Identity politics threat to cypherpunks
Twitter thread raises the point
Bryan Bishop @kanzure · Mar 13 Replying to @perrymetzger I think people just really love identity politics and waving a new banner to sit under. . . . <<<
https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1634738371640672256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1634738371640672256%7Ctwgr%5E94ce97f3635658fb952ecbc64539997bfc7a554c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsysad.org%2Fstream Obviously there was a threat from working-class identity politics so long as Marxist Communists ( like James A Donald and John Young ) were posting here. Perhaps that threat is now receding as they approach death. Lets hope so!
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Lol. Wonder how many people this fucking censor censors from ever being able to see or post relavant on-topic alternative tweets. Perry Metzger is a Censor, just like Yosem Companys is, not of off-topic bullshit and spam, but of things their actual charters approve of. Perry claims to be a "rabid libertarian", and Yosem's post approvals are known to be leftist. Good luck getting crypto, or fact, or actual libertarian voluntaryism anarchism, or free open debate and counter to any posted nonsense onto their lists. BTW, the Tor Project Incorporated is full of censors too, currently supported by Board Level censors like Matt Blaze and Bruce Schneier, even the NSA said that... "Tor Stinks -- NSA, vulns known since before 2012" https://duckduckgo.com/?q="matt+blaze"+tor+project https://duckduckgo.com/?q="bruce+schneier"+tor+project Meanwhile the current instance of cpunks lets malintent spammers spamabuse people and their boxes with abuse threats and psychotic spamasms till they leave, lol.
Bryan Bishop @kanzure Mar 12 "cypherpunks write code" was the motto of the cypherpunks precisely because not enough "cypherpunks" were actually writing code. extropians had much of the same problem: people sitting around writing cool emails. how do you fix this? Mar 12, 2023 · 2:09 AM UTC · Twitter Web App 12 5 2 51 Bryan Bishop @kanzure Mar 12 bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/… How The Extropian Quest For Digital Cash Secured Our Trips To The Stars Before they were cypherpunks, the forefathers of Bitcoin were Extropians. bitcoinmagazine.com 1 3 9 Bryan Bishop @kanzure Mar 12 lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5e… Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism - LessWrong Previously in series: My Way Followup to: The Sin of Underconfidence • Good online communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves. … lesswrong.com 2 5 MattyG @meawoppl Mar 12 Replying to @kanzure You know I have long feels here 😉 1 2 Bryan Bishop @kanzure Mar 12 e/acc might suffer a similar fate if not careful 1 5 more replies Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger Mar 12 Replying to @kanzure I left my own mailing list after a conversation like that with Tim. 1 2 Bryan Bishop @kanzure Mar 12 did leaving work? 1 more replies Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg Mar 12 Replying to @kanzure We started the think tank Eudoxa way back in 1999 for this reason - we wanted to show the lefties on our list that we libertarians were right by doing something real (5 sec of reflection would have told us this would not convince them). Stupid reason, constructive real result. 3 2 Bryan Bishop @kanzure Mar 12 it was used to write reports ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudoxa Eudoxa - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 1 more replies Auditchain @Auditchain Mar 12 Replying to @kanzure Write more code. That’s how 1 Bob McElrath @BobMcElrath Mar 12 Replying to @kanzure As a long survivor of the extropian mailing list... You're right. Also I'm scared. This is part of my idealistic youth. I'm much more cynical now. But I'm not going to let that stop you from writing code. I get it. 1 2
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Here Perry Metzger the self-asserted "Rabid Libertarian" shills apologies for the US FED Central Banksters, then because Twitter almost never censors anyone anymore unlike Perry Metzger who censorbans everyone who speaks Cryptocurrency truth off his list, Metzger gets spanked by the fine Austrian Economists of CT and forced to admit that the system is printing rehypothecating and stealing money... https://duckduckgo.com/?iax=videos&ia=videos&q=creature+from+jekyll+island https://duckduckgo.com/?iax=videos&ia=videos&q=taxation+is+theft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-cgs51zEA Taxation Is Theft w Toine Manders https://www.facebook.com/TaxationIsTheft2 https://duckduckgo.com/?iax=videos&ia=videos&q=inflation+is+theft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C28ePi_NK8 Inflation Is Theft w Breedlove https://fee.org/articles/inflation-is-theft/ https://www.aier.org/article/inflation-is-theft-on-the-founding-of-aier/ https://inflationistheft.org/ Fiat Emperors have no clothes. Exit Fiat. That's the whole point. https://twitter.com/perrymetzger/status/1637792616078098433 Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger For those playing along at home who would like to determine if @balajis is right about uncontrollable printing at the Fed, here is a graph of the Fed monetary base. You will note its been slowly contracting of late as the Fed unwinds the COVID-19 Quantitative Easing. Mar 20, 2023 · 12:26 PM UTC · Twitter for iPhone Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger That’s a graph of BOGMBASE, which is roughly the Fed’s assets plus circulating cash in the US. (Some people used to call this M0.) If @balajis is right, then this graph should shoot up over the next month. If I am right, it’s not going up very much if at all. Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger I would ask those inclined to believe @balajis to write down a criterion for themselves to decide if he was or was not correct about his extraordinary prediction. One way is to pick a bitcoin price for June 15 or so that you regard as a line, or perhaps a value of BOGMBASE. Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger It’s very important to ask yourself how you would falsify a prediction and to review your falsification criterion to avoid moving the goalposts and deluding yourself. So I encourage you to pick one and review it to see how it came out. Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger For myself, I expect inflation to stay roughly where it is, I expect no extraordinary run up in the bitcoin price (I would frankly be shocked if it hit $100k let alone $1M) and I expect that the monetary base will roughly continue to slowly decline as the Fed rolls off… Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger …perhaps with a several percent blip up this month because the Fed is now allowing banks to borrow at par against their (old) treasury holdings. Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger I’m afraid I agree with @tylercowen. The Fed is also not doing uncontrolled printing to save the banks. All it is doing is telling them that they can come to the discount window with treasuries at par. Most of them haven’t because it’s expensive; the window charges interest. Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger I will wager to anyone who wants that one month from now, the monetary base will not be more than a few percent larger than it is now. Balaji @balajis Replying to @perrymetzger Banks have already gone vertical in accepting that printed money. Discount window already beyond 2008 levels. Balaji @balajis The system is set up to be intentionally opaque, to hide what they’re doing from public view. But now you can see the printing going vertical. Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger Yah, we have a brief spike here. You’re talking about a sum that’s, what, a few percent of Fed assets? I don’t think it’s a long term thing, it’s just a move by a few banks that are under stress. JPMC isn’t going to use this facility, it’s got 15% in cash right now. Reid Atcheson @reidatcheson Replying to @perrymetzger @balajis website says this includes data up to feb 28. would the recent liquidity programs targeting banks show up in this graph once it includes those dates too? Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger Yes. When the Fed loans money at the discount window that creates a Fed asset. The numbers here are the total of Fed assets plus the amount of actual cash circulating. Doug @MarkJam73395966 Replying to @perrymetzger @balajis An awesome use of Twitter Spaces would be to have knowledgeable people debate these issues
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