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Jack Couch

@jackcouch

co-founder of https://t.co/Tw4wVHkF9J and I work on Internet protocols, AI and fintech. Fmr software security @microsoft @amazon @google

Seattle, WA Katılım Mart 2026
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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
@LundukeJournal For those unsure why this is a problem it means you can’t speak to your friends and family without government paperwork. Imagine a lock on your face that gets flipped shut if you lose your passport (or the government decides to turn it off). It’s the digital equivalent.
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana·
I have a new piece on AI and medicine, and a big overshare. Last year, a doctor misdiagnosed me and put me on medication which had effects worse than anything I've experienced in my entire life. ChatGPT is the only reason I've been able to come off the medicine safely.
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Daniel Ƀrrr
Daniel Ƀrrr@csuwildcat·
To non-devs, even a trivial combination of pre-existing things we shrug at is indistinguishable from magic, because they don't understand how the parts work, let alone the combination. It's like the first caveman who smacked flint and an iron-rich rock together and saw tons of sparks - the fire was magic, the sparks were magic, and the flint and iron sulfide rock elemental makeup is magic. For them, being alive is like walking around a real life Harry Potter world and being amazed by magic 24/7 😆
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patagucci perf papi@kenwheeler·
am i alone in feeling like anyone holding openclaw up as some kind of moated innovation has lost the plot entirely
Alex Volkov@altryne

"Every software company in the world, needs to have an @openclaw strategy" - Jensen at @NVIDIAAI GTC Framing OpenClaw as one of the most important open source releases ever, they have announced NemoClaw - a reference platform for enterprise grade secure Openclaw, with OpenShell, Network boundaries, security baked in.

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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
You either despise (and disrespect and treat as disposable) money or you despise (and disrespect and treat as disposable) people. One you spend for the benefit of the other. So it’s logically impossible to treasure both. This isn’t really addressing the taxation vs voluntary charity question, but it’s actually the more important idea. You can’t treasure money and be a good person.
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Mike Brock🇺🇸
Mike Brock🇺🇸@brockm·
Luke 16 — you cannot serve God and Mammon. Not "it is difficult." Not "it requires balance." You cannot. The statement is structural, not moral. It describes two incompatible orientations toward existence, not two competing temptations.
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Mike Brock🇺🇸
Mike Brock🇺🇸@brockm·
As someone who has recently studied the Gospels closely for a book manuscript on our crisis of meaning — one I've been on-again, off-again working on, and have written about on Notes from the Circus — it is morbidly funny to me that any so-called Christian would swallow the notion that Jesus Christ would recognize Thiel as a disciple of his ministry. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here, but if anyone is the anti to Christ's teaching, a man seeking a world of stateless capital and private fiefdoms seems quite hard to square with my readings of the Gospels of Luke and Matthew.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast

At one of his previous Antichrist lectures, Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel called Pope Leo XIV a “woke American pope.” trib.al/hUZjL2l

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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
@ThePrimeagen High income in 1700 is far lower than low income in 2026. Not in relationship to other people in 2026, but in terms of goods and services you can buy each month.
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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
@_zouhir @FinnJon @dhh Either way it isn’t working and something else should be tried. And saying he’s racist when they are seriously considering economic crushing charges to get the cash to afford this plan you agree isn’t working well is just silly.
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Zouhir
Zouhir@_zouhir·
@jackcouch @FinnJon @dhh Or maybe because the current government is incompetent? If 35k refugees are going to destroy the economy of a highly developed country like Denmark, there’s a bigger problem no one is talking about imo.
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DHH
DHH@dhh·
The proposed Danish wealth tax is (supremely optimistically) estimated to bring in 7 billion DKK. That just happens to be almost exactly what the Danes spend every year to host the 35,000 Syrians who haven't returned to their home country yet. ft.dk/samling/20241/…
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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
Don’t forget that it also gives governments a kill switch on internet access for the first time.
vx-underground@vxunderground

Yeah, so basically the current prevailing schizo internet theory is that AI nerds have destroyed the internet and created infinite spam. The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human. The advertisement goons no longer want to pay as much to social media networks. Social media networks, in full blown panic of losing potential revenue, decided to lobby governments saying "we gotta protect the kids! ID everyone to protect the kids from pedophiles!". The social media networks know this doesn't really protect kids. But, it does two things (and a third accidentally). 1. They now can identify who is human and who is AI slop machine, or enough to appease the advertisement goons 2. Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something, so with ID verification they can say with confidence they're not advertising to children because it's been ID verification. Basically, they can weed out the children and focus on advertising to adults 3. The feds can now tell who is human and who is AI slop. This inadvertently helps them with tracking people and serving fresh daily dumps of propaganda, or whatever they want to do. It's a win-win-win for advertisers, social media networks, the government, and any business which does data collections. It fucks over everyone else. Chat, I'm not going to lie to you. This is an extremely good conspiracy schizo theory and I unironically believe it.

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Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz·
But I was told this whole campaign for mass surveillance laws was just home grown parents looking to “keep kids safe”! Who could have ever predicted it’s all big tech lobbying and Democrats willing to sell us out to big corporations for more control over online speech
vx-underground@vxunderground

Yeah, so basically it turns out Meta has been heavily lobbying online age verification laws. They've lobbied over $2,000,000,000 to politicians in form of grants and donations. x.com/bee_fumo/statu…

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reason
reason@reason·
Computer scientists caution against internet age-verification mandates. An open letter warns of censorship, centralized power, and loss of privacy: reason.pub/4lsLqzu
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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
@FinnJon @dhh His point was that they are going to destroy their economy because they have over extended their generosity.
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Jonathon Martin
Jonathon Martin@FinnJon·
@dhh I think the discussion around a wealth tax is important. Linking it spuriously to refugees (not immigrants) rather than "every other thing the money could be spent on" does not shine a good light on your motives.
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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
The Danes are not sovereign. They are a tiny power in a world of great powers. Powerful people in the US have a massive influence (possibly exclusive) on what is taught in schools and what laws actually get implemented. Even when they ask for socialism it is downstream of education so it doesn’t make sense to blame the victims.
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DHH@dhh·
It's sad to see the Danes be willing to gamble with their already-weak entrepreneurial scene over an amount equivalent to what's squandered every year on just a single net-negative immigration group.
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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
One possibility is that when Meta buys something like Moltbook it creates demand for these kind of accounts selling courses or something equally goofy because it’s a lottery ticket for an acquisition. But that seems too far sighted for the crypto trader type accounts in the game. Another possibility is that when you post positive stuff about a big LLM that LLM uses its marketing budget to boost your account and that results in a reasonable conversion rate into a paid course. The big LLM subsidies your CAC. Another is that the big LLMs just sign up for the course. Sounds too dirty, but it’s not at all.
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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
@Anubhavhing If this is true my decade old company that does millions of connections to banks and utilities is now worthless. IF.
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Anubhav
Anubhav@Anubhavhing·
Crawling an entire website used to take: A Python script. Playwright or Selenium. Proxy rotation. Rate limiting logic. Error handling. 3 hours of debugging why page 47 returned a 403. Now it's one API call. Every web scraping startup that raised millions to solve this problem just became a single endpoint. Every freelancer charging $500 to "extract website data" just lost their entire business model to a /crawl command. HTML. Markdown. JSON. Pick your format. No scripts. No browser. No headache. The entire web scraping industry just got reduced to one line of code. Someone is going to use this to clone every competitor's website by Friday. 💀
Cloudflare Developers@CloudflareDev

Introducing the new /crawl endpoint - one API call and an entire site crawled. No scripts. No browser management. Just the content in HTML, Markdown, or JSON.

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Nanjuan Shi
Nanjuan Shi@NanjuanS·
The cost of using LLM for browser-based agents is astronomical: A simple task to get my utility balance using Claude Sonnet 4.6 is: Tokens: 362,068 total (input: 359,583, output: 2,485) Cost: $1.13 For people using OpenClaw or other agents for personal finance, but doing so by calling models like Claude or GPT, instead of self hosted models, how is this economically feasible?
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Secure Privacy
Secure Privacy@SecurePrivacyAI·
"Privacy settings give you control." Apple: 64 switches across 5 menus. Google: settings reset after major updates. Windows: 13 different privacy panels. Control requires a manual. Consent requires a law degree.
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Jack Couch
Jack Couch@jackcouch·
@loftwah @grok The average person certainly gets both much better than 100 years ago. And probably both better than 2008, but that’s harder to judge. Certainly if they have any of the cited or newly treatable diseases.
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Loftwah
Loftwah@loftwah·
@jackcouch @grok None of thar is relevant if the average person can barely afford healthcare or housing.
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Loftwah
Loftwah@loftwah·
Is there even any point thinking about a new job while this conflict is going balls to the wall? Chilling out for a while might be the play. I don’t see this getting better.
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