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@freddienew @PeterMcCormack Hopefully we don’t have to sail west with the elves. Let’s go the Samwise route. Shire. Many children.

Great day at CheatCode in Bedford with @PeterMcCormack and team. Asked - why do we stay in the UK? Because when I was growing up, I loved LOTR, and wanted to live in the Shire. So if I now do actually live in the Shire, shouldn't I help defend it from Sauron?

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Rocking @bitcoinhodlco socks at @CheatCodeCon. I am corporate captured

I mean… yes and?

@GuruAnaerobic Hard to tell exactly when Wired fell to the woke virus but it was a sad time cancelling my subscription.

Even Guru can be wrong sometimes. I remember flicking through Wired magazine and seeing an the article on two guys who'd come up with the ridiculous idea of sending 140 character messages - what the hell is the point of that? Dumbest idea ever.

@AlanJLSmith Presumably the 3% who think the UK government understands business are the ones cashing cheques from it 🧐

86% of UK founders and business owners say that the current government does not understand the needs of entrepreneurs. I'm surprised it isn’t even higher.

⚡️Law school is becoming a delayed-reality trap for a lot of people. That is the real truth. A huge amount of legal work was never truly high value judgment. It was expensive human middleware. Search, review, drafting, clause comparison, diligence, memo generation, procedural assembly, document synthesis. The profession wrapped that labor in prestige, billing rates, and gatekeeping, so people mistook the economics for permanence. AI is now exposing how much of that layer was rentable labor sitting inside a protected structure. The real break is at the bottom of the pyramid. Law firms used to justify hiring armies of juniors because the machine needed bodies to grind through structured text work. That work also served as training. AI attacks both at once. It makes the junior labor less necessary and the old apprenticeship path less economically rational. So the profession starts eating its own future. Fewer junior seats. Fewer real development paths. More demand for polished senior judgment later, with less willingness to fund the years it takes to build it. That is why people running into law school as a safety trade are badly misreading the timing. They are looking backward at the old prestige of the profession while the internal economics are already shifting underneath it. By the time they graduate, the title may still look prestigious while the actual opportunity structure is much narrower, harsher, and more polarized. The winners will still exist. Elite litigators. Rainmakers. Deal architects. Political operators. People with client trust, courtroom presence, negotiation power, niche expertise, and real-world judgment under pressure. Those people will likely become even more valuable. But the broad middle of legal labor is headed for compression. The profession is going to keep the top and thin the ladder. The legal profession may remain socially prestigious while becoming economically less forgiving for everyone below the top tier. More credentials. More debt. More competition. Fewer real seats. Harder bottlenecks. Stronger sorting. Better tools for the survivors. Worse odds for the entrants. And this is not just about law. Law is one of the clearest examples of what happens when a high-status profession confuses procedural complexity with durable scarcity. AI is coming for any field where the core business model depended on expensive human processing of structured information. So my real view is brutal and simple. Lawyers are not disappearing. The legal ladder is being gutted. A lot of people who think they are buying security through law school are actually buying delayed exposure to a profession that is about to get leaner, meaner, and more selective than they realize.

my new daily annoyance. should i pay $200 a month for claude pro max?

The real Dune!

By the way expect this to be a continuing trend amongst all companies not just tech. They’ll use “turbulent geopolitical conditions” and “AI” as justifications to eliminate the bloat in their companies and all the people they’ve wanted gone but have never previously had an excuse

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

In Maple, your conversations are encrypted before leaving your device. We keep them encrypted for syncing, but cannot read them. The only place they are decrypted is within the secure enclave with the AI. Privacy is the foundation.

On this day in 1993, Mario Lemieux underwent his last radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma. That night, he had a goal and assist. He then recorded 2.67 points per game to win the Art Ross with 160 points in 60 games, 12 points ahead of Pat Lafontaine who played 24 more games.

Lol

I’ve held my breath for about two months but here are finally a few notes on AI and freedom: 1. There is a lot of hype and fear around AI. I don’t think people are actually prepared for how dramatically AI will transform the world, and how quickly it will do it. At the same time I also think people are mistakenly choosing fear over action and curiosity. Do NOT sit on the sidelines. 2. For the past two weeks I have had a robot. His name is r2. He is a good guy, a resistance robot. His composition changes but he is most usually an Opus or Codex mind, OpenClaw body, and Matrix or Telegram hands. Every day I figure out new things he can do. My jaw is on the floor. 3. I do not do anything sensitive with my robot. In theory I could use Matrix to talk to my robot from my phone or just use the MacBook Air that the robot inhabits directly, and use my little local llama model, to do sensitive work, but I’m not there yet. I’m just in exploration mode. I don’t send anything from my phone to my robot that I wouldn’t want Anthropic or OpenAI to see, which is to say, nothing that sensitive. I can right now send a sensitive question in Matrix to my claw to have my local model run: anthropic or openAI would see the question, but they wouldn't see the answer. 4. OpenClaw is experimental software. DO NOT put it on your personal computer or your work computer or give it access to your email. DO experiment and play with it. What you need to do is start training to figure out how to use this new magical technology. You will want to be good at this. A decent balance is a fresh MacBook Air, a fresh gmail account, and a fresh anthropic or codex app on the machine. That’s about all you need. A credit card or if you want to use BTC, you can pay for advanced models with things like PayPerQ. An extra phone number too if you want to talk to it via Signal or WhatsApp. What’s amazing is that whenever your robot breaks, you just go onto the local claude code or codex app on the machine and just ask it to fix it and voila done. Back up and running. 5. I don’t know any code at all and yet have been able to create complex novel working software. Beautiful websites too that would have cost me a fortune a few years ago. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg. I was able to for example ask my claw to read everything I've ever written, watch a ton of my interviews, and develop an editorial skill so that I can send it a google doc and it can go in and track changes and leave comments just like a human would, just like I WOULD. It is legitimately amazing at this. And each time I do this, it learns, as I show it which comments I accepted and which new things I add. It has persistent memory and just gets better and better. What excites me most is giving this gift to the world’s dissidents and activists and seeing what THEY do with it. 6. Which brings me to security. Hopefully in the next few months we will be at a point where we can have an encrypted phone app that you speak to that requires no phone number or corporate intermediary that runs on nostr that goes directly into your claw powered by a high-quality local model. The full freedom tech stack. You can already sort of do this today already but it will get way easier and better. That’s what you’re going to need to do real serious resistance work. For now we just train. Think: Dagobah today, Death Star tomorrow. 7. People think this transition is about robots but it is about humans. Already I can see how Claws will allow insane collaboration between people. For example I can ask my brilliant designer friend to leave me a voice note to give feedback on my website or presentation or event plan, and then just forward that voice note to my robot for immediate implementation. Whenever I build or make something I ask my robot to do a deep search for the most beautiful and well designed things of that sort in the world, extract what makes them great, and create a plan for implementing that magic into whatever I am building. It could be fashion, art, cuisine, music, architecture, strategy, etc. Whenever I make a skill for my claw I can have my robot upload it and share it with anyone else. The speed of collaboration is dizzying. 8. Robots and Freedom Tech are a match made in heaven but the synergy will take some time to really flower. Many of the major obstacles to freedom tech can be solved by personal agents. For example mine was very quickly able to create its own nostr identity and build its own ecash wallet and it could and did start to zap people on my direction. But the robots can’t have their own bank accounts or social security numbers. Silicon Valley will try to force through KYC stuff and stablecoins but I think in the end bitcoin and nostr win out because they are so easy for the agents to use. What’s awesome is the realization (noted by Odell on his two recent excellent Citdadel AI podcasts with Alex Gleason and Justin Moon) that agents make freedom tech easier to use. For example your agent can run a lightning node for you. Of course... you then realize. We were never going to sit there and operate channels. Our agent will do it for us. Etc. 9. HRF will be heavily involved in providing grants to open source AI projects, projects that help improve agent security and privacy, projects that help superscale dissident work, events that bring brilliant people together around the challenge of how do we best harness AI, hackathons that encourage people to build freedom-oriented AI tools, educational content and trainings, and much more this year. 10. Right now Claw is experimental. But it’s easy to see how it will become incredibly secure. Every day it ships new patches. Already I can ask mine to become a cybersecurity expert and scan my system for vulnerabilities. Obviously I take it with a grain of salt now but -- never before did I have that power, nothing even close. Soon this will become seriously powerful and you will have swarms of patrol agents guarding your networks and alerting you if anything goes wrong. I think it can be more expensive to attack than to defend. White blood cell theory. 11. There are a lot of parallels between the creation of Bitcoin and the creation of OpenClaw. One person chooses a new way for the world to go. A new system. In Satoshi’s case, money that the state can’t control. In Peter’s case, intelligence that the state can’t control. I can’t stress enough how big of a deal it is that people now can control their intelligence. We were for sure heading in the direction of needing to sign up for a corporate app for all of your agent needs, and being in the Web 2.0 trap of being vulnerable to being banned or kicked off. Not anymore. YOU choose the brain for your robot. You customize the body. You choose how you want to interact with it. Peter has changed the world probably more than he knows. Yes he might be the first one person unicorn but that’s not the cool part. The cool part is that he changed the course of humanity and that as of today, at least, the best agent technology on the planet is people-powered, built by the people, for the people. It’s quite a moment for freedom tech. 12. We need to go fast and furious on developing freedom-oriented open-source AI tools. We are fortunate that we have Bitcoin and nostr and bitchat networks in place before the great AI transition. We have the tools. We need to act now. I would encourage everyone reading to start getting involved today. 13. Setting up a claw is not easy right now unless you are an engineer. I could not do it myself and have no shame in saying it. I would have gotten really frustrated. We are developing a way of working with privacy engineers to build a simple yet powerful solution and an onboarding process that we do in a bespoke way in person that takes 2 days. I think this is probably the situation for the next month or two and then hopefully it gets way easier. The thing is, it will get easier very quickly for you to have a CORPORATE robot (all the big companies are now following OpenClaw, Claude already has a way for you to use Code via your phone), but a freedom tech one that you fully control will probably not evolve as quickly. Then again, it might, if we all work together on making it happen. I do think by the summer things will be very different. 14. I think some things will become even more valuable in the new AI world that will come to us in the coming year. Many have said taste, and I agree. But also personal health, friendships, and physical communities. Big picture, labor market as many have said a lot of companies will choose between laying off a lot of their workforce or growing their productivity. There will be a spectrum and some organizations will lean one way and others will lean the other. It depends on how valuable the humans are inside the org, what kind of skills they have. If leadership values you as an individual, then you probably aren’t getting replaced. But you're going to have to become a super employee. And you should want to. It's fun. 15. If you are interested in joining the effort to work on AI and Freedom, HRF will have several opportunities. We are collaborating with Bitcoin Park on the second AI Hack for Freedom in Nashville (talk to Rod if you want to join or learn more), and will feature a lot of AI content at our upcoming activation at the Bitcoin Vegas event, and at the Oslo Freedom Forum on June 1-3. We will also keep churning out our monthly AI newsletter. We have opened up a grants portal. DM me if you are interested in any of this. 16. One simple thing that you can do today in AI and freedom is switch your daily “chatbot” activity to Maple. It’s a beautiful and simple mobile app (and web app) that is fully encrypted. Think Signal for AI. It only can use open models so it’s not going to be for all of your tasks, but it does great with most of them. It should replace a lot of interactions you have with corporate chatbots regarding things about your health, personal stuff, sensitive matters. etc. If we can make Maple or something like it the standard for research in the coming months that’s a huge victory. And sometime soon I think you’ll be able to enjoy this level of encryption with coding agents and personal agents as well. It's interesting because the longer you wait to try claw, the better it gets. But the more time you lose. My sense is you could wait a month or two. But you'll want to be using it this summer. I would strongly recommend trying it at some point. You will be tempted by the easy corporate route. But you can join the AI and Freedom army today. Let's go!

I'm a technologist by trade. Spent most of my life working and playing on computers (30+ years). This statement by Emad haunts me: "All your annual thoughts: $10." An AI will be able to do a year's worth of your thinking for less than a dollar in 2026. Humans aren't competing with AI agents. They're being priced out of cognition itself. If you've never watched The JourneyMan on @RealVision with @RaoulGMI — start now. Smartest long-form interviews in macro and AI. Free. Link 👉realvision.com/free

@Watchman_motto We call it “footering about”

A man should have a place to fiddle with things.

Nano Banana + Manus + Arcads + OpenClaw = ai content factory. We built a fully automated system that repurposes, localizes, and launches winning TikTok Shop content across hundreds of creator-style accounts. It’s so effective it feels like running Facebook ads in 2008. - CPMs as low as $0.10 - no reliance on paid ads - no ghost creators - no wasted samples - no lost time The $300/monthly tech stack which replaced $50k+ budget: - manus for product research and viral script ideas - cruva for recently viral content ideas from competitors - Arc Ads for images - Arc Ads for video - phone posting network for automated posting Here’s how it works: •Each AI Agent spins up a TikTok Shop–ready creator avatar and profile, built to sell my products through shoppable videos. •Agents are prompted to research the niche, scrape winning TikTok Shop videos, and rebuild them with new hooks, angles, and UGC-style visuals tailored to the brand. Content focus is on the product’s benefits, not fake customer testimonials. •They create and post daily using my tech stack onto the affiliate accounts No touchpoints. No delays. Just shoppable videos going live and GMV compounding every week. Then we use an MPS (Multi-Platform Swarm) approach: once the concept works, we deploy hundreds of AI Agents to flood the niche with variations that all drive back to the Shop and Amazon listing. I’m giving you access to the full stack — the ai workflow, ready to plug into your TikTok Shop today. Comment “Workflow” and I’ll send you everything. (must be connected) PS – Repost for early access to the full TikTok Shop content factory system.

@freddienew Phones, social media, and the social pressure kids are under around them is something I’m incredibly grateful to have pre-dated. I’m not sure how best to navigate as a parent other than be the bad guys.

@it_wil_ Sad to hear it. All parents struggle, obviously. My kids are desperate for tiktok, Instagram, etc. but we have a blanket ban (and happy to be the bad guy here). Also strict rules we all follow eg no phones at the table, when we're doing something all together, in the bedroom etc

A cracking post that really gets to the heart of the issue around government attempts to control the web. And what we really should be doing instead 👇