April 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

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13 Apr '01

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Islands in the Clickstream. Interpretation. April 13, 2001
by richard＠thiemeworks.com 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

Islands in the Clickstream: Interpretation When living systems - including people like us - spontaneously reorganize themselves, we call it hierarchical restructuring. Systems seem to be hardwired to do this when they become overwhelmed or baffled. It's as if life itself provides a Zen koan that confronts our reasoning with a puzzle that reasoning cannot solve. Some begin the process of restructuring but never complete it; some psychotic breaks, in fact, may be incomplete "conversion experiences" in which the fragmented psyche never finds a new center. But when it works, we discover ourselves reborn, aware and intact. We have smaller, more evolutionary epiphanies too. Forty years ago, I was standing waist-deep in cold Lake Michigan water at a beach in Chicago on a hot day. I was a summer counselor for a neighborhood club but my full-time work was getting a degree in literature, and I had been reading "Huckleberry Finn." When I was young, I believed what I read in a primary, immediate way. The landscape of a novel was as real as the landscape of the city. Standing there in the water, I saw suddenly that the story of Huck and Tom was a myth and that myth was a lens through which we understood ourselves. Instead of living immersed in the myth, however, I saw the myth from outside, in relationship to the machinery that generated our constructions of reality. I glimpsed the engines of the technology of consciousness. Another epiphany happened in a philosophy class when I heard that Immanuel Kant had said: "Concepts without percepts are empty; percepts without concepts are blind." In other words, whatever is "out there" is intelligible only when it connects with our concepts, our beliefs; and, if our senses detect something that - literally - doesn't compute, we don't see it, we don't hear it, we don't believe it. I think of those insights - how our myths filter experience, how we can see only what we believe - when I investigate reports of Unidentified Flying Objects. No other domain, in my experience, includes so many of the puzzles that confront 21st century humanity as we try to locate ourselves in the cosmos and understand what's real. Investigating UFO reports begins with listening closely and deeply to the person telling their story, just like counseling. But that's just the beginning. The psychology of perception, the structure of myths and beliefs, the influence of UFO subcultures, knowledge of meteorology and astronomy, chemistry and physics, current aerospace technologies, all come into play. But as one studies the history of the "modern era" of sightings that began in 1947, one also enters a force field that turns all that data, so carefully collected and cross-referenced, into a hall of mirrors. The United States changed after World War 2. The culture of secrecy, disinformation, and propaganda that had been deemed appropriate to wartime was extended into the Cold War era, and even though that era has supposedly ended, the culture has a life of its own. Senator Daniel Moynihan is eloquent in his critique of the culture of secrecy, showing how truth is much less likely to emerge from a process of data-gathering and deliberation that is isolated, constrained, and hidden. His book on government secrecy is a vote for the open source movement as a model for life. In our brave new world, the design of myth and belief is highly intentional. It's called propaganda in the public sector, PR in the private, but the tools and techniques are the same, and the digital world only makes it easier. One cannot explore the history of UFO phenomena without exploring deception and disinformation, because it becomes clear that the playing field is not level. It's like playing poker with someone who tells you what cards he holds rather than showing them, then rakes in the pot. "All warfare is based on deception," Sun Tzu said, but he also said, "The most important factor in war is moral influence, by which I mean that which causes the people to be in harmony with their leaders." Contemplating the concentration of global media in fewer and fewer hands, the many points of contact between media and corporate and state intelligence, and the naivete with which we believe what we see on a digital screen, we find ourselves in a difficult position: the deception that Sun Tzu said must be directed at an enemy has been directed for two generations at "we the people," the ones who ought to be in harmony with their leaders. By practicing deception on their troops and treating us as the enemy, our leaders undermine our allegiance. There are no ultimate truths, only interpretations, noted Nietzsche, saying in a way what Kant had said, that whatever is out there is filtered through our senses and our schemas. Percept and concept alike in the digital world are subject to manipulation and design. Both sense data and schemas must be deconstructed if our interpretations are to mean anything. In the absence of truth, we make it up. We fill the void with outlandish projections, guesses, and fables. The Internet is full of them, especially in the realm of UFOs. But we can also take ten steps back to the basics of how we know what we know, how we gather data, establish patterns, come to conclusions. We may be left with only an interpretation, but it's one that plays by the rules and shows its cards. I have learned in that hall of mirrors what Moynihan learned in the halls of the Senate, that without disclosure there is no truth, without truth no accountability. That's only an interpretation, of course, but it's all I've got. The truth isn't "out there," it's hiding in plain sight. As a civilization, we're poised for a hierarchical restructuring. In full possession of the facts, "we the people" get it right more often than not. We are worthy of being trusted. The enemy is not the truth that sets us free, the enemy is a general who deceives his own troops and holds the truth for ransom in that labyrinthine hall of mirrors. April 13, 2001 For Joe K, my email pal, and Terry Hansen, author of "The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up" ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. 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Islands in the Clickstream. Interpretation. April 13, 2001
by richard＠thiemeworks.com 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

Islands in the Clickstream: Interpretation When living systems - including people like us - spontaneously reorganize themselves, we call it hierarchical restructuring. Systems seem to be hardwired to do this when they become overwhelmed or baffled. It's as if life itself provides a Zen koan that confronts our reasoning with a puzzle that reasoning cannot solve. Some begin the process of restructuring but never complete it; some psychotic breaks, in fact, may be incomplete "conversion experiences" in which the fragmented psyche never finds a new center. But when it works, we discover ourselves reborn, aware and intact. We have smaller, more evolutionary epiphanies too. Forty years ago, I was standing waist-deep in cold Lake Michigan water at a beach in Chicago on a hot day. I was a summer counselor for a neighborhood club but my full-time work was getting a degree in literature, and I had been reading "Huckleberry Finn." When I was young, I believed what I read in a primary, immediate way. The landscape of a novel was as real as the landscape of the city. Standing there in the water, I saw suddenly that the story of Huck and Tom was a myth and that myth was a lens through which we understood ourselves. Instead of living immersed in the myth, however, I saw the myth from outside, in relationship to the machinery that generated our constructions of reality. I glimpsed the engines of the technology of consciousness. Another epiphany happened in a philosophy class when I heard that Immanuel Kant had said: "Concepts without percepts are empty; percepts without concepts are blind." In other words, whatever is "out there" is intelligible only when it connects with our concepts, our beliefs; and, if our senses detect something that - literally - doesn't compute, we don't see it, we don't hear it, we don't believe it. I think of those insights - how our myths filter experience, how we can see only what we believe - when I investigate reports of Unidentified Flying Objects. No other domain, in my experience, includes so many of the puzzles that confront 21st century humanity as we try to locate ourselves in the cosmos and understand what's real. Investigating UFO reports begins with listening closely and deeply to the person telling their story, just like counseling. But that's just the beginning. The psychology of perception, the structure of myths and beliefs, the influence of UFO subcultures, knowledge of meteorology and astronomy, chemistry and physics, current aerospace technologies, all come into play. But as one studies the history of the "modern era" of sightings that began in 1947, one also enters a force field that turns all that data, so carefully collected and cross-referenced, into a hall of mirrors. The United States changed after World War 2. The culture of secrecy, disinformation, and propaganda that had been deemed appropriate to wartime was extended into the Cold War era, and even though that era has supposedly ended, the culture has a life of its own. Senator Daniel Moynihan is eloquent in his critique of the culture of secrecy, showing how truth is much less likely to emerge from a process of data-gathering and deliberation that is isolated, constrained, and hidden. His book on government secrecy is a vote for the open source movement as a model for life. In our brave new world, the design of myth and belief is highly intentional. It's called propaganda in the public sector, PR in the private, but the tools and techniques are the same, and the digital world only makes it easier. One cannot explore the history of UFO phenomena without exploring deception and disinformation, because it becomes clear that the playing field is not level. It's like playing poker with someone who tells you what cards he holds rather than showing them, then rakes in the pot. "All warfare is based on deception," Sun Tzu said, but he also said, "The most important factor in war is moral influence, by which I mean that which causes the people to be in harmony with their leaders." Contemplating the concentration of global media in fewer and fewer hands, the many points of contact between media and corporate and state intelligence, and the naivete with which we believe what we see on a digital screen, we find ourselves in a difficult position: the deception that Sun Tzu said must be directed at an enemy has been directed for two generations at "we the people," the ones who ought to be in harmony with their leaders. By practicing deception on their troops and treating us as the enemy, our leaders undermine our allegiance. There are no ultimate truths, only interpretations, noted Nietzsche, saying in a way what Kant had said, that whatever is out there is filtered through our senses and our schemas. Percept and concept alike in the digital world are subject to manipulation and design. Both sense data and schemas must be deconstructed if our interpretations are to mean anything. In the absence of truth, we make it up. We fill the void with outlandish projections, guesses, and fables. The Internet is full of them, especially in the realm of UFOs. But we can also take ten steps back to the basics of how we know what we know, how we gather data, establish patterns, come to conclusions. We may be left with only an interpretation, but it's one that plays by the rules and shows its cards. I have learned in that hall of mirrors what Moynihan learned in the halls of the Senate, that without disclosure there is no truth, without truth no accountability. That's only an interpretation, of course, but it's all I've got. The truth isn't "out there," it's hiding in plain sight. As a civilization, we're poised for a hierarchical restructuring. In full possession of the facts, "we the people" get it right more often than not. We are worthy of being trusted. The enemy is not the truth that sets us free, the enemy is a general who deceives his own troops and holds the truth for ransom in that labyrinthine hall of mirrors. April 13, 2001 For Joe K, my email pal, and Terry Hansen, author of "The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up" ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, 2175 Bayfield Drive, Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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The Register - May Day Cops & The Net
by Jim Choate 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18277.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ The ultimate authority...resides in the people alone. James Madison The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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13 Apr '01

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Inferno: Fw: THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE to air in Canada April 16th (fwd)
by Jim Choate 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:15:46 -0400 From: Any Mouse Reply-To: hell(a)ssz.com To: The Club Inferno <hell(a)einstein.ssz.com> Subject: Inferno: Fw: THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE to air in Canada April 16th ----- Original Message ----- To: <NYC-DAN(a)topica.com>; <imc-nyc(a)lists.indymedia.org>; <FAIR-L(a)fair.org>; <pttv(a)tao.ca> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:18 PM Subject: THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE to air in Canada April 16th > If only U.S. television could be so enlightened (not that Canadian TV wins > any free speech awards). But, imagine such a program airing here in the > states just days prior to a major demonstration - impossible. If you have > contacts in Canada - please forward. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > MONDAY, APRIL 16 @ 10 PM ET (again at 10 pm PST) > on CBC Newsworld's "The Passionate Eye" > > THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE > an IMC/Big Noise film shot by over 100 activist > videographers > > Get your parents, your children, your sisters and > brothers, your grandparents, your classmates and > cynical coworkers to see the revolution through the > eyes of 100 video cameras. > > > ------------------- > "THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE is a truly > ground-breaking accomplishment. Beautiful. . . > Passionate. . . Stunning, it is a powerful embodiment > of the spirit of the protests." > -Naomi Klein, Columnist and author of NO LOGO > ------------------ > > the independent media center and big noise films > present: > > ******************************************* > * SUSAN SPEARHEAD'S RAGE AGAINST* > *SARANDON MICHAEL FRANTI THE MACHINE* > * * > * THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE * > * www.thisisdemocracy.org * > ******************************************* > > REVOLUTION THROUGH THE EYES OF 100 VIDEO CAMERAS > > > THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE weaves together > gripping video with narration by SUSAN SARANDON and > music by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE to tell the real > story of what happened in the streets of Seattle > during the 1999 WTO protests. > > With more cameras on the street than any other media > organization, the Independent Media Center (IMC) > coordinated hundreds of media activists and collected > more than 300 hours of video footage during the WTO > protests. > > THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE, a co-production of > the IMC and Big Noise Films, weaves the footage of > over 100 videographers into a gripping document of > what really happened on Seattles streets. The film > cuts > through the confusion and tear gas to paint an > intimate, passionate portrait of a week that changed > the world. With narration by SUSAN SARANDON and > SPEARHEADs MICHAEL FRANTI, and with a driving > soundtrack including RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, DJ > SHADOW, DJ MUSAKA, and COMPANY OF PROPHETS, THIS IS > WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE is the first documentary to > capture the raw energy of the WTO protests, while > clarifying their global and historic significance. > > --------------- > "This is What Democracy Looks Like is a passionate, > intense and deeply moving account of the extraordinary > demonstrations at the WTO meeting in Seattle in 1999. > . . As the winds of change blow ever stronger across > this > land, This is What Democracy Looks Like can be > regarded as THE documentary account of t he first > great democratic political struggle of the 21st > century." > -Robert W. McChesney, author, Rich Media, Poor > Democracy > --------------- > > The CBC will be showing a 41 minute recut of the > DEMOCRACY. The entire film (72 minutes) is available > at www.thisisdemocracy.org. > > ==^================================================================ > EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxjeu.aVIXo5 > Or send an email To: NYC-DAN-unsubscribe(a)topica.com > This email was sent to: gomes(a)navigo.com > > T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. > Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. > http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 > ==^================================================================ > ____________________________________________________________________ The ultimate authority...resides in the people alone. James Madison The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Remailers - Packet Radio on the International Space Station
by Bill Stewart 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

There's a slashdot article about the digipeater on the ISS. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/12/2054254&mode=thread You basically send packets up and it repeats them back down. More technical details on http://www.ariss.net It's a low-volume thing, and only works when the space station is visible ( http://www.heavens-above.com/ to locate the station ) but would be an interesting hack for remailers. There are already a few repeaters that take the packet radio downlink and mirror it to the Internet. Heavens-above.com also has a list of a few dozen amateur satellites, though it doesn't say which if any are used for packet data as opposed to voice.

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More Jim Bell coverage
by Declan McCullagh 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

Jim Bell's show trial by J.D. Tuccille After a thoroughly rigged federal trial, cypherpunk Jim Bell was found guilty of making the feds nervous. (04/11/01) http://civilliberty.about.com/library/weekly/aa041101a.htm

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Slashdot | Noir
by Jim Choate 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

http://slashdot.org/books/01/03/29/211257.shtml -- Adapt, Adopt, Improvise! - Anonymous Venimus, Vidimus, Delevimus - 1st Linux Motto, Anonymous Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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