Oddbean new post about login | logout Life in China is impossible without WeChat, one of the most powerful surveillance and control tools ever developed by humanity. And this is Elon's vision for Twitter. Every blue check is complicit in bankrolling this blooming dystopia.
Fully agree. I made this connection clear on my newsletter last week. If X becomes the everything app that Elon wants, the clone of WeChat for the Western world, and it has your biometrics as part of the onboarding process, then you’re screwed. What will happen when you get banned from X because you said the wrong thing? Will you get a new set of eyes to create a new account?
On Balkan we don't need X, blue checks, or apps in particular. We are not the only one. Salary has not increased but prices did. Maybe people will realize they do not own much value and will turn to trade incorporating lightning. Setting their own prices independent from fiat.
No way China is massively underdeveloped. I am sure people in rural areas are getting along fine without WeChat
The same way govs let businesses trample people's rights with the scamdemic guidelines so not to take the blame themselves, they will try to do the same for accessing the internet. "Wow, did you know back in the 20s the internet was totally open and you could browse websites, even make your own?" - Anon's grandchildren, some time in the future
Blue checks have been captured.
i was pretty neutral on him for years but it really seems like he wants to rule the world and it’s weird. he’s like a bond villain.
Are you saying that life in the US will be impossible without Nostr? :)