March 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

FT sounding alarm bells about “ plethora of experiments with decentralised social technologies
by professor rat 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

TOO LATE, LOSERS! The screams of the Conde Nast wounded echoes in my ears - what sweet music they make! https://www.ft.com/content/3e27cfd6-e287-4b6f-a588-29b5b962a534 Reposts not context collapse, devolving to “shouting into the void.” Innovations in the direction of “Disappearing and Deniable Messages” are lauded, not as protecting anything so “imprecise” as a notion of “privacy” that a sender might opt into, but as limits imposed within the public to prevent the possibility of upsetting the contextual applecart. Apparently advancements in common understanding are anathema; any deviation from the enshrined shibboleths risks context collapse

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Regulator, Targeted with $5M Bounty, Removed and Arrested
by professor rat 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Venezuela today - Ecuador tomorrow amirite! https://decrypt.co/123988/venezuela-crypto-regulator-sunacrip-joselit-ramir… Reposts say goodnight to Josh Gordon

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Julian Assmange, Jeffrey Tucker and James O'Keefe, oh my
by professor rat 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Julian Assmange, Jeffrey Tucker & James O'Keefe dragged and dropped in here by our internet guy, G >>> US 2024 Election Ticket Trump (Pres) - End Deep State, End War, Older, etc Ramaswamy (VP) - Pro-Crypto, Libertarian Angle, End Woke, Younger, etc The internet has been noting and discussing this combination as a potentially winning partnership ticket. <<< Gramps must be one of those conservatives that like being lied to according to Arnie Coulter GIGO thy name is " Grarpamps "

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Leaks Free Speech: O'Keefe Media Group Launches After Project Veritas, Seeks Sponsors
by grarpamp 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

https://www.okeefemediagroup.com/ https://www.theepochtimes.com/james-okeefe-announces-new-project-after-proj… James O’Keefe Announces New Project After Project Veritas Ouster Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe has announced a new media project. The O’Keefe Media Group was unveiled on March 15, about three weeks after O’Keefe resigned from Project Veritas following a suspension and probe into his spending practices. “We’re going to be sending cameras into the hands of hundreds of people,” O’Keefe said on Real America’s Voice. “We’re going to be creating a citizen army of journalists.” Project Veritas staffers and its board had maintained that O’Keefe could return to the organization, but O’Keefe is instead forging a new path. The Project Veritas founder said that a “small, tight-knit group” of “elite journalists” has remained by his side and is joining in the new venture. “They have awakened a sleeping giant,” O’Keefe said in a promotional video. “I’m back.” The business model is based on donations that will directly sponsor cameras. Tiers run from $19.99 a month to $5,000 a year. “Let’s build this army and keep every statehouse, every city council, every school board and everywhere people are conspiring to keep power, proactive favoritism or line their pockets with tax dollars!” O’Keefe said on Twitter. “Become a founding member today!” Exit O’Keefe exited Project Veritas, which he founded in 2010, on Feb. 20. O’Keefe was suspended by the organization’s board of directors as it investigated allegations of financial malfeasance and abuse. A preliminary probe showed O’Keefe “has spent an excessive amount of donor funds in the last three years on personal luxuries,” the board said. The board said it did not remove O’Keefe but he said he was forced out because he no longer had any authority. The move divided staffers, some of whom had threated to leave if O’Keefe’s alleged conduct was not addressed. Others supported O’Keefe and have moved to the new group. “We will never replace James O’Keefe. But for now, we see it as our job to hold the torch for him while keeping the door wide open for his return,” staffers said in a statement. Project Veritas, which specializes in undercover recordings, published an expose of a Pfizer executive shortly before O’Keefe’s exit. It has since released several investigations into educators, including a recording showing a New York professor saying he wants to kill Republican leaders. Some supporters had said they would stop following Project Veritas since O’Keefe is no longer there. Eric Spracklen, a Project Veritas employee, highlighted how one clip received 700,000 views over 24 hours on Twitter. “Project Veritas is dead,” he wrote sarcastically. Project Veritas Hires Law Firm The board said it would hire an outside firm to perform an audit of financial practices at Project Veritas. On March 3, the firm was identified as Dorsey & Whitney LLP. “We recognize the need for an investigation that is completely free of any bias or favor. For this reason, we have engaged a leading law firm in these matters to perform this analysis and report their findings to the Board of Directors,” the board said in a statement. “We look forward to sharing findings of this investigation when it is complete,” it added. A timeline for the investigation has not been outlined.

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Cryptocurrency: Finally Enabling Libertarians to Seed the Doers of Freedom
by grarpamp 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

https://dailyreckoning.com/the-eggheads-vs-the-doers/ The Eggheads Vs The Doers Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, I recently spoke at one of my favorite venues, the Liberty Forum in New Hampshire, which is an annual conference center on the Free State Project. It’s designed to encourage people to pick up and move to the freest state in the country for community and to help protect the state from the fate that befell Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. My first time speaking there was 2012, I believe, and I came away with an interesting revelation, which I can summarize as “Liberty is a hands-on task.” In my career until that time, the problem of economic and political matters were mostly matters of theory and I had spent most of my time reading and distributing high theory, a task I loved and still do. But coming to this event in New Hampshire I found something else entirely; a group of people who were busy doing things in practice to live freer lives. They were small business people, real-estate agents, people with alternative currency systems, people raising and selling food on and from their own farms, organizers of houses of worship and community centers, homeschoolers and school entrepreneurs, and much more besides, including office holders focusing on laws and legislation. It was here, for example, that I acquired my first Bitcoin, which in the early days showed great promise finally to recreate money in a way that government could not ruin. It struck me at the time as among the greatest inventions of the human mind. Tellingly, it did not come from academia (so far as we know) but from tinkerers who wanted to solve the problem of double spending on digital monetary units. It was genius. The economics journals ignored it for many years, of course. Doers At this event were and are the practitioners. There is not one path forward but many, each person creatively implementing their own version of the freedom ideal. I recall being puzzled a bit by this approach but later inspired. I felt like a pianist who had only known scales who finds himself listening to a concerto by Liszt. I came to realize the difference between theory and practice, between the academic class and the people in clinical practice. Theory should never be put down but we make a mistake in thinking that this is the whole of the task. Theory alone introduces its own dangers of following a logic to the point of absurdity that goes unnoticed. Minor mistakes in thinking can metastasize and create models that make no sense in reality. Theory unchecked by practical experience can even be catastrophic. I knew an architect at university who received a large grant to develop a community of residences, which he did according to the highest standards of then-fashionable art and a theoretically informed sense of how people should live. The results were intriguing but the builders fought with the architect the entire time. The roofs had no overhang, the wiring and pipes under the houses on stilts had no covering, and the bathrooms had no doors, to mention just three problems. Sure enough, once houses went on the market and faced the first winter, many design elements had to change. Residents put doors on bathrooms, the roofs were all retrofitted, and the open basements were all closed in and insulated. This was all made necessary once the first rains led to flooding and the first freeze caused all pipes to burst. In essence, the result was a disaster simply because the architect was a designer and not a builder. There is a lesson in this. Theory without a reality check can make the world unlivable. This is because theorists can build beautiful models that hide grave errors, intentionally or not, and there is no means by which their mistakes are revealed until you test them against the real world. You never want them in charge of the whole project. The Theorists Dictated COVID Policy This is essentially what happened in the Covid years. The designers of the response were academics, bureaucrats, modelers, and other highly credentialed experts. Sidelined were medical practitioners, clinical workers, and other people with hands-on experience in dealing with healthcare. As time went on a massive chasm opened between the two camps with the theorists and modelers prevailing with media megaphone. Meanwhile, the doctors, nurses, teachers, parents, elderly in nursing homes, and really the whole of everyone else were left without discretion, their concerns and issues not only ignored but censored and blotted out from public life. To return to the above analogy, the houses were flooding, the pipes were bursting, the residents humiliated, but there was no one to fix the problem because the architect was sure that he was right. The problem is nowhere more clear than on the issue of early treatment. Doctors know how to deal with respiratory infections. Among the products in their toolkit are nasal rinses, zinc and vitamins, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, steroids, and antibiotics. None of this was a focus of the CDC or the NIH. They had their sights on one thing only, the novel gene therapy they would call a vaccine, and they even went further to remove as far as possible repurposed drugs from the market. This was a mind-boggling response because it contradicted all practical and clinical experience. What is the first thing one should do when faced with a new pathogen? Figure out how to make sick people get better. Aside from invasive ventilation, the government and academic theorists had no answers except for everyone to lock down and wait for the shot, which turned out to be a flop. Fantasyland Here is the essence of the scandal without precedent that took place all over the world. The theorists triumphed entirely over the practitioners. The job of the rest of us was to place ourselves into their models. We were supposed to comply in order to “flatten the curve” as if any kind of widespread viral infection could be so easily modeled. We were supposed to watch the databases online to make sure we would all be doing the right thing according to someone else’s plan. Meanwhile, for nearly two years, if you could leave your home and go to the downtown area of anywhere in the US, you saw boarded up businesses, empty streets, and the periodic saddened straggler making his way through alleyways in a mask while the kids and parents sat lonely at home consuming streaming videos and living on social media. The disaster was obvious to everyone but those who created it. As time went on, we came to realize that the experiment was much bigger than we thought. They were not just trying to mitigate a pathogen. They were attempting to rebuild “the infrastructures of human existence.” Here we have a paradigmatic example of theory gone mad, a vision wholly unconstrained from any reality, a cockamamie idea wholly unmoored from practical tangibilities. It’s utter madness. And yet they had the power and the rest still do not. And even today, precious few have admitted that anything went wrong. They are still blocking unvaccinated foreigners from travel, still mandating shots for kids and students, still pushing for human separation with 15-minute cities, and still swearing without a shred of evidence that they saved millions of lives. If you doubt it, they will send you to an academic study hosted on the website of the NIH. What Makes Society Work? It was the triumph of theory over practice and experience. And look what they did to the world! The writings of Friedrich Hayek, building on Adam Smith, take the insight to a deeper level. There are many answers to social problems that are not readily part of human cognition in the present generation, certainly not to the theorists in charge, and not even to any one of us as intellectuals. Rather, the essential knowledge that makes society work properly — in vast amounts of its functioning — and to the advantage of all its members, is dispersed among millions and billions of minds, living tacitly in our mental spaces, and it is often the product of habits and rituals of living that are inherited from long experience deep in history. We take all of this for granted and hardly think about it. Much of it is inaccessible to us and certainly cannot be extracted, modeled, and codified into a grand plan. The great lesson of our time should certainly include grave incredulity toward any philosopher king who comes along to tell us that it is all wrong and must be replaced with a wholly new way, else we will all die from a scary new threat, whether be a new pathogen or a change in the climate or some other invisible enemy. Looked at this way, it’s truly hard to believe that anyone gave the time of day to these people in the first place.

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I was dead wrong about Augur
by professor rat 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

I thought this full-spectrum market was doing everything right dotting every c-punk 'I' and crossing ever crypto-anarchist ' T '. I guess the excellent is the enemy of the good. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. >>> oKaiyo · 4 days ago · edited 4 days ago This forum has been dead for years. And now the coin is too. Delisted from Binance in December, and now Coinbase. There is no coming back from that. Reputation is shot to hell and there is zero interest in this project from users, traders, whales, and institutions. RIP $REP <<< For want of a horses arse a kingdom was lost - SAD!

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Wikileaks: Julian Assange - Journalism, Leaks, Collateral Murder, Censorship
by grarpamp 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVoUPnXqvNE The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange Julian Assange MUST BE FREED. "If wars can be started by lies, then they can be stopped by truth. -- Julian Assange"

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Cryptocurrency: GovBankPol Weaponizing Interest Rates To Destroy Crypto
by grarpamp 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

In addition to the anti-inflation meme, which they could stop by simply quitting money printing, rest assured that their full intent at least prior to implosion is to indeed keep global rates higher for longer in order to make crypto less appealing. The Power Elites and Deep State around the world will not hesitate to utterly destroy civilization, even through nuclear war, so long as they are able to preserve their own power over human freedom, and that includes monetary power. Crypto is a direct threat to their survival. "You will own nothing" is not a silly meme, it is their intended reality in regards to crypto too. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that. Their only fear is that you and all the rest of you sheeple will wake up to their psychological control game over you. Buy and begin using crypto now amongst your peers and wherever else you can create and find to use. If you don't do this right now today, the entirety of crypto will be lost, and your slavery will be final.

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Cryptocurrency: US 2024 Election Ticket - End Deep State Trump (Pres) and Pro-Crypto Libertarian Ramaswamy (VP)
by grarpamp 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

US 2024 Election Ticket Trump (Pres) - End Deep State, End War, Older, etc Ramaswamy (VP) - Pro-Crypto, Libertarian Angle, End Woke, Younger, etc The internet has been noting and discussing this combination as a potentially winning partnership ticket.

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Blowing up police stations & the liberation of prisoners
by professor rat 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

The pre-CHEKIST Lenin had his moments To launch attacks under favorable circumstances is not only every anarchist revolutionary’s right, but their plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, commissars, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising—such operations are already being carried out wherever insurrection is rife. ( Paraphrased ) Men and women of the worlds police work every day to fuck the public. You can fuck some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you are going to end up in a body bag or a pinebox before you manage to fuck all of the people all of the time.

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