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Re: [Privacy] Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression'
by Cecilia Tanaka 11 Apr '20

11 Apr '20

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 01:46 Digitalfolklore <digitalfolklore(a)protonmail.ch> wrote: Snowden is safe...funny how people who are at no risk pontificate to the > masses > > 2. no one cares. > > VH > Oh, baby, you do care. You do care a lot about it, enough for always provoking me or trying to hurt me in private. For Darwin's sake, expose yourself a little in public, shy guy. And learn that people like me don't care about your opinion and all the other opinions. I was simply sharing an idea because we are having serious problems about privacy in my country, specially in my city. The government of my State is doing something very bad, very wrong, with the support of all the Telecom companies. The inspiration was for myself and maybe for some people who wants to help. If it doesn't touch any heart, no problem, life goes on. Life _always_ goes on, without you, without me, without a lot of people... Life is Life. It doesn't need you, me, Snowden, or anyone for existing. And that's its beauty... <3 c.

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Re: [hackerspaces] Google to release your location data to help fight coronavirus pandemic
by Cecilia Tanaka 11 Apr '20

11 Apr '20

Hellooo! Hope everybody is feeling amazingly happy! I do! :D Sorry for being late, but it was a religious holiday in Brazil and I took the whole day for family, friends, and woke almost now, in the couch of a couple of friends, with one little dog, two fat cats, and an unknown baby over me. I would really appreciate some pics, hihi... <3 Sorry, I am still very sleepy. Being sincere, I only woke up because the baby pooped a lot and my dreams are becoming nightmares about having diarrhea when talking in public. :(( Still talking about nightmares, in the last years, I collected a lot of creepy stories about ""anonymized data"" (lots of air quotes here!), so I think I am becoming a bit neurotic, paranoid, <insert other similar adjectives>, about the real honesty of some sites and companies. But I am just a stupid sleepy lawyer, not an InfoSec SuperMaster, so I will go home to take a warm shower and sleep again, zzz... <3 Much love and warm snugglehugs, my dear friends... Good night and sweet dreams! <3 Ceci (-_-)*zzzleepy ---------- Loving. Caring. Sharing. Being Excellent To Each Other And To Our Hackerspace. <3 ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Re: Libertarian Economic Logic (chart attached)
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Apr '20

11 Apr '20

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 05:54:02PM +1000, jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: > > > > And in case you missed it, there's 100s of sites these days such > > > > as http://opensourcemachinetools.org/wordpress/ > > > > Which don't tell you how to make a pencil. > > On 2019-09-23 09:33, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > How many years was the interval between when RMS started his version > > of "the free software movement/ community" and now (now being a > > relevant point in time where we see an incredibly abundant cornucopia > > of all manner of computer software, in free forms available to all) ? > > Since that software was produced by handful of very smart people, that > irrelevant to question of whether you can make a pencil without a boss telling > you how to do it. > > You can make some gun parts with a threedee printer and software downloaded > from the internet, but some gun parts you cannot. And for a very long time, > no one could make those parts except existing large scale gun makers. > > And watching Ivan the Troll make those gun parts, it was absolutely obvious to > me that come civil war II, it is not going to be a large number of people > making full auto weapons in their home workshop. We are going to have to > conscript Ivan the Troll, and conscript a thousand people to do what he damn > well tells them to do. There's a principle there I do agree with. The benevolent dictator, the individual with capacity - call it creative intuitive or inherent or something. I am well aware that those of capacity ("any relevant level of capacity" perhaps?) cannot be duplicated in general. And yes, come civil war, very few will have the ability and capacity to create anything particularly useful, in a relevant time frame, to the defence of their family. I think calling "inherent intuitive ability in one or more areas" "a boss" leads to unfortunate descent of the conversation. One of the great problems of today is the Marxist indoctrination of many, when they go to college, and combined with the relative technological abundance and access to Wikipedia we have, a lot of "spoilt brats" think not only can they do anything, but that the world owes them everything and they ought not have to lift a finger to receive everthing, and this approach has gottem them a fair way in the "cotton wool parents" world we now live in. And come civil war, a few inherent but long buried facts will, usefully if painfully, expose themselves rather rudely to those who've been living such delusions. Anyway, there are those who are intent on building up the publicly accessible knowledge base on how to make things. Some will join them. Perhaps even someone who already knows how to make pencils, and perhaps few people will even be able to follow the instructions - perhaps none (though I doubt that - such a view smacks of ego hubris); timeframes though... I can't stop wondering about the Werner von Braun and NASA USA rocket building history though ... I usually prefer to have the discussion on the list by the way. Regards, Zenaan

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flu hysteria, some numbers
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

but first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_error "Globally, it is estimated that 142,000 people died in 2013 from adverse effects of medical treatment; this is an increase from 94,000 in 1990.[1] However, a 2016 study of the number of deaths that were a result of medical error in the U.S. placed the yearly death rate in the U.S. alone at 251,454 deaths, which suggests that the 2013 global estimation may not be accurate." so in the US sewer alone, 'doctors' killed a quarter of a million people in 2013 - at least according to wikimierda, but wikimierda is all that counts when dealing with govcorp propaganda so... then we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza "Influenza spreads around the world in yearly outbreaks, resulting in about three to five million cases of severe illness and about 290,000 to 650,000 deaths" and lastly the current flu hysteria count : notice the widely differing mortality rates. dead recovered 0 United States 464865 3.5 5.5 1 Spain 153222 10.1 34.0 2 Italy 143626 12.7 19.8 3 Germany 118181 2.2 33.4 4 France 86334 14.1 24.6 5 China 81865 4.1 94.5 6 Iran 67286 6.1 48.0 7 United Kingdom 65077 12.3 0.0 8 Turkey 42282 2.1 5.1 9 Belgium 24983 10.1 20.7 10 Switzerland 24051 3.9 44.1 11 Netherlands 21762 11.0 0.0 12 Canada 20686 2.4 25.2 13 Brazil 17882 5.3 1.0 14 Portugal 13956 2.9 1.5 15 Austria 13246 2.2 39.6 16 South Korea 10423 2.0 66.9 17 Russia 10131 0.8 6.9 18 Israel 9755 0.8 8.9 19 Sweden 9245 8.8 4.0 20 Ireland 6574 4.0 0.4 21 Norway 6211 1.7 0.0 22 Australia 6109 0.8 48.9 23 Chile 5972 1.0 21.3 24 India 5865 2.9 8.2 25 Denmark 5635 4.2 30.8 26 Poland 5575 3.1 5.1 27 Czech Republic 5467 2.0 5.5 28 Peru 5256 2.6 27.4 29 Romania 5202 4.4 10.1 30 Ecuador 4965 5.5 6.8 31 Japan 4768 1.8 14.4 32 Pakistan 4489 1.4 12.7 33 Malaysia 4228 1.6 38.0 34 Philippines 4076 5.0 3.0 35 Indonesia 3293 8.5 7.7 36 Saudi Arabia 3287 1.3 20.3 37 Mexico 3181 5.5 19.9 38 Luxembourg 3115 1.7 12.0 39 United Arab Emirates 2990 0.4 9.0 40 Serbia 2867 2.3 4.1 41 Panama 2752 2.4 0.6 42 Finland 2605 1.5 0.0 43 Thailand 2423 1.3 38.8 44 Qatar 2376 0.3 8.7 45 Dominican Republic 2349 5.0 3.4 46 Colombia 2223 3.1 7.8 47 Greece 1955 4.5 13.8 48 South Africa 1934 0.9 2.3 49 Singapore 1910 0.3 24.1 50 Ukraine 1892 3.0 2.4 51 Argentina 1795 3.9 20.3 52 Egypt 1699 6.9 20.5 53 Algeria 1666 14.1 20.8 54 Iceland 1648 0.4 41.7 55 Belarus 1486 1.1 9.4 56 Croatia 1407 1.4 15.6 57 Morocco 1346 7.1 7.7 58 Moldova 1289 2.2 3.9 59 New Zealand 1239 0.1 25.6 60 Estonia 1207 2.0 6.9 61 Iraq 1202 5.7 37.6 62 Slovenia 1124 3.8 11.4 63 Hungary 980 6.7 9.8 64 Hong Kong 974 0.4 30.1 65 Lithuania 955 1.7 0.8 66 Azerbaijan 926 1.0 11.2 67 Armenia 921 1.1 15.0 68 Kuwait 910 0.1 12.2 69 Bosnia and Herzegovina 858 4.1 11.8 70 Bahrain 855 0.6 57.9 71 Kazakhstan 781 1.0 7.7 72 Cameroon 730 1.4 8.2 73 Diamond Princess 712 1.7 86.9 74 Slovakia 701 0.3 2.3 75 Puerto Rico 683 4.8 0.0 76 North Macedonia 663 4.5 5.6 77 Tunisia 643 3.9 3.9 78 Bulgaria 618 3.9 7.8 79 Latvia 589 0.3 2.7 80 Andorra 583 4.3 9.9 81 Lebanon 582 3.3 10.7 82 Uzbekistan 582 0.5 6.5 83 Cyprus 554 1.8 9.6 84 Costa Rica 539 0.6 5.6 85 Cuba 515 2.9 5.4 86 Afghanistan 484 3.1 6.6 87 Oman 457 0.4 23.9 88 Uruguay 456 1.5 42.1 89 Ivory Coast 444 0.7 11.7 90 Burkina Faso 443 5.4 33.0 91 Albania 409 5.4 40.3 92 Taiwan 380 1.3 21.1 93 Jordan 358 1.7 41.9 94 Reunion 358 0.0 11.2 95 Honduras 343 6.7 1.7 96 Niger 342 3.2 8.2 97 Malta 337 0.6 4.7 98 San Marino 333 10.2 14.7 99 Bangladesh 330 6.4 10.0

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Google to release your location data to help fight coronavirus pandemic
by Cecilia Tanaka 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

Google to release your location data to help fight coronavirus pandemic. < https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/03/tech/coronavirus-google-data-sharing-int… > < https://www.blog.google/technology/health/covid-19-community-mobility-repor… > <https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility> How can you think I "love" this kind of thing, Juan? A total lack of privacy and respect!

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[MONEY] Risk Parity Funds Just Suffered The Biggest Loss In History - when hedge arbitrage breaks down - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

There are a few bell weathers starting to make the rounds, here's one: "X suffers Biggest Loss in History!" In this case, the X in the headline is "ALL risk parity funds" where risk parity funds are a type of hedge funds which apparently arbitrage stocks and aginst bonds. Risk Parity Funds Just Suffered The Biggest Loss In History https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/risk-parity-funds-just-suffered-biggest-l… When your fud-durr-durr-mentals are brokensaw - 'member the Fed' - your houses of cards built on those fundamentals will at some point come crashing down. You see there's a funny little thing with usury - the mathematical fundamental of this very Jewish banking system is exponential - forever growth or infinite growth (unlimited "economic expansion"). Now fictitious "assets" can in fact grow in unlimited numerical terms, but when "the real economy" is tied to fictious exponentially growing "financial assets", then there is a basic imbalance which must, inevitably, appear - one could say this is the ultimate arbitrage, between exponential maths and reality. One consequence of this rollercoaster of financial death is that every mechanism designed on this exponential (thus broken) system, must itself be in essence, an exponentially growing system - so hedge funds must grow exponentially, every tool of financialization will, eventually, demonstrate exponential growth (such as stock buy backs etc), and the real economy needs to also grow exponentially to prop all the financialization up - and this is in fact achieved with things like real estate and business price growth. (Those who are somewhat familiar with real estate from a lowly "investor" perspective, will be aware that there are expanding ripples of price inflation over time, which hit different geographic regions at different times (different years, sometimes different decades) - and once the "investor" crowd hits a new geographic area which was once relatively dormant (Australia's a big country ok), then the key growth metric is the time period for (real estate) price doubling - which is usually around the 6 to 8 years mark.) So, real estate doubling in price every X years? Yes, that's exponential "asset valuation increases" and real estate is a fundamental of "the real economy" which supports the house of fictious cards above it. But this exponential is gonna bite, because to support exponentially rising real estate prices, you need exponentially rising incomes to pay the interest rates. So one signal of the imbalances of all this coming to the fore is usurious interest rates plummeting. Is this a good thing? No, because a) this demonstrates we are in a fundamentally messed up money system, b) real estate prices are way out of whack with real (average person) incomes, c) real estate price inflation has itself caused a bunch of system imbalances, wealth divide etc., and surely other reasons still. Now, the summary and line punch: 0) our present money system is, mathematically, exponential; for the time being we are bound by this, and we see some of the effects of this quite starkly today 1) every aspect of our system must therefore also be exponential (in growth or decline); e.g. every "emergency intervention system" (such as QE) must also be eponential, that is, each QE (on average) must grow exponentially with respect to the previous intervention (corporate share buybacks are a pooman's (poor CEO's) intervention mechanism) 2) eventually the Fed's QE intervention must be larger than the entire market; in other words, at some point, if the goal is to sustain the system's existence, the Fed shall be mathematically bound, literally, to buy every asset everywhere, or the system will literally collapse if they fail to do so - i.e. to buy every bond (gov and corp), every business, every stock/share, every real estate title This is of course the basic mechanism of an exponential debt based system, and one can fairly say this is in fact the intention of this system - Atlas Shrugged - no matter who you are, how ethical, how successful, how well intentioned, how contributory to society at large, except that you are the owner of the system (i.e. the BIS - 'member the Fed), then you are Atlas, and you are targetted, and eventually, in order to merely survive financially, you will have to sell to the Fed/BIS. This is the nature, and intention, of "the Federal Reserve Banking system: your gibs, are mine!" Exponential Growth and the Legend of Paal Paysam http://www.singularitysymposium.com/exponential-growth.html The rice and the chessboard story – The power of exponential growth https://purposefocuscommitment.com/the-rice-and-the-chess-board-story/ There was once a king in India who was a big chess enthusiast and had the habit of challenging wise visitors to a game of chess. One day a traveling sage was challenged by the king. The sage having played this game all his life all the time with people all over the world gladly accepted the Kings challenge. To motivate his opponent the king offered any reward that the sage could name. The sage modestly asked just for a few grains of rice in the following manner: the king was to put a single grain of rice on the first chess square and double it on every consequent one. The king accepted the sage’s request. Having lost the game and being a man of his word the king ordered a bag of rice to be brought to the chessboard. Then he started placing rice grains according to the arrangement: 1 grain on the first square, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, 8 on the fourth and so on. Following the exponential growth of the rice payment, the king quickly realized that he was unable to fulfill his promise because on the twentieth square the king would have had to put 1,000,000 grains of rice. On the fortieth square, the king would have had to put 1,000,000,000 grains of rice. And, finally, on the sixty-fourth square, the king would have had to put more than 18,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of rice which is equal to about 210 billion tons and is allegedly sufficient to cover the whole territory of India with a meter thick layer of rice. It was at that point that the sage told the king that he doesn’t have to pay the debt immediately but can do so over time. And so the sage became the wealthiest person in the world.

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[Privacy] Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression'
by Cecilia Tanaka 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression' < https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvge5q/snowden-warns-governments-are-usi… >

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WikiLeaks: Candles4Assange w Appelbaum
by grarpamp 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Wikileaks Speaker: Jacob Applebaum @ C4A 26.02.2020 Berlin En Short Clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9TkoR9MWKY De/En Full Context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVej3xUo0eo Jacob Applebaum Australia FEB 2012 -To Christine Assange - Thanks for Making Julian, Infiltrate the Enemy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHLhkRNFK_E Jacob Applebaum in Cairo confronting ISPs in Egypt for their complicity with the dictatorship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qa8SRN86V8 >From Jacob Applebaum's talk at TERI bangalore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JNNuYWeYoQ Jacob Applebaum's speech at a demonstration against BND and NSA in Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNs7fS2Msh8 Jacob Applebaum, Brussels 2013-09-05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQyw-ozLfas Jacob Applebaum introducing citizenfour in FCC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPsL5WEGLKc Jacob Applebaum -- transmediale 2014 keynote: Art as Evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndx0eox0Lkg Conceptual Expression of Privacy by Jacob Applebaum | Copy + Paste Syndrome | Nuqat 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTcpVBqy9Dc Wikileaks spy files city university london 49 jacob applebaum we are the 99% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hurN1Y5TFMs transmediale 2k12: Jacob Appelbaum calls for political action with Anonymous! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-8Mexy15o Occupy Wall Street, 56 Walker St , April 26, 2012, Jacob Appelbaum 12:08 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYBhBIU_bgc Jacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9fByRmAHgU

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[OT, but Very Useful In COVID-19 Times] Free Webinar: Be a Statistical Detective
by Cecilia Tanaka 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

How to Be a Statistical Detective: Simple ways to sleuth out statistical errors < http://learn.stanford.edu/WBN-MED-STATS-On-Demand-2020-02-05_LP-OD-Registra… > Statistical errors are all too common in medical literature, and contribute to the reproducibility crisis currently plaguing science. Fortunately, you don’t need a degree in statistics to catch these errors. While some errors are impossible to spot without access to the underlying dataset, many are detectable just by reviewing the information available in the paper. In many cases nothing more than common sense and simple arithmetic is required. In addition, there is an ever-increasing number of free, easy-to-use online statistical tools that facilitate error detection. In this session, Dr. Sainani will demonstrate how to apply these statistical sleuthing tools using real examples from medical literature. She will also review principles of effective statistics that can help prevent statistical errors from occurring in the first place. You will learn: - Simple ways to detect statistical errors in medical literature - How to avoid errors by using principles of effective statistics - How to use free, online statistics tools that don’t require a programming background ========== Register and watch it now, woohoo! <3 Disinfected tender kisses and warm hugs from Brazil! Please take care and be well, my lovely friends! <3 Ceci ---------- Loving. Caring. Sharing. Being Excellent To Each Other And To Our Hackerspace. <3 ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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About Love... <3
by Cecilia Tanaka 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

My loved friends, I need to thank you all sharing the good news. Thanks to this awesome list, I've found my true love. <3 Juan is the man of my life. I am completely in love and this strong passion burns my heart and soul. <3 My mom is very happy because they have the same taste for anime and he understands Japanese much better than me. Both think Evangelion is boring, meh! :(( My dad is satisfied because Juan loves meat and daddy thinks he will be a really good influence for me. My father hates vegans... :P So, my lovely friends, wish you all the best... Happiness, laugh, music, and much love! <3 Ceci

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