July 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Why does Spencer Beswick hate our anarchist freedoms?
by professor rat 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

Spencer Beswick (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University researching the history of anarchism and the left; his dissertation, “Love and Rage: Revolutionary Anarchism in the Late Twentieth Century,” explores the attempted colonization of the anarchist movement in the 1980s-90s. https://anarchistnews.org/comment/46332#comment-46332 Reposts etc - you know the drill

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Samuel Alito needs killing ( My 200 sats )
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. born April Fools, 1950) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served since January 31, 2006. He is the second Italian-American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Antonin Scalia, and the eleventh Roman Catholic. And in related news… Mussolini was Catholic. Franco was Catholic. Himmler, head of the SS, was a Catholic. The SS was set up on the Jesuit model. Goebbels was Catholic. Hoss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz, was a Catholic. Frank,‘ the butcher of Poland ’, was Catholic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito There he goes! GET HIM!

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APster rising
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

One of the funniest things about the inexorable rise of full-spectrum cryptoanarchy is how the worlds last super-power has been enlisted since 2002. Another proof of this will arrive shortly when it grants us such a generous amount of regulatory arbitrage ( Jurisdiction shopping ) that good money drives out bad. That is good money for us decadent Western liberal Atlanticist's. Bad for KGB Russia and the CCP. Adoption of deadpool-bounty-law also underlines the use of violence - controlled violence - in any political-economy. This then exposes all ' peace-loving agorist ' and NAP politicos as liars. They talk up PEACE! at every opportunity the same way libertarians once talked up smaller, leaner govt and Lenin promised the Proudhonian Commune - its bullshit. And its more than the usual toxic political bs when carpetbagger pacifists, like Ross Ulbricht and Jeff Berwick. get caught in the act of subsidizing violence. But youse knew that.

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Top down APster reports
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

The USG continues to proffer large rewards for information leading to the arrest of certain alleged miscreants - usually infamous criminals. " Bounty Law " is considered uncontroversial when done piecemeal and on an ad hoc basis. Unlike pentagon PAM from 2003 that was described as a " Terrorist Casino " If the USG is a great and omnipotent teacher, as described by Louis Brandeis, then its teaching the world how to move towards a new justice system. That's a bold statement, yet one, I believe is supported by the additional factoid that - since 2002 - no cypherpunk has had APster mentioned in legal proceedings against them. So its hard not to see APster as a clear and present trend. Its like giving the Defense portfolio to anarchism ( After first giving Treasury to crypto-currency ) Its like a new Westphalia - Welcome to the revolution.

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Whitepapers, source-code and privacy or ' CHAUM " for short
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

David Chaum has so many white-papers and so much unpatented source-code he makes us all look lazy. And in recent years he's devoted much time to healing the privacy breach represented by metadata. So Dave is like a ' Golden Goose ' for this list. But no good deed ever goes unpunished. SAD! Its enough to drive a Chaumian punk to suicide. Amirite?

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Re-enter the Matrix
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

" So Amorpheous; what you're saying is Monero devs, users and operators all think that Monero can successfully be made too traceable for criminals." Let me put it this way, Zero. Only idiots would not see the fact in that statement. " BULLSHIT! " Reposts like green vertical streams in the rain ( Keep taking the tablets, Gramps )

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Another day - another major use case
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

As history has proven, overcoming the technology adoption curve comes down to a major use case, or the so-called “killer app.” https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-technology-can-help-create-safe-a… Reposts etc

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Novo-feudalism 0 - Crypto-anarchism 1
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

>>> having completely recallable delegates is a technique to transfer ahead. While others focused on governance mechanisms, some pointed to the use of blockchain-based scientific disciplines, such as leveraging verified randomization to pick essential roles in a DAO. Another community member recommended selecting token holders at random and rotating when the designated holder is not present on-chain. <<< The more people show up the further behind the hardcore Paultards get and the more anarcho-anarchist things get overall. And this was perfectly predictable - even back in the early 90's. The OG Randite morons should have called it ' Cyber-Liberty ' not cryptoanarchy. Too bad.

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[ot][spam][crazy] adapters for semibalanced trees?
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

i wonder if i can use the adapter finetuning stuff to feel like i am moving forward on the semibalanced trees a little i'm imagining a model that mutates code in a way that is helpful: stabilising it, simplifying it, anything helpful for the goal if the code were small enough, it might fit right into a language model. there may even be long-context language models on huggingface, like transformers-xl, that adapter transformers could just load right up

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Cryptocurrency: Matrix Of Privacy Coins Rising... A Serious Affair, Not For MaxiBoi Games, AP on XMR
by grarpamp 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

On 7/29/22, professor rat <pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > " So Amorpheous; what you're saying is those who would sacrifice freedoms > for security deserve, and will get, neither freedom or security " > > Negatory Zero. With Zcash we can trace either Cypher or Agent Smith to > their regular rendezvous at Hooters where the steaks are delicious and > nutritious. > > https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1506677501417988096 "Monero devs and users and operators all *think* that Monero *can* successfully *be made* too traceable for criminals." Only idiots would not see the fact in that statement. And the idiocy of Zoobats who illogically conflate traceability AND privacy/fungible as somehow affording those... are obvious. And the Rat's silly repeated claims actually turn out to have made zero successful attack on either ZEC or XMR or any other strong privacy coin's privacy. That's what whitepapers and sourcecode are for... use them, to prove privacy, or not, openly to the world. Fanboi'ism and Maxis infesting any crypto are dangerous, especially when it is regarding privacy. Bitcoin-BTC is obviously compromised by that action, as are GovBankCorp CBDC Digital Fiat Coins and all of today's Fiat systems. Monero is well known to be infested with Fanbois expressing elements of Maxi'ism, which is obvious, and thus not to its benefit. That op diverts resource cycles, perhaps covertly and maliciously, away from proper public studies of the papers and codes, and away from the continued open competitive development of strong privacy solutions, by suggesting everything is fine just rest on it. That's bad. Cryptographically strong coin privacy means roughly 2^128-bit equivalence or better... not some lame 2^8 traceable shufflepuck over clearnet. USGov put at least a $500k AP contract hit out on Monero privacy, look it up. This implies they think a general break is possible for that amount and that takers will appear there. That's bad... and is definitely not a comfortable minimum market anyone should be racing to adopt into. Raise cost of privacy break to $100M per each false/political prosecution, then you might be able to consider that a start to a worthy privacy coin. There is no privacy-enabled coin that comes close to that level of assurance yet. Coin privacy is still early days. Best get to work on that. To the winners... privacy :)

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