484 sats \ 5 replies \ @mallardshead 22 Sep 2023
Reading through replies on that Twitter post one gets the feeling that the volume of stupid people around us is underreported even by the greatest pessimists. After maybe 3 strong thumb scrolls you have to stop. It's too despairing. Glad I left. Can never turn back.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @0232cf2253 22 Sep 2023
What do you mean by left? In order to read comments you have to have an account.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @mallardshead 22 Sep 2023
Very observational you goddamn Sherlock. No, I haven't posted in many months but have the old desktop application (not the desktop site) that still allows search and browsing while not logged-in.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @0232cf2253 22 Sep 2023
Does the app display comments in chronological order? I was using Nitter but it seems like comments don't show at all anymore or show out of order. I don't have an account so getting information from that shithole is increasingly more difficult. It is really obvious that Twitter and other platforms are trying to reduce the free flow of information. Guess the powers that be didn't enjoy the economic education we all got from the internet in the past 5 years.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @mallardshead 22 Sep 2023
They're in order, the only issue is navigating a single click back takes me to the twitter trending homepage, and I have to start the search and scrolling over. I should really delete the goddamn thing and be done with it once and for all. I have it to read the posts of tweets people link here, which frankly they shouldn't even be contaminating us with.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0232cf2253 22 Sep 2023
It is difficult to do. I was using twitter for OSINT stuff and now I don't know where to go to get that same level of information. The first few months of the Ukraine war was practically fought on Twitter, it was really incredible to witness and it reminded me of why Twitter is important.
I wish people would stop linking Tweets though. I cant view half of them, can't view the comments to any of them and its generally just a bad experience. I think everything is going to be 100% pay walled soon so it won't matter anymore anyways.
The most terrifying part of all this to me is all the information and knowledge that only exists in Tweets about to be permanently lost to the internet, forever.
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360 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 22 Sep 2023
I would not call it evidence.
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31 sats \ 3 replies \ @gunson 22 Sep 2023
This reminds me of the guy who did the "birds aren't real" fake conspiracy theory thing - all his evidence was stuff like "that's why birds are always on power lines, so they can recharge" and "have you ever seen a baby pigeon? No, because they come out the factory adult size"
Random coincidences are not evidence
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lightworks 9 Mar
I think the Swedes informing the world that horses are a fruit that does not exist were the OGs?
Or perhaps the gang that spread a metric fuckton of "info" on the European soccer championship in Gothenburg around 58 did not take place at all, which really caught on, making the Swedes that actually won it mad as hell haha!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 22 Sep 2023
That guy was satirizing conspiracies. He was just really good at it and never broke character.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gunson 22 Sep 2023
Exactly. His point was that he could find these random coincidences to support his character's conspiracy theory
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 22 Sep 2023
His theory hinges on a not very similar Japanese name being cited? Weak.
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106 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023
LOL "new evidence" on X...
people are really retarded
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 22 Sep 2023
It's certainly possible ... but people who think is evidence of anything have a cartoonish view of government research and probably research and invention in general. Look at all the citations in the paper.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @czechnostradamus OP 22 Sep 2023
True :) Thanks for your point
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @9717fc0878 22 Sep 2023
If the NSA invented bitcoin, it seems they made a huge own goal?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @halalmoney 22 Sep 2023
Maybe the NSA are bearish on the dollar but bullish on the American spirit.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tjacten 29 Sep 2023
I think that there's a bunch of good guys, bad guys, and criminals working at this agency there, so anything is possible especially under which project leadership it's falls on. Who knows the person that ran this project could be like snowden. If any of this is true.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @PRA3S3NT1A 22 Sep 2023
Does it matter ?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @patrick1 22 Sep 2023
Doubt
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @phygit 22 Sep 2023
Not really new. And still highly debatable. That the Bitcoin creator(s) found inspiration in NSA research (and other previous crypto work) is highly possible, and even logical. That's another thing to claim that NSA "invented" Bitcoin. And yet another thing (rather stupid) to claim that they control it in any way.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @czechnostradamus OP 22 Sep 2023
Agree. Nobody controls bitcoin but its nearly possible that Satoshi Nakamoto had inspiration in this.
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26 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023
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