June 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

[ot][crazy] Theories of Mind Control: Repeated Short-term Reward
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

Today's xkcd showed the author has mysterious difficulty exercising, even as he gets better at it. I was thinking of the various mainstream mind controls, and how that might develop in both him and me. A constant feedback pattern is of people checking e.g. their mobile devices for e.g. their email, texts, or whatever. This pattern has been developing since the 90s. My understanding is that most people check for updates more frequently than is necessary, even if there is generally nothing new, and then portals like facebook or youtube can capitalize on that by introducing influence content. I'm thinking of a sense of satisfaction or reward developing in the mind, and that encouraging habit formation and preference building, to repeat the behavior. When this happens, it's not including reasons: it's feeling-based. If there are rational reasons, they are heavily weighted by the feelings present and the environment of being mostly exposed to the same influences. So instincts we have, like to run around outdoors, have to do their thing in context of that continuous reinforcement. As we go throughout the day, or minds go through different states. We process different things around us; we daydream, brainstorm, plan, or pursue goals; we're at different points in our biological cycles, getting hungry, tired, aroused, etc. So each time these feedback loops of checking messages reinforce in some way, they are doing so in exposure to different things in the mind and body. And they're' doing so without solid logical reasons, which could make it hard for the mind to know which parts are relevant to the reinforcement. The theory then, is that as different parts of mind activate during reinforcement, the reinforcement slowly spreads to those different parts, as it happens during their activity. All the different parts of our cycles start deciding it's helpful to check for updates on our phone -- or the habits of checking for updates, gain footholds in these parts, reducing the cognitive events during the normal human parts that support those normal human parts on their own. I imagine the behavior slowly spreading through the brain, like an arm of the corporation running the product it's associated with. They can stimulate more and more of the human brain by simply delivering an email or showing a meme, the longer the human uses them. And it becomes harder and harder to do other things. This specific theory may be less relevant nowadays as influence has gotten much craftier than simply the reward of getting an email from a friend, but it seems still relevant.

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Microsoft could finally kill HDD boot drives for good
by jim bell 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

Microsoft could finally kill HDD boot drives for good https://share.newsbreak.com/192x4v8n

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Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer
by jim bell 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/09/strong-showing-for-first-experiment… A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. More importantly, it demonstrates a potential path forward for RISC-V in high performance computing and by proxy, another shot for Europe to shed total reliance on American chip technologies beyond Arm-driven architectures. The “Monte Cimone” cluster will not be crunching massive weather simulations or the like anytime soon since it’s just an experimental machine. That said, it does show that performance sacrifices for lower power envelopes aren’t necessarily as dramatic as many believe. The six-node cluster, built by folks at Università di Bologna and CINECA, the largest supercomputing center in Italy, was part of a broader student cluster competition to showcase various elements of HPC performance beyond just floating-point capability. The cluster-building team, called NotOnlyFLOPs, wanted to establish the power-performance profile of RISC-V when using SiFive’s Freedom U740 system-on-chip. That 2020-era SoC has five 64-bit RISC-V CPU cores – four U7 application cores and an S7 system management core – 2MB of L2 cache, gigabit Ethernet, and various peripheral and hardware controllers. It can run up to around 1.4GHz. Here’s a look at the components as well as feeds and speeds of Monte Cimone: - Six dual-board servers with a form factor of 4.44 cm (1U) high, 42.5 cm width, 40 cm deep. Each board follows the industry standard Mini-ITX form factor (170 mm per 170 mm); - Each board features one SiFive Freedom U740 SoC and 16GB of 64-bit DDR memory operating at 1866s MT/s, plus a PCIe Gen 3 x8 bus operating at 7.8 GB/s, one gigabit Ethernet port, and USB 3.2 Gen 1 interfaces; - Each node has an M.2 M-key expansion slot occupied by a 1TB NVME 2280 SSD used by the operating system. A microSD card is inserted in each board and used for UEFI booting; - Two 250 W power supplies are integrated inside each node to support the hardware and future PCIe accelerators and expansion board

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jewnazi neocons - the rulers of the US empire
by punk 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

the jewnazi neocons are the mafia that pay the wages of the jew-NATO-nazis grancrap and his comrade coworker pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au Trotsky, Strauss, and the Neocons, by Justin Raimondo https://www.antiwar.com/justin/j061303.html raimondo is corrupt enough to complain about being smeared as an 'anti semite', when in reality being anti jew is a moral imperative. But apart from that, raimondo explains well how the far-left commie jews became the far-right US fascist jews who control the US military. Neocons are trash Neocons are jews jews are trash it's not hard.

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Armed attacks by anarchists against all Chekists is a revolutionary necessity
by professor rat 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

The fall of Putin and the defeat of the Russian army will lead to the liberation not only of Belarus, but also of dozens of other peoples who have been imprisoned there. https://anarchistnews.org/comment/44969#comment-44969 Reposts etc

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Antisemitic garbage in
by professor rat 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

Antisemitic garbage out Karl Marx expressed hate-filled antisemitic bigotry every decade of his rotten, petty-bourgeois-flunkies life - from the 1830's to 1883. The man was a proto-Nazi. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . . " KARL Marx the stinking ' journalist ' https://www.reddit.com/r/CapitalismVSocialism/comments/7dwc4n/the_russian_l… Every self-described Marxist is thus a 'scientific racist ' and a hate-filled bigot of the worst kind. But you knew that.

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Red-fascist antisemitism
by professor rat 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

Jews were not the only ethnic group facing racism before and after the revolution. In his monograph on Engels and the ‘non-historic’ peoples, Roman Rosdolsky – chief theoretician of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was incarcerated for aiding Jews5 – develops a critique of the way this category was used by Engels during the revolutions of 1848–49 to designate certain East European peoples as counter-revolutionary by nature and doomed to extinction. In it, Rosdolsky cites a similar example from the Russian revolution, when in the cities of Ukraine in 1918–1919, it was not a rare occurrence for Red Guards to shoot inhabitants who spoke Ukrainian in public or admitted to being Ukrainian, because the Russian or Russified rank-and-file party members considered Ukrainian a ‘counter-revolutionary’ language . . . " http://marxwords.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_marxwords_archive.html ENGELS SAID GERMANS SHOULD USE TERROR AGAINST THE SLAVS

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Left-fascist antisemitism
by professor rat 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

" . . . Blanc designates as ‘borderland socialists’ from the empire’s periphery: notably Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, as well as the firmly anti-Zionist Jewish Bund, all of whom sought to tie national liberation and the struggle against ethnic supremacism to a class struggle orientation. For example, in an environment where many socialists took an ambivalent attitude to antisemitism, the Bund called for a joint struggle of Jewish and Christian workers against antisemitic pogroms and opposed Zionist efforts to use the pogroms as a pretext to divide them. In 1900, Lenin denounced Plekhanov’s racist comments about Jews, yet, after a pogrom in 1902, Lenin himself denounced the Bund’s claim that antisemitism had penetrated the working class, despite the fact that the Social Democrats in Odessa had banned Jews from membership in order to avoid alienating antisemitic Russian workers. Only in 1903 did the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDWP) pass a resolution calling for a resolute struggle against antisemitic pogroms . . . " https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/socialist-internationalism-and-u…

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The M1 has a major security loophole that Apple can’t patch
by jim bell 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

The M1 has a major security loophole that Apple can’t patch https://share.newsbreak.com/19ais0pf

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Fwd: Larson FOIL Extension letter (2021 Apple Card Report)
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

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