Privacy is a pillar of human dignity. Do you want to live in a dystopia where developers are sent to prison for writing code that lets YOU have financial privacy? I don't. As usual, @HesterPeirce speaks the truth a few years before everyone else gets it.

Why are schools still dodging phone bans? At a forum I attended earlier this year, an educator blamed "parental opposition." The room (packed with parents) cut her off immediately: "We want this for our kids." Stop pretending the demand isn't there.

Privacy is a pillar of human dignity. Do you want to live in a dystopia where developers are sent to prison for writing code that lets YOU have financial privacy? I’m not. As usual, @HesterPeirce speaks the plain truth a few years before everyone else gets it.

I mean, this is what happened. There are folks who say that was good and there are folks who say this was bad, but it happened. The real issue is that the promised political benefits of being hostile to tech didn’t pay off. There weren’t actually voters in the heartland clamoring for a Butlerian Jihad. Tech wasn’t and still isn’t a monolithic evil the way oil was in the 1910s, the railroads were in the 1890s, or the banks/Wall Street have been off and on since 1789. It was a political misread.

The government is creating an insane record for a potential appeal if the jury goes sideways here - just throw this one on the pile. If the case ever ends up off these prosecutors’ home turf, hard questions will be asked.

Mamdani won't' go to Israel because "human rights" — but he will have his fancy mega-wedding celebration in Uganda — a country where being gay is punishable by execution

1/ Innovators need to be aware of an under-the-radar issue where the banks are poised to notch a victory at crypto & consumer expense: the open banking rule. Let me break it down for you.

My issue with Mamdani is entirely about policing. All the rest, are distractions, because a city lives or dies by it's public order. As a wealthy guy who's lived in Uganda, a large part of his life has been about being guarded, gated, and removed from the hub-bub of the masses he romanticizes. Be it being transported around in 4 wheel drives, or living behind gates, or having a host of servants. I walked from this hill to the water four miles away, and let me tell you, what surrounds these gated wealthy compounds is a poverty that should radicalize anyone - but hopeful with some self awareness, including how far much better the US is.

As of Thursday, in their Rule 29 response, the DOJ is still pushing this theory that Storm, by publishing TC software, provided a "valuable service" to a sanctioned entity because DPRK used the protocol. This flawed principle is limitless: if I make a hammer with no particular end user in mind and somehow that hammer ends up being used by DPRK, I provided them a "valuable service." But you don't see them going after Apple for the iPhone, Google for its tech suite, etc., even though these tech tools are used by the DPRK. That's because this is a gross distortion of the law. Back when we @fund_defi @jchervinsky wrote our amicus brief in support of @rstormsf's MTD, we reviewed over 100 sanctions cases and provided the court with a table of them - in every single case there was nexus between the sanctioned entity and the defendant, some evidence the defendant directly connected with the SDN or created a tool *for* the SDN specifically. There was no case - none - where a defendant made a tool with no particular end user in mind and was then convicted of violating sanctions because an SDN ended up with that tool in hand.

It is bad enough that a SDNY AUSA elicited false testimony that any victim funds made their way to @coinbase. Now they've disclosed in open court that they are considering charges against a third-party investor? I sat on a federal bench--this is beyond the pale and needs to be addressed immediately. The credibility of this entire proceeding and that office is on the line.