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After Venezuela, Taiwan by China is all but justified. “Hey, all the big bullies are doing it…”

2025 in review by a funny sarcastic “asshole”. I would challenge you to say you haven’t learned a few important things from this video. I also laughed. It’s long. Can go month by month

This was surprisingly good news:

The Rage

Recapping The SEC's Financial Surveillance Roundtable

For once, the Government seemed to have a better understanding of what privacy entails than some of its event participants.

Top 15 Freedom Tech Projects of 2025 - Human Rights Foundation

Human Rights Foundation

Top 15 Freedom Tech Projects of 2025

Looking back on 2025, financial and digital repression under authoritarian regimes continued to grow. But so did the innovation pushing back agains...

Some cool shit in there

If the below is correct, sparrow could be behind on privacy 😳 Current State: Sparrow Wallet has excellent support for BIP 78 (Classic Payjoin), where you must share a specific endpoint and be online. • Async Plans: There is no public roadmap or active GitHub Pull Request indicating that BIP 77 support is imminent for Sparrow. • The Likely Obstacle: Sparrow is built in Java, while the reference implementation for BIP 77 is in Rust. • To support it, Sparrow would likely need to implement FFI (Foreign Function Interface) bindings to bridge the rust-payjoin library into their Java environment. This is a non-trivial engineering task compared to native Rust wallets.

Fascinating:

Visual Capitalist

12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell the Story of Earth in 2025

From California wildfires to Arctic phytoplankton blooms, explore 12 stunning NASA satellite images that captured the story of Earth in 2025.

Change my view: voluntary outlasts coerced every time, all the time.

In the new Cold War, the United States should once again stand for freedom. When china tracks 1.4 billion individuals, the US should let its people live free. Free to think, free to express themselves. Free to spend and save without tracking, be it commercially or legally-motivated. Lead for freedom in allied nations as well. The US should remain a beacon of hope for those who will not accept being indirectly controlled at every turn.

A millionblocks in May 2028?