skells @skells@qoto.org

Despite how many bitcoiners perceive it, bitcoin does not represent an asset that emerges from forces of nature, like gold. It exists through social consensus. That means its continued survival will occasionally depend on your attention and ability to act.
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@4moonsettler we are the anti-fragility, that's activist investors, developers, reviewers, users, business operators etc watching vigilant and ready to apply ingenuity an…
https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1518049951045013506

It is my duty to post about something beside anime girls on this godforsaken network

The CTV debate demonstrates that bitcoin is not as invincible as many bitcoiners like to think.

Bitcoin does have vulnerabilities, and prime among them is apathy. It’s secure, robust, and immutable only as long as the people that use it care about those properties.

I guess we can abuse the boiling frog:

- ‘digital immigrants’ were thrown in hot water
- ‘digital natives’ were brought to boil from tepid
- ‘digital immersed’ have never known anything but hot water

#MP convicted of sexually molesting boy, 15, fails to keep his promise to resign | #Conservatives | The Guardian

Welcome to the #UK where sitting politicians are not automatically expelled from their seats having been convicted of a serious #crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/24/mp-convicted-of-sexually-molesting-boy-15-fails-to-keep-his-promise-to-resign

#UK #Politics #Tories

Rare achievement

@bonifartius
Ok, we found the problem. Upgrading all servers now to fix it.
@skells

It has been years and I am still mad that my dad canceled our Verizon family plan that had a grandfathered-in unlimited data cap.

The painful truth is that, if only the main media organizations of the Anglosphere so decided, Assange’s persecution could be ended tomorrow. The case of Ivan Golunov, a Russian investigative journalist specialized in exposing official corruption, may serve as a textbook example. When Golunov was suddenly arrested for alleged drug offenses in the summer of 2019, the Russian mainstream press immediately saw through the game. ‘We are Ivan Golunov’ read the identical front pages of Russia’s three leading dailies, Vedomosti, RBC, and Kommersant. All three papers openly questioned the legality of Golunov’s arrest, suspected that he was being persecuted for his journalistic activities, and demanded a thorough investigation. Caught in the act and exposed by the spotlight of their own mass media, the Russian authorities back-pedalled a few days later. President Putin made a point of personally ordering Golunov’s release and dismissing two high-ranking Interior Ministry officials. If nothing else, this proved that Golunov’s arrest had not been the result of misconduct on the part of a few incompetent polie officers but had been orchestrated at the highest level.

Please someone tell me more about how Western media is more “free” than Russian 😑