Watchman's Torch by Escape the Technocracy
Gabriel Custodiet, Urban HackerI'm Gabriel Custodiet. I host an unfiltered show about comprehending and escaping the Technocracy. That's the free version. The paid version, "Watchman's Torch," is a print and audio newsletter on radical privacy and freedom tactics, news, and analysis.
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Episode 231 of Escape the Technocracy Podcast
Episode 231 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Daniel Sempere Pico: Speak ‘Prompt’ and Enter
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Daniel Sempere Pico (formerly BTCGandalf) about how he uses AI for his own productivity.
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Hostile Engineering and Space Exploration
Claude will now embed fingerprints in every piece of content it generates.
Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and genera...
Episode 230 of Escape the Technocracy Podcast
Episode 230 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Alejandra Guajardo Sada: Sada Organics
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Alejandra Guajardo Sada, “Miss Bitcoin,” about her journey from a winner of Miss Universe El Salvador to a Bitcoin advocate...
WATCHMAN'S TORCH Issue #31
USERS SCRAMBLE AS COLDCARD BREACH DRAINS $100M
// TO THE READER // CHOOSE YOUR PATH FOR WATCHMAN’S TORCH
Coldcard: The Devastation Begins
Episode 229 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Coldcard: The Devastation Begins
A Torchlight Chat about one of the scariest hacks ever: the Coldcard Bitcoin wallet hack of late July 2026 that has evaporated hundreds of millions of dollars a...
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