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Coinbase Asks Judge To Ignore SEC Win Over 'Empty Chair'
by Gunnar Larson 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

Coinbase Asks Judge To Ignore SEC Win Over 'Empty Chair' <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1810306?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…> By Aislinn Keely Coinbase on Tuesday told the New York federal judge who's refereeing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action brought against the cryptocurrency exchange to disregard a default judgment in another SEC case that found certain crypto trades on public exchanges to be securities transactions. 3 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1810306?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1810306?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…>

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CryptoQueen's Brother Avoids More Prison For OneCoin Fraud
by Gunnar Larson 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

CryptoQueen's Brother Avoids More Prison For OneCoin Fraud <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1810143?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Pete Brush A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday allowed the younger brother of fugitive OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova to avoid additional prison time for his role in the $4 billion, global cryptocurrency scam, after he testified for the feds at a high-profile trial. 1 document attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1810143?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1810143?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Fwd: OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails
by Gunnar Larson 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

What is this about? When you talk to voters across the country. We are setting this up for the coming months. Gunnar ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> Date: Wed, Mar 6, 2024, 3:42 AM Subject: OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails To: <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-06/openai-responds-to-musk-… OpenAI fired back at a lawsuit filed against it by Elon Musk in a blog post Tuesday, using the billionaire’s own emails to show he backed the company’s plans to become a for-profit business and that he insisted it raise “billions” of dollars to be relevant compared with Google.

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Re: Anti War: Thread
by grarpamp 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

" Bad news for the West: Russia will spend $160 billion on defense and security in 2024 and the Russian Finance Minister calls it the victory budget. Russia pays 75% less for similar or better weapon systems compared to the US / NATO because Russia doesn’t allow its defense industry to rip them off. So any plane, missile, tank or artillery ammunition costs Russia only 25% of what the US is paying. This means that a $160 billion Russian military budget is comparable to $640 billion in the United States. It’s also worth noting that Russia doesn’t waste trillions on fancy Navy ships and fighter jets that don’t work. Instead it has focused on building the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world, long range hypersonic missiles that can sink airplane carriers and autonomous nuclear powered torpedoes that travers the oceans without ever needing to refuel. They carry the largest nuclear warheads known to men and are nearly undetectable. Imagine the most powerful nuclear explosion on the shores of New York City generating a hundred meter tall tsunami of radioactive water destroying the entire city and turning it into an uninhabitable wasteland for centuries. In addition Russia has a fleet of Super EMP satellites in a high orbit above Earth with nuclear payloads. When detonated they can destroy the entire power grid and all civilian telecommunication systems in the US in an instant. The US military is used to fighting the least sophisticated enemies. It’s easy to bully any nation that doesn’t have peer capabilities. The US Govt killed over 20 million people in 37 victim nations since WW2 but it never bullied anyone who could destroy the United States, until now. Americans and citizens of NATO countries need to understand that the West cannot win against Russia on the battlefield. Every day without diplomacy and peace negotiations is bringing humanity closer to self-destruction. You already know that the Biden administration is the most inept and embarrassing Government America has ever had. Don’t let those arrogant, corrupt and incompetent fools destroy the world. Demand peace. Don’t wait until it’s too late. " General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn Jan 9 Americans need to stop thinking this will be a major regional war or as the military calls it a “major regional conflict.” We are in the initial stages of a much bigger, global conflict, and the conclusion & consequences are far greater than anyone can currently say. We simply don’t know how this will end…we just know things are not going in our favor principally due to those leading our nation. War is a failure of policy (and our U.S. foreign policy, globally, is a disaster), war is a failure of leadership at the highest levels (and man, have we seen a complete breakdown of leadership in the WH, the IC, at State, and most recently at DOD), and lastly, war is a racket. If you pray to a higher being, pray tonight and every night for the men and women serving in uniform, who willingly sacrifice for each one of us so we can sleep soundly at night. May God continue to bless and protect America 🦅🙏🏼🇺🇸

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Wokeism is Doomed
by grarpamp 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

Why Wokeness Is Doomed https://bombthrower.com/why-wokeness-is-doomed/ https://bombthrower.com/deconstructing-wokethink/ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2011-01-20/onset-catabolic-collapse/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdorsey/2021/03/17/americas-mass-migration… https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2021/7/helping%20people%20be%20seen,%20he… Four Megatrends of Reality Have Become Impossible To Ignore What we call “Wokeism” today has its roots in so-called “political correctness” which goes back decades. It began to accelerate in the early years of the 21st century, and while it was always driven by left-wing, liberal, impulses, who seemed to have the upper hand in culture and media; they still always feigned powerlessness and victimhood. Even in 2012, at possibly the apogee of the Liberal World Order, Paul Krugman wrote, with no sense of irony, “the big threat to our discourse is right-wing political correctness, which – unlike the liberal version – has lots of power and money behind it. And the goal is very much the kind of thing Orwell tried to convey with his notion of Newspeak: to make it impossible to talk, and possibly even think, about ideas that challenge the established order.“ This victimhood-as-bedrock continues to this day, especially since 2016 when the unthinkable happened. Brexit and Trump (basically, a backlash of populism) precipitated a full fledged psychotic break in the progressive zeitgeist, which until that moment was consolidating its hegemony. Political correctness metastasized into terminal Wokeness, where all aspects of discourse, popular culture and even public policy became delineated into whether it meshed well with left-wing sanctimony, or not. “Wokeness” takes the otherwise noble aspirations of egalitarianism and stewardship and twists them into a dogma that provides a Trojan Horse for despotism. The high priests of this mindset assert total moral authority and claim an elevated consciousness over the infantile, sub-human masses. Especially if those masses live in fly-over country, hold blue-collar jobs or are otherwise un-credentialed and without pedigree. This ideology (a word invented by rudderless Jacobins who went to work for Napoleon, helping him consolidate absolute power), translated well into modern times. The “science of ideas” provides the camouflage of choice for the totalitarian impulses of an elite class – increasingly destined for secular, sclerotic decline under the weight of its own corruption, internal contradictions and excess. For years we (the contrarian, non-compliant “we”, the “racist”, “fringe” we) have been sounding the alarm that the pillars of “Wokethink”, such as “all or nothing”, emotional thinking, catastrophizing and seven other markers, were highly congruent with mental illness. Worse, they are detrimental and destructive to society on a fundamental level. Where many fear a coming, Davos-inspired technocracy of owning nothing, eating bugs and living in the pod, I think the COVID pandemic created an irreversible phase-shift. Where before we were headed for a totalitarian dystopia that would ultimately fail, but probably last for large swaths of our lifetimes, COVID (more accurately, the overbearing policy response) created an inflection point in history. Several decades of creeping authoritarianism was compressed into eighteen months, and that was Too Much, Too Soon, for everyone. Serious question. My contention is that The Lockdown Era was the crescendo of Peak Wokeness. Under the guise of a not-so-cataclysmic pandemic, the moralizing and sermonizing reached fever pitch. Wokeness itself degenerated into Mass Formation Psychosis on a global scale. Only recently, in this year, has The True Cost of Wokeness begun to make itself apparent: In Germany, where they shut down their nuclear reactors on misguided environmental concerns, the citizenry there is now looking at chopping down trees and burning the wood to remain warm this winter. Residents are being told to take shorter showers. Large commercial landlords are setting limits on thermostats and rationing hot water. They’re restarting their coal plants. Sri Lanka, which embarked on a WEF-inspired campaign of “sustainable” farming and stakeholder capitalism, collapsed into anarchy as rioters stormed the presidential palace and drove the government there into exile. Liberal run cities and states across the US are facing mass exoduses of citizens, capital and tax revenue as their socially motivated policies like “defund the police” cause them to descend into chaos and criminality. Political leaders everywhere look more out-of-touch than ever as they try to run economies and respond to geo-political events with unhinged platitudes. The list is endless, growing, and we are just into the early innings. The Four Megatrends Exposing True Cost of Wokeness Wokeness as an ideology will fail, it’s just a matter of how much damage will it do to the rest of us before it collapses under its own internal contradictions and failures. #1 Wokeness is Inherently Unprofitable The expression “Get Woke, go broke” is more than sardonic wit. It’s a powerful meme that captures the essence of wokenomics’ never-ending failures. Whether it’s so-called “green energy” sources that have larger carbon footprints than their hydrocarbon or nuclear counter-parts, or Hollywood perpetually losing their shirt on “woke” reboots, politically correct sitcoms or short-lived streaming channels, Wokeness is economically unviable across the board. 95% coal, actually. Love this clip. "The elEctrIcitY cOmeS fRoM iNsIde tHe bUIldiNg!" https://t.co/hP2dgHn32e — Mark Jeftovic, The C̶r̶y̶p̶t̶o̶ ₿itcoin Capitalist (@StuntPope) June 8, 2022 Without government subsidies there wouldn’t be a profitable “woke” company anywhere and with governments increasingly teetering on the edge of insolvency, the money spigot for the platitude industry may be drying up fast. #2 Conspicuous Hypocrisy of The High Priests of Wokeness People are getting sick of being told they’re going to own nothing, eat bugs and live in a pod in order to save the climate by people who are flying around in private jets, lounging on super-yachts and dining on grass fed beef. Here’s UN Climate Change ambassador Leonardo DiCaprio aboard a 315ft, £110 million superyacht, complete with a helipad and six decks that spew out as much as your average car does in a year by sailing as little as 7 miles. Remember that as you watch his climate catastrophe movie. pic.twitter.com/jfSp95xXZa — Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) January 10, 2022 It goes beyond self-important celebrities or messianic politicians who flagrantly live a “my rules are for other people” lifestyle. The double-standard is so palpable and abrasive that to ignore it requires hyper-normal rationalizations. Justin Trudeau lands in Costa Rica for holidays with his family all unmasked in a private jet. You can see Trudeau’s unmasked wife Sophie sneezing repeatedly into her hand before being greeted.pic.twitter.com/fbb2n58Cke — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 6, 2022 #3 Negative Externalities Are Being Re-shored If the well-meaning rank-and-file of the social justice warriors were right about anything, it’s that the global economic system has been rigged. Since at least the onset Bretton-Woods Era the developed, industrial nations in orbit around the USA have been able to externalize their negatives to the rest of the world (inflation, conquest, etc) while leaching everybody else’s wealth and natural resources. This was “the exorbitant privilege” of running the world’s reserve currency. But once the anchor to gold was severed in ’71, it began an inexorable process of what people like Michael Greer call “catabolic collapse“. The perimeter of the economic leaching began to contract. Once the 80’s or so hit, began to hollow out the homelands of the developed countries themselves. We can see this dynamic when we look at how GDP diverged from median earnings. If the working class didn’t really participate in the GDP gains, who did? This chart from a former Chief Economist at the World Bank Group isn’t fully current, but if anything, the trends accelerated after 2015. The table showing the stratification of wage growth does capture 2022 and we see what’s happening quite starkly: He’s using data from Thomas Pikkety, who often argues for redistribution schemes I oppose, but mainly for the reason that I don’t trust policy makers to distribute anything effectively, let alone redistribute other people’s wealth. But the point is clear, the globalist financial system is “structurally unjust”. However this is not, as the social justice warriors believe, because of systemic racism, or the patriarchy. It’s because of a deeply flawed (rigged) financial system that enables aristocratic elites to print value ex nihilo, and then distribute it to their Cantillionaire cronies. As everybody should know by now, the Cantillon Effect provides benefit from newly printed money for the insiders, before it turns into inflationary cost-of-living increases for everybody else. The Cantillon Effect Since The Lockdown Era (which is now being opportunistically pivoted into intensified climate hysteria), this dynamic has only intensified to blow-off top levels. We can see this in the trajectory of M2 money supply: Before the fiat currency era started, this economic leaching could work when its effects were largely externalized to far off shores, where it could be dolled up under the rubrics of “spreading democracy” and “economic development”. But now that the fiat currency system is eating itself (too much debt, not enough actual productivity, supply chain failures), that thin scab of elites that sits atop the global cap table now needs to somehow convince the rabble that the most important thing in the world right now is for everybody (else) to drastically ratchet down their standard of living. Wokeness looked perfect for this, except for one last problem: #4 Wokeness is Inherently Self-Destructive Once catabolic collapse had already started in earnest, it hit a disorderly phase transition in COVID. The legacy of that chapter in recent history has been so defined by failure that a crisis in legitimacy has set in. This has left policy-makers no choice but to double-down. Globalists had to resort to a more intense, emotionally charged zeitgeist that justifies running the rigged tables at much closer quarters: the ESG movement was elevated to primacy. This is now resulting in self-induced energy crises, supply chains seizing up, and if this new obsession on demonizing fertilizer goes well (for policy makers), global famine. Rationalizations about climate emergencies aside, the underlying reality is that we’re in a genuine Austrian-school style crack-up boom. The global elites are facing a crisis in credibility and desperate to ensure that they get to stay in charge after the whole system derails. It bears repeating: globalism, as exemplified by the likes of the World Economic Forum is essentially a Malthusian and Marxist philosophy. The reality behind all forms of collectivism is that collectivists create inclusive-sounding mythologies that are really intended to apply to everybody else, not themselves. The consequences of Woke-ism manifest in absurd policies that lead to self-destruction. When everything is politicized, it becomes impossible to correct a bad trajectory. If undoing previous policy errors means abandoning core tenets of the ideology, the policy makers will choose destruction instead. Anything is better than loss of credibility, especially it’s only the rabble that has to bear the consequences for the policy-makers’ failures. Here we arrive at why Woke-ism is ultimately doomed, because one of its own internal contradictions is a glaring example of creating its own headwinds: The COVID pandemic was politicized beyond any rationality, and the Woke are now fully committed to a course of action that could result in incalculable damage to themselves and the public. Where vaccine uptake is plummeting among the normies, (people who aren’t ideologically committed to COVID), the most devoted, brainwashed Covidians are continuing with rabid adherence to COVID as a religion: including a desire for lockdowns, the more masks the better, and a regimen of never-ending boosters. For the longest time I thought the people who were talking in terms of “Nuremberg 2” and “tribunals” were, in word, unhinged. But when you look at official, vetted data, there is no sugar coating it. The same way I became a lockdown skeptic by tracking the government supplied numbers, and I knew by June 2020 that COVID was not an existential threat. In this case the data coming out from official vacine injury databases is painting just as stark a contrast between reality and official narrative: Via Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) with data sourced from CDC VAERS and FDA FAERS databases Somewhere along the line, “safe and effective” turned into “sudden and unexpected”. Even if the economic and reality-based failures we’ve mentioned so far were not enough to put an end to this, the Woke have gone too far with hard-line vaccine policies. Too much, too young in this case. Trying to jab children being the line in the sand for many adults. I take no joy nor solace in pointing out that since the woke are truly committed to these vaccines, they may actually be thinning themselves out as the data and evidence continues to mount that the probability of an adverse affect from the “cure” may exceed the risk of dying from the disease itself, at least for adults under the age of 70 and especially in children. The public is catching on: despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to demonize people asking questions about this as “anti-vaxxers” and Big Tech duly co-operating through concerted deplatforming, public compliance is rapidly dwindling (and the most boosted people among us keep catching COVID). In Canada, where 81% of the population received two doses in order to be deemed “fully vaccinated”, we have the lowest uptake of boosters throughout the entire G7. This despite Health Canada’s declared intention to move the goalposts such that Canadians would be required to get boosted every nine months. That won’t happen, and the only people who will comply going forward are the über-woke… It’s a parody account, but it is hard to tell these days. These four super-trends are converging to create a zeitgeist saturated with hyper-normality and failure. As The True Cost of Wokeness plays itself out with accelerating consequences, the logical conclusion is that it will be abandoned en masse by a disgruntled populace feeling increasingly betrayed.

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PR Newswire: Quantum Computing Market Size to Grow by USD 9.01 Billion, The growing use of quantum cryptography to drive the market growth, Technavio
by jdb10987＠yahoo.com 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

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Re: [tiactivism] Deterrence For Being “Suicided”
by Baffo 32 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 17:05 Baffo 32 <baffo32(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Excerpted from > http://endritualabuse.org/safety-tips-for-ritual-abuse-survivors/ the > entirety of which is worth exploring. Given the severity of the topic I > would recommend skipping any parts of the below that get in the way of > accomplishing the rest. > > Survivors who believe they may be killed or “suicided” should make a clear > and convincing video-taped statement of their fear of being murdered and > their desire to live rather than to suicide. This may increase an enemy’s > or enemy group’s fear of being identified upon committing a murder or a > murder staged to appear as a suicide, accident, or willful disappearance. > This should reduce one’s risk of being murdered. Here are some guidelines > for making a Safety Video-tape: > > Video-tape Protocol for People who Fear Being Murdered, Directly or Staged > to Appear as a Suicide, Accident, or Willful Disappearance > > Steps: > > 1. Fill out your responses to the following questions. > > 2. Have someone ask you these questions while video-taping you. > > 3. Refer to this form to remind you of all of your key points. > > 4. Express genuine emotion to get your point across and to make the press > more likely to air the video-tape if you are killed. > > 5. Distribute copies of the video-tape widely. > > 6. Have holders of the tape secure the safety of the tape. > > 7. Make it publicly known (e.g., speaking engagements, publications, > e-mails, conversations on telephones you believe to be tapped) that the > video-tape is widely distributed and will be released to the press, > concerned parties, and law enforcement, if you die of unnatural or > suspicious causes. > > Questions: > > 1. What individuals or groups do you believe want you dead? > > 2. Why would these parties want you dead? > > 3. Can anyone support or corroborate that these parties are your enemies? > > 4. What methods do you believe these parties use to murder people? > > 5. Do you believe there have been any previous attempts on your life? If > so, describe the suspected assailants and methods used. > > 6. Are you suicidal? > > 7. Why do you want to live? > > 8. Under what circumstances would you ever suicide? > > 9. Do you abuse life-threatening substances? > > 10. Do you have lethal weapons or substances in your home? > > 11. Do you drive safely? What is your record of traffic accidents and > violations? > > 12. Do you have any desire to flee your current home and support persons? > > This process can also be done without use of a videotape. I recommend a > 2-step process. > > 1. Prepare a statement that includes all of the details of the crimes; > > a) real identifiers: name, birth date, Social Security Number, etc. > > b) crime history; places, time, names of perpetrators > > Provide this statement in person or via snail mail to a select few trusted > individuals to place in a secure location. > > 2. Send a statement via e-mail to a larger number of people: > > a) Statement of concern for survivor’s safety (Questions 1 through 5 > above). > > b) Statement about the survivor’s not being a danger to self, or wishing > to flee (if true) (Questions 6 through 12 above). > > c) a statement that a number of people (do not name them) have the > specific crime facts- names, places, dates, etc., and that this information > will be made public and reported to law enforcement if anything happens to > the survivor. > > Use a pseudonym in this e-mailed statement. Do not name the perpetrators. > > This 2-step process may increase the safety of the survivor because the > main fear of these criminals is that of public exposure. > > _._,_._,_ > ------------------------------ > Groups.io Links: > > You receive all messages sent to this group. > > View/Reply Online (#2218) <https://groups.io/g/tiactivism/message/2218> | Reply > To Group > <tiactivism@groups.io?subject=Re:%20%3D%3FUTF-8%3FB%3FW3RpYWN0aXZpc21dIERldGVycmVuY2UgRm9yIEJlaW5nIOKAnFN1aWNpZGVk4oCd%3F%3D> > | Reply To Sender > <baffo32@gmail.com?subject=Private:%20Re:%20%3D%3FUTF-8%3FB%3FW3RpYWN0aXZpc21dIERldGVycmVuY2UgRm9yIEJlaW5nIOKAnFN1aWNpZGVk4oCd%3F%3D> > | Mute This Topic <https://groups.io/mt/104757070/6048544> | New Topic > <https://groups.io/g/tiactivism/post> > Your Subscription <https://groups.io/g/tiactivism/editsub/6048544> | Contact > Group Owner <tiactivism+owner(a)groups.io> | Unsubscribe > <https://groups.io/g/tiactivism/leave/12323543/6048544/1587734859/xyzzy> [ > gmkarl(a)gmail.com] > _._,_._,_ > >

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Video: I think she is annoyed with us
by Gunnar Larson 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

I think she is annoyed with us video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4ItSnguYcu/?igsh=MXVpemtzdDF6NGtlZA==

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Women Need Extra 19 Years In Work To Close Pension Gap
by Gunnar Larson 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Subject: Women Need Extra 19 Years In Work To Close Pension Gap Women Need Extra 19 Years In Work To Close Pension Gap <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1795041?nl_pk=a94fc…> By Joel Poultney Women in the U.K. would need to work for an additional 19 years on average to retire with the same amount of pension savings as a man, according to research published on Wednesday. Read full article » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1795041?nl_pk=a94fc…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1795041?nl_pk=a94fc…>

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Underwriters Freed From Suit Against Fintech Co. Ryvyl
by Gunnar Larson 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Underwriters Freed From Suit Against Fintech Co. Ryvyl <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1809594?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…> By Katryna Perera A California federal judge has dismissed the underwriters and significantly trimmed the remaining claims in a case against fintech company Ryvyl Inc. and certain executives, accusing them of concealing accounting issues, saying the plaintiffs have adequately alleged only a few misleading statements and knowledge of wrongdoing by one executive. Order attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1809594?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1809594?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…>

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