Decent Newsroom

February 17 2026

EXIT.

Every generation believes it is free. Every generation is wrong in ways it won't discover until too late or until someone forces the question. The permission economy is not a metaphor. It is the precise, technical description of the world you inhabit. A world where your sovereignty is licensed, your money is monitored, your dissent is monetized, and your compliance is the most valuable thing you produce. This essay reveals why the only move left that the system cannot absorb, redirect, or contain is the simplest one of all. Exit.

by Kudzai Kutukwa

January 28 2026

The AI Deflationary Reckoning

As artificial intelligence drives the cost of everything toward zero, it's accelerating toward a head-on collision with debt-based monetary systems that require inflation to survive. Bitcoin isn't just digital gold, it's anti-surveillance infrastructure disguised as money, a parallel system where AI's productivity gains flow to participants rather than being extracted by monetary authorities. The real AI trade isn't betting on which companies profit from machine intelligence. It's choosing which system mediates human existence in an AI-shaped world: one that monitors and manages, or one that enables and empowers.

by Kudzai Kutukwa

January 24 2026

Trust Your Feed: Why W Is Dead On Arrival

W is being sold as Europe’s principled alternative to X, but in reality it is a case study in how centralized power, regulatory hubris, and elite technocratic anxiety collide with market reality. Announced at Davos and framed in the sanctimonious language of “fighting disinformation,” W is not a social network built for users, it is a state-adjacent communications platform designed to make speech legible, governable, and controllable. By mandating ID and photo verification, ignoring network effects, embracing centralization, and optimizing for Brussels rather than human behaviour, W reveals its true purpose: restoring institutional control over the narrative terrain rather than empowering individuals.

by Kudzai Kutukwa

January 16 2026

Exit or Submit

When journalist Scott Ritter woke up to a $0.00 bank balance after 26 years with Citizens Bank; no charges, no crime, no explanation, his response revealed everything wrong with how we think about financial freedom. Instead of recognizing the brutal truth that fiat banking is permission-based control, he begged the very system that destroyed him for mercy: letters to Congressmen, appeals to the FBI, pleas to bank executives. The system isn't broken, it's working exactly as designed to transform banks into State enforcers and your money into a revocable privilege. Reform is a fantasy. Exit is the only solution.

by Kudzai Kutukwa

January 9 2026

Broken Promises On A Broken Foundation

We live in a civilization built on broken promises, where politicians lie, institutions gaslight, and the entire architecture of trust has revealed itself to be a trap. The solution isn't to find more trustworthy rulers; it's to build systems that don't require trust at all. Bitcoin and Nostr aren't just technologies, they're proof that in the 21st century, we can replace the fragility of human promises with the certainty of mathematical proof, and make the age-old game of "choosing between evils" completely obsolete.