I didn’t realise at the time, but this small 5 minute street conversation was a large part of what sent me down an 8 month rabbithole researching what the tech is doing to us - good, bad, extinction? I run through that rabbithole.

Harry’s X: https://x.com/harryhalpin Nym mixnet: https://nym.com/ Anti-Palantir Manifesto: https://nym.com/blog/anti-palantir-manifesto Harry’s paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411763.3450385

Timecodes:

0:00 chaos can be a ladder 0:52 a stranger at a hackathon 1:47 who is Harry Halpin? 2:34 the ban: Australia, then the UK 4:53 total control 7:02 targeted by the state 9:05 the most infamous spycop in Britain 12:11 Bernard Stiegler 13:11 Pharmakon: the poison and the cure 15:04 the anti-Palantir manifesto 16:21 tech that could save us