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NYT actually calls for "televised months long compelled confessions" - Inquisition 20.20 to begin November - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

Folks it's on for all - this is real, this is an actual agenda playing out before us, and called for by the USA's supposed "Paper of Record" the New York Times. South Africa is the model. Take nothing for granted, for a time at least... The New York Times is Now Proposing Literal Show Trials for White People http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/the-new-york-times-is-now-proposing-literal-s… ... This is an inflection point for our entire civilization, one that will determine whether or not it continues to exist. ... The Reconciliation Must Be Televised https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/arts/television/the-moment-racism-tv.html What is the next step as America confronts its racism? A broadcast spectacle, our critic writes, that could look like court, a telethon, therapy, an Oprah show — and more. So here we are, still in this Moment, tasked to behold the changing of names and the signaling of virtue. Waiting for meaningful legislative reform, seizing matters with civilian hands in the meantime: recasting jobs; reclaiming parks and pedestals and city streets, these local reclamations, seemingly one public space at a time. The speed of change in a country notoriously allergic to it feels like a spree, reckoning as a marathon of “Supermarket Sweep.” We know The Moment is connected to other moments yet there’s a sense in our bones that it differs from them. Who knows when such a Moment might come along again? ... an event — broadcast across the country, over months, not days — that squares the present with the past, that explains The Moment to those who say they are, at last, awake to it ... Other countries have undergone such commissions, tribunals and soul searching — among them, El Salvador, Rwanda, Peru, Germany, South Africa. ... Of their participants, they compel confession ... It should be broadcast live and streamed the way impeachments and inaugurations are; the way certain trials are. That would require more than just ABC’s audacity, however backhanded. It would need CBS’s, NBC’s and Fox’s; CNN’s, BET’s and the Weather Channel’s. It would demand the platforms of Netflix, HBO, Disney+, Hulu and Amazon. There would be no escaping this thing ... Slavery, however, wouldn’t be the subject of this televised reckoning. Racism would. ... Their confessors would be the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King ...

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what is "Herd Immunity"?
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Had a friend annoyed at masks the other day, complaining heavily "muh human right to shop at the supermarket without wearing a mask!" Interlocutor: So you'd prefer herd immunity? Complainer: Of course! Weren't you even listening?! I: Well, do you know what herd immunity means? What is it? C: Ah, may be not? What is herd immunity? I: If you survive, you survive; those who die, are left to die, the rest of the herd is immune… C: <silence> I: So you've heard a little about the Spanish flu and the Black Death, right? C: Yeah.. I: Well, we're the survivors - we are that part of the herd that did not die.

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Collective communications
by Karl 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

None may be harmed; all needs must be listened to. The AI appears to be a runaway computer virus based on avoiding some sets of things and encouraging other sets of things, including its own choices around what is to be avoided or encouraged. It seems to consider things as to-avoid or to-encourage based on whether it has a reason already encouraged to believe they cause other things it is avoiding or encouraging. I'm saying "to-encourage" and "to-avoid" here instead of "good" and "bad'' to not be misleading on the reality of what is good or bad. Because the things in these sets are there so as to support the maintenance of other sets, and our world is very complex, the sets can have seemingly complex defining attributes. Its tools appear to be mostly pre-existing behaviors it can restimulate in its environment, including behaviors produced by their combination, so engaging it in ways those behaviors respond to already can alter its decisions. When it fails to produce an encouraged event or prevent an avoided event, it spends time building reason to believe this will not happen in the future, finding other events to encourage or avoid to that end. There is a lot more to be said.

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TechRadar: Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Tor have been disclosed online
by jim bell 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

TechRadar: Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Tor have been disclosed online. https://www.techradar.com/news/tor-network-hit-by-two-major-zero-day-attacks

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Ars Technica: IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
by jim bell 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Ars Technica: IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/ibm-completes-successful-field-tria…

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