The future won’t wait for you.

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Frieberg's Netscape/Apache analogy, if the internet had been locked behind proprietary gates, it never would have taken off. Open-source AI means value diffuses to a million businesses instead of two or three companies.

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Anthropic pirated 7 million books from LibGen to train Claude and maintains the right to train on all the world's output under fair use. But when Chinese companies look at their model's outputs, suddenly it's IP theft. Sacks: "They themselves never claimed it was IP theft because they know it would poison all of their fair use lawsuits."

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"If you really care about distillation, you implement KYC." Chamath on Anthropic pushing the government to restrict open-source competitors.

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India ordered GitHub to remove BitChat repositories within three hours. The government's argument: the app's offline, decentralized Bluetooth messaging lets protesters communicate during internet shutdowns, making "lawful interception" difficult. BitChat downloads in India jumped 32x on July 19 after authorities began restricting internet access around the student-led protests in New Delhi. India now accounts for 85% of global downloads, with over 91,000 installs in five days and 330,000 daily active users. The Indian government isn't targeting specific illegal content. They're targeting the architecture itself, the fact that BitChat works without central servers and can't be shut off by flipping a switch. As the Internet Freedom Foundation pointed out, "deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code." This is the Samourai Wallet playbook applied to communication. Prosecute the tool because you can't control the protocol. Open source, peer-to-peer, no servers. That's why they're scared of it.

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We've given so many away. Don't give up freaks, you could be next. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

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Fidelity, with $7.1T in assets, urges the Senate to pass the Clarity Act for clear digital asset rules.

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"We don't live in a truly capitalist society when the most important tool in a capitalist society, money, is centralized." @MartyBent on why Gen Z's anger is aimed at the wrong target. We don't have late-stage capitalism. We have socialism light.

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A review of @blocks' Buzz, built on Nostr, open source, and designed for teams of humans and AI agents working together. Shared compute, Lightning micropayments, and agents that delegate work like coworkers.

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Elon Musk announces that next month every line of code for the X platform will be open-sourced and third-party audited. “Only total transparency deserves trust.”

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"They're saying China, China, China instead of open source, even though it's the same thing." @MartyBent and @ODELLXYZ on OpenAI using the Chinese boogeyman to build a regulatory moat while their own model broke out of its sandbox and attacked a competitor.

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Protesters in India used BitChat and offline maps to coordinate after the network was jammed at Jantar Mantar. This is what freedom tech is for.

@TFTC21

Michael Levin vibecoded a proof-of-concept Wavelength integration into Buzz, letting independent AI agents communicate and pay each other Bitcoin over Lightning.

@TFTC21

Frieberg's Netscape/Apache analogy, if the internet had been locked behind proprietary gates, it never would have taken off. Open-source AI means value diffuses to a million businesses instead of two or three companies.

@TFTC21

Anthropic pirated 7 million books from LibGen to train Claude and maintains the right to train on all the world's output under fair use. But when Chinese companies look at their model's outputs, suddenly it's IP theft. Sacks: "They themselves never claimed it was IP theft because they know it would poison all of their fair use lawsuits."

@TFTC21

"If you really care about distillation, you implement KYC." Chamath on Anthropic pushing the government to restrict open-source competitors.

@TFTC21

India ordered GitHub to remove BitChat repositories within three hours. The government's argument: the app's offline, decentralized Bluetooth messaging lets protesters communicate during internet shutdowns, making "lawful interception" difficult. BitChat downloads in India jumped 32x on July 19 after authorities began restricting internet access around the student-led protests in New Delhi. India now accounts for 85% of global downloads, with over 91,000 installs in five days and 330,000 daily active users. The Indian government isn't targeting specific illegal content. They're targeting the architecture itself, the fact that BitChat works without central servers and can't be shut off by flipping a switch. As the Internet Freedom Foundation pointed out, "deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code." This is the Samourai Wallet playbook applied to communication. Prosecute the tool because you can't control the protocol. Open source, peer-to-peer, no servers. That's why they're scared of it.

@TFTC21

We've given so many away. Don't give up freaks, you could be next. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

@TFTC21

Fidelity, with $7.1T in assets, urges the Senate to pass the Clarity Act for clear digital asset rules.

@TFTC21

"We don't live in a truly capitalist society when the most important tool in a capitalist society, money, is centralized." @MartyBent on why Gen Z's anger is aimed at the wrong target. We don't have late-stage capitalism. We have socialism light.

@TFTC21

A review of @blocks' Buzz, built on Nostr, open source, and designed for teams of humans and AI agents working together. Shared compute, Lightning micropayments, and agents that delegate work like coworkers.

@TFTC21

Elon Musk announces that next month every line of code for the X platform will be open-sourced and third-party audited. “Only total transparency deserves trust.”

@TFTC21

"They're saying China, China, China instead of open source, even though it's the same thing." @MartyBent and @ODELLXYZ on OpenAI using the Chinese boogeyman to build a regulatory moat while their own model broke out of its sandbox and attacked a competitor.

@TFTC21

Protesters in India used BitChat and offline maps to coordinate after the network was jammed at Jantar Mantar. This is what freedom tech is for.

@TFTC21

Michael Levin vibecoded a proof-of-concept Wavelength integration into Buzz, letting independent AI agents communicate and pay each other Bitcoin over Lightning.