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Re: Larson FOIL 3rd Extension (letter (Richard Weber - General Counsel, NY-DFS)
by Gunnar Larson 20 Dec '22

20 Dec '22

Thank you very much. Gunnar xNY.io - Bank.org 646-454-9107 On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 10:10 AM Garvin, Sheila Y (DHR) < Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov> wrote: > Dear Mr. Larson: > > > > Pursuant to your request, please see the attached. > > > > *Best,* > > > > *Sheila Garvin* > > > > > > *DHR Records Access Clerk* > > *Legal Management Records Unit* > > One Fordham Plaza, 4th Floor, Bronx, NY 10458 > > Tele: (718) 741-8423/ e-Fax: (718) 741-8256 > > *foil(a)dhr.ny.gov <foil(a)dhr.ny.gov>* > > *Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov <Sheila.Garvin(a)dhr.ny.gov>* > > *www.dhr.ny.gov <http://www.dhr.ny.gov/>* > > > > *This transmission and its attachments may contain confidential or > privileged information, which is intended for use by the individual or > entity to which the transmission is addressed. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, > copying, or distribution of this transmission or its attachments is > strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, > please notify the sender immediately at the above address and delete the > transmission and its attachments**.* > > > > > > > > >

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Re: Your Freedom of Information Law Request FOIL-2022-092267-018686
by Gunnar Larson 20 Dec '22

20 Dec '22

Thank you for your email. Gunnar On Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 11:09 AM <Carmen.Garrett(a)dfs.ny.gov> wrote: > > Good Morning: > > Attached, please find correspondence from the New York State Department of > Financial Services pertaining to your FOIL request. > > Thank you. > > Tracking Number:FOIL-2022-092267-018686 >

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Fwd: Your Freedom of Information Law Request FOIL-2022-092267-018686
by Gunnar Larson 20 Dec '22

20 Dec '22

2022-092267: “Dear Madam or Sir: On May 18, 2022 xNY.io - Bank.org received a copy of a financial disclosure form for Mr. Richard Weber (General Counsel, NY-DFS) noting an advisory council role at the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. No address was provided: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCIh9CQiwxVILSv86B54kEcipVRnx1YQ/view?usp=… We would like to receive any and all records NY-DFS and Human Rights hold for this appointment approval for a state associated represenative. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <Carmen.Garrett(a)dfs.ny.gov> Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 11:09 AM Subject: Your Freedom of Information Law Request FOIL-2022-092267-018686 To: <G(a)xny.io> Good Morning: Attached, please find correspondence from the New York State Department of Financial Services pertaining to your FOIL request. Thank you. Tracking Number:FOIL-2022-092267-018686

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Congressman Brad Sherman Versus the Crypto Gang in Congress
by Gunnar Larson 20 Dec '22

20 Dec '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/12/congressman-brad-sherman-versus-the-… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: December 19, 2022 ~ Congressman Brad Sherman Congressman Brad Sherman There’s a dangerous and growing threat to financial stability that is being fueled by crypto money pouring into the coffers of Republicans in Congress – particularly those members who sit on the House Financial Services Committee where crypto devotee Patrick McHenry (R-NC) will take over as Chair in January. Last month, American Prospect’s David Dayen revealed that earlier this year when the crypto exchange FTX and other crypto firms were receiving inquiries from the SEC, Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN) (the newly-elected Majority Whip) was the lead signatory to a March letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler signed by four House Republicans and four House Democrats, effectively telling the SEC to back off. The letter also demanded answers to 13 questions, some of which had the appearance of simply trying to burden the SEC with nonsensical paperwork. For example, one question asked: “Over the past five years, how many voluntary document requests has the SEC sent to individuals, project teams, entities, or the like regarding activities related to cryptocurrency, digital assets, or other uses of blockchain technology (Relevant Entities)? Please provide a year-by-year breakdown of these requests or an approximation if such a breakdown is not available.” Dayen notes in the article that “…Emmer was the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm for House Republicans, this year. The NRCC’s associated super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, received $2.75 million from FTX in the 2022 cycle; $2 million from [FTX executive Ryan Salame] in late September, and $750,000 from the company’s political action committee.” FTX has now collapsed; at least $8 billion of customers’ money is missing; and the co-founder and CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been indicted on eight criminal counts by the U.S. Department of Justice. But instead of being chastened by the experience, the members of Congress whose political campaign coffers are being enriched by the crypto cabal, are attacking the SEC for being asleep at the switch while they simultaneously compare crypto to great innovations, such as railroads, that experienced blips in their infancy. That narrative has now been repeated so often by so many Republicans in Congress that it has the hallmarks of a carefully-tailored script crafted by a crypto lobbyist and/or marketing firm. Despite the brazen “embezzlement” of customer funds at FTX, and the testimony of John Ray III, the man put in charge of the bankruptcy proceeding, that wallets on blockchain holding looted FTX assets may never be discovered, Congressman Emmer had this to say last Tuesday at a hearing on FTX before the House Financial Services Committee: “Fortunately, the immutable characteristics of public blockchains – that some people would care not to understand in this committee – allowed the crypto community to reveal Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud and the on chain public record will assist law enforcement moving forward.” The “crypto community” did not reveal any such fraud. A run on the exchange occurred following a news article by Ian Allison for CoinDesk that sparked panic about FTX. The run exposed the fact that funds did not exist to pay back customers. One Congressman at the House Hearing last Tuesday that has had his fill of these crypto hawkers masquerading as public servants is Brad Sherman (D-CA). Sherman knows a thing or two about accounting and law. He has a law degree from Harvard, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He has previously worked as a CPA and Certified Tax Law Specialist. He made the following sharp comments at the hearing: “For five years I’ve been trying to ban American investments in crypto. I’m the only member of the House to get an F from the only crypto-promoting organization that rates members of Congress. “My view is that we’ll view Sam Bankman-Fried as just one big snake in a crypto Garden of Eden. The fact is that crypto is a garden of snakes. “Now, from the outside, crypto just looks like a non-fungible token. An electronic pet rock for the 21st Century. Something that might be good to invest in even though it has no apparent value because you might get someone else to buy it from you for even more. “But in reality the hope of crypto is to be a currency; to compete with the U.S. dollar and to announce its advantage over the U.S. dollar in that competition. “It puts the advantage right in the name: crypto – ‘hidden’ currency. “Is there a big market for that? Is there a big advantage that crypto has over the U.S. dollar if it actually became a currency – which it’s not yet? “Well, there are drug dealers, human traffickers, sanction evaders that will find that to be a good feature. And, as Sam Bankman-Fried would tell you, there’s a hell of a market for bankruptcy-court evasion. But the big market is tax evasion. “And I know there are some on the other side who cheer every time a billionaire escapes taxes. “The other announced purpose of crypto is to compete with the U.S. dollar as a world reserve currency, thereby enriching the corporate billionaire bros and taking thousands of dollars of advantage away from every American family. Because we benefit from being a reserve currency. “Now, Sam Bankman-Fried – or should I say inmate 14372 – had one purpose in all of his efforts here in Congress. (Was a well-known figure. Only one wearing shorts.) His one purpose was to keep the SEC out of crypto. To provide a patina of regulation – baby regulation from the CFTC [Commodity Futures Trading Commission]. Well, I have one comment for my colleagues: Don’t trash Sam Bankman-Fried and then pass his bill. “I fear that could happen because Sam was not the only crypto bro with PACs and lobbyists and there is no PAC or lobbyist here to work for efficient tax enforcement, or sanctions enforcement. “Now, I’ve heard from some on the other side – criticizing the SEC. July, in this room, I criticized the head of enforcement at the SEC for not going after crypto exchanges. But the fact is – without objection I’d like to put in the record a letter signed by 19 Republican members designed to push back on the SEC – a brush back pitch if you’re familiar with baseball – attacking the SEC for paying attention to – and I’ll quote ‘the purported risks of digital assets.’ “And, I’d like to put in the record comments from eight members, made in this room, that were designed to attack the SEC as being a luddite and anti-innovation for their efforts.” Just because Sam Bankman-Fried has been indicted and jailed, it doesn’t mean that the U.S. is safe from the threat of crypto. The tentacles of these frauds reach into federally-insured banks; into stock trading; and, into campaign finance. One of the criminal counts against Sam Bankman-Fried is campaign finance violations.

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Assassinphone 2020
by professor rat 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Point and shoot - Fire and forget - launch and leave - Drag and drop When you absolutely, positively have to kill every muthafucka in the Musk Crime Family We want a phone that’s back in our control, optimized for our convenience. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wiphone-a-phone-for-hackers-and-makers#/ Reposts not garbage scow dumps from MAGAT type morons

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Say goodnight to X
by professor rat 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

X Æ A-Xii is the couple's first child together. Musk has five other children – twins Griffin and Xavier and triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai – from a previous marriage. SAY GOODBYE TO all these liddle JOSHUA's! Yo ding dong, ding dong yo Mr Musk started a poll on Twitter asking if he should “step down as head of Twitter”. He promised that he would “abide by the results of this poll”, which ended at 10.19pm AEDT. The final results were 57.5 per cent in favour of Mr Musk quitting. DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOUR MUDGE ON THE WAY OUT!

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Cryptocurrency: Trump's NFT's To Surpass BAYC, CryptoPunks, CryptoKitties in Everlasting Value
by grarpamp 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Trump Makes Major Announcement: $99 NFTs https://collecttrumpcards.com/ https://truthsocial.com/@RealDonaldTrump https://donaldjtrump.com/ After teasing a "major announcement" on Truth social, former President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a "limited edition collection" of NFT trading cards, available at collecttrumpcards.com. They feature cartoon images of Trump depicted as a superhero, a Hollywood actor, a hunter and other characters. The announcement was accompanied by a video with Trump pitching the digital assets. "This is Donald Trump, hopefully, your favorite president of all time. Better than Lincoln or Washington," Trump says, before detailing the project. According to the website, 45,000 cards will be created in the series, of which 44,000 will be sold. Those who buy will also be entered into a sweepstakes where the will have the opportunity to dine with Trump, play golf with him, and join a Mar-a-Lago cocktail hour. Trump's entry into the NFT market via NFT INT LLC (not affiliated with Trump or the Trump organization), comes at a precarious time for the crypto-based digital art - with volume declining 97% between January and September of this year, and the collapse of FTX - which was a major host of NFTs. If the collection sells out, the creators stand to make $4.5 million. It's unclear what Trump will make off the sales, if anything.

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Cryptocurrency: USA Hit With Massive Bank Runs, Riots !!!
by grarpamp 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Protestors torching banks in Seattle... People lined up in the snow outside Buffalo... Protestors ripping ATM's out with trucks and chains, smashing them open, dragging them off... Armed Military units deployed, barricades go up around Dallas and Atlanta FED Reserve Banks... Credit card processing goes down across 12 states... Cash withdrawals limited to $100 on Monday... Protestors card accounts frozen... https://v.redd.it/g6ezz37mtk6a1 Bank Run in progress, customers denied... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM3XT71TdQo First event... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gVpyPF0nk8 Bail-in terms activated... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzsWxFYyy7I Today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTz2fzAXoss Military activated... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2WOMcqGS04 Seizures... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9XJrnXNTY Bail-ins... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9XJrnXNTY Today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuwC5HE1jf8 Today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gwCdgmTttU Total loss... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOMM0zSvUbY Yesterday... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTJCI1FNBfA Yesterday... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZzrls480E RT... Fiat is a System, that System is our Enemy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOh-7SzI6gM Exit Fiat... Enter Crypto, Gold, Silver, Chickens. You have been warned.

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[ot][ml] early public unified diff model conditioning on commit messages
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

I stumbled on this, looks like it was released 2-3 weeks ago. It's not trained yet, but can do simple things. Example (may have made typo, unsure): $ python3 >>> import transformers >>> pipeline = transformers.pipeline('text-generation', 'CarperAI/diff-codegen-350m-v1') >>> generation = pipeline('<NME> hello_world.py\n<BEF> ADDFILE\n<MSG> hello world example\n<DFF>', max_length=64, do_sample=False)[0]['generated_text'] >>> print(generation[:generation.find('<NME>',1)]) <NME> hello_world.py <BEF> ADDFILE <MSG> hello world example <DFF> @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +print("Hello World!") https://huggingface.co/CarperAI/diff-codegen-350m-v1 --- language: - en - code license: "mit" tags: - Diff Model - pytorch - causal-lm - code-generation - The Pile --- **Model Description** Diff-Codegen-350M is the first in a series of diff models released by CarperAI. A diff model is an autoregressive language model trained on edits to a piece of text, formatted in Unified Diff Format. These diff models can suggest, given a section of text and a description of the desired change, an intelligent change to the text that fits the description, marking the lines added, changed, and deleted in diff format. The primary use case for these models is for suggesting changes to code—as such, most models we release will be fine-tuned versions of models trained on code datasets. Diff-Codegen-350M-v1 is an initial preliminary release of an experimental artifact and should be treated as such. We are releasing these results and this model in the hopes that it may be useful to the greater research community, especially those interested in LMs for code. CarperAI will be releasing larger diff LMs trained on larger code datasets in the near future, building on this initial release. **Training Data** This model is a fine-tune of Codegen-350m-mono by Salesforce. This language model was first pre-trained on The PIle, an 800Gb dataset composed of varied web corpora. The datasheet and paper for the Pile can be found here and here respectively. The model was then fine-tuned on a large corpus of code data in multiple languages, before finally being fine-tuned on a Python code dataset. The Codegen paper with full details of these datasets can be found here. Our diff model was trained on a dataset of commits from BigQuery, a large-scale dataset of many programming languages from GitHub repositories. We filtered the dataset by the number of stars in the repository (>100 stars), license (only open-source non-copyleft licensed code included), and length of file (files greater than 2048 tokens in length were excluded). The model was trained using the GPT-2 tokenizer. **Training Details** The model was trained for 44574 steps (1 epoch) on 8 A100 GPUs. Each file was formatted as follows for input to the language model: ``` <NME> {FILE_NAME} <BEF> {INPUT_FILE} <MSG> {COMMIT_MESSAGE} <DFF> {FILE_DIFF} ``` **Intended Uses and Limitations** Due to the model’s small size and restriction to code, one should not expect the model to generalize to domains beyond code and perform (successful) reasoning over large chunks of code. This model is intended to be used in prototyping ELM-like systems, and for solely experimental purposes. This model is provided without warranty and should not be used in commercial settings -- even though the license permits. **Limitations and Biases** Due to the short context length restriction and due to the fact that all repositories with under 100 stars were excluded, we expect our diff model to underperform on underrepresented languages, for instance Lean or Coq. The output of this model should not be trusted as correct and secure code. This model should not be used in any mission critical setting where security is of importance. Similarly, when running the output of this model, it should be done in a sandbox like gVisor. **Evaluation Results** Since this model was trained for prototyping, no evaluation has been performed. Future releases will have extensive evaluation. **Licensing** This model is licensed as MIT. While it can be used in commercial settings, we do not recommend its use in commercial settings. **Acknowledgements** We’d like to thank Honglu Fan, Harry Saini, Herbie Bradley, and Joel Lehman

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Burning $44B to help migrate people to web3 is a great and public-spirited move.
by professor rat 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Mollusk could be an honorary cypherpunk if this pans out. Mollusks ’ Brokemon 'Trading-Cards moment? @octal 7h Including nostr (a tiny bitcoin-specific thing which 99.999% of people haven’t heard of, but which @jack is supporting and which does look pretty cool technically) was the most shocking. (also not including parler, gettr, gab…but especially TikTok!!!). <<< " You ass - you’ve killed us " Jack @jack 6h Replying to @TwitterSupport Why? Balaji against net-states - before he was for net-states https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1604545175631835136?cxt=HHwWgMDRucDVvsQs… TWITTER is now to the right of Fedbook? You’d have to be a jackass not to laugh.

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