Idi Amin Governed Uganda by Radio. The Only Resistance That Survived Stopped Listening.
FILE 00115KPope Leo XIV declared just war theory outdated while preserving 'the right to self-defense in the strictest sense.' The history of Italian fascism, retold this summer at the Stratford Festival, shows what that clause means in practice: the right to resist is real, but it expires. The moral question is not whether to fight. It is whether you act while resistance is still cheap, still legal, and still nonviolent.
FILE 00233KA chain promising decentralized machine intelligence now runs on the most human mechanism ever invented: capital, delegation, founder influence, validator politics, and control over who receives emissions. At least some of the builders are sincere. The work is at least sometimes genuine. The architecture asks the powerful to surrender what the architecture lets them keep.
FILE 00318KPope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas declares the centuries-old doctrine of just war 'outdated,' and ties the declaration directly to autonomous weapons systems. He then coins a phrase for what should replace it: disarming AI. Not rejecting technology. Freeing it from the logic of armed competition that has already captured the labs, the budgets, and the language.
FILE 00412KThe most important ancestor in Monero's lineage is not a founder anyone can interview. He is a signature block, a timezone offset, an email address, and a protocol that survived the wreckage around its first implementation. Nicolas van Saberhagen may never resolve into a person. The uncertainty is where the story begins.
FILE 00518KOn May 15, 2026, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas, a 38,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence. Buried inside the Catholic Social Doctrine is a framework for decentralization that predates Bitcoin by 130 years, arrives at the same structural conclusions, and goes further than most crypto whitepapers in diagnosing what concentrated digital power actually does to people.
FILE 00626KIf Bitcoin had existed in 1929, it would have helped some people preserve wealth outside failing banks and hostile borders. It would not have saved most Americans from destitution, because most of the damage came through unemployment, foreclosure, and demand collapse. But if a Depression of that scale hit today, the rails are already in the ground, and a cypherpunk household could do things no 1933 family could imagine.
