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GPUs stolen in California truck heist turn up in Vietnam retailer
by jim bell 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

GPUs stolen in California truck heist turn up in Vietnam retailer https://share.newsbreak.com/bwb47hai

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Night of the long-knives brewing
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Purge looming on ' Natural Rights anarchist " fringe. >>>> and when I say vaccine nazis I mean motherfucking turds like jim bell, the Emperor of US nazi 'anarchism'. <<< These type of Nazbol often take their political disagreements to the next level. Case in point - assassination of John Galton in Anarchopulco. Judging by the anarchist reaction to that these sort of events ought to be encouraged as much as possible. Jim Bell used to even own guns.

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Portrait of a self-castrating eunuch
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Portrait of a self-castrating eunuch https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author An elderly Tony Curtis was once asked about his much younger latest bride - " She dies - she dies ". Signal dies - she dies.

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VERGE fucking for chastity
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

>>> I’m in favor of end-to-end encryption, because in a world of ubiquitous surveillance and rising authoritarianism, I think it’s important that truly private communication systems are widely available. But I also support anti-money-laundering and Know Your Customer (KYC) laws, which are useful in combating terrorists, murder-for-hire plotters, and other harms. <<< Feh. Crypto-anarchism's way of dealing with anti-social crime relies on APster and intelligence. But its hard to make corpse-media zombies understand net-anarchism when their job depends on them not understanding it.

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How Signal is playing with fire - The Verge
by jim bell 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-payments-encryption…

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Crypto is interesting for the freedom it enables
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Crypto is interesting for the freedom it enables, not for the freedom users currently care about. (a response to Moxie) https://www.drorpoleg.com/unpacking-the-web3-sausage/ In other words, the web we have is too centralized, leaving too much power and profits at the hands of a handful of giant companies. Web3 is an umbrella term for various efforts to reshape the web and address these issues. Specifically, these efforts include developing decentralized computing infrastructure that is difficult to censor or shut down and developing protocols that allow users to easily port their "accounts" (identity, data, digital assets) across different apps.

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More on Zero-Knowledge SNARKS
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Using zk-SNARKs, it is actually possible for commodity devices to verify the entire chain state, including the semantics of every state transition. Mina uses this architecture today, and using recursive zk-SNARKs achieves a state size of around 22kb. An architecture like this could fill a similar security role to that of light clients, with the added benefit of allowing every-day users to run a fully verifying node on their commodity device. https://mirror.xyz/suzuha.eth/vb5E5lhzmPTcpxOJcz6Q211TDgSvoFwDLA6JSM1V37Q

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Rather see Dr Fauci than Dr Paul
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

morgfair - 4h I agree. I worked with Dr. Fauci all through the '80s on AIDS and never heard one political word from him. He is a man of science who only cares about helping people, to which he has devoted his whole life. I consider him a friend and am proud of that. Quote Tweet Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD @PeterHotez · 12h I’ve known Tony Fauci for almost 40 years, I cannot remember when I’ve seen him so visibly hurt. I’ve called for federal action to protect prominent US scientists under attack… twitter.com/acyn/status/14… Show this thread

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We own the world
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2022/01/10/new-blog-about-hunt-sabotage… These days belong to us

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Trump stooge, Gramps cuts-and-runs
by professor rat 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

The DOJ is building a criminal case against Trump, to the point of lining up witnesses who are formally accusing him in their own guilty pleas of having incited the Capitol attack to try to overthrow the election. Steny Hoyer, the number two ranking House Democrat behind only Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has announced that he believes the January 6th Committee should in fact refer Jordan and other non-cooperative members of Congress for criminal contempt. And now Gramps, sorry, Mo Brooks is changing his tune. He encouraged a crowd of Trump supporters to “look beyond 2020” and was met with “boos.” He has also recanted many of the things he said in January 2020, including admitting he “was wrong” about the involvement of anitifa in the insurrection. He also now claims that he lied about Trump personally inviting him to the January 6 rally, blaming one of his staffers for the “mistake.”

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