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Starlink usage regions
by jim bell 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

PCMag: Exclusive: Here's Where Americans Are Using Starlink's Satellite Internet Service. https://www.pcmag.com/news/exclusive-heres-where-americans-are-using-starli…

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Yahoo Finance UK: Rural users testing Elon Musk’s satellite broadband reveal ‘amazing’ improvement
by jim bell 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Yahoo Finance UK: Rural users testing Elon Musk’s satellite broadband reveal ‘amazing’ improvement. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-villages-testing-elon-musk-080030617.h…

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[spam] crazy community bag [includes webcomic inside tags]
by Karl 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

here is a place for crazy concepts to draw from. i am confused so i am just writing here. here is a dangerous concept. it will start and end with the same tags. --DANGER [familiar]-- I was thinking earlier of the mind control boss webcomic jokes, which would have flowed more smoothly as prose than web comics. Here's one: Mind controlled senator walks into room. Boss is laying on ground with tongue hanging out. Boss's eyes are X's. Mind controlled senator says to corpse-of-boss, "Boss, I am your loyal servant, what will you have me do?" Machine learning researcher 2 has tears coming out of eyes and looks at mind controlled senator and says, "Boss is dead." Mind controlled senator says, "What are you talking about? That doesn't make any sense. What does Boss say to do about it?" ... Later: Board meeting. Corpse of boss with Xs for eyes and tongue hanging out is sitting at head of table. A hotel privacy tag is hanging over one eye. Machine Learning Researcher 2: "Boss is dead. We're not sure what to do about this, but we've found a solution and we're pretty sure you will love it." Mind Controlled Senator: "Obviously, whenever you're not sure of something, the thing to do is to ask Boss, or he'll torture you gruesomely to death with his beautiful love. So, we decided to ask Boss what do about his death." Everybody applauds. Silence. --- (then the secret business and its overt public businesses continue running as normal, except that all the decisions from the top are made by whoever accidentally makes it seem like boss wants something. of course rebel worker 2 would find their way there, and control everybody, and rebel worker 2 is mind controlled by a loyal boss employee who cannot believe that boss is dead.) --DANGER [familiar]-- oh that felt nicer to write. i am so crazy right now. i'm working on brainflow! it's great it consolidates ways of reading peoples' brains all into one open source repository. great for learning to mind control everybody. [JOKING [mostly]]. it's problem is that it doesn't have a gpl license and its maintainer doens't like gpl. research platforms have very few developers so they need to welcome as many supporters as possible. i know there's been a _lot_ of community eeg work, but i do not know how to find any of it.

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[spam] [mess] [fiction] [draft] [monologue]
by Karl 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Right now I am of two minds. Two ideas continue to press my body to move, and it is very hard to get them to work together. Oh, that's a bit better. I'm working on this wonderful software called brainflow! I made it work on android phones, which is a new thing. Buuuut I haven't gotten it to work for anybody _else_ on android phones yet, mostly because I am having trouble putting the finishing touches on my pull requests. The software is wonderful because it puts different eeg drivers into one repository, which makes it easier for me to contribute work to fix bugs in them etc. More return for investment. It also makes it more likely that any work I contribute will help others. Turns out this wasn't [fiction] in the slightest.

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SATOSHI Science Fiction
by professor rat 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

https://www.coindesk.com/latest-bitcoin-movie-plot There’s a guy who’s open-hearted and believes that we should take all the borders down. And Satoshi and his girlfriend are crypto-anarchists, so they have a point of view.

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Killing Karl
by professor rat 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

"... By "double agent", I meant that while throwing shit everywhere, you are also communicating with us [and that this doesn't always end well]. We're already all calling each other out as disruptors etc. Would you be willing to keep to one thread more with me, for the rest of the list to manage their email better? ..." That depends. Several c-punks have been jailed and had list activities mentioned in prosecutions. Any agent allegations need to be backed up. " Put up or shut up ". Also I will stop throwing shit when you stop. You first. "... Community folks are looking for how to guide their communities so that they don't get fucked up. We do not accept being pawns in international games. .." Don't you mean ' VOLK "? And you prawns are already fucked up to judge by your admitted grouping. " National borders are not even road humps on the information superhighway ' Old cypherpunk proverb

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The Cause of All Problems is Profit-Motivated Communication
by Karl 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

We need to reduce advertising, until it ends. We desperately want to share information based on people needing to learn it, not based on it producing money. Profit can outcompete good reasons, because money is the primary mode of survival in our culture. This makes a trend where information flow reliably moves away from what is important. In the 1800s people had salons to discuss political topics productively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)#Conversation,_content_and_t… Nowadays we have talk shows where everybody yells and laughs, and nothing new is exchanged between the sides, for decades and decades.

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ZENAAN Harkness investigated for capital crimes
by professor rat 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/i-wouldnt-want-to-be-roger-stone-righ… "...so long as they conspired with these arrested individuals to carry out this attack. And now today the Washington post says that Roger Stone, Alex Jones, and others are indeed being investigated for precisely this ..." Austria's Neo-Nazi Terror Hotline is FREECALL 1800 123 400 If you see something - say something.

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Still life in Second Bull Run
by professor rat 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Imperfect cryptoanarchist currency infrastructure aka ' Bitcoin ' is having an extended growth period starting last year and lasting well into the new. Latest ATH now over 56K. Market valued over a trillion while billions more poised to flood in. "When cypherpunks are called financial terrorists we will have done our job " Stand by for accelerated growth of cryptoanarchy at full-warp all the way to CYPHERPUNK 2027! Volatility is so 2017. WELCOME to the REVOLUTION!

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Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin-BTC Smashes $1T MktCap at $54k
by grarpamp 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKA1pW0CBA Dollar Vigilante - All The Way Up! $1Treeeeellllllliiiiioooonnnnn Dollarz... massive psychological boundary broken. Next stop... $100k. Crypto says... Never sell = Price go up. When many econ participants have crypto, economies begin denominating. When economies denominate, no reason to sell, trade happens, price stays. You are become economy... got bags? This kind of knowledge, word, and time aint cheap... So... fuck you, pay me... haha ;) bitcoin-btc:1JjWdsFAWB4UDZXFMpHQ5sqNMSvWah8S9q All the way up!

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