April 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Directors Who Manipulate ESG
by Gunnar Larson 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

Check out my new article: https://litigationfinancejournal.com/directors-who-manipulate-esg/ Directors Who Manipulate ESG As “green values” are still being defined by corporations around the world, public attention is playing a major role in holding corporations accountable for mistreating ESG investment(s). In the United Kingdom, many are calling for directors to be held personally responsible for misapplication of ESG funds. Especially when a company goes into insolvency and there is no capital left due to mismanagement and misappropriation. Stewarts Law LLP recently <https://www.stewartslaw.com/news/could-directors-of-insolvent-companies-bec…> debated standard logic, arguing that directors who knowingly engage ESG abuses to inflate returns may face consequences. Stewarts suggests that directors who operate in such a manner could be ‘on the hook’ for ESG fraud by deceiving shareholders and customers alike. One such example is ClientEarth, a non-governmental organization which is a shareholder of Royal Dutch Shell PLC. ClientEarth is exploring a potential ESG claim against Shell’s board of directors. To help address this problematic scenario, the United Kingdom has issued financial disclosure recommendations sponsored by the Taskforce for Climate-related Disclosures. Whatever the case maybe, Stewarts suggests that directors can expect growing scrutiny on ESG investment disclosures in the future. Furthermore, Stewarts recommends that directorships prevent personal liability by well-funded claimants looking to claw back investment dollars lost due to ESG classification. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
by jim bell 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ "Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. "The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brought by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal information from users’ public profiles. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court last year but was sent back to the Ninth Circuit for the original appeals court to re-review the case. "In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its original decision and found that scraping data that is publicly accessible on the internet is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, which governs what constitutes computer hacking under U.S. law.

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Design brief for a new system of killing
by professor rat 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

Reading about the Kalashnikov AK-47 I was struck by its design that deliberately avoid tight machining and complexity where-ever possible. It was also part of a broader German-Russian trend towards smaller, lighter army rifles and ostensibly and technically less powerful ones - the now ubiquitous assault-rifle. Now proven much more powerful in real-world conditions! This gave me an idea for our assassination markets ( Dead Lucky, APster, PAM, etc ) If they could avoid all the usual bells-and-whistles ' shovelware ' - such as anonymity, end-to-end encryption and untraceable e-cash - then they might ' go viral ' more easily. Softly-softly catchee Gatesy - yeah?

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If only MIT taught a course on failed speculative theories
by professor rat 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

John Baez says: April 19, 2022 at 10:22 pm It would actually be great if MIT taught a course on failed speculative theories in physics, perhaps using Helge Kragh’s book as a textbook. If students only learn about successful theories they won’t get how hard it is to be right, and how many great physicists had theories that didn’t pan out. https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12775#comments

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JOHN " Cryptome " Young volunteers to become a rat informant at the DoJ
by professor rat 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

Oh wait. . . no, sorry . . . that was John's bum-buddy, Alex Jones. I get these Texas cannibals confused - its a common mistake but; my bat.

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Jew-haters are like hemorrhoids,
by professor rat 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

“As a Jew who lived successively in several countries before finding refuge in Hollywood,” McBride observes, Wilder “often resembled a cabaret artist darkly amusing his audience by dancing on the edge of an abyss.” https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/billy-wilder-biography/

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Anarchist publishing fair in Lecce on 21st and 22nd May.
by professor rat 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

Feel the power - live the dream https://anarchistnews.org/content/iv-edition-“idea-and-action”-anarchist-pu…

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MKULTRA CIA Mind Control KUBARK Govt Torture
by grarpamp 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

https://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-mkultra-collection/ https://archive.org/details/mkultrafiles https://archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=independent_news&colle… http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/index.htm http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/archive/news/dodmans.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_and_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_and_CIA_interrogation_manuals http://www.salon.com/2009/05/18/torture_25/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PSY https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PSIL The psychic driving procedure was a chronological precursor to Cameron's depatterning, the latter involving massive doses of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) combined with similarly large doses of psychedelic drugs (such as LSD). The intent was to break down the subject's personality—theoretically psychic driving could then be used with some efficacy in establishing a new personality.[1] In Cameron's depatterning, the ECT would often continue to be administered despite the manifestation of convulsive fits, which were consensually considered to be contraindications to normal and safe ECT procedure. Such biologically and psychologically devastating procedures, adopted internationally by the psychiatric establishment, were largely abolished by the time the CIA was brought before a Senate Hearing (1977)[2] for its involvement and funding of Cameron's experimental activities—as part of the MKULTRA program.[3] The topic of Cameron's psychic driving is dealt with in some detail in the docudrama entitled The Sleep Room (1998) directed by Anne Wheeler.[4] Dulles ordered Bluebird to be expanded and centralized, and renamed the Project Artichoke. Dulles and Gottlieb both believed there was a way to influence and control the human mind that could lead to global mastery.

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Gmail banned some Russian officer
by zeynepaydogan 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

I heard some people have a little bit of a problem with their accounts.Don’t use Gmail.Hey American govlick company Gmail Where were you when America raped all the African and Middle East countries?And it's still going on;The Ukrainian army rapes and kills its own people. But what a world's agenda is Ukraine with the Nazi army!They don't deny that they're publicly Nazis.A lot of civilians were killed, and it's painful for the Ukrainian army to do that.The world applauded a racist army.Hey folks, after years,the Ukrainian army will be remembered just like Hitler .There were very few people who thought Hitler was evil at the time

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[spam][joke] implementing a timing attack
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

[ridiculous psychological patterns] in order to deanonymise an anonymity network using timing patterns, we will need two things: 1. newly hacked machine learning algorithms 2. use of an effective anonymity network to deanonymise I suppose we should start with #2. 2a. add constant chaff to tor, knowing this was helpful two decades ago and having no idea what is helpful now 2b. register an email address from a clean purposed system, dissociated from our legal identity

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