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Cryptocurrency: Seeking Approval
by grarpamp 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

Ultimately "seeking approval" is generally bound to be unproductive and cancelling to the goals of the approval seeker, as there is most always a point at which the would-be approver realizes their very existance is in jeopardy, from which they will thereafter always act to disapprove, violently. It's an odds game as usual, however analysis of history may show that your only hope is to indeed blitz efficiently, rapidly, subvertively, adoptively, privately, transformatively, without approval, far past the point at which disapproval is long since mooted. Whichever the way... Qapla'

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Melbourne is sick of their bullshit and conspiracy theories.
by professor rat 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

Antivax worse than clickbait and stupid rollovers https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/politics/thousands-of-protesters-…

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Attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply if attorney & client are plotting criminal activity
by professor rat 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

Ellis is not refuting that she wrote the memos, and instead appears to be acknowledging their authenticity. As for attorney-client privilege, that doesn’t apply if the attorney and client are plotting criminal activity together. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-freaks-out-a… Ellis? You shouldn't be doing this.

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Why do DOCK hate our cryptoanarchist freedoms?
by professor rat 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

Similarly, credentialing platform Xertify integrated Dock’s blockchain infrastructure to facilitate credential issuance for a number of organizations, including universities and government agencies. . . " https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-blockchain-based-platform-that-helps-creat… We'll know 'good-enough' identity-management is here when all govts start denouncing it. Not signing up for the damn thing! Jesus Fucking Christ.

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Wikipedia Mirrors and Forks
by Karl 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

I'd lost all my links to wikipedia forks, websearching hadn't worked, and was quite excited to see this. On 12/11/21, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > https://en.everybodywiki.com/ >From that link I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks . This page also indirectly links to a number of third-party archives of wikipeda. It also gives instructions on running your own fork or mirror. The list of all mirrors considered active is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/All . The archive of sites that have gone down is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Archive . Attached is a very quick scrape of names and urls [sorry it is so hasty]. It contains 706 entries, and misses a number that have abnormal formatting.

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Three cypherpunks of Australia
by professor rat 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

Three gentlemen of Austria First one claimed to be the Nelson Mandela of Cryptoanarchy Second one said he was the Second Coming embodiment of Xtianity Third one then went the whole hog - claimed he was Satoshi

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Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules that investigates Americans
by jim bell 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

https://news.yahoo.com/operation-whistle-pig-inside-the-secret-cbp-unit-wit… Documents obtained by Yahoo News show that the Counter Network Division, a secretive entity within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, routinely used sensitive...

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That which is not forbidden is compulsory
by professor rat 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

A spokesperson for the Eastern District of Virginia declined to comment. Lytle, who has since left the office, did not respond to requests for comment. That doesn’t surprise Geoffrey Stone, a University of Chicago law professor and constitutional law expert who has reviewed surveillance programs. When the government wants to investigate someone for doing something illegal or inappropriate, it has free rein so long as it doesn’t violate any specific law. “If there is no law or policy that specifically regulates it, then there’s nothing that prohibits it,” he said.

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AP Vs US Govt
by professor rat 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

In a statement to Yahoo, after being told of the investigation into one of its reporters, an AP spokesperson, Lauren Easton, blasted CBP. “The Associated Press demands an immediate explanation from U.S. Customs and Border Protection as to why journalists including AP investigative reporter Martha Mendoza were run through databases used to track terrorists and identified as potential confidential informant recruits,” Easton told Yahoo News in a statement. “We are deeply concerned about this apparent abuse of power. This appears to be an example of journalists being targeted for simply doing their jobs, which is a violation of the First Amendment.”

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AP spied on by Reichstag Security Rambo
by professor rat 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

Those swept up in the division’s vetting included journalists from national news organizations, ranging from the Associated Press to the New York Times. https://news.yahoo.com/operation-whistle-pig-inside-the-secret-cbp-unit-wit… Squeal like a pig, AP boy!

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