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Scientific Progress
by coresamples＠sigaint.org 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

> Juan: > Your climate 'scientists' are highly paid university parasites, > pandering to 'progressive' eco fascists. The church of "progress" is the religion of the emotionally defective, the spiritually dyslexic, and the philosophically depraved. To put it into other terms: If you want happiness in this crazy world, you do not talk sex to eunuchs. These "scientists" are emotional, spiritual, and philisophical eunuchs.

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Happy New Year everyone.
by b0z0＠SDF.ORG 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

Happy new year everyone. from the number one list lurker : ) b0z0(a)sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

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Major fuckup: USA
by grarpamp 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5krjxm/tsa_to_notify_travelers_of_up… https://papersplease.org/wp/2016/11/21/tsa-proposes-to-require-id-to-fly/ https://papersplease.org/wp/2016/10/24/is-it-suspicious-to-avoid-the-police… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBtlRxIo6Q http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sd-police-20161227-story.html https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5krdij/arkansans_hoping_to_grow_medi… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-28/as-populists-won-2016-ba… https://theintercept.com/2016/12/27/19-states-passed-60-new-abortion-restri… https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5kucwk/los_angeles_considers_banning… Do not go to the US, anyplace but the US, its govt and corp and shit all gone fucked up and isn't worth it. Seriously. You could list links on every day for a year and still not run out of examples of them intentionally fucking up shit.

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Bitcoin In 2017: Fixin Ta Blow Up
by grarpamp 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5l5plv/today_bitflyer_took_out_a_full… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5l5xk3/bitflyers_big_ad_campaign_for_… https://twitter.com/mojeyuka/status/814646893309358080 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5l459i/bitcoin_120_vs_beat_every_… https://cointelegraph.com/news/roger-ver-2017-will-be-the-best-year-for-bit… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOBNi3gFKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWC954YcgvI https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5l66a7/satoshis_lesson/

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Re: [Crypto-practicum] Open-source cooperative security using low-cost HSMs?
by grarpamp 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek(a)gmail.com> wrote: > One problem is shills. IIUC, TOR has a problem where an attacker can create > a ton of nodes that collude. > TOR could be > 50% shills and we would not know. Is this something that could > be implemented effectively with the dreaded web of trust? Yes. It has been repeatedly brought up among tor that relay operators, being globally spread and relatively physically mobile for the purpose of keysigning, can cross sign their node keys with gpg keys, have their gpg keys signed in person under proof of relay ownership as usual, dump the fingerprints into the consensus and sks, then build relay selection algorithms that download and verify the wot into user run tools that then build their circuits in the controller. Users can elect to use variant levels of trust present in the wot, anon / nym / context signing, ID signing, photo signing, multisig assertions, etc. Beyond just the wot, all sorts of other external metrics, even subscriptions to third party metrics services, could be applied to such a relay selection process. 7000 relays, even at low 10% shill and 1:1 would require 700 unique persons of the adversary that pass the smell test of other operators and principals, that has real costs. Or your allies just supply the number of validated nodes needed to prevent network saturation and users simply decline to route anything but CNN and gerbil pr0n through the 700 unvalidated nodes. Pretty simple really, needs nothing more than one structured comment field in the consensus and some external tools, but nobody has rolled it out or even developed concept further yet.

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Fwd: <nettime> confessions without relief
by Cecilia Tanaka 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

Wow, s ynchronicity works! Received this message just right now and didn't watch the talk yet, but it seems pretty provocative! :D Wish you all good masturbation and/or sex and millions of orgasms! <3 - c. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:27 PM Subject: <nettime> confessions without relief To: nettime-l(a)kein.org An interesting talk today at 33c3 by Charleyne Biondi- parallels between the modern day surveillance and 18th century crusades against masturbation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Ae0qscmDk >From the intro: The High Priests of the Digital Age The High Priests of the Digital Age Are Working Behind Your Back to Make You Confess, and Repent. Just as 18th century priests enforced total surveillance measures on masturbators, the new priests of the digital age are listening to your confessions and forcing you into puritanical repentance. Who doesn’t have a relative, a friend, a colleague, who broke up because of an iMessage showing up on the wrong device, fooled by the iCloud, by a suspicious Facebook like, or a Pokemon caught in the wrong neighborhood? I want to make the claim that a new system of surveillance, organized by the new priests of our digital age, are slyly acting behind our back to make us conform to a new form of puritan morality. At the beginning of the 18th century, masturbation suddenly became a topic of intense reflection. In the Enlightenment Encyclopedia it is described as the new disease of a wounded conscience and a heinous sin. Surprisingly, the Christian Church was not responsible. It had, until then, never regarded masturbation as anything other than a marginal problem for adult men (and especially monks). The people responsible for making masturbation a sin were economists, who worried about the consequences of masturbation for productivity in an economy that depended on the endless desire for more. The condemnation of masturbation spread, and in no time, doctors were making scientific claims to prove the dangers of masturbation, while priests made it their new obsession. In the confessional, the sinners had to avow everything, not only their reprehensible actions, but their reprehensible dreams, the languorous images that crossed their consciousness, the birth of desire in their troubled mind. The priests demanded to know it all, the most inner thoughts of the masturbators. The sinner was meant to keep his own mind under surveillance. Today, we believe that we have overcome this obscure period. Masturbation is widely accepted as a healthy sexual practice. But most importantly, our liberal democracies strongly posit that public ethics should remain neutral regarding sexuality, and that each one of us is free to have the sexuality that we prefer, enjoy, and that no institution is authorized to morally judge us for our sexual activities. Yet, I want to make the claim that a new system of surveillance, organized by the new priests of our digital age, are slyly acting behind our back to make us conform to a new form of puritan morality. Just as the 18th century priests did in their Churches, the high priests of the digital age listen to our confessions, record them, and eventually make us repent. The economic interests of having us behave morally are numerous: the best customer is predictable, and who is more predictable than an obedient child, or a pious wife or husband? From the pithy history of masturbation to real life break-ups, I will demonstrate the dark connections between digital surveillance, neoliberal economics and morality. I am a researcher at Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris in political philosophy. I am an expert of the Snowden case and digital surveillance. This will be my first talk on masturbation. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:

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Grugq: Tor No Panacea
by The Cuckq 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

> On Wed, Dec 28 2016 05:33:39 > "juan" <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote: > brain dead scumbags like "The Cuckq" lol Tor is for people[1] like you[2] [1]: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/cuckoldry [2]: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/you

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Major fuckups in the year of 2016?
by Georgi Guninski 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

What are some major fuckups in the year of 2016?

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Major fuckups in Tech?
by booty 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

> jim bell: > That sounds like nonsense to me. "The sausage-shaped ingots were then shaved into thin wafers, and polished using a number of chemicals. After that came the process of printing transistors into the chips–which required degreasers and solvents, including the sweet-smelling trichloroethylene (TCE)" https://gizmodo.com/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-and-the-toxic-remn… [](http://baykeeper.org/articles/baykeepers-legal-action-clean-industrial-runoff-pollution)http://www.ozy.com/acumen/think-chinas-pollution-is-bad-try-northern-california/71553 http://baykeeper.org/articles/baykeepers-legal-action-clean-industrial-runo…

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Grugq: Tor No Panacea
by The Cuckq 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

> On Fri, Dec 30 2016 11:38:58 > "juan" <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote: > Your "https://encyclopediadramatica.se" link is broken. Thanks, I fixed them, they should work now https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Special_Education https://encyclopediadramatica.se/The_R_Word https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Punk > 4-chan Sounds Chinese, I will look into it

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