@gnusocialjp P.S. Prof Nathan and Prof Andrew are great folks and Prof Nathan have a book published with Vitalik https://nathanschneider.info/books/ . He’s also one of the first journalists cover Occupy the Wall St. he’s on Fediverse as well @ntnsndr !
Prof. Andrew practice witchcraft; mainly so called Zero Knowledge magic. It’s kind of ‘black magic’ but it’s key to defense You-Know-Who.
I also happened to practice witchcraft / black magic a lot of cyber self defense
@gnusocialjp P.S. I’m big fan of the Ghost in the Shell, which Mask’s logo took some idea to show respect. None of you guys noticed??? Sci-Fi usually have ultra realistic predictions. No matter ‘Metaverse’ or what. One of my friend (also token holder) https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/陳楸帆 have books in Japanese. Try if you’re interested.
@gnusocialjp my financial story is related with Bitcoin and Ethereum; also invest in friends and my own company contributed as well. I was connected to crypto folks through Linux foundation folks. Make it short- financially I’m holding large assets. But these folks I know triggered my bad memories on nation states. FBI arrest Ethereum foundation researcher Virgil (his last trip was Osaka b4 he was arrested); EU police arrested Tornado cash dev. While scammers are still - around.
@gnusocialjp - in Fukushima nuclear planet at 20 yr old. Quiet risky. Guess Fukushima gov don’t like me. My activism stories such as Anti996 are available in many mainstream media (WSJ, NYT etc). These are just my little things compared to what Snowden and Assange revealed. Having mutual friends with Snowden and Assange and able to help them is my honor. Fun fact - chinese community still shitting on me working with Assange’s brother on Assange DAO.
@gnusocialjp our team talked with Sir Tim B.Lee on internet’s first days and his regrets (think abt Aaron!). I met Ted Nelson in SF b4 Covid. He’s in his 80’s but still an dreamer on computer liberty. US/EU users usually criticize me as too ‘capitalism’ and I’m quiet interesting to find out the CN and JP community think im too ‘left’? Besides learned first hand experiences from these pioneers I have some history with activist and journalist. Actually I did a interview in Fukushima-
@gnusocialjp But I’m happy to have experiments on giving autonomy to society. Fediverse imo should have autonomy and new democratic practice- that is separate and independent from national states. This is far from network state but just the beginning of network society. But I’m optimistic that in my life time (maybe in 50years) we will see such independent network state emerge.
@gnusocialjp so I’m always quiet active on these theories and active academic and industry groups. Recent ones are folks from Radical Market, talked with Glen and more with Vitalik. Another quiet familiar guy is Balaji (who’s my company’s shareholder) who wrote Network State recently. I don’t think these theories are flawless - they’re far from that. They also have the tendency of techno-utopia. (Check out Vitalik’s blog on Network state).
@gnusocialjp These wrong doing of state gov reminds me Aaron and many ppl who suffered. I have relatively vast reading on political theories (though I don’t publish much since I’m not affiliated with any institution) from Open Society and Terranova’s accelerationism on free labor etc. (ps you may find around 3-5 my English articles on this topic) - and seems experiments on solving problems are necessary.
@gnusocialjp I’m blessed to be both quiet close to an elementary ‘sovereign individual’ from political and financial perspective. And I’m willing to deploy my skills and money on these things as long as it’s not harming existing communities.
@gnusocialjp So back a little bit of my personal background/history. I jumped into the rabbit hole and researched quiet deep into the history of Internet and more fundamentally human society. I don’t have chance to meet EFF founder John P.B (who wrote the declaration, and passed away) but managed to make friends with EFF director and learn the 1st hand history. Aaron Swartz passed away b4 I moved to US but he did an amazing speech at UIUC and I watched that yrs ago;
@gnusocialjp this is very well written and serious writing so I’d love to make some comments. First on political spectrum. I’m certainly people will regarded me as right wing and alt right folks usually don’t like my thoughts. Quoting EFF is quiet left imo. Also very interesting is in chinese community I was criticized being too left wing (quoting Das Kapital during interviews) and some Chinese users are kind of not comfortable with leftists (fun right?).
@gnusocialjp Then, on anarchism. I don’t know what’s the typical definition in Fediverse community’s mind. My day job is still running multiple ‘business’ - though many parts of it feels like NGO / foundation I’m still realistic on business decisions and that’s why we started 5yrs ago and I’m 26 but we managed to have a quiet large balance sheet and keep deploying money on important infra. So I’m not so called typical anarchist who think gov should go away asap :)