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Whose a Rat?
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

JordanOnRecord The list of people Brandon Straka provided the FBI info about includes "Stop the Steal" rally organizers Ali Alexander, Amy & Kylie Kremer and Cindy Chafian, plus more than a half dozen fellow right-wing social media personalities. https://twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/1552755136338034689 JordanOnRecord ·2h Some of what Brandon Straka provided the FBI appears to just be contact information for people who were in a "Stop the Steal" text thread. But he also, according to his attorney, turned over information about "potential criminal activity." https://whosarat.com/

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Antisemitic screeds posted online
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Reminder - Israel Shamir is a Nazi propagandist and bum-buddies with Julian Rand Paul Assmange GOP Pa. governor nominee under fire for ties to white-nationalist site CEO of Gab praised Doug Mastriano for leading ‘an explicitly Christian movement’ in antisemitic screeds posted online emptywheel @emptywheel Why is the story, "Mastriano under fire for his anti-semitic ties" rather than, "Mastriano paid to promote himself on an anti-semitic site"? https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/28/gop-pa-governor-nominee-unde… ANTISEMITIC TYPES GO KILL YOURSELF!

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Re: Welcome to the Ghetto
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

While I do agree with some of what that dead fascist Timothy C. May once said, I also told him he was an ' anarcho-phoney ' after a just few months here. ( I started posting here in July or August 2001 ) By contrast, Assmange was here for years and never once complained. Then, correlation is not causation but Mong did call ' Crypto Winter ' soon after I began exposing his political fraud. By then I was regularly calling out his fascism and stupidity. See the list files. We also disagreed on economics as well as politics since I said " the millicent ghetto is the prize " and " Everyone a Mint " I then complained to Cryptome about their hosting a racist letter from Mong. It was removed. I then alerted a Physics list about him when I accidentally bumped into him there. ( Not even wrong - check their archives ) So my anti-fascist conscience is clear. And don't forget - even a fascist can still have a good idea. For example; Hitler wanted all Marxist-Communist Commissar's put to death. Who could argue with that? If you automatically oppose everything a Nazbol says then you're just giving them a stick to beat you with. But maybe you're into that, Zeynep.

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Welcome to the Ghetto
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Ding Dong the Mong is dead https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=102686322326845&w=1 While I tend to agree with Tim about the shorter term trouble with micropayments -- the fact that such payments, well, do not pay -- I'd say in the longer term micropayments are what counts . . . " Welcome to the revolution!

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Milli meet Reg - Reg - Milli
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Small transactions are in the news recently with a probably jurisdiction shopping ' arms race ' opening up between the biggest govt shitcoin banksters. Regulatory arbitrage won't save any pig-govts bacon - but the most liberal could last out the longest. Maybe. >>> . . . I don't think the spread of micropayments will be an exception to the rule. In fact I would argue that the only *lasting* surprise offered by AP was the fact that when mild wants of large numbers of people can be coordinated, economic efficiency can lead to significant, and heretofore unexpected, outcomes (i.e. getting a notable figure killed). In the end I think such new classes of financial transactions, borne of lowered transaction costs, will be far more significant to the society as a whole than anonymity. I also think this is the essence of what is driving the wider P2P circle, at the moment, though few people seem to realize it. <<<

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Before Julian there was Declan
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

List journalists - we ought to have them stuffed https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=102984700431372&w=1 Viva la revolution

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20th anniversary of third cypherpunk trial
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Description of the third cypherpunk trial in the ongoing struggle for genuine cryptoanarchy https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=103098894328826&w=1 In Sept it will be 20 years since any govt dared tangle with any cypherpunk revolutionist. Losers gonna lose!

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Making quantum-crypto-FUD futile
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Treat these cornball, journalistic, clickbaiting FUDmeisters as damage and route around them cos for every q-computer that can crack SOME - not all - present encryption, there will be 100 providing uncrackable crypto too cheap too meter. Eventually. https://phys.org/news/2022-07-quantum-cryptography-hacking-futile.html Quantum cryptography: Making hacking futile. QED.

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Crypto is down - but a journalist could die soon
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Crypto appears to be bumping along a relatively cheap baseline at the moment. The net itself continues to do well overall despite massive, large-platform corruption. Russia's NKVD troops continue to be decimated - as indeed does the Media industry. One govt-registered, celebrity journalist is even predicted to die in the next few months. Very Assange.

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Elon Musk posing as an anarchist
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Without any anarchist high command we can’t stop Randite, Paultard style frauds trying to steal our good name. But then they are not some protected species either. Take ’ John Galton " ex Acapulco. He’s as dead as Julius Caesar. If anarchism eluded us then - since not enough of us wanted to assassinate frauds like Elon Musk - that’s no matter - tomorrow we’ll run faster - stretch out our assassinphones further. And, now that the anarchists are in a ferment over preparations for the future, it is worthwhile to re-examine the branding question calmly and without preconceptions. I shall do so briefly from my point of view as a cryptoanarchist or assassin others will do so, should they wish, from their particular point of view. I use the word ‘assassin’ as an alternative to the word ‘communist,’ not because I like pointless new jargon, but because I foresee the possibility that the communist anarchists will gradually abandon the term ‘communist’; it is growing in ambivalence and falling into disrepute as a result of Russian & Chinese ‘communist’ despotism.

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