Michaël Roerade

The left vs. right political divide is engineered and well maintained. If you identify with the left, there's a list of issues you should be against and in favor of. Unsurprisingly, if you identify with the right, you're supposed to take the opposite stance on these topics. 🧵1

@MichaelAArouet Country and family are two very different things...

This is simply unreal. What happened in Germany? Has the left virus completely eaten their minds? How on earth is it possible to not be willing to defend one's country and family?

The quantum threat predictions are on the same level of stupidity (and payroll) as the WEF BTC energy FUD in 2017. ⬇️ The difference: In 2017, everyone in/close to the BTC space ridiculed the FUD. Now some are actively spreading the nonsense.

⚡️The crowd does not reject the signal because it is weak. It rejects the signal because hearing it would require leaving the crowd.

@_The_Prophet__ The biggest tell is the timing...

⚡️During COVID, the governing assumption inside large institutions became: compliance first, debate later. That logic metastasized everywhere. Military. Corporations. Universities. Media. Tech platforms. Public health agencies. Dissent stopped being treated as disagreement and started being treated as contamination risk. Now the reversal is happening because power changed hands and the emotional temperature cooled enough for retrospective judgment to re-enter the room. But the scar remains. Millions of people watched careers destroyed, reputations erased, friendships shattered, and bodily autonomy overridden under extraordinary social pressure. Many complied out of fear. Many enforced because the institutional incentive structure rewarded enforcement. Many resisted quietly because resistance carried real economic and social cost. Now the machine is partially walking backward through its own footprints. That creates a dangerous legitimacy fracture because institutions only maintain authority when people believe the rules are stable across administrations. Once obedience in one cycle becomes honored resistance in the next cycle, trust decays at the civilizational level. The deeper pattern emerging underneath all this is the collapse of “neutral expert authority” as the central organizing religion of the post-2008 era. People no longer fully believe: “the experts are above politics.” People increasingly believe: “expert systems are political actors with institutional incentives.”

Now that @AnthropicAI is securing more compute via deal w/ @elonmusk, smartest move would be to reverse policy of prohibiting subscription OAuth for agent harnesses and bring on @Teknium. They won't do it, but if they did, it would be the last nail in coffin for OpenAI & OpenClaw

@arnowellens @tom_lamoen En het Моderna prikje waarvoor dat geprinte geld zogenaamd nodig zal zijn is precies een jaar geleden gepatenteerd. Ursula's privé sms-jes deel 2 incoming...

Vanuit monetair oogpunt komt #hantavirus geen dag te vroeg. Volgend jaar loopt het Coronafonds af, 5 jaar na de vorige pandemie (?). De rente moet ondanks inflatie omlaag. Reden voor nieuwe, verarmende stimulans. Denk nou aan de zorghelden! Allemaal vers geld, behalve voor zorg.

Alan Watts understood this 60 years ago: "All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals."

In February 2026, Atlassian raised Loom prices by up to 100x. One team's bill went from $240 a year to $24,000 a year. Overnight. No opt-in. No warning. Loom Business now costs $12.50 per user per month. Loom Business + AI is $20. A 50-person team pays up to $12,000 a year to send screen recordings. A 100-person team pays up to $24,000 a year. A 500-person team pays up to $120,000 a year. For screen recordings. Then a developer in Liverpool shipped Cap. His name is Richie McIlroy. Solo founder. Built and sold four micro-SaaS products before this one. Started Cap in November 2023, six weeks after Atlassian announced the Loom acquisition. Cap is the open source alternative to Loom. Built in Rust and Tauri. Native macOS and Windows app. AGPL-3.0 licensed. Free forever for local recording. No usage limits. No watermark. No login wall. Here is what it does: → Instant Mode: record and upload at once, shareable link the moment you stop → Studio Mode: 4K, separate screen and camera tracks, no compression, no upload → AI-generated titles, summaries, chapters, transcripts — automatic → Custom S3 storage: AWS, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze, MinIO, Wasabi → Custom domains: share from cap.yourdomain.com, not loom.com → Import your existing Loom videos in one click → Self-host everything with one Docker command Here is the wildest part: Loom hosts your videos on their servers. If Loom goes down, your links go down. If Atlassian raises prices again, you pay or your library disappears. Atlassian has killed products before. Stride. HipChat. Both were buried. Loom could be next. Cap puts your videos on YOUR storage. If Cap disappears tomorrow, your recordings still sit in your S3 bucket. Every link still works. Every video still plays. The numbers, today: 18,506 stars. 1,454 forks. 56 contributors. 1,762 commits in 2026 alone. Latest release v0.4.84, three weeks ago. Used by 30,000 teams. A $63 billion public company raised the price of screen recording 100x in February. A solo founder in Liverpool made it free the same year. Your recordings. Your storage. Your links. No surprise invoice. Free forever. AGPL-3.0 open source. (Link in the comments)

If you want to understand: - Significance of this video ⬇️ - Why no country was ever lifted from poverty by IMF / World Bank - Why they forced El Salvador to water down its Bitcoin policies - Significance of Trump's meeting with Xi Read most underrated geopolitical analysis ⬇️

“Baldrick, you wouldn’t recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsicord singing ‘cunning plans are here again’.” – Blackadder

The most successful European startup journey: 1. Have an idea 2. Get six co-founders, ideally in their 50s 3. Spend four months to set up a legal entity 4. Apply to Y Combinator, get rejected 5. Write angry LinkedIn post about tech bro culture in the US 6. Raise €50k for 75% equity from top European VCs 8. Do external GDPR audit before users sign up 9. Co-founder leaves to do a second PhD 10. Apply for an EU grant 11. Move headquarters to Estonia for e-residency 12. Launch product, get four users 13. Pivot to sustainability consulting 14. Become the AI innovation advisor to EU Parliament Silicon Valley simply cannot comprehend what we are building here

@giacomozucco @BigSeanHarris Bingo!

So it was all just about a shitcoin ICO. Shocking. I'm in disbelief. Who could have said! Take note of all the people promoting this blatant scam in any way, for your future credibility score.

What did you expect after a few hundred years of (neo) colonial pillage?

@Teknium Does this bring full @papercliping integration any closer?

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@EU_Commission Whatever the EU Commission's social media intern is smoking, I want to try some...

Let the truth be told, let the press be free. 📰 Journalists hold power to account, uncover injustice, and keep citizens informed often at great personal risk. This #WorldPressFreedomDay, we reaffirm our commitment to protecting journalists and defending independent media. Because free press is the foundation of democracy.

During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said: “Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, people don’t want war. No one wants war in Russia, England, America — not even in Germany. That’s obvious. But in the end, it’s the leaders of a country who determine policy. And it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it’s a democracy, a communist state, a parliament, or a fascist dictatorship.” Gilbert objected: “But there is one difference in a democracy — the people have a voice through their elected representatives.” To which Göring replied: “That’s all well and good, but whether the people have a voice or not, they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nuremberg Diary, April 18, 1946 Doesn’t it sound familiar?

@CorySwan The problem is that the concept of free speech can be defined objectively, wheareas the notion of a "cohesive society" is highly subjective.

Free speech is more important than preserving a cohesive society. Agree, or disagree? Explain why in the comments if you like.

⚡️The old world asks what backs Bitcoin. Bitcoin asks what backs the old world.

Bitcoin is Energy Money.