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Julian Assmange agrees to US extradition
by professor rat 10 Sep '21

10 Sep '21

'If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case,' Wikileaks tweeted. After Obama granted clemency, Assange changed his tune on being treated unlawfully & reneged on his offer. JULIAN " “People with strong principles don’t survive for long ” ASSANGE quoted in " Risk" released in 2017.

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ADAM Back's fork-in-the-road
by professor rat 10 Sep '21

10 Sep '21

Backstabber can preen, pose and posture all day as clean, green and plebian - the bull-goose-loony, balls-out cypherpunk. But then real toads enter the imaginary garden...Israel Shamir...Jack Dorsey...fiat Banksters. The backstabber general soon finds a political straddle takes its toll on his privates. And then he dies screaming.

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The Batshit-Crazy Brains-Trust
by professor rat 10 Sep '21

10 Sep '21

This is a searchable archive of 14,000,000+ (and counting!) posts from 4chan, 8chan, and 8kun. BIG praise to @kunstderfuge1, who built it. https://dchan.qorigins.org

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BACKSTABBER's KGB SHILL company teams up with " Millionaires Factory "
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

https://www.reuters.com/technology/blockstream-partner-with-australias-macq… Macquarie linked to self-described " Moderately well-educated thug " and former PM Mal Turdbull

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HELP a Red-Fascist - Get shanked to death in jail
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

https://decrypt.co/80600/north-korea-crypto-hacking-scheme-lands-us-canadia…

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How end-to-end encrypted platforms handle content moderation & government requests.
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

jonathanmayer - 6h This @propublica article on WhatsApp is poorly framed, as many have noted. I’d like to highlight several constructive takeaways, because WhatsApp is a possible model for how end-to-end encrypted platforms handle content moderation and government requests. Quote Tweet Yael Grauer @yaelwrites· Sep 8 I'm a _huge_ ProPublica supporter, and this piece has some good information on PR/TT and difficulties of moderating content at scale, but it's important to point out that abuse report mechanisms are not backdoors and don't break encryption. https://propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-…

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FBI investigate John Young for "seditious conspiracy " & pipe-bombing attempt
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

dfriedman33 · 1h The FBI is investigating January 6 suspects for "seditious conspiracy," a recently executed search warrant says. https://motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/fbi-oath-keepers-lawyer-phone-sedi… The FBI said Wednesday that investigators also believe the bomber was operating out of the Folger Park area of Capitol Hill. It's also a location just blocks from the Capitol office buildings. The FBI says that based on the behavior in the video, they believe the bomber isn't from the area. .." - NPR story linked to earlier.

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CARI's question for Batshit remains unanswered
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Why are you always claiming people are government agents ? Banning someone would be a government like action..." - Cari Machet Aug 15 - 2021 Batshit Crazy won't put up any evidence for his numerous ' Govt Agent Truther " assertions. Put up or shut up. Btw there is one real easy way to fight big Govt - that is stop trying to act like it.

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Jeremy Hammond needs killing ( My 2k USD$ )
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

https://raincoaster.com/2020/11/17/jeremy-hammond-is-free/ Jeremy Hammond has had plenty of time to apologize for his criminal involvement with the anti-social criminal, Julian Rand Paul Assmange - his failure to do so and then completely withdraw from all anarchist activism marks him for death. Yr mileage may vary.

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Cryptocurrency: Cryptophobia - Biden’s handpicked banker declares war on digital freedom...
by grarpamp 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Cryptophobia - Biden’s handpicked banker declares war on digital freedom... https://americanmind.org/salvo/cryptophobia/ It’s a tale of two crackdowns - and two cultures. While Beijing scrambles to stamp out immaturity and laziness among its males, Washington is terrified of... wait for it... cryptocurrency. Gary Gensler, Joe Biden’s deeply establishmentarian SEC head, has dropped a bomb on the crypto community with his sudden attack on Coinbase, the leading crypto platform. Perhaps it was naïve for some in the space to have imagined Gensler, once the co-chief of global finance for Goldman Sachs, to be a promising appointee because he spent time teaching and studying crypto at MIT. But it wasn’t until China crushed out their booming crypto economy that American policymakers faced the decision that seems to have led to Gensler’s rash and punitive move. Beijing’s successful anti-crypto turn flowed logically from their statecraft model: crush alternate sources of power and authority for intimately Chinese reasons, then spin it in ways that pressure America to behave counter to national interest. In this instance, ridding China of crypto holdings and mining meant strangling a rival to the Party’s social credit system in its crib. For the Chinese leadership, crypto is just another destabilizing Western innovation, upsetting cosmic harmony—not to mention regime stability—by taking an excessively instrumental view of the power of technology. But for Western audiences, a crypto crackdown can be marketed and propagandized as a heroically ethical defense against eco-unfriendliness and social inequity. And that’s just how it has been portrayed. That’s despite bitcoin consuming less energy than fossil fuels, the petrodollar, or, say, China, even without taking into account how long a way even a little nuclear power could go toward reducing emissions for miners as well as the rest of us. And more important still, it’s to fly in the face of the simple fact that, in a digital age, Americans face a well-nigh impossible task in preserving their way of life without the rich ecosystem of creating memorable and valuable culture through crypto. The reason is this: there’s no more powerful tool or weapon today than the datacenter. Unlike previous tools and weapons, however, datacenters are all-purpose and interoperable. Their computational force can do just about anything in our almost fully digitized world. But, at least for now, thank God, that force must be told what to do by human operators. That means if you’re not telling a datacenter what to do, someone else is… and if you’re not telling the datacenters your data is in what to do, someone else is telling those datacenters what to do to you. At the same time, digital technology is drying up twentieth-century forms of socioeconomic agency, as everyone now sees but many struggle to understand what to do about. Amid the collapse of “good jobs” and all that comes with it, damaged woke obsessives desperate for the control over the bots, and the safety from digital disenchantment they think that control will bring, are fighting full tilt to re-found America on a basis of (delusional) spiritual purity and punitive purification. But digital, of course, isn’t at all sapping the strength of bitcoin or the datacenters it runs on, and it doesn’t disenchant our cultural practice of making, sharing, and exchanging soul-nourishing products and services. Quite the contrary. Without the ability to participate in this durably human form of life—without the ability to compel datacenters and compute to serve us in this way—ordinary Americans will grow ever more captive to people and institutions who wish to use digital technology to terraform us into a new, ultimately subhuman kind of submission. Gensler may not see himself as this kind of digital villain. But his biography suggests that, even if his intentions are better, his outrageous intervention into the crypto space is all but certain to enable the villains. His experience in crypto—via the MIT Media Lab, a fluffy outfit tarnished by the proximity of its former head to Jeffrey Epstein—is relatively shallow and, judging by the Media Lab program on crypto, has always been fundamentally adversarial. And his fanatically partisan history—as part of the Goldman group that injected big bucks at a helpful time into the Obama campaign, reaping rewards like Gensler’s appointment by Obama to lead the obscure agency tasked to overhaul regulations after the 2008 financial crisis—is hardly encouraging. The fact is that Democrats today are the party of untrammeled corporatist power as an arm of the woke state, a schema totally at odds with both the basic freedom and the organic prosociality of bitcoin and crypto-backed agency. There’s no better way for Americans to reclaim control over their destiny in the digital age than by using crypto to command compute to serve our soulful, human purposes. It’s not a surprise that the Biden administration has placed itself at such radical odds with our values and interests. But it is unacceptable. And without a concerted response, the onrushing subhuman future being manufactured for us will only accelerate. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/pbr124/gary_gensler_the_chairman_… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pgkzvk/crypto_wont_survive… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/oy3vu8/dont_be_confused_when_gary… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ox6yif/sec_will_police_cry… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pk2gjc/brian_armstrong_ceo… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pk36ip/ceo_of_coinbase_bri… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pk2xg4/some_sketchy_behavi… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pkghca/mark_cuban_says_the… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pko5kb/coinbase_should_not… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pkq64a/our_community_shows…

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