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The human costs of Stalin’s anti-Semitic campaigns.
by professor rat 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

" . . . he may have “used or acquiesced in” anti-Semitic prejudice in his assault on “cosmopolitanism”. He omits to mention that at least six of the nine physicians accused in the so-called “doctors’ plot” of 1951-53 were Jewish, while on the Night of the Murdered Poets on 12 August 1952, all 13 of the anti-fascist writers, actors and doctors executed by firing squad in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison were Jews. . . " https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2022/03/the-cult-of-stalin-the-i…

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FOIL NY Request Confirmation: One Million Black Women and Mission-Driven Banks: NAACP, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and PayPal Collusion
by Gunnar Larson 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <noreply(a)its.ny.gov> Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 7:26 PM Subject: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY To: <g(a)xny.io> Thank you for submitting your FOIL request through Open FOIL NY. Here is your Open FOIL NY confirmation information for future reference: LARSON_DFS_20220403192638664 LARSON_DHR_20220403192638664 LARSON_NYSIF_20220403192638664 *INFORMATION SUBMITTED:* *Records Requested From* Department of Financial Services Division of Human Rights New York State Insurance Fund *Short Title* One Million Black Women and Mission-Driven Banks: NAACP, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and PayPal Collusion *Description* Dear Madam or Sir: Today's memo requests records related to NY-DFS monitoring of $10,610,000,000 of pledge funds (detailed below) specific to financial inclusion. xNY.io would like to receive any and all records related to NY-DFS' monitoring of Goldman Sachs' potential money laundering and other abuses of Goldman project, One Million Black Women, with $10B in direct capital and $100M in charity investments: https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-commitments/sustainability/one-million-bla… xNY.io would like to receive any and all documents correlating NY-DFS monitoring of (or, confirming no correlation) the One Million Black Women fund related to any association to other Goldman student scholarship funds in Africa ... Furthermore, xNY.io would like to receive any and all documents, related to NY-DFS' regulatory scrutiny of interlocking directorates at the NAACP, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and PayPal with potential collusion in leveraging marketplace spoofing tactics (or, records confirming no spoofing tactics) concerning $810 million in pledge funds associated with the 2020 Mission Driven Banks whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rOXE7ierZcd8HlvNVy7hAYg7d86q_1dv/view?usp=… Attached and below, kindly find outline of the $850M pledged: Goldman Sachs Industry: Financial Services Pledge Amount: $250 million Use of Funds: Goldman Sachs has committed $250 million for small business lending. Goldman Sachs will not issue these loans directly since it is not an approved small business loan provider in the United States. Instead, it will provide the financing to CDFIs and other mission-driven lenders to make the loans. Wells Fargo Industry: Banking Pledge Amount: $50 million Use of Funds: Wells Fargo has pledged a $50 million investment in African American MDIs. See Press Release PayPal Industry: Financial Services Pledge Amount: $510 million Use of Funds: PayPal has pledged $500 million for a long-term economic opportunity fund to support African American and underrepresented minority businesses and communities. The initiative will include “bolstering the company’s relationships with community banks and credit unions serving underrepresented minority communities, as well as investing directly into African American and minority led startups and minority-focused investment funds.” PayPal deposited $50 million in Optus Bank, an African American MDI in Columbia, South Carolina. PayPal will use another $10 million for grants to African American-owned businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic or civil unrest surrounding protests. The very best, Gunnar Larson *Uploaded Files* Resource Guide.pdf *FOIL Response Format* Email *If fees apply, please contact me if costs will be greater than* $25000 Your FOIL request has been forwarded to the organization(s) you selected, and the respective Records Access Officer will contact you directly for further processing of your request. Please allow up to five business days for such communication(s). For your convenience, here is additional contact information: Department of Financial Services One State Street 20th Floor New York, NY 10004 Division of Human Rights One Fordham Plaza 4th Floor New York, NY 10458 New York State Insurance Fund 199 Church Street New York, NY 10007 -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* 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 New York, New York 10001

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Starlink mobile
by jim bell 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1382842277719003136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw… This article originally appeared on Outside Starlink promises to bring high-speed Internet to rural and remote areas currently underserved by wired Internet. Can it also also bring high-speed Internet along on your next camping trip? This weekend, I embarked on a 1,600-mile road trip to find out. What's Elon Musk's Starlink Device? Created by Elon Musk's SpaceX, Starlink's goal is to spread high-speed Internet across the entire planet. It does that using constellations of small satellites. To-date, SpaceX has put about 2,000 Starlink satellites into orbit. That's enough to cover most of the contiguous United States, parts of Canada and Alaska, western Europe, all of New Zealand, and southern Australia. Eventually, Musk hopes to bring that total to 42,000 satellites, expanding coverage across pretty much the entire globe. Starlink customers use a compact satellite dish to communicate with those satellites. Packaged with a power cord, stand, and modem/WiFi router, the consumer version of that kit currently costs $599, while the monthly service contract, which includes unlimited data, costs $110. To get on the list for one, you'll need to put down a $99 deposit, which doesn't include shipping (another $50).

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Cryptocurrencies are a two-legged stool
by professor rat 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

“I realized if you allow anyone to mint anything and sell it pseudonymously, plagiarism is built into that,” he said. “If your system is built on decentralization as a core building block, there’s just no fixing that problem. It’s just inherent in the fundamentals.” https://decrypt.co/96637/nfts-have-a-problem-with-copyright-theft Cryptoanarchy - in stark contrast - is a three-legged-stool Cypherpunks Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2

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[spam][ot][spam][ignore] Enlrge Ur Pen1s
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

goal: figuring out how to write manual generation loop for speech2text model

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Curious lack of curiosity about cryptoanarchy
by professor rat 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

The truth is that the vast majority of “victim”-type crime is committed by a relatively tiny fraction of the population who are repeat criminals. It isn’t necessary to identify For example, even if the probability of a car thief getting caught, per theft, is only 5%, there is at least a 40% probability of getting caught after 10 thefts, and a 65% chance after 20 thefts. A smart car-theft victim would be happy to donate money targeting ANY discovered car-thief, not necessarily just the one who victimized him. The average car-owner would be wise to offer such donations occasionally, as “insurance” against the possibility of his being victimized someday: An average donation of 1 cent per day per car would constitute $10,000 per day for a typical city of 1 million cars. Assuming that amount is far more than enough to get a typical car thief’s “friends” to “off” him, there is simply no way that a substantial car-theft subculture could possibly be maintained. https://cryptome.org/jdb/ap.htm

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Re: [spam][ot][spam][ignore] Enlrge Ur Pen1s
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

what seems nice for continuing might be considering the idea of mapping logits to how logoish they might be. one approach to that would be expanding a logo parse tree through all the tokenizer's vocab. then with some parallel data, simply backsolving from that parse tree, i'm thinking it could work. it's no longer a quick approach but it nicely demonstrates how the comic links the patterns of machine learning and software engineering together.

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GneuralNetwork was Re: [crazy] Boss Spinoff 2: Speech2Text
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Attached are the GPG keys of the gneuralnetwork project members, downloaded from savannah.gnu.org on 2022. When I visit the project's pages, I am informed the project has been decommissioned. I do not know what followed it. I have not found information on this in the mailing lists. I am already subsrcribed to their mailing list, but I do not have memory of the project that I am aware of. It's hard for me to retain new memories nowadays. Savannah page: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gneuralnetwork/ Gnu page: https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/ Mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gneuralnetwork I found some messages were missing from the list archives on the mailing list. I don't have reason to suspect that is specific to the project, but one should find out what happened.

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Another Batshit-Crazy, Nazi catches COVID-19
by professor rat 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/rogue-mp-george-christensen-has… Christensen has been a prolific spreader of numerous conspiracy theories, including misinformation regarding climate change, COVID-19 and vaccines. He is also recognised for his alignment with supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory and political movement. In February 2020, Christensen travelled to the UK to meet Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has slammed Queensland Nationals MP George Christensen for laughing at a comment comparing Australia’s COVID-19 quarantine facilities with the Holocaust.

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[ot|[spam][crazy][random] random things
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Building a Swamp out of Staples This is a hard task. Swamps are often defined by the presence of things that aren't staples, such as animals, plants, or water. However, staples can be used to accomplish almost anything! To do so, one enumerates the ways they might be used, with an eye towards the goals in question.

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