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Empirical studies of anarchist economics assume greater importance as we approach globalized cryptoanarchism.
by professor rat 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

Austrian School economists, following Mises, use praxeology and deduction, rather than empirical studies, to determine economic principles - its methodology is innumerate! https://theworld.com/~mhuben/austrian.html Empirical studies of anarchist economics assume greater importance as we approach globalized cryptoanarchism. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gaston-leval-collectives-in-the-spa… After the emigration of Mises to the US his pupil Murray Rothbard defended the praxeological approach. Now Professor, Murray Rothbard claims there is nothing un-libertarian about “organization, hierarchy, wage-work, granting of funds by libertarian millionaires, and a libertarian party.” In other words, “wanting to abolish authority in large-scale industry is tantamount to wanting to abolish industry itself.” Rothbard? No, Frederick Engels! Marx agreed: “Go and run one of the Barcelona factories without direction, that is to say, without authority!” (Which is just what the Catalan workers did in 1936.

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The time is ripe to go full ballistic on the spammers' asses
by professor rat 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

Not Qanon Karl Semich and Magat Grarpamps? Damn . . . >>> oomahq · Apr 4 The time is ripe for #ordisrespector nodes to go full ballistic on the spammers' asses. In the last 24h I've been teasing at a second kind of spam mitigation: today I want to talk to you about #ordislow. Our attention is now directed at the miners rather than spammers... Show this thread <<< Talking e-Krugerrand blues

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EFC from SwissCows asks " The question is... will Trump win the election and end the US support for Ukraine? "
by professor rat 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

EFC from SwissCows just asked us here recently " The question is... will Trump win the election and end the US support for Ukraine? " And its said ' there are no stupid questions ". Could be an exception that proves this rule. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/donaldtrump Reposts not morons engaging in chit-chat with list enemies like Spammer Karl Semich and Magat Garbage scow Gramps.

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A Signal Failure
by professor rat 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

EFC is also gasbagging about " getting people on safe and secure services ". Like one of Julio's bitch punks. Or Lord Snowball. Jake Applebum. EFC; to think of yourself as being a safety and security activist means to think of yourself as being somehow enlightened, privileged or more advanced than others in your appreciation of the need for security and safety change, in the knowledge of how to achieve it and as leading or being in the forefront of the practical struggle to create this change. Give it up faggot. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrew-x-give-up-activism Reposts not advertisements for funeral-home-services like Whispering Glades

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A Signal Failure
by professor rat 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

>> I think binary thinking is detrimental to getting people on safe and secure services.<<< EFC opposition to binary opposites, like literal/metaphorical, serious/playful, deep/superficial, nature/culture, ad infinitum. EFC sees these as basic conceptual hierarchies, mainly smuggled in by language itself, which provide the illusion of definition or orientation. He further claims that the deconstructive work of overturning these pairings, which valorize one of the two over the other, leads to a political and social overturning of actual, non-conceptual hierarchies. But to automatically refuse all binary oppositions is itself a metaphysical proposition; it in fact bypasses politics and history out of a failure to see in opposites, however imprecise they may be, anything but a linguistic reality. In the dismantling of every binarism, EFC's construction aims at “conceiving difference without opposition.” What in a smaller dosage would seem a salutary approach, a skepticism about neat, either/or characterizations, proceeds to the very questionable prescription of refusing all unambiguity. To say that there can be no yes or no position is tantamount to a paralysis of relativism, in which ‘impotence’ becomes the valorized partner to ‘opposition’.

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Journalists suspected in police operation against anarchists
by professor rat 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

In any large military-entertainment-complex the media are half the problem https://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-behind-coastal-gaslink-pipelin… Reposts not Pamela Andersons boyfriend bumf

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The bigger alignment picture
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Aligning humans with their strong AI creations we do straight away - aligning cryptoanarchism on earth with universal quantum PKI takes a little longer. From Charles Rhodes a decade or two back through proposed Cosmic RNG's to this https://physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-ray-muons-used-to-create-cryptography-sys… Synchronizing ansible devices further and further out looks like the perfect excuse for inevitable trespass. " Don't mind us. We are merely conducting tests on ubiquitous non-locality. Shan't be long "

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Xi Jinping needs killing ( My 2k sats )
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

A prediction market on a person is also an assassination market on that person. >>> sarahemclaugh Apr 3 AI image generator Midjourney lets users make satirical images of Biden, Putin, and other leaders. But not Xi Jinping. Midjourney’s CEO says “political satire in china is pretty not-okay” so he’s applying China’s speech rules globally to all users. https://techdirt.com/2023/03/31/midjourney-ceo-says-political-satire-in-chi… Show this thread <<<

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A Signal Failure
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Some members of the privacy community, including Snowden, criticize Signal’s requirement that each user sign up with a phone number; others object to Signal’s default setting that alerts users every time a contact joins the service. And, although all of Signal’s source code is open-source and peer-reviewed, most users cannot be certain whether it is identical to the code deployed in the apps they download, or to the code that is actually running on Signal’s servers. Others argue that Signal should be federated, or decentralized: rather than trusting a single organization to remain stable, invulnerable, uncompromised, and oriented toward their needs, participants should be able to run their own servers. https://archive.vn/nARhl#selection-2239.0-2241.460 Signal Fails, an anonymous zine recently published on several anarchist Web sites, warns against dependency on a centralized service, particularly one running on mobile devices. “If your device is compromised with a keylogger or other malicious software, it doesn’t really matter how secure your communications are,” the zine reads. Were anarchists to “pose a major threat to the established order,” the government would “come for us and our infrastructure without mercy.”

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Mimetic poly-alloy superior to human-flesh over metal-endoskeleton
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Apple beats Microsoft in race to build first Sentient, Kinetic, Y-axis Network https://twitter.com/samuelwoods_/status/1642889718336479233 Reposts not diplomatic gibberish and handwaving from C3-PO

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