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...perhaps this is what it takes to finally end the farcical narrative of "intellectual property" and usher in an internet age where everybody can access the entire corpus of evolved knowledge.
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Please - and I ask this with calmness and a sincere urging: Stop trying to make incarceration seem like a long-running historical phenomenon. It is profit-driven propaganda, the promulgation of which began promptly in 1865. Incarceration,
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Colonization has only ended in express terms. In many parts of the world, including essentially all of the developing nations where slavery has expanded in the past half-century, the dominant economic activity are forms of extraction at th
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Indeed. In case you've not read it, I suggest this brilliant compilation of interviews about fire management practices of indigenous nations in California; the degree of documented anthrogensis is much higher than I imagined prior to r
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.gov sources being disreputable is not new. My generation grew up with the food pyramid. The silver lining is that understanding of this disrepute is nearing universality.
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Is there an easy way to see which of these documents are new and to diff the redactions for those that were already released in a redacted form?
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This one seems interesting, though I don't see any connection to the assassination. It describes an agent, AMCARBON-1, who remained an agent during a career in journalism. It describes a couple of news stories that were apparently cul
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Found a possibly interesting one, either because it's not clear why it was ever classified, or perhaps because it has some previously undisclosed diplomatic procedures. It describes the 201 dossier system, and circumstances under whi
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Looking by hand, starting with record 1, this is the first record that seems at all interesting to me. Some guy named Sergyj Czornonoh claims to have provided informatino about Oswald's involvement in a right-wing plot to assassinate
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> The physical safety of robots and the people around them is a longstanding, foundational concern in the science of robotics. That's why roboticists have classic safety measures such as avoiding collisions, limiting the magnitude o
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How about Jenkins? Is it "Son of Jen", or some totally different formulation?
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Personally, I like it because it reduces the volume, both spacially and temporally, of the thoughts in my immediate working memory so that I can more clearly identify the pipeline of activity that I actually want to do (whether it's wo
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This comment is so strange. You've clearly described a group prone to confounding factors, identified a viable case study outlier, and then just concluded that the dependent variable is causally impactful anyway. Don't you think
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> don't take identifiable pics of people without consent Hard disagree. Public events are public events. My conclusion, based on experience at street protests, historic trends, and current political events, is that there have been s
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> I don't think anyone in here is making the case that Ulbricht is a "good person", I am. He built a tool that allowed people to circumvent a wantonly unjust legal framework by an aging, decreasingly relevant state. We nee
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> openly tried to assassinate a competitor. Unmitigated nonsense. The evidence that he was involved in this is somewhere between unreliable and nonexistent, and he (and the supposed victim) have disputed it since day one. WTF do you me
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> I think it's clear he did many things in the same vein It is clear as mud. We now know: * At least four other people had access to the DPR account, by design. * One of those people (the person whose murder was supposedly ordered,
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Given the farcical nature of those allegations and all that we now know, including that others with access to the Dread Pirate Roberts account assert that the DEA agent making the allegations (who is himself now in prison for attempting to
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It's baffling to me that there are actually comments on Hacker Gosh Darn News of all places suggesting that Ross justly belonged in prison. He successfully created a tool to undermine one of the most unjust and predatory policies of th
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The argument that "TikTok et al. is the ring of power", rather than the state, which insists on armed conquest and control of the planet and seems to have not a shred of foresight about the long-term implications of the evolution
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> While I'm against the federal government having this sort of control, To take this position - which is certainly the virtuous one on long time-scales, you have to also take it in the case of content you abhor. I have the utmost sy
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> Laws don't care about technical aspects. On sufficiently long time scales, which will win? And why are we so afraid to admit the answer to this question? How can it get any more obvious that nation states are no longer a compellin
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>In 2004, Barlow reflected on his 1990s work, specifically regarding his optimism. His response was that "we all get older and smarter" ...and then he wrote Mother American Night, which is way more radical and prescient than hi
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Barlow's vision is alive and well. Go to a Billy Strings show and talk to bluegrass hacker hippies that ride the rail there. Or a good traditional Grateful Dead cover band. Or go to one of the more regen/cypherpunk ethereum eve
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...and everybody knows, _nobody_ in India uses tiktok.
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Nothing will be lost. It will be trivial to access this content, obviously. The internet has gotten extremely adept at routing around censorship.
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It is a net negative. Attempts at intervention by legacy states over the evolution of the internet (which will obviously fail on sufficiently long time-scales) are also a net negative. Two net negatives do not make a net positive.
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If you actually want to know the answer to this question, this is a wonderful and well-researched book on the topic. https://tendingthewild.com/tending-the-wild/
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Tending the Wild: Native American Management of California's Natural Resources(tendingthewild.com)
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Title is slightly modified for length. This is one of the most insightful books I've ever read on the topic of anthrogenesis and the human footprint. It has several wonderful interviews specifically on the topic of wildfires in Califor

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