approaching event Edge City Patagonia, we will accelerate each other's progress in creating these technologies. We will build the future we have always wanted. The future we deserve. A compelling future of freedom, ambition, decentralized power, and confused, frustrated, wannabe tyrants. We are building a future where authoritarian whims are too slow, too shortsighted, and too localized to prevent the rise of cypherpunk utopia. This October and November we shall create, deploy, and unveil the following open-source software: 1. An anonymous, censorship-resistant podcasting platform; so the signal cannot be stopped, and to allow anyone in the world to listen and learn without being spied upon or creepily psychologically profiled 2. The greatest secure messaging app of all time: decentralized, anonymous, quantum-resistant, optionally self-hostable; think Signal + Discord + Linear, but anonymous and Tor-native 3. An encryption app for organizing Legions, the first internet-native organizational structure. Legions are a new mechanism for large-scale human coordination that will allow the masses to peacefully organize against the elites and to create our own alternatives to the corrupt status quo; it's also a platform you can build upon, and scriptable in any programming language 4. A decentralized, scalable platform for building unstoppable apps; combines the best of web2 and web3, without the baggage 5. A highly scalable DAO for prototyping then running each new societal design we conceive of 6. A privacy-preserving AI assistant layer on top of a completely new kind of social network that is cleverly incentivized to align with its users' interests 7. [Your world-changing project; do be bold, ambitious, original, practical] Beyond building, beta testing each other's software, resident projects receiving the support they need, and a ton of technical talks and workshops (some by you!), we will also hear from other extraordinary individuals who are fighting the good fight, and who can help us clarify and prepare for what may lie ahead. That is, we will hear from whistleblowers, journalists, persecuted activists, and defiant dissidents. If not now, when? If not us, who? If not encrypted, why? See you in Argentina. cypherpunkutopia.com

Protip: choose to be around smart people and you won't have to pretend you're ignorant.

Government need not be incompatible with competition. We should have DMV 1 and DMV 2 compete, whoever does the worst job gets disbanded or merged into and led by the other. Then a new DMV, led a different and exploratory way, is created anew, etc, ad infinitum. Then we get useful public services but without the monopolization.

Hackathon time is fast approaching! Are you ready to level-up an exciting new cypherpunk tool for the world? See you *today* at 5pm, here at @JoinEdgeCity 😎🙌🚀

It appears the FBI is going after @archiveis

We, the Ethereum Cypherpunks, act on principles. We fucking care about privacy. We fucking care about security. We fucking care about censorship resistance. And we will always fucking defend these core principles. I wrote the Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto because this shit matters. If you're butthurt, go touch some grass and get a reality check. We, the Ethereum Cypherpunks, stand united in our pursuit of a more private, secure, and censorship-resistant future. Like it or not. hackmd.io/@pcaversaccio/the-…

Answer: pop-up cities like @JoinEdgeCity

A week and a half ago, we presented Canary at @JoinEdgeCity ... and it sparked something. 🔥 Many of you were inspired to contribute! And we're turning that momentum into action. This Friday & Saturday @CpunkUtopia is hosting a hackathon for Canary, thanks to @elimisteve 👩‍💻👨‍💻 If you're wanting to build resilience tech, or hack on cypherpunk-aligned tools, come out and join us! P.S. Non-devs welcome too. There’s plenty to do. Details in the comments 👇

Cypherpunk Utopia is proud to be hosting a hackathon for Canary, a vital software tool to enable essential information to be released no matter what. See you Friday and Saturday -- it's time to build the future we want! 😎✊🚀

We need Chinese and Russian dissidents in the US, and American dissidents in Russia and China. Then humanity can achieve massive reforms without state interference, coordinating securely (and often anonymously) over the internet to expose government wrongdoing the world over.

Profit sharing with employees is an excellent example of intelligently combining the best that capitalism and socialism have to offer. Work harder => More profit for the company => More profit for the workers who did so much to create that wealth

A rich person's bank account balance tells you absolutely nothing about how positively or negatively they are affecting society. If someone is rich, the two morally relevant questions are: 1. How did they make their money? 2. What did they do with their money once they got it? From this, a number of things become obvious: (a) People who make a lot of money making the world worse (e.g., by growing cigarette companies) may be net negative for society. (b) People who make a lot of money making the world better (e.g., by making solar panels more efficient) are clearly net positive for society. (c) Less obviously, people who make a lot of money making the world better but who capture more value than they create (e.g., by creating $1 billion in value but capturing $5 billion) can be net negative. (d) Those who make tons of money in a slightly or very societally-beneficial way may still choose to then use that money to oppose the interests of the public (e.g., by lobbying for tax breaks for the wealthy without requiring them to reinvest much of that money), and thus end up being net negative. And of course: value capture and value creation are very different variables; in practice, they're positively correlated, but the details matter in each individual case if we're being serious and not just hurling slogans. The bottom line: the amount of money someone has tells us nothing morally relevant. It tell us nothing about whether they are net positive or negative for society. The vast majority of people are certainly net positive, at all income and wealth levels. (We may need to bring back the death penalty for ultra wealthy people who use their wealth to undermine our democracy, but that's a different conversation...) Sometimes it can feel like rich people are morally inferior, but that's just because if a rich (and therefore powerful) person opposes your interests, you are more likely to notice, because they are more likely to succeed. Equally morally suspect people who have no wealth and no power have no way of harming society on a significant scale. There absolutely are rich people and corporations who are doing a lot of damage (e.g., by funding lobbyists). If we are careful about targeting just them (politically, financially, verbally, etc, but always non-violently of course), as opposed to waging a broad class war, then we can have a lot of wealth creation and a lot of disempowered scumbags who stopped undermining our democracy because they couldn't take the thousands of negative articles written about them. Ultimately, we need more people -- preferably all people -- creating more value than they capture, at all wealth levels. This is how we make the future great, and that's what matters.

I want to build an online rebellion against the establishment. We're trying this on-air but I want it to be everywhere. I don't want it to be just on @TheYoungTurks. I want everyone to rebel, politically, not physically. Donors rule everything. We have to get our government back!

Good advice

I repeat: intelligence agencies are actively taking over the Western world.

Comedian Tim Dillon claims Palantir founder Peter Thiel is quietly trying to buy off major social media influencers on both the right and the left as part of a broader effort to position JD Vance for the presidency in 2028. He says it won’t be long before those same influencers begin promoting Palantir as a necessary force against “terrorism.”

Privacy Win in EU: Denmark Drops Mandatory Chat Control in CSAM Fight Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard announced Thursday that the EU Council Presidency will abandon mandatory detection orders in the Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) proposal—marking a major defeat for mass surveillance advocates. Facing opposition from EU Member States and several stakeholders, Denmark now backs “voluntary” CSAM detection only, scrapping plans to force platforms to deploy technology that would have breached end-to-end encryption.   X celebrates the decision and appreciates the leadership from Poland, Italy and others to oppose mass surveillance across the EU. We will continue to monitor the progress of these negotiations and oppose any efforts to implement government mass surveillance of users.

For the first time in our existence, we possess the means, technology, and, for the moment, the will to establish a permanent human presence beyond Earth. Starship is designed to make this future a reality → spacex.com/updates/#moon-and…