July 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

The old soft-drill
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Despite the relentless quarter-century focus on ' Black Box ' assassination politics ( AP ) I still hold out great hopes for " Open Source " AP or " APster ". As I've said, some soft forms of this are already emerging - described as ' Gaslighting ', " Cancellation" and so on. Forms of erasure falling far short of physical killing. I have a running joke among fellow anarchs, who are still leery of reviving Propaganda of the Deed a century later, that at least many of them still go in for ' character assassination politics ". And one workaround for the skeptics has long been anticipated - the subject of any prediction mart simply takes the pool and disappears. So long as they might as well be dead then the contract is fulfilled and everyone's happy. I can imagine variations on that theme. Au used to have what were called ' Remittance Men ". These were Englishmen paid to stay away from England. Bottom line is nobody has to die - they just have to play this new game and accept this new system. " Play dead "

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Scenes from the class struggle in Vermont
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

' . . .I'm in Vermont these few years, looking to get my truck back up and going to travel again. I'm in a small town with a mountain, a short drive away from a small city. Very wooded, tons of trees everywhere. I love trees. . ." That's very good, Karl. I feel we're making excellent progress now - not just locating your state, but also Juan's country ( Argentina landfill ) and Gramps, who comes from Texas ( amirite? ) I won't press you for more details at this juncture since I'm becoming more aware of communication problems in our highly unjust and unequal world. James Randi once commented that [ Edgar ] “Cayce was fond of expressions like ‘I feel that’ and ‘perhaps’—qualifying words used to avoid positive declarations.” I get that. The Anarchist News collective is also like that. I hope we can all get past that. Yrs in anarchist translucence - pr

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FWD: Mailman privacy alert
by zeynep＠keemail.me 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

i got 4 of these emails today Tarih: 27 Tem 2022 01:28 Kimden: cypherpunks-bounces(a)lists.cpunks.org Kime: zeynep(a)keemail.me Konu : Mailman privacy alert > An attempt was made to subscribe your address to the mailing list > cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org. You are already subscribed to this mailing list. > > Note that the list membership is not public, so it is possible that a bad > person was trying to probe the list for its membership. This would be a > privacy violation if we let them do this, but we didn't. > > If you submitted the subscription request and forgot that you were already > subscribed to the list, then you can ignore this message. If you suspect that > an attempt is being made to covertly discover whether you are a member of this > list, and you are worried about your privacy, then feel free to send a message > to the list administrator at cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org. >

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Calls for a mistrial in CIA espionage frame-up
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Juror's in the Joshua Shulte trial reportedly shared notes taken during proceedings. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/13/the-surreal-case-of-a-cia-hac… IANAL but normal jury instructions would seem to rule that out up front. Yes? " . . .there was no way for the C.I.A. to exact retribution against Schulte without, in the process, revealing a great deal of unflattering information about itself . . ." Such as its close sister-agency relationship with the NYT & Conde Nast

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2005 Year Zero
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

2005 Year Zero " The Crypto Wars never happened " - Scumbag PR Keefe Keefe repeatedly cautions, whatever ‘they’ (officialdom) will let you know about their real capabilities is already ten years out of date; what you can dig up on your own is probably wildly exaggerated – but you can’t be sure. Whenever he gets close to ‘state of the art’ reporting, his sources worry about exposing their potential profit-margin as much as breaching security. But that’s his next book, perhaps. (He also gives the impression he worried about being responsible with what he revealed.) https://www.amazon.com.au/Chatter-Dispatches-Secret-Global-Eavesdropping/dp…

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PR Keefe needs killing ( My 200 sats )
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

This Royal scumbag was a policy adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense between 2010 and 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Radden_Keefe Before Jim Bell went to prison, he suspected that most government officials were corrupt. Three years behind bars later, the self-proclaimed Internet anarchist is sure of it. After Bell, a cypherpunk who the United States government dubbed a techno-terrorist, is released Friday at 10 a.m. PDT, he plans to exact revenge on the system that imprisoned him. "If they continue to work for the government, they deserve it. My suggestion to these people is to quit now and hope for mercy,"

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Semiconductor bill unites Sanders, the right — in opposition
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

With the schwerpunkt of global hegemon status shifting so decisively away from the US to the net its not just time for the US to create a brand new " Hands Off the Web ' doctrine, but officially recognize the " Internet Century ", Crypto-anarchist, crypto-munitions as a WMD and all cypherpunk list contributors as non-state terrorists and bad-ass perpetrators. Seems the least they can do, short of fulfill my surrender terms I last updated a few years ago. ( End Drug War, Bring back PAM the Terminatrix and recognize " APster ' as reason for those two key policy shifts. " Surrender Dorothy Denning " basically )

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Karl Semich, where do you live?
by professor rat 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Florida rapper Rollie Bands was gunned down outside his apartment complex Friday minutes after he dared his critics to confront him at his house in an Instagram post. “A lot of these n****s know where I live at fr,” the rapper wrote on his Instagram Story, according to HipHopDX. “I sleep in peace. If a n***a want smoke I’m at my crib in 5 mins.” Just five minutes after his post, at around 3.30pm, the rapper was shot once in the parking lot of his apartment complex in Tampa. He was rushed to an area hospital, but couldn’t be saved. So where you at, KS?

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Thug Life
by grarpamp 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

> Florida rapper Rollie Bands https://youtu.be/oww27JF1ffE > was gunned down outside his apartment complex > minutes after he dared his critics to confront him at > his house in an Instagram post. > > “A lot of these niggas know where I live at fr, > I sleep in peace. If a nigga want smoke I’m at my crib in 5 mins." > "Pull up!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH27CbzmQ3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wW6gPXT-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuOrHhcIrsw Classic. The Rat... always talking shit on Insta, too coward to run his own Ghetto Fantasy. The howto public since years of p2p cryptocurrency nets. Eventually some Real Niggas will step up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJCFc_qkHw The Rats, their beloved Govts, will be just a memory, done in by their own FutureMaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWYtxd9maQ8

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Semiconductor bill unites Sanders, the right — in opposition
by jim bell 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Semiconductor bill unites Sanders, the right — in opposition https://share.newsbreak.com/1hx0vuzi WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and the fiscally conservative right. The bill making its way through the Senate is a top priority of the Biden administration. It would add about $79 billion to the deficit over 10 years, mostly as a result of new grants and tax breaks that would subsidize the cost that computer chip manufacturers incur when building or expanding chip plants in the United States.Supporters say that countries all over the world are spending billons of dollars to lure chipmakers. The U.S. must do the same or risk losing a secure supply of the semiconductors that power the nation’s automobiles, computers, appliances and some of the military’s most advanced weapons systems. Sanders, I-Vt., and a wide range of conservative lawmakers, think tanks and media outlets have a different take. To them, it’s “corporate welfare.” It’s just the latest example of how spending taxpayer dollars to help the private sector can scramble the usual partisan lines, creating allies on the left and right who agree on little else. They are positioning themselves as defenders of the little guy against powerful interest groups lining up at the public trough. Sanders said he doesn’t hear from people about the need to help the semiconductor industry. Voters talk to him about climate change, gun safety, preserving a woman’s right to an abortion and boosting Social Security benefits, to name just a few.

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