hard truths

218 - Back in Palma

Back in Palma, thoughts on CS Lewis’s The Horse and His Boy, switching from Tailscale to self-hosted NetBird, powerful interviews with Efrat Fenigson and Dr. Mike Yeadon, plus reflections on truth and religious tolerance.

Roger Price

02 May 2026 • 11 min read

Along the waterfront - Palma de Mallorca this week

🇪🇸 After our weekend in Belgium we travelled back to Palma and are enjoying the warmer weather down here. It is nice to get out in the sunshine every day and go swimming outdoors in the afternoons.

Unfortunately V injured a toe, which has somewhat restricted our activities this week and given us an unplanned opportunity to sample the local medical and orthopaedic services. Nothing serious, but at our age such injuries take longer to heal and rarely recover fully.

Apart from that there is lots going on. We got out one evening to the Auditorium for a Pink Floyd concert. It was a cover band obviously but they were quite good and the concert was sold out! Friday is May Day and we are having a Bitcoiner lunch - it's great to be able to travel the world and meet up with Bitcoiners wherever you go.

Book of the week

After last week's book, the next in the series is this one. Like all of the Narnia books it is an enjoyable read with a story or moral in every chapter. The Horse and His Boy is the fifth book published in CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series however, chronologically within the Narnia timeline, it is the third book, set during the Golden Age when Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy ruled as Kings and Queens of Narnia.

For an overview of the whole story and a chapter by chapter summary click below.

Interviews of the week

This week I have a couple of interviews that warrant being shared up-front. Both are very understandable and accessible and they contain important information that everyone should be aware of. As a reader here you may well already know much of it but these are also sharable to others who may be struggling to recognise what is going on.

Still smiling

Efrat's political awakening began in July 2020 when she protested against Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Israel, initially believing in democracy before concluding it was "not a legit thing anymore." She spent years in the streets protesting COVID mandates while working full-time as a Chief Marketing Officer, eventually making her activism her sole career in late 2022.

She also understands exactly how money works and how it is weaponised against the people and has adopted the Bitcoin Standard, using it everywhere possible and helping others wake up too. An inspiring interview - do listen to it.

From Normie to Dissident

This next one is rather important. In this wide-ranging interview Mike Yeadon, a former Pfizer executive, discusses his transition from establishment scientist to critic of vaccines, viruses and global control systems.

Click for summary, video, audio and full transcript of the discussion

Citing the work of Sasha Latypova and Charles Richet, Yeadon now realises that childhood vaccines likely cause severe allergies due to trace proteins.

His central thesis is presented as: virus lie + contagion lie = vaccine lie, asserting that viruses do not exist, contagion does not occur and thus vaccines are unjustified.

He points out that criticism of vaccines leads to immediate professional sanctions, demonstrating an arrangement between professional bodies and vaccine manufacturers. They cover much more in the interview, including steps that he is taking and recommends; I encourage you to read it - do not say that nobody told you.

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To know the truth, look at who and what you may not criticise

🛠️ Project Updates

This week I got hands-on again with some server reconfiguration. Happy to say that I have managed to eliminate Big Tech authentication from my Overlay Network. Also a fascinating update on a new Nostr client. What are you doing?

Achievement of the week

As a Sovereign Individual you will understand the importance of having your own "overlay network". This is technology that allows you to interconnect all your computers, devices and servers as if they were on one local network.

Tailscale has long been the go-to solution. However it is closed source and it requires you to use Big Tech Login for authentication - clearly this becomes a major risk these days and is unacceptable.

NetBird is built from the ground up as independent open-source platform and is the architecturally cleaner choice if you want a fully independent, feature-complete Zero Trust platform designed for self-hosting from the start. Obviously this is my pick.

Click for step by step guide - it is straightforward

Moving to NetBird is straightforward. You just need to follow the simple steps. Ensure that you log in to your server using a direct IP address and not a Tailscale address before you disable Tailscale! What is your experience with all this? WDYT?

Citadel - WISP

Wisp is a new Android Nostr client developed by UTXO, focusing on UX stability and speed with the Outbox model for faster note retrieval.

Wisp offers seamless onboarding for new users, integrating Spark Wallet for easy Lightning payments and automatically backing up encrypted seeds to relays. It controversially (or sensibly?) renames 'zaps' to 'Send Money' and denominates them in dollars for new users to reduce Bitcoin stigma, though this may cause confusion with price fluctuations.

Click for summary, transcript and to listen to the full interview

This is a great discussion and they go well into topics on philosophy of app design and use.

Principles of Economics 7 - Technology

In this lecture Saifedean explains that technology is like a recipe for a meal – it's an idea that helps us make things better and more efficiently, but it's not a physical ingredient itself. Unlike physical tools or machines, technology, being an idea, doesn't run out or become scarce. He argues that technology doesn't cause unemployment, which he calls the Luddite Fallacy. Instead, technology makes workers more productive, leading to better jobs and higher living standards, as seen over the last two centuries.

Click for summary, transcript and to listen to the lecture

He cites numerous examples and sees software as the ultimate form of technology – pure information that can be copied endlessly and used to direct machines, further automating production. This will certainly give you some new perspectives.

For your edification

So much blatant nonsense has been passed off as news in recent days that I hardly know where to start. It is way past time to disconnect from the Matrix.

Just some of the things going on this week - **"The** **show** **must go on"**

If you are still under any illusion about the veracity of the news you are fed, consider this:

When is it too many "coincidences" - do you see it yet?

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If it is in the news - it is a ruse. There are no coincidences.

🤔 Closing Thoughts

Some rather important closing thoughts this week that demonstrate fundamental wisdom on the dangers and consequences of religious intolerance. Especially at this time, these insights and what you do with them are particularly important.

Buddhism uniquely accepts other religions by focusing on the results of practices rather than exclusive beliefs, a revolutionary approach that transformed religious interaction across Asia.

Unlike other faiths that faced political entanglements or claims of divine revelation, Buddha presented himself as a discoverer offering tools for self-improvement, not a prophet or god.

Click for summary and the 15 minute explainer video

Three Insights Explaining Buddha's Approach

Fighting over beliefs is "like arguing about different paths up a mountain"—what matters is whether you're climbing
Forced choices create resistance whereas tools for exploration enable natural growth
Truth isn't believed but experienced—"like the difference between reading about honey and tasting it"

We have already discussed this - some of you will surely recall it. Whether you do or do not it is well worth checking back to our previous discussion.

Click to refresh your memory on what we discussed before

To understand what happens when leaders and their populations do not adopt a sensibly accommodating and inclusive approach, click below for Jason's history lesson - history as you were not taught it but documented by authoritative and contemporary sources.

Click for summary and to listen to Jason's full explanation

For yet one more blast from the past - recall our earlier discussion - it has aged rather well even if many remain blind to the truth. As one who lived through "the Troubles" I am well entitled to express my directly-informed opinion.

Click to recall our previous discussion and insights

Do not blame Protestants or Catholics or Christians or Jews or Muslims - rather realise that the guilty are those who are manipulating and dividing everyone behind the scenes.

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People don't declare war on other populations - corrupt politicians do.

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