I am black block But I am not one dimensional
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:48 AM Robert Hettinga <[email protected]> wrote: > Make it rain, baby girl. > > Geodesic Culture > Robert Hettinga > > Seafeathers Bay, Anguilla, BWI > November 22, 2020 > > A long-time friend and I have lunch every Saturday. > > We go sit in a beach bar here -- these days the beaches empty, the views > as preternatural as ever -- drink fizzy water, no, really, decrepit > diabetics like me like fizzy water, and, as I used to joke when we started > this, well, tradition, plot world domination. We talk about business, > mostly, current projects in general, making, hacking, and otherwise. > Hardware, software, wetware. Guy stuff for geeks. > > Wetware as in the stuff between your ears. Mind outta the gutter. Perverts. > > In these days of pandemic-panic-porn-induced incipient global collapse -- > both the empty beaches thing in what used to be the kickoff of high tourist > season around here, but also what could fairly be called a US electoral > fight for the survival of western civilization -- one can say ‘world > domination’ with a tinge of anger in one’s voice about the other side, so > the joke isn’t very funny anymore. > > Besides, both of us are way too old for that world domination shit > anymore. We’re lucky if we can hobble off to a beach bar, have a chicken > caesar for lunch, and get home in one piece. Well, I am, anyway. He seems > to be doing better. I need some new knees, among other things, which I’m > not likely to get anytime soon here in formerly-libertarian paradise, and > short of an unaffordable medical airlift to the States, practically > impossible in any case with the quarantine, I’m not going anywhere anytime > soon. > > > So, at the moment, my friend is desperately trying to keep his eyes from > rolling back into his head. Because he’s driving. > > I’m trying to explain to him, in as much detail as I can muster as he > swerves his not-quite-a-pickup around a pothole, the current state of play > in this whole business with the Universal Voter Fraud, and the Soros guy > who’s now a life peer, and Chavez standing over the guy with the keyboard > changing the numbers on a constitutional referendum giving him absolute > dictatorial power, and... Wait, he says, these machines are hooked up the > the net?? Well, yeah. I think, anyway... That’s bullshit. I can’t believe > that for a minute. Nobody’d be that stupid. Well, anyway, they did a rush > software update the night before the election, so, what, FedEx and flash > cards? And it’s running on, what, Windows 7? Oh, come on. No, really. > Pretty sure... > > > I mean, I’m not even sure Windows 7 had internet sockets in it, or > whatever, I’m a Mac guy, bleed in five colors and all that, no, not those > five colors. Pervert. But that’s how fun things here in the Year of Our > Lord 2020. As John Batchelor, The World’s Last Gentleman, no, really, look > at his little videos on Instagram these days, liked to say during the > once-and-future GWOT, “In war, the first three reports are wrong.” And > we’re only two reports in. Maybe one and a half. > > My friend and I are old-school cypherpunks, you see. And no, crypto > doesn’t mean “cryptocurrency”, it means “strong cryptography”. We even > started a conference here on what I called “financial cryptography” a few > decades back, so we even get to claim at least passing familiarity, if very > dated in my case, and fuzzy at the best of times, with the idea of machine > security in the presence of a, cough, global geodesic internetwork. > > On cypherpunks, back in the day, it was all about spooks, crypto > protocols, financial and otherwise, rubber hose attacks, more spooks, > actual fucking Rothbardian anarchy, not that statist commie black-block > crap that passes for it these days, and, well, world domination. Punks > these days give millennialism a bad name. Get off my lawn. > > So, I’m very prepared to believe Sidney Powell. > > I just saw a NewsMax clip on YouTube(spit!) where she says she’s gonna > kick off the fun in Georgia, and, she says, it’s going to be biblical. > > Make it rain, baby girl. Make it rain. > > The fate or Western Civilization is in your hands. No pressure. > > > > > -- <https://about.me/carimachet?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api&utm_content=thumb> cari machet about.me/carimachet <https://about.me/carimachet?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api&utm_content=thumb>
