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https://edu-cyberpg.com
https://k12playground.com
https://RichAsHell.com
daily read https://twitter.com/cyberplayground
Hey, Hey, NRA, how many kids did you kill today?
JULY 4TH Power to the people!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mexican senate bill proposes #Bitcoin as legal tender.
It can’t be stressed enough—the attack on our democracy did not end on January 6th. MAGA Republicans are running for office and those same Republicans are willing to break the law and incite violence to steal power. c-span
https://twitter.com/jilevin/status/1543225249193418754
Koch owned Federalist Society SCOTUS 6 are pure evil. Full stop.
Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced — a story that has largely flown under the nation’s political radar — that they’ll consider pre-rigging the presidential election of 2024.
https://twitter.com/Thom_Hartmann/status/1543079225254559744
The Supreme Court rules that the Fourth of July has been replaced by a mandatory celebration of Jesus’s half-birthday.
Jon Stewart: “The Supreme Court is the Fox News of justice.”
BLOCKCHAIN
Not your Keys Not your Bitcoin
“Horseless carriage” was what people once called the automobile.
Horseless was some new word that had to be made up to explain this crazy invention.
Now we drop that word and abbreviate carriage to car.
Permissionless, decentralized, trustless money will in time just be money.
The Petty Pleasures of Watching Crypto Profiteers Flounder
Behind all the Web3 bluster is just “hollow abstraction.”
By Charlie Warzel
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62ba500cbcbd490021aaef70/web3-crypto-movement-uses-marc-andreessen/
Father of the Internet Says Web 3.0 Doesn’t Need Blockchain Technology
https://beincrypto.com/father-of-the-internet-says-web-3-0-doesnt-need-blockchain-technology/
DARPA recently funded a blockchain centralization report by @trailofbits that appears to have many factual errors, falsehoods
For the past year, Trail of Bits was engaged by DARPA to confirm if one of the things that everybody thinks they “knows” about cryptocurrency is actually true: Are blockchains really decentralized?
“We found there are pervasive opportunities for centralized actors … to possibly take control of various aspects of blockchains,” @trailofbits @dguido says.
The firm was tasked by @DARPA to investigate which blockchains are truly decentralized
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pentagon-finds-concerning-vulnerabilities-on-blockchain/
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/darpa-blockchain-cryptocurrency-study-decentralization
libmagic: The Blathering July 1, 2022
By Evan Sultanik, Principal Security Engineer
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/07/01/libmagic-the-blathering/
Alameda Research pitch decks. | Here is the full document for those who want it.
Senate Moves Legislation to Update Provisions of the Consumer Fraud Act
https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2022/S1000/901_S2.PDF
and
https://www.law.com/njlawjournal/2022/06/30/proposed-bill-would-expand-nj-antitrust-law-consumer-fraud-act-to-include-abusive-commercial-practices/
“Putin just gave a speech with massive implications for #Bitcoin and global macro. We won’t read a word of it in Western media
https://twitter.com/stackhodler/status/1539888526589820929
LAWLESS
Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE. ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch? Brings down Roe v. Wade
“In sum, the parents of the current MS AG devoted a significant chunk of their lives to relocating and lovingly restoring the house owned by Confederate General and first Grand Wizard of the KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, so that rich white people could stay in it while on vacation.”
Former associate says ‘we know the names’ in Epstein eight
Apple exec admits to ironic insider trading scheme
#K12 EDUCATION
School’s out forever: Arizona moves “to kill public education” with new universal voucher law
Families who bail on public school will get $7,000 per kid in GOP’s new scheme: “Every red state” urged to follow.
Proposal to teach slavery as ‘involuntary relocation’ sent to Texas education board
A group of nine educators submitted the idea to the State Board of Education, which directed the group to revisit the language.
HEALTH
How Much Health Insurers Pay for Almost Everything Is About to Go Public
Consumers, employers, and just about everyone else interested in health care prices will soon get an unprecedented look at what insurers pay for care, perhaps helping answer a question that has long dogged those who buy insurance: Are we getting the best deal we can?
Where’s the herd immunity?
Our research shows why Covid is still wreaking havoc.‘Living with the virus’ is proving much harder than the early vaccine success suggested: this fight is far from over.
Could I catch COVID at an outdoor wedding or picnic?
JULY 4 2022
Revolutions and promises that fall short
Dear Progressive Reader,
July 4 is celebrated in the United States as “Independence Day,” yet now, as much as at any time in our history, it is clear that the word “independence” is tempered for many in our country by the reality of inequity and unequal treatment under the law. Mark Anthony Rolo, a regular columnist for The Progressive until his passing in May 2020, wrote https://progressive.org/op-eds/founders-saw-people-savages/ in a 2016 op-ed, that the Declaration of Independence “was signed by founding fathers who had a limited vision of unalienable rights.” And Kiki Monifa, in a 2019 op-ed noted <https://progressive.org/op-eds/waiting-to-be-american-monifa-190703/>, “as a lesbian of African descent, I am not an American, not completely.” And, she went on, “I am not an American and will not be an American until people of color are no longer profiled for driving and shopping, and killed for simply being. . . . I am not an American and will not be an American until our differences and similarities based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and socioeconomic status are recognized, acknowledged, and celebrated.”
@EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Attending a Protest
Protecting your electronic devices and digital assets before, during, and after a protest is vital to keeping yourself and your information safe, as well as getting your message out.
https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest
fold this put in your pocket
https://ssd.eff.org/files/2020_protestguide.pdf
If you do this “Consider obscuring the faces of anyone who has their eyes or mouth visible” then dont use BLUR, cuz even a very big blur can sometimes be reversed to see approx what it was before blurring (sharpen). Blur is an equation (like pascals triangle repeated). Randomize.
Google will auto-delete abortion clinic visits from user location history Along with visits to other potentially sensitive locations
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/1/23191965/google-abortion-privacy-policy-location-history-period-tracking-deletion
Stuff it Saturdays Shut The Fuck Up
Never answer questions the cops ask
I invoke the Fifth!
Safe Holidays
https://twitter.com/InvokeTheFifth/status/1540748413431472128