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Leftification leading to deification
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Left-wing anarchism has become the horizon of the majority of crypto-anarchist infrastructure. You don't need to have a doctorate in political science to see this leftist shift developing even since the mid-90's ( " Twilight of the Crypto Geeks " ) Some of this anarchism is mixed up with Girondin mush about Quadrophrenic 'voting', ' Futarchy', ' Holocracy' and such tripe. Like continental high-fashion these distro's are so ugly they have to change them once a year. Then tedious Marxist types will try and colonize anarchism as they have tried since ' Council communism '. They try and they die. All this leads to exactly when did this ' Left Turn ' start - and who was the first left cypherpunk? Who-ever they are they stand to be effectively deified once all the manifold blessings of crypto-anarchism unfurl around the globe. They will join a pantheon that includes Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman, Malatesta, Los Solidarios , Sabate and so on. Immortals.

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Open Letter to Tim Cook on Apple Card's Goldman Sachs Scandal [Women's Civil/Human Rights]
by Gunnar Larson 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Dear Mr. Tim Cook: Bank.org invites Apple to radically innovate Apple Card. Goldman Sachs has a history of poor ethical stewardship, at the global level. Similarly, New York's former Governor Andrew Cuomo and NY-DFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell are now world famous for women's rights (you know the story). On March 23, 2021, Lacewell published NY-DFS' Findings on Apple Card and its. Underwriter Goldman Sachs Bank. Mr. Cook, former Superintendent of NY-DFS, Ms. Linda Lacewell's stone faced propaganda assured that Apple Card did not discriminate against women, while under Goldman Sachs management. Ms. Lacewell said <https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr202103231> , “The report also notes that the use of credit scoring in its current form and laws and regulations barring discrimination in lending are in need of strengthening and modernization to improve access to credit. Consumer frustration with the Apple Card policy of not permitting an account holder to add an authorized user drew attention to the following: a person who relies on a spouse's access to credit, and only accesses those accounts as an authorized user, may incorrectly believe they have the same credit profile as the spouse. This is one part of a broader discussion we must have about equal credit access.” xNY.io recently collated 61 highlights to the Report on Apple Card Investigation from March 2021: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xH16OKyuXzB-MVqIznMWDE9w8RRdmZCw/view?usp=… . Mr. Cook, the Apple Card investigation was to assess women's access to equitable finance. March 2021 also saw New York State Attorney General Letitia James' formal green light to launch an independent investigation into sexual harassment allegations <https://nypost.com/2021/02/27/second-woman-accuses-gov-andrew-cuomo-of-sexu…> lodged against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Lacewell's legacy is authoring reports disparaging women. As such, the integrity of the Apple Card investigation must be rationally considered as flawed. Likewise, Goldman Sach has a history of unethical posturing on matters specific to women and girls (via global regulatory arbitrage structures). Mr. Cook, Peter Oppenheimer is Apple's former CFO and in 2014 joined Goldman Sachs' board of directors and serves on key committees such as Audit (Chair), Governance, Risk. There is no logical reason for Apple to trust the Apple Card report and your former CFO is well aware of the legacy of Goldman's unethical antics and regulatory arbitrage frameworks that take advantage of the world's most vulnerable populations. Mr. Cook, at the very least, it is now clear the former superintendent is famous for publishing reports that disperage women. Salacious as this may sound, all this is true and we cannot ignore the facts of the matter. What would Steve Jobs say? Apple Card can innovate the market globally. Mr. Cook, Apple Card should consider moving to Bank.org to make history. This is a smart pivot for you. We invite Apple to join Bank.org as we build the World's Best Bank. Sending you the very best regards. Thank you, Gunnar Larson -- *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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Bait and switch
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Replacing " Fuck Joe Biden " with " Let's go Brandon " is classic Military-Entertainment-Complex spin-replacing-reality. Its so bad I would compare it to replacing anarchists PoD ( Propaganda of the deed ) with some pathetic Hare Krishna type chant like NAP ( Non aggression principle ) Yes its that bad. But Randite-Paultard moron losers have always been phoney-baloney anarchists. Even a dumbass like Murray Rothbard finally figured that out.

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Cryptoanarchists go Brandon
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/nascar-driver-brandon-brown-lgbcoin-chan… Where does it say you can't kill a POTUS?

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Rat and Bat
by grarpamp 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Stop abusing people.

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RED-FASCIST Marxist-Communists target anarchists
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show The Washington Post 2 hours ago Chinese Police Hunt Overseas Critics With Advanced Tech The New York Times WikiLeaks hasn’t spread a word of support for the Hong Kong protesters or for ANY of the lands and countries oppressed by nowadays Chinese government, including Chinese citizens. They just highlight "ooh the US govt is supporting the protests!" http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/-wikileaks-related-news/23/no-comment-wikile…

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Yet another sign of Jim Bell's cognitive decline
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

I've already mentioned a few 1) He ignore the perfectly good " APster " in favor of the letters referring to Associated Press 2) He starts hangin' with known imbeciles and criminals - like Jeff Berwick 3) He now regards a clearly anti-social criminal as ' the enemy of my enemy " - very Assange 4) He openly prefers some numbskull non-ethic called " NAP ' to anarchism 5) He's chiming in on some of the lunatic LOL-GOP-Qanon garbage dropped off here by Gramps and 6 ) This just in - he's caving in like a whiny little bitch to the bait laid here by " Agent Truther " and one-man-Russian-Troll-Farm, Batshit Crazy. Crazy is the Alex Jones you have when you're not having cannibal Alex. Taking all this into account I suggest we collectively exercise some ' Soft APster " power and ask this Dumbell to leave. Failing that more stringent measures may be considered. Yes?

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" Cipher - Punks " NFT drop pleases freethinkers
by professor rat 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Released on Christmas Day by a group called “ItsBlockchain,” the “Cipher Punks” NFT package included portraits of 46 distinct figures, with ten copies of each token. Taken at their opening price, the full value of the drop was roughly $4,000. Plus there’s no such thing as bad PR. Amirite? If this is some sort of anti-social scam it will soon come out and either Hard or Soft APster will apply. Maybe both.

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Carte Blanche (Think Freely)
by Gunnar Larson 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

carte blanche /kärt ˈblänSH/ Learn to pronounce <https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-charter-us-revc&q=how+to+pr…> *noun* noun: *carte blanche* 1. complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best. "we were *given carte blanche*" Origin late 17th century: French, literally ‘blank paper’ (i.e. a blank sheet on which to write whatever one wishes, particularly one's own terms for an agreement). https://www.google.com/search?q=carte+blanche&oq=carte+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j…

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SpyVeillance: Palantir Spy Manual For Cops Against People, Military Snoops Same
by grarpamp 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kx4z8/revealed-this-is-palantirs-top-secre… https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6190005-PALANTIR-Guide.html https://www.flightradar24.com/multiview/2a50bf10,2a50b524 Revealed: This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals. Palantir is one of the most significant and secretive companies in big data analysis. The company acts as an information management service for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, corporations like JP Morgan and Airbus, and dozens of other local, state, and federal agencies. It’s been described by scholars as a “secondary surveillance network,” since it extensively catalogs and maps interpersonal relationships between individuals, even those who aren't suspected of a crime. Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale would be impossible without software like Palantir. But few people outside the company and its customers know how its software works or what its specific capabilities and user interfaces are. Through a public record request, Motherboard has obtained a user manual that gives unprecedented insight into Palantir Gotham (Palantir’s other services, Palantir Foundry, is an enterprise data platform), which is used by law enforcement agencies like the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center. The NCRIC serves around 300 communities in northern California and is what is known as a "fusion center," a Department of Homeland Security intelligence center that aggregates and investigates information from state, local, and federal agencies, as well as some private entities, into large databases that can be searched using software like Palantir. Fusion centers have become a target of civil liberties groups in part because they collect and aggregate data from so many different public and private entities. The US Department of Justice’s Fusion Center Guidelines list the following as collection targets: 1562941666896-Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-102230-AM Data via US Department of Justice. Chart via Electronic Information Privacy Center. 1562940862696-Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-101110-AM A flow chart that explains how cops can begin to search for records relating to a single person. The guide doesn’t just show how Gotham works. It also shows how police are instructed to use the software. This guide seems to be specifically made by Palantir for the California law enforcement because it includes examples specific to California. We don’t know exactly what information is excluded, or what changes have been made since the document was first created. The first eight pages that we received in response to our request is undated, but the remaining twenty-one pages were copyrighted in 2016. (Palantir did not respond to multiple requests for comment.) The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives. The capabilities are staggering, according to the guide: If police have a name that’s associated with a license plate, they can use automatic license plate reader data to find out where they’ve been, and when they’ve been there. This can give a complete account of where someone has driven over any time period. With a name, police can also find a person's email address, phone numbers, current and previous addresses, bank accounts, social security number(s), business relationships, family relationships, and license information like height, weight, and eye color, as long as it's in the agency's database. The software can map out a person's family members and business associates of a suspect, and theoretically, find the above information about them, too. All of this information is aggregated and synthesized in a way that gives law enforcement nearly omniscient knowledge over any suspect they decide to surveil. 1562941061041-Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-101139-AM An instructional flowchart showing how to search for people tied to a specific vehicle or license plate. TERMS TO KNOW Most of the Palantir guide is written in the company’s technical language, so it can be hard to parse if you haven't used the software or aren't familiar with it. Here are the important terms to know: OBJECTS: Any piece of data. This data could be a name, address, phone number, bank account number, etc. HISTOGRAM: A chart. Specifically, a chart that looks like a web and makes connections between things. This feature kind of looks like the "detective wall" trope from TV and movies, but since it’s digitized, it’s much more fast, powerful, and dense. ALPR/AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READER: A camera that takes pictures of cars and license plates. They’re usually located at toll booths, or intersections on heavily trafficked roads, though police also have mobile versions of them and massive databases of license plate information. Each city in California has different ALPR privacy policies about how the information can be used and shared. HEATMAP: A map that shows how many things there are in a particular area. A higher concentration of things is usually shown in a darker or richer color. Palantir advertises Gotham as a tool that transforms huge amounts of data into actionable maps for police investigations. 1562940921088-Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-101333-AM Search results showing that a single license plate can be tracked around the state using Automatic License Plate Reader data. THE DATA All data points in Palantir are referred to as “Objects,” and these objects can be practically anything. But they boil down to three main categories: Entities, Events, and Documents. The possibilities of these categories are shown below. Chart of object types The “Person” Entity Type doesn’t just include a person’s name. It also includes their emails, bank account numbers, phone numbers, current and previous addresses, social security number(s), and driver’s license data such as height, weight, eye color, and date of birth. (The email address example shown in the user guide is jbg01(a)DownWithTheUS.org.) Zoomed-in screenshot from the Palantir user guide. Image: Zoomed-in screenshot from the Palantir user guide. There’s also “Property Types”—which basically list different traits that can be attributed to Objects, or data points. The different Property Types are: Label Data Source Agency Address Data Range and Location Date Incident Type Geographic Area Incident Number Incident Disposition Incident Status Cross Street Comments Phone Number Location Name Name License Plate Gender The Palantir guide shows that this data is pulled from several different management systems at once. For instance, a Palantir screenshot included in the guide show that the NCRIC lets police pull from the record management systems of the San Mateo and Palo Alto Police Departments. This exemplifies Palantir's selling point: the system can synthesize enormous amounts of data from various sources. Palantir can also make connections across that data, making it accessible for users in a way that would be extremely time-intensive to do manually. Zoomed-in screenshot of the Palantir Object Explorer section of the user guide. Image: Zoomed-in screenshot of the Palantir Object Explorer section of the user guide. In order for Palantir to work, it has to be fed data. This can mean public records like business registries, birth certificates, and marriage records, or police records like warrants and parole sheets. Palantir would need other data sources to give police access to information like emails and bank account numbers. “Palantir Law Enforcement supports existing case management systems, evidence management systems, arrest records, warrant data, subpoenaed data, RMS or other crime-reporting data, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) data, federal repositories, gang intelligence, suspicious activity reports, Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data, and unstructured data such as document repositories and emails,” Palantir’s website says. Some data sources—like marriage, divorce, birth, and business records—also implicate other people that are associated with a person personally or through family. So when police are investigating a person, they’re not just collecting a dragnet of emails, phone numbers, business relationships, travel histories, etc. about one suspect. They’re also collecting information for people who are associated with this suspect. Zoomed-in screenshot of the Palantir Object Explorer section of the user guide. Image: Zoomed-in screenshot of the Palantir Object Explorer section of the user guide. Tech 300 Californian Cities Secretly Have Access to Palantir Caroline Haskins 07.12.19 SEARCHES The guide explains how to make two types of searches: people record searches, and vehicle record searches. With the people record search, police can start out with a person’s name. Police can also input a phone number (with or without area code), a license plate number, or the dates of cases associated with that person. The name that the Palantir guide uses as an example is "John Badguy Smith." “The results that appear are from LAPD and LASD data sources,” the Palantir guide says, “and include person records linked to crimes, citations, and arrests.” Palantir person search section of the user guide. With the vehicle record search, police start by entering a license plate number. The results spit back any and all relevant information about that vehicle, and Palantir gives police the option of mapping or visualizing this information. “The results show if the vehicle appeared in any crimes, arrests, field interviews, incidents, or citations, across both LAPD and LASD sources simultaneously,” the Palantir guide says. TOOLS Tech Why Protesters Want Palantir to #disarmICE Edward Ongweso Jr 07.11.19 The Palantir user guide also explains how to use three types of tools: the Histogram tool, the Map tool, and the Object Explorer tool. These tools all let police graph, map, visualize, and connect dozens of different types of data points. So, police can chart the relationships between individuals. Police can click on an individual on this chart and see everything about them: their email addresses, their bank account information, their license information, etc. Police can also put current addresses, previous addresses, locations of a suspected crime, work locations, family addresses, and travel history (as captured by ALPR-cameras) on a map. Histogram Tool The Histogram tool, as stated by the Palantir guide, helps police find “correlations” and “trends” between different Objects, or data points. This can help police decipher a person’s behavior. Police can also create “Virtual Dossiers” at the end of their investigations, which centralizes their analysis into a single place. Palantir Histogram Helper section of the user guide. Image: Palantir Histogram Helper section of the user guide. Map Tool The Map tool lets police do three things: complete “Geosearches,” create “Heatmaps,” and search an Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) database. Geosearches lets police see Objects, visually, within a certain radius on a map. “The purple radius, polygon, route, or recent buttons allow you to draw a shape and search for objects/properties that are within the search area,” the Palantir guide says. Heatmaps show the concentration of Objects on a map. Using a Legend tool, police can adjust the coloring and display of objects on the map. Palantir Heatmap Helper section of the user guide. Image: Palantir Heatmap Helper section of the user guide. The ALPR search, meanwhile, lets police view license plate data captured within a certain search radius on the map. Police have to first enter a search purpose, which can be a “a DR or case number,” according to the guide. Then, police have to enter the center of their search radius, and a license plate number they want to search. Police can, optionally, select a date range they want to search. The results show images of the license plates as captured, the car associated with the license plate, time stamps, and the location that the license plate information was captured (Image of this is near the top of the article.) Object Explorer The Object Explorer is a comprehensive analysis tool that lets police filter, sort, map, analyze, and export dozens of different data points. A huge part of the Object Explorer is visualizing data, which can be done in four main ways: numeric charts, histograms, timelines, and pie charts. The Palantir guide explains that depending on which Objects police are analyzing, the appropriate visualization tool may vary. Palantir “Timeline” tool in the Object Explorer. Image: Palantir “Timeline” tool in the Object Explorer. The document obtained by Motherboard for this story is public and viewable on DocumentCloud.

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