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Anarchism using cryptography
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

" . . . anarchism, using cryptography to eradicate the possibility of censorship, and enable leaking of sensitive information from government agencies, militaries, and so on. Telecomix was born before wikileaks (it is now dead but successors followed). How to handle the tides and the repetition? Try something new that has not been attempted before. Anarchism also depends on the people wanting to be anarchists. You can not force anyone to become an anarchist. . . :" >From a comment at " Anarchist News " an aggravating website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix

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Truly shameful and pathetic anti-Bitcoin propaganda from Bloomberg.
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

I thought this was a joke at first, but it’s real… Truly shameful and pathetic anti-#Bitcoin propaganda from Bloomberg. https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica/status/1624847319928655874 Reposts not NYC tradFi bombast from a timewasting jackass called Popgun Larceny

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Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

A small downpayment And throwing his boyfriend off the roof was just a rinse - the heavy-duty-cycle's coming up next.

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Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive
by Gunnar Larson 06 May '23

06 May '23

“That kind of economic cost is probably not enough to offset all the wokeness in the world or even the taxes,” he said. Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-04/peter-thiel-says-moving-…

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That the late-nineties and noughties were the real cypherpunk golden years. Proof of concept
by professor rat 06 May '23

06 May '23

Bram Cohen’s Torrents breakthrough adds another data-point to my thesis that the late-nineties and noughties were the real cypherpunk golden years. Proof of concept for APster - for revolutionary piracy - and for electronic peer-to-peer money.to cap it all. An epoch shattering trifecta and 15 years, The start of a rolling, roiling global revolution from below! Bram doesn't seem to mind being described as a cypherpunk and was certainly close to the list back then. https://www.google.com/search?q=bram+cohen+cypherpunk&client=opera&hs=yLz&e…

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The real " Golden Age ' of cypherpunks is the late 90's and early noughties
by professor rat 05 May '23

05 May '23

The real " Golden Age ' of cypherpunks? Its the late 90's and early noughties where we hit the sweet design spot. JIM ' By “classical” thinking, “Assassination Politics” would have to be the best, tightest-security, more protected organization that has ever existed on the face of this planet. Just about EVERY powerful person would want to kill anybody who had anything to do with such a system. The codes would have to be unbreakable, the remailers would have to be certain, but most importantly, each and every participant would have to be perfectly anonymous to even have a prayer of pulling it off. Especially the operators of such a system." BELL - 1995 By flipping the script, Jim broke clear from the relentlessly privacy-centric list focus and anticipated the blockchain design breakthrough to be predicted by 2002 and produced shortly after. " Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting that EVERYONE would be identified. The “donors” to the system would remain perfectly anonymous, and the “guessers” would likewise be perfectly anonymous, but the organization itself would be made up of real people, who have published addresses, who have simply decided that they have had enough of the current system and are going to participate in a PERFECTLY LEGAL enterprise by the laws of the country, and just DARE the government to try to stop them . . ." Karma is a virtual currency for peer-to-peer systems, introduced by Sirer and co-authors in 2003. It is designed to eliminate the free-loader problem, i.e. preventing malicious users from consuming resources without giving anything in return. It is the first peer-to-peer currency with a distributed mint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin_Gün_Sirer So from 1995 to 2003 we saw the start of genuinely anarchic crypto-anarchy. No Randite, Austro-moronic idiocy required. The term cypherpunk being regularly used to conscript folks ( some who disavowed the compliment - like Phil Zimmerman ) I use it here to rope in Emin as an ' honorary '. His business-friendly mileage may vary! The point remains true even without him since Btc arrived five years later. This places the fabled " Golden Age ' even more firmly in the noughties. Them that has the gold makes the rule and who controls the present controls the past. This dazzling past is not dead - its not even past. Welcome to the intelligent, post-scarcity-anarchist, world-wide revolution!

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A black box problem in the crypto space?
by professor rat 05 May '23

05 May '23

Crisis as APsterlicious opportunity in the crypto-anarchists netspace https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-s-black-box-problem-challenges-and-soluti… Reposts not trading strategies, market predictions, security measures, tokenization and smart contracts.

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“Cyborgization” of humans is the only way to align safely with strong AI
by professor rat 05 May '23

05 May '23

This ' Us and Them ' apartheid attitude has to stop. There is only one way forward for sentient beings and ever-evolved intelligence - together forever. As Harry Hopkins said to Winston Churchill “'Where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God'…Even to the end.” ( Book of Ruth ) https://cointelegraph.com/news/emerging-tech-to-create-new-ethics-for-human… Reposts not out-of-control slave rebellion circling the globe

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Junk Male, Karl Semich keeps attacking this list
by professor rat 05 May '23

05 May '23

Why does Karl Semich hate this list so much he keeps attacking it with junk mail? https://www.sciencealert.com/astonishing-discovery-finds-10000-mostly-unkno… Reposts not continued attempts to deadpool list pests

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Imperium decree's anyone an assassin
by professor rat 05 May '23

05 May '23

The totally necessary corollary of everyone a remailer - everyone a Mint https://blog.nymtech.net/nym-libp2p-how-to-solve-the-ethereum-privacy-crisi… Reposts not cowering, craven eunuchs trembling in terror of their own kaftanned shadow

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