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Total Lack of Self-Awareness
by Ryan Carboni 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

I think one of the most intelligence tests is probably the mirror test, because everyone passes it so handily. I am fairly certain the body of US constitutional law focuses on balancing the harm to the individual to what must necessarily be done. Literal McCarthyism was fairly intrusive, public condemnations followed by employers refusing to hire. It would be more intrusive to elaborately ensure a person cannot achieve employment, while silently making sure the person cannot contest any accusation against him. It would be totally insane if the reigning platform monopolies (like say, Stackexchange) would silent brag about your current condition with say FBI Cybersecurity recruitment ads or (for other more social media platforms) to spoof communications. It would be completely stupid if these people work for the government, are trying to fight foreign influence campaigns to “attack legitimacy in our institutions”, by engaging in actions which would ruin not only the standing of these monopolies, but of the government itself, if made public. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Re: [tor-talk] PaperDump: Mirai, Tor, Darknet, TLA, I2P Censorship, PETs in Sidechains, and more
by grarpamp 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

On 8/28/19, Florentin Rochet <florentin.rochet(a)uclouvain.be> LAZILY TOP POSTED AND BLOCK QUOTED: > This list is mixing good papers with several dubious ones. Failed to denote which, and why in detail such labels may or may not apply to them. > I find important to mention that it would be better looking here instead > for non-expert readers: https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/ to find > quality peer-reviewed works, and keep the ones that intersect both lists > for now. Such intersection (logical AND) will of course yield only those papers approved and posted there by TPO / principals... any entity doing such self curation is prone to variety of selection biases. And peer review is somewhat often an ivory tower circle jerk among an exclusive peer group... equally often any supposed reviewers are not denoted anywhere. Novel papers are surely free as any to come from anywhere with zero association, consultation, editorial priviledge, consideration, etc given. If you really want to know what is good vs marginal vs rubbish, read and validate them yourselves, consult independants, study the knowledge areas, actually discuss them in detail in whatever communities you wish, including as desired in those that are their subject, try writing your own papers, etc.

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Gizmodo: The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet
by jim bell 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Gizmodo: The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet. https://gizmodo.com/the-plan-to-use-fitbit-data-to-stop-mass-shootings-is-o…

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New Atlas: Distance record for light/matter quantum entanglement
by jim bell 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

New Atlas: Distance record for light/matter quantum entanglement. https://newatlas.com/physics/new-distance-record-quantum-entanglement-light…

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CNN: Google finds evidence of attempted mass iPhone hack
by jim bell 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

CNN: Google finds evidence of attempted mass iPhone hack. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/tech/google-iphone-hack-vulnerability/index.…

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My note to a quantum researcher
by jim bell 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

James Bell You don't know me, but with your quantum work you could benefit from an optical waveguide with a loss of less than 0.01 db/kilometer. and possibly as low as 0.001 db/kilometer. I know you'll think that's impossible, but I know how to design it using low-Si-29 silica, and low-Ge-73 germania. I believe that the typical residual loss of about 0.16 db/km is due almost entirely to Si-29 and Ge-73. Silicon-28 of isotopic purity of 99.995 is already available ("Silicon Kilogram Project"), and Germanium with much less than 0.1% Ge-73 could be made using a gas centrifuge. How would you like to do quantum communications over 5000 kilometers, from New York to London, for instance? You could... Edit or delete this

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Cryptocurrency: Censorship and History Deletion Across Bitcoin Channels
by grarpamp 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

Bitcointalk, /r/bitcoin, @bitcoin, etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3x0mhUdYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7343Ji8GI Hard to find a news source and talk channel independant from any coin interests. Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt infohash:5FF9D21AEDB1D8812B0136DFD1D0B1B20B2CCE8D

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Fwd: Re: PCR: “It's open season on ZenNazi”
by jamesd＠echeque.com 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

> jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: >> Merchants never rule. On 2019-08-18 12:52 pm, Punk wrote: > Of course they do. Merchants tell politicians to manufacture laws to enrich them both and steal from the consumers. Again, A of the ABC of political economy. The theory that capitalists are the ruling class is your spin on the anarchism of Spooner, Bastiat, and Gustav de Molinari. It is not what they say. You are commie telling anarcho capitalists that communism is the real anarcho capitalism, similar to the large supply of shills explaining that progressivism is the real antisemitism, the real reaction, and the real Christianity. "Hail fellow Christian, I love God and Jesus, and by the way God demands gay marriage and you need to transition your boys at age nine to attend drag queen story hour" "Hail fellow white male heterosexual, I hate Jews, and, by the way, Trump is an orange crypto Jew who fails at everything, so you should vote for a brown commie Democrat." And you are telling us "Hail fellow anarcho capitalist. I totally oppose the state, and, by the way capital is actually the state" Here is how one can tell a paid shill from someone who actually believes what he is saying: A paid shill can never commit a thought crime, because he is posting from an FBI office or university office on an FBI or university computer, and Human Resources would black list him if he committed thought crime. So, to prove you are not yet another paid shill working from a shill office, commit a thought crime. Here is a selection of questions with potential thought crime answers. To prove you are not a paid shill working from a shill office, answer whichever question has the most unthinkable thought crime answer. What caused the great minority mortgage meltdown? (This question should be as easy as "what color is a black hole", but describe the mechanism and process)? Why do a larger proportion of women in female majority workplaces report sexual harassment than women in workplaces that have only a small female minority? Why are women extremely steamed about entirely imaginary fraternity rape, and totally relaxed about massive and widespread Muslim rape? What proportion of new ventures headed by women, or with mixed male and female heads, fail, and why do almost all off them fail? What is the cause of the high imprisonment rate of blacks, and the particularly high imprisonment rate of American blacks? hint, it might have something to do with your relative safety in certain streets. What is the origin of Ashkenazim Jews, what is the connection between Ashkenazim and the crusades? What is Darwin's big idea, and what is the role of races in Darwin's big idea? Answer one of the above, where the answer will prove that HR is not watching your posting. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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If full evidence on Epstein was released
by Ryan Carboni 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

If full evidence on Epstein was released, 90% of the US population would believe the government is run by pedophiles. This would be more than the poll numbers to remove Nixon. When you have physical evidence, corroborated by multiple witnesses, by transactions with third parties (mostly flight logs), etc, the evidence becomes overwhelming, to the extent one must wonder what kind of person wouldn’t be convinced by it. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Victoria Australia: amendments re children's photos of themselves which could be considered "pornography"
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 08:48:25PM +1000, Gil May wrote: > Subject: : Victoria Legalizes Child Porn, check it out. > Time for decent people to take a serious stand. > > https://www.facebook.com/AnthonyJC1983/videos/229304717949739/ > > I am speechless. Have a look at what is shown as the Parliamentary Act put > before the Parliament. Interesting. The de-criminalisation of natural/normal child activities (e.g. taking pictures of themselves and others) is of course a good thing, and appears to be the intent of these laws/ amendments that the OP Subject line is referring to in a sensationalist way. In fact the broad sweeping laws that were in place were broad and sweeping, and failed to consider this situation of children doing things children can be expeted to (and do) actually do - take photos of themselves and friends. Somewhat humorously and completely "non ironically" the narrator in the linked video begins "Did you know, that the production, possession and distribution of child pornography has been legalized in Australia?" thus implicitly asserting (and inserting) himself into the very same (and rightfully) dreaded 'censor' role or decider of what is, and is not, pornography, that he later on highlights as problematic (when he asks "who gets to decide what's reasonable"). As is usual with wanna be censors, those who would willingly make such decisions for others, usually (as is the case here) don't want others to make censorship decisions for themselves ("I would make great censorship decisions!" "MY Marxist utopio would -really- be a utopia, unlike all those other failed experiements in history!") Unfortunately the narrator does not see this very irony of him calling out the legislative trap ("Whom will make the decisions of a reasonable man"), and completely falling into the same trap throughout his entire video ("Child pornography of those images taken by say 12 year olds of their own bodies, is still pornography and the law must make no exception for this, and I'll decide what is and is not pornographic"). Every "allegation" of "pornography" (or in this case the alleged "legalization of child pornography") is necessarily a judgement call founded on what is and what is not pornography, which of course cannot be made except that the one making the allegation is defining, or is willing to define and believes they are capable of defining, "pornography" or in this case "child pornography" - which in any case is essentially impossible to define other than "I know it when I see it" which falls back to the arrogantly self implied "great moral standing" of the one deigning to make such decisions on behalf of others/ the rest of us. The trap is self referential, and subtle, thus circuitous and repetitive in most attempts to unravel it. This subtlety is the reason cries of "please, won't someone think of the children and save them (from themselves)" is both so appealing yet so deceptive to many and simultaneously alluring to the virtue- signalling SJW wanna bes, and thus also difficult for many to counter (or rather "to straighten out the underlying assumptions which don't quite make sense but I just can't quite figure out why"). Put another way, one Soul's personal childhood explorations and memories, are another Soul's "pornography". As in, literally. Perhaps does the one brandishing the accusation stick of "your image is pornographic, you must suffer the law" tell us more about the one making this accusation, than the target of his accusation? Matthew 7:5: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and only then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.” https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-7-5/ Many humans project their own sin (incorrect direction, of action, attention etc), fears, and painful personal past events, upon others, naturally (but mostly incorrectly) assuming others have a similar lense to themselves - the age old projectionism trap. Something constructive? May be require that every legislated crime name an actual victim, as well as the actual harm that victim has actually suffered. And perhaps leave it to parents, rather than police and the courts, to educate their children on the dangers of sharing with others, images they take of themselves. (And while we're at it, work hard to reduce or eliminate all victimless crimes, putting humans first and corporations last in our scheme of values.) For an absolute classic (and very recent) example of projectionism in action, see Lana Lockteff on Suzanne Harper (the so called "Jessie Daniels") Feminist Professor: White Nuclear Families Are Racist & Supremacist Red Ice TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yR1BBlGI1M Jessie/ Suzanne is virulently anti-White, speaks of "dismantling white supremacy", the evils of the "white nuclear family" being "one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy" etc etc etc ... ... and according to her own story (IF true), Suzanne was molested by her grandfather and he'd had a stint in the KKK, yet this "professor" Suzanne cannot see her projection of her (if true) painful past, upon all white people and all "white nuclear families" and "the patriarchy". Go figure :D - perhaps she ought take a university course on psychology. Those with genuine unresolved issues arising from their childhood ought seek the help they need to find healing, resolution, closure and peace within themselves before one-sidely branding as evil an entire race or people (in Suzanne Harper's case, all "white" people and especially "white nuclear families"). A far greater problem which we actually appear to have and which actually affects most of us, is the blackmailing of our politicians, which since "the legalization" of those of the same gender who would "get a room" and otherwise carry out their intimate business in private, is these days limited to cuckoldry and pedophilia blackmail. Perhaps those eager to decry legislation without even a word to the problems inherent in the position they boldly oppose, ought ponder this question of our blackmailed politicians. Assuming of course they don't melt before hearing a position other than their own... Create your world. Perhaps first "clean up your room" which metaphorically speaking could include seeking closure on any painful events from your own childhood if that's something you need, and after this you might even find that some of those you love to hate are actually interesting, caring, deeply thoughtful, and possibly even loving, creative and wonderful fellow human beings.

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