Watchman Privacy

In September 2005 something happened in Irvine, California that would change the world, forever. Digitally.   GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker    WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/    CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC) Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with economist Peter Boettke about the details surrounding the Soviet economy that Lenin, and then Stalin, attempted to create in their utopian hubris.   GUEST → https://www.peter-boettke.com/  → https://www.amazon.com/stores/Peter-J.-Boettke/author/B001IQWMUQ   → Main book discussed: The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: the Formative Years, 1918-1928 → https://www.realitiesofsocialism.org/     MENTIONED → https://www.clara-elizabeth.com/  (Fertility gap and economic freedom) → To the Finland Station → Ten Days that Shook the World   WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/  CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC) TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – What were the first things Lenin did? 7:00 – Did the Soviet economy work initially? 20:35 – Shortage economies 22:15 – Removing sex roles affects Soviet economy? 27:10 – Did the USSR have its own military-industrial complex? 28:30 – Any interesting statistics come out of USSR? 32:35 – Did Trofim Lysenko kill 55 million people? 35:50 – Did the US fight on the wrong side during WWII? 37:35 – Why is von Mises so important? 44:00 – Is economics itself the problem? 51:45 – Poland and Estonia   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about the ascent of Nvidia Corporation, AI and GPU clusters, and go into some details about the ever-useful and unusual technology of graphics cards.   GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker    WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/    CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC) Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with historian Tom DiLorenzo about his efforts to expose Abraham Lincoln. Pushing against the soft “saint-like” treatment that historians have granted Lincoln, DiLorenzo exposes Lincoln’s totalitarian tendencies, his contribution to the birth of American fiat currency, his war crimes, among other reasons to have disdain for the lauded president. Ultimately DiLorenzo explains how court historians can twist our understanding of history, use this twisting to advance the ends of the status quo, and themselves alter the course of history.   GUEST → https://www.amazon.com/stores/Thomas-J.-DiLorenzo/author/B001IGOF0Q   → https://mises.org/profile/thomas-j-dilorenzo  → https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/thomas-dilorenzo  WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/    CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC) Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 1:23 – Problem with the phrase “Civil War” 3:25 – Myth of slavery motivations of War Between the States 6:50 – Alexis de Tocqueville said problem of race was worse in the North 11:30 – War crimes and scorched earth of the Union army 15:50 – Secession a perfectly American phenomenon 20:30 – Most outrageous attacks against DiLorenzo for attacking the Lincoln Cult 25:30 – How can freedom-seekers how to counter the will to power? 28:10 – How to NOT be a court historian 31:10 – Examples of anti-court historians 32:15 – How to define a “Yankee” 34:10 – Rapid fire 36:20 – Who benefits from inflation? 37:20 – Did Lincoln ultimately win in more ways than one? 38:00 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker explain their new course, a cybersecurity tutorial series called HACKproof 2.0   PURCHASE HACKPROOF 2.0 HERE → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/hackproof/

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about the serious cybersecurity attack called "SIM swapping" and how to escape it.   SIM SWAPPING GUIDE (FOR PURCHASE) → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/how-to-evade-sim-swap-scams/    GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker    WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/    CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC) Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill, experienced in-the-trenches Bitcoin and Monero user, about an assortment of topics: Ross Ulbricht, Samourai Wallet, the “hijacking” of Bitcoin, the Bitcoin “podconf” phenomenon, PayNym vs Silent Payments, what Monero maxis get wrong, and the crypto scene in Singapore.   GUEST → https://twitter.com/maxtannahill  → https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/MaxTannahill (Previous episode)   SAMOURAI WALLET LEGAL DEFENSE FUND DONATIONS → https://www.p2prights.org/donate.html    ASHIGARU WALLET LINKS → http://ashigaruprvm4u263aoj6wxnipc4jrhb2avjll4nnk255jkdmj2obqqd.onion/download/  → https://ashigaru.rs/  → https://ashigaru.rs/news/    WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/    CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:30 – Ross Ulbricht and what next 5:55 – Update on Samourai Wallet 9:08 – The “hijacking” of Bitcoin 19:10 – Roger Ver under attack 20:00 – Thoughts on Ashigaru Wallet 25:05 – Bitcoin Strategic Reserve 26:55 – How many “Bitcoiners” actually use bitcoin? 27:15 – The worst advocates of Bitcoin 35:30 – Lies About Bitcoin book doomed to fail 28:50 – What would Max like to see Trump do for crypto 44:25 – PayNym vs Silent Payments 51:20 – What do Monero maximalists get wrong? 58:30 – What are the dumbest things you hear about Bitcoin privacy? 1:02:40 – Swaps services and atomic swaps 1:08:20 – Crypto scene in Singapore 1:12:30 – Singapore politics 1:16:00 – The UK dystopian moment 1:22:15 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Emmanuel Maggiori, author of several books on artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley. Specifically, Maggiori speaks on the disappointments of these over-hyped industries, the crazy over-funding, and the simultaneous culture of workers who have nothing to do. The discussion also veers toward AI and the reasons why AI in its current form has limited benefits, many unsolvable flaws, and will not match the hype attached to it: not even close.   GUEST → https://emaggiori.com/  → https://www.amazon.com/stores/Emmanuel-Maggiori/author/B08Q468YQ4  WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/  CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC) Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 1:30 – Guest background 3:25 – SiliCONned: the waste of capital in tech investment 18:25 – The failures of VC funding 21:00 – Culture of no work at tech companies 29:00 – Reckoning coming to Big Tech 30:30 – Smart Until It’s Dumb: the inherent limitations of machine learning 38:30 – Data sets make AI much more inefficient than most people realise 41:45 – How to trick AI 45:10 – How can locally hosted LLMs store so much in so little space? 49:35 – Explaining Nvidia's DLSS 55:00 – How marketing exaggerates AI 1:01:00 – Rapid fire questions 1:03:06 – Can digital things act like human brains? 1:08:00 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Paul Rosenberg, who was at the trial of Ross Ulbricht, shares some thoughts from previous episodes of Watchman Privacy.   Ross Ulbricht was pardoned by President Donald Trump on January 22, 2025.   Two clips combined (in order): Clip 1: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/CypherpunkApes  Clip 2: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg2    WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/    CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC) Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about VPN discrimination: how companies delay, deny, defend blocking your access to their service, even as a paid customer, if you use a privacy-preserving technology like virtual private networks.   GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker    WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy  → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/    CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC) Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio