TheGuySwann
Guy Swann

Freeze everything. Our government is a fucking disaster of corruption and waste. They are driving this country into the ground and frankly they never had any constitutional powers to spend money on 99.9% of the bullshit they engage in. It’s illegal anyway, explicitly and unambiguously so.

2026-01-19 01:20:12 UTC

So I barely pay attention to X anymore but I do still post regularly.
I muted a post the other day that was doing numbers and found out from an Audionaut that Elon had RT’d it. Suddenly it makes a lot more sense 😆
https://blossom.primal.net/b96559604cf756ea0ccad991ac75ffcc927c3ad2d53fb0bea5216b3552f34b38.png

2026-01-18 19:09:47 UTC

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I don’t think you have the proper lack of faith as to the competence or ethical grounding of “the authorities.”

2026-01-18 19:08:36 UTC

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So you believe the “Learing Center” is a legit business that deserves millions of tax payer dollars?

2026-01-18 18:12:23 UTC

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Sure Jan 👍🏻

2026-01-18 16:19:48 UTC

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This has nothing to do with their response or how they acted. And he didn’t have an obvious camera, he was knocking on the door asking for how to get his kid into the daycare. They were in full lockdown, blacked out windows, and defensive before there was any indication of what was even happening other than a parent enquiring about a daycare.
What you are referencing is an imagined concern in a situation that never actually happened. The actual events and their reactions are so horribly obvious that it slaps you in the face.

2026-01-18 15:56:26 UTC

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The CNN “fact check” was quite possibly the most Poe’s law thing I’ve seen in a year. Live on video they *called one of the daycares* and then asked them if they were a legitimate business, they said “yes” and then the “journalist” was like, “well there you have it.”
I legit thought it was Ai. I still kinda want to believe it was Ai because that level of retardation from a “serious” news outlet is difficult to comprehend.

2026-01-18 15:40:09 UTC

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To be more clear, what you are talking about is a situational evil, not a systemic one.
There are countless of these examples to pull from, but they require individual response, they are core to the structure of what is being done. We could spend every day for the rest of our lives focused on one off failures of govt like this (which wouldn’t be a wasted life mind you) and never even catch up to dealing with all of the immediately present problems today, let alone the millions more that will arise every year forever.
But what we are talking about that the daycare thing has shone a light on, is a vast, systemic network of fraud that totals in the trillions. A literal institution of fakery designed to rot the country from the inside out by draining it of resources to fund its own destruction. This is of a wholly different category and scope of problem than the situation you bring up.

2026-01-18 15:33:18 UTC

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That’s not 0.1% of the real problem here. You are focused on a twig and missing the forest if that’s where you think the real cost lies. Proportionality matters.

2026-01-18 15:32:02 UTC

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1000% have you not seen the insanity from the politicians, the attacks from Walz, the press events that bussed in a bunch of fake customers and kids, the “fact checks” from CNN?

2026-01-18 15:14:01 UTC

There's an intuitively obvious way to know beyond reasonable doubt that the daycare situation is fraud:
If you actually had a legitimate business and someone with 1M+ followers came to your establishment with a camera to post online, you'd be overjoyed with the opportunity to show them around or brag about your daycare. Real business owners pay 10s of thousands of dollars for that kind of exposure.
The only reason you would lock down, get vicious, defensive, or violent, is because you got caught in a lie. Period.

2026-01-18 15:13:11 UTC

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You want to join me in a tax protest?

2026-01-16 20:05:13 UTC

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The point of the guns is to control the capital. When you have means to move capital around them it diminishes the effectiveness of the guns.

2026-01-16 18:13:43 UTC

If we aren't trying to bend or break the immoral rules of a corrupt system in a peaceful way, then we aren't moving things forward. This is the *purpose* of P2P and censorship resistant technology. To build a better world around the corrupted one. Not to protect criminals, but to protect those who defy criminals in power.

2026-01-12 19:24:11 UTC

Today's the day
https://open.spotify.com/episode/41Uj5866ljHVNC8ci0B1HJ?si=HctYI-FFQuWDQghwOihPnQ

2026-01-12 17:32:08 UTC

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Gotcha I didn't realize mutes were transferred WoT style and generally think the muting/blocking aspect should be personal, not transmitted unless explicitly agreed. In other words I think it should be "loose automatic white list, and manual blacklist" in implementation. Obviously likely scaling considerations there but i think that's a better default risk trade off in my mind at least. Could be missing something though, haven't thought about this deeply with hard specifics.

2026-01-12 17:19:42 UTC

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What do you mean "yes you are"? I haven't made a personal statement above. But again I was asking for the mechanism by which WoT is easy to manipulate. Are you saying that bots pretending to be fun or useful in a certain context to get people to follow them and then "turning on them" is the mechanism to propagate fake mutes/bans and that these naturally get spread through the follower network too?
I'm asking because i wasn't aware that some of these actions would be automatically adopted if that's what is being discussed. In other words, I was aware that people couldn't get "into" my bubble without some connection to the WoT rather than the notion that if a few accounts *inside* of my WoT would make an unintentional ban/mute for someone that I may want to follow. I actually wouldn't like that behavior generally. People mute for simple opinion, a response, or just being disagreeable. That s a negative thing to "crowdsource" so cheaply, imo.

2026-01-12 17:13:10 UTC

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My WoT doesn't respond to bots at all. Because i don't follow bots. What measurement or action is responding to this bot activity and why in this scenario?

2026-01-10 04:42:55 UTC

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“P.s ... All I see are bitcoin posts, surfers and a few pics of naked dudes with their butts in the air on sunny days. Is that normal here”
So wait… it’s not like this over in Bluesky? What do they even talk about? 🤔

2026-01-09 17:45:30 UTC

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I never saw WoT as "easiest to manipulate," millions of bots would seem to have no effect on it from an internal perspective. Not perfect of course, but what's the better option in your opinion?
(I'm assuming WoT here btw or did i miss something?)

2026-01-09 17:42:40 UTC

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Let me know how it goes. Curious to see other people's results 🙏

2026-01-09 17:41:52 UTC

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I don't think you understand what "too-big-to-fail" means or where it comes from then.
Monopoly is also not a common outcome of free markets. To the contrary it is almost exclusively a result of government interference. If you think you have an example to the contrary, you likely aren't looking at it very hard or are simply recalling what we were all forced to remember without any real understanding from our 5th grade history books.
Which is an understandable default, btw. Not a judgement. But it's jsut like believing the free market caused the Great Depression and the govt saved us from it and WW2 finally got us out of it... all are so deeply and obviously wrong given a real investigation into them, but we were all taught the very opposite so that's all most of us "know."

2026-01-09 17:36:50 UTC

Govt: "We need your information to protect you from criminals."
[checks notes]
"Sorry, I meant to sell it to criminals so they can kidnap you and your family until you give up your money."
https://blossom.primal.net/d8f16e51297a14108fd22102d42aa0fa9e9a3f65471c8c2b4b24084efb94bb1e.jpg

2026-01-08 18:33:30 UTC

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i actually am really annoyed by the side scroll, lol. It looks good though

2026-01-08 18:10:52 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/7d9f111471a553349a4a42a654d5f1f59dd98275b4666fa688b35ce4ac74c4f3.jpg

2026-01-08 12:55:57 UTC

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Bitcoin the ultimate collateral
https://open.spotify.com/episode/71WIWJJOFxbpkQLC9YQZQF?si=YEf9ZdgcSn-rYlwg2s3Drw

2026-01-07 15:02:24 UTC

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You sound vaccinated

2026-01-06 17:59:19 UTC

Something that should be a red flag... every single time someone talks about how "sound money is bad for the economy," they point to price collapse caused by massive unrestricted debt creation.... which happens to be the single most obvious and ubiquitous product of fiat money.
Literally.
Every.
Time.
It isn't a coincidence that the people who print money tell you that money they can't print "iS dAnGEroUs."

2026-01-05 15:01:57 UTC

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I just have much, much less time than I used to and have no intention wasting it on morons. I mute and move on.

2025-12-31 00:53:49 UTC

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Nah like 98%

2025-12-29 23:56:54 UTC

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Where’s the actual article?

2025-12-25 22:46:45 UTC

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I actually dont have any of their red light therapy products but the quality of their other stuff has been really good. The red light stuff in general has always been pretty expensive for anything nice. Unfortunately you are right, its hard to tell what is super cheap and priced high because they can get away with it, versus actually a really good product. That's why i don't venture out much personally. If i find one that I think is good, i tend to go back.
But there are some other good brands out there though. My wife has the lumebox smaller light and she likes that one alot. Can't remember how the price lines up against other though.

2025-12-24 00:41:28 UTC

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I have a slightly different strategy, but forcing them to keep digging does help to just break the high level “easy weights” answer.
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0u7fve6xupnsn6gas32e3dt63xk898wlh4f4p8s745cssl82eacsng6cuv

2025-12-22 01:41:03 UTC

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All that indicates is that cryptography generally has a shelf life. But that’s always generally been the case. Doesn’t mean QC is what will put the current paradigm at risk or tha some quantum safe lattice signature is the solution. In fact, it could very likely be something totally different and that we don’t expect.

2025-12-21 03:32:35 UTC

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Ok this is what I was missing… Nic Carter is going on a shitcoin boxing stream!? 😳🤨