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Re:Instagram Apologizes for Inserting 'Terrorist' into Palestinian Bio...
on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:58PM (#37946215)
They forgot the /s after "sincerely".
Re:How the Baltic states became the hub of crypto money laundering and...
on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:08PM (#37769238)
Jeez...why can't they launder their money through the Seychelles and Dominica like normal people do?
Re:How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:34PM (#37768719)
Alt headline: Crazed military contractor teams up with public university to torture animals in the name of science.
"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." -Schopenhauer
Re:How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments
on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:10PM (#37768308)
> 2. Assume good faith until iron-clad evidence to the contrary (X years later). Then after that, of course, in any new scenario keep assuming good faith because there has been no FOIA or release of declassified documents yet
A lot of Americans suffer from "lazy decency bias". It allows for the worst of humanity to regularly skate for some heinous actions.
Re:How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments
on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @12:47PM (#37767921)
> "The CIA ~was~ clearly prepared to kill innocent American citizens."
Is.
Re:If money rules the world – who rules money? (2008) [pdf]
on Friday September 29, 2023 @02:54PM (#37708645)
And most people can't be troubled to seek out the answers.
Re:If money rules the world – who rules money? (2008) [pdf]
on Friday September 29, 2023 @02:46PM (#37708553)
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, money creation happens in banks, not in government.
"The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in banks." [0]
[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern_Money_Mechanics/Introd...
Re:SMS Security and Privacy Gaps
on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:40PM (#37684945)
I've been using SimpleX [0] with a couple of friends recently. It appears to work as advertised.
Re:Mark, Bezos, Gates. Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire Is a Father ...
on Saturday September 23, 2023 @08:10PM (#37628847)
Elon came from a very privileged background. Of late, he's been trying to spin his bio as as plucky guy with little money. His family was upper middle class. Poor little rich boy.
Re:Mark, Bezos, Gates. Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire Is a Father ...
on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:09PM (#37627576)
Can't forget Elon.
Re:The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:53PM (#37620459)
Sassaman was probably Satoshi. He and Finney worked together at PGP.
Re:Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:32PM (#37620385)
Re:The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:45PM (#37600321)
Len's publications list [0] alone should be the clincher. People want to believe in shadowy orgs instead of basic human ingenuity.
[0] https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Len-Sa...
Re:The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:33PM (#37600130)
Len's connection to Hal Finney, the first recipient of a Bitcoin transaction and a hell of a cryptographer in his own right, is quite the breadcrumb.
Re:The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:09PM (#37599751)
In 2008, there were only a relative few people who could've created Bitcoin. Len Sassaman, dead since 2011, is the best fit imo.
"By all accounts, Len was on track to be one of the most important cryptographers of his time. But on July 3rd, 2011, he tragically took his own life at 31, following a long battle with depression and functional neurological disorders.
His death coincided with the disappearance of the world’s most famous cypherpunk: Satoshi Nakamoto. Only 2 months before Len died, Satoshi sent their final communication:
I’ve moved on to other things and probably won’t be around in the future." [0]
[0] https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...
Re:Twitter Worth Only Third of Elon Musk's Purchase: Fidelity
on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:22PM (#37551853)
Money down the xitter. Elon's Folly is a toxic dump of wasted potential.
Re:Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after str...
on Friday September 15, 2023 @03:43PM (#37528207)
FTA:
> By midday Friday, UAW's verified check was reinstated. The Intercept's reporter, Ryan Grim, posted on X, writing, "Elon put the blue check back up. Maybe the Big Three will fold this fast too."
Re:Saudi Arabia Is Murdering Ethiopian Migrants. Washington Is Silent
on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:55AM (#37523009)
"Human rights" would be an issue for the US if the US thought it could invade Saudi Arabia and steal its oil.
Re:NASA says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs
on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:49AM (#37522937)
So either parts of the US government have been lying about for years about not having "alien" bodies and tech or parts of the US government are lying now about having "alien" bodies and tech.
In five years, a "conspiracy theorist" will be defined as someone who refuses to believe the propaganda from on high about UFOs/UAPs.
Senators voice skepticism about Schumer's AI summit
Re:NASA says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs
on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:32AM (#37522676)
The Military-intelligence sector has a long history of pushing things out that are less than true, often for the benefit of the national security state.
This UFO/UAP guff is great cover for the advanced AI piloted aircraft/spacecraft sightings that will be inevitable in the coming years.
Bonus: The Controlled Disclosure Campaign Plan [0]
[0] https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2023/07/18/169/123/CREC-20...
SEC Says It's Using AI to Surveil Markets and Assist Investigations
Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy – April 2010 [pdf]
Vitalik Buterin's Twitter account hacked to promote crypto scam
Re:That’s What I Call Ponzinomics
on Saturday September 09, 2023 @03:59PM (#37449672)
> It is unfortunate that you lost money chasing after a short squeeze
I don't participate in the stock market but this isn't about me anyway. It's about Wall St itself being a massive scam.
Re:Suspected Chinese operatives using AI images to spread disinformati...
on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:25PM (#37448580)
Good thing that US three letter agencies would never do such a thing. /s
The Warp Reactor Concept (PDF, June 2023)
Re:X “unfit” for banking because of complicity in Saudi spying, lawyer...
on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:23PM (#37438922)
> The letter alleged that as proof of the platform's complicity, instead of cracking down on Saudi spying after the FBI alert, "Twitter began approving Saudi requests for confidential information, including 'emergency disclosures,' in 'droves.'"
On top of that, Xitter is using an Israeli intelligence firm for user verification. No way should Xitter become a bank with so many leaks to foreign intelligence services.
[0] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/x-twitter-israel-concerns...
Re:My Open Letter to the Open Source Software Industry
on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:27PM (#37436602)
Craig Wright is an oozing pustule.