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We don't need no Journalist Assange
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

grarpamp wrote: > What of political license / subscription to theory, and actual > politiking like Pirate Party? > Are the various cypherpunk manifesto's serve as actual platform > and/or docs for same? > Who is forming such entities in today? Where are they now? > What are the platform/action? > The establishment invariably co-opts. Stratfor's Duchin formula (free Jeremy) is one corporations use to defeat grassroots activists. It is as follows: bet on the opportunists, co-opt the realists, emotionally manipulate the idealists into becoming realists, and as a result of all this, the radicals are isolated and left without support. So skip the establishment. I know this might be heretical to most of y'all, but after all of the privacy omg shiny tech toys are said and done, Bitcoin is just more money. We need to get rid of the financial system. Read up on some, call it anarchism if you haven't. Try Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (fiction), Heather Marsh's Binding Chaos (nonfiction), and plenty of other resources. You know how to search engine, you can find those for free. What I find hilarious is that there are people who accept that the JFK assassination was a US domestic coup, that the dark arts of marketers' psychological manipulation is near-infinite in power, etc., but still think the authorities are too dumb to figure out how to stop the citizenry from voting them out. Thankfully, everyone's familiar with approval economy (I support you, so I will pass the salt (share resources); you suck, so get out of my house) which has an opportunity to go widespread in the West whenever and wherever there's collapse of the official economy (as opposed to human, drugs, and arms trafficking shadow economies) or natural disasters. We don't need no Senator Assange or Falkvinge being a Thought Leader. Turn that shit off and go make it a potluck/community garden everywhere. BUT that won't build your brand, you won't get to sit on panels, etc. The going rate for seriously working to end the financial system is generally $0/hr. More fun to build independent public inquiries tribunals (I'm working on documenting past examples: what went wrong? what went right? how did they develop from idea to execution?) than to try to lol vote. Democracy sucks: individuals can't represent groups and vice versa. also lol vote.

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I hate Ayn Rand period
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

"... I hate Ayn Rand but this frequently cited fact -- that she took social security payments -- is often cited to allegedly prove her hypocrisy. But her argument was, the government stole from her, so she was justified in recouping some of the stolen money by filling out the paperwork etc. Her logic makes sense to me given her ideas so I don't think it was hypocritical, even if wrong. Also more broadly, should outgroups steal from one another? The best argument I see in favor is they are dangerous outgroups, so harm them to protect you and yours. The best argument I see against is the more one interacts with someone (even to inflict damage), the more one (if one is goodhearted? prosocial?) starts to empathize with that individual and wants to help them recondition rather than continue to harm. Thoughts? To tie it into cypherpunks just use as examples warring factions/tribes in the hacktivism/transparency landscape..." It may not be the strongest argument against her - but hey - they got Al Capone for spitting on the sidewalk. As to the second point - I was just reading Orwell's experience being unable to shoot a fascist with his pants down. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-ot… I like to think those days of ' Marquis of Queensbury ' rules are long gone. However sometimes I acquire a grudging respect for an opponent. Probably cos no ideology has a monopoly on wisdom.

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Like farting in church
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Louder the better Bitcoin is back above $50,000 again, but its rate of growth will be eclipsed by other tokens, eventually rendering it obsolete, the founder of Avalanche says News Nation USA Bitcoin is going to be “eclipsed” by other systems, Emin Gün Sirer, the CEO of Ava Labs told Insider. Value is “leaking out of bitcoin”

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Hacker steals government ID database
by zeynepaydogan 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://therecord.media/?p=8167 Sent from ProtonMail for iOS

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Science News Magazine: An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter
by jim bell 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Science News Magazine: An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/atomic-clock-general-relativity-time-wa… Jim Bell's comment: Who really knows what time it is? https://youtu.be/7uy0ldI_1HA

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FBI move in on Batshit-Crazy
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-russian-tycoon-next-door-putin-… Putin ally is tied to one of D.C.’s swankiest mansions

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Bitcoin is the catalyst - not the product
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://newsnationusa.com/news/finance/banking/bitcoin-is-back-above-50000-…

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Peter Thiel's cocksucker blues
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://theworld.com/~mhuben/mason.html The Economics department of George Mason University has been strongly shaped by tens of millions of dollars of donations by the libertarian Koch Foundations of the billionaire Koch brothers

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German chancellor protests Austrian fascism
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Michael Burleigh called Adolph Hitlers complaint about Dolfuss, " a rare case of Hitler taking the moral high ground ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss Hayek was beaten like a drum by Keynes before completely disgracing himself in Latin America. He's like the Donald Trump of economics. https://crookedtimber.org/2013/06/25/the-hayek-pinochet-connection-a-second…

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Anarchism works in practice . . .
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

But it will never work in libertarian theory. https://web.archive.org/web/20140403012916/http://www.finney.org/~hal/ Politics Unlike many early Cypherpunks, I never viewed cryptography as a gateway to a libertarian society .. ." https://libcom.org/library/collectives-spanish-revolution-gaston-leval

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