Dewy McGill / Dewy McGill is on Nostr

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2025-12-10 06:15:51 UTC

As a commercial lawyer, I use AI every day.
Unlike much of the commentary around it, it doesn’t save me much time. If anything, it makes me slower and more careful.
If I am lazy and ask it for an answer I have to check almost every legal principle it gives me, because it confidently makes things up.
What I find it useful for is thinking. Where I might once have bounced an issue off a colleague and then made the call, I now use AI in that role and still make the call.
If you’re using it to do the bulk of your drafting or to give advice without verification, you’re not a modern lawyer. You’re outsourcing judgment, and that will almost certainly end in an avoidable mistake.
Judgment is what clients actually pay lawyers for. And it’s the one thing you can’t responsibly delegate.

2025-10-13 02:36:09 UTC

Prohibition doesn't eliminate the demand for social media in under-16s; it simply drives it underground, where parent visibility and accountability collapse. Tech savvy teens will sidestep mainstream platforms in favour of peer to peer systems. Many are already using private discord servers to chat with their schoolmates.
Like the speakeasies of the Prohibition era, a digital underground will emerge as the new medium of online communication. In the same way that western governments “fix” the housing crisis by inflating demand instead of increasing supply, they now try to solve social media excess by restricting access and forcing the youth toward a digital wild west.
The end result isn’t increased safety but opacity. In this fragmented digital ecosystem, parents, educators and regulators lose visibility, whilst digital subcultures multiply exponentially. Algorithmic and advertising exposure may shrink, but echo chambers, misinformation, and exploitation risk will expand. All this, just as AI goes mainstream and it becomes increasingly difficult to tell whether you're interacting with a human or a machine.
Liberating for the competent and opportunistic; extremely dangerous for the naïve.

2025-08-06 15:16:06 UTC

Anon, you're analysing what they're doing (digital IDs, censorship, surveillance, social control), but you’re not fully stepping back to question why they need this now. You see through the “protecting kids” rhetoric as a façade, but you haven’t fully confronted the structural collapse and loss of control that governments and legacy institutions are panicking about.
It’s not about control in a generic sense. It's that their entire method of governance is becoming obsolete. Centralised systems (financial, media, political) are losing grip because of decentralised tech, alternative economies, and a cultural shift away from institutional trust. Digital ID, censorship, and "protect the children" are not moves of confidence; they’re moves of desperation to keep relevance.

2025-07-31 12:09:03 UTC

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Been a minute, but seems more relevant than ever...
#nevent1q…287x

2024-11-21 13:03:54 UTC

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Fucking send it 🌕

2024-11-21 11:09:39 UTC

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Billy gates
Military state
Hillary ate
At Epstein's estate
Pizzagate

2024-11-21 11:08:23 UTC

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Billy gates is a bitch

2024-11-21 06:13:31 UTC

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Unfortunately, I'm not convinced any politicians in Aus make sense...

2024-11-21 02:17:44 UTC

Having a look at the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill, just released today in Australia. Both sides of government appear to support it.
The bill targets "providers" of age-restricted platforms, requiring them to take "reasonable steps" to prevent underage (under 16) access.
This gets me excited about Nostr:
- Nostr doesn't have a centralised provider or entity that could comply with these obligations.
- If a relay or instance of Nostr is primarily used for social interactions, it might fall under the "age-restricted social media platform" definition. But without a central entity, enforcing compliance becomes impractical, if not impossible.
In short, there's no way (that I'm aware of) to enforce age restrictions or privacy obligations in respect of Nostr.
Spread the word.

2024-11-20 04:17:05 UTC

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Epic. Appreciate the response and truer words have never been spoken. You've got a new follower!

2024-11-20 03:44:42 UTC

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Dope. What do you see as best way for an artist to build an audience on nostr?
Same strategies as other social media or something different. Asking for a friend...

2024-09-10 20:57:47 UTC

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Yep

2024-09-10 13:02:30 UTC

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Big time. Easiest way to get everyone on your side.
The classic line of a politician "as a parent myself".

2024-09-10 12:47:01 UTC

Australia's govt is looking pretty close to implementing a Digital ID requirement for social media. All in the name of age verification to "protect the kids". This comes after effectively legislating it earlier in the year in the name of convenience and "preventing identity theft".
It happens slowly, then all at once.
Thank god for #Bitcoin and Nostr.
https://image.nostr.build/715528b46357ed0f1029d2217d9bba9be93bb36e6cfba0b1b09a9c2ef8d16903.jpg

2024-04-19 06:10:21 UTC

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LFG

2024-04-19 06:08:12 UTC

The 9 to 5 - the daily grind.
Many of us working on things that we don’t like doing in order to go on living lives that we don’t like living.
Then we encourage our children to do the same thing.
We throw them into an education system that leads them into debt and struggling to survive.
We’ve been cheated; we were fooled.
Isn’t it better to live a short life full of joy and excitement, than a long one living depressed.
Live your life now.
If money’s the most important thing to you, you’ll spend your life wasting your time.
Recognise that success isn't measured solely by financial gain and status, but by the joy and satisfaction you gain from your daily life.
Do work that you love and let that work become an expression of your true self.

2023-07-27 04:36:12 UTC

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I came across them through knees over toes guy. Damn, birks in the gym - a bold choice, though I can see the logic behind it.

2023-07-27 01:30:32 UTC

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Rookie. Xero shoes changed the game for me in the gym