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Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

On 9/26/23, Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > do you remember that desire to have access to a webcomic page before > it is published? > > what if a webcomic was intercepted for political misinformation, and > the author put their creation process on a blockchain video feed to > add strength to their publication being the real one? > > where would people's desire for the next webcomic iteration go? the > button clicks for refreshing the page? > > especially in an environment with hypnotic behavior influence driven > by overtrained marketing AIs? > > --- > > a fleet of tanks drive up to the home of a webcomic artist > > a nerd gets out of the tank closest to the front and approaches the > artist, who is mid-drawing > > nerd [brandishing missile launcher, to artist]: "tell me a joke." > > four more nerds pile out of other tanks and approach the artist. > > four nerds: "tell me a joke." > > a fifth nerd gets out > > fifth nerd: "I'll pay you 5 thousand cryptocreds to hear a joke in the > next hour." > > third nerd: "I'll pay you 10 thousand cryptocreds to hear a joke in > the next minute!" >

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Global anarchy through better technology
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

Quantum decryption neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, but quantum PKI is an epoch shattering development, no question. Also a key part of Cypherpunk 2027! https://phys.org/news/2023-10-internet.html Reposts not more timewasting gasbagging from US govt agents Semich and Grarpamps

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To be antiwar above all is to be anti Crypto War
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

Dated from 1988 the crypto wars - really one long continuous war - has now passed 30 years war status and could be heading toward 100 year war levels. Even global thermonuclear cyberwar. Cypherpunk 2027 aims to put a stop to that! Its a bit like the Cold War. Sometimes the best way to end these sorts of war is to win them. So let it be with this foolish prohibition against first use of crypto munitions. Pax Americana got us this far but can no longer serve any useful purpose. As the leopard sagely observed sometimes things have to change in order to stay the same. Even the dimmest, darkest places on earth - like El Salvador - are finally twigging to the new post-US reality. No longer one tyrant a thousand miles away. Some anarchs claim No War But Class War. They may as well be Marxists now we can finally outlaw all war via our internet power. Kellog Briand had the right idea only lacking the munitions muscle to back it up. If you value peace then renounce your religion and national identity. That way we'll know if you're fit for uploading or not. No more indescribable gibberish as cult. No more US centric puke from FOX news. War is over if you want it.

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Toward metropolitan free-space quantum networks
by jdb10987＠yahoo.com 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

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Julian Assange needs killing ( my 2k )
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

Like that shitpig USG agent " Grarpamps " GEOFFREY "sexual offence for a man to deliberately deceive a partner whose consent has been conditional upon his use of a condom" ROBERTSON Julian Assange arrested in London on rape charges https://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/1207/WikiLeaks-Juli… JULIAN " Being guilty of aggravated rape has nothing to do with our party" A. Broinowski. Wikileaks Party NSW candidate for au Senate. 2013. "... Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military ..." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.' ASSANGE July, 2013 Julian Assange · LRB 6 March 2014 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting … Mar 6, 2014 - I wouldn't say this publicly, but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison..." Assange discussing Hitler's Mein Kampf: ''When people have been put in prison who might never have had time to write, the thing they write can be galvanising and amazing. I wouldn't say this publicly but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison." Jul 20, 2015 - Julian Assange: To be honest, I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent..." JULIAN " “People with strong principles don’t survive for long ” ASSANGE quoted in " Risk" released in 2017. JULIAN " Capitalism+atheism+feminism = sterility " ASSANGE. 2017 May 20, 2017 - Julian Assange announced “the proper war is just commencing...”

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Cryptocurrency: WikiLeaks Afghan War Logs Inscribed, Project Spartacus, Free Julian Assange !!!
by grarpamp 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

Expect an insurance dump before long... Someone Is Inscribing All Of WikiLeaks' Infamous Afghan War Logs On Bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/someone-is-inscribing-all-of-wikileaks-… https://ordinals.com/inscription/911bffcff4608ab49e639ac55c314d1d8c2b97b51b… https://projectspartacus.org/ https://twitter.com/Stella_Assange/status/1709524946479685791 https://theintercept.com/2020/09/30/assange-extradition-cfaa-hacking/ https://shadowproof.com/2020/09/26/password-cracking-conspiracy-theory-assa… Authored by NAMCIOS via BitcoinMagazine.com What's started with a mysterious inscription on October 7 may end up turning into the latest global protest in support of journalist and activist Julian Assange. As revealed by Bitcoin Magazine, an unknown "Project Spartacus" has formed in an attempt to immortalize on bitcoin the classified information that the U.S. government has long alleged Julian Assange illegally provided to journalists in the infamous Afghan War Diary. Following the inscription, an anonymous individual has contacted Bitcoin Magazine claiming responsibility for the project, which aims to inscribe the tens of thousands of logs from the Afghan War published by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks in July 2010 into the bitcoin blockchain. These logs created a big upheaval in U.S. media at time they were published, and elicited strong reactions from the country's government. Notably, the content of the logs not only differed from what had been presented in mainstream media but also offered troubling insights into what actually happened in Afghanistan. At times, the logs raised questions about the conduct of some U.S. military operations. On this day in 2006 Julian #Assange created @wikileaks. Julian is 52 now. He was 38 when WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder and was last free. The video shows the US army killing a dozen civilians, including two Reuters employees on assignment and the rescuers who stopped to… pic.twitter.com/IfISuj83W7 — Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (@Stella_Assange) October 4, 2023 The publication of the war logs, which was coordinated with The Guardian, The New York Times, and others, caused a spur inside the government. The first indictment brought against Assange focused on an alleged conspiracy between him and Chelsea Manning to crack an account on a computer in her military base. Per the charges, the “primary purpose of the conspiracy was to facilitate Manning’s acquisition and transmission of classified information.” However, as reported by The Intercept, it later became clear that the alleged hacking not only didn’t happen, but it also couldn’t have happened. New testimony, reported by investigative news site Shadowproof, also showed that Manning already had authorized access to, and the ability to exfiltrate, all of the documents that she was accused of leaking — without receiving any technical help from WikiLeaks. In truth, the indictment describes the kinds of activities conducted by many news organizations and journalists every day, including obtaining and publishing true information of public interest, communication between a publisher and a source, and using encryption tools. In addition to the Afghan War logs, WikiLeaks also published those of the Iraq War. This picture depicts a wounded Iraqi being loaded onto a van during an attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff on July 12, 2007. Ho New / Reuters file It seems this backdrop is the context through which Project Spartacus attempts to take a foothold in the bitcoin ecosystem. The project leverages the Ordinals protocol, a metaprotocol for bitcoin that lets anyone add arbitrary data to the original cryptocurrency's blokchain. Given the properties of bitcoin and its decentralized network of nodes, once data is added to its blockchain it can never be removed or altered. Such properties are seemingly great for the use case of combating censorship of information. Under this light, it seems Project Spartacus aims to take a stand towards freedom of information and knowledge, making it impossible for anyone to mess with the data that Assange risked his life to make public. The journalist currently faces potential extradition to the U.S., despite being an Australian citizen and not having committed alleged offenses on U.S. soil. The outcome of the extradition process remains uncertain, and concerns continue to grow regarding his future and whether he will ever regain his freedom. Project Spartacus's website provides a public interface through which any person can “inscribe” –– Ordinals jargon for adding data to bitcoin –– a war log. There seem to be no fees associated with this action apart from network fees, a necessary component to any transaction submitted to the bitcoin network. The page also features a "donate" button, which opens up a panel through which users can optionally send bitcoin to Assange's cause. Donations are said to go towards supporting the following organizations: Freedom of the Press Foundation, The Information Rights Project and Reporters Without Borders. A huge rectangular button appears on the main page, reading "Publish War Log." Upon clicking, the process of inscribing a war log is triggered. The user is given the option to choose how many logs to inscribe, with a maximum of 300 war logs per transaction. The user can then select the transaction fee, based on which a total amount for payment is calculated. Upon hitting "continue," the user then is presumably redirected for payment. BITCOIN: MORE THAN MONEY? Commonly seen as a monetary network, bitcoin can also serve as a decentralized and unstoppable publishing technology thanks to the Ordinals protocol. Created last year by bitcoin developer Casey Rodarmor, Ordinals aims to make it easy for anyone to add data to bitcoin –– be it text, image, video, HTML or Markdown. The development saw a parabolic surge in activity within a short few months. The amount of inscriptions added to bitcoin in the first 200 days following the launch of Ordinals was greater than the number of Ethereum NFTs created in the same 200-day period after nonfungible tokens went live on ETH. This rise in popularity caused a big fee spike on the bitcoin blockchain, leading some users to complain about the perceived “uselessness” of adding arbitrary data to what should arguably be a monetary network. Since bitcoin is ruled by rules, not rulers, and Ordinals transactions abide by the protocol’s rules, the activity was able to continue and thrive for months, leading to a plethora of applications and new developments being built on the original cryptocurrency. Project Spartacus takes a spin on Ordinals’ popular use case of doing NFTs on the mother chain to seemingly focus on complete data finality on a decentralized chain of information, which is run by tens of thousands of nodes in hundreds of different jurisdictions around the world. In this sense, Ordinals may very well be the ultimate publishing tool that many in the world have been looking for to fight information censorship and tampering.

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Collapse: Earth Overshoot Day
by grarpamp 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

You stupid Humans ran out of resources three days ago on 2021-07-29... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day https://www.overshootday.org/ https://www.footprintnetwork.org/

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Ukraine claims to have invented a new radio that's immune to Russian jamming
by jdb10987＠yahoo.com 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

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New Scientist: Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption
by jdb10987＠yahoo.com 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

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Cryptocurrency: Silk Roads and World Islands, History Replays Into Digital Realm
by grarpamp 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

The Digital Frontier, any frontier... the same old fight over the same old islands... who will win the short and long term. Struggle For The World-Island https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/10/07/struggle_for_the_world… https://www.iwp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20131016_MackinderTheGeograp… https://stories.cnas.org/the-return-of-marco-polos-world-and-the-u-s-milita… https://thediplomat.com/2023/09/how-chinas-belt-and-road-took-over-the-worl… https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/09/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-politi… https://thehill.com/policy/international/4209597-china-flies-100-warplanes-… https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-insists-s-not-trying-conta… In 2017, Robert D. Kaplan wrote an essay describing the geopolitical eclipse of Europe by Asia in the 21st century, and what this meant for U.S. foreign policy. Though Kaplan used the provocative title, “The Return of Marco Polo’s World and the U.S. Military Response,” his analysis was grounded in geography and history. What Kaplan and others have called the Long European War of the 20th century (World Wars I and II, and the Cold War) gave rise to the beginnings of what could be a Long Asian War in which China and the United States struggle for control of the World-Island. Kaplan described a “new strategic geography” where “Europe disappears, Eurasia coheres,” and the “interactions of globalization, technology, and geopolitics” fulfill Sir Halford Mackinder’s vision of a Eurasian-African supercontinent that he called the “World-Island” in his 1919 book Democratic Ideals and Reality. Mackinder warned that control of the World-Island meant command of the world. Kaplan was among the first observers to see a link between China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and potential command of the World-Island. In his essay, he noted China’s attempts “to build a land bridge across Central and West Asia to Europe, and a maritime network across the Indian Ocean from East Asia to the Middle East.” Although China called the BRI “infrastructure projects” reminiscent of the medieval Silk Road, the political and geopolitical implications should have been evident from the outset of the program, which President Xi Jinping announced in September 2013. Mackinder had written about the migrations of Asian hordes into the settled regions of the Old World, laying special emphasis on the Mongol Empire, which at its height stretched from East Asia to eastern Europe and parts of the Middle East, and from Russia to India, China, and parts of Southeast Asia. The Mongols, Mackinder noted, came the closest of all the Asian invaders to achieving effective political control of the World-Island. The two most important factors limiting the Mongol reach were insufficient manpower and technological constraints. China in the 21st century suffers from neither geopolitical weakness. The remarkable thing about China’s BRI is how it replicates the World-Island on the map. In a fascinating article in The Diplomat entitled “How China’s Belt and Road Took Over the World,” Shannon Tiezzi shows the geographical evolution of the BRI. In 10 years, the BRI has extended its reach to 154 countries. On the Eurasian-African World-Island, only India, North Korea, Jordan, and a few nations of Western Europe have escaped China’s financial and infrastructure grasp. Indeed, the BRI extends beyond the World-Island to nations in the western and southern Pacific, Central and South America, and some islands in the Caribbean (including Cuba). Tiezzi notes that China has spent $564 billion on BRI-related projects in its 10-year history. China is not sending armies to the nations of its BRI empire, but it is sending bankers, financiers, technocrats, engineers, and spies. Empire-building in the 21st century comes in many shapes and sizes. What beganas an economic and infrastructure initiative has gradually shifted to politics. The BRI, writes China-expert Felix Chang, “has become a key feature of Xi’s foreign policy.” The leaders in Beijing, Chang explains, have “always regarded the initiative as a way to garner political support and create new spheres of influence.” For China, Chang concludes, political aims of the BRI outweigh economic ones. The BRI was a geopolitical program from the very beginning. Some observers of the BRI focus their analyses on the land road through Central Asia to Europe, but the maritime aspect of the BRI may be even more important. Robert Kaplan understands that more than most geopolitical thinkers. In his Marco Polo essay, Kaplan noted that “the United States is a maritime power, operating from the greatest of the island satellites of the Eurasian supercontinent.” And in the 21st century, as during the mid and late 20th century, maritime power has both naval and air components. China’s maritime Silk Road is a direct challenge to America’s maritime supremacy. It is reminiscent of Imperial Germany’s challenge to Great Britain in the years leading up to the First World War, and of Japan’s challenge to both British and American naval and air power in the western and south Pacific in the years leading up to the Second World War. Our response, according to Kaplan, should be “to extend the concept of the Asia pivot to encompass the entire navigable rimland of Eurasia, including not only the Western Pacific but the Indian Ocean as well.” U.S. sea power, Kaplan writes, “is the compensatory answer for shaping geopolitics . . . Here is where the ideas of Alfred Thayer Mahan meet those of Halford Mackinder.” Mackinder, it should be noted, recognized the value of predominant sea power to island nations such as Great Britain and the United States. His great fear was that a hostile Eurasian land power (or alliance of land powers) could use the immense resources of continental Eurasia to attain maritime supremacy over the island democracies. If that happened, he wrote in 1904, “the empire of the world would then be in sight.” He even suggested that China, with its long oceanic frontage, allied to Russia could achieve dominance on land and at sea. The immense growth of Chinese naval power and its proclaimed desire to exert control over the entire South China Sea (including reunifying with Taiwan) should be viewed in the context of the maritime component of the BRI. For it is the maritime route from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean that links Eurasia to the Middle East and Africa, just as the land component of the Silk Road links East Asia to Central Asia and to Europe. It is roads, rails, and shipping lanes that can cohere the Eurasian-African World-Island. The first battle of the Long Asian War may be fought in the South China Sea. China’s pressure on Taiwan has increased exponentially. In a recent 24-hour period, the PLA launched 103 warplanes toward Taiwan, causing Taiwanese spokespersons to warn of escalation should the provocative and dangerous sorties continue. This comes on the heels of China’s recent expansion of its nine-dash line to ten dashes, including one located east of Taiwan. It also comes in the wake of President Biden’s remark while visiting Vietnam that the United States does not want to contain China. The struggle for the World-Island has begun. Francis P. Sempa writes on foreign policy and geopolitics. His Best Defense columns appear at the beginning of each month.

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