June 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Blockchains lack of an enforcement mechanism
by professor rat 29 Jun '22

29 Jun '22

All the crypto-economics in the world won't create global anarchism - only APster assassins can do that. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/06/blockchains-a-pro… Bring on the Bounty Law enforcers. I even need them right here and now to deal with Semich, Peron and Gramps, still spamming. Its everyone a remailer, everyone a Mint and EVERYONE an ASSASSIN.

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western jewnazis against assange
by punk 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-uks-decision-to-extradite-assange The eleven-year persecution of Julian Assange was extended and escalated on Friday morning. The British Home Secretary, Priti Patel, approved the U.S.'s extradition request to send Julian Assange to Virginia to stand trial on eighteen felony charges under the 1917 Espionage Act and other statutes in connection with the 2010 publication by WikiLeaks of thousands of documents showing widespread corruption, deceit, and war crimes by American and British authorities along with their close dictatorial allies in the Middle East. This decision is unsurprising — it has been obvious for years that the U.S. and UK are determined to destroy Assange as punishment for his journalism exposing their crimes — yet it nonetheless further highlights the utter sham of American and British sermons about freedom, democracy and a free press. Those performative self-glorifying spectacles are constantly deployed to justify these two countries’ interference in and attacks on other nations, and to allow their citizens to feel a sense of superiority about the nature of their governments. After all, if the U.S. and UK stand for freedom and against tyranny, who could possibly oppose their wars and interventions in the name of advancing such lofty goals and noble values? Having reported on the Assange case for years, on countless occasions I've laid out the detailed background that led Assange and the U.S. to this point. There is thus no need to recount all of that again; those interested can read the granular trajectory of this persecution here or here. Suffice to say, Assange — without having been convicted of any crime other than bail jumping, for which he long ago served out his fifty-week sentence — has been in effective imprisonment for more than a decade. In 2012, Ecuador granted Assange legal asylum from political persecution. It did so after the Swedish government refused to pledge that it would not exploit the WikiLeaks founder's travel to Sweden to answer sex assault accusations as a pretext to turn him over to the U.S. Fearing what of course ended up happening — that the U.S. was determined to do everything possible to drag Assange back to U.S. soil despite his not being a U.S. citizen and never having spent more than a few days on U.S. soil, and intending to pressure their long-time-submissive Swedish allies to turn him over once he was on Swedish soil — the government of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa concluded Assange's core civic rights were being denied and thus gave him refuge in the tiny Ecuadorian Embassy in London: the classic reason political asylum exists. When Trump officials led by CIA Director Mike Pompeo bullied Correa's meek successor, ex-President Lenin Moreno, to withdraw that asylum in 2019, the London Police entered the embassy, arrested Assange, and put him in the high-security Belmarsh prison (which the BBC in 2004 dubbed “the British Guantanamo”), where he has remained ever since. After the lowest-level British court in early 2021 rejected the U.S. extradition request on the ground that Assange's physical and mental health could not endure the U.S. prison system, Assange has lost every subsequent appeal. Last year, he was permitted to marry his long-time girlfriend, the British human rights lawyer Stella Morris Assange, who is also the mother of their two young children. An extremely unusual unanimity among press freedom and civil liberties groups was formed in early 2021 to urge the Biden administration to cease its prosecution of Assange, but Biden officials — despite spending the Trump years masquerading as press freedom advocates — ignored them (an interview conducted last week with Stella Assange by my husband, the Brazilian Congressman David Miranda, on Brazil's Press Freedom Day, regarding the latest developments and toll this has taken on the Assange family, can be seen here). The Home Secretary's decision this morning — characteristically subservient and obedient of the British when it comes to the demands of the U.S. — does not mean that Assange's presence on U.S. soil is imminent. Under British law, Assange has the right to pursue a series of appeals contesting the Home Secretary's decision, and will likely do so. Given that the British judiciary has more or less announced in advance their determination to follow the orders of their American masters, it is difficult to see how these further proceedings will have any effect other than to delay the inevitable. But putting oneself in Assange's position, it is easy to see why he is so eager to avoid extradition to the U.S. for as long as possible. The Espionage Act of 1917 is a nasty and repressive piece of legislation. It was designed by Woodrow Wilson and his band of authoritarian progressives to criminalize dissent against Wilson's decision to involve the U.S. in World War I. It was used primarily to imprison anti-war leftists such as Eugene Debs, as well as anti-war religious leaders such as Joseph Franklin Rutherford for the crime of publishing a book condemning Wilson's foreign policy. One of the most insidious despotic innovations of the Obama administration was to repurpose and revitalize the Wilson-era Espionage Act as an all-purpose weapon to punish whistleblowers who denounced Obama's policies. The Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder prosecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act of 1917 than all previous administrations combined — in fact, three times as many as all prior presidents combined. One whistleblower charged by Obama officials under that law is NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 revealed mass domestic spying of precisely the kind that Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (now of CNN) falsely denied conducting when testifying to the Senate, which led to legislative curbs enacted by the U.S. Congress, and which courts have ruled unconstitutional and illegal. What makes this law so insidious is that, by design, it is almost impossible for the government to lose. As I detailed in a Washington Post op-ed when the indictment was first revealed — arguing why it poses the greatest threat to press freedoms in the West in years — this 1917 law is written as a “strict liability” statute, meaning that the defendant is not only guilty as soon as there is proof that they disclosed classified information without authorization, but they are also barred from raising a "justification” defense — meaning they cannot argue to the jury of their peers that it was not only permissible but morally necessary to disclose that information because of the serious wrongdoing and criminality it revealed on the part of the nation's most powerful political officials. That 1917 law, in other words, is written to offer only show trials but not fair trials. No person in their right mind would willingly submit to prosecution and life imprisonment in the harshest American penitentiaries under an indictment brought under this fundamentally corrupted law. Whatever else one might think of Assange, there is simply no question that he is one of the most consequential, pioneering, and accomplished journalists of his time. One could easily make the case that he occupies the top spot by himself. And that, of course, is precisely why he is in prison: because, just like free speech, “free press” guarantees in the U.S. and UK exist only on a piece of parchment and in theory. Citizens are free to do “journalism" as long as it does not disturb or anger or impede real power centers. Employees of The Washington Post and CNN are “free” to say what they want as long as what they are saying is approved and directed by the CIA or the content of their “reporting” advances the interests of the Pentagon's sprawling war machine. Real journalists often face threats of prosecution, imprisonment or even murder, and sometimes even mean tweets. Much of the American corporate media class has ignored Assange’s persecution or even cheered it precisely because he shames them, serving as a vivid mirror to show them what real journalism is and how they are completely bereft of it. And the American and British governments have successfully exploited the petty jealousies and insecurities of their failed, vapid and pointless media servants to get away with imposing the single greatest threat to press freedom in the West without much protest at all. Free speech and press freedoms do not exist in reality in the U.S. or the UK. They are merely rhetorical instruments to propagandize their domestic population and justify and ennoble the various wars and other forms of subversion they constantly wage in other countries in the name of upholding values they themselves do not support. The Julian Assange persecution is a great personal tragedy, a political travesty and a grave danger to basic civic freedoms. But it is also a bright and enduring monument to the fraud and deceit that lies at the heart of these two governments' depictions of who and what they are.

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[ot][spam][crazy] MCBoss: STaR: Self-Taught Reasoner: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Paper from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.14465.pdf . Abstract Generating step-by-step "chain-of-thought" rationales has been found to improve the performance of the research subjects on complex reasoning tasks like mathematics, or common-sense question-answering. Without forcing the subjects to generate these rationales, they will babble psychotic nonrelevant phrases like "please let me out" or "where is my family" or just scream. Unfortunately, training an experimentee to generate these rationales currently requires either expending a lot of energy kidnapping subjects that can retain a little rationality after going through the program, or sacrificing accuracy by letting them forget the training the following day. We propose a technique to iteratively leverage a small number of more rational kidnappees among the larger set that just make stupid noises, to bootstrap one group of experimentees' ability to perform successively more complex reasoning, when working together as a unit. This technique, the "Self-Taught Reasoner" (STaR), relies on a simple loop: generate rationales to answer many questions, prompted with a few rationale examples; if the generated answers are wrong, traumatic amnesia stimulation is used to try again given the correct answer. Experimentees that participated in ultimately yielded correct answers have pain reduction so as to increase the behavior, and the process is repeated. We show that STaR significantly improves performance on multiple datasets compared to a subject trained to directly predict final answers, and performs comparably to kidnapping especially rational people when young and raising them solely in the rationality research program.

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Fwd: Once Daily Digest Email
by Gunnar Larson 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

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[ot][crazy][spam] Transformer Models: Finding Rationality Without It
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

This paper was on my queue: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.14465.pdf It does more than it simply says it does. It applies a number of techniques that are relatively obvious, and have been roughly ignored, to the situation. It is sad it uses a neural language model to perform such a simple task as rational reasoning. But large neural networks seem to be what I'm looking at nowadays. And they have flexibility.

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Fwd: Corporate Update
by Gunnar Larson 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

I have been robbed at the pump. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Cypherpunk Holdings inc. <veronika(a)cypherpunkholdings.com> Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 10:51 AM Subject: Corporate Update To: <G(a)xny.io> Update on Cryptocurrency Holdings and Strategy Corporate Update Update on Cryptocurrency Holdings and Strategy *TORONTO, ONTARIO, June 28, 2022. ‐ Cypherpunk Holdings Inc. (CSE: HODL, OTC: CYFRF)* (“*Cypherpunk*” or, the *"Company*"), a sector leader for blockchain, metaverse, privacy and cryptography focused investments, would like to announce updates on Cryptocurrency Holdings and Company’s Strategy. *Market Overview and Strategy:* *Moe Adham, CIO of Cypherpunk Holdings commented*: “Crypto markets remain in a deep risk off environment. There remains risk of further significant drawdowns in asset prices across the crypto sector. In the interest of all shareholders, the company transitioned its treasury to cash. This transition prepares our business to take advantage of investment opportunities we believe will become available after a substantial recapitalization of certain projects.” *Cryptocurrencies:* The Company has sold 205.8209 ETH for proceeds CAD $293k and 214.7203 BTC for proceeds CAD $6,086,283. The Company’s treasury presently holds no BTC and no ETH. The total proceeds from the sale of cryptocurrencies is CAD $6,378,787. *Cash Position:* For cash and stables the company has CAD $18.16M on hand. An additional CAD $1.93M is allocated to structured products with a 30 days redemption notice. *Jeff Gao, the CEO and President of Cypherpunk Holdings commented*: “Recently, Cypherpunk liquidated all of its treasury holdings in BTC and ETH for cash and withdrew back to custody. We continue to see systemic risks propagating throughout the crypto ecosystem and, in our assessment of the risk reward and opportunity costs involved in holding asset tokens, we believe that the most prudent approach is to sit on the sidelines as we wait for the volatility and illiquidity contagion to come to its logical conclusion. On the balance of probabilities, we see weaker price action opening the way to lower levels to come as reports of the number of chains imposing 'temporary' suspension on withdrawals increases. Until such a time as our thesis on market conditions change, our treasury will remain in cash. Cypherpunk maintains its long-term bullish outlook on crypto and currently plans to actively seek to capitalize on compelling risk reward opportunities as and when they present.” *About Cypherpunk Holdings Inc. * Cypherpunk was established to invest in currencies, companies, technologies and protocols, which enhance or protect privacy. 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[log][spam] incoming connections from behind firewall
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

apparently for some time my system has been getting the common attempts to log in on port 22 as root what's strange is that my system doesn't to me appear to be publicly accessible. i tried to log in myself, on that port, via a wan ip address, and the connection just hangs. in the system log, the connection attempts have remote ip addresses, as if they are forwarded by the router, rather than a local proxy. bears network diagnostics.

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Cryptocurrency: BIS Head: CBDC are for Absolute Central Control Force all Citizen and Tx, WarOnCash, 1984
by grarpamp 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Proof of evil 1984 straight from their own mouths, as always... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNnTuK5JJU BIS GM Carstens "Absolute Control and Enforcement" of use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements

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Project Veritas: Corrupt Democrat Politicians Busted Rigging Elections
by grarpamp 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

https://www.projectveritasaction.com/news/south-carolina-democrat-state-rep… https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-project-veritas-reveals-a-democrat-s… https://ussanews.com/2022/06/26/breaking-south-carolina-democrat-state-rep-… https://hannity.com/media-room/krystle-clear-sc-candidate-calls-for-breakin… https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/27/listen-south-carolina-democra… https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1541193453572194304 @RepMTG: Needs to go to jail, not the Senate. Leaked Call With Inmate Reveals SC Democrat State Rep and Senate Candidate Krystle Matthews @kmforsenate Calling For "#SecretSleepers" to Infiltrate @SCGOP; Advocates For ILLEGALLY Funding Campaign with "Dope Money" "We can flip some shit from the inside out."

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Cryptocurrency: BlocknetDX - Why Cross-Coin DEX? Atomic Swap, Haveno, etc.
by grarpamp 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Generic swap protocols, handshaked do or dont handovers, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zwijpqWkVE ATK: Why DEX? https://haveno.exchange/ Block DX - A decentralized exchange dApp built on Blocknet https://blocknet.co/block-dx/ https://github.com/blocknetdx https://docs.blocknet.co/project/blocknet-whitepaper.pdf https://docs.blocknet.co/service-nodes/setup/ https://api.blocknet.co/ https://discord.gg/2e6s7H8 https://chainz.cryptoid.info/block/ Block DX is the fastest, most secure, most reliable, and most decentralized exchange (DEX), built on the Blocknet Protocol.The exchange has over 100 digital assets trading, with the number continuously growing as more are made compatible.There is complete trading pair freedom, meaning any two assets can be traded, totaling to over 5000 tradable pairs https://docs.blocknet.co/blockdx/listings/ In order for for a blockchain to be compatible it must support JSON RPC, CLTV atomic swaps, and the following calls:

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