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Fwd: New High School Principal's speech to students.
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

My kinda speech, Zenaan --- New high school principal A Speech Every Australian High School Principal Should Give. To the students and faculty of our high school: I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people. I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in Australia have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country. First, this school will no longer honour race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Endeavour or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is Australia. This is an Australian public school, and Australian public schools were created to make better Australians. If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-Australian nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of Australia, one of its three central values -- epluribus Unum, "from many, one." And this school will be guided by Australia's values. This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness. Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interested in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you. Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united Australia's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the Australian job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Australians only speak English -- but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English,this is not your school. Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavour, everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Horse Racing events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school. Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f -word, you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as "Abbo," even when used by one black student to address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene. Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight. Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue.. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately fortunate -- to be alive and to be an Australian. Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

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What you can hear at Davos... With RTL-SDR
by grarpamp 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/01/27/1654246/collecting-private-flig… http://qz.com/600590/we-brought-an-antenna-to-davos-to-track-private-air-tr… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance_%E2%80%93_br… http://bit.do/RTL-SDR-and-GNU-Radio-with-Realtek-RTL2832U Every year politicians and business men meet at the World Economic Forum in the small mountain town of Davos, Switzerland to discuss various topics and create business deals. This year Quartz, an online newspaper/magazine sent a journalist to the forum tasked with writing a unconventional story about the forum: he was asked to monitor the private helicopter traffic coming in and out of Davos from transponder broadcast of ADS-B data. Using an $20 RTL-SDR dongle, Raspberry Pi and ADS-B collinear antenna they monitored the flights over Davos. From the data they were able to determine the flight paths that many helicopters took, the types of helicopters used and the most popular flight times.

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National Archives API
by Michael Best 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

So apparently there's an API. Not sure if it's just for data mining or actually accessing information or not. https://github.com/usnationalarchives/Catalog-API If anyone figures out how to make it do useful things, and feels like walking me through it....

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NYSE... Got Root?
by grarpamp 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-26/high-speed-firms-now-over… Barclays, one of the biggest banking and financial services firms in the world, has sold its business on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to Global Trading Systems. This is significant because it marks a transition between human-based trading and high-speed trading. Now, humans on the NYSE floor have more of a supervisory role, making sure the automated systems don't go haywire. Barclays has been around for hundreds of years; GTS was founded in 2006. "There used to be dozens of specialist firms, as designated market makers were once known, at the NYSE floor. But profits from trading U.S. stocks dwindled, making it difficult to serve as market makers without automation. Although GTS, Virtu, IMC and KCG employ human traders at the floor, their businesses are driven by some of the industry's most sophisticated computer systems."

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"out-of-band exfiltration"
by coderman 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

the TAO master spoke of "out-of-band exfiltration" of data at high risk of discovery, one thing an alert sysadmin might observe and react to. has anyone seen a summary of the exfiltration methods identified in leaks/other so far? this would have to span everything from Google Voice Search as covert channel, to retroreflector enabled signal recovery. pointers? best regards,

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Re: Better Discourse through Self Evidence; Mentorship
by coderman 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

On 1/31/16, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net> wrote: > ... > It always pays to outclass the opposition, in word /and/ deed. > Trolls, Buffoons and Lunaticks have their uses and some get paid; > but they have no staying power and eventually land on the rubbish > heap. It is said that a wise person may choose to act like a > fool, but that a fool can not choose to act like a wise person. > Let the great sorting begin... or, heh heh, stop it if you can. ignorance in a mind eager to learn more, is merely indicative of inquisitiveness. but willful ignorance in an obstinate fool needs no action other than absolute avoidance! there are many out there looking to learn with sincerity, yet so few teachers and mentors able to sate with knowledge instead of misguided misinformation or intentional obfuscation... be the font of educational insight and inspiration you wish to see in the world :)

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Methods of Exercising Control over the Direction of Discourse
by Ryan Carboni 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies is no doubt disinformation. It is seemingly complete, as if to extinguish further analysis on the subject. But it seems to exclude methods which cannot be noticed, and seems to play to the fears of the paranoid. No doubt the psychologist who prepared the document is a threat to humanity itself and ought to be subject to summary execution. Afterall, a lack of interest in a topic should not be confused with forum sliding. Naturally if one is to bring up forum sliding in a forum, one would be dismissed as a troll and banned, perhaps rightly so. Through methods pioneered by Freud, I believe I have uncovered the methods in which the elites manipulate and stifle discussion to benefit their own interests. It is important to troll undesirable activists. It creates a low-grade trauma (which may increase social withdrawal and increased sensitivity to threats), makes them distrust certain common aspects of the trolls (through mental association), and wastes their time. It is also important to shift the internal Overton window of a group. While greater society has an Overton window over certain subjects, it's subcultures too have Overton windows. You don't see libertarians talk too much about nationalization now, do you? For conspiracy theorists, it is important to make it very difficult for new people to accept any conspiracy theory. Afterall, there's no clear line as to how the idea that the elites are conspiring is all that different then all the elites are lizard people (well, maybe have lizard brains, but that's different). Thus one must shift the direction of discussion to that of which is absurd so that additional individuals are unlikely to do anything more than outright dismiss the theories. Upon watching a propaganda video by North Korea targeted toward the conspiracy theorist members of the English-speaking population ( https://youtu.be/WEGMJE6I_Q4?t=28s ), it is evident that the video is targeting individuals with heightened responses to threats. It talks more about dangers without focusing on the logic of those dangers or alternative explanations. It's possible the video did not come from North Korea, but to make consumerist culture seem to exist by design, when it is quite likely it will exist anyway but could be promoted to serve the ends of the elites. These are self-serving individuals who are very good at what they do.

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The Crisis and Opportunity of Information Warfare
by Michael Best 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

https://archive.org/details/TheCrisisAndOpportunityOfInformationWarfare The latest document I found while digging up old publications relating to PROMIS and the Inslaw affair. The Inslaw PROMIS softare itself had that purpose... and more important, > had the full capability of doing it. It is the Cadillac of software systems > ... tying directly into the ... Federal Emergency Management Agency's plan > to arrest, jail and hold in detention camps political dissidents --Mike That1Archive.neocities.org

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Re: request for comment re &quot;contributor-covenant.org&quot;
by shakeitoff＠ghostmail.com 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:36 PM, juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Why doesn't the gleeful roasting extend to the bigotry and chauvinism >> on this list? Why are these silently accepted?   > Whatever bigotry and chauvinism there is, you don't seem to > have spoken against it too much (if at all). So, you are asking > that question to yourself?  You are right. I've done nothing but watch in silence when it happens. The responsibility is mine, but it is also yours, and it is everyone's in this community. Speaking out against injustice is not censorship. Although perhaps this could be considered a fine line. Sent from secure GhostMail. Easy and free encrypted email, chat and cloud storage, free sign up here: https://www.ghostmail.com

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Fwd: [liberationtech] Geoblocking and Global Video Culture
by Rayzer 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Online read. Download available with login via specific social mediaz or (apparently free) account creation -- RR "Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers ... And neutralize them, neutralize them, neutralize them" Geoblocking and Global Video Culture Edited by Ramon Lobato and James Meese Theory on Demand #18 Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2016 http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-18-geoblocking-and-global-vi… How do global audiences use streaming platforms like YouTube, Netflix and iPlayer? How does the experience of digital video change according to location? What strategies do people use to access out-of-region content? What are the commercial and governmental motivations behind geoblocking? Geoblocking and Global Video Culture explores the cultural implications of access control and circumvention in an age of VPNs. Featuring seventeen chapters from diverse critical positions and locations – including China, Iran, Malaysia, Turkey, Cuba, Brazil, USA, Sweden and Australia. Contributors: Ramon Lobato, James Meese, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Cameran Ashraf, Marketa Trimble, Adam Rugg, Florian Hoof, Roland Burke, Jinying Li, Çiğdem Bozdağ, Chris Baumann, Aneta Podkalicka, Chris Baumann, Sandra Hanchard, Vanessa Mendes Moreira de Sa, Hadi Sohrabi, Fidel Alejandro Rodriguez, Evan Elkins. Copy-editing: Leonieke van Dipten. Editorial support: Miriam Rasch. Cover Design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Leonieke van Dipten. EPUB development: Leonieke van Dipten. Infographics: Sandra Hanchard. Printer: Print on Demand. ISBN: 978-94-92302-03-8. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu.

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