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THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE: Jon Ossoff just unloaded on Trump’s Republican allies in Georgia:

“I am running against two Trump lackeys who would be voting for this crooked ballroom and this insurrectionist slush fund.”

Then he went even further:

“They’re pro-war.
They’re pro-tariff.
They’re pro-cutting health care.”
That’s the kind of direct political framing Democrats have been missing for years.

Carl Moon @TheMoonCarl May 20
THIS IS ACTUALLY INSANE!🤯
The FBI launched its own crypto token last year just to trap the scammers.

@EvanLuthra
🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES..

THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!!

The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising “passive income through AI-powered investing”..

It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point..

Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said “we need you to fake our trading volume”..

Every single firm said yes..

Here’s what they recorded..

Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled “fake volume” vs “market volume”..

When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI’s volume to $1 million per day.. They said “6 hours.. It will cost about $200”..

$200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume..

MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself “the mastermind”.. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera..

“We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That’s where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit”..

He said that on a recorded FBI video call..

CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI’s total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely..

ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic..

All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded..

And the clients were even worse..

Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent “pump it” memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors..

$7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic..

One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook..

Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children’s hospitals.. Pocketed everything..

When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture..

But here’s the part that broke my brain..

Real people bought NexFundAI..

The FBI’s fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish..

When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token..

The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back..

And it gets worse..

Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI’s exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day..

Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for..

Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore..

IRS forensics showed that in one firm’s trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular..

The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected..

The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured..

And every time you buy a token because “the chart looks bullish”.. You might be the exit liquidity.

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ECP NetHappenings The Guinea worm

Anish Moonka @anishmoonka
https://x.com/anishmoonka/status/2045757539409621414
Apr 19

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

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ECP NetHappenings For Your Defense

@the2ndfloorguy
ai layoffs are getting out of hands so I built “I GOT FIRED” button 🚨
one click, and it makes entire company codebase public, pushes .env secrets to public repo, drops staging db and finally notifies my lawyer 🙂
I hope I never need it but it’s ready

Stephen Colbert is using one of his LAST shows to get even with Trump.
Colbert is responding to being taken off the air by giving ZERO f*cks.

US billionaires keep spewing the same lie about how the US needs more data centers to “compete with China,” so I’m going to keep repeating the truth: The US already has 5,381 data centers to China’s 449 and has more data centers than nearly every other country combined. The US needs social housing, universal health care, and modern infrastructure to compete with China, not data centers. That’s how China surpassed the US by investing in its people instead of wars, data centers, and oligarchs like the US.

Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray
Sean Duffy’s “Great American Road Trip” was sponsored by the very corporations he regulates.
He blew a gasket when I asked him to answer basic questions about his all-expense-paid vacation.
Americans deserve answers, so I’m calling for an Inspector General investigation.

GOP Senator Thom Tillis slams Trump’s $1.8B slush fund:
“I think it’s stupid on stilts… Taxpayer dollars will compensate someone who assaulted a police officer, got convicted…and now we’re going to pay him for that? This is absurd!”

Here’s how the corruption works:
Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump
Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it
Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/21/us/trump-news#donation-big-tobacco-vaping

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026:
CBS: 0
CNN: 0
Fox News: 0
NPR: 0
PBS: 0
Politico: 0
Semafor: 0
Business Insider: 0

Incase anybody is confused; the Epstein Files have it in black and white print that they were dismembering CHILDREN, removing their organs and eating them. It stopped being about politics a long time ago.

WHERE ARE THE ARRESTS?
. Flight logs
. Photos
. Emails
. Videos
. Receipts
. FBI 302s
. Sworn testimony
. . STOP THE EPSTEIN COVERUP, TODD BLANCHE!
FBI agents found CDs labeled with young girls’ names in Epstein’s safe. They were sealed as “investigative material.” They were never opened. No explanation was given.

A woman in Texas was arrested after she made a Facebook post sounding the alarm about the water quality in her town. The water in Trinidad, Texas, sometimes runs brown, but when Jennifer Combs posted about it, the cops came and took her to jail.

You Will Own Nothing And Be Happy
They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you.
That’s their ideal future, and we can’t let them have it.

10 GitHub repos that should be illegal — they’re killing $50 billion in corporate revenue.

SAVE IT

1. yt-dlp
Downloads any video from YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram, anywhere. YouTube Premium charges $14 a month to do less than this. It is 100% free.
Repo → https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

2. Ollama
Run GPT-4-class AI on your laptop. No API costs. Developers spend $500 a month on OpenAI for what Ollama runs offline for $0.
Repo → https://github.com/ollama/ollama

3. Fooocus
Midjourney-quality image generation on your own GPU. Midjourney charges $30 a month. Fooocus runs unlimited generations for free.
Repo → https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus

4. Whisper
OpenAI’s transcription model, open-sourced. Otter charges $20 a month for what Whisper does for free, in 99 languages.
Repo → https://github.com/openai/whisper

5. Plausible Analytics
Privacy-first Google Analytics replacement. Google Analytics 360 costs $150,000 a year for enterprises. Plausible self-hosted costs $0.
Repo → https://github.com/plausible/analytics

6. AppFlowy
Open-source Notion. Notion charges $20 per user per month for teams. AppFlowy runs unlimited users on your server for free.
Repo → https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy

7. Penpot
Open-source Figma. Figma charges $45 per editor per month. Penpot does the same job, self-hosted, free forever.
Repo → https://github.com/penpot/penpot

8. n8n
Open-source Zapier. Zapier Pro costs $600 a month for a real workflow. n8n self-hosted runs unlimited automations for $0.
Repo → https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

9. Cal .com
Open-source Calendly. Calendly Teams costs $16 per user per month. Cal. com is free for individuals and open source for teams.
Repo → https://github.com/calcom/cal.com

10. Bitwarden
Open-source 1Password. Password managers charge $8 per user. Bitwarden is unlimited, forever, free.
Repo → https://github.com/bitwarden/server

Here’s the wildest part:
That’s $50 billion in corporate revenue these repos are quietly destroying every single year.
None of these are illegal.
Save this. Share it with the person in your life still paying for what’s been free this whole time.
100% free. 100% open source.

FOR YOUR DEFENSE

@bigaiguy

10 WEBSITES EVERY INTERNET USER SHOULD CHECK TONIGHT.

Bookmark all of them. Most people don’t know half of these exist.

1. http://haveibeenpwned.com
Shows every data breach your email is in and what got leaked.

2. http://behindtheemail.com
Shows every social profile, photo, and login tied to an email address.

3. http://tempmail.com
Free disposable email for any signup you don’t trust.

4. http://10minutemail.com
Burner inbox that self-destructs in 10 minutes.

5. http://justdeleteme.xyz
A directory of direct links to delete your account from any major service.

6. http://exposing.ai
Check if your face was used to train AI image models without consent.

7. http://dnsleaktest.com
Tells you if your VPN is actually hiding your real location or leaking it.

8. http://amiunique.org
Shows how trackable your browser fingerprint is, even in incognito mode.

9. http://shouldiremoveit.com
Tells you which programs on your PC are useless bloatware or spyware.

10. http://virustotal.com
Drop any file or link. It scans against 70+ antivirus engines instantly.

The internet is hostile by default. These websites are your free defense.

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ECP NetHappenings A new Version of Nostr VPN

AI

Hedgie @HedgieMarkets
🦔Glendale Community College used an AI system to announce graduate names at this weekend’s commencement, and the system skipped hundreds of students entirely. Families who had traveled to watch their graduates walk across the stage instead watched the ceremony move on without their loved one’s name being called. An administrator told upset parents it was “a lesson learned” and that the affected section “didn’t require AI.” This follows similar AI failures at UT Austin and Thomas Jefferson University.

My Take
A college could not be bothered to have a human read names at the one ceremony families spend years saving for. That sentence captures everything wrong with the current AI rollout across institutions that have no business automating their most personal functions. Reading graduate names at commencement is not a productivity bottleneck. It is the entire point of the event, and handing it to an AI tells you the people running these schools have stopped distinguishing between work that benefits from automation and work that exists to honor people.

Hospitals, courts, customer service, and government agencies are running the same experiment, and the failure mode at Glendale will repeat across every category until the executives signing the contracts are forced to absorb the cost themselves. Right now the cost falls on the families whose graduates got skipped, the customers whose tickets get misrouted, and the patients whose records get misread. Until that incentive flips, the rollout continues.

A new Version of Nostr VPN

@TFTC21
Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin’s earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services.

Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft.

Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node’s Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address.

The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages.

The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh.

This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin’s design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

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