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Two groups can't use credit cards: the 1.4 billion unbanked people around the world, and AI agents calling APIs.
Neither can pass KYC. Neither has a bank account.
But both can hold a Bitcoin Lightning wallet.
Last week I added Lightning to @python_starter - any Python dev or vibe coder can now ship a Flask web app payable by both.
Check out the video demo to see the Lightning payment process in action:
Daniel retweeted
Why does political Zionism need to be confronted? Because it is the ideology behind occupation, dispossession, apartheid, and now genocide. This has been a historical, incremental process which has led to where we are now. It is time to stop this incremental process before it leads to the complete erasure of the Palestinian people.
When asked why write a book about Zionist ideology at this time:
Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew out w @haymarketbooks on November 10.
#Zionism #Palestine #Decolonization
המטרה: למעלה מ-70% הצבעה בחברה הערבית, שישאירו את שתי מפלגות הימין המתנדנדות מתחת לאחוז החסימה ויבטיחו ניצחון בבחירות ביום שלישי.
זה אפשרי, והחל מהיום ועד שלישי בשעה 22:00, כשיסגרו הקלפיות, אני לא חוזר הביתה ואעבור יישוב יישוב כדי לשכנע מתלבטים אחרונים לצאת ולהצביע.
התחלנו!
I don't unpack in a hotel or an Airbnb anymore until Claude Code finishes one sweep.
Bags stay by the door. The laptop opens first.
One prompt, 5 steps, read only the whole way:
Wi-Fi: maps every device on the network and flags the camera brands and the ports cameras use to stream video
Bluetooth: listens for AirTag, Tile and SmartTag beacons that keep showing up after you leave the room
Your phone: runs Amnesty's open source spyware toolkit against known stalkerware indicators
Lenses: walks you through a flashlight sweep of everything that faces the bed and the shower
Report: one ranked table with the next move for each item, from asking for another room to calling the police
It never logs into anything, never touches a device that isn't yours, and tells you straight what it can't see.
I'd rather give it 10 minutes than spend the whole trip wondering.
The full sweep is below, copy paste ↓
Daniel retweeted
אני עוד זוכר את הפעם הראשונה שהצבעתי לרשימה המשותפת. זה היה בספטמבר 2019.
זה לא היה קל, אבל זה היה כל כך משחרר.
ומה אני אגיד לכם? היד שלי בהחלט רעדה. חשבתי על מה יגידו החברים, מה תגיד המשפחה. יגידו שאני ״מצביע לערבים״, או גרוע מכך, שאני ״מצביע לתומכי טרור״.
ובכל זאת, חשבתי שאם כל האפשרויות האחרות הלכו כל כך ימינה, אפילו מרצ של ניצן הורוביץ, אני צריך ללכת קצת יותר שמאלה, כדי לאזן את המפה.
מאז, הצבעתי בכל פעם לרשימה המשותפת או לחד״ש-תע״ל.
אבל כבר בפעם השנייה הבנתי שאני לא מצביע כדי ״לאזן את המפה״. אני מצביע כי אני מאמין בכל רמ״ח איבריי שאלו בדיוק הערכים שמייצגים אותי:
שלום, שוויון ודמוקרטיה לכולם ולכולן.
מאבק משותף, נחוש ובלתי מתפשר נגד עליונות יהודית, נגד הכיבוש, נגד ההשמדה ונגד העוול.
ולכן, כשהאדם הראשון שהוביל את הרשימה המשותפת הציע לי להצטרף ללשכה שלו לפני שנתיים, לא היססתי לרגע.
וכשהציעו לי לנהל את הקמפיין העברי של הרשימה המשותפת, שוב לא היססתי.
כי מה לעשות? אני שמאלן. ואני שלם עם זה.
אני יודע במה אני מאמין, ואני יודע על מה אני לא מוכן לוותר.
אז לכל השמאלנים והשמאלניות: אל תתנו לאף אחד לערער אתכם בגלל הערכים שלכם. אל תתנו לאף אחד לגרום לכם להתבייש בעמדות שלכם או להסתיר אותם.
אל תשתקו מול העליונות, מול האפרטהייד ומול ההשמדה. אל תתנצלו על הדרישה לשלום, לשוויון ולחיים משותפים. ואל תוותרו על האמונה שאפשר לבנות כאן עתיד אחר.
למען השותפות. למען השלום. למען השוויון. למען הדמוקרטיה.
למען עתיד טוב יותר, מהנהר ועד הים.
יש אפשרות אחרת.
Yeah that’s true. Insane that Israel has never had an Arab Jewish or “Mizrahi” (“Eastern”) PM, when they make up such a large segment of Israeli society.
The elections continue to reveal the racism in Israel towards Mizrahi Jews. When asked if he will vote for Eizenkot, this market vendor says they will "never vote for a Moroccan" in this market, which is ironically a bastion of Mizrahi Jews. This comes days after an Israeli journalist called Eizenkot a monkey. The deep racism and self-hatred are likely keeping Eizenkot from cleanly defeating Netanyahu. There is a reason Israel has never had a Mizrahi prime minister.
Daniel retweeted
Israeli society, like every other settler colonial society in the world, is built on layers upon layers of racism.
The elections continue to reveal the racism in Israel towards Mizrahi Jews. When asked if he will vote for Eizenkot, this market vendor says they will "never vote for a Moroccan" in this market, which is ironically a bastion of Mizrahi Jews. This comes days after an Israeli journalist called Eizenkot a monkey. The deep racism and self-hatred are likely keeping Eizenkot from cleanly defeating Netanyahu. There is a reason Israel has never had a Mizrahi prime minister.
Daniel retweeted
A young blonde woman with an American accent in Israel says that all the Arabs must be kicked out of Gaza because it is "our land" since "God commanded us to take it."
The Palestinians should be kicked out to any other Arab state, she continues, except Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, "because they are ours."
"Or we will kill them," she adds
Can we stop pretending that this is a marginal view in Israel? That these are the comments of a fringe minority?
They are not. Israel has been on this path for quite some time.
Western governments know it fully - yet they continue to fund and enable Israel's genocidal policies.
Scaremongering or real potential threat to Israeli economy?
Hard to know. But interesting post:
1/ Benjamin Netanyahu got the last set of polls last night. They argue Likud and his block are eroding fast.
Then, came his remarks on Israel's economy. These are among the most extraordinary he has made in a long political career. Whatever their intent, they carry real weight for the Israeli economy – before Tuesday's election, and regardless of who forms the next government.
In an interview with journalist Roy Katz, aired Friday, the prime minister said American military aid to Israel is coming to an end. "It's over. It's only a question of time," he said. Israelis should get used to no longer receiving tens of billions of dollars in U.S. defense assistance, he added, "because America has changed."
That alone is remarkable. There is a growing recognition in Israel that U.S. military aid in its current form will have to change, and might end, as bipartisan support for Israel erodes in Washington. Netanyahu himself has spoken before about wanting to wean Israel off the aid.
But there is a distance between that recognition and a sitting prime minister effectively announcing the end of one of the pillars of the U.S.–Israel strategic relationship. The current Memorandum of Understanding – $38 billion over ten years – runs through September 2028. It is embedded in a web of interests that includes the American defense industry, and Israel's diplomats in Washington work hard to sustain it. Israel's friends in Congress, operating in an increasingly difficult political environment, are still fighting to preserve the special relationship. When the prime minister himself says "it's over," that is a hard message for Israel's defense establishment, and for those in Washington still trying to help.
And that was only the opening.
"There could be sanctions, including banking sanctions," Netanyahu said. Israel, he explained, must prepare an economy capable of bypassing them.
This is a different order of magnitude entirely.
Some background is needed. In the world of international sanctions, comprehensive banking sanctions against a country are among the most powerful tools available to major powers. They are not import restrictions, consumer boycotts, or even arms embargoes. Broad financial sanctions go after an economy's circulatory system.
Israel's banks depend on the global financial system: correspondent banks, clearing, credit lines, the ability to move money across borders. Without access to banks abroad, the Israeli economy stops functioning. And such sanctions don't hit only the banks. They hit everyone who banks with them – companies, exporters, importers, investors, employers. When foreign banks become nervous about a country's financial institutions, they tend to cut ties well beyond what the law strictly requires.
In other words, a sweeping financial sanctions regime would push Israel toward the category of Iran or Russia.
It would be worse. Iran and Russia sit on vast oil and gas reserves. Even under sanctions, they keep selling – mainly in Asia and parts of the Global South. Israel's economy is not built on commodities. Its strength comes from integration into the global economy: human capital, technology, research, advanced services.
According to the Israel Innovation Authority, Israeli high-tech exported roughly $85 billion in goods and services in 2025 – 58 percent of all Israeli exports – and accounted for about half of the economy's growth. It is the engine of the economy, and it depends on foreign markets, foreign capital, and the free movement of money.
Netanyahu did not say who might impose banking sanctions. A prime minister raising this possibility, in the same breath as forecasting the end of U.S. aid, should prompt immediate questions. Is he referring to European sanctions? American ones? above all: how did Israel get to the point where this is being discussed at all?
There was more - and much worse.
“You have to understand what the mainstream is saying so you can refute it”:
“You can’t trust anybody. That means you can only trust yourself.
And the only way to trust yourself is to consume everything.”
Damn this guy should be a Bitcoiner.
The whole interview is well worth a listen on the recent history of the CIA, especially post 9-11.
youtu.be/t3FxH39oYsA?is=NFKu…
“You can’t trust anybody. That means you can only trust yourself.
And the only way to trust yourself is to consume everything.”
Damn this guy should be a Bitcoiner.
The whole interview is well worth a listen on the recent history of the CIA, especially post 9-11.
youtu.be/t3FxH39oYsA?is=NFKu…
No Zionist government in Israel, (whether liberal or right) will stop this:
The settlers are too important for the Zionist project.
youtu.be/lhRXrmg4_6M?is=dIn3…
Daniel retweeted
An Eisenkot coalition is already full of racists. The father of the Dahiya doctrine, the former head of the settlers in the West Bank, the guy who called to starve Gaza and the settler. Tactics may differ, day to day issues may improve, but racism will remain.
Replying to @rmslim
Let me offer a few hints: an Eisenkot coalition will not have to cater to racists, ultranationalists or self-serving political blackmailers. It will not need a war with Iran to save its political life. It will include people who care about human life - of Arabs as well as Jews. So yes, we are likely to see some subtle changes.
Removing Bibi from power won’t fix Israel as the Israeli secular elite seem to believe.
Only removing the Zionist system and ideology from the Holy Land will fix the country.
Daniel retweeted
In this clip, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou—who served in the agency’s core Directorate of Operations—says a member of US military's Seal Team 4 told him that he'd just returned from a joint military exercise with UK and Israel 2 weeks before
Kiriakou was speaking last month
If the Zionist “liberals” were serious about “saving their country from Bibi” they would launch a massive campaign to partner with their fellow Palestinian-Israeli citizens to form a coalition.
But the in-built racism of their Zionism prevents them from doing it.
The so-called “centre left” people in Israel are dreaming.
Israel will re-elect Bibi - their war criminal back into to power.
The uncharismatic former general Eisenkot doesn’t stand a chance.
Daniel retweeted
You may have seen that the UK government’s debt has now surpassed three trillion pounds for the first time, with September’s interest bill on that debt hitting a staggering £10.9 billion.
At this rate, our national spending just on debt interest will remain the third biggest line item in the state’s spending (behind only welfare and the NHS), tens of billions more than we spend on educating our children, and roughly DOUBLE our defence spending. This is an impossible situation and cannot continue
We’re essentially looking for two solutions to this problem, one macro and one personal.
The former is more easily dealt with. We all, collectively – politicians, central bankers, and everyone else, need responsibly to concede that there is absolutely no way we can pay down a three trillion pound principal, and that we’re running out of the ability to pay a £111 billion annual interest bill without something breaking.
The only way to fix this is via colossal devaluation of the pound via a period of short and intense monetary inflation, wiping out the real value of the debt that we owe, but at the expense of the currency.
It’s the last part of that solution where it becomes personal. What do you as an individual do, looking ahead at this future, and realising what the government and the central bank are going to have to do, sooner or later?
This is far from financial advice, but I would suggest you look at what people have always done in this kind of scenario. In Weimar Germany, citizens bought gold, paintings, furniture and jewellery. In Argentina, some bought bricks. In Zimbabwe, many bought gold or simply USD. TLDR: if you have savings, get them out of the currency that is about to implode.
There are other options, of course. I strongly suggest you read about them, and protect yourself and your family before the inevitable happens.






















