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by Karl 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

k: um we should probably keep the mcboss separate from any real bosses 1: no k: um we wouldn't want to anger powerful people 1: this is too horrific to let anybody support it k: uhhh maybe if umm 1: you're worried about working with their supporters. but we could just mind control them to take him down, y'know? k: isn't he described as like the expert of mind control? 1: uhhhh i didn't know that, is it true? 2: i think so. it seems that way from stories and things. 2: karl has an issue 2: the mcboss story is the only way he presently has to think about something rough he went through, and it is very slow, and engages k: i think of it as a community disruption, a weird urge to be disrespectful of others 3: it sounds like ... 4: anyway it sounds like we shouldn't be disrespectful of possible bosses, that it would make more sense to direct the disrespect urge elsewhere? k: i can barely move my body, i try most options out k: hum i guess i would rather be tortured outside of a hospital than trortured inside one. fresh air is really nice. 2: the goal is to reduce the torture. there must be a way to reduce this. k: what do i do about the big mcboss story 5: we still have laugh-at-tortured-to-stop as way to think tiny things that have real logic. k: maybe this is just more of that. maybe the mcstory is like an encrypted form of tiny attempts to think and form decisions, or therapy, or venting

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Bill Palmer report
by professor rat 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

Gramps gives us the lowdown on a journalist called " Bill Palmer ". Apparently the guy is a serious criminal. Was charged with rape. Skipped bail. Lied about Iraq and expressed support for war criminals. Repeatedly got caught breaking and entering computers. Is linked to known fascists on the Left and Right. And the LOL-GOP-Qanon KGB! Oh wait. . . no, sorry . . . that's Julian Assange, not Bill Palmer. My bat.

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Cryptocurrency: Civil Asset Forfeiture - Angry Asshole Biden Proud to Invented CAF
by grarpamp 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

https://twitter.com/ChuckModi1/status/1468352952322637831 Raging Angry Asshole Joe Biden Proud of Stealing All Your Shit "We changed the law so that.. the government can take everything you own. Your car, your house, bank account... Everything" Joe Biden lauding his creation of civil asset forfeiture laws & more in 1991. https://reason.com/2021/12/01/watch-nevada-highway-patrol-officers-seize-a-…

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THE Socio-economic network
by professor rat 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

It says it also has a highly valuable portfolio. In fact, says Sanghvi, SPC’s debut fund has already returned its capital — and then some — to investors owing to Compound Labs, an open-source platform for decentralized lending whose tokens were distributed in part to early shareholders. Sanghvi says SPC has 10 to 12 other so-called unicorns across its portfolio, too. https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/17/south-park-commons-an-anti-incubator-foun… We talked at some length about the evolution of the SPC community, which began in a physical space, has largely become a highly structured virtual society during the pandemic, but that remains very focused on bringing people together in real life.

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Fake News: Bill Palmer and Palmer Report
by grarpamp 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Report The Palmer Report is an American liberal[2] fake news website,[3] founded in 2016 by Bill Palmer.[4] It is known for making unsubstantiated or false claims,[5] producing hyperpartisan content,[6] and publishing conspiracy theories,[7][8] especially on matters relating to Donald Trump and Russia.[14] Fact-checkers have debunked numerous Palmer Report stories, and organizations including the Columbia Journalism Review and the German Marshall Fund have listed the site among biased websites or false content producers.[15][16] The Palmer Report is a hyperpartisan[6] liberal[2] fake news political blog.[3] It is known for making unsubstantiated or false claims[5] and publishing conspiracy theories,[7][8] especially on matters relating to Donald Trump and Russia.[9][11][12][13] Articles from the Palmer Report were shared almost exclusively by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2016 presidential election.[32] In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, the Palmer Report was ranked the fourth least trusted news organization by Americans In an October 2020 study by the German Marshall Fund examining misinformation on social media during the 2016 election, the Palmer Report was one of the websites categorized as "false content producers" or "manipulators".[16] The Palmer Report is labeled a biased source in the Columbia Journalism Review's collected index of "fake-news, clickbait, and hate sites".[15] Journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept wrote that the Palmer Report is "a classic Fake News site created by [...] a crazed fanatical follower of Hillary Clinton who got caught purposely disseminating fake news during the election" David Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism, identified the Palmer Report as a "junk-news" site and a source not to be trusted.[57] a long list of writers on its website, but as of 2017 many of them had only written a single article for the site, and most of the content appeared to have been written by Palmer himself. the Palmer Report published two articles claiming that the election was "rigged"[33] and falsely claimed 5,000 Trump votes in Wisconsin were disqualified. a fake news story from the Palmer Report spread online, alleging that election officials were double-counting votes for Trump. The source of the story was an unverified Facebook post. Election officials dismissed the story, and the Wisconsin Elections Commission found no evidence for the allegations. the Palmer Report suggested, without evidence, that Trump spared the runways of the Shayrat airfield due to Russian collusion. In April 2017, the Palmer Report falsely claimed that the FBI had intelligence that Russia was blackmailing Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz. a false claim that a grand jury had been impaneled in New York in relation to the Special Counsel investigation; the source for the claim was the Palmer Report reported that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had ordered Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself from all Trump-related Russia hearings, with his only source being a "single tweet from an anonymous Twitter account under the name 'Puesto Loco'". published a story claiming that Jared Kushner had "secretly" flown to Saudi Arabia The cited Politico article debunks the Palmer Report's own story Snopes rated the Palmer Report's story as false.[46] A few days after the story was published, Palmer acknowledged In December 2020, the Palmer Report falsely reported that Colin Powell had urged Michael Flynn to be put on "military trial for sedition."[52] Palmer Report's prediction that Susan Collins was "toast" in the 2020 United States Senate election in Maine – an election she won by nine points – was named one of "The Worst Predictions of 2020"

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David Gross vs Carlo Rovelli
by professor rat 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

String Theory or Loop Quantum Gravity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyylR5RPZw

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Twilight of the dogs
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/12/19/how-to-be-a-crypto-samurai/ Five years ago, there may have been more than a few cryptos out there, but bitcoin accounted for roughly 95% of the entire market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies. In early 2018, it was just about a third of crypto’s market cap as the initial coin offering (ICO) boom led to a plethora of new entrants. Many of the early alternatives died out but others did not (hello, ether). As recently as a year ago, bitcoin boasted 70% of the aggregate market cap. Today, bitcoin has only a little above 40%.

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For rightwing list communists, James A. Donald and John Young
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Its hip to be square and everything Naz is Bol again. https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/the_left_is_not_a_concept/87838649?p=,,,… What bliss for Tariq Ali and John Pilger to be done with all leftist pretentions!

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CHAUM's victory is here
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Its just not evenly distributed https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2021/12/19/6-questions-for-david-chaum-o… It’s over. Everything is global and decentralized. The governments, the corporations, they’ll have to play catch-up, but it’s done. We are a global community. The governments think blockchain and crypto are in question — they’re not. It’s the future. It’s now. It’s arrived. It’s done.

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Russian plot against America came from near Odessa steps
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Odessa, Texas. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/turns-out-donald-trumps-election-over… Donald Trump’s election overthrow plot began no later than November 4th. Keep in mind that this plot culminated in everything from felony election tampering to domestic terrorism. None of it was ever going to magically overthrow the results. But it was still a criminal plot

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