Fundamentally, I am not at all a serious person. Hoppe fan, so to speak, but in truth NRx. ✂️✨
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Ember2528 retweeted
it's entirely fine and great for proprietary models to exist
the issue is they try to kill open source behind scenes while pretending they support it
so far they've been pretty incompetent but they'll eventually figure it out if there aren't people fighting for it
I’m hearing there’s renewed lobbying in DC and in state legislatures to ban or severely restrict open-source.
Like a few years ago, we’ll need everyone to help show policymakers why open-source matters: for startups, for competition, for economic growth, and for jobs.
If you build with open-source, now is the time to speak up!
Good to see more companies standing up to this shit
Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.
That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.
In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.
I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.
In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!
ALT Cloudflare: defender of the Open Internet against the elite European media cabal.
Ember2528 retweeted
I was speaking with a number of mainstream GOP leaders recently who kept telling me that the Democrats would never win another general election again because they were on the wrong side of too many 80/20 issues
I tried not to laugh too hard but the level of delusion was amazing
Even in victory the GOP sees itself as the inferior loser party and you can tell because they still rush to the left to settle their own internecine conflicts
If you’re a Republican your only real sin is being too right-wing
No one in the GOP is ever too left-wing or centrist, being right-wing is the greatest crime in the country’s right-wing party
Every movement will have petty disagreements and power struggles, it’s ugly but inevitable
The real sign of weakness and subservients is when you run to THE OTHER PARTY to settle those differences
When you do you’re simply admitting that they wield the ultimate political and moral authority
No Democrat would ever defeat a liberal rival by trying to appeal to the GOP’s standards, you can’t even imagine how that would work
Cowardly and weak Republicans do it every day
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Ember2528 retweeted
Just world fallacy on display again.
Nothing is coming. Nothing ever happens. Certainly not by itself! There is no destiny. There is no fate. There is no Providence. There is no psychohistory.
No I’m afraid it’s all up to us
Ember2528 retweeted
This reminds me of all the people just yesterday telling everyone not to share the Iryna Zarutska video. Of course, they know perfectly well how powerful imagery is at shocking the public out of apathy and into action, which is exactly what they don’t want, except when it comes to videos like the George Floyd one, which, of course, Abby never complained about people watching billions of times.
Ember2528 retweeted
Because no law—even one described, like the Constitution, as the "supreme law of the land"—possesses a force of its own; the ink cannot leap from the page to fight for your rights. A law can only defend the people when the people defend the law. Its power derives from our own.
Ember2528 retweeted
every couple of years people are like "omg an eclipse is happening! This only happens once every 400 years!"
Ember2528 retweeted
First signs that Trump is concerned about Vivek.
It’s also probably a good indicator Vivek won’t be Trump’s VP pick… which would be about the only thing to make Trump 2024 tolerable
Ember2528 retweeted
"OreImo: My Litter Sister Can't Be This Cute" Author x Illustrator will be starting a new LN titled "Watashi no Hatsukoi wa Hazukashisugite Dare ni mo Ienai" in Dengeki Bunko!
Release Jan 2024
Despite being handsome, smart, athletic, and rich with beautiful sisters, the MC has never attracted any girls. Determined to start anew in high school, he wakes up one day as a cute girl and excitedly shares the news with his popular younger sister, unaware that this transformation has also affected her.
Ember2528 retweeted
This is Ross Ulbricht. 10 years ago today, Ross was arrested for creating a website.
If the government gets their way, he'll die in prison.
Ross is serving a double life sentence plus 40 years for, again, creating a website.
If that sounds ridiculous and infuriating to you, keep reading. It gets worse.
Ross created a website called Silk Road, which he designed to be a free market, secure, anonymous marketplace. It used Bicoin for payment, and utilized a system called Tor which allowed buyers and sellers to access it anonymously and without any trace.
An avid libertarian, Ross prohibited anything being sold on Silk Road that violated the Non-Aggression Principle.
This included stolen items, counterfeit/fraudulent items, child p**n, assassinations, etc.
A devout believer in nonviolence, Ross also prohibited the sale of weapons.
Many items that were sold on Silk Road were legal, and a third-party study of the site inventory by Carnegie-Mellon University concluded that the drugs most commonly sold were small amounts of cannabis.
Most importantly, Ross was not convicted for selling, buying, or being in proximity to any of the items that were sold on Silk Road, legal or illegal.
He was convicted for what others did on the site.
Imagine if Elon, or Zuck, or any of the other owners of web platforms were charged for what other people did on them.
On October of 2013, Ross was arrested by the FBI and charged with money laundering conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, fake ID trafficking conspiracy and narcotics trafficking. (Ross did not actually launder money, hack computers or sell illegal items himself. These charges were based on what users listed on the site.)
After his arrest, the prosecution fraudulently alleged that Ross attempted to have several people killed, but never charged him for this at trial, and his supposed "victim", Curtis Green, publicly stated that those allegations were false. He is a fervent supporter of Ross.
Despite the fact that these false, unproven allegations were never prosecuted, the federal government used them in the media to paint Ross as some kind of violent criminal kingpin, despite the fact that he was nonviolent and lived a very meager life, living with 3 other roommates in an apartment.
The FBI also seized over 144,000 Bitcoin that they found in a shared wallet on Ross's computer, which today is worth over $3.8 billion.
During Ross's trial:
- Evidence and testimony showing that multiple people ran the website was banned from being discussed at trial.
- Ross's defense team was not allowed to cross-examine the prosecution's witnesses or present their own witnesses
- Key exonerating evidence was blocked by the judge
- The prosecution was permitted to allege to the jury that Ross had hired hits on people despite never charging him with this or allowing him the opportunity to defend himself against the allegation
The jury found Ross guilty on all charges, and the judge sentenced this first-time, nonviolent person to double life plus 40 years without parole.
After Ross's trial, two of the key investigating federal agents were convicted on corruption charges related to Ross's case. Their existence was hidden from the jury during trial.
Despite all of this, Ross’s conviction was lost on appeal, and the Supreme Court refused to hear his case.
There is no other way to say it: Ross was railroaded by a corrupt federal government that wanted to make an example of him and steal his Bitcoin.
During his 10 years in prison, Ross has continued to be a model citizen, teaching classes and tutoring his fellow inmates and helping them to earn their GEDs. He has also completed several educational programs himself and has never received a single disciplinary sanction.
Ross Ulbricht is a peaceful, nonviolent man who has never harmed anyone and whose only "crime" was to create a website that other people used to sell drugs that shouldn't be illegal in the first place.
And for this, he's already spent a decade in prison.
If he is not pardoned, or his sentence commuted, he will die there.
That is unacceptable, and it is long past time for Ross to be set free.
Obama could have set Ross free with the stroke of a pen, but he wouldn't.
Neither would Trump.
Neither has Biden.
Let's replace them with someone who will.
Ross, I am sorry for what you're going through, and I will not stop fighting for your freedom until you're back home where you belong.
Free Ross Ulbricht.
