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The creation of international drug and weapons markets
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

“I can tolerate the creation of international drug and weapons markets. But NFTS is where I draw the line.” https://cointelegraph.com/news/imprisoned-silk-road-founder-causes-a-stir-w…

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Trading for CryptoPunks
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

FTX US Opens Trading for CryptoPunks, Bored Apes and Other Ethereum NFTs The FTX NFTs marketplace now supports both leading platforms, letting users buy in USD with credit cards and more. https://decrypt.co/87343/ftx-us-solana-ethereum-nfts-cryptopunks-bored-apes el33th4xor - 43m 2/ The iconic ‘Love Is In The Air’ piece from Banksy will be the first art piece bought and distributed by @Collectparticle . The piece will be fractionalized into 10,000 Particles, each sold as NFTs on Avalanche.

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List spam factoids
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/ The amount posted here is listed at the end of the month. So, as may be seen, more was posted in Oct this year than last month. November. It may also be noted that as the crypto-anarchist economy takes off there will invariably be more interest in this list. If you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen.

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INFLUENCERS WHO OWN PUNKS
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

https://www.benzinga.com/money/cryptopunks-watchlist-celebrities-and-influe… Know your enemy

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Write your diary in the notebook, not the cypherpunk mailing list
by zeynepaydogan 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

There have been a lot of empty messages lately. This isn't a diary. Please don't write your diary here. I mean, there's too many spam messages

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Re: INFLUENCERS WHO OWN PUNKS
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Sampo We seem to disagree on what constitutes bad-faith spam. I would give as recent examples the collected works of Gramps, Karl and Batshit-Crazy. If you never complained about them any time in the last few years then I'm very happy to be your enemy. Until then - go fuck yourself.

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Au govt moves to save Mange's life
by professor rat 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

They know I'd kill him if he ever came back here The eXile https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-02/magnitsky-laws-sanction-hackers-righ… Very Assange

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[spam][ot][rambling][crazy] Making Your First Cylinder for an Internal Combustion Engine Sorry I Meant A Bomb was: Water
by Karl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

If we are just exploring bombs to sort out a psychological fear, internal combustion engines are made with very tiny ones, and are commonly discussed.

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[spam][ot][rambling][crazy] Building a Spaceship Out Of Something Ridiculously Weak and Flimsy
by Karl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

I like to daydream around hard challenges. I don't know how to build a spaceship. But maybe it would be fun to try. To make it harder, let's make it out of only something ridiculously hard to do it with, like toilet paper, or leaves, or old newspapers. I don't know what kinds of problems one runs into when building a spaceship, but when I start planning it I think the first problem will be getting something to go really, really far against gravity. Another problem I hear about is burning up as you accelerate through the atmosphere. I imagine aiming what direction you go in is pretty hard too. I'm thinking I'm probably okay with there being some guidance computers and robotics on the craft, but that we would _mostly_ make it out of tissue paper or whatnot. Making computers out of tissue paper can be considered a separate problem, for now. One way to make tissue paper move is to burn it. Could we use a tissue-paper-fueled rocket to accelerate the craft? Almost certainly not, but doing the calculations for this could inform what thing to consider next. I have no idea how to make a rocket, or how rockets work, but I imagine that when you burn something, it turns into gas, and the expansion of the gas is much larger than the thing you burned, so if you direct this gas in some direction or another, it might push something further. I dunno. Like getting up from a chair because of a fire you sat in. Maybe? I dunno. Maybe I'll briefly websearch for "solid fuel rocket" and see what I get. Oh, great, this is a very well-studied thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-propellant_rocket . I'll read the "Basic Concepts" section. Huh, they mix the fuel with oxidizer in advance. Early rockets couldn't be turned off, after being ignited, until they burned up. Anyway mixing the fuel with the oxidizer would make design _so_ much easier. I wonder how thrust is calculated. I'll click around some. I'm saving this as a draft. The 'cocky' attitude I post with on this list is an affect. However, I'm noticing that posting this, it appears that I might only need knowledge to accomplish things, which could scare people wanting to control me. Maybe that's why it is so hard to do even the smallest thing in my life. Unsure. Also unsure why I post. So, draft. --- this draft was written 3 days ago. it's now 2021-12-01 and i'm sending some drafts just for consistency I guess. glancing through this, i'd kind of rather not send it, maybe because it's kind of in a certain uncanny valley of sanity. (the uncanny valley is where something ineffable is clearly wrong, but it looks pretty good by everything you can describe). but here it is!

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[spam][ot][rambling][crazy] Building a Spaceship Out Of Something Doubly Infeasible: was Weak and Flimsy
by Karl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Let's consider whether we might build a spaceship out of _water_. Not only will it be made out of water, it will be built and launched _underwater_.

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