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Fuck Square / Block and fuck Bitcoin
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

So LETS failed - So? Fail - Fail again - Fail Better. If you don't think a global crypto UBI from-below is coming you must be too stupid to be an activist let alone any kind of anarchist. The takeaway from this post is Jack Dorsey and any dollar-collaborating Bitcoin ( any ' Dorseydollar ') are both failures beyond redemption. I'm glad that - at least - seems uncontroversial.

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Hacker-Behörde ZITiS prüft Staatstrojaner aus Österreich
by zeynepaydogan 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

https://netzpolitik.org/2021/subzero-hacker-behoerde-zitis-prueft-staatstro…

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Geometrization of the local Langlands correspondence
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13459 New Shape Opens 'Wormhole' Between Numbers and Geometry https://www.quantamagazine.org › Mathematics 19 July 2021 — At the center of Fargues and Scholze's work is a revitalized geometric object called the Fargues-Fontaine curve.

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Encryption enters early into the Langlands Program
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

https://www.msri.org/system/cms/files/270/files/original/Frenkel-NHK-3.pdf Frenkel's latest book gets a plug early on here . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDDJFvuFXdc Peter Woit: Theories of Everything & Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong | Lex Fridman

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Edward Frenkel talks about “elliptic curve cryptography "
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

https://www.edwardfrenkel.com/videos/

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Nasty stench at MIT
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

Who pays the piper oft calls the tune. NOAM “There are things that we want to keep secret like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that ” CHOMSKY

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NSO Group spyware used to hack at least nine US officials’ phones – report
by jim bell 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

https://news.yahoo.com/nso-group-spyware-used-hack-183658078.html Revelation comes just weeks after the Biden administration placed NSO on a US blacklist A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near...

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[ot][spam][crazy][wrong] Making a Watertower That's Similar To a Bomb Design
by Karl 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

I'm imagining if we took a large round steel container, we could raise it high in the air and fill it with water, and if it were large enough, a community with water could have running pressurised water from the contents. This sounds like a cool idea! I found plans on a crypto-anarchist list, at https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-December/093065.html , in a thread entitled "build a bomb", for just such a round container. The rest of the title after "build a bomb", is "out of water". It's a joke, obviously. Sorry if I scared anybody. So let's build this "bomb" designed by Jim Bell! Specifications for how to make a water tower are not exactly easy to come by. Many communities need pressurised water to drink from. In his cryptoanarchist plans, Jim Bell describes a spherical steel container with a threaded opening (the "bomb" being "built" out of water).

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Fuck Square / Block and fuck Bitcoin
by professor rat 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Jack Dorsey is a one-man Jackass dialogue full of shilling and bs signifying nothing. " . . . Bitcoin maximalists predict that bitcoin will become a sort of universal unit of account; and this is not the kind of prediction that can be disproved, because it will come true if enough people believe it. But I can imagine another future in which units of account dramatically pluralize, instead of becoming universal. Emergent associative communities could measure value in their way, on their own terms. The more they took their endogenous terms seriously, the more they could use them to shape and stimulate endogenous commerce, thus enriching themselves with minimal dependence on global markets. That is much more interesting than a world in which everything is measured in dollars, bitcoins, Galactic Guilders or any such thing. . . " Gunnar Garbage, is what I think he meant. OR maybe Gramps garbage. Same crap.

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Here's one really good way to fight ubiquitous surveillance
by professor rat 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Get off the internet. I suppose any self-described punk could start or join a deadpool on surveillance freaks like the POTUS, head of CHEKA, Fedbook and the CCP. But their balls would have to descend a little first for that to ever happen.

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