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Let hope never die. Also, @JustRuslan is a star who nobody knows about. Yet. Carpathian National Nature Park | Bukovel, Hoverla youtu.be/-tjVMwN_ogk via @YouTube

@CaVivekkhatri All we have to assume is that your players are rational 🤣

🚨 BREAKING: Iran didn't respond to US bombs with missiles. They responded with GAME THEORY. And in doing so, they may have just fired the most dangerous shot at the US dollar in 52 years. Here's the move most people completely missed: 🧵 (Read this slowly. Share it widely.)

@chrisschmitz But even then, the mines will be deployed. Job done, straight closed, virgins awaitin'

My take: The ability of US and UAE to destroy smaller crafts is significantly larger than the stockpile of Iranian Boats that can lay 2-3 mines. With absolute air supremacy over the straits, these boats will be paying every mission with a terminal fate, as they will not escape Hellifre, JAGM, LJDAM, GUB 53 and so on. It will be a nuisance, that will cost a lot of Iranian lives.

@SIGNAL_RETURN Very cool. I like the ZCash option. Will be interesting to see who will audit the code. How can I reserve a handle?

Announcement: our TEE/ZK/MPC privacy email service is will be called Iron Mail. Our current estimate for a release date is start of Q3 2026 (roughly a 4 month development time). If you read the article below, and comment we'll award you with a perk (read on). A lot of people boldly claim "SMTP is old, therefore privacy is impossible". That's fair, if you say it with an open mind. What is also true is that multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proofs have come a long way, and so has TEEs. By utilizing a novel stack of these technologies (a stack we call IRON), we can ensure that even if served with a subpeona, we cannot capture data while at rest, while in transit (both inbound and outbound), this includes metadata. We will have free options that give you up to 1 GB of storage, as many folders as you need. Pinned mails, and so much more. While I can't go fully into detail on the exact mechanisms of how the IRON stack works yet to achieve in-platform privacy soundness, you'll be getting it near launch to verify for yourself exactly how we make sure that you can still receive, send and store emails with no option to for the service provider (us), to read your emails. Period. Iron Mail is developed for everyone to use. We'll be doing a public ceremony to get rid of so called "toxic waste" (generating a CRS which anyone who's verified can participate in) as the entire service relies on zero-knowledge proofs that every user can verify for their email dispatch that: 1) inbound is decrypted within a TEE edge server. 2) the plaintext was directly sent to an MPC council. 3) mail routing and attribution was done correctly. 4) SMTP-specific things such as DKIM verification. 5) outbound is jointly broadcast through MPC collaboration with the final email not being visible to the service provider. All zero-knowledge circuits will be released, after they've been audited by several parties, you can audit them yourself. This means, there is no uncertainty on whether we have hidden log infrastructure, since that would be either a) tampering with the process, which would invalidate the proof chain or b) be outright impossible once it's being processed by the MPC committee. Setting expectations 1. Referrals On referrals. We will have them. If we sponsor influencers, they will not be given a script, they can give their honest opinion. We will only be giving sponsorships to niche technical channels who actually knows what they're vouching for. Ironmail is mostly meant to be deployed for institutional and governmental security. Running a permanent free service for the public is purely in the interest of promoting good opsec and giving people access to a new innovation in a space where there hasn't been much for years now, despite annual earnings in excess of $100M+ (for Proton Privacy in 2024, per Zoominfo). We might also give referral code to tech enthusiasts who write blogs or has an audience, as these are the people who can accurately assess the veracity of the claims made. This has remained our biggest issue with companies like Proton: the marketing. We've seen them be subversive or sometimes, what can easily be suspected to be, intentionally misleading. 2. Defending users Based out of Delaware, US., jurisdictionally, we'll stand up for every subpoena, and we will always carry an up-to-date warrant canary in the footer of the website that we urge you to check (or setup an automated curl for), to ensure the company is still in our control. Signing up will be through 3 options: 1. A proof of work puzzle that takes between 5-10 minutes to solve on most processors. 2. An SMS message (after which that number is marked "used", but is not associated with your email). 3. By using @onflowxyz, zero-knowledge based proof of uniqueness using an ICAO 9303 document (i.e. a passport, or ID card, none of the info is transmitted to us, only a zero-knowledge proof, which is merely a mathematical proof of the validity of information, not any of the actual information). Any request for user info, be it IP address, email, contents of email, phone number, name or setting up future snooping is impossible within the IRON protocol. But again, we always urge you to check the warrant canary. Accessing the Site We will offer both a web UI and a fork of Thunderbird to access the Ironmail. We will also have endpoints setup for TOR and I2P (though experiences may be slightly degraded in terms of smoothness due to JS blocking) if you do not want your ISP to know you're using privacy-respecting services. Users can sign up on a VPN (we suggest Mullvad), on TOR or via I2P. You can pay via credit card where we give you the option to pay via credit/debit card (but, it is not recurring, and all payment data is deleted after 20 days), you can decide if you want to renew. You can also pay using cryptocurrency, including Monero and Zcash shielded transactions. We want to keep as little information about you as possible. We do not store which transaction hash was associated with your purchase after the sufficient number of verifications. Pricing The service, as mentioned, is meant for governmental and institutional usage in private deployments, however for our public-facing site, which can also be used by organizations of any size, the pricing will be similar to that of Proton, simply due to a much larger computational overhead than something like Proton (MPC and TEE isn't cheap in overhead, neither is ZK). The service is 100% free for everyone who doesn't wish to use an extended feature set, and comes with half a gigabyte of storage by for the free tier. Political affilations We are not aligned with any party or ideology as a company, and our team rarely if ever discusses politics, we discuss privacy. Launch Due to the complex nature of the engineering the protocol to be production confident, then the auditing process, as well as stress testing, fuzzing and vulnerability testing along the way, combined with a UX we hope can rival the best, launch is set to be in approximately 4-5 months. The Prize Thank you for reading this. I've garnered a ton of support personally from a privacy-conscious crowd for talking about privacy pretty much everyday, from interesting papers to Proton to zero-knowledge and whatever else is on my mind. Sam Bent makes amazing videos, and apparently also, amazing blog posts (and hopefully he'll also make a video on the blog post he made). If you share what you liked most about his article, and why privacy-preserving emails matter to you we will reserve a handle for you, plus give you 2 months of the Enthusiast tier for free (use your own domains, more storage, aliases and unlimited email addresses). There is no upfront cost, we will simply send a code for you to enter once you sign up, which will also verify that you're trying to register the handle you reserved (some handles go quickly like first names, short words, etc.). Thank you For continuing the fight for privacy. We hope you're excited about the innovation we're trying to bring to this sector that has been very good at twisting words, using unclear marketing, only speaking up when caught and generally has tarnished the word 'privacy' for the average person in what they should expect. The more services LARP as true privacy-oriented services, that then turn out to be something different in highly publicized events, hurts the reputation of everyone else trying to build for privacy. And finally, good article Sam. Keep writing these.

@DoingFedTime I don't get it. We always knew only proton to proton emails are zero serverside access. We always knew our metadata and payment info is not safe. We always knew Proton complies with lawful requests. Buyer beware. And, don't buy Proton, you can use it for free.

@vxunderground Exactly my experience in the domains I am expert in. It's a crutch at best.

I've had so many people tell me to check out Claude. I tried it with my malware stuff (C WINAPI) and this thing produced some S-tier slop. It produced incredibly dangerous, over complicated, or straight up incorrect work. It did do a good job with API searching and stuff. Claude showed me some things I didn't know about. However, the implementation was wrong. I literally sent it a direct link to MSDN and it said, "You're absolutely right! My definition was wrong!". Or I would ask it something about the Windows registry and it would just straight up hallucinate something about WoW64 redirection. I suspect part of the problem is the lack of lower level C WINAPI documentation ... maybe? I don't know. High level stuff like Python it seems to do pretty good. I've had so many people try to gas me up about Claude and AI. Dude, it's cool, I get it, okay? But it is still dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. My best advice is to use AI to learn. Ask it questions. Study. Do NOT copy paste code from it.

@SIGNAL_RETURN @matrixbt @ProtonSupport @ProtonMail As to isolating payment from service, Nym have come up with a good model. Or allow ZCash subscriptions.

@matrixbt @ProtonSupport @ProtonMail You missed the point. I'm saying the method they used for doxing him was his payment (by card), which Mullvad has already figured out how to do while still maintaining full user privacy (i.e. deleting all payment info after settlement finalization).

I've been vocally critic of @ProtonMail. Exposure of them doxing a user today made me rethink how we can use the leaps in cryptography to achieve truly private email without changing SMTP. We did it. Provably private mail is coming. No more single point of failure. 🫡💛

@tuffpuff @devlin_jp Lol try this Fri nites and find yerself 'moved'

@devlin_jp At Glasgow Central the other day I automatically stood on the right on the escalator (programmed by living in London for 25+ years) and then noticed that the sign says "stand on the left". I didn't move.

This has always baffled me - why do we stand on the right on London Underground escalators when we drive on the left and so would be naturally more inclined to do our standing on the left and our overtaking on the right?

@fesshole Maybe you never noticed. Maybe they'll never notice. Sleeping dogs etc. As soon as they ask you for the remainder, pay up. ayou simply honour the contract, gave them your payment details, in the reasonable expectation that they process acc to your instructions.

Bought a car this week using inheritance. They charged £1,700 to my card instead of £17,000. I know it's wrong not to report it but I genuinely dont have huge bundles of cash & that amount is life changing. So far kept quiet. How long before I can actually spend the cash?

@handre Yeah show me a single unregulated market. This is all metaphoric make belief.

Central planners still can't grasp what Hayek understood decades ago — the most sophisticated systems emerge precisely because no bureaucrat is pulling the strings. Language, markets, cities, the internet. All spontaneous orders that no government committee could design if they tried for a thousand years. And yet these same politicians think they can micromanage healthcare, education, and monetary policy. The hubris is breathtaking. But here's the part that really drives them insane: spontaneous order doesn't just work better than their top-down schemes — it makes their entire profession obsolete. No wonder they fight it so hard. When complex coordination happens without their permission, what exactly are we paying them for?

@04Black330Ci @shortwave78 In his time, Gaddhafi was on shortwave, spoke to him once many many moons ago and he sent his DX card.

@shortwave78 Time to get my W6LVP loop out and have a listen! I have heard the mideast on good nights from middle America.

👀⚠️ The mysterious Farsi-language Numbers-Station on 7910kHz, received in 🇮🇹Milan at 18:00 UTC on March 3, 2026. Probably the most interesting radio signal in recent times.

@signulll I mean, who in their right mind logs in like that??

now that login with google is so so prevalent everywhere, google knows exactly what is being used, when, etc. just like when facebook had onovo to monitor app usage.

@ChrisO_wiki Why all these rw evangelical Christians take such a close interest in the region: The more boom the sooner Laudicea will descend.. just as Bibby forces the hand of the US, so they think they can force God's hand.

"A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer." jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-we…

@johnkonrad No. The implication is that Lloyd's quasi-monopoly will fall. Also helped by AI levelling its traditional advantage. The world's top three re-insurers will step up and medium term we will see premiums come down.

This is potentially the biggest Iran story nobody is talking about: the global insurance market may be heading toward a systemic crisis. Here’s why… Most people don’t realize London isn’t just a financial center it’s THE center of global insurance. Lloyd’s underwrites ~40% of the world’s marine cargo. Ship sinks, port gets bombed, canal gets blocked the bill lands in London. This is why the UK punches above its weight. Not the Royal Navy. Not diplomacy. Insurance. Control insurance, control trade. And London doesn’t just control the 90% of global trade that moves by sea. Lloyd’s and the London market are major insurers of almost everything skyscrapers, factories, ports, satellites, entire supply chains. You can’t participate in public markets or raise large amounts of capital without insurance. Now, the normal playbook for war risk is repricing, not cancellation. Canceling coverage entirely is a massive escalation in underwriting posture. It signals something beyond risk, it signals uncertainty so deep the underwriter can’t even price it. The question everyone should be asking: why? Why not just jack up premiums and make a fortune off the crisis like they did in the Black Sea off Ukraine? To answer that, you have to understand WHY London has maintained a stranglehold on global insurance while losing nearly submarket related to ships. The answer: better intelligence. It is no coincidence that MI6 headquarters sits directly across the Thames from the @IMOHQ, the world’s maritime regulator & a short distance from Lloyd’s itself. I have no proof of a direct pipeline, but it has long been speculated in the industry that intelligence flows from MI6 to Lloyd’s. Having the best intel in the world would be the single greatest competitive advantage any insurer could possess: the ability to price risk that competitors can only guess at. Here’s the problem: the majority of MI6’s intel doesn’t come from its own agents. It comes from Five Eyes the alliance comprising the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. And within 5Eyes, the dominant partner is obvious. The CIA, NSA, NRO, etc generate the lion’s share of intel. So if Lloyd’s pricing advantage flows from MI6, and MI6’s best intelligence flows from the US… what happens when that data pipeline gets throttled? All indications are that @Keir_Starmer was blindsided by the size and scope of the US/Israel strikes on Iran this weekend. That alone tells you something about the current state of transatlantic intelligence sharing. And we know there has been serious anger in Washington over the UK’s decision to sell Diego Garcia, home to America’s most strategically important base in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. It is not a huge leap to conclude that the submarine cables linking Langley to London have gone dark, or at minimum have been significantly throttled. What this means for UK national security is a question for the Brits. But what it means for EVERY company globally that’s insured through the London market has massive implications for the entire financial system. Because most large insurers worldwide don’t do independent intelligence work. They index off Lloyd’s rates. If you’re insuring a skyscraper in Tokyo, a semiconductor fab in Taiwan, or a port in Argentina you get a Lloyd’s quote, then shop that price around. Other insurers see Lloyd’s number and assume the diligence was done. They price accordingly. This means if London is suddenly flying blind it’s not just Lloyd’s policyholders at risk. It’s the entire global reinsurance chain. The cancellation of war risk coverage on ships isn’t the crisis. It’s the canary. If this hypothesis is correct, we could be looking at a systemic repricing event across global insurance markets…. the kind of cascading uncertainty that defined 2008 and COVID. Watch Lloyd’s. Watch reinsurance spreads. What Five Eyes. That’s where this story, and possibly Wall Street, breaks. CC @BillAckman

@HeySunilGupta @makemytripcare @etihad yoomoney.ru register a virtual MIR card complete KYC transfer funds. if stuck with transferring fiat, work out the best crypto rail job done. if stuck, hit up russian cryptp bros to offer escrow

I’m completely stranded at Moscow airport… alone, helpless, and running out of hope. No one from @makemytripcare or @etihad is answering my desperate messages. Russia doesn’t accept Visa or Mastercard anymore. I have ZERO cash left. Not even for food or water. The Etihad ground staff is avoiding me more than my ex ever did — literally turning their faces away and telling me “just call customer care”… which has been busy for hours. I’m standing here like a beggar in my own nightmare. I don’t know how I’m going to get home. I’m scared. I feel abandoned by the very companies I trusted with my journey. My family is waiting and I can’t even tell them I’m safe. Please… if anyone from Etihad, MakeMyTrip, or even the Indian embassy sees this — HELP ME. And if you’re reading this, just one RT could save me. I’m begging. #StrandedInMoscow

@modacitylife The first cities literally built around comprehensive cycle networks were Stevenage and Milton Keynes. Sadly, cycling failed to take off and over the next 50 years most of the paths fell into disrepair. theguardian.com/cities/2017/se…

In recent years, Bilbao has quietly built a cycling network shaped by lessons from the Dutch: calmed where it can be, protected where it must—always comfortable and connected. The result? You can now ride across the city on infrastructure for everyone—not just the fit and brave.

@bluewmist Gold

What is something you've officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting?

@AsimovDe @clement_molin Let DE do the missiles bit, we need to upgrade from 2CV to Mercedes deterrence.

@clement_molin Good. But we need a total european army market and economy and go back to the old good times

Emmanuel Macron is set to announce France 🇫🇷 new nuclear detterance ☢️towards Europe 🇪🇺 His plane was seen escorted by 4 Rafale fighter jet en route for the « Île Longue » nuclear submarine base in Brest. Follow the crucial updates for Europe here ⬇️ 🧵THREAD🧵⬇️

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Lol, X just flagged me because dude did not like what I said and got their mates to report as a bot. Fun fact: I dont give a fuck about reach 🤣