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forum.snapcraft.io 2y ago

Temporary suspension of automatic snap registration following security incident

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www.nbcnews.com 2y ago

Senators voice skepticism about Schumer's AI summit

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www.wsj.com 2y ago

SEC Says It's Using AI to Surveil Markets and Assist Investigations

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www.dia.mil 2y ago

Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy – April 2010 [pdf]

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web3isgoinggreat.com 2y ago

Vitalik Buterin's Twitter account hacked to promote crypto scam

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arxiv.org 2y ago

The Warp Reactor Concept (PDF, June 2023)

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www.honest-broker.com 2y ago

Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label

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twitter.com 2y ago

“Who is Coreweave and where is their money coming from?” [video]

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monthlyreview.org 2y ago

Why Socialism? (1949)

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www.oftwominds.com 2y ago

The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble

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blog.lib.utah.edu 2y ago

Book of the Week – Mushrooms, Russia and History

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unicornriot.ninja 2y ago

Aimed at Protests, Surveillance Contractors New Owners Expand Spy Tech Portfolio

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www.philzimmermann.com 2y ago

Why I Wrote PGP by Phil Zimmerman 1991 (updated 1999)

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www.pcmag.com 2y ago

Verifying your identity on Twitter will require taking a selfie

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www.statista.com 2y ago

The Rise of the BRICS

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Security footage of search of 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer's house [video]

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Theo Jansen's Strandbeest [video]

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www.kshb.com 2y ago

Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items

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thehandbasket.substack.com 2y ago

A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops

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www.nytco.com 2y ago

New York Times: The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange

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cryptome.org 2y ago

U.S. Electronic Espionage: A Memoir (1972)

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thehill.com 2y ago

A monumental UFO scandal is looming

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evanhatch.medium.com 2y ago

Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A Cypherpunk History

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decrypt.co 2y ago

Putin Signs Digital Ruble Bill into Law

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fortune.com 3y ago

Bitcoin hits high after BlackRock’s Larry Fink calls it an ‘international asset’

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www.texasoutlawwriters.com 3y ago

The Last Card?

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

Fidelity preparing to submit spot Bitcoin ETF filing

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www.sec.gov 3y ago

SEC Approves First Leveraged Bitcoin Futures ETF, BITX

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www.platoscave.org 3y ago

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity (1943)

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smithonstocks.com 3y ago

What Is Cede and What Role Does Cede Play in the Trading of Stocks?

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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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

I don't see how that is relevant.

It's relevant.

"We have all been sold the fiction that when we buy a stock, we have become proud owners of a great American corporation. Our investment is funding that Company and America’s growth. This is not an accurate description. As I will show in this report, we are actually involved in commodity trading of street name securities in which the trading of and record keeping is completely controlled by DTCC and the elite Wall Street firms with no transparency for outsiders. Operating in this black hole of important information they use loopholes in the clearing and settlement system administered by DTCC and loopholes in the ineffective SHO regulations to create counterfeit shares at will. They can and do expand the supply of street name securities through creating counterfeit shares to overwhelm demand and drive down the stock price." [0]

[0] https://smithonstocks.com/part-8-illegal-naked-shorting-seri...

Are stock in general a ponzi-like scheme?

As a matter of fact, it sort of is. Look up Cede & Co and the Depository Trust Co.

"While private-company stock is still directly owned by shareholders, nearly all publicly traded equities and a majority of bonds are owned by a little-known partnership, Cede & Co., which is the nominee of the Depository Trust Co., a depository that holds securities for some 600 broker-dealers and banks. For each security, Cede & Co. owns a master certificate known as the "global security," which never leaves its vault. Transactions are recorded as debits and credits to DTC members' securities accounts, but the registered owner of the securities — Cede & Co. — remains the same.

What shareholders have rather than direct ownership, then, "is a [contractual] right against their broker...The broker then has a right against the depository institution where they have membership. Then the depository institution is beholden to the issuer. It's [at least] a three-step process before you get any rights to your stock." -American Banker, July 27, 2016 [0]

[0] https://archive.ph/qpyBe

You're describing commerce, a practice as old as humanity. Capitalism is a relatively recent development with very specific traits.