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I agree with all this. However, we do have an issue that we’ll need to address with cryptography and AI. While legacy media was on the back foot from 2022-2025, thanks to Elon uncensoring X and permitting basic truths to be voiced…the combination of AI fakery and ideological filter bubbles has recently allowed the journos to regain some ground. Some outlets have pulled back on extreme wokeness to start reporting facts, particularly on the war, that users are citing because their presence at a legacy outlet’s URL indicates implicitly that they aren’t AI. In other words, AI is, in part, subsidizing legacy written news media at the expense of social media. Even as AI is disrupting Hollywood fiction, it’s increasing demand for verifiable facts. So the journos are adapting, and dialing down a decade of wokeness in an attempt to regain their role as arbiters of fact. We can and will respond, but the journo adaptation is to be expected. A truly committed rival rarely simply goes down for the count. And the journos have been pushing communist revolution since John Reed, Walter Duranty, Edgar Snow, and Herbert Matthews. We have to realize that the verbal political journalist is essentially the ancient class enemy of the mathematical technocapitalist. And so the journo’s goal in the next cycle is to just dispense with pretense and flat out expropriate the fortunes of technocapitalists. Hence the Californian, Bernie, Warren, and European wealth taxes. In this they will be aided by this disastrous war, by the scarcity and seizures it will drive, by the general anti-AI backlash, and by the specific issue I just mentioned of verifiable digital facts. Now, there are technical and social countermeasures to this issue. It starts with establishing a higher standard of cryptographic truth, with verifiable chain-of-custody for digital facts. It includes funding citizen journalists around the world to write to a ledger of record. And it requires a higher purpose than mere political combat. But the point is that winning this next cycle will require more than simply going direct. We’ll need to regain the factual high ground in the age of AI. I know we can do that because cryptography will always be more reliable than a mere media corporation. But we have to do it. To be clear, I think I was one of the earliest (perhaps the earliest) proponent of going direct in tech. And that was the right strategy in 2020. But 2026 is a different media environment, rife with AI fakery and filter bubbles. Now we need to not just go direct. We need to cryptographically prove correct.