May 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Elon Musk - Tinpot Dictators, deputy sheriff
by professor rat 10 May '22

10 May '22

AASchapiro · 7h And as it stands, Twitter does NOT comply with a huge portion of legal requests — they resist requests all the time. So...is what Musk suggesting that he will direct the Twitter team to just, take all government requests at face value? https://twitter.com/AASchapiro/status/1523725111395725312?cxt=HHwWgMCtgc76r… Elon Musk has earned killing ( My 200 sats )

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[ot][spam] boss spinoffs: wild research experiment computer logs
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 10 May '22

10 May '22

---- "I am furious that some upstart has taken the corpses we incinerated and cobbled them together into a disgusting sculpture of a heart." Secret Translation: "It's so impressive that huggingface made such a clear introduction course, with such clear libraries for people to use, and an online chat portal, and that somebody shared it to this list! I wish I could think of sending people to it without vomiting my organs out!"

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[ot][spam][crazy] draft: learning RL
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 10 May '22

10 May '22

I'm not doing this right now because I have something important to do today that will need grounding in normality. But here's a draft: Learing RL Welcome, future Mind Control Business Owners! Our hives of slaves will be the most powerful in the galaxy, all stewarded under the caring heart of Borg Queen Figurehead Trump (todo: add more political figureheads, do any claim to run the world?). Today we will be working through Session 1 of HuggingFace's Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Course. This may seem slow, but remember: once you mind control yourself to be an obsessive slave to your business hive algorithms, your perception of time will disappear!

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Clearview AI agrees to restrict US sales of facial recognition mostly to law enforcement
by jim bell 09 May '22

09 May '22

Clearview AI agrees to restrict US sales of facial recognition mostly to law enforcement https://share.newsbreak.com/11k3f4f4

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Unsubscribing from the list
by zeynepaydogan 09 May '22

09 May '22

I've been using Protonmail for a long,long time.I have so many email addresses, and I'm sorry that Protonmail has changed its privacy policy for a while.I will no longer use an e-mail service that gives them data when governments demand data.That's why I'm not using this email account,If you send me an e-mail, I can answer from here.There are people here who have been using Protonmail for years.I guess what I'm trying to say is, I won't tolerate surveillance.Stefan and I had an argument about it here, and I even shared a link here.Protonmail has recently made an open deal with a government network.I want to say something to those who have your protonmail account here:Please consider your privacy and stop using protonmail. Stefan left this list a while ago (some special reason) and sent me an email.Although we don't have the same political views with him, but I find him right.He's been on this list for years, and he must be bored with some of the people here.I'll be unsubscribe this list (zeynepaydogan(a)protonmail.com, zeynepaydogan(a)proton.me) soon and I'll probably not see what you've written.This will excite some of the people here. Maybe I can subscribe with a different email address, like in the past years.It could be a nickname or my real name. Maybe I never subscribe I would like to wish everyone to become more educated, smarter and ethical @zeynep

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Meta faces lawsuit over logo
by professor rat 09 May '22

09 May '22

Another nothingbuger yawn-law story from Popgun. Time larceny. Jesus Fucking Christ. This is a law story with substance - THIS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte

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Meta faces lawsuit over logo
by Gunnar Larson 09 May '22

09 May '22

https://www.fastcompany.com/90749484/meta-faces-lawsuit-over-logo Meta faces lawsuit over logo <https://www.fastcompany.com/90749484/meta-faces-lawsuit-over-logo> A blockchain organization is suing Meta for using a logo similar to its own, claiming Meta’s ‘sordid online privacy history’ could jeopardize its reputation. As if Meta doesn’t have enough <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/technology/facebook-meta-earnings.html> problems <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-target…>, the company now faces a lawsuit over its logo. The Swiss blockchain nonprofit Dfinity <https://dfinity.org/> filed suit <https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/meta-hit-with-trademark-lawsuit-ov…> against Meta for trademark infringement in a Northern California court this week. The suit alleges that Meta’s logo, an infinity symbol unveiled last fall <https://www.fastcompany.com/90691280/you-might-hate-facebooks-new-name-but-…> when the company rebranded from “Facebook,” looks strikingly similar to Dfinity’s own mark. Dfinity is suing for unspecified damages and asking the court to prevent Meta from using the logo, claiming that its reputation is at stake. “Dfinity would be severely harmed in its development of the Internet Computer and its ability to attract users if those users were to associate Dfinity with Meta’s sordid online privacy history,” the complaint reads <https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/lgvdwgazepo/IP%20META%20TRA…> . Could Meta be forced to pull its logo? According to legal experts we spoke with, it’s possible but not likely. The case rests on whether consumers find the two logos confusing. “I don’t see a strong likelihood of confusion, so I don’t believe this is a strong case,” says Alexandra J. Roberts, a professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. “But it’s impossible to rule out that Dfinity could be successful here.” A key issue is that infinity symbols are fairly commonplace. The two logos might be similar in shape and design, but they’re still just stylized versions of an everyday symbol. That makes it harder to argue that consumers associate the symbol with a particular company. “It is the name ‘Dfinity’ that is likely the most distinctive part of Dfinity’s registered trademark,” says Jon J. Lee, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. “Had Meta adopted a similar name, such as Sfinity, for its brand, that would have made for a stronger claim of infringement.” But even if Dfinity fails to prove its case, the lawsuit could jeopardize Meta’s attempts to earn trademark protection for its own logo. That’s because it could highlight how unremarkable the logo really is. (Meta filed for trademark protection in March.) Says Lee: “The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office might find that [Meta’s logo] is not inherently distinctive on its own and require more evidence that consumers associate the symbol with a single company.” Neither Dfinity nor Meta responded to a request for comment by publication time.

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Re: CIA MK Ultra The True Story of Julian Assange
by professor rat 09 May '22

09 May '22

"... Assange is a serial rapist and a lying fraud, just like the rest . I hope everyone realizes the truth. . . ' You care so much about the truth you retail this Qanon dreck. And who does ' just like the rest ' refer to on your planet?

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Musk’s Twitter Buyout Challenged by Florida Pension Fund (2)
by professor rat 09 May '22

09 May '22

Any big LBO in the news might remind some of the gray-grizzled punks here about RJR Nabisco and the original king of junk-bonds. They even made an entertaining movie about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate_(film) Another classic from that era " Den of Thieves ' featured Sam Bankman-Fried like Arb, Ivan Boesky. Its clear that low cunts, like Jackass Dorsey and Musk, think laws are for others not their killer elite that includes BFF's like Thiel and Trump.

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Musk’s Twitter Buyout Challenged by Florida Pension Fund (2)
by Gunnar Larson 09 May '22

09 May '22

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/musks-twitter-buyout-challenge… Musk’s Twitter Buyout Challenged by Florida Pension Fund (2) Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout of Twitter Inc. was challenged in a lawsuit by a Florida pension fund that argues the deal can’t close before 2025 because Musk was an “interested shareholder” in the social-networking platform. The Orlando Police Pension Fund filed suit in Delaware Chancery Court <https://courts.delaware.gov/chancery/> on Thursday. According to the complaint, Musk had agreements with other major Twitter shareholders -- including founder Jack Dorsey -- to rely on their holdings when offering to take the company private last month. Those arrangements triggered a Delaware law that calls for a three-year delay in closing such deals, the fund claims. Musk’s Twitter acquisition features one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history. He’s taking private a 16-year-old social networking platform that has become a hub of public discourse and a flashpoint in the debate over online free speech. Musk disclosed Thursday a group of investors were kicking in more than $7 billion of equity towards the deal. They include Oracle Corp. billionaire Larry Ellison, venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital and cryptocurrency exchange Binance Holdings Ltd. A representative for Musk didn’t immediately return an email seeking comment on the pension fund’s suit. Musk, 50, has outlined financing for the deal that includes $13 billion in bank loans secured by the social-media company and $12.5 billion backed by a pledge of some of his $170 billion Tesla Inc. stake. He’s currently the world’s richest individual, with a fortune valued at more than $249 billion. The pension fund’s lawyers note Musk owned about 10% of Twitter’s shares when he made his buyout offer. They also say in the complaint that he had an “agreement, arrangement or understanding” with other major Twitter investors, such as Dorsey and investment bank Morgan Stanley. Those pacts allowed Musk to rely on their shares and support for the deal, according to the suit. Under Delaware corporate law, those agreements make Musk an “interested shareholder” who has to wait three years to close the deal or win the support of investors who control “at least 66 2/3% of Twitter’s outstanding voting stock” and were independent from the billionaire, the suit said. The fund is asking a Delaware judge to find that Musk meets the test for an “interested shareholder” and is subject to the law, according to the complaint. The statute cited by the Florida fund was passed by Delaware lawmakers in the 1980s to help address a boom in takeovers and to protect shareholders’ rights to vote, but it won’t pose much of a barrier for Musk, said Charles Elson, the former director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. “Its an extremely high wall to show someone was an interested shareholder, and few have surmounted it over the years,” Elson said. The case is Orlando Police Pension Fund v. Twitter Inc, No. 2022-0396, Delaware Chancery Court.

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