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Meta Punk retweeted
The EU is quietly advancing a law that would force WhatsApp, Telegram, and other platforms to scan every private message, photo, and video, even if end-to-end encrypted.
They call it “Chat Control.” In reality, it’s the foundational act for a full European surveillance regime.
19 member states already support it. If Germany joins, it becomes law by October.
This violates Articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter: your rights to privacy and data protection. It treats every citizen as a suspect.
They call it child protection, wich makes me sick for many reason. The first and most obvious one is that the use the strongest emotional lever, and the one thing that might marginally benefit from this to justify the foundational elements of dystopian control.
Makes me sicker yet, cause the world it would create, is not one where I’d feel like my kids would be, in fact, safe. Safe to express themselves, to grow indipendent thinking, to aspire to be something more than cogs in a machine, a preordained, heavily guardariled future as their only option.
Safe to opt out. Safe to dissent. It’s exactly for your kids, that this is the most important battle. It’s bigger than this, much much bigger than this, but this is their trojan horse, CBDC’s are next.
What they’re building is a mass scanning infrastructure that breaks encryption, violates trust, and treats private communication as inherently suspicious.
Under the proposal, platforms would be legally required to scan everything before it’s even encrypted.
This includes:
– Private messages
– Photos
– Voice notes
– Videos
There is no opt-out. No warrant. No consent.
This violates Article 7 of the EU Charter:
“Everyone has the right to respect for their private and family life, home and communications.”
And Article 8:
“Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data.”
These are not negotiable. They are foundational.
Encryption is not a loophole. It’s the backbone of digital safety, used by journalists, doctors, political dissidents, and ordinary people every day. This law would break that backbone. For everyone.
Supporters say, “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.” History answers for you: Authoritarianism begins with normalization. Surveillance justified by fear always metastasizes.
Germany is the swing vote. If Berlin joins, the law will likely pass under Qualified Majority Voting.
Tell @MarcoBuschmann and the @BMI_Bund:
Reject Chat Control. Please.
Protect encryption.
Protect dignity. Absolutely sustain freedom of expression, feeedom of communication.
Also pressure the @EPPGroup, @RenewEurope, and @GreensEFA blocs in the European Parliament.
Silence is complicity. “Undecided” means functionally in favor unless they speak out now. Fucking make noise. Stop scrolling and act, for once. Write, yell, educate. Better yet, log off go in the streets and protest.
If this passes, there will be no going back. A terrible precedent will be set: that private communication is conditional. That is not safety. That is not Europe. That is not democracy.
Chat Control is a dystopian overreach. Kill it before it becomes law.
Meta Punk retweeted
Reminds me of @jackbutcher's transparency times:
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case."
Source: Interview (March 2007)
Meta Punk retweeted
I can't stress enough how golden this opportunity set is right now in crypto.
Get your head out of the 2-year bear market mode and into this new paradigm. Don't let yourself get outperformed by first-cyclers.
This is how I see it right. Let's say there's a 50% chance things absolutely moon from here. I think that probability is higher but let's say it's 50/50.
If you're wrong - you'll lose some money. The idea is to not put all of your money in such that if things to to zero you're not going to die. Theoretically, you should also back yourself to get a job (if you don't have one) or be able to continue in your current job. So WORST CASE scenario, ideally, is that things go to zero, you lose a bunch of money, but you have enough to have a job a life and you have to be confident in your ability to work yourself back up. (If you have debt I would advise working on getting that lower first before degenning aggressively on crypto).
Now let's say you're right. You've put some money in and you've held on and things absolutely moon. You stand the chance to make anywhere from 2-100x your money. Obviously the 100xs are few and far between and I wouldn't target that, but there are plenty of "obvious" crypto assets you can own that could very easily 2-5x t his cycle. Now that actually makes a big difference to your life if you pull it off, many people have completely changed their lives with that including myself.
So the way I'm looking at it (not saying this is the right way, this is just my perspective) - I'm just gonna be long and strong and not falter on dips, even though I have PTSD from round tripping many things in the last 2Y, but I've convinced myself this is a DIFFERENT market now and holding on will get rewarded greatly. If I'm wrong, I'm gonna lose a tonne of money but I'm basically backing myself to somehow bounce back from it if it happens. If I'm right then things could be pretty insane.
That's the mindset I've gotten myself into now. This is a bull market. Long-term trends is higher. Buy/hold dips, be open and woke to new metas/paradigms and don't be scared. Also have some core conviction longs that never get touched, have a separate degen back for gambling needs.
We've had $4.6bn of net inflows from the BTC ETF in just a month; that number is going to keep growing. In May we could have an ETH ETF and thus even more potential inflows into crypto.
Coinbase just reported blowout earnings.
Stocks are at all-time highs.
Rate cuts still planned for this year.
AI advancements will keep pushing tech stocks.
You literally have one of the best market environments ever right now and crypto is still like 25-40% off the highs on majors, much more on alts.
I honestly believe it literally is that simple, doesn't have to be more complicated than that.
This is one of those moments where if I was new to crypto and I understood it I would be going all-in, but because of the last 2 years it's too easy to feel too cautious.
Gotta get out of that mindset. That doesn't mean ignore risk management, but I think it means don't get shaken out on dips because genuinely believe we have higher to go.
A lot higher to go.
Meta Punk retweeted
1. BTC has essentially a free walk to ATHs. We just got spot BTC ETFs, which unlock safe access to BTC for trillions of dollars that haven’t previously had it. The halving is a few months away. The Fed is likely to cut rates multiple times this year. Stocks are at ATHs and look like they’re heading higher. BTC ATH is up ~55% from here. We can argue about the pace to ATHs (1H-24, 2H-24, 1H-25) and we can argue about how far beyond prior ATHs we’ll eventually go this cycle ($75k, $90k, $100k, $120k, $180k), but the path to ATH looks incredibly straightforward. Crypto will have to do very little “work” to get BTC into the high $60s. It will likely just “happen” because we have ETFs and the Fed is easing. We’ve never had a setup like that before.
Meta Punk retweeted
Wake up.
You only get these opportunities every 3-4 years.
There’s a very high chance this is “it”.
Even if it’s not, your expected value of putting in the time and work to get smart on crypto is materially higher than sitting on your hands doing nothing.
Every cycle people turn small sums into millions. These people aren’t rocket scientists or mathematicians, you don’t have to be book smart to make money.
These people have two things in common;
1. They take risk
2. They grind every hour of the day
Your ability on #1 will vary depending on how much capital you have to deploy, but there’s zero excuse for slacking on #2.
As per my tweet below I think next year is gonna be huge for crypto but obviously we’ve already started to see a lot of that move with the ETF timeline expectedly shifting earlier.
What I think still holds though is we haven’t really seen the retail/normies enter in meaningful size which is when things really start to send to crazy levels.
But we will.
So in that respect we’re still early. Early in the cycle, not the tech or adoption. I believe cycles are more important than narratives.
This is not a tweet to say put your net worth into chasing a specific token, it’s a tweet to say spend the time learning and getting smart on how to invest and trade so develop the toolset to make money for yourself.
The easiest thing to do is probably just own some BTC/ETH/SOL and sit on it, but there are probably plenty of 100x opportunities that will present themselves over coming months and you wanna give yourself the highest probability of coming across them.
Take it upon yourself to get ahead of the game and impact your own outcomes. Lots of people are gonna make a tonne of money and there’s zero reason why it shouldn’t be you.
Crypto will give you an opportunity to change your life, it’s up to you if you take it.
