Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings 11_26_2021

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings 11/26/2021

#NetHappenings #inflation #Democracy #BBB Act #JimWarren #Health #Tools

INFLATION

President Biden 3:19 PM · Nov 21, 2021 The White House
Two of the leading rating agencies on Wall Street have confirmed: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – along with my Build Back Better Act – will not add to inflationary pressures. As 17 Nobel Prize winning economists have declared: My plans will ease inflationary pressures.

“Two of the leading rating agencies…and 17 Nobel prize winning economists.” A line that will go down in infamy.

“The price of any asset is deter­mined by supply and demand. Bitcoin is the only asset in the world for which future produc­tion is, and always has been, perfectly predictable and known to all.” People move markets. If enough market participants believe the theory, it becomes self-fulfilling.

Gold, silver, and other forms of commodity money have weight. Bitcoin is weightless. 1 BTC and 1,000,000 BTC weigh the same amount … nothing. 1 kg of gold and 1,000 kg of gold obviously weigh vastly different amounts, and require a completely different mechanism of storage. That is why large quantities of commodity money must be centrally stored. It is virtually impossible to store even moderate amounts of wealth in gold without being noticed. Bitcoin is not owned or stored by central, commercial, or bullion banks. It exists purely as electronic data.You cannot create more bitcoin by digging deeper in the ground, by the stroke of a central banker’s keyboard, or by disingenuous accounting tricks.

These Democrats Are Helping Companies Take Gold From Public Lands for Free

El Salvador plans to create a ‘Bitcoin City’—and 5 other crypto updates you should know

El Salvador to Issue $1B in Tokenized Bonds on the Liquid Network
Samson Mow @Excellion CSO @Blockstream

DEMOCRACY

America’s democracy is failing — and the world knows it

The Lone Wolf in the Henhouse
A Department of Justice counterterrorism expert has deep ties to white supremacist groups. Haughton, now in his early fifties, works as a law enforcement coordinator in RISS’s Middle Atlantic–Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network , one of six regional centers spanning the United States. Haughton has this job even though his links to the Aryan Republican Army, a neo-Nazi gang suspected of funding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing—the single largest domestic terror attack in U.S. history—are easily traceable on Google.
RISS’s Middle Atlantic–Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
“If they knew about his past when they hired him, then they’re corrupt. If they didn’t, then they’re incompetent, because he was a large name out in that area—in the nation,” says Meeink, referring to Haughton’s hiring at Regional Information Sharing Systems.
“If they’ve been hiring more wrong cops, then it’s time to say we need to limit your fucking access to us,” he adds, “because you’ve been hiring wrong and training wrong.”

There are 32.30 miles from Media to Newtown

50 years later, an historic act of civil disobedience in Delco is finally getting its due | Will Bunch
On March 8, 1971, Philly-area activists burglarized an FBI office and exposed massive corruption — a heroic act that still resonates. On the night of March 8, 1971, or 50 years ago this Monday, a lot of things were going through Bonnie Raines’ mind as she waited in a Media motel room that was a command hub for arguably the most audacious act of civil disobedience in modern U.S. history — a burglary at a small, nearby FBI office aimed at exposing the extent of government spying on anti-Vietnam War activists.

Destroying Democracy Is Central to the Privatization of Public Goods

Texas grid vulnerable to blackouts during severe winter weather, even with new preparations, ERCOT estimates show
The Texas Energy Grid is privately owned and NOT part of the National Energy Grid that all the other states in the US are part of.

We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How
Imagine being censored by Zuck across all platforms for sharing a tool meant to help people manage the user experience maze meta created to keep their data.

Why Barbados’ Metaverse Embassy Matters

Gemini Raises $400 Million To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook’s Walled Garden

BBB ACT

Trump’s Estate Tax Giveaway To Rich Triggered 50% Drop In IRS Revenue

‘Bad Politics, Bad Policy’: Sanders Slams House Democrats for Including Tax Cut for Rich in BBB
“The bottom line here is we have to help the middle class, not the 1%,” said the senator.

Two-Thirds of Millionaires Get a Tax Cut Under Build Back Better, Due to SALT Relief
When the indirect effects of corporate tax increases are excluded, the bill only increases taxes on 0.1 percent of households earning between $200,000 and $500,000 per year, 8 percent of those earning between $500,000 and $1 million per year, and 22 percent of those earning more than $1 million per year. All other taxpayers – including more than 70 percent of those making more than $1 million per year – will receive a net tax cut from the individual and payroll tax provisions in the bill.

RIP JIM WARREN

RIP JIM WARREN
A mighty tree has fallen in the digital forest. One of the good guys of the early digital culture going all the way back to Homebrew Computer Club
He is probably best known around Silicon Valley as the founder of the West Coast Computer Faire which in its day was the largest public microcomputer convention in the world.
R.I.P. Jim Warren, computer media pioneer & activist. West Coast Computer Faire, Dr. Dobbs Journal, InfoWorld, Computer Chronicles, Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference
https://web.stanford.edu/~allison/JimWarren.html

Microsoft faces lobbying proposal at annual meeting – Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech

Apple will be contributing $10 million, as well as any damages from the NSO lawsuit, to organizations pursuing cybersurveillance research and advocacy. The steps Apple is taking today will send a clear message: in a free society, it is unacceptable to weaponize powerful state-sponsored spyware against innocent users and those who seek to make the world a better place.

HEALTH

Covid Brain Fog  Dr. Faris Durmo Biber MD., PhD. on Twitter: Bleeding on the Brain
“For reference, black blobs encircled are bad. As are the other black blobs seen within the brain parenchyma.

Mouse study shows microplastics infiltrate blood brain barrier

The definition for what is considered high blood pressure has been tightened. Here’s what you need to know.

Red light therapy: Eyesight can improve after exposure to deep red or near-infrared light

Software uses selfies to detect early symptoms of Parkinson’s disease

South Korea to launch task force on banning dog meat
Food Culture vs. Animal Rights  along the lines of Bull Fights

Tesla is nearly last on Consumer Reports reliability list

TOOLS

Global Bitcoin Node Distribution Map

How to Use VoiceOver Image Descriptions With Your iPhone Photos

Researchers have found a simple way to reduce online hate speech

‘Piracy’ website offers NFT art as free downloads
The NFT Bay purports to offer “all NFTs from Ethereum and Solana” – two cryptocurrency networks – in a whopping 17 terabyte (TB) file. Critics of NFTs point out that anybody can access, download and copy the digital artwork attached to the “token of ownership”. “NFT art right now is nothing more then directions on how to access or download an image. The image is not stored on the blockchain,” said Mr Huntley.
The NFT Bay is the galaxy’s most resilient NFT BitTorrent site! – You wouldn’t steal a JPEG (or would you…)

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