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Surveillance: Planet Corp SkySats Get The Drop
by grarpamp 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

https://qz.com/1866515/planets-skysats-zoom-in-for-a-closer-look-at-the-ear… 50cm optical 12 times a day open souce

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Ars Technica: Ajit Pai caves to SpaceX but is still skeptical of Musk’s latency claims
by jim bell 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Ars Technica: Ajit Pai caves to SpaceX but is still skeptical of Musk’s latency claims. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/ajit-pai-caves-to-spacex-but-is… Jim Bell's comment. Low latency low Earth orbit internet service.

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some Australian aborigine facts and history --[gilmay97@gmail.com: Cairns News]
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

History is often used for political and impoverished reasons, and facts may help in moving past the clouds of FOG and deception. Trigger warning - here be a bunch of facts, and so the liberal loonies may be triggered. Snowflakes 'ave been warned .. ----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> To: reader(a)gmail.com Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 19:20:51 +1000 Subject: Cairns News Modern Aborigines migrated to Australia from India 4230 years ago <https://cairnsnews.org/2019/11/10/modern-aborigines-migrated-to-australia-f…> Nov 10 <https://cairnsnews.org/2019/11/10/modern-aborigines-migrated-to-australia-f…> Posted by Editor, cairnsnews <https://cairnsnews.org/author/cairnsnews/> It is time for the Aboriginal industry milking billions($30B) from taxpayers and the baloney myths to give way to fact and science. *by Gil May* The original people of Australia were the giant Java man, then Homo erectus where numerous subspecies continued to exist, the Kow Swamp people whose skeletons were dated 6,500 years ago, their ‘robust’ skeletons have thick brow ridges, sloping foreheads and extremely large teeth unlike modern humans, they were younger than the more modern Mungo people. The Mungo skeletons of a modern type ‘gracile’ people died out 50,000 year before Know Swamp people. Due to the prolonged inland droughts the last of the Pintubis (also called Bindaboos) surrendered their nomadic Stone Age lifestyles in the 1960s, where the extremities of survival in dry arid country became impossible and they surrendered to a missionary area for survival. *DNA tests reveal actor Ernie Dingo has Hindu bloodlines* They were a ‘robust’ people having the thick brow ridges, and thick skulls of the last remnants of Homo erectus still living a primitive stone age life, the final example of unaltered stone age culture in Australia. They were an incredible people who could live under the most unliveable conditions ever encountered by humanity — and very different from modern Aborigines. Their culture, simple at first glance, was incredibly complex as was their intimacy with their surroundings. This identifies an ancient hominin that had evolved in Australia and continued to live a traditional undisturbed life until recent times. Clearly unrelated to modern aborigines. Like the ancient lineage of marsupials and metronomes (egg laying mammals, platypus and echidna) that continued to live onwards in isolated Australia, so too did the world’s last remaining primitive Homo erectus as a transitional species to Homo sapiens. We refer you to the study below of DNA analysis of gene flow by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. https://www.mpg.de/6818105/Holocene-gene-flow_India-Australia Gene flow from India to Australia about 4,000 years ago Large numbers of Indians migrated to Australia bringing the Dingo with them, as proven by DNA analysis of gene flow by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The immigrants came by boat: Australia was settled numerous times during its history. Researcher Irina Pugach and colleagues now analyzed genetic variation from across the genome from aboriginal Australians, New Guineans, island Southeast Asians, and Indians. Their DNA findings prove substantial gene flow from India to Australia 4,230 years ago. i.e. during the Holocene and well before European contact. “Interestingly,” says Pugach, “this date also coincides with many changes in the archaeological record of Australia, which include a sudden change in plant processing and stone tool technologies, with microliths *(fine stone spear tips)* appearing for the first time, and the first appearance of the dingo in the fossil record. Since we detect inflow of genes from India into Australia at around the same time, it is likely that these changes were related to this migration.” Ernie Dingo from Hindu descent Popular Aboriginal TV personality Ernie Dingo, had a DNA test that showed he was from southern Indian Hindu descent The nonsense baloney that has become accepted by governments and many in the population, because they were to uninterested, lazy and did not want to upset the status quo myth put out for very lucrative financial benefits from government and free land title worth millions, could have easily been disproven as original owners and custodians of the land had anyone bothered to read proven research. What an international joke, the federal courts accept without any proof whatsoever of land ownerships history, relying on and accepting people saying their ancestor have been custodians of the land for many thousands of years, some even said over 70,000 years, and legislating these lies and distortions into law. When DNA analysis of gene flow by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, proves the current so called ‘aborigines’ have only been here 4,230 year or 41 generations of mitochondrial DNA steps. * (very coincidental–this was after the Great Flood.-Ed) * https://cairnsnews.org/2018/10/26/republish-dreamtime-a-cruel-delusion-of-b… This document(above link) should be compulsory reading in every school—it is a very interesting factual perspective of Aboriginal history distortions. According to Alfred Cort Haddon, a turn of the century figure revered today as the ‘founding father’ of British anthropology, the aborigines were clearly “pre-Dravidian” people from South India. In Haddon’s 1909 book, *The Races of Man*, he asserts that Australia was originally inhabited by Papuans, or Negritoes, who wandered on the extreme south of the continent. Later, a pre-Dravidian race migrated to Australia and overran the continent, absorbing the sparse aboriginal population. In the remarkable work, *Cape York – The Savage Frontier*, Queensland author Rodney Liddell asserts, from studying the Jardine diaries, the original Negritoes were hunted down and wiped out by invading aborigines from India. The tip of Cape York was one of the major landings used by the invaders who arrived in either canoes or on rafts. Archaeologists in 1973 decided to look for campsites and other evidence on the Cape, finding fireplaces and middens. Although unreliable, carbon dating of shells and other organic matter was used. To the horror of the investigating academics, the best they could come up with was between 600 and 1,100 years of occupation by the aborigines. It is time for the Aboriginal industry milking billions from taxpayers and the baloney myths to give way to fact and science. (circa 231BC Phoenicians settled the east coast of Australia having a settlement near the mouth of the Hawkesbury River, NSW) ----- End forwarded message -----

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by \0xDynamite 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

The censors are now making it difficult for people to edit wikipedia pages and other mediawiki sites. If you don't believe in their liberal, gaytheist religion, they bombard you with impossible captchas and don't give you linking. \0xD

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Ars Technica: Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again
by jim bell 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Ars Technica: Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/06/new-exploits-plunder…

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Re: Personal Black Box: Armed, black business owner mistaken for robber, punched by white Alabama cop
by jim bell 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/decatur-police-officer-punches-liquor-store…

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Social Atomization and Social Capital
by recondite＠tuta.io 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

What do you guys think about the loss of social capital through atomization of society via tech? Trying to figure out the ways that atomization is being sold to the masses as a perk, like working from home, but where it actually makes it easier to control them Here's a section of the piece I'm working on. ##Atomization and Social Capital## The relationshipbetween social atomization and social capital is something thathasn’t been so firmly established, if at all. Surely, at firstglance they seem to be similar, almost exactly the same but they’renot. Atomization, in a sociological sense, is the breaking down ofsociety into smaller pieces; in scientific terms to atomize somethingis to spray it, like gasoline into the cylinder of a car. Diffusionis a synonym to both uses. Social capital,though, is a much slippery term. I think it is most succinctlydefined as: the networks of relationships among people who live andwork in a particular society, enabling that society to functioneffectively. We have entered aburgeoning era in western society where there is less and less socialcapital needed between people for the society to continue tofunction. For example, most of us don’t need to trust a farmer todeliver food that isn’t poisoned because in the US we have the FDAwhich sets qualifications for producers to meet so that the food inthe grocery store doesn’t harm anybody. There are numerous agenciesand technologies that have the sole purpose of existing in order tolessen the amount of trust that we need in each other. I don’tthink this is a bad evolution in society, to the contrary, I thinkit’s a net benefit for all involved. Therefore, thedeclining amount of social capital needed in our society for it tofunction is good for our economic production and physical well-being(at least at face value, but that’s a topic for another time.) Onthe other hand, what this allows for is further societal atomizationwithout any harmful effects to economic production and/or physicalwell-being. The danger instead is shifted to our personal lives.Belonging to a community that has no other interest other thangetting together with people that have similar ideologies, the amountof people growing a family, public recreation, and many otherpro-social activities are all declining. The most recentdevelopment is in the workplace. Many workers have been operatingremotely since the onset of the pandemic and the organizations theywork for have been realizing that productivity has not beendramatically affected. Jack Dorsey recently announced that mostTwitter employees would not be required to come into the office evenafter the pandemic slows, and in general the ability to work fromhome is being sold to us as a perk. But in the long run “Workingfrom Home Post-Coronavirus Will Give Bosses Greater Control ofWorkers’ Lives” as mentioned by Luke Savage in his article of thesame name as well as essentially abolish casual co-workingsocialization and further diminish social capital in the work place. Frankly, we don’tneed these social aspects in life to have our basic necessities metbut it’s well known that most are beneficial, sometimes critical,for psychological growth and well-being.

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Chat History and Contact Mysteriously Erased In Telegram
by Karl 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

On Sun, May 3, 2020, 9:10 PM Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Karl. Hope you are feeling much better, calmer, and happy. > > Sorry for being late again. Let's try Telegram for sending messages to > each other, what do you think? My alias there is > > I love it, very interesting, cute and secure: <https://telegram.org> > > Try to install it on you cellphone and sending me a message, please. > > Hugs! <3 > > Ceci > >

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handling false dichotomies - build something new
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

tl;dr build something new Ideas For Righteous Revolution - Deeper Into The Fourth Turning, We Go Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com, https://www.peakprosperity.com/ideas-for-righteous-revolution/ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ideas-righteous-revolution-deeper-fourt… .. I’m by no means an experienced revolutionary, so take everything that follows with a massive boulder of salt. But watching the nightly riots raises the question: Is there a more effective way to create positive societal change? .. Ideas For A Righteous Revolution 1. Boycotting The Big Banks .. 2. Living Debt-Free .. 3. Converting The Media .. 4. Exposing The Villains .. .. The above are just ideas. None of them is a silver bullet. There may be, and probably are, many better ones out there for the righteous revolutionary to adopt. The point of this piece is to demonstrate that there are effective options for protest and rebellion that don’t require bloodshed, looting and property damage. And that may prove materially more effective than confrontation in the streets at resulting in positive change. But whatever tactics are ultimately pursued, it’s key to have an ideological platform underlying the revolution. You can’t just be “against” the current order; you need to stand “for” a constructive vision or set of principles for doing things better. As Buckminster Fuller said: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” .. We have warned for years in our writing here at PeakProsperity.com that we are all now well into a Fourth Turning, where the old order breaks down and a new one, often violently, replaces it. https://www.peakprosperity.com/neil-howe-the-predictable-creative-destructi… .. Our general advice to concerned individuals is to prioritize staying safe and reducing your vulnerability profile to crime and violence. That remains the case. https://www.peakprosperity.com/video-personal-safety-home-security-pp-semin… ..

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Re: Cryptocurrency:
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

(BTW, to be useful to more people, we ought generally keep such conversations on list.) On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 11:11:31AM +0000, other.arkitech wrote: > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Saturday, June 6, 2020 2:07 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 11:28:30PM +0000, other.arkitech wrote: > > > > > In USPS, as long as the network is big, it makes harder -not impossible- to reconstruct the state from recorded transactions because nodes handle only a fraction of the traffic. > > > Still, addresses are anonymous, > > > > I don't believe this statement to be correct. > > the last one?, why? > anonymous in the sense of bitcoin, where there is no easy link between addresses and people. Let's keep it clear that "anonymous" in that sense is marketing guff at best, deceptive and misleading at worst. Re useful anonymity, IPv4 addresses give you, literally, less than 'none' - they are -good- for tracking people and transactions! > > > and nodes mix all of them as they arrive, > > > > Your mixing protocol will need to be well documented at some point, this is not the easiest problem. > > Not easy, not trivial. Good thing is that I've gone through it already. So I speak about it backed with my impl that works as I expect. > > > > For example, can a mixing protocol help to handle rogue clients (CIA writes their own USPS client) which does things it should not do, or does not do things it should do? > > The system has been built knowing there's gonna exist evil tweaks to the code. So it is all about honest nodes dealing with untrusted nodes that are 'telling lies' or not following the protocol. > > > > Some issues can be handled by protocol - as in, verifiable/ enforced by other clients - some cannot, and so those fail paths must be considered - are they important, do they only matter when predator nodes reach 50%+1, or whatever... > > issues that cannot be verifiable/enforced by other nodes shouldn't be issues at all, but without mentioning any of those failpaths I cannot narrow a better answer to this. > If -colluding- predators acquire >50% voting power, the network failed and the system burns in flames, collapses, eaten by a dark hole. > Meaning that the situation is for an aeronautical engineer equivalent to an air crash where people die. Listen - in computer communication land, any relevant privacy, any relevant anonymity, wallet safety, and much more, is really hard. Every challenging question to you, is another opportunity for you to strut your stuff - NOT a benefit to the asker of the question (in general) -- so every brushed off question (e.g. "without you giving me really precise question, I won't put my mind to this further"), every non-answer (e.g. "it's all about honest nodes," "the design knows there are evil nodes" etc) is sort of telling us "I'm not going to explain the design further until I release it, y'all just have to trust me till then." And that's OK - you are of course free to ask folks to wait, just test it, and trust you till then. But please don't complain again that you are getting insufficient feedback, then wonder why the next conversation once again fell flat... > > > making the equivalent of a big tx with many inputs-many outputs > > > on every consensus cycle. > > > > Mixing may be good, may also have downside (?), but needs analysis by a number of people to assess benefits/problems. > > > > > Still yes, individual tx can be recorded as they arrive with a trivial patch. This would allow to follow the money across anonymous accounts. And this could lead to potential associations with separate events (e.g. I buy something and then I buy other thing; an observer could find a parallelism using time and sequence to narrow or find out addresses belonging to me). As an aside, and by the way, I strongly, as in STRONGLY, suggest that you stop using the misleading term 'anonymous' in the contexts in which you continue to use that term. Perhaps create some new, more verbose, and less misleading and hopefully actually accurate terms, e.g.: - account bound to IPv4 address - account not bound to IPv4 address - by default not recorded, node-internal mixing transactions - node-external non-mixing txn etc etc Some folks tend to take your lack of accurate terminology as deceptive, or at least as blatant marketing ... to state the obvious. > > Also, IPv4 addresses are directly mapped to end users by ISPs therefore governments. ISTM that this mandatory use of IPv4 address actually precludes the possibility of true/proper/possible anonymous transactions - if this view/intuition is true, then this feature would make USPS a non starter for many folks ... > > > > > I have ideas to tackle these cases which are very real theoretically, although only for a minority of people would result of some real concern (to me is a concern)) > > > To be added in the future, as the concern grows bigger, a mixer implemented as a public algorithm (my name for ~smart contract). With this feature one could use it anytime they can break the potential traceability of their money moves, which is already difficult if the network is big. > > > Privacy to me falls more on the ability to do real P2P end2end (real end2end) encrypted trades between 2 nodes without awareness of the rest. > > > > Except for time being, AIUI, you are demanding at the protocol level, an IPv4 address to transact... > > IPv4 doesn't mean a privacy violation. > Bcs IP can be traced to people, which is correct. > But the think you learn from that tracing is that you are running a node of the network (and its address, which you dont need to use in your private activity). These three sentences are unfortunately very unclear. > You cannot trivially map any transaction, any other address observed in the system to any IP address. But because of your IP address requirement, a node/client can trivially map all tx he processes. You may not agree, but for those hunting for "better than BTCes" riches, that right there is an instant and easy elimination of USPS from their consideration set. > If you could study traffic, you could deduce thing from patterns in traffic, which can be treated with a complimentary measure like chaff traffic. Which is not of great concern to those who can afford to run 1000s or even 10s of 1000s of high capacity (read, naturally preferenced) USPS clients! > Knowing that you run a node, it does not mean your activity is exposed That is not correct. This one is very important for you to understand - can you see why your statement is not correct? > > Good luck, > > HTH Dude! these qustions are for you - they're what you need to answer sufficiently, or must answer via code or design doc, if you want the hope of seeing any relevant "market traction"... If you are being seen (in the minds of the one's interested in USPS) an dodging or unable to answer foundational questions, they will likely wait a while for starters. If you must keep your secret sauce private for a time, well OK, that's where you're at ... but again, may be don't complain too loudly when the conversation goes a bit flat. Good luck. PS: keep the tech convo on-list, time is precious and it's unfair to put the burden of assisting you onto one person. If you forget, is it ok in future to forward such emails to the list for you?

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