Do you really think Epstein's closest friend's presidency is better than Sleepy Joe's?

The orange guy said he wouldn't apologize for the skyrocketing cost of gasoline because Iran might soon have nuclear weapons. Do you actually agree with him? 

He himself, his entire family, and his rich friends have already made billions upon billions of dollars — openly, immorally, shamelessly, and corruptly — by exploiting loopholes in the system and colluding with his notorious associates. 

Corruption has existed in every administration, but you rarely see a corrupt government in such an unethical and unacceptable state. 

 He vowed to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. Yet when you consider the Epstein scandal, he looks like the dirtiest creature the swamp has ever seen. 

We should feel happy for poor people who chose such a corrupt, crooked liar, only to be squeezed ruthlessly by him. 

Idiots — you've gotten exactly what you wanted. 

Rebounce

We need to rethink and remodel our way of doing things so that we can survive until life bounces back. 

当人生已经跌到谷底的时候，刘裕是如何绝处逢生的?

接受最不堪的现实，戒掉恶习。不以物喜，不以己悲，不自艾自怜。

隐忍与克制，谋定而后动。忍辱负重，在低谷中不自暴自弃。

在动荡中捕捉机遇，在机会来临时不吝压上所有筹码。敢于下场搏命，悍不畏死。

功成后不忘初心，依然严于律己，保持清醒。

如果你现在已经一无所有，那為什麼還要擔心失去呢? 

何不像刘裕一样重振旗鼓，放手一搏?

即使失敗又能怎麼樣呢? 反正你也没有什么可失去的了。

人生一世，草木一春， 不管怎麼樣， 所有人都會死， 為什麼要提前在死前认命呢?

​The Illusion of Decentralization

去中心化幻觉

去中心化只是一个幻觉，到最后要么服务器owners变成一个个小的部落独裁者，像mastodon那些instances的管理员一样; 要么最后汇总变成一个大的网络国度的独裁者，像bluesky的拥有者一样。

去中心化意味着力量分散，最后反而更容易被垄断各个击破，然后彻底击败，有时候我甚至怀疑去中心化本身是不是垄断公司设计出来的。

也许去中心化是理想主义者们为了对抗垄断及追求言论自由，可实际上最后却变成另一种牢笼以及垄断者的利润来源。这怎么看都很像古代的农民起义，本意是为了追求平等，反抗暴政，可到最后起义军往往变成另一个暴政，甚至变得比上一个暴政更坏。

有两件事让人会觉得非常奇怪，一是新闻看到Jack Dorsey支持Bluesky跟马克扎克伯格支持ActivityPub协议; 二是OpenAI，Authropic，X跟Google等都投入闭源，反对中国AI公司的开源。这难道不让人觉得这帮人精神分裂吗? 一方面支持去中心化跟开源，一方面又严禁AI开源，重新转回闭源。

开源跟闭源都不重要，这些人会把将要绞死他们的绞绳卖给你，重要的是如何榨取最后一滴利润。

不过，他们支持去中心化的显性理由普通人也能分析:

1 改善自己的名声;

2 剥离一部分内容让去中心化部落主去承担内容审核跟法律合规风险;

3 训练他们自己的闭源AI模型。

去中心化在香港抗议也曾实践过，"Be Water"是当时非常有名的口号，去中心化避免了港府擒贼先擒王的风险，但同时也因为缺乏明确的最终目标和统一的策略跟行动方案，导致最后彻底失败。

香港抗议最初是理想主义者为了对抗专权而自发形成的政治协议，但马上被利用，变成对抗ccp的先锋棋子，最后因为失去利用价值，迅速被抛弃。像极了垄断公司支持去中心化协议的逻辑，理想主义者还是沦为垄断者的数据奶牛跟承担攻击的屏障。

只要人们最后还是选择为了便利牺牲隐私自由跟话语权，去中心化就是一场彻头彻尾的幻觉。

协议可以去中心化，但人性跟权力不能。

"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral." 

"First feed the face, and then talk right and wrong."

 – Die Dreigroschenoper by Bertolt Brecht

"It is true that to offer political rights, or safeguards against intervention by the state, to men who are half-naked, illiterate, underfed and diseased is to mock their condition; they need medical help or education before they can understand, or make use of, an increase in their freedom."

 – Two Concepts of Liberty by Isaiah Berlin

«Капиталисты сами продадут нам веревку, на которой мы их повесим.»

"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

– Vladimir Lenin's Apocryphal quote

"L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu."

"Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue."

– Maximes by François de La Rochefoucauld

"Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements."

– Strategy Letter V by Joel Spolsky

"A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform."

"People don't want to run their own servers, and never will."

– My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike

Iron Law of Oligarchy

"Wer Organisation sagt, sagt Oligarchie."

 "Who says organization, says oligarchy."

Political Parties by Robert Michels

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