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by celtoid 3y ago
I remember the pushback in the 90s against the Clipper chip. PGP was one of the responses to the NSA's overreach. I think it's hard to find people who cares about this today because there appears to be both a general lack of histo
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by celtoid 3y ago
Some cheery news: We're not far behind if the insects go. "According to a major scientific review, global insect populations are hurtling towards exctinction, threatening a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems&q
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The Rise of the BRICS(statista.com)
1 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
It's a far cry from what some members of the tech community did when the government was trying to restrict code and cryptography in the 1990s. People were tattooing perl scripts onto their bodies in order to protest the restrictions. G
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by celtoid 3y ago
The best teachings on meditation are found in the Pali texts, imo. They purport to be a reasonable recording of the Buddha's teachings. In this text, one of the repeated internal exercises is "subduing greed & distress"
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by celtoid 3y ago
You appeared to claim the Blackrock and Powell had nothing to do with each other. I was correcting the error.
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by celtoid 3y ago
I'm of the opinion that anyone in government or regulatory agencies should be forbidden from conducting any business at all while in office. Put it all into a blind trust. It should be a crime to be a regulator while doing business wit
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by celtoid 3y ago
Powell and Blackrock have something to do with each other. It's reasonable to assume a conflict of interest. "Fed Chair Powell Has Upwards of $11.6 Million Invested with BlackRock, the Firm that Will Manage a $750 Billion Corporat
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by celtoid 3y ago
The Chairman of The Fed has his assets being managed by a company that the Fed does business with. It's completely reasonable to assume a conflict of interest in this less-than-transparent environment. The upper tiers of power don&#x27
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by celtoid 3y ago
Blackrock even manages a large part of Jerome Powell's, the chair of the Federal Reserve, money. It appears to be a conflict of interest but maybe I don't understand the intricacies of the monetary system. "The Fed Is Subsidi
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Security footage of search of 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer's house [video](youtube.com)
3 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
It's even worse than that. The newspaper was also investigating the police chief who ordered the raid on the paper. [0] [0] https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the...
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Theo Jansen's Strandbeest [video](youtube.com)
2 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
We don't know what the NSA's actual budget is.
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by celtoid 3y ago
I don't know why people are surprised by this. The FBI are a pack of small fry when it comes to spying on Americans. The NSA has all the three letter entities beat and has been doing it for decades. "At home, however, the favored
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by celtoid 3y ago
Maybe this might be playing a part? Coinbase Gains Approval to Offer Cryptocurrency Futures, Diving into Trillion-Dollar Derivatives Market [0] [0] https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/160103/20230817/coinba.
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by celtoid 3y ago
Antonio Zamora has done some research in the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and the Carolina Bays of North America. He's worth the gander. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npXY8mu2hhU&list=PLmd4S3n7Pl...
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by celtoid 3y ago
Here's a conversation [0] with the editor of the paper by an indie journalist. She originally broke the story about the editor investigating the police chief. [0] https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation
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by celtoid 3y ago
It was the easiest way to fit the title within the text constraints of the field while still keeping clarity.
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Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items(kshb.com)
95 points by celtoid 3y ago|37 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
CBS neglects to mention that the editor of the paper also said that Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody was also being investigated by the paper for claims of sexual harassment. "EM: So the backstory that we haven't told, because we d
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by celtoid 3y ago
I'll believe a Wall St veteran over a nameless internet person. Thanks though.
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by celtoid 3y ago
I hope everyone involved in perpetrating this injustice is nailed to the wall.
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by celtoid 3y ago
The author of the explainer was an Executive VP at Smith Barney. Perhaps you should read what he's sharing.
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by celtoid 3y ago
Using your example of the stock market, thinking critically about money also entails understanding how the stock market works. Most people don't understand how it's built in the first place. When buying a "stock", one is
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by celtoid 3y ago
Fixed. Thank you and sorry for confusion.
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A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops(thehandbasket.substack.com)
324 points by celtoid 3y ago|118 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
I made the comment because the AML/KYC insanity is one of the factors that figured into the adoption of Bitcoin early on. There's a little bit of cognitive dissonance induced in seeing someone voice full throated support for AML w
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by celtoid 3y ago
I couldn't help but notice this on the blog's sidebar: Please donate to support my writing! BTC: 1Db... XRP: rMp...
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by celtoid 3y ago
> "putting themselves in far more legal jeopardy." I have to disagree. The US govt and its national security state have done a pretty good job of persecuting Manning, Assange and Snowden alike albeit in differing ways.

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