“corruption does not justify invasion. Political failures do not justify bombing children. And no amount of criticism of Ukraine changes who crossed the border with an invading army.”
@elonmusk @elonmuskant to tell you something as a Ukrainian.
For years, many people in Ukraine admired and respected you. I was one of them. I personally saw you as a technological genius, a visionary, someone who was building the future while others were still living in the past.
And that is exactly why your growing hostility toward Ukraine is so difficult for me to understand.
Ukraine is not a perfect country. We have corruption, political failures, and many problems. Nobody denies that. But tell me, which country is perfect?
Ukraine is also a country of incredibly talented engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, developers, artists, and ordinary hardworking people. We build world-class technology, innovate under impossible conditions, value education, and have repeatedly shown the world what courage, resilience, and human dignity look like.
We are a country that voluntarily gave up the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for security assurances.
We are a nation that stood up in 2014, during the Revolution of Dignity, because we refused to live under authoritarianism and Russian domination. We wanted freedom, democracy, and the right to choose our own future.
And today, we are fighting for that same freedom.
Every day, Ukrainian civilians are killed by Russian missiles, drones, and bombs. Children lose their parents. Parents bury their children. Entire cities are destroyed. Millions of lives have been shattered.
These people are not dying because of Zelenskyy. They are not dying because of Ukrainian corruption. They are dying because Putin chose to invade another sovereign nation and continues to wage a war against its people, cities, culture, and identity.
Yes, corruption must be fought. Yes, every dollar of international aid must be accounted for. Ukrainians themselves deserve transparency and justice more than anyone.
But corruption does not justify invasion. Political failures do not justify bombing children. And no amount of criticism of Ukraine changes who crossed the border with an invading army.
You seem to believe that giving up Donbas and Luhansk could bring peace. But why should we believe Putin would stop there?
He already violated Ukraine's sovereignty after promising to respect it. He took Crimea in 2014. He fueled war in Donbas. And in 2022, he launched a full-scale invasion.
What makes you think another territorial concession would finally satisfy him?
History has shown us what happens when democracies believe they can secure lasting peace by rewarding an aggressor with someone else's land.
We have seen this before, in Europe, in the years leading up to World War II.
Peace built on surrender to a dictator is not necessarily peace. Sometimes it is simply an invitation to the next war.
Elon, you are a man who talks about the future of humanity, about making civilization better, about taking humanity to Mars.
But what kind of future are we building if we accept that powerful dictators can erase smaller nations simply because they have more weapons?
Ukraine is not asking the world to pretend we are perfect.
We are asking the world to recognize that we have the same right to exist, to be free, and to determine our future as Americans do.
And one more thing: Ukrainians have never been your enemies. Many of us admired you, believed in your vision, and appreciated what Starlink made possible during the darkest days of this war.
That is why your words hurt more than you might realize.
You have enormous influence. Your voice can shape how millions of people understand this war.
I still want to believe that the man who dreams of advancing humanity can recognize the humanity of people fighting simply to survive.
It is not too late to stand on the right side of history.
Not on Zelenskyy's side. Not on any politician's side.
On the side of freedom. On the side of human life. On the side of a nation's right to exist.
That is all we are asking for.
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Xavier Damman 🌍🔅 retweeted
In case you are wondering how much funding the PHP Foundation is receiving to maintain this central piece of infrastructure.
Ask your company and government to fund the road and bridges of our digital space. The cost of not doing so is far greater.
opencollective.com/phpfoundation
Ask your company and government to fund the road and bridges of our digital space. The cost of not doing so is far greater.
opencollective.com/phpfoundation
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Xavier Damman 🌍🔅 retweeted
A realistic scenario is that, after flooding the world with cheap manufactured goods, China will flood it with cheap tokens.
(You can’t really export electricity unless you turn it into tokens. And China is the electrical superpower of the 21st century.)
(You can’t really export electricity unless you turn it into tokens. And China is the electrical superpower of the 21st century.)
deepseek opensourcing deepinfer is a textbook baduk encircle movement masked as open source benevolence
while SV hyperscalers burn billions defending artificial 90% margins on raw compute, china is quietly commoditizing the entire execution stack to force a global race to the bottom
winning a technological war comes down to turning an opponent's primary revenue engine into a free public utility
by making hyper efficient inference the new baseline, China is forcing Western compute cartels directly into an unsustainable asymmetric trap
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I couldn't find the perfect RSS reader for my new eink device so I made one:
🔖 Sync X bookmarks to read later
📥 dedicated email address to receive links & PDFs
📝 highlights
📰 profile (eg. einkreader.app/xavier) with weekly email digest
🔅A digital common
Get it now (free tillR2upuwrebi
🔖 Sync X bookmarks to read later
📥 dedicated email address to receive links & PDFs
📝 highlights
📰 profile (eg. einkreader.app/xavier) with weekly email digest
🔅A digital common
Get it now (free tillR2upuwrebi
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1. Malleable software
With AI agents, we can all customize software to our needs. But not everyone has the time and skills for that. So instead, we make it easy within the app to provide feedback and feature requests. An agent makes a proposal that stewards of the app get to ensure consistency and quality). Then a new release is made.
With AI agents, we can all customize software to our needs. But not everyone has the time and skills for that. So instead, we make it easy within the app to provide feedback and feature requests. An agent makes a proposal that stewards of the app get to ensure consistency and quality). Then a new release is made.
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2. Ostrom’s principles for the Digital commons
Open source communities often fall into the tragedy of the commons. Elinor Ostrom came up with 8 principes to avoid that trap.
A common needs to define clear boundaries around what is shared, who gets to use it, how we collectively monitor everyone’s usage of the common resource and how we price it.
Every user is invited to steward this app with me, make proposals, and take part in the decision making process, including setting the price for the app.
This is going to be an interesting experiment! 🧪
Open source communities often fall into the tragedy of the commons. Elinor Ostrom came up with 8 principes to avoid that trap.
A common needs to define clear boundaries around what is shared, who gets to use it, how we collectively monitor everyone’s usage of the common resource and how we price it.
Every user is invited to steward this app with me, make proposals, and take part in the decision making process, including setting the price for the app.
This is going to be an interesting experiment! 🧪
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Institutions are collapsing.
We need to build new ones.
The 28th State is such opportunity.
It’s too important to leave it in the hands of bureaucrats.
Internet Citizens, this is the opportunity to finally have our own Common Digital State. The #Interstate.
What should it look like?
What should be its founding core principles?
We need to build new ones.
The 28th State is such opportunity.
It’s too important to leave it in the hands of bureaucrats.
Internet Citizens, this is the opportunity to finally have our own Common Digital State. The #Interstate.
What should it look like?
What should be its founding core principles?
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1. No taxation without automation
It’s too easy to add rules and exceptions and expect entrepreneurs to just adapt or to hire staff to take care of it (which favors big companies at the expense of small local ones). Entrepreneurs have other things to do. Stay out of their way.
It’s too easy to add rules and exceptions and expect entrepreneurs to just adapt or to hire staff to take care of it (which favors big companies at the expense of small local ones). Entrepreneurs have other things to do. Stay out of their way.
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Wow. 🤯
I came to realize people liked the french #slopcore without having the lyrics 😅 sorry!
So here is a version with english subtitles!
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Citizens —using AI agents— are reclaiming the devices that were spying on them.
Love that.
Love that.
introducing dumbtv
- no spying
- no ads from tv
- fully customisable
to setup just point your agent to this repo - github.com/humblemuzzu/du…
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“stop believing in the State. It’s not coming to save you. It’s coming to collect.”
We need a new State.
The Interstate.
We need a new State.
The Interstate.
Your name is Jean-Marc, you’re 46, and you run a video game and collectibles shop in Nice, wedged between an optician and a real estate agency selling 1-bed flats for €410,000 “with sea view” if you lean far enough off the balcony.
You know every GTA San Andreas cheat by heart. You tested all of them in 2005 on the PS2 in your bedroom at your mum’s place.
You opened in 2011 with a state-backed loan at 4.7%, and the naive belief that passion eventually pays.
It did pay, sort of. €1,900 a month in a good year, after the French tax office has eaten first, second and third. Your commercial rent is indexed on a formula nobody in the Republic actually understands.
You sell Funko Pops at €17.99, sealed Pokémon cards, refurbished controllers. You let little Enzo, 12, pay in installments because he’s saving for a Switch 2. You close at 7:30pm and walk home because the harbor parking is €3.40 an hour.
Saturday, there’s a protest “against the cost of living.”
You also think living costs too much. You almost went.
At 5:12pm, your metal shutter gets ripped open with a crowbar.
Forty teenagers in tracksuits and crossbody bags walk into your shop like it’s a bonus level. They take the PS5s, the Dragon Ball figures, the till with today’s €280 and even the box of paper bags that say “thank you for your visit.”
A guy in a floral shirt films it vertically for TikTok.
You step outside and say “stop, this is my shop.”
You get hit from behind.
Then rocks.
They laugh. Floral shirt guy is thrilled: good angle, good lighting.
Sunday morning, the police tell you there are “1,400 arrests nationwide” and they won’t send a squad for some Funko Pops. Filing the complaint takes 2 hours 40. The officer types with two fingers on Windows 7.
Monday noon, your insurer reminds you that your €1,140-a-year policy has a €3,000 deductible and a “riots and civil commotion” exclusion on page 31, font size 6.
Saturday night, an MP explains on TV that “the anger is legitimate” and we “shouldn’t cry over shop windows.” He’s never owned a shop window. He has a state-funded apartment.
Sunday, your limited edition Vegeta figures show up on Vinted. “Brand new, never opened, €39, pickup in North Nice.”
The seller has 4.9 stars.
Monday, the tax office emails you. They haven’t heard about the riots. They’ve heard about your payment deadline.
You did everything right, Jean-Marc. That was never the problem.
The problem is you were playing by the rules in a lobby where nobody else does.
So stop believing in the State. It’s not coming to save you. It’s coming to collect.
Stop voting. Every five years they hand you the controller, and it’s never plugged in.
Go to the gym. Not for revenge. For you. Because when the system folds, the only asset nobody can loot is the one you built under a barbell.
And make money they can’t see. Cash, side hustles, sats on a cold wallet in a sock drawer. Not your keys, not your coins. Not your shop, not your loss.
Fuck the system, Jean-Marc.
It already did it to you first.
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“In times of great change, the set of norms and rules that we take for granted as an organizing principle of our lives get uprooted. It's as if all of the pieces and tokens and rules of the board game we played our whole lives are swept off the table to make room for a new game, t been set up yet. In that interim, we all feel a sense of unease. It is our turn to move, but we don't know the rules of the game or what moves to make. We feel intense pressure to play the game well, but don't know how.”
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Important read from someone who saw it all from his balcony in Paris.
We also need to talk about the role of the police in the escalation.
I’ve experienced it first hand when I got arrested with Extinction Rebellion.
That’s no excuse of course. And yes they do a very difficult job. And yes we should be grateful for their service.
And, for their own sake and their own safety, we should be able to discuss the tactics they use.
We also need to talk about the role of the police in the escalation.
I’ve experienced it first hand when I got arrested with Extinction Rebellion.
That’s no excuse of course. And yes they do a very difficult job. And yes we should be grateful for their service.
And, for their own sake and their own safety, we should be able to discuss the tactics they use.
J'en ai marre des explications simplistes de pourquoi ça casse en manif.
Depuis 13 ans, j'habite avec vue sur les cortèges, en plus d'en faire régulièrement, et je peux décrire exactement ce qu'il se passe à chaque fois. ⬇️
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Xavier Damman 🌍🔅 retweeted
beautiful explanation. this is 100% happening. x.com/sotak/status/2…
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Stage 1: XR, Regens Unite
Stage 2: Commons Hub
Stage 3: ?
My highlights from The Decade of Dramatic Disruption comes with an Invitation (frameros.substack.com/p/decade-drama…):
"Stage One: Calling Attention"
"Stage 1: necessary, but ultimately ineffective in accomplishing much more than raising awareness. No change will come about as a result of any of these protests"
"Stage Two: Repair in Opposition
In this stage, passionate individuals end their involvement in protests and start doing the work themselves"
"the Market is the adversary or simply absent from the equation. This is the part of the journey where every regen initiative struggles through funding challenges. Anyone involved in this work for any length of time knows this struggle all too well.
It’s in this stage that the tough lesson is learned: the initiative that has to beg from the system it opposes remains small, ineffective, and exhausted"
"initiatives that once begged now find themselves being asked, being invited to partner with the Market. The question now shifts from ‘how to get funded’ toward how to become something the long money can contract with"
Stage 2: Commons Hub
Stage 3: ?
My highlights from The Decade of Dramatic Disruption comes with an Invitation (frameros.substack.com/p/decade-drama…):
"Stage One: Calling Attention"
"Stage 1: necessary, but ultimately ineffective in accomplishing much more than raising awareness. No change will come about as a result of any of these protests"
"Stage Two: Repair in Opposition
In this stage, passionate individuals end their involvement in protests and start doing the work themselves"
"the Market is the adversary or simply absent from the equation. This is the part of the journey where every regen initiative struggles through funding challenges. Anyone involved in this work for any length of time knows this struggle all too well.
It’s in this stage that the tough lesson is learned: the initiative that has to beg from the system it opposes remains small, ineffective, and exhausted"
"initiatives that once begged now find themselves being asked, being invited to partner with the Market. The question now shifts from ‘how to get funded’ toward how to become something the long money can contract with"
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From Japan to Europe, same challenges ahead: reduce bureaucracy, promote risk-taking (entrepreneurship), rebuild local communities that can last.
"Japan is the most futuristic country I’ve lived in, and also the most haunted by its own past. The trains run on time, the food is streets are safe at 2AM. It also has more empty houses than it knows what to do with, and fewer newborns every year."
"Adult diapers have outsold baby diapers here for over a decade"
"Japan has houses looking for people, and the internet has people looking for a place"
"the principal-agent problem. The people who pay or decide (principals) aren’t always the people doing the work (agents), and their interests drift apart unless roles are spelled out and enforced."
"permanence starts with land and a working relationship with the host state. Only then can you recruit from the cloud at scale. Cloud and land go together, but securing land is a legitimizing first step"
"the usual arc: a founder starts something, carries it, burns out, and the project dies unless others intentionally take on the work. The fix is boring and necessary: clear roles, clear expectations, and taking care of the people who do the invisible work."
"keeping takers out matters more than recruiting saints, and that founders need to protect the givers before the whole culture tips"
"Bullish Japan
The raw material is unusually good. Houses are cheap, foreigners can still buy them, and the state already has policies for part-time belonging and remote workers. Daily life is safe, affordable and well run, which matters more to most people than ideology. AI is making small-team infrastructure cheap. And fandom has already shown that Japanese networks will travel to a place they love.
There’s also a cultural fit people underrate. Japan already practices shared baths (onsens), neighbourhood festivals, and group clean-ups. Collectivist cultures tend to orient decision-making and growth for the group, over the individual.
A node that joins those rituals instead of inventing its own could settle in faster here than in most Western towns. And the country’s problems are exactly the ones these projects claim to solve: empty houses, lonely people, and towns that need new residents."
"Japan doesn’t need a new kind of country, but it does need to reduce its bureaucracies, promote risk-taking, and adapt to the technological pace of the world, in ways that still fit in its unique cultural context."
"The projects that work here won’t be the ones that scale fastest. They’ll be the ones built to last."
"Japan is the most futuristic country I’ve lived in, and also the most haunted by its own past. The trains run on time, the food is streets are safe at 2AM. It also has more empty houses than it knows what to do with, and fewer newborns every year."
"Adult diapers have outsold baby diapers here for over a decade"
"Japan has houses looking for people, and the internet has people looking for a place"
"the principal-agent problem. The people who pay or decide (principals) aren’t always the people doing the work (agents), and their interests drift apart unless roles are spelled out and enforced."
"permanence starts with land and a working relationship with the host state. Only then can you recruit from the cloud at scale. Cloud and land go together, but securing land is a legitimizing first step"
"the usual arc: a founder starts something, carries it, burns out, and the project dies unless others intentionally take on the work. The fix is boring and necessary: clear roles, clear expectations, and taking care of the people who do the invisible work."
"keeping takers out matters more than recruiting saints, and that founders need to protect the givers before the whole culture tips"
"Bullish Japan
The raw material is unusually good. Houses are cheap, foreigners can still buy them, and the state already has policies for part-time belonging and remote workers. Daily life is safe, affordable and well run, which matters more to most people than ideology. AI is making small-team infrastructure cheap. And fandom has already shown that Japanese networks will travel to a place they love.
There’s also a cultural fit people underrate. Japan already practices shared baths (onsens), neighbourhood festivals, and group clean-ups. Collectivist cultures tend to orient decision-making and growth for the group, over the individual.
A node that joins those rituals instead of inventing its own could settle in faster here than in most Western towns. And the country’s problems are exactly the ones these projects claim to solve: empty houses, lonely people, and towns that need new residents."
"Japan doesn’t need a new kind of country, but it does need to reduce its bureaucracies, promote risk-taking, and adapt to the technological pace of the world, in ways that still fit in its unique cultural context."
"The projects that work here won’t be the ones that scale fastest. They’ll be the ones built to last."
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Xavier Damman 🌍🔅 retweeted
The biggest, and stupidest, myth in European politics, particularly popular in France, is that Europe suffers the consequences of "austerity" and "neoliberalism". In the biggest 5 countries in Europe, more than half of the population makes its income from the state, less than ector. This is what makes the problem of reducing the welfare state so impossible: more than half of the voters are net recipients. No surprise that Italy's budget has not been balanced in 100 years, France's in 50 years (ooh la la, l'austérité!!):
-France: 30 million from the state versus 21m private sector workers. State spending is 57% of GDP, taxes more than half the economy. The budget hasn't been balanced in the lifetime of most French (since 1974).
- Germany: 35 million adults from the state, versus 34 million from the private sector. 10% of the population is registered as severely disabled. Public spending is over half of GDP. Germany has had a continuous budget deficit since 2019.
-Italy: 23 million from the state, versus 20.5 million private-sector workers. Public spending is 51% of GDP. Italy has had a budget deficit every year since 1925, for 100 years.
- Spain more people get their income from the state since 2024: 18.21 million from the public sector versus 17.9 million people working in the private sector. Since 2025, Spain also had more government employees than self-employed workers (autónomos) for the first time in history. State spending is at 45%, budget has not been balanced since 2007.
- UK: 54% of households now receive more in state benefits than they pay in taxes. State spending is 44.5% of GDP, taxes (40%) are at their highest since 1950, the budget hasn't been balanced since 2001, and 1 in 5 new cars is paid by the government through a bizarre state disability scheme (Motability).
-France: 30 million from the state versus 21m private sector workers. State spending is 57% of GDP, taxes more than half the economy. The budget hasn't been balanced in the lifetime of most French (since 1974).
- Germany: 35 million adults from the state, versus 34 million from the private sector. 10% of the population is registered as severely disabled. Public spending is over half of GDP. Germany has had a continuous budget deficit since 2019.
-Italy: 23 million from the state, versus 20.5 million private-sector workers. Public spending is 51% of GDP. Italy has had a budget deficit every year since 1925, for 100 years.
- Spain more people get their income from the state since 2024: 18.21 million from the public sector versus 17.9 million people working in the private sector. Since 2025, Spain also had more government employees than self-employed workers (autónomos) for the first time in history. State spending is at 45%, budget has not been balanced since 2007.
- UK: 54% of households now receive more in state benefits than they pay in taxes. State spending is 44.5% of GDP, taxes (40%) are at their highest since 1950, the budget hasn't been balanced since 2001, and 1 in 5 new cars is paid by the government through a bizarre state disability scheme (Motability).
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