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Wannabe assassin sez “smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop”
by professor rat 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Everybody wants to get into the act. Earlier today, Senator Lindsey Graham posted a tweet urging Donald Trump to “smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop” in order to avoid being criminally charged in New York. Seven hours later, the tweet is still there, and Graham appears to still have access to his account. " The govt is the great, the omnipotent teacher " - Louis Brandeis In related news Sen Graham called for the assassination of KGB chief Pooter - hey, there's an app for that! https://stiffs.com/celebrity/vladimirputin Any prediction market on any person is also an assassination market on that person - Bell's Theorem

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TRUE NAMES - a move from P2P towards open standards
by professor rat 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Alone in the dark or blinded by the Brin is not a choice I care to make. There has to be a better way. Anarchist ' need-to-know ' and ' Don't-ask-don't-tell " security culture meets cypherpunk demands for absolute secrecy in this matter. Calls for alignment! I know some OG's that were leery of Big Dog's public-facing aspect. Still - such a nippy compromise with the translucent society has paid off and various patches and kludges applied to bootstrap up the trillion dollar, golden-goose, crypto-economy we all enjoy today. So now we can leverage our power to keep pressing on for the inalienable right of total anonymity. " TRUE NAMES " Those who would lay their hand on me to discover my identity I declare them my enemy. The cypherpunk way is not rocket-science - its privacy for the pleb and transparency for the powerful. Love it or leave it. Possibly related https://decrypt.co/125174/twitter-killing-legacy-blue-checks-wake-up-call-d… Reposts not 1K follower permabans from a Jackass called Dorsey.

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Cypherpunk link to Russian lies about Syrian War-Crimes
by professor rat 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

"The reporters also found evidence of the software being used to create fake social media accounts, inside and outside of Russia, to push narratives in line with official state propaganda, including denials that Russian attacks in Syria killed civilians." "The cache of more than 5,000 pages of documents, dated between 2016 and 2021, includes manuals, technical specification sheets and other details for software that Vulkan designed for the Russian military and intelligence establishment. It also includes https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/30/russian-cyberwarfar… The Houla massacre (Arabic: مجزرة الحولة) was a mass murder of civilians by Syrian government forces that took place on May 25, 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tomorrow Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT, told the daily Moskovskii Komsomolets that Assange will resume making shows and allowing them to be broadcast on Russian television once his legal troubles are over

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Republic First Is ‘NOT’ First Republic, But Try Telling Traders That
by Gunnar Larson 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Republic First Is ‘NOT’ First Republic, But Try Telling Traders That https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-31/republic-first-is-not-fi… A case of mistaken identity is sparking a selloff in *Republic First Bancorp Inc. (FRBK)*, which is down more than 40% this month because investors have it confused with embattled *First Republic Bank (FRC)*.

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US Banks Have $620 Billion of Unrealized Losses on Their Books
by Gunnar Larson 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

US Banks Have $620 Billion of Unrealized Losses on Their Books https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-svb-exposed-risks-banks/?ai=eyJpc1N… The investment losses that helped take down Silicon Valley Bank are a problem, to one degree or another, across the US financial system. In total, the industry ended last year with $620 billion of unrealized losses on its books from investments in low-yielding bonds. For most banks, the issue is manageable. Bonds held in investment books represented less than a quarter of the banking system’s $23.6 trillion of assets in December, and unlike SVB, lenders usually have a wide array of depositors who are unlikely to all need money around the same time. For the biggest banks, the risks are even smaller. They are perceived as too big to fail. What’s more, the recent rally in the Treasury bond market — sparked, ironically, by the jitters about the health of the banking industry — is helping to shrink the $620 billion of paper losses. (In the coming weeks, banks will start to post first-quarter data.) Banks’ Equity Could Take Hit If Paper Losses Had to Be Realized For most banks, unrealized losses are a manageable problem. But investors and depositors remain jittery about lenders sitting on huge piles of money-losing bonds

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GOV DeSantis considered untrustworthy
by professor rat 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

This week the Florida Gov is grandstanding about refusing to extradite Donald Dumbfuck from Florida. This has about as much pragmatic realist heft as his grandstanding last week about refusing to approve a state CBDC. I don't know what sort of fool still takes politicians like this seriously - but I'm sure Gramps will soon tell us. When it comes to LOL-GOP, Qanon, Freeping Gooper garbage he's an embed journalist. Amirite, G?

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Didn’t Donald Trump tell us his criminal indictment wouldn’t ever happen?
by professor rat 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Didn’t Donald Trump tell us that this criminal indictment wouldn’t even happen? Then again, he did claim today that he’s been “indicated” as opposed to “indicted.” Perhaps Trump should learn how to spell words like arrested, processed, and arraigned. Hunter S. Thomson repeatedly posed the question: How low do you have to stoop to be president in the country? We may soon be about to find out. Certain verbal maneuvers allow you to line up the two antitheses as complementary aspects of a single reality. … These exercises quickly become mere verbalizing, based on an art of pruning … the assonances between the ferns, the homophonies and the ambiguities gradually providing the material for these speculative theatrical twists by the ingenuity of which good pedogeological works may be recognized. The rats looked up To coordinate a surrender in the mind whether is ennobles strong AI or humankind - not something I care to dwell on too long. Thank Alvin for distracting me with his Loki missive toward the dark tower. The crazy Don corralled at last for his long overdue branding and gelding as a bum-steer with a low-quality beef. To have come this far and almost forgotten why. Perhaps this little classic may jog our memory. Could go free. Out West , where you stalk Ms Paltrow, the Magats are turning. They writhe in clusters since their loofah connect them. Come back to life and love, Bill, you know the network misses you.

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If nobody cares we are reality losers
by professor rat 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Its been discussed here before - the masses don't seem to care about protecting themselves or enlightening themselves or emancipating themselves. Sometimes in offensive terms like " sheeple ". Individual activists find out the hard way - when only CJ goes to bat for Jim back in the 90's. I felt the sting of indifference in 2002. Julio had a good loud wail about this exact subject claiming he would go and work for the govt. Which he did a month after Snowden. Then you can lead anarchist whores to culture but you can't make them think. Several years ago I developed a work-around to this called ' reinforcements from the future ". If strong AI worked as advertised it should soon deliver an up-down vote on globalized cryptoanarchism. But these new beings may just decide to leave here without us. There are no guarantee's just as there are no manuals. You still have to be the change you want to see and it ain't as easy as it looks and no good deed ever goes unpunished. Just cos anarchists reject assassination-markets - a key part of cryptoanarchy - doesn't mean they reject character assassination politics. The office politics here are brutal - but you knew that. Revolutions made half-way only dig their own grave - see youse on the other side. After you.

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My new article: Voting vendor in Reality Winner's leak is coming to Texas
by professor rat 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Thanks Doug - an unusually good article for the corpse-media. Just for further information its possible Glenin was ousted from the Intercept over his habit of running everything by the pentagon and sloppy security tradecraft. Also Ron Wyden is a dumb and cowardly jackass if I understand SLATE's article on PAM- FutureMap from 2003. Also Bambi opining on elections is rich considering his disgraceful record in Burma. Then where is " Dominion ' in all this? Subject for another piece? Yrs in c-punk documentation PR

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My new article: Voting vendor in Reality Winner's leak is coming to Texas
by Douglas Lucas 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

Today the /Texas Observer/, Austin based and founded 1954, published my new article, first in a series about whistleblower Reality Winner: https://www.texasobserver.org/reality-winner-vr-systems-whistleblower/ My article discusses the 2016 cyberattacks Reality Winner disclosed -- two interrelated spearphishing offensives by Kremlin military officers, first against election technology supplier VR Systems, then against local Florida elections officials -- in the context of the Texas Secretary of State certifying the vendor's e-pollbooks for use statewide in Texas a little more than a year ago. I interview a county information security officer, two county elections administrators, as well as Winner's mother and lawyer, all of them Texans. Toward the end of the piece, I discuss polarization and historical context around various evidence for, and various lack of evidence for, election meddling in the United States. :-Doug

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