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How Signal is playing with fire - The Verge
by jim bell 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-payments-encryption…

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Crypto is interesting for the freedom it enables
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Crypto is interesting for the freedom it enables, not for the freedom users currently care about. (a response to Moxie) https://www.drorpoleg.com/unpacking-the-web3-sausage/ In other words, the web we have is too centralized, leaving too much power and profits at the hands of a handful of giant companies. Web3 is an umbrella term for various efforts to reshape the web and address these issues. Specifically, these efforts include developing decentralized computing infrastructure that is difficult to censor or shut down and developing protocols that allow users to easily port their "accounts" (identity, data, digital assets) across different apps.

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More on Zero-Knowledge SNARKS
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Using zk-SNARKs, it is actually possible for commodity devices to verify the entire chain state, including the semantics of every state transition. Mina uses this architecture today, and using recursive zk-SNARKs achieves a state size of around 22kb. An architecture like this could fill a similar security role to that of light clients, with the added benefit of allowing every-day users to run a fully verifying node on their commodity device. https://mirror.xyz/suzuha.eth/vb5E5lhzmPTcpxOJcz6Q211TDgSvoFwDLA6JSM1V37Q

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Rather see Dr Fauci than Dr Paul
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

morgfair - 4h I agree. I worked with Dr. Fauci all through the '80s on AIDS and never heard one political word from him. He is a man of science who only cares about helping people, to which he has devoted his whole life. I consider him a friend and am proud of that. Quote Tweet Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD @PeterHotez · 12h I’ve known Tony Fauci for almost 40 years, I cannot remember when I’ve seen him so visibly hurt. I’ve called for federal action to protect prominent US scientists under attack… twitter.com/acyn/status/14… Show this thread

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We own the world
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2022/01/10/new-blog-about-hunt-sabotage… These days belong to us

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Trump stooge, Gramps cuts-and-runs
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

The DOJ is building a criminal case against Trump, to the point of lining up witnesses who are formally accusing him in their own guilty pleas of having incited the Capitol attack to try to overthrow the election. Steny Hoyer, the number two ranking House Democrat behind only Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has announced that he believes the January 6th Committee should in fact refer Jordan and other non-cooperative members of Congress for criminal contempt. And now Gramps, sorry, Mo Brooks is changing his tune. He encouraged a crowd of Trump supporters to “look beyond 2020” and was met with “boos.” He has also recanted many of the things he said in January 2020, including admitting he “was wrong” about the involvement of anitifa in the insurrection. He also now claims that he lied about Trump personally inviting him to the January 6 rally, blaming one of his staffers for the “mistake.”

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Fascist friends of Jacob Appelbaum
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Jacob once said Mong was fascist - which is fair enough - but then the value of the statement gets repeatedly trashed when Jake goes and hangs with the likes of Israel Shamir, Tariq Ali and John Pilger. All three known fascists. Not to mention KGB Pooter...

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Re: Night of the long-knives brewing
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

I told that Jim Dumbell moron once already I was not misrepresenting him by mistake. I was doing it to try and get him shanked by Batshit Crazy or some other Nazbol type moron. Morons don't even know when they're marked for death! " Fascism is not to be debated - it is to be smashed " - Durruiti You waddle like a fascist and quack like one and you will be shot like one.

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Rascist and fascist Tim May. Tim May is dead,
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Hopefully I contributed by calling him out here repeatedly since late 2001. Speaking of racists - all Marxists - including Mange BFF's Tariq Ali and John Pilger - are ' scientific ' racists. Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: “ The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc...” Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): “We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor ... ”. I was fighting Apartheid racism in the streets in the 70's and 80's when some here may not have even hatched. Racism is a losers game - just ask John Young.

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Stinking KGB Russian Pigs again
by professor rat 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

thedailybeast.com Russia Airs Bizarre Jan. 6 Spectacle Featuring Ashli Babbitt’s Mom The host of the state TV special took to the halls of the Capitol building to deliver a conspiracy-fueled extravaganza on Russian airwaves. JULIAN " the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization " ASSANGE 2012 JULIAN "of course Russia understands this game and Putin understands this game for a long time now" ASSANGE 2013 "The Internet first appeared as a special CIA project, and this is how it's developing," - Russian KGB agent. Vladimir Putin "[Bitcoins] are backed by nothing. This money [is backed by nothing], that's the point, this is the major problem. They are not really linked to anything and backed by nothing", Putin has said

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