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[zen@freedbms.net: Spitting Image puppet comedy making "take no prisoners" comeback - [PEACE] [COMEDY]]
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

Doh!! Found here: Fear of upsetting black celebs & censorship of BoJo’s puppet penis show Spitting Image will struggle to regain comedy relevance https://www.rt.com/op-ed/498985-spitting-image-itv-self-censorship/ ----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> To: CypherPunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:20:03 +1000 Subject: Spitting Image puppet comedy making "take no prisoners" comeback - [PEACE] [COMEDY] Now if this puppet comedy show really had been (as initially promised) allowed to "take no prisoners", that may have resulted in something worthy of the "comedy" label. Alas, the ITV executives took a look at the initial trailer and ordered a reshoot. "Why?" I hear you ask loudly? ... they took fright when it featured PM Boris Johnson wrestling naked, in a sauna, with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin puppets. An ITV source said: “We told them to take no prisoners with the trailer. And they certainly didn’t. But some of the senior executives couldn’t handle the fact they were fighting with their willies. “They’ve given Boris and Trump tiny latex penises as well. They’re really small, but Putin’s is monstrous. Like a snake. It was eye-popping stuff.” Hmmm.. snake no prisoners hey? Too hot to handle evidently... BORIS'S JOHNSON BAN ITV bosses ban Spitting Image from flashing Boris’s tiny ‘Johnson’ https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/12479482/itv-bosses-ban-boris-tiny-jo… ... It’s hoped the new series will be as savage as the original, but already it’s been hit by claims of politically-correct meddling... ... ITV boss Kevin Lygo has held meetings with senior producers and executives to discuss how black characters, like the Duchess of Sussex, Beyonce and Kanye West should be portrayed and establish “what’s OK, what’s not OK”. Critics have said: “If Spitting Image is going to be politically correct, they might as well not bother.” It has led to accusations the new show will be “comedy by committee” and ruin the show’s uncompromising reputation. ... Sad days when a puppet exposes certain leadership ... fragilities shall we say. If anyone can leak the original "uncut" scene, that willy certainly go down in history as epic ... the day Boris Johnson cried for his johnson. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Censorship: Cancel Culture
by grarpamp 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2008/msg00002.html

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Spitting Image puppet comedy making "take no prisoners" comeback - [PEACE] [COMEDY]
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

Now if this puppet comedy show really had been (as initially promised) allowed to "take no prisoners", that may have resulted in something worthy of the "comedy" label. Alas, the ITV executives took a look at the initial trailer and ordered a reshoot. "Why?" I hear you ask loudly? ... they took fright when it featured PM Boris Johnson wrestling naked, in a sauna, with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin puppets. An ITV source said: “We told them to take no prisoners with the trailer. And they certainly didn’t. But some of the senior executives couldn’t handle the fact they were fighting with their willies. “They’ve given Boris and Trump tiny latex penises as well. They’re really small, but Putin’s is monstrous. Like a snake. It was eye-popping stuff.” Hmmm.. snake no prisoners hey? Too hot to handle evidently... BORIS'S JOHNSON BAN ITV bosses ban Spitting Image from flashing Boris’s tiny ‘Johnson’ https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/12479482/itv-bosses-ban-boris-tiny-jo… ... It’s hoped the new series will be as savage as the original, but already it’s been hit by claims of politically-correct meddling... ... ITV boss Kevin Lygo has held meetings with senior producers and executives to discuss how black characters, like the Duchess of Sussex, Beyonce and Kanye West should be portrayed and establish “what’s OK, what’s not OK”. Critics have said: “If Spitting Image is going to be politically correct, they might as well not bother.” It has led to accusations the new show will be “comedy by committee” and ruin the show’s uncompromising reputation. ... Sad days when a puppet exposes certain leadership ... fragilities shall we say. If anyone can leak the original "uncut" scene, that willy certainly go down in history as epic ... the day Boris Johnson cried for his johnson.

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Enrico Zini & Debian: falsified harassment claims
by Debian Community News Team 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

This is a lot more serious than exaggerating your coding skills, may even be criminal. https://debian.community/enrico-zini-falsified-harassment-claims/

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Erinn Clark & Debian: Justice or another Open Source vendetta?
by Debian Community News Team 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

https://debian.community/erinn-clark-justice-open-source-vendetta/ Does anybody have any facts about the case, on either side? Debian Community News is about finding the truth and upholding human rights

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Molly de Blanc & Debian: pushing volunteers boundaries, DebConf orgy
by Debian Community News Team 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

There is no real orgy here, the link is safe for work https://debian.community/molly-de-blanc-pushing-volunteers-boundaries-debco…

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Exploits: Intel Ice Lake is now IceBroken, AMD Gets TakeAWay
by grarpamp 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_execution_CPU_vulnerability https://github.com/danielmgmi/icebreak https://github.com/danielmgmi/medusa/tree/master/Transynther https://moghimi.org/papers/techreport2020-IceLakeMDS.pdf https://github.com/danielmgmi/icebreak/blob/master/techreport2020-IceLakeMD… https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/ https://mlq.me/download/takeaway.pdf https://twitter.com/mlqxyz https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-amd-side-channel-attacks-discovered-i… https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security None of this covers all the Top Secret backdoors installed by customers, agents, and manufacturers here... https://www.anandtech.com/show/16024/tsmc-details-3nm-process-technology-de… #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenAudits

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Cryptocurrency: The Breaking Point and Death of Keynes
by grarpamp 24 Aug '20

24 Aug '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk Keynes vs Hayek https://realinvestmentadvice.com/the-breaking-point-death-of-keynes/ "A democracy is always temporary; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist until the time voters discover they can vote for generous gifts from the public treasury. From that point, the majority always votes for the candidates who promises the most benefits from the public treasury. The result is that every democracy finally collapses due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been about 200 years. These nations always progressed through this sequence: >From Bondage to Moral Certitude; Moral Certitude to Great Courage; Great Courage to Liberty; Liberty to Abundance; Abundance to Selfishness; Selfishness to Complacency; Complacency to Apathy; Apathy to Dependency; <-- You are nearer to here, rather than first 5 above Dependency to Bondage. -- Alexander Tytler (supposedly, or not)" https://realinvestmentadvice.com/tytler-cycle-why-more-government-help-lead… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler,_Lord_Woodhouselee Consider how many countries, including yours, are currently in the latter stages of this well worn cycle. Next time, rather than harkening for and repeating same old systems and tries, which have already been duly tried and failed in every way since history, try learning and living some things never tried before. Does not cypherpunks say to see the things nearest to [Crypto]Anarchism.

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The Daily Hodl: Will Quantum Computers Really Destroy Bitcoin? A Look at the Future of Crypto, According to Quantum Physicist Anastasia Marchenkova
by jim bell 24 Aug '20

24 Aug '20

The Daily Hodl: Will Quantum Computers Really Destroy Bitcoin? A Look at the Future of Crypto, According to Quantum Physicist Anastasia Marchenkova. https://dailyhodl.com/2020/08/23/will-quantum-computers-really-destroy-bitc…

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Baking and boiling botnets could drive energy market swings and damage
by jim bell 24 Aug '20

24 Aug '20

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-08-botnets-energy.html Botnets that manipulate consumption of electricity.

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