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Doug highlights Bitchat, an app enabling offline communication via Bluetooth, which proved useful during internet blackouts in India. He suggests promoting its use among contacts and notes its decentralised nature makes it resistant to state-imposed blocks.

Anthropic now requires government-issued ID for some Claude features, using Peter Thiel-backed Persona. The author worries this could enable nationalist or fascistic export controls on AI usage. They outline three responses: comply with obfuscation, run everything locally, or join a cooperative compute network.