Tom's Hardware: Chia: Stop Farming with Consumer SSDs or Stop Complaining About Endurance
Tom's Hardware: Chia: Stop Farming with Consumer SSDs or Stop Complaining About Endurance. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chia-releases-statement-regarding-ssd-endurance Jim Bell's comment: I made my SemiDisk in 1982 with DRAMs, not a non-volatile memory. I just checked, and it appears that 16 gbyte of DDR4 DRAM costs roughly the same as 512 gbyte of USD.
Popular Science: Pew, pew! This laser zaps drones out of the sky
Popular Science: Pew, pew! This laser zaps drones out of the sky. https://www.popsci.com/technology/french-anti-drone-laser-cilas-helma-p/
Fwd: cypherpunks post acknowledgement
Karl, others: You can change your list settings to get a message like the following, any time you post to the list. If you are concerned your messages are not going through, this is an easy way to get confirmation per-message. You just need to turn on "Receive acknowledgement mail when you send mail to the list" via your settings screen at https://lists.cpunks.org/ If you don't know your list password, you can reset it there. ~ Greg --- Begin Message --- Your message entitled Re: List Status was successfully received by the cypherpunks mailing list. List info page: https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks Your preferences: https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/options/cypherpunks/gbnewby%40pglaf.org --- End Message ---
Re: List Status
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 02:04:58PM -0300, juan wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2021 09:48:20 -0700 > Greg Newby wrote: > > > > > None of this is nefarious or specific to cpunks. Other than the change > > mentioned to remove the blacklists from Spamassassin, all of this stuff is > > out-of-the-box with Ubuntu. > > > Well, out-of-the-box ubuntu censors cock.li, which I would describe as > nefarious. And it means that bona fide users of ubuntu end up unwillingly > censoring cock.li. Which looks nefarious to me as well =P I don't think that's accurate, otherwise the censorship would have been happening earlier. The mechanism that blocked the cock.li domain is the blacklist. Spamassassin is a separate project than Ubuntu, which loads the blacklists by default. The blacklists are, in turn, separate projects. Personally, as mentioned earlier, I am not a fan of blacklists. They are too easy to get on, and too difficult to get off of. They seem to have close to no ability to respond to reports of false positives (i.e., when a domain ends up on a blacklist, but should not be). Good riddance to the blacklists for the cpunks list! ~ Greg
Re: List Status
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 01:10:50PM -0400, Karl wrote: > On 5/25/21, Greg Newby wrote: > > Hi, Karl. The list was a bit quiet yesterday. Perhaps cpunks were outside in > > the Big Blue, or otherwise engaged. I sent a note that you should have > > received. > > I found it (but never received it): > https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087696.html > > Guess it's an issue with me receiving things via gmail. The Gmail filter that Tom suggested might help. As mentioned, I can try to diagnose messages that don't go through, but it's tough to do unless I know the specific message in question, and when it's sent. This is because we get around 1M lines/day in the mail log, invariably including multiple similar messages to the cypherpunks subscriber list. Yes, I realize it's hard to know when a message does NOT arrive, unless you are watching the archive at the same time as you are watching your inbox. More: > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Karl wrote: > >> Hey Greg, > >> > >> Can you confirm that people _subscribed_ to the list experience a spam > >> filter now? I thought my emails were getting spammed due to not being > >> subscribed, but it turns out this address is, actually, subscribed; I > >> was told this when I attempted subscribing. > > > > Yes, there are a few standard spam filters and related mechanisms on the > > server. This includes Spamassassin, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. These have been in > > place since the list moved to pglaf.org a few years ago. > > When you said "Any subscriber email address can post anything" at > https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087482.html I > thought you meant that there as no spam filtering of subscribed posts. > I infer I misunderstood. I over-generalized. It's true if the spam filtering doesn't reject it, or another failure condition, like temporary network outages. Or exceeding the max message size (I think it's 20M). What I really meant not "can post" but "is permitted to post." Or, "is not restricted from posting based on topic etc." More simply stated, there's no moderation of list traffic, other than the types of automation that Mailman (the list manager software), Postfix (the message transfer agent) or related elements of the email stack apply. > My perception of cypherpunks has been of a list where no posts are > censored, it being up to the users to filter their mails. Do you have > a memory of this? Sure (I've been on the list since the year 2000 or so). One way this used to be handled was with remailers. Some remailers were completely unfiltered - for example, they would accept random SMTP connections to port 25 and not do any checks that the email headers were valid or accurate. John Gilmore's toad.com was canonical for this, but not the only member of the remailer circle. Subscribers would choose a remailer to subscribe to. In addition to choosing a level of comfort for spam and some noisier subscribers, the remailer system made cypherpunks more resistant to state-level shutdowns. (It didn't make it less susceptible to surveillance, particullarly, and it also made the whole system more prone to various problems like delivery failure and message loops.) There were other remailers that had different procedures (i.e., stricter), which translated into less spam (in the "unsolicited commercial email" sense). For awhile, there was at least one moderated remailer where a human tried to only let the "good" stuff through. Today, the cypherpunks list doesn't have anyone doing censorship. However, it does use a set of standard mechanisms for limiting abuse. I already mentioned Spamassassin (one of many, many spam filters), and the trio of standards: DMARC, DKIM and SPF. In addition, the server enables TLS and a few other things to make it more difficult to spoof someone else's email address (i.e., to send email as bill.ga...@microsoft.com or somesuch; or email the cypherpunks list claiming to be a subscriber -- a common way, in olden times, of sending spam or of impersonating someone else). A less restricted remailer is definitely still possible, and could interoperate alongside the current system, just like remailers used to interoperate. Someone (not me) would need to set that up. > > I have not observed any messages from you that were flagged as spam or > > rejected. > > Do you receive this link to a message of mine that was rejected? > https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087594.html Dunno - I don't keep copies of most individual messages to the list. > > If you are seeing other people's messages in the list archive, but not > > getting them in your inbox, the first thing to check is your Gmail Spam > > folder. If messages still don't arrive within a few minutes, send me details > > and I can check the server logs to see whether delivery was attempted and > > what happened. > > I have my spam filter configured to prevent all cpunks list
Re: List Status
Greg, these complaints seem to fit the disruptive practices of attackers described here: https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm Maybe coincidental but not the first to aim at messing with the list. Other lists have been wiped out with endless bitches, accusations, demand for attention. Good job you're doing, amazing patience. -Original Message- >From: Greg Newby >Sent: May 25, 2021 5:35 PM >To: Karl >Cc: cypherpunks >Subject: Re: List Status > >On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 01:10:50PM -0400, Karl wrote: >> On 5/25/21, Greg Newby wrote: >> > Hi, Karl. The list was a bit quiet yesterday. Perhaps cpunks were outside >> > in >> > the Big Blue, or otherwise engaged. I sent a note that you should have >> > received. >> >> I found it (but never received it): >> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087696.html >> >> Guess it's an issue with me receiving things via gmail. > >The Gmail filter that Tom suggested might help. > >As mentioned, I can try to diagnose messages that don't go through, but it's >tough to do unless I know the specific message in question, and when it's >sent. This is because we get around 1M lines/day in the mail log, invariably >including multiple similar messages to the cypherpunks subscriber list. > >Yes, I realize it's hard to know when a message does NOT arrive, unless you >are watching the archive at the same time as you are watching your inbox. > >More: > >> > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Karl wrote: >> >> Hey Greg, >> >> >> >> Can you confirm that people _subscribed_ to the list experience a spam >> >> filter now? I thought my emails were getting spammed due to not being >> >> subscribed, but it turns out this address is, actually, subscribed; I >> >> was told this when I attempted subscribing. >> > >> > Yes, there are a few standard spam filters and related mechanisms on the >> > server. This includes Spamassassin, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. These have been >> > in >> > place since the list moved to pglaf.org a few years ago. >> >> When you said "Any subscriber email address can post anything" at >> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087482.html I >> thought you meant that there as no spam filtering of subscribed posts. >> I infer I misunderstood. > >I over-generalized. It's true if the spam filtering doesn't reject it, or >another failure condition, like temporary network outages. Or exceeding the >max message size (I think it's 20M). > >What I really meant not "can post" but "is permitted to post." Or, "is not >restricted from posting based on topic etc." More simply stated, there's no >moderation of list traffic, other than the types of automation that Mailman >(the list manager software), Postfix (the message transfer agent) or related >elements of the email stack apply. > >> My perception of cypherpunks has been of a list where no posts are >> censored, it being up to the users to filter their mails. Do you have >> a memory of this? > >Sure (I've been on the list since the year 2000 or so). One way this used to >be handled was with remailers. Some remailers were completely unfiltered - for >example, they would accept random SMTP connections to port 25 and not do any >checks that the email headers were valid or accurate. > >John Gilmore's toad.com was canonical for this, but not the only member of the >remailer circle. Subscribers would choose a remailer to subscribe to. In >addition to choosing a level of comfort for spam and some noisier subscribers, >the remailer system made cypherpunks more resistant to state-level shutdowns. >(It didn't make it less susceptible to surveillance, particullarly, and it >also made the whole system more prone to various problems like delivery >failure and message loops.) > >There were other remailers that had different procedures (i.e., stricter), >which translated into less spam (in the "unsolicited commercial email" sense). >For awhile, there was at least one moderated remailer where a human tried to >only let the "good" stuff through. > >Today, the cypherpunks list doesn't have anyone doing censorship. However, it >does use a set of standard mechanisms for limiting abuse. I already mentioned >Spamassassin (one of many, many spam filters), and the trio of standards: >DMARC, DKIM and SPF. > >In addition, the server enables TLS and a few other things to make it more >difficult to spoof someone else's email address (i.e., to send email as >bill.ga...@microsoft.com or somesuch; or email the cypherpunks list claiming >to be a subscriber -- a common way, in olden times, of sending spam or of >impersonating someone else). > >A less restricted remailer is definitely still possible, and could >interoperate alongside the current system, just like remailers used to >interoperate. Someone (not me) would need to set that up. > >> > I have not observed any messages from you that were flagged as spam or >> > rejected. >> >> Do you receive this link
Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread
> Every day, more fraud, lies, censorship, and hypocrisy Americans were defrauded by Democrats Biased, Lying, Plant Printing, Censoring, Fake News Social Media and Big Tech, and that's before all the ongoing election audits are completed which are already raising more questions. Donald J Trump won the 2020 US Presidential Election. Greenwald and Russell Brand In Viral Video Destroys MSM and Silicon Valley For Hiding "Troubling" Hunter Biden News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs8Qae0QgGw Media Censored Election News https://www.mediaite.com/news/russell-brand-slams-twitter-facebook-media-for-hiding-troubling-hunter-biden-news-they-didnt-want-it-to-influence-the-election/ https://twitter.com/rustyrockets/status/1396873635000893446 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1397170306834436098 In a rare and refreshing interview which on YouTube has garnered 100,000 views in less than 24 hours, British comedian and actor Russell Brand and former Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald teamed up to explain last year's scandalous coordination by the mainstream media and social media companies to ensure the Hunter Biden laptop story and accompanying revelations over the Hunter-Ukrainian Burisma energy company scandal never reached broader public view. "I’m not a pro-Republican person," Brand introduced while talking to Greenwald on his YouTube channel. "I don’t see myself that way. I don’t see myself as conservative, or that I’m in a Trump, or Giuliani, or the kind of media establishments that were reporting on these revelations [about Biden’s family]. They are not my cultural, social, or political allies. That’s certainly not how I see myself." And then he blasted away: "However, it seems to me — what reason is Hunter Biden sat on the board of an energy company in... Ukraine?” he questioned. "What reason is James Biden sat on the board, or receiving payments from an energy company, in China?" Recall that The New York Post among others saw their Twitter account suspended for a whopping 16 days over the news story, while Facebook also aggressively cracked down on users' ability to share any content related to Burisma, the Biden family's Ukraine dealings, or the infamous laptop archive. Brand said further in the interview, according to a transcript: "We’re talking about sleaze, corruption, financial misdemeanors, and relationships between corporations, big business, and politicians — let’s face it, unless you’re bloody stupid, you know that’s going on all the time." "For me, revelations that there are financial connections between energy companies in... Ukraine, energy companies in China, and the Biden family are troubling. That should be public knowledge." Brand emphasized "That should be public knowledge." He went on to discuss Silicon Valley's efforts at controlling and blatantly censoring the political conversation in order to "protect" a crucial election... or rather to outright prevent a Trump victory. "And it’s even more troubling that Twitter, and Facebook and the media at large deliberately kept it out of the news because they didn’t want it to influence the election," Brand told Greenwald. In part two of my conversation with journalist Glenn Greenwald we discuss events surrounding his Hunter Biden revelations...what are your thoughts? Watch the full video here: https://t.co/VxdqoDlqMT pic.twitter.com/5m2zA7q5jT — Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) May 24, 2021 And more... What is democracy then? It suggests to me that democracy is, 'We want you to vote for this person. We don’t want you to vote for that person.' As I’ve said, Donald Trump, you know, I don’t think Donald Trump’s the answer, but I’m sad to realize that I can no longer even claim to believe Joe Biden or the Democratic Party might be the answer, because look at how they behave. And look at the relationships between media, social media, and that party. Using word choice that clearly denotes his concluding that there was a choreographed plot among big media and big tech to sanitize information before it reached the public, Brand concluded, "They conspired to keep information away from you because it was not convenient to their agenda." Really interesting from Russell Brand, of all people. "Did Media conspire with social media to CENSOR Joe/Hunter Biden Corruption Report? (Yes!)" https://t.co/oGGWMwBtPu — Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2021 And Greenwald later commented of the new interview with Brand: "US media and tech giants united to bar millions of Americans from hearing this reporting before they voted" - in reference to the Biden Family laptop archive. Meanwhile it will be interesting to see how long YouTube actually leaves up the new Brand-Greenwald interview, or whether it gets slapped with a restrictive "warning" label.
Re: Coronavirus: Thread
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/may/24/how-texas-killed-covid/ https://wirepoints.org/de-woked-northwestern-president-schapiro-changes-his-tune-on-opinion-diversity-in-higher-education-wirepoints/ WaPo Head 'Fact Checker' Glenn Kessler Heckled Over Lab-Leak Flip-Flop With the COVID-19 'lab leak' theory finally gaining mainstream legitimacy following recent reports from the Wall Street Journal, and an admission by Anthony Fauci that he's now open to the possibility, formerly smug establishment 'fact checkers' are now scrambling to salvage their reputations after categorically dismissing a lab leak as a 'debunked conspiracy theory.' https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1395163292742651904 Fact-checking, like virtually everything the corporate media does to feign superiority, is a total scam: just another way for them to smuggle their own ideologically-driven disinformation and conspiracy theories under a more elevated facade: https://t.co/qeFb5J8CP1 — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 19, 2021 The latest 'fact checker' to bend the knee is the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler - who last year issued a snarky tweet to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in response to Cruz accusing WaPo of "abandoning all pretenses of journalism to produce CCP propaganda" in response to Kessler promoting a video suggesting that an accidental lab leak was 'doubtful.' "We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves," Kessler sniped at Cruz. I fear @tedcruz missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for this virus jump from the lab. Or the many interviews with actual scientists. We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves. https://t.co/TprMnaHSZL — Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 1, 2020 Fast forward one year, and Kessler is the proud owner of a highly ratio'd tweet after being forced to eat crow over his 'fact checking' with a new article entitled "How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible." Kessler's destroyed credibility did not go unnoticed: It didn’t “suddenly become credible” it was always credible. It literally always made the most sense. I understand the desired narrative media always wanted but didn’t anyone think the most likely scenario was the virus magically originated feet from the lab that worked with it? https://t.co/XO4Y5OlKLf — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 25, 2021 You should probably revisit this one. pic.twitter.com/QpZu5eNAQT — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 25, 2021 May 2020: UNLIKELY https://t.co/w2CjAtFzHG… May 2021: CREDIBLE — Razor (@hale_razor) May 25, 2021 We DeAl In FaCtS pic.twitter.com/JMoYtaYGcI — Karen McLaren ❄️ (@Libercon2016) May 25, 2021 I like the line about "actual scientists". But now I'm curious how could it be "virtually impossible" for a virus to get out of a lab that studies viruses. — Greg Scott (@gregsandiego) May 25, 2021 Speaking on the issue of destroyed credibility over early Wuhan reporting and CCP apologists is retired New York Times science editor, Nicholas Wade, who slammed the MSM on Sunday for failing to investigate the origins of COVID-19. According to Wade, the media failed to "take off its political glasses" and see beyond facts which are being obscured by the Chinese Communist Party. "'I think we see a sustained Chinese propaganda effort at work," said Wade, who was a staff writer for the Science Times section of the NYT from 1982 to 2012, in an interview with Mark Levin on "Life, Liberty & Levin." "But, you know, more than that, it was just the blindness, if I could put it that way, of our media — we're too polarized to see scientific issues for their own sake without putting a political gloss on them," Wade continued. "We don't know for sure: The origin of the virus is just we've got these two possible scenarios. But if you look at all the evidence and ask yourself, well, which scenario explains all these facts better on present evidence, it seems, to me at least, that the lab-escape hypothesis explains it a lot better." "But it's a sort of complicated conclusion to arrive at, and I can only assume that the media was blindsided, they didn't do the work that was necessary." Let's not mince words Wade, the Media opposed the lab leak theory because President Trump promoted it, and the CCP has its tentacles deeply embedded in American propagandists who breathlessly peddle their talking points. https://spectator.us/topic/media-u-turn-lab-leak-coronavirus-theory/ Don't Let The Media Get Away With U-Turning On The Lab Leak Theory The theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory has completed its year-long trudge — from fringe nutjob idea to mainstream and expert-approved opinion. Right all along? Sen. Tom Cotton was denounced as a conspiracy theorist last year for suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 might have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (Getty) Leading
CNET: Quantum computers could crack today's encrypted messages. That's a problem
CNET: Quantum computers could crack today's encrypted messages. That's a problem. https://www.cnet.com/news/quantum-computers-could-crack-todays-encrypted-messages-thats-a-problem/
TechCrunch: US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abuses
TechCrunch: US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abuses. https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/united-states-towns-hikvision-dahua-surveillance/
The Register: South Korea plans large scale quantum cryptography adoption, thanks in part to tech partnership with USA
The Register: South Korea plans large scale quantum cryptography adoption, thanks in part to tech partnership with USA. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/05/25/south_korea_quantum_encryption/
Re: Coronavirus: Thread
> Corona history may not prove kind to Fake News... Fake News and Govt Propagandists all rushing to whitewash their own biased false and planted reporting, Tweets, etc, rather than be exposed by the truth... Vox Stealth Edits March 2020 Article "Debunking" Lab Origin Of COVID https://summit.news/2021/05/24/vox-stealth-edits-march-2020-article-debunking-lab-origin-of-covid/ https://summit.news/2021/05/21/politifact-forced-to-pull-fact-check-that-debunked-lab-leak-origin-of-covid/ https://summit.news/2021/05/24/questions-over-social-media-censorship-of-wuhan-lab-leak-after-fauci-admits-possibility/ Left-wing website website Vox has been caught stealth editing an old article from March 2020 “debunking” the lab origin of COVID following numerous prominent officials now saying the lab origin is a distinct possibility. HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images Writer and investor Paul Graham documented the edits, tweeting, “Some of the stealth edits that Vox made to its article debunking “conspiracy theories” that Covid-19 originated in a lab leak between its original publication in March 2020 and now.” The edits include removing the words that the virus definitively did “not come from the Wuhan lab” and saying that the fact the virus emerged in the same city in which the lab is located “appears to be pure coincidence” rather than the previously more definitive “is pure coincidence.” Some of the stealth edits that Vox made to its article debunking "conspiracy theories" that Covid-19 originated in a lab leak between its original publication in March 2020 and now. pic.twitter.com/RYxZ2B81mc — Paul Graham (@paulg) May 24, 2021 “Vox is editing it articles “debunking” the coronavirus lab leak theory. These edits aren’t being disclosed to readers,” tweeted Mike Cernovich. “Vox is a disinformation website.” Vox is editing it articles “debunking” the coronavirus lab leak theory. These edits aren’t being disclosed to readers. Vox is a disinformation website. pic.twitter.com/MU7rOuHlDq — Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 24, 2021 As we highlighted earlier, new information based on a US intelligence report reveals that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became so sick in November 2019 that they required hospital treatment. This followed Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledging for the first time that the origin of COVID-19 “could have been something else, and we need to find that out.” Last week, Biden’s CDC Director said she remained open to the possibility that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab and scientific groups have also asserted that the lab leak is the most likely source. Following the bolstering of the possibility that the virus was leaked from the lab, Politifact was also forced to pull a ‘fact check’ that claimed it had “debunked” the lab leak origin theory of COVID-19. For over a year, social media networks have characterized the lab leak theory as “misinformation” and removed it under the umbrella of “fake news.” Now that more and more evidence continues to drop that such “conspiracy theories” were actually not only plausible but quite possibly true, the backpedaling continues apace.
I think I've found part of the problem with cock.li
Host is lacking reverse DNS. I've already forwarded to Vincent. --- This is the mail system at host mail.cock.li. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system <***@.com>: host ***.***.net[*.*.*.*] said: 450 4.7.25 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [37.120.193.122] (in reply to RCPT TO command) -- Shawn K. Quinn http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com
Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread
> Why BLM Riots Weren't Treated Like Capitol 'Insurrection' Because it doesn't meet the Democrats Socialist Marxist Communist agenda for the US... Leaked State Department Memo Indicates Official Support For BLM Agenda https://humanevents.com/2021/05/24/breaking-news-leaked-state-department-memo-indicates-official-support-for-blm-agenda/ https://humanevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/REDACTED-State-Department-Doc-1.pdf https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/ A source within the Biden State Department wishing to remain anonymous has shared with Human Events News a document that indicates that all U.S. “Diplomatic and Consular posts” are being encouraged to display shows of support for Black Lives Matter on Tuesday, May 25, the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death. The memo reads in part, “The Department supports the use of the term ‘Black Lives Matter’ in messaging content, speeches, and other diplomatic engagements with foreign audiences to advance racial equity and access to justice on May 25 and beyond (italics added) We encourage posts to focus on the need to eliminate systemic racism and its continued impact.” The memo, which is in part a woke statement on social justice, part an apology for U.S. actions, and part an endorsement of all BLM materials, expressly encourages the display of the BLM flag or banner at U.S. facilities (except on the actual flagpole that holds the American flag). It reads, in part: This cable constitutes a blanket written authorization for calendar year 2021 from the Under Secretary for Management (M) to display the BLM flag on the external-facing flagpole to any Chiefs of Mission who determine such a display is appropriate in light of local conditions. Despite the documented actions of BLM protestors during the riots of 2020, and despite the New York Times reporting on their organization’s declining popularity with American voters, our federal government has nonetheless decided to endorse and promote an organization with admitted Marxist roots as one having ties to our official foreign offices. The entirety of the State Department memo has been reproduced below. * * * UNCLASSIFIED Action Office: ALDACS, PAS, POL, MGT, ECON_EXPANDED, HR, DAO, LEGAT MRN: 21 STATE 53304 Date/DTG: May 22, 2021 / 222307Z MAY 21 From: SECSTATE WASHDC Action: ALL DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR POSTS COLLECTIVE IMMEDIATE E.O.: 13526 TAGS: PREL, PGOV, PHUM, PREF, SMIG, SOCI, EAID, KDNI, APER, AMGT, KPAO, KWMN, KLGBT, KJUS, KDEM Reference: A) E.O. 13985 B) 21 STATE 47544 Subject: COMMEMORATING GEORGE FLOYD: DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT AND USE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM) LANGUAGE AND MATERIAL (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 13 – 15. 2. (U) Summary: May 25 marks one year since the brutal murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Last year, the horrific video of Mr. Floyd’s final 9 minutes and 29 seconds went viral and spurred Black Lives Matter protests worldwide, in response to his senseless killing and to demand an end to systemic racism and police brutality. One year later, many in the international community will honor Mr. Floyd and acknowledge the long journey nations face to advance racial justice. Leading up to May 25, the Department has issued guidance on the use of Black Lives Matter language, banners, and flags. End Summary. Context (U) May 25 marks the one-year commemoration of George Floyd’s murder. For 9 minutes and 29 seconds, the world saw firsthand how police officers brutally took the life of an unarmed Black man in the United States. These viral images ignited national and global Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and demonstrations. This tragedy joined a long line of Black men and women who have suffered at the hands of police brutality. These national and global protests sparked a movement to confront systems perpetuating deep-seated inequities rooted in colonialism and the oppression of racial, tribal, ethnic, and other minority communities. Mr. Floyd’s murder prompted an international outcry to seek racial justice and equity by dismantling systemic racism and eradicating police brutality affecting communities of color, most acutely, people of African descent. (U) On January 20, as one of his first official actions, President Biden issued Executive Order 13985 to advance racial equity and support for underserved communities (reftel 21 STATE 47544). This effort is a top priority for the Administration’s domestic and foreign policy; the United States cannot credibly message on human rights abroad if it does not address these same issues at home. To achieve his policy objectives, President Biden issued several additional executive actions to support underserved communities and advance racial equity, which notably include: • Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United
Re: Coronavirus: Thread
Segregation, Jim Crow, apparently didn't die with Civil Rights, now you got sections for all them unvax folks, courtesy the historically racist Democrats in their big cities... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws "Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period. Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965." "Decided To Divide" - Chicago Segregates Restaurants For Un-Vaxx'd https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/05/21/covid-19-chicago-restaurants-vaccinated-only-section/ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/04/7-reasons-why-a-vaccine-passport-pass-certificate-or-whatever-they-want-to-call-it-should-worry-us-all.html If you want any more evidence COVID-19 has been a pandemic of inequality - take, for example, Chicago restaurant owners, who plan to introduce vaccinated and non-vaccinated sections, according to CBS Chicago. This brings us back to the 1990s when there were restaurants offering smoking and smoke-free sections. The division is clear, and the vaccine is dividing us all. Chicago officials are still in the reopening phase and plan to be fully open by July 4. Per new guidance from Mayor Lori Lightfoot, businesses can operate with no restrictions as long as there is a section for vaccinated people. This weekend, at Moe's Cantina Chicago, neon bracelets will be handed out to vaccinated people where they can mingle in an unrestricted section in the restaurant. For everyone else, the unvaccinated section will have socially distanced tables and partitions. "We decided to divide, and you're free to come on this side, go to the bar. You can be pre-pandemic," said owner Sam Sanchez. Sanchez said customers would have to show proof of their complete vaccination history to relax in a no restriction section that resembles a pre-COVID world. The discrimination against people who are vaxxed and non-vaxxed is made part by Lightfoot's liberal run City Hall, who announced last week, "establishments can operate without COVID-19 restrictions within their establishment if only vaccinated patrons and employees are allowed in within that area." Sanchez serves as Chairman of the Illinois Restaurant Association and says the direction the city government is taking "is to get the economy back to normal." Good intentions may very well lead to a two-tiered society where the "vaxxed" discriminate against the "non-vaxxed."
Re: Cryptocurrency: CBDC Regimes Being Rolled Out Worldwide, WarOnCash
Global legislation growing to force banks to collect and disclose all 'account flows' information on every transaction, to tax your child's first $0.50 fizzy pop refreshment stand biz on the front lawn, indoctrinate them while they're young. Global legislation growing to force "harmonization" and raise of all global business and personal taxation rates. Global legislation growing to force creation of more global databases used to financially blacklist and starve out all manner of dissent, activism, voices against oppression, freedom scoring, etc. CBDC's being rolled out to facilitate all above and more. Look it up, and wake up.
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Hi, Karl. The list was a bit quiet yesterday. Perhaps cpunks were outside in the Big Blue, or otherwise engaged. I sent a note that you should have received. On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Karl wrote: > Hey Greg, > > Can you confirm that people _subscribed_ to the list experience a spam > filter now? I thought my emails were getting spammed due to not being > subscribed, but it turns out this address is, actually, subscribed; I > was told this when I attempted subscribing. Yes, there are a few standard spam filters and related mechanisms on the server. This includes Spamassassin, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. These have been in place since the list moved to pglaf.org a few years ago. Just in the past days, in Spamassassin, I turned off use of the blacklists, since they have occasionally been problematic. I have not observed any messages from you that were flagged as spam or rejected. However, sometimes messages are rejected before they get to the list or to me - if this happens to you, then (a) you will get a bounce from the pglaf.org (a.k.a., cpunks.org) server, and (b) the message won't go into the archive. None of this is nefarious or specific to cpunks. Other than the change mentioned to remove the blacklists from Spamassassin, all of this stuff is out-of-the-box with Ubuntu. > > In other news, I haven't been receiving mails from the list recently > (recent mails in the archive aren't in my inbox yet), not sure if it > matters. Yes, you are subscribed. Only subscribers can submit, and your messages are going through and in the archive. If you are not certain whether your message went to the list, first check the archive via https://lists.cpunks.org (no login required). If you are not getting copies of your own messages, there is a setting for this that everyone can select for their own subscription. Use the web interface at https://lists.cpunks.org to login to the list and see your settings. You can opt to get a copy of your own messages, and you can also get an "ack" email message when your message was posted. The default is to *not* get a copy of your own messages, and to *not* get an acknowledgment. HOWEVER, gmail absolutely positively will not show you a copy of your own message!! Even if you set the list (via Mailman) to send you a copy. It will silently discard it or otherwise mask it. This is a gmail thing that is well-known and does not have a workaround that I've heard about. If you are seeing other people's messages in the list archive, but not getting them in your inbox, the first thing to check is your Gmail Spam folder. If messages still don't arrive within a few minutes, send me details and I can check the server logs to see whether delivery was attempted and what happened. Greg
Cryptocurrency: CBDC Regimes Being Rolled Out Worldwide, WarOnCash
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/preconditions-for-a-general-purpose-central-bank-digital-currency-20210224.htm There are actual deployed trials of CBDC running in the US, China, and other countries right now. War has been declared, shots have been fired. Financial freedom, freedom in general, is at stake. Distributed cryptos must win against the CBDC's.
Facial recognition, fake identities and digital surveillance tools: Inside the post office's covert internet operations program
https://news.yahoo.com/facial-recognition-fake-identities-and-digital-surveillance-tools-inside-the-post-offices-covert-internet-operations-program-214234762.html The post office’s law enforcement arm has faced intense scrutiny in recent weeks over its Internet Covert Operations Program, which tracks social media posts o...
New Atlas: Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers
New Atlas: Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers. https://newatlas.com/computers/morpheus-processor-secure-darpa-hackers/
WIRED: The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
WIRED: The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told. https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told
Re: Cryptocurrency: Its Energy/Carbon Far Less Than Costs of Legacy Financial System
The 'Greening' Of Bitcoin: Will China's Forced Mining Exodus Crush Anti-ESG Case? China's crackdown on crypto may have a silver lining after all. While Beijing's bitcoin battering efforts - for myriad reasons including a lack of centralized control (translation: use our CBDC or else), a pathway for capital outflows (translation: use our CBDC or else), and the latest somewhat humorous "crypto does not meet China's carbon goals" - have, along with Elon's tweets, tamped down enthusiasm for the cryptocurrency; the perhaps unintended consequence of the actions of Musk (reversing his advocate position by highlighting the anti-ESG case) and China's regulatory crackdown (again) will be the 'greening' of crypto and inevitably enabling more progressive asset allocators to move reserves its way. "In recent days, crypto-currency trading has been too hot in China which attracted many individual investors. It's necessary that the government rolls out warnings in case any large risks materialize," Cao Yin, managing director of Digital Renaissance Foundation and a bitcoin investor, said. And it could be happening sooner than expected as China's Global Times (broadly considered Beijing's mouthpiece) reports that China's recent ban on bitcoin-related activity will reshape the landscape of the global mining industry and force more Chinese miners to migrate overseas, such as to the US. "Chinese miners account for over half of the global crypto network's processing power, and this will also weigh on the development of the global mining industry in the long run," the insider said. Some bitcoin mines use thermal power sources that can't pass the government's environmental impact assessments, and thus run counter to the country's carbon-neutrality goals, Cao said. But, as Global Times writes, according to Cao, some bitcoin mines in China are now ready to purchase carbon emissions quotas. The exodus started in 2017 but is now speeding up, as mines look for regions with cheaper electricity rates and more friendly policies. "It's possible that bitcoin mines may eventually move out of China, but production and exports of bitcoin mining machines won't stop in China because of market demands," Cao said. The rotation from relatively power-hungry Proof-of-Work currencies to less power-intensive Proof-of-Stake currencies remains but has lost some of its sheen recently... Circling back to where we started, China could be about to become bitcoin bulls' best friend... China is the bitcoin bears biggest friend: as long as bitcoin can be mined in China it is "dirty" Once China bans bitcoin mining there, the anti-ESG case collapse — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 21, 2021 Of course, this all comes a day after Elon Musk and Michael Saylor "spoke with North American Bitcoin miners. They committed to publish current & planned renewable usage & to ask miners WW to do so. Potentially promising." It wasn't immediately clear if any Chinese bitcoin miners are part of this organization - they should be, after all the dirtiest bitcoin mining takes place in China's infamous Xinjiang region - but it's a start, and if indeed we are about to see mining standardization, one which pushes more output to the US and other "clean" regions, this could be just the catalyst that eliminates the biggest ESG complaint against cryptos.
Cryptocurrency: Its Energy/Carbon Far Less Than Costs of Legacy Financial System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc Crypto: No Regulators The entire Legacy Global Financial System, all the surrounding elements it consumes, including all the buildings, vehicles, shipping, legal system, markets, all its insane regulation, spyveillance, data storage selling, politic, etc... the whole ENTIRE system that Crypto will displace, all of it, all its elements, ALL IN NET TOTAL. Did you somehow think the Anti Cryptocurrency pro Bankster and authoritarian Govt regimes, that crypto will eventually deprecate, would actually calculate and tell you the truth about their all in net waste? Telling the truth is not in their survival and ruling interests. The truth will only hasten their demise. And once the green movement learns the truth they will jump in and help dismantle the wasteful Legacy Financial System even faster. Did you somehow think cryptos would never evolve more efficient algorithms, that eco-power would never cost less than pollution, that crypto capital would not move and grow and evolve and even deploy its own eco power generation, that once Legacy systems die off crypto's cost needed to displace them shrinks to maintenance mode, that the crypto sphere is not made up of highly moral people who care even more about the environment than the corrupt wasteful Legacy systems that crypto will replace? Think again. See the other threads, do the work to add up all the gigawatts, carbon tons, hectares, liters, etc that Legacy systems wastes and uses up. Look at the human costs, the wars, the misallocated resources that these Legacies have hands in perpetuating. The honest "all-in" analysts are right, the anti-crypto FUDsters are wrong. Even ARK, whose ETF structure will be DeFi'd, is among those getting the analysis right. Lots of honest all-in whitepapers on the Energy/Carbon topic are out there, with many more coming this year. Oppressing, taxing, regulating, middlemanning, defrauding, censoring, ruling people, corrupting, wars, and jailing freedom... costs $Trillions globally annually, and that you are forced to pay for, not only by their outright theft under threat of jail and death, but in the growing non-freedom outcomes. Liberation, voluntary societies, free markets, charity, and freedom, are far more efficient. A net win for all :) Crypto will win, and humanity will be freed from the legacy financial system (and its newly minted fraudulent nightmare, CBDC's). Don't ever let the FUDsters fade or stop your development, use, and adoption of distributed privacy enabled cryptocurrencies.
Censorship: Facebook Exposed by Veritas Again, Mass Mind Control Documents
Facebook and Twitter and Youtube have been censoring and deleting Project Veritas and hundreds of other embarassing truthtellers accounts, faster and more than ever before. Facebook and Twitter and Google Youtube are obviously afraid their and GovCorp censorship and Mass Mind Control and Propaganda Programming Regimes being exposed, Libertarian concepts, cryptocurrency, even freedom itself being adopted are being deleted from you. Thousands of evidences in plain sight. And people are losing their jobs to bring you the truth. Wake up! Here we have the very basic human rights concept that no one can force you to inject ingest anything... being canceled. Today... Facebook Whistleblowers Reveal Campaign To Censor Vaccine Hesitancy Whistleblower organization Project Veritas has obtained internal documents from Facebook insiders detailing the company's efforts to censor concerns over the COVID-19 vaccine. https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-facebook-whistleblowers-expose-leaked-internal-docs-detailing-new/ https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/7zG8FPh0cBk3qh28dY90iB/10771f24b25cf9994c08bf69e74056d5/Vaccine_Hesitancy_Comment_Demotion_WATERMARKED.pdf https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/5m5WDtHyHDYsB7D6qu6Qg3/3a2a12c32ee5606d0fd5f81f308f8df1/Global_Operations_Primer_-_Health_Misinformation_WATERMARKED.pdf https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-project-veritas-releases-internal-facebook-documents-detailing-campaign-to-censor-vaccine-concerns-on-platform https://thepostmillennial.com/exposed-project-veritas-reveals-facebook-employees-admitting-they-delete-pro-trump-material https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-facebook-vp-flees-when-confronted-by-project-veritas-journalist https://twitter.com/EricSpracklen/status/1396979327078703104 BREAKING: @Facebook Whistleblowers Expose LEAKED INTERNAL DOCS Detailing New Effort to Secretly Censor Vaccine Concerns on a Global Scale#ExposeFacebook pic.twitter.com/8VBYQSdxlz — veritast...@protonmail.com (@EricSpracklen) May 25, 2021 Leaked company documents provided by two whistleblowers detail Facebook's plan to combat "vaccine hesitancy" (VH) worldwide via "comment demotion". "They're trying to control this content before it even makes it onto your page before you even see it," one insider told Project Veritas. "If I lose my job, it’s like, what do I do? But that’s less of a concern to me." The social media giant's goal is to "reduce user exposure" to those with VH, while also reducing the ability to engage with said posts. More from Mia Cathell via The Post Millennial: One of the Facebook whistleblowers said the company uses a tier system to rank and determine how comments should be censored or buried. This is all based on how much the statements question or caution against the COVID-19 vaccination. Tier 2, for instance, represents "Indirect Discouragement" of getting vaccinated. User comments such as these would be "suppressed," Project Veritas reported. Comments that include "shocking stories" that describe what could be true events or facts that can raise safety concerns are demoted. Any of the such that raises concern about coronavirus vaccinations are fair game to be demoted and hidden, according to the source, despite authenticity or capacity to contribute to the public good. "I have to do something," one of the Facebook insiders said. It doesn't matter if the comments are true, factual, or represent reality. The comment is demoted, buried, and hidden from public view if it clashes with the system. "It doesn't match the narrative," one source explained. "The narrative being, get the vaccine, the vaccine is good for you. Everyone should get it. And if you don't, you will be singled out." One of the insiders, a data center technician, showed documentation detailing an algorithm test being run on 1.5 percent of Facebook and Instagram's almost 3.8 billion users worldwide. "They're trying to control this content before it even makes it onto your page before you even see it," one insider said. Project Veritas uploaded the entire "Facebook Vaccine Hesitancy Comment Demotion" document and the entire "Facebook Global Operations Primer - Health Misinformation" document on the investigative news outlet's website. A top Facebook spokesperson was reached about these documents and sent "a brief and broad" statement in reply to Project Veritas that "failed to address" the investigative outlet's biggest questions regarding transparency. "I really wonder how Mark Zuckerberg will be able to defend this," stated Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe ahead of the press release Monday. "His own employees are coming to Project Veritas because they can't stand the wrongdoing they are witnessing at their workplace," he told Project Veritas followers. As part of the #ExposeFacebook series in June 2020, Project Veritas revealed how Facebook employees were ordered to monitor, shadow ban, and delete pro-Trump content on the site. At the beginning of
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I have such a filter configured too.
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Messages would get sent to spam if it weren't for a filter I've created. So yes, this is a common issue. On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 18:12, Karl wrote: > Hey Greg, > > Can you confirm that people _subscribed_ to the list experience a spam > filter now? I thought my emails were getting spammed due to not being > subscribed, but it turns out this address is, actually, subscribed; I > was told this when I attempted subscribing. > > In other news, I haven't been receiving mails from the list recently > (recent mails in the archive aren't in my inbox yet), not sure if it > matters. > > Karl >
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apologies for the attachment. I found the email archived at https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-April/087395.html . i'm probably suppressing frustration. i have not received any cypherpunks emails since the 23rd.
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On 5/25/21, Greg Newby wrote: > Hi, Karl. The list was a bit quiet yesterday. Perhaps cpunks were outside in > the Big Blue, or otherwise engaged. I sent a note that you should have > received. I found it (but never received it): https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087696.html Guess it's an issue with me receiving things via gmail. > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Karl wrote: >> Hey Greg, >> >> Can you confirm that people _subscribed_ to the list experience a spam >> filter now? I thought my emails were getting spammed due to not being >> subscribed, but it turns out this address is, actually, subscribed; I >> was told this when I attempted subscribing. > > Yes, there are a few standard spam filters and related mechanisms on the > server. This includes Spamassassin, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. These have been in > place since the list moved to pglaf.org a few years ago. When you said "Any subscriber email address can post anything" at https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087482.html I thought you meant that there as no spam filtering of subscribed posts. I infer I misunderstood. My perception of cypherpunks has been of a list where no posts are censored, it being up to the users to filter their mails. Do you have a memory of this? > I have not observed any messages from you that were flagged as spam or > rejected. Do you receive this link to a message of mine that was rejected? https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087594.html > If you are seeing other people's messages in the list archive, but not > getting them in your inbox, the first thing to check is your Gmail Spam > folder. If messages still don't arrive within a few minutes, send me details > and I can check the server logs to see whether delivery was attempted and > what happened. I have my spam filter configured to prevent all cpunks list messages from being spammed, so it's something else. Maybe routing delay. Hey, did you ever receive the attached e-mail? I'm not finding it in the list archives. It was sent on April 30th. MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 07:31:35 -0400 References: <01d73d1f$e819bb80$b84d3280$@li> In-Reply-To: <01d73d1f$e819bb80$b84d3280$@li> Message-ID: Subject: Re: *SPAM* RE: Dan Kaminsky Dies from Vaccine From: Karl To: Greg Newby Cc: cypherpunks Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="675c6105c12ef462" --675c6105c12ef462 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Greg, can you clarify whether or not the list is doing spam filtering? On Thu, Apr 29, 2021, 1:49 PM lolwut wrote: > Spam detection software, running on the system "mail.pglaf.org", > has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original > message has been attached to this so you can view it or label > similar future email. If you have any questions, see > the administrator of that system for details. > > Content preview: > > Content analysis details: (4.3 points, 4.0 required) > > pts rule name description > -- > -- > -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% > [score: 0.] > -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record > 1.3 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in > bl.spamcop.net > [Blocked - see < > https://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?37.120.193.123>] > 0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED RBL: ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to > DNSWL was blocked. See > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block > for more information. > [37.120.193.123 listed in list.dnswl.org] > -0.0 RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 RBL: Average reputation (+2) > [37.120.193.123 listed in wl.mailspike.net] > 1.3 RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL RBL: Relay in Validity RPBL, > https://senderscore.org/blocklistlookup/ >[37.120.193.123 listed in > bl.score.senderscore.com] > -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record > 0.1 DKIM_SIGNEDMessage has a DKIM or DK signature, not > necessarily > valid > -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK > signature > -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from > author's domain > 0.8 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with > no rDNS > 2.8 DOS_OUTLOOK_TO_MX Delivered direct to MX with Outlook headers > > > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: lolwut > To: > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:48:29 -0400 > Subject: RE: Dan Kaminsky Dies from Vaccine > -Original Message- > From: cypherpunks [mailto:cypherpunks-boun...@lists.cpunks.org] On Behalf >
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On Tue, 25 May 2021 09:48:20 -0700 Greg Newby wrote: > > None of this is nefarious or specific to cpunks. Other than the change > mentioned to remove the blacklists from Spamassassin, all of this stuff is > out-of-the-box with Ubuntu. Well, out-of-the-box ubuntu censors cock.li, which I would describe as nefarious. And it means that bona fide users of ubuntu end up unwillingly censoring cock.li. Which looks nefarious to me as well =P
Re: [duplicate] Leaks: Dumps Datasets Ransomware Kopimi Onions
Clearly something's wrong with my ability to receive e-mail. --- Forced Sterilization, Creepy Govt Eugenics, MKULTRA The U.S. Is Still Forcibly Sterilizing Prisoners AP/Rich Pedroncelli https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2013-120.pdf https://shadowproof.com/2021/05/12/survivors-of-forced-sterilizations-in-california-fight-a-century-of-violence-in-womens-prisons/ http://cironline.org/reports/female-inmates-sterilized-california-prisons-without-approval-4917 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/08/california-female-prisoner-sterilization https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-mkultra-collection/ https://ufo.fandom.com/wiki/MKUltra Last month, news broke that a Tennessee judge issued a standing order offering inmates a 30-day sentence reduction if they underwent a permanent birth control procedure: vasectomies for men, or a 4-year birth control implant (Nexplanon) for women. Though the program is technically voluntary, media pointed to it as a form of coercion that forces inmates into sterilization. The American Civil Liberties Union agreed, arguing that the program “violates the fundamental constitutional right to reproductive autonomy.” But the media missed a key piece of context in its outcry: Programs like this aren’t actually unusual. The United States has a long history of forcibly sterilizing people, and it never really stopped. Starting in 1907, state governments sanctioned sterilization as a form of eugenics, to prevent anyone with undesirable traits—disabilities, poverty, a criminal record, specific racial backgrounds—from procreating. This type of legislation justified the sterilization of approximately 60,000 Americans until the laws were phased out in the late 1970s. But that doesn’t mean the practice actually ended: In 2013, the Center for Investigative Reporting found that at least 148 female inmates in California received tubal ligations without their consent between 2006 and 2010. Just one year later, the Associated Press reported on at least four instances of prosecutors in Nashville including birth control requirements in plea deals. Other recent examples of court-required sterilization throughout the country include a 21-year-old West Virginia mother who had her tubes tied as part of her probation for marijuana possession (2009), and a man in Virginia who traded a vasectomy for a lighter child endangerment sentence (2014). “We’re starting to reach a point where the courts are responsible for anyone,” explained one prosecutor involved in a Florida plea deal. “It’s one final step to have to supervise teenagers in sexual relationships they aren’t ready to handle.”
Re: [duplicate] Leaks: Dumps Datasets Ransomware Kopimi Onions
This is the first email gmail didn't deliver to me yet, included for clarity of record. The Number Zero and Bitcoin Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true “something for nothing.†His discovery of absolute scarcity for money is an unstoppable idea that is changing the world tremendously, just like its digital ancestor: the number zero. [1]https://breedlove22.medium.com/the-number-zero-and-bitcoin-4c193336d b5b References 1. https://breedlove22.medium.com/the-number-zero-and-bitcoin-4c193336db5b
Re: [duplicate] Leaks: Dumps Datasets Ransomware Kopimi Onions
Here's the next one I didn't receive --- SpyVeillance PapersPlease: GCHQ Hardly Spanked, Nothing Will Change Without Mass Demand https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/25/gchqs-mass-data-sharing-violated-right-to-privacy-court-rules http://www.amadeus.com/ir/documents/aco/ir/en/Quick6.pdf https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSociety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805 https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Commissioner%27s_Office https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478272695/retired-cia-agent-confirms-u-s-role-in-nelson-mandelas-1962-arrest https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24279394 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillance-anti-vietnam-muhammad-ali-mlk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-tvs-person-of-interest-helps-us-understand-the-surveillance-society-5407171/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Forced Sterilization, Creepy Govt Eugenics, MKULTRA
The U.S. Is Still Forcibly Sterilizing Prisoners AP/Rich Pedroncelli https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2013-120.pdf https://shadowproof.com/2021/05/12/survivors-of-forced-sterilizations-in-california-fight-a-century-of-violence-in-womens-prisons/ http://cironline.org/reports/female-inmates-sterilized-california-prisons-without-approval-4917 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/08/california-female-prisoner-sterilization https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-mkultra-collection/ https://ufo.fandom.com/wiki/MKUltra Last month, news broke that a Tennessee judge issued a standing order offering inmates a 30-day sentence reduction if they underwent a permanent birth control procedure: vasectomies for men, or a 4-year birth control implant (Nexplanon) for women. Though the program is technically voluntary, media pointed to it as a form of coercion that forces inmates into sterilization. The American Civil Liberties Union agreed, arguing that the program “violates the fundamental constitutional right to reproductive autonomy.” But the media missed a key piece of context in its outcry: Programs like this aren’t actually unusual. The United States has a long history of forcibly sterilizing people, and it never really stopped. Starting in 1907, state governments sanctioned sterilization as a form of eugenics, to prevent anyone with undesirable traits—disabilities, poverty, a criminal record, specific racial backgrounds—from procreating. This type of legislation justified the sterilization of approximately 60,000 Americans until the laws were phased out in the late 1970s. But that doesn’t mean the practice actually ended: In 2013, the Center for Investigative Reporting found that at least 148 female inmates in California received tubal ligations without their consent between 2006 and 2010. Just one year later, the Associated Press reported on at least four instances of prosecutors in Nashville including birth control requirements in plea deals. Other recent examples of court-required sterilization throughout the country include a 21-year-old West Virginia mother who had her tubes tied as part of her probation for marijuana possession (2009), and a man in Virginia who traded a vasectomy for a lighter child endangerment sentence (2014). “We’re starting to reach a point where the courts are responsible for anyone,” explained one prosecutor involved in a Florida plea deal. “It’s one final step to have to supervise teenagers in sexual relationships they aren’t ready to handle.”
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Hey Greg, Can you confirm that people _subscribed_ to the list experience a spam filter now? I thought my emails were getting spammed due to not being subscribed, but it turns out this address is, actually, subscribed; I was told this when I attempted subscribing. In other news, I haven't been receiving mails from the list recently (recent mails in the archive aren't in my inbox yet), not sure if it matters. Karl
SpyVeillance PapersPlease: GCHQ Hardly Spanked, Nothing Will Change Without Mass Demand
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/25/gchqs-mass-data-sharing-violated-right-to-privacy-court-rules http://www.amadeus.com/ir/documents/aco/ir/en/Quick6.pdf https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSociety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805 https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Commissioner%27s_Office https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478272695/retired-cia-agent-confirms-u-s-role-in-nelson-mandelas-1962-arrest https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24279394 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillance-anti-vietnam-muhammad-ali-mlk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-tvs-person-of-interest-helps-us-understand-the-surveillance-society-5407171/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
