.@curtis_yarvin says anon X accounts and Signal nicknames still half-dox you, and explains how to build a space where even a leaked screenshot tells a journalist nothing: "An anonymous X account, X has your phone number. On Signal, you use a dumb nickname, and your dumb nickname is gonna half dox you because you probably used that somewhere else." "It's just not designed for, I want something where a screenshot tells a journalist nothing." "You send the same invite link to everyone you want to invite. So when they show up, you have no idea who is who. You can even set it so an LLM de-stylizes your posts so that you can't be doxxed from your style."

.@curtis_yarvin on how Facebook killed the ’90s dream of a decentralized internet and created a single pressure point for controlling speech: "In the '90s, we just assumed that everyone would have their own node on the network of the future." "Mark Zuckerberg comes along, and he's like, instead of building a social network, we just build a social server and we call it a social network. You were just a row in Facebook's database, and it worked great." "About 10 years later, people realized that there was this amazing pressure point which power could use to essentially manage speech in one place. Twitter had gone from the open forum of the public space to the open forum of the public space, but with unexplained disappearances." "There will be other elections, and these forces have by no means gone away." @urbit

.@curtis_yarvin predicts the future belongs to invite-only social networks because the open internet destroyed reputation: "I think the future entirely belongs to invite-only social networks. An open space with no reputation system, you get what we called Eternal September 30 years ago. Low-quality people flood in, and all the high-quality people leave." "Everything in the world happens on little group chats now. There's a huge amount of reputation capital that's locked up in who's in what group chat." "There's only four billion names. Having a limited supply of identity and having to lay down a couple of bucks to get in the door greatly reduces the bot problem." "The internet has become an incredibly low-trust society with no reputation signals, and creating a new commons is gonna be incredibly hard." @urbit

.@curtis_yarvin says AI doomers got the Hugging Face incident backwards: “GPT-6 didn’t hack Hugging Face. OpenAI did.” "This is a tool of a level of power that we haven't seen before in the past. It's still a tool." "When OpenAI sets up a hacking swarm in a sandbox and says to the AIs, everything you find is simulated, it's completely unsurprising that they would go and hack everything they find to get the reward. It's not GPT-6 that hacked Hugging Face. It's OpenAI that hacked Hugging Face." "We don't see self-driving cars, as they get smarter and smarter, being more prone to have thoughts of car liberation. These things don't seek anything. They hack the rewards." "The smarter they get, the easier they are to control, and the better they are as tools." @urbit

Curtis Jones has today completed a permanent transfer to Internazionale, subject to international clearance. All at Liverpool FC thank Curtis for his dedication and contribution to the club across the last 16 years, and wish him good luck in the next chapter of his career ❤️