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ROTF! Techie Hipster Soirée invaded at BurnTheMan
by Razer 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

"Response to raid on White Ocean zone split with some describing it as an attempt to reclaim event from the ‘parasite class’" Parasite Class... A good description Marx would smile at of someone making 60K a year to write apis or network engineer the lip syncing of executive conference calls. > > > Damien Gayle > @damiengayle > > Monday 5 September 2016 07.02 EDT > > > The organisers of an exclusive camp at Nevada’s Burning Man festival have denounced “hooligans” whom they accuse of raiding their camp, stealing items, gluing trailer doors shut and cutting the power. > > Pershing County sheriff’s office was called to the festival to investigate after the night-time raid targeting the White Ocean camp as it hosted its “white party”, where ravers dress in white and dance all night to techno music. > > Its organisers wrote on Facebook: “Guys, I think what happened last night should be known on social media … A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food and glued our trailer doors shut, vandalised most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp.” > Dust to dust: mourning the dead at Burning Man > Read more > > The response from festival regulars has been split, with sympathy towards the camp tempered by many who say that the “prank” on White Ocean, a closed zone funded by tech entrepreneurs, was “taking burning man back from the parasite class”. > > In recent years, Burning Man has transformed from an anarcho-hippie fire ritual in San Francisco into a pricey end-of-summer romp in the Nevada desert for 65,000 people. But with growth has come controversy around the impact of big money. > > Participants at the three-decade old festival, which is based on an ethos of co-creation and mutual self-reliance, traditionally all pitch in to build the event. It is built around a radical “gifting” culture, where even strangers who wander into a camp are supposed to be served; in turn, they are expected to do the same for others. > > But as Burning Man has become more popular, it has become seen as an annual fixture for global elites who pay others to build them exclusive camps called “plug and plays”, which allow them to swoop in, turn on and drop out for a few days before returning to corporate life. More @Guardian UK: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/05/luxury-camp-at-burning-man-…

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Useful for Data Mining and Social Network Stalking: "The Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling"
by Razer 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

I alway check new twitter followers for bots and data mining. Especially if they don't seem to be 'my type'. This turned up from a follow who was sweeping for the word "market" and found it here: <https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/773205524460417024> as a tweet of a Le Monde Diplomatique link regarding the topic "If they're going to take your data to market at you you should be getting paid for it" MIT Technology Review: Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv July 6, 2016 Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers,” he said. “They are beautiful shapes.” The video is available on YouTube. Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have explored for centuries—that stories follow emotional arcs, that these arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes are better suited to storytelling than others. Vonnegut mapped out several arcs in his lecture. These include the simple arc encapsulating “man falls into hole, man gets out of hole” and the more complex one of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.” Vonnegut is not alone in attempting to categorize stories into types, although he was probably the first to do it in graphical form. Aristotle was at it over 2,000 years before him, and many others have followed in his footsteps. However, there is little agreement on the number of different emotional arcs that arise in stories or their shape. Estimates vary from three basic patterns to more than 30. But there is little in the way of scientific evidence to favor one number over another. Today (ed. Here in the future... -Rr), that changes thanks to the work of Andrew Reagan at the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont in Burlington and a few pals. These guys have used sentiment analysis to map the emotional arcs of over 1,700 stories and then used data-mining techniques to reveal the most common arcs. “We find a set of six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives,” they say. MOre: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveals-the-six-basic… https://twitter.com/dappermarketer/status/773183254228860928

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Cypherpunk Manifesto
by Timmay 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Anything goes. Fuckers.

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This list
by fixyourshit 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Archive messages are delayed by hours and out of order as a result. Fix your shit.

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A Joke from some Yahoo!
by Steve Kinney 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This just in from Yahoo!, because I use IMAP and a mail reader rather than a whole uber-expolitable (by comparison) web browser (or a dedicated spyware app). Too much fud. I mean fun. "If you've already taken action on this, you can disregard this email." and "Protect yourself from phishing emails" > Yahoo Hi, We noticed that you access your Yahoo Mail from a > non-Yahoo email application, which may be using a less secure sign > in. This may make your Yahoo account more vulnerable to > compromise. > > We strongly recommend that you improve the security of your > account, by taking the steps below. 1. On a mobile device, upgrade > to the Yahoo Mail app for Android or iOS: > https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/app > > 2. On desktop, use Yahoo Mail via: https://mail.yahoo.com 3. Turn > off access for apps with less secure sign in, using the link > below: https://login.yahoo.com/account/security#other-apps For more > information about these changes and more secure options for > accessing Yahoo Mail, visit our help page: > https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN27791.html If you've already taken > action on this, you can disregard this email. > > Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo Mail user. > > Sincerely, Yahoo Yahoo Protect yourself from phishing emails -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXzsp4AAoJEECU6c5XzmuqHIQH/RnE+iCOVv1D6UU6FcCc8ljd qUxI5hqIo5y6aCzmhAAawzcCBtOGfNRS2ayfqDZHXeBLz3Ha9VwSS5VnSIYsZMBx OG54vNEa7SbS4nxxXehHVCKj4XboPKK/75Mw5m3qNEP4tEt1bVJ+20eXALEdapBh Rj55US7jULkyOQbpcHt8RbMLbJk0A6z/zcExYk3Z7278kH9haf2z2rrGGwJ7JpUa tbHqsDZXonlYUGcekAttulNALO4etevdhwJw38zGgzXXmoKZuEY2r3PdMF+qh0HM OCNk4PjXhH0Y9V89c/+lCD9ROQFeWm4Vwl15kvS7iA9E6CROmEHGckKAgHfgUf4= =IoLW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988)
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Speaking of publishing, free speech, etc... “When you realize everything of major importance you have learned is a lie you will be on the right track.” Quote by MK The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988) [Editor's Note: The text of this article was first published by Robert Faurisson in the Journal of Historical Review in 1988. I added the emphasis of bold, italics, and underlined words to his text. The photos and embedded videos were also added to the text to augment the information being presented.] By Dr. Robert Faurisson http://educate-yourself.org/cn/The-Zundel-Trials-1985-and-1988.shtml#top First Published in The Journal of Historical Review1988 The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988) By Dr. Robert Faurisson (May 18, 2016) Facebook Censorship To post this article on Facebook, link to the TinyUrl seen below. Facebook will remove any article identified as coming from educate-yourself.org http://tinyurl.com/hxjofow The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988) >From The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1988-89 (Vol. 8, No. 4), >pages 417-431. http://ihr.org/jhr/v08/v08p417_Faurisson.html [The year was 1988 at time of writing...Ed.] On May 13, 1988, Ernst Zündel was sentenced by Judge Ronald Thomas of the District Court of Ontario, in Toronto, to nine months in prison for having distributed a Revisionist booklet that is now 14 years old: Did Six Million Really Die? ... see links for much text ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related 'The Holocaust Deception and The Railroading of Ernst Zündel (May 14, 2016) http://educate-yourself.org/cn/The-Railroading-of-Ernst-Zundel14may16.shtml… Germany's 87 Year Old Ursula Haverbeck Is Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison for Doubting the "Facts" of the Holocaust Myth (April 5, 2016). http://educate-yourself.org/cn/Ursula-Haverbeck-Is-Sentenced-to-10-Months-i… Jewish Historian Describes Holocaust as Improvised (April 9, 2016) http://henrymakow.com/2016/04/Jewish-Historian-Says-Holocaust-Improvised.ht… The Persecution & Imprisonment of German Lawyer Sylvia Stolz for the Zionist-Created Thought "Crime" of Holocaust Denial (May 13, 2013) http://educate-yourself.org/cn/sylviastolzpersecution13may13.shtml Pounding the Holocaust Drum by Henry Makow (April 7, 2013) http://educate-yourself.org/cn/makowholocaustdrum07apr13.shtml Holocaust as Mental Paradigm by Henry Makow (January 27, 2003 ) http://www.savethemales.ca/270103.html

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Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

----- Forwarded message from Slashdot Headlines <slashdot(a)newsletters.slashdot.org> ----- Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income http://clicks.slashdot.org/ct.html?ufl=3&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,2mgf7,10sc,ahxi,kn… Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income http://clicks.slashdot.org/ct.html?ufl=3&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,2mgf7,10sc,ftzv,j8… >From the government-giving department Finland is getting ready to launch their first pilot program with a Universal Basic Income -- one of several countries which are now testing the concept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Futurism.com: Finland is about to launch an... Read More http://clicks.slashdot.org/ct.html?ufl=3&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,2mgf7,10sc,fn0z,2j…

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Re: cypherpunks Digest, Vol 39, Issue 37
by Carlos Rodriguez 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

What are this lists’s thoughts on the Kennedy assassination? Do you belive the Oswald “lone nut” theory or a different theory? Or do you prefer to stay out of it?

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On Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives
by Georgi Guninski 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

On Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/167.pdf Some breakage allows stealing coins. Their mitigation in this case suggest centralization...

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Re: [OFFLIST] Re: "Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children
by Cecilia Tanaka 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

On Sep 6, 2016 3:48 AM, "Mirimir" <mirimir(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > On 09/06/2016 12:21 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: > > > > Well, sometimes, looking to myself at mirror, I think "Uh, I need to keep better my hardware! It's an old model, so I need to take care!" :-/ > > It's your game piece, probably the only one you'll ever have :) Someday, who knows, I can try a little upgrade. Being a lazy sedentary nerd doesn't help to keep my hardware with a pretty cute apparence... :-/ Maybe some Tor Project stickers in - hmm - "very strategic places" (like in samba, but with lots of colorful rainbow onions with glitter, instead plumes?) or some sexy Schneier facts g-strings can help, hahaha!!! ;D

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