Age verification laws are coming fast. And, from my perspective, opponents are struggling to find impactful messaging to explain to the general public the damage they are about to do to freedom. Or to propose alternate futures that address the underlying anxieties. Sure, most folks that are here on #Nostr intuitively understand the dangers... And nod along when we gesture at the dangers of surveillance overreach. But I worry that the common language for talking about these initiatives typically relies on some priors that are not universally shared outside people that live and breathe concerns about tech. Saying that something is a surveillance dystopia works on me. But not the neighbors. I'm guilty of being inside this language bubble too, and it's hard to escape. Yet, when faced with politicians talking about protecting kids from bad things that parents feel they see right now... I worry that the communities doing pushback are struggling to: 1 -find framing that makes *enough sense* to the vast majority of people that they say 'ok this is net bad' and push back 2- find their own ways to productively connect with the anxieties that politicians are drawing on. E.g. worried parents. 3- offer things that are honest, well meaning alternative paths for the underlying problems Anyone have thoughts on this? #AskNostr

We are in the opening chapter of using vibecoding to assert your rights. And reclaim your freedoms. Tremendous time to be alive.

It seems to me like a strong anti-AI view is becoming left / progressive coded. I'd love to understand this better. Anyone have thoughts?

Rhisotope Sauce:

South African rhino horns turned radioactive to fight poachers

The scheme is the latest innovation in decades of work aiming to protect South Africa’s rhinos.

Google bad ux. And you'll get your results in Comic Sans. Try it

It is a lot easier to celebrate a turn towards dictatorship when you are untethered to historical knowledge. No amount of centralized power delivers a society with true personal freedom in the long run. History shows that even when dictatorships perform 'well' on some factors, especially in the short term, they send people into a freedom-robbing labyrinth. Do you care about personal liberty? Because in the long run with dictatorships you will lose on having a society that supports freedom, personal rights and liberties and decentralization of knowledge and innovation. Because dictatorships concentrate power without balance. Over time as inequalities & unfairness become severe... the rule gets more brittle. And dictators have to give more favors to the people that help them stay in power. Like economic favors. People with ambition then need to play into the system and help prop up the dictator if they want to keep their resources. Even then they are vulnerable to having everything taken. And for anyone that dares point out increasingly obvious flaws? Well, most dictatorships invariably slide into repression. People with new, better ideas that also happen to challenge the dictators entrenched interests? Or those of the dictators necessary economic allies? Family members? Point out corruption? Co-opted or cut down. Fueled by massive surveillance. And the threat of violence. Because self-censorship scales better than physical coercion on each person. People see opportunity for personal advantage. Some become informers. Some delight in the cruelty of seeing people they dislike arbitrarily punished. And when the strong leader dies? The society can be incredibly unstable as it carries the weight of so many injustices, so many lies. And for the system to persist? More repression needed.