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Unicode: Emoji's - Humans Reverting to Hieroglyphic Language Due to Tech
by grarpamp 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

https://www.statista.com/chart/17275/number-of-emojis-from-1995-bis-2019/ https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/ https://www.statista.com/study/12327/mobile-communications-industry-statist… https://stories.moma.org/the-original-emoji-set-has-been-added-to-the-museu… In 2023, Global Emoji Count Could Grow To 3,491 Just in time for today's World Emoji Day, new pictograms coming to phones in 2023 have been announced. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, next year will likely see the release of 31 new emojis including the pink heart, the hair pick and the Khanda, the symbol of Sikh faith. The update would grow the number of emojis to nearly 3,500 next year. The Unicode consortium has recommended the emojis for release, but a final decision is still outstanding. Infographic: In 2023, Global Emoji Count Could Grow to 3,491 | Statista You will find more infographics at Statista While 2021 saw the release of 217 new emojis, that number was lowered to just more than 100 in 2022 and now finally to the double digits for next year. While emojis that allow users to pick different skin colors or genders drive up the size of releases as they are counted individually, the number of non-customizable emojis has also decreased with each release. 2023 will also see the addition of the moose head, the donkey, the goose, the handheld fan, the jelly fish and the maracas, among others, with the high-five hands - both left and right-facing - being the only customizable emoji in the new batch. The pink heart is reportedly the most anticipated of the release as social media users have griped for some time about the availability of the simple heart icon in white, orange and even brown, but not pink. What emojis appear on people’s phones and on their social media platforms is not arbitrary but has been coordinated by the Unicode Consortium since 1995, when the first 76 pictograms were adapted by the U.S. nonprofit. The Consortium has been overseeing the character inventory of electronic text processing since 1991 and sets a standard for symbols, characters in different scripts and – last but not least – emojis, which are encoded uniformly across different platforms even though illustration styles may vary between providers. Even though the first Unicode listings predate them, a 1999 set of 176 simple pictograms invented by interface designer Shigetaka Kurita for a Japanese phone operator is considered to be the precursor of modern-day emojis. The concept gained popularity in Japan and by 2010, Unicode rolled out a massive release of more than 1,000 emojis to get with the burgeoning trend - the rest is history. Different skin colors have been available for emojis since 2015. 2014 saw the release of the anti-bullying emoji "eye in speech bubble" in cooperation with The Ad Council, which produces public service announcements in the United States. Regional flags came to the service in 2017. Same-sex couples and same-sex families have been available since the first major emoji-release in 2010. The 2021 release also included the rollout of non-binary options and interracial couples.

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Ghacks: Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping
by jim bell 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Ghacks: Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/17/facebook-has-started-to-encrypt-links-to-… Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping MARTIN BRINKMANN Jul 17, 2022Facebook | 10 Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers such as Firefox or Brave use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking. Some sites, including Facebook, add parameters to the web address for tracking purposes. These parameters have no functionality that is relevant to the user, but sites rely on them to track users across pages and properties.Mozilla introduced support for URL stripping in Firefox 102, which it launched in June 2022. Firefox removes tracking parameters from web addresses automatically, but only in private browsing mode or when the browser's Tracking Protection feature is set to strict. Firefox users may enable URL stripping in all Firefox modes, but this requires manual configuration. Brave Browser strips known tracking parameters from web addresses as well.

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“Team Crazy” and Co-Conspirators that Marshaled the Mob at the Capitol to be Key Focus of Tuesday’s January 6 Hearing
by professor rat 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

No way to talk about the Honky Kraken! Ruprecht Moloch could soon be having another ' End of the World ' moment. I note his loss of the quantum Gerry Hall effect. But enough of these affairs of gnats - this Giants list remains polluted by some carpetbagger crazies Our own domestic Team Crazy consisting of Semich, Gramps and the last Nazi of the Pampas, Juan Peron. Crypto-anarchists revolutionaries can hardly lay claim to world governance if they can't clean up their own back-yard now - can they. For all those who value freedom, justice and world peace I suggest youse get behind APster and help us take out the trash. There are dead-pools on these three stooges but feel free to start your own. Every small pledge also adds up to help provide bounty law and bounty justice. One small step for a free human - one giant leap for united humanity yrs in anarchist revolution - pr

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JPMorgan Chase & Co are supplying cryptoanarchists with enough fiber-optic
by professor rat 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Wu said companies like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Société Générale-Forge, a subsidiary of one of France’s largest investment banks, are examples of how financial institutions are still innovating during crypto winter and paving the way for broader crypto adoption. <<< https://decrypt.co/105284/john-wu-tradfi-interest-in-crypto-has-absolutely-… Reposts etc

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Dutch Revolt: Spreads Manure On Govt Buildings, Govt Shoots People
by grarpamp 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Netherlands: The Dutch farmers have had enough. They are spreading manure on government buildings and blocking the highways with tractors. https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1543837782677880832

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Cryptocurrency: Steel and Nuclear Energy
by grarpamp 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

"This is why we need to get rid of the dinosaurs in charge. Steel is just another boring 4,000-year-old technology controlled by the 1%. Steel has no more intrinsic value than fiat does, and is hardly as scarce as Bitcoin — anyone can make an infinite amount of steel by simply mining ore, extracting the iron, and mixing it with carbon at 2600°F, while on the other hand only 21 million bitcoin can ever be minted. Steel molecules are all exactly identical, whereas each Bitcoin key has a unique 256-bit string. Steel eventually corrodes into useless rust, whereas crypto is digital and cannot be destroyed due to unique principles of the blockchain. The steel industry generates about 8% of global CO2 emissions, whereas Bitcoin only generates about 0.08%. The price of steel has only roughly doubled since 2010, whereas the price of Bitcoin, even factoring in the current crypto-winter, is 219,533 times higher. Do you seriously think the future is built on ancient metal, or on blockchain? Educate yourself." "PoW will be building their own nuclear power plants. The incentives are heavily aligned. The money will flow. Expect this."

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Cryptocurrency: WarOnCrypto: 1600 GovCorp and LegFin's FUD Themselves as Sham, List Their Reasons for Endorsing Crypto
by grarpamp 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

Legacy's War On Crypto heating up and blowing bigger wads, soon they'll run out and start shooting blanks... Over 1,600 of the Brightest Scientific Minds in Technology Have Signed a Letter Calling Both Crypto and Blockchain a Sham The letter is a punch in the gut to the Wall Street underwriters who have brought billions of dollars of crypto related companies to the public markets, most of which have now collapsed in price. It makes the billionaire venture capitalists who have invested billions in crypto startups look like fools. And it renders the big-name celebrities who have promoted this garbage in TV commercials look like the shills that they are. The letter was sent to key members of Congress and to the Chairs of the Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees. It is signed by more than 1,600 computer scientists, software engineers and technologists from around the world. There are 45 signatories who currently work at Google; 19 who work at Microsoft; 11 employed at Apple. (Those three companies currently have a collective market capitalization of more than $5.75 trillion; they can afford to hire the best and the brightest.) There are signatories that are Ph.Ds from the most prestigious universities in the world, including the University of Oxford and MIT. And all 1,600 have signed a letter that says this about crypto and blockchain: “We strongly disagree with the narrative—peddled by those with a financial stake in the crypto-asset industry—that these technologies represent a positive financial innovation and are in any way suited to solving the financial problems facing ordinary Americans… “As software engineers and technologists with deep expertise in our fields, we dispute the claims made in recent years about the novelty and potential of blockchain technology. Blockchain technology cannot, and will not, have transaction reversal or data privacy mechanisms because they are antithetical to its base design. Financial technologies that serve the public must always have mechanisms for fraud mitigation and allow a human-in-the-loop to reverse transactions; blockchain permits neither.” The letter links to an article from Bruce Schneier, a Security Technologist who teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School. The article appeared at Wired on February 6, 2019 under the headline: “There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology.” The article makes the following salient points: “What blockchain does is shift some of the trust in people and institutions to trust in technology. You need to trust the cryptography, the protocols, the software, the computers and the network. And you need to trust them absolutely, because they’re often single points of failure. “When that trust turns out to be misplaced, there is no recourse. If your bitcoin exchange gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If your bitcoin wallet gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If you forget your login credentials, you lose all of your money. If there’s a bug in the code of your smart contract, you lose all of your money. If someone successfully hacks the blockchain security, you lose all of your money. In many ways, trusting technology is harder than trusting people. Would you rather trust a human legal system or the details of some computer code you don’t have the expertise to audit?” Losing your money is mostly what has been going on this year in crypto. In addition to crypto itself being a dubious “investment,” the Federal Trade Commission reported in June that “since the start of 2021, more than 46,000 people have reported losing over $1 billion in crypto to scams. That’s about one out of every four dollars reportedly lost to fraud during that period.” (For more on the perils of crypto investing, see our report on how customers on the Coinbase crypto exchange are being victimized.) Given this factual background, the speech delivered by Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard at the Bank of England in London last Friday is an embarrassment to the U.S. central bank. In the speech, Brainard repeatedly makes reference to the “crypto financial system” as if it's a real thing. Crypto is a “financial system” like Bernie Madoff’s illusory split-strike conversion was delivering consistent 13 percent returns each year. In both cases, there’s no “there” there. Brainard’s idea is to regulate crypto. China had a better idea. It outlawed it, as have eight other countries with dozens more countries severely restricting its use. The U.S. Congress appears to be too beholden to crypto money to take a stand. That needs to change and the way it can change is for corporate CEOs at top technology companies in the U.S., like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Intel, IBM and others, to start writing OpEds about the sham of crypto and blockchain in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other newspapers with wide circulations. If their own tech workers are willing to put their reputations and careers on the line by signing this letter, surely a CEO or two could find his voice before more Americans are defrauded and before the U.S. loses its competitive edge relentlessly pursuing a sham technology.

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“Team Crazy” and Co-Conspirators that Marshaled the Mob at the Capitol to be Key Focus of Tuesday’s January 6 Hearing
by Gunnar Larson 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

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xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC | Memo #1 - Potential SpaceX Interlocking Directors’ Intent to Manipulate Markets
by Gunnar Larson 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

May 1, 2022 BY ELECTRONIC MAIL Investor Relations Board of Directors, JPMorgan Chase & Co. 277 Park Avenue New York, NY 10172-0003 JPMCinvestorrelations(a)jpmchase.com Re: JPMorgan Chase Board of Directors ESG Marketplace Manipulation Dear Board of Directors: xNY.io - Bank.org recently contacted JPMorgan Chase’s board of directors to communicate our concern(s) that potentially JPMorgan Chase may be engaging in exploitation of more than $100B of ESG asset liabilities, across international regulatory arbitrage structures, while headquartered in Manhattan. Specifically, the duty to promote the success of the company is that a director must act in the way that she considers, in good faith, and would be most likely to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole. - Failure by a board to adequately consider ESG-related risks, particularly entity-specific compliance risks such as breach of securities laws, could serve as the basis for liability of individual directors or officers for breach of their fiduciary duties. Given JPMorgan’s five cout felonies, xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned with your board of director governance in preventing ESG fraud. xNY.io - Bank.org’s assessment of JPMorgan’s board embraces fundamentals including liquidity risk and protecting New York ESG cross border innovation from marketplace manipulation. - According to JPMorgan’s August 2021 Sovereigns and ESG whitepaper, the bank states that governance carries the largest weight of the three ESG pillars across scores, as it is the most empirically relevant for asset prices. - JPMorgan notes that philosophically, the bank views good governance as a foundational pillar for positive ESG developments in other pillars. Today’s memo follows protocol suggested by the United States of America, in that JPMorgan Chase’s board of directors is responsible to xNY.io - Bank.org’s enterprise and the Department of the Interior, in connection with any action alleging a violation of the Endangered Species Act, by any person (“person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, or any other private entity) claiming the benefit of any exemption or permit under the Act, who shall have the burden of proving that the exemption or permit is applicable, or has been granted, and was valid and in force at the time of alleged violation. xNY.io - Bank.org has made 91 highlights to the Department of Interior’s Endangered Species Act for JPMorgan Chase’s board of directors reference. 1. xNY.io - Bank.org has reason to believe in the JPMorgan Chase board of directors’ engagement of ESG marketplace manipulation, risking your ESG portfolio’s future at the cost of New York digital asset innovation. 2. xNY.io - Bank.org references your 2021 Environmental Social and Governance Report, totaling $117B of ESG “development funding” transferred from New York to Caribbean and Eastern European accounts. 3. xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned of JPMorgan Chase board directors leveraged marketplace manipulation techniques in allocating ESG funds to engage in potential harassment (the term "harassment" means any act of pursuit, torment, or annoyance) of some of the world’s most precious endangered species protected by domestic and international governance. 4. JPMorgan Chase’s $2.3B ESG “wind farm” facility is characterized by the Washington Post as a potential misuse of ESG assets (and board policies) to fund probable violation(s) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Looking internationally, xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned of further ESG marketplace manipulation structures, sacrificing endangered species, via JPMorgan Chase’s board directed ESG investments in the Caribbean (your largest ESG investment region). xNY.io - Bank.org signals that JPMorgan’s board of directors is party to the Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation in the Western Hemisphere. Being clear, any violation of the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and/or the Convention on Nature Protection and Wild Life Preservation in the Western Hemisphere … Requires xNY.io - Bank.org to consult JPMorgan Chase board members on ESG allocations that may be in conflict with construction, or other development projects, or other forms of economic activity. xNY.io - Bank.org asks JPMorgan Chase board directors to return the Secretary of Department of the Interior’s approval, confirming licensing and/or exclusion to the Endangered Species Act, with further authorization of “harassment” pursuant to exemption(s). Including (if available) a similar Environmental Protection Agency permit that is applicable and is valid and in force. - Due to the riskiness of ESG portfolio mismanagement in violation of the Endangered Species Act, ESG marketplace manipulation risk(s) may trigger causal shocks to New York State monetary and regulatory innovation. - According to JPMorgan’s sovereign fund ESG research, “A common complaint about ESG analysis is that data can be difficult to source. Some sovereign data is in fact more readily available than corporate data given the multitude of multinational organizations and NGOs – including the World Bank, the IMF and the United Nations.” - The European Central Bank provides support to the eurozone sovereign debt market but has more restrictions on what and how much it can buy, so eurozone bonds can trade with more credit risk premium compared to other major developed market bonds. - Whatever the case may be, JPMorgan disclosures detail significant concern of lapse in board governance and ESG portfolio risk with potential violation of the Endangered Species Act, risking ESG portfolio default(s) in Europe and the United States risking ESG customer financial abuse. Forbes recently profiles JPMorgan Chase ESG investments as problematic, highlighting that your board of directors potentially are allocating ESG proceeds in competition with human rights at the expense of customers’ best interests while investing heavily in fossil fuels. A letter to JPMorgan Chase’s board of directors from ESG scholars (including, The Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Greenpeace, Amazon Watch, Revolving Door Project, Rainforest Action Network and the Center for International Environmental Law) suggests the bank would “...lock us into energy sources that are overly expensive and subject to wild price swings, and that exacerbate rather than ease global conflict.” xNY.io - Bank.org aims to protect ESG digital asset innovation and JPMorgan’s board should understand your proprietary ESG scoring matrix should signal seismic marketplace manipulation risk if directors are in potential violation of any Endangered Species Act covenant. - Head of Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) distribution at JP Morgan Asset Management says, “In Europe, we do not have a semi-transparent product – like the US and Australia – which would add further complexity to the trading. For example, the US has several models which make it harder for the AP to guess what the actual fund looks like and therefore the costs might be higher accordingly.” - Given, JPMorgan may potentially be in breach of United States Endangered Species Act provisions, similar risk of ESG asset failure(s) may include Europe, Middle East, Africa and Australia international law, as ratified by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. While directors and officers are likely to be particularly focused on the risk that they may be found personally liable for a breach of their duties, proper ESG compliance with fiduciary obligations requires acting to a higher standard. Given the defenses available to fiduciaries, and the difficulty in bringing claims for breach of fiduciary duty, a director or officer found to be liable for such ESG breaches will generally have acted egregiously. This ‘sliding scale’ of the standards to which directors and officers should adhere. Following the Endangered Species Act, xNY.io - Bank.org kindly petitions JPMorgan’s board of directors, in connection with all ESG investments, claiming the benefit of any exemption or permit under the United States Department of the Interior’s Endangered Species Act … Shall have the burden of proving that an exemption or permit is applicable, or has been granted, and is valid and in force. - At JPMorgan’s earliest convenience (within 60 days of receipt of this memo) xNY.io - Bank.org kindly requests a certified copy of JPMorgan Chase’s approval by the Department of the Interior, being a license and/or exclusion to the Endangered Species Act and/or the Marine Mammal Protection Act. - JPMorgan Chase suggests a commitment to anti-corruption compliance is central to the success of its business. Your board of directors stand to maintain that trust by promoting a corporate culture that encourages ethical business practices and compliance with both the letter and the spirit of the laws of the countries in which the JPMorgan conducts business. xNY.io - Bank.org’s research guidance from the United States Securities and Exchange Commision, supports the international community in taking actions to address ESG issues on a global basis, and those actions that can have a material impact on companies. Future correspondence concerning ESG innovation is at your board’s leisure. Respectfully yours with appreciation, Gunnar Larson | xNY.io <http://www.xny.io> - Bank.org <http://bank.org>, PBC MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107

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Re: confirm a69cb19cc3f8f52709e4bf4e3fe25da071049356
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

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