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The Verge: Police ticket driver for sticking Starlink terminal on car’s hood
by jim bell 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

The Verge: Police ticket driver for sticking Starlink terminal on car’s hood. https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561264/california-driver-ticket-spacex-…

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[wrong][joke][spam] popular dictator
by Karl 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

PD (popular dictator) walks up to the podium. "My name is Down To Earth Gal, and I am here to put the existing powers back in power." Everyone hears applause near them and applauds themselves too, figuring it is the thing to do. "I don't want to do this, but they lobby and coerce me, and they've been spending _years_ now doing that lobbying and coercing, so it's what we're going to do. Just like 4 years ago!" More applause is heard, and everyone applauds too. Some robots hand out chocolate and wine. "I have actually the names of the people and organisations who were doing the lobbying and coercing all those years, and lots of recordings of their criminal acts. Here, catch!" PD throws a box full of USB drives out among the crowd. A robot yells "Whoo!" and shoots at it with a laser. "Got that one for ya!" Other robots cheer. Some sharpshooters in the audience get into the feel of it, take out their expensive firearms, and start shooting up other evidence while it is still mid-air. Other people join in the cheering. Other people start climbing over the cheering ones to try to get at the evidence as robots move to collect it. Various drones fly in. "They totally took over every aspect of our lives, and we're going to take them down by putting them in power. I was told by a portion of my lobbiers to raise my arm excitedly and confidently now. I'll do a half raise." PD partway raises her arm and half-grins excitedly and confidently. A loud failure buzzer goes off from one robot. Another releases some canned cheers. The audience is confused. "I hear you guys have a number of rebel groups brewing, so I know we're screwed because I would only ever hear that if it were false. Onward and upwards! What do I have to say next?"

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Lawfare: Rise of the Moors - 11 Accosted on Highway Travel Break, Arrested
by grarpamp 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

http://www.riseofthemoors.org/consular-affairs.html https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe-ftFU5-5on2X5zA0zAN0g https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/ocywes/heavily_arme… https://v.redd.it/33heywpla0971 https://v.redd.it/4z4rulwer0971 https://v.redd.it/o3vtlv4901971 "Misleading headline. They didn’t block the highways, they were pulled over refueling their vehicles when state police noticed they were in full military gear armed with rifles and attempted a traffic stop" Expect some interesting court cases from this incident. And with all the publicity a lot more people waking and asking existential questions about the world... "What is freedom, are we really free, how can we become free?"

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Distributed: Social
by grarpamp 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios GNU Mastodon Matrix Briar https://glue.im/glue/glue-a-social-network-that-respects-your-privacy not decentral dApps coming...

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Cryptocurrency: Craig Wright Abuses Wrongness of Copyright Regime to Sham Ownership of Whitepaper
by grarpamp 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-creator-satoshi… https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553 https://twitter.com/CobraBitcoin/status/1409605496080904195 https://twitter.com/CobraBitcoin/status/1409624920145874946 https://twitter.com/CobraBitcoin/status/1410590115211223041 "A U.K. high court told Bitcoin.org it can no longer share the 2008 white paper that outlines what bitcoin is on its website," reports Business Insider, "delivering a victory to Craig Wright, a computer scientist who claimed he wrote the original document." Wright won the copyright-infringement case he brought by default, after the website's anonymous founder, known as Cobra, decided not to speak in his defense in the proceedings in London. The ruling on Monday means Bitcoin.org must take the document down from its website. It must also pay Wright £35,000 ($48,600) toward legal costs, as well as put a notice of the court's order on its website for six months, said Ontier, the law firm representing Wright... "This is an important development in Dr Wright's quest to obtain judicial vindication of his copyright in his white paper," said Simon Cohen, a senior associate at London-based Ontier... The Australian computer scientist claimed to be the original author of the white paper that was published in 2008 and describes what bitcoin is and how it works. Ontier said Wright took Cobra to court in order to prevent supporters of assets such as Bitcoin Core from using the white paper to mis-represent those assets as bitcoin... "I didn't turn up because I didn't want to expose my identity," Cobra told Insider in a tweet. Cobra shared more philosophical thoughts on Twitter: All your fiat based assets are ultimately secured by the same legal system that today made it illegal for me to host the Bitcoin whitepaper because a notorious liar swore before a judge that he's Satoshi. A system where 'justice' depends on who's got the bigger wallet. I don't think you could get a better advertisement of *why* Bitcoin is necessary than what happened today. Rules enforced through cryptography are far more superior than rules based on whoever can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in court. In later tweets he added: Sucks when you have billionaires determined to bury you in endless frivolous litigation... Normally it's the person who owes money who runs and hides, but I've repeatedly reached out to CSW to pay him his court ordered costs, and he doesn't seem to want to receive it. Perhaps he is running away from his money so he can make me in "contempt of court"?

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CPUs, Cash for Compilers, Symmetric Guerrilla Nets
by grarpamp 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

https://github.com/geohot/twitchcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=camQ9QeBY9Q http://homebrewcpu.com/ https://hackaday.io/project/178826-pineapple-one http://www.cburch.com/logisim/ http://pepijndevos.nl/2019/07/18/vhdl-to-pcb.html https://mgaudet.github.io/CompilerJobs/ https://compilers.iecc.com/index.phtml https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2019/12/10/compiler-jobs Columbia University - Data Science Institute | (Research) Software Engineer | Full/Part-time | Remote/Onsite To apply, please write to zt2297(a)columbia.edu https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/future-symmetrical-high-speed-interne…

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WIRED: How Underground Fiber Optics Spy on Humans Moving Above
by jim bell 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

WIRED: How Underground Fiber Optics Spy on Humans Moving Above. https://www.wired.com/story/how-underground-fiber-optics-spy-on-humans-movi…

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US war crimes (david barrett's crimes)
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/01/12/reflecting-on-obamas-presi… "Obama’s embrace and vast expansion of drone strikes against militants and terrorists will be an enduring foreign policy legacy. Whereas President George W. Bush authorized approximately 50 drone strikes that killed 296 terrorists and 195 civilians in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia, Obama has authorized 506 strikes that have killed 3,040 terrorists and 391 civilians." So it's a matter of public record that non human trash obomba murdered '391 civilians'. In reality the '3040 terrorists' were innocent victims too. And in even more reality the real numbers are way higher. At any rate, it's basic fact of reality that the so called 'presidents of the US' are guilty of mass murder. And so is anyone defending the US govt, like barrett. Non human garbage like barrett needs killing.

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WikiLeaks: Julian Assange is 50, Jailed for Free Speech Since 40.
by grarpamp 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

Julian Assange, now 50 years old, has spent the last 10 years of his life in jail... for Speaking Freely. #FreeAssange

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My blog post on FOIAs, executive function, Alan Turing, avoiding propaganda
by Douglas Lucas 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

Hi cypherpunks email list, Y'all might value my new blog post (I've been blogging weekly this year). It uses as its point of departure how I've been catching up on my nagging pile of unattended FOIAs this past week — especially streamlining my processes for keeping track of them with spreadsheets — to discuss the psychology concept of executive function, applying Alan Turing's invention of software programming to mental health recovery and avoiding spy agency propaganda. The post ends with news blasts for Nigeria, Camp Rhonda in Dallas, and Rohingya bodybuilder Noor Kabir. I'm curious what y'all think, though I imagine sending this email will return a bunch of kooky responses from eccentric cypherpunks, which at least will provide me smiles. That's kind of the point of me posting this here... Anyway, this latest entry to my blog is at: https://douglaslucas.com/blog/2021/06/13/foias-executive-function/ And for those who retweet stuff: https://twitter.com/DouglasLucas/status/1404371710447476738 Happy not dying yet, Doug

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