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Cryptocurrency: Peter Thiel Calls Out the Gerontocracy, Launches Youth Crypto
by grarpamp 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

On 4/8/22, professor rat <pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko6K82pXcPA Thiel Bitcoin Crypto Could have been really epic with some more work and practice but still. > Warren Buffet and Jamie Dimon Company-like structures will more or less always exist, but banks will be going extinct with increasing rapidity, all of their functions replaced by sound money and DeFi, and even if not, will be totally dominated by crypto so as to be unrecognizable in comparison to their pre-crypto form. > Warren Buffett just invested $1 billion in a crypto-friendly bank Those might survive longer, so not necessarily a bad move. > Jamie Dimon Praises Blockchain and Decentralized Finance Is an asshole, a fraud, a criminal, and a legacy actor, now bending over for crypto's cock.

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Leaks: Russ Kick's Memory Hole... En Memorium Archivus
by grarpamp 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Links for archivers, as usual with such rarities, redistribute well before they disappear... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Kick https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/us/russ-kick-dead.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/russ-kick-dead/2021/09/24/e… Russ Kick >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search It has been suggested that Disinformation (company) be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since June 2021. Russ Kick Born Russell Charles Kick III July 20, 1969 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S. Died September 12, 2021 (aged 52) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Occupation Writer, editor in chief, FOIA advocate, animal rights activist, publisher Russell Charles Kick III (July 20, 1969 – September 12, 2021) was an American writer, editor, and publisher. Russell Charles Kick III was born on July 20, 1969, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[1] Early in his career, Kick wrote articles, a column, and a cover story for The Village Voice. He was the founder and editor of The Memory Hole, Memory Hole 2,[2] and Altgov2,[3] which published and archived U.S. government documents, including scientific studies, documents received under FOIA and civil rights-related reports, intelligence and covert action reports, consumer safety reports, and images including photographs of flag-draped coffins of American military personnel. These photographs of the war dead garnered worldwide media attention, including heavy rotation on all 24-hour news channels and front-page coverage on major newspapers, including The New York Times.[4] The Memory Hole also gained attention for posting a completely uncensored version of a Justice Department report about its internal hiring practices, leading to a front-page story in The New York Times.[5] Kick was editor-at-large for The Disinformation Company and he wrote three books and edited six anthologies for them, including You Are Being Lied To and 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know. He also was editing an anthology of classic and contemporary poems about death for Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser. He compiled and edited a three-volume, 1,600-page anthology set entitled The Graphic Canon from Seven Stories Press. The series features the world's great literature interpreted by more than 120 artists and illustrators such as R. Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Will Eisner, Molly Crabapple, Sharon Rudahl, Dame Darcy, S. Clay Wilson, Gris Grimly, Roberta Gregory, Kim Deitch, and Tara Seibel. [6][7] The first volume,[8] From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (spring 2012), covers literature from ancient times through the end of the eighteenth century. The second volume,[9] Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (fall 2012), is devoted completely to the nineteenth century. The third volume,[7] >From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (spring 2013), covers the entire twentieth century. The next volume in the continuing project, The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature, was published in November 2014.[10] The last volume completed in the series, Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery was published in November 2017 by Seven Stories Press.[11] It expanded the Graphic Canon series into the genres of crime and mystery. >From 2018 to 2021, he was the director of open records for Rise for the Animals[12] where he expanded the ARLO (Animal Research Laboratory Overview) database [13] to include information obtained through FOIA and public records requests related to animal experimentation and research facilities. At the age of 52, Kick died on September 12, 2021, in Tucson, Arizona.[1][14] Books 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, The Disinformation Co. 2003. ISBN 0-9713942-8-8 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, Vol. 2, The Disinformation Co. 2005. ISBN 1-932857-02-8 100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, The Disinformation Company 2008. ISBN 1-932857-62-1 Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2003. ISBN 0-9713942-4-5 Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tear-Jerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Personal, Political, Mythic, Earthy, and Only Occasionally Morbid (editor), Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser, November 2013. ISBN 978-1938875045 The Disinformation Book of Lists: Subversive Facts and Hidden Information in Rapid-fire Format, The Disinformation Co. 2004. ISBN 0-9729529-4-2 Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2007. ISBN 978-1-932857-59-7 Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (and Everything in Between) (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2005. ISBN 1-932857-17-6 Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2002. ISBN 0-9713942-0-2 Flash Wisdom: A Curated Collection of Mind-Blowing, Perspective-Changing Quotes (editor), Disinformation and Red Wheel/Weiser, March 2015. ISBN 978-1938875120 The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature (editor), Seven Stories Press, summer 2014. The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume One: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (editor), Seven Stories Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60980-376-6 The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume Two: From Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (editor), Seven Stories Press, 2012. The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, Volume Three: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (editor), Seven Stories Press, 2013. Hot off the Net: Erotica and Other Sex Writings from the Internet (editor), Black Books. 1999. ISBN 1-892723-00-X Outposts, Carroll & Graf and Masquerade Books, 1995. Psychotropedia: A Guide to Publications on the Periphery, Critical Vision, 1998. ISBN 1-900486-03-2 You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths (editor), The Disinformation Co. 2001. ISBN 0-9664100-7-6 References Seelye, Katharine Q. (October 14, 2021). "Russ Kick, 'Rogue Transparency Activist,' Is Dead at 52". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 14, 2021. "The Memory Hole 2" http://thememoryhole2.org/ "Altgov2" https://altgov2.org/ Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken. The New York Times, April 23, 2004. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/national/23PHOT.html "Unediting the Editing of Federal Report. The New York Times,". October 31, 2003. "Graphic Canon: Comics Meet the Classics". "Seven Stories Press". "Seven Stories Press". "Seven Stories Press". "Seven Stories Press". "The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, Vol. 1". sevenstories.com. Retrieved December 13, 2017. "Rise for Animals" https://web.archive.org/web/20210628134914/https://riseforanimals.org/our-s… "Animal Research Laboratory Overview" https://arlo.riseforanimals.org/ "Russ Kick, writer, editor and 'rogue transparency activist,' dies at 52". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 25, 2021. External links The Graphic Canon The MemoryHole @ Internet Archive Russ Kick @ MuckRock Russ Kick @ YouTube Authority control Edit this at Wikidata General ISNI 1 VIAF 1 WorldCat National libraries Norway France (data) Germany United States Czech Republic Korea Netherlands Poland Categories: 1969 births 2021 deaths 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American book editors American online publication editors American print editors American publishers (people) Navigation menu Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Article Talk Read Edit View history Search Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 17 October 2021, at 02:16 (UTC). 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Peter Thiel's a liar or a fool
by professor rat 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Probably both. The Trump-fellating, Silicon-Valley station-chief for the CIA just attacked Warren Buffet and Jamie Dimon despite a constitutional ban on domestic espionage. Warren Buffett just invested $1 billion in a crypto-friendly bank https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/warren-buffett-invested-1-billion-crypto-ban… Jamie Dimon Praises Blockchain and Decentralized Finance https://cryptopotato.com/jamie-dimon-praises-blockchain-and-decentralized-f… So Peter John Donald Trump Thiel is either a liar or a fool - probably both.

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Everyone goes to Woits
by professor rat 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Mongo, Peter Shor, your humble servant . . . https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12786#comments Peter Shor says: April 7, 2022 at 9:03 am I would have to disagree that there’s no anti-science movement. Having talked to a teenager who was educated in a Christian school, she was definitely taught according to an anti-science viewpoint—that you can’t trust anything scientists say, because they have their own self-serving motives for saying these things. (This may actually be true to a much lesser degree—look at the string theory apologists. But the best lies contain an element of truth.) And I have to assume that this viewpoint is reasonably common among evangelical Christians, who make up around a third of the U.S. population.

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Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography | Quanta Magazine
by professor rat 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

It sounds like String Landscape, Quanta Magazine, hasn't heard about quantum cryptography yet. Swamp.

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Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography | Quanta Magazine
by jim bell 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-identify-master-problem-underlyi… In 1868, the mathematician Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) proclaimed that an encryption scheme called the Vigenère cipher was “unbreakable.” He had no proof, but he had compelling reasons for his belief, since mathematicians had been trying unsuccessfully to break the cipher for more than three centuries. There was just one small problem: A German infantry officer named Friedrich Kasiski had, in fact, broken it five years earlier, in a book that garnered little notice at the time. Cryptographers have been playing this game of cat and mouse, creating and breaking ciphers, for as long as people have been sending secret information. “For thousands of years, people [have been] trying to figure out, ‘Can we break the cycle?’” said Rafael Pass, a cryptographer at Cornell Tech and Cornell University. Five decades ago, cryptographers took a huge step in this direction. They showed that it’s possible to create provably secure ciphers if you have access to a single ingredient: a “one-way function,” something that’s easy to carry out but hard to reverse. Since then, researchers have devised a wide array of candidate one-way functions, from simple operations based on multiplication to more complicated geometric or logarithmic procedures. Today, the internet protocols for tasks like transmitting credit card numbers and digital signatures depend on these functions. “Most of the crypto that is used in the real world is something that can be based on one-way functions,” said Yuval Ishai, a cryptographer at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. ....

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History of the Ukrainian anarchist movement
by professor rat 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Right now I am working on articles about the history of the Ukrainian anarchist movement, such as that of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, the Makhnovschina, and Nestor Makhno himself. This is a project that I am pumping a lot of hours of research and writing into and it is still far from done, but I’m very proud of what I have accomplished so far, and I am looking forward to making them even better. https://anarchistnews.org/content/interview-anarchist-wikipedia-editor-grnr…

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Batshit-Crazy made antisemitic and sexist comments
by professor rat 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

He also regularly made antisemitic and sexist comments, as when he suggested during a press conference that his aides should rape a pregnant journalist. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/russian-far-right-politician-…

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Cryptocurrency: Defunding Badly Needed
by grarpamp 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvchzpbv2hE Adopt cryptocurrencies today... distributed, privacy-enabled, uncensorable, unconfiscatable, unregulated, permissionless, noninflatable, develop cross-chain anonymous DEX, markets, use for and offer goods and services in the real world.

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Cryptocurrency: Time For Nextgen Scale and Privacy Designs... Lightning Network Is Garbage
by grarpamp 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

"OnLine LN Is Garbage... OnNetwork is 4 Lyfe -- Internet" 0.25 world pop 1tx/dy = 24ktps 0.75 world pop 1tx/wk = 10ktps 0.50 world pop 1tx/wk = 7ktps 0.25 world pop 2tx/wk = 7ktps Advances in sound money, consensus over database, network design, and privacy technologies could now, 13+ years later, reach sufficient tx rates to enable a statistically significant non-disenfranchising global monetary overlay. Instead making yet more corrupt premine reserve holdback stakeholding/investor dev/VC treasury funding, grand kitchen-sink feature list, PoS, block-storage-based, programmable, centralized, etc... shitcoins... do engineering the next anonymous barebones all-parties-disinterested privacy-capable raw money. Tech did not exist in 2008 for Bitcoin-BTC to even approximate a global money... hobbled by lack of privacy, disk-storage-growth, low-txrate, ASIC-friendly, with bolt-ons like the online censorable etc LN shadily making adopting the worse things easier. It is likely that the technologies needed to launch a real coin reasonably worthy of the nextgen name do now exist (or will within a few years), thus needing only to be tweaked, integrated together, and launched. Look for and build them.

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