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Brilliantly explained. It’s Wednesday.
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
It is a coupe.
This woman is one of my favorite people to listen to.
“First, you get the kid to take on lots of student loan debt.”
“Then, you poison them.”
“Then, they can’t pay you back.”
“Then, you can take their property.”
“It’s called plunder.”
“This is war.”
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Catherine Austin Fitts just exposed how the elites are waging war on their own people.
“Don’t think that there isn’t a connection between poisoning those kids with vaccines and bad food and getting them in a debt trap.”
“People in America … refuse to face the facts.”
“If you refuse to face the facts of what I call the great poisoning, then you will not take evasive action to protect your family.”
“You can go to a big grocery store and buy the food, and you don’t notice that now it’s lab-grown meat.”
“They’re planning on marketing lab-grown milk without cows.”
“Made in vats with synthetic protein.”
“But once we see the game and how bad it is … then we can take evasive action.”
@solari_the @ClaytonMorris @RedactedNews
REMINDER: The EU’s cash squeeze is coming — commercial cash payments above €10,000 will be banned starting 10 July 2027.
Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the new Anti-Money Laundering Regulation), businesses and service providers across all 27 EU member states will be prohibited from accepting or making cash payments for goods or services exceeding €10,000. This applies to single transactions and linked instalments that add up to the same amount, so splitting a larger purchase into smaller cash chunks won’t work.
What the rules actually cover
•€10,000 hard cap: Traders, shops, dealers, service providers, and professionals cannot take or give cash above this threshold for commercial activity.
•€3,000 ID trigger: For cash deals of €3,000 or more, obliged entities must perform customer due diligence — identity verification of the customer. The anonymous “envelope of banknotes” gets paperwork attached.
•Scope: Primarily commercial/professional transactions. Pure private deals between individuals (neither side acting in a professional capacity) are exempt. Bank deposits and payments at credit institutions are also outside the cash cap itself, though they remain subject to existing monitoring and reporting rules.
•National flexibility: Member states can keep or introduce stricter (lower) limits. Several already have tighter rules than the EU baseline.
The regulation is part of a broader AML package aimed at money laundering and terrorist financing. It was adopted in 2024 and takes full effect in July 2027 after a multi-year transition period. The practical effect is to push larger commercial payments into traceable electronic channels (bank transfers, cards, etc.).
Everyday impact
Buying a used car from a dealer, paying a contractor for renovations, purchasing jewellery, high-value goods, or other commercial transactions in cash above the limits becomes restricted or requires ID. Private person-to-person cash sales remain freer under the EU text, but national rules and practical realities can still apply.
Or… you can just use Bitcoin
Bitcoin offers a different set of properties for those who want more control over their money:
•Peer-to-peer and self-custodial: Transfers between private wallets do not require a bank, card processor, or intermediary. You can hold and move it without an account that can be frozen or restricted by a third party.
•Borderless and permissionless: No EU cash limit, no mandatory ID gate at the €3k/€10k thresholds for pure on-chain activity between individuals. (Regulated exchanges and crypto-asset service providers face their own KYC rules under the same package, including lower thresholds and bans on anonymous accounts/privacy coins on platforms.)
•Portable and durable: Easy to carry large amounts digitally, resistant to physical confiscation or loss of paper cash, and independent of any single jurisdiction’s cash rules.
•Optional privacy: While the public blockchain is transparent, users control their own keys and can use tools/practices that increase privacy. It is not “anonymous by default,” but it is not subject to the same mandatory identification gates that cash transactions above certain amounts now face in the commercial sphere.
Cash remains legal tender and useful for everyday small purchases. The 2027 rules specifically target large commercial cash flows. For people who value optionality, censorship resistance, or the ability to transact without handing over ID for every sizable payment, Bitcoin continues to function as a parallel system outside traditional banking rails.
The rules take effect in less than a year. Worth understanding the details — and the alternatives.
DigitalGoldTalk retweeted
🚨 They Planned the 2020 Lockdowns to Secretly Bail Out the Banks With $6 Trillion Without Hyperinflation
They didn’t lockdown the world because of a virus. They locked you down because the entire banking system was already on the brink of collapse.
In September 2019 the REPO market exploded. Overnight lending rates spiked. Corporate loans and derivatives were quietly failing. There was no cash left in the repo market and in the system even through banks had Treasuries as collateral.
The Federal Reserve was staring at a full-blown liquidity crisis that could have taken down major banks.
Then, just weeks later, a “once-in-a-century” virus conveniently appears.
By early 2020 the Fed starts pulling hundreds of billions out of the REPO market… right as the first cases hit U.S. soil.
They shut down the entire economy.
Why?
Because if people stop spending, stop borrowing, and stop circulating money, the system can suddenly print $6 TRILLION and dump it straight into the banks without causing immediate hyperinflation.
The lockdowns were a financial operation.
While you were terrified of a virus and watching your business die, the biggest bailout in history was being executed behind closed doors.
The timing wasn’t coincidence. The scale wasn’t accident. The narrative wasn’t organic.
They needed you scared, isolated, and offline so they could quietly rescue the system that was already breaking in 2019.
This wasn’t chaos. This was the plan.
The famous City Of London banker @LordBelgrave already warned about how central banks, IMF and BIS have been planning the new monetary order.
Oil shock? AI crisis? Cyberattacks?
They’re already preparing for the next one.
DigitalGoldTalk retweeted
What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock operate less like investors and more like modern feudal landlords.
They buy essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities, often using vast amounts of borrowed money and paying prices that ordinary market participants cannot match.
Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is pushed onto the acquired company itself.
The result is simple: the public pays.
Consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and declining service quality.
The infrastructure becomes a cash-extraction machine.
Profits flow upward to shareholders and executives, while the financial burden flows downward to ordinary households.
When the model inevitably breaks down, the consequences are socialised. Communities are left with crumbling infrastructure, polluted rivers and failing services.
Thames Water's £14 billion debt mountain and repeated sewage scandals are a stark example of what happens when financial engineering takes precedence over public stewardship.
The executives who loaded the company with debt have already collected their bonuses.
The investors have already taken their returns.
And when the system finally reaches its breaking point, taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill.
Privatise the gains.
Socialise the losses.
That is the business model......
DigitalGoldTalk retweeted
This is why I run local AI: I can always rely on it.
It won't be censored, it won't be taken away from me, it won't go out of business or randomly start being terrible.
Build and run local. Defund the evil tech oligarchs.
OpenAI starts refusing normal work for a real firearms industry data business.
Wouldn’t look at an ammo dealer’s site.
Couldn’t pull range policies.
Wanted to lecture the owner.
So the founder built 3 servers with 12 AMD R9700s for $32.2k.
Same workload that six Mac Studios did at 12 jobs/min now runs at 175 jobs/min.
15× throughput. No API changes. No model drift.
Models they chose on hardware they own.
Love this qoute: "If the model can change at any time, we can’t build business processes on it."
This isn’t a basement experiment. It’s infrastructure.
Sometimes local isn’t a side project. Local AI stops being a hobby the moment the cloud starts breaking your actual business.
DigitalGoldTalk retweeted
"You can't live without a bank."
People are already:
Getting paid in crypto.
Holding their own keys.
Trading peer-to-peer.
Spending crypto directly.
Not every expense can be handled this way yet.
But the alternatives are growing.
Debanking is becoming a flex.
DigitalGoldTalk retweeted
Maybe we should start a competitor to Amazon 🤔
amazon is blocking grok @bots from ordering, and elon's answer is just have your bot buy it somewhere else.
one of my grok bots only handles my amazon returns, so i'm watching this one closely.
would you switch stores for your bot? 🛒
Elon, i think its time for an X Shop? 👀
DigitalGoldTalk retweeted
Just finished my tax return for 2025. I paid over $6m in federal taxes last year, which dwarfs the amounts I spend on my family. Taxes shouldn't be anyone's largest expense... and certainly not by a order of magnitude (10x).
But, until I'm willing to pick up a rifle, I'm certain there's no way to prevent the criminals in D.C. from continuing to rob me.
What I find far more troubling is that the document that I'm required to submit along with these funds is over 600 pages long and costs me a fortune to prepare each year.
And ... don't forget... if my accountants make a mistake... this document can be used in a criminal trial against both me and my wife.
Please explain how anyone could possibly be responsible for knowing, as a matter of law, whether or not every number in a 600 page document is accurate?
And the best part? If you send this document to ten different accounting teams, you'll get ten different final amounts.
This is all nuts.
Bankers just pay a fee to steal and commit felonies. We aren’t in the same club.
Bank of America just paid $1.2 billion for willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act, failing to report $5B+ in suspicious transactions tied to money laundering networks over 7 years.
No one is going to jail. They booked the fine as a line item and sent $8.3 billion back to shareholders in the same quarter.
Meanwhile Keonne Rodriguez and Bill Hill, the founders of Samourai Wallet, are sitting in federal prison for building non-custodial software that never touched a dime of anyone's money. FinCEN itself said Samourai wasn't a money transmitter. Prosecutors charged them anyway.
BofA is a licensed money transmitter that willfully broke the law for years and walked. Two developers who wrote open source code got caged.
Two-tier justice system. Be aware, freaks.
DigitalGoldTalk retweeted
While John Maynard Keynes was busy blaming capitalism for the Great Depression, Friedrich Hayek published Prices and Production in 1931 and explained exactly what the Federal Reserve had actually done to cause it.
Central banks expand credit, artificially lowering interest rates below their natural market level. Entrepreneurs, reading cheap credit as a signal that real savings exist, pour capital into long-term projects: factories, infrastructure, heavy production. They borrow at 3% and build accordingly. The Fed manufactured that 3% from thin air between 1921 and 1928. No corresponding pool of genuine savings backed it.
Hayek called this the boom phase. Malinvestment compounds quietly while the party runs.
Then reality arrives. The credit expansion cannot continue indefinitely without hyperinflation, so the central bank tightens. Interest rates climb toward their real level.
Suddenly those long-term capital projects that penciled out at 3% are bleeding money. Entrepreneurs liquidate. Unemployment spikes. The structure of production snaps back violently toward what actual consumer preferences and genuine savings could support.
This is the bust. The depression is the cure, not the disease.
Keynes looked at that same wreckage in 1936 and prescribed more government spending, more credit, more of the exact poison that caused the seizure. Every dollar of "stimulus" the Roosevelt administration injected after 1933 delayed the necessary liquidation and extended the Depression by years. The unemployment rate still sat at 17.2% in 1939, a full decade in.
Hayek handed policymakers the correct diagnosis. They hired a different doctor because his prescription required them to do less, spend less, and control less.
DigitalGoldTalk retweeted
“Inflation is only 2%.”🤡
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The receipts pictured are fabricated. According to Walmart's store locator, there is no Walmart Store #4821 or location in Sunset Bay, Florida.
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