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Fake News: Bill Palmer and Palmer Report
by grarpamp 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Report The Palmer Report is an American liberal[2] fake news website,[3] founded in 2016 by Bill Palmer.[4] It is known for making unsubstantiated or false claims,[5] producing hyperpartisan content,[6] and publishing conspiracy theories,[7][8] especially on matters relating to Donald Trump and Russia.[14] Fact-checkers have debunked numerous Palmer Report stories, and organizations including the Columbia Journalism Review and the German Marshall Fund have listed the site among biased websites or false content producers.[15][16] The Palmer Report is a hyperpartisan[6] liberal[2] fake news political blog.[3] It is known for making unsubstantiated or false claims[5] and publishing conspiracy theories,[7][8] especially on matters relating to Donald Trump and Russia.[9][11][12][13] Articles from the Palmer Report were shared almost exclusively by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2016 presidential election.[32] In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, the Palmer Report was ranked the fourth least trusted news organization by Americans In an October 2020 study by the German Marshall Fund examining misinformation on social media during the 2016 election, the Palmer Report was one of the websites categorized as "false content producers" or "manipulators".[16] The Palmer Report is labeled a biased source in the Columbia Journalism Review's collected index of "fake-news, clickbait, and hate sites".[15] Journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept wrote that the Palmer Report is "a classic Fake News site created by [...] a crazed fanatical follower of Hillary Clinton who got caught purposely disseminating fake news during the election" David Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism, identified the Palmer Report as a "junk-news" site and a source not to be trusted.[57] a long list of writers on its website, but as of 2017 many of them had only written a single article for the site, and most of the content appeared to have been written by Palmer himself. the Palmer Report published two articles claiming that the election was "rigged"[33] and falsely claimed 5,000 Trump votes in Wisconsin were disqualified. a fake news story from the Palmer Report spread online, alleging that election officials were double-counting votes for Trump. The source of the story was an unverified Facebook post. Election officials dismissed the story, and the Wisconsin Elections Commission found no evidence for the allegations. the Palmer Report suggested, without evidence, that Trump spared the runways of the Shayrat airfield due to Russian collusion. In April 2017, the Palmer Report falsely claimed that the FBI had intelligence that Russia was blackmailing Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz. a false claim that a grand jury had been impaneled in New York in relation to the Special Counsel investigation; the source for the claim was the Palmer Report reported that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had ordered Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself from all Trump-related Russia hearings, with his only source being a "single tweet from an anonymous Twitter account under the name 'Puesto Loco'". published a story claiming that Jared Kushner had "secretly" flown to Saudi Arabia The cited Politico article debunks the Palmer Report's own story Snopes rated the Palmer Report's story as false.[46] A few days after the story was published, Palmer acknowledged In December 2020, the Palmer Report falsely reported that Colin Powell had urged Michael Flynn to be put on "military trial for sedition."[52] Palmer Report's prediction that Susan Collins was "toast" in the 2020 United States Senate election in Maine – an election she won by nine points – was named one of "The Worst Predictions of 2020"

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David Gross vs Carlo Rovelli
by professor rat 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

String Theory or Loop Quantum Gravity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyylR5RPZw

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Twilight of the dogs
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/12/19/how-to-be-a-crypto-samurai/ Five years ago, there may have been more than a few cryptos out there, but bitcoin accounted for roughly 95% of the entire market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies. In early 2018, it was just about a third of crypto’s market cap as the initial coin offering (ICO) boom led to a plethora of new entrants. Many of the early alternatives died out but others did not (hello, ether). As recently as a year ago, bitcoin boasted 70% of the aggregate market cap. Today, bitcoin has only a little above 40%.

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For rightwing list communists, James A. Donald and John Young
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Its hip to be square and everything Naz is Bol again. https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/the_left_is_not_a_concept/87838649?p=,,,… What bliss for Tariq Ali and John Pilger to be done with all leftist pretentions!

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CHAUM's victory is here
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Its just not evenly distributed https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2021/12/19/6-questions-for-david-chaum-o… It’s over. Everything is global and decentralized. The governments, the corporations, they’ll have to play catch-up, but it’s done. We are a global community. The governments think blockchain and crypto are in question — they’re not. It’s the future. It’s now. It’s arrived. It’s done.

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Russian plot against America came from near Odessa steps
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Odessa, Texas. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/turns-out-donald-trumps-election-over… Donald Trump’s election overthrow plot began no later than November 4th. Keep in mind that this plot culminated in everything from felony election tampering to domestic terrorism. None of it was ever going to magically overthrow the results. But it was still a criminal plot

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Crypto-anarchist infrastructure knocks out Uncle Sam
by professor rat 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

The Wall Street Journal America’s Future Depends on the Blockchain Welcome to the cypherpunk revolution. DEATH to AMERICA!

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[personal][spam][spam][spam] Basic Life Activities
by Karl 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Hi, this is private. The iguana story really influenced me. I'm ignoring grarpamp's reply due to the influence. I could really use a wide variety of kinds of caring influence in my life. I have not been able to find them, anywhere. Here's another story. A: My toothbrush is mind controlling me. B: No. Toothbrushes don't do that. A: For real! A: [turns eyes a little toward toothbrush] Toothbrush: [sits there, in the distance] A: [eyes glaze over] A: YES MASTER I WILL BRUSH WITH YOU. B: Um. A: It's okay, he's been mind controlling me for some time now. B: [walks hypnotically toward toothbrush] B: [toothbrushing noises] -- C: We must free this poor person from their toothbrush. B: They said it was okay. C: Would you ever trust a slave who said they were okay? A: [returns, teeth sparkling clean] A: I just meant like, I wasn't being injured, and was used to it. A: [wincing in pain, gums are bloody] A: Is it bad? B: I dunno. What is it like, being mind controlled 'by your toothbrush'? A: Whenever I turn my eyes toward the toothbrush, I zone out and listen, I can barely help it. A: All of me is focused on the toothbrush, nothing else mat-- B: Um, ok. -- B: C, OBEY: Do not ask what the toothbrush does to you when you walk toward it. C: I WILL OBEY. -- B: [turns eyes toward toothbrush] B: So, um, these experiences don't happen except when you turn your eyes toward your toothbrush? A: No, only from the toothbrush! B: YES MASTER I WILL BRUSH WITH YOU. -- Epilogue: The toothbrush was making money for somebody via a social network. He is upgrading to a robot of his very own.

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More Random Popup Trolls Whining About Crypto [woodpeckers]
by grarpamp 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

On 12/18/21, Woody Wood <thedogsh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, but I thought this was cypherpunks. Not a place to push political > agendas and covid theories. > > I joined this list hoping to learn and engage in some cryptography > discussions. Yet another never before seen popup agent troll, whose first post is to engage in zero crypto talk, replying to some random months old post whose content is apparently of utmost importance to them, lol. Cpunks write code, they don't have to do it gratis on any fora for you for your silent non-participatory leech consumption, and they may do it as a tool they think may assist or dissolve such news-exposed politics politicians power governments force etc, among other reasons, which they don't have to share either. But they are here, and there, and are researching, writing, releasing, and doing. It's a free list, if Mr. Popup-a-Woody that TheDogShat upon wants to "learn and engage" in crypto talk here, best step up and do just that... Talk Write Crypto Code stuffs. zep wrote: > There are very few people here who are interested in cryptography False. > They prefer politics instead of privacy Funny those that are too triggered by simple news of politicians slapping them in the face with their anti-privacy regimes, yes too triggered by mere presence of such topics, to realize that privacy is still very much alive and well as an underlying fundamental here. Without news, there would be no awareness and motivation to counter things, no efforts to try wielding crypto in battles that none even thought to consider or knew might need or could be fought, even without any posters interpretive commentary. In fact there are years and years of threadposts on censorship and encrypted crypto political moves by politicians being made against human freedom, more freedom being removed and power added every day, giving you awareness that censorship anti-freedom globalism politician maneuvers Govt and Corp etc must be countered, exposed, fought. And what of the shatting upon those messengers. Crypto is free to talk and write here, quit whining and do that.

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Filesharing: Bittorrent and Tor [re: Leaks, magnets, etc]
by grarpamp 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

>>> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:A6EF4D336F11BC502BB76006D669E695C959BE79 > magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DB37E82521500BEE7570F97479225D825B0598DB If people want people using anonymous overlay exit networks such as tor to be able to participate in and perhaps support bittorrent clouds, they have to announce to the worlds most popular trackers, and include those trackers in their magnets, and they must be http[s], because neither UDP trackers nor UDP DHT work across tor exits, not without tunneling vpn which hardly works well with tor for the UDP things either, and https because http is often censored and logged. Tor+OnionCat also exists to create fully functional bittorrent clouds that are contained entirely within onionland [can also horizon over exit-ipv6]. But Tor Project tries to kill features that people actually can and are using at users own acceptable tradeoff levels, and Tor Project completely censors all talk about such useful things. Thus, "Tor Stinks -- NSA" Here are some repos that can help you build such large automagic tor bittorrent clouds, that are reasonably anonymous for generic purposes, and much more anonymous than raw BT solely over clearnet, and the bandwidth delivered across such tor clouds is also quite good, especially when contributing back both tor relay and BT nodes to it... # Enable OnionLand+IPv6+UDP https://github.com/rahra/onioncat # Bootstrap peers for DHT/PEX https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/opentracker https://github.com/corralpeltzer/newtrackon https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist # Run with DHT/PEX https://github.com/transmission/transmission https://github.com/aria2/aria2 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qbittorrent https://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge You will need to make your own suggestions as to good, hopefully distributed, bittorrent indexing software, such enables both submission and search of torrent releases metadata (titles, release infos, filenames, filehashes) to find content without already knowing the infohash. This is the metainfo database itself, not stupid forums and other crap that such db's can get bolted into. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients And there are other filesharing protocols in addition to BT, many can be used entirely within some overlay networks.

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