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ECP NetHappenings Headlines Student Debt, Instagram, K12Tech, Pentagon, Banned Books, AI

7/6/23 ECP NetHappenings Headlines

#CryptoRegulation, #StudentDebt, #Instagram, #K12Tech, #Pentagon, #BannedBooks, #AI

World Wide Crypto will be regulated by the end of 2023

 

Abracadabra Money Mulls Registering DAO as Centralized Legal Body
Abracadabra Money’s team leader had put forward a proposal to form to introduce “a certain degree of centralized legal structure” for its DAO.

GOD TOLD ME TO HATE YOU
In another 6-3 decision, Supreme Court rules, it’s not prejudice if you call it religion

Cancel Student Debt
The Biden administration is resuming costly student debt payments—which is cruel and unnecessary.
Hear from 101 student debtors on why they can’t go back to costly repayment.

Threads’ Instagram ‘Trap’ Shows Why Facebook Should Have Been Broken Up Years Ago
To delete Meta’s new Twitter rival, you also have to delete Instagram.
Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, launched on Wednesday and people are already trying to deactivate their accounts. The issue is: you can’t deactivate your Threads account unless you delete your Instagram account too.
“You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account,” the Threads Supplemental Privacy Policy reads.

A Federal Ruling Restricts Oversight of Social Media
A Trump-appointed judge imposed limits on the Biden administration’s contact with online platforms, potentially opening the floodgates for unregulated misinformation. Biden signed an executive order to expand protections for federal workers, including requiring fed contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage. Republicans slammed his move saying it would result in millions of lost jobs. It didn’t! Help elect more Dems.

1st Grade optional summer homework.
Q. If you could be any superhero, who would you be? What would you do with your superhero powers?

A. I can shoot hot dogs all around the world. I can feed the hungry people of the world. Hey call me hot dog man!!

New York approves $13M for school tech and security upgrades
New York school districts will receive funding to buy tech like video cameras, emergency notification systems and interactive whiteboards. The investment includes $7.9 million for high-tech security upgrades, $4.7 million for classroom technology, $356,000 for school connectivity and $275,000 for non-public schools’ classroom technology and school connectivity. The funds come from the state’s $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act, an education technology finance initiative that was approved by New York voters in 2014. The law requires each school district requesting funds submit a plan for approval before engaging in any bidding or contracting vendors for projects approved for SSBA funds.

Banned Book giveaway outside of Klanned Karenhood conference is perfect! Mom’s for Liberty has some other very accurate names. #HoesForHitler #StopTheSpin

“MAUS” (Banned by at least one Tennessee school board, so far) IS READ COMICS ONLINE FOR FREE (there are also other links to Maus also if you search)

“They will reduce the amount of money to existing public schools that have real standards.” A coalition of parents and public-school
#teachers has sued to prevent the privatization of schools in Montana.

Is the Air Force too old and small to win?
The Bunker: The Pentagon’s “More-More-More” Refrain
That’s the bottom line in a second Mitchell Institute report, issued three days after the sky-is-falling study cited above. “We’re on a collision course” with reality says a retired three-star Air Force general who helped write the paper. Fighter force readiness could “fall off the cliff,” he added. (It already has [PDF].)

The Bunker: Pentagon Bookkeeping Bloopers!
Pentagon budget shop could be collateral damage
The House Armed Services Committee wants to shutter (PDF) a tiny Pentagon office that keeps track of how and where the Defense Department is spending our money. The panel reportedly believes the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office isn’t sufficiently pliable when it comes to paying attention to lawmakers.

 G/O Media’s AI ‘innovation’ is off to a rocky start.
The company, which owns outlets like The A.V. Club, Gizmodo, and The Onion, announced last week it would begin experimenting with AI tools. (yea, ESPECIALLY when AI submits lies and no one knows it’s a lie) Last week, G/O Media leadership had news for staffers at the many publications the company owns: AI-generated articles were just around the corner.

ECP NetHappenings Headlines: Youtube, PA Colleges, Elon, AI, CZ

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YouTube

youtube now allows videos that falsely claim Trump won 2020 election

YouTube says ban spurred by Trump’s election lies may “curtail political speech.”
announcement

Pence Files Paperwork to run for President

Pennsylvania colleges continue to decline

New report finds enrollment and state funding at Pennsylvania colleges continue to decline
What’s the best state for college students? Not Pennsylvania, according to this report.

What the Misery of Logan Roy’s Offspring Says About Inherited Wealth
Be careful what you wish for.

AI

1) AI is not taking anyone’s jobs. OpenAI a Microsoft subsidiary stole millions of writers work w/o their consent, fed it into proprietary algorithms to deliberately undercut writers capacity to earn a living wage while concealing plagiarism as innovation

Elon Twitter Money

Internal documents reveal Twitter ad sales cratering amid onslaught of porn, propaganda, and disinformation, as Elon Musk insists ads on the upswing. Elon Musk convinced pals Marc Andreessen, Changpeng Zhao and Prince Al Waleed to invest in Twitter. They’re down 67%, according to a new Fidelity filing
fortune.com/2023/06/02/elon-musk-twitter-deal-valuation-investors/
and MORE

CZ Binance

The CEO of Binance was the CTO of OkCoin. Also called by the community OkCasino. OkCoin was the biggest wash trading exchange during its run. He then went on to create his own scam exchange after seeing how easy it is.

Crypto exchange Binance and CEO CZ getting sued by SEC for breaking US Securities rules CFTC already sued Binance and now BNB Dumping

SEC says Binance commingled billions of dollars of customer funds to a third party entity owned by CEO CZ.

Silvergate short seller says he’s betting against Signature: ‘Binance is next’ – DL News.. So now that Binance is cooked all eyes should focus on Tether and The stock manipulators at ⁦@zerohedge

SEC: “According to Zhao, the concept of a formal corporate entity with a headquarters and its own bank account is unnecessary… however, billions of dollars from the platforms flowed through dozens of Binance and Zhao-owned U.S.-based bank accounts.”

Important takeaways from the SEC v. Binance complaint: (1) the SEC is continuing to go after CeFi staking programs; and (2) the SEC is alleging that $SOL, $MATIC, $ADA, $FIL, and many, many more are securities. That’s a huge spate of tokens…

They were told not to list coins whose success depends on founders or other small groups.

December 22 Tethers lawyer Jason Weinstein claims that they produced forensic evidence showing that Tethers were fully backed every single day. That’s strange. The CFTC said the exact opposite.
How come Tether doesn’t produce this forensic evidence for the public to see it, to end the FUD?
Binance is wash trading. Exactly what we have been telling you all for years.
The entire cryptocurrency market is in reality fewer than twenty players.

Thank gawd for the blockchain!

5/10/23 Gummo #hacker #blackhat | Hacker since 1986.

Some random thoughts.
1. AI has been the latest buzzword recently as I wished to share some key points in what is coming, first increased sophistication where AI powered malware will utilize machine learning algorithms to adapt within it’s environment(s) allowing for greater damage and nearly instantaneous deployments.
2. Automating AI attack surfaces & channels that have the ability to autonomously launch campaigns without human intervention.
3. Social Engineering AI powered malware can analyze vast amounts of data to specifically identify marks either as hvt or state sponsored targets.
4. Lastly, we look at weaponizing AI to where malicious AI can ‘take over’ existing AI systems such as autonomous vehicles, industrial control systems, consumer applications all leading to catastrophic scenarios.
Q: Do you think personal AIs will become a thing, as far as protecting individuals from malicious AIs?
A: Yes, as common as antivirus is now.
Q: Do you see BTC to play role in the verification process what is real and what is not, after few years?
A: thank gawd for the blockchain!

ECP Nethappenings Newsletter Bank Runs, Bitcoin, Pregnancy, AI, Privacy, Railroads

BANK RUNS

IF #Bitcoin is rat poison …

THEN

Banks are the rats!!!

BITCOIN released in 2009 BECAUSE of Bank Failures in 2008

@EdKrassen
In 2018 President Trump signed a bill that rolled back Dodd-Frank regulations on banks like Silicon Valley Bank. Prior to the bill, the threshold for which banks were required to submit resolution plans for their rapid and orderly resolution to the FDIC was set at $50 billion and higher. This was to ensure failure would not have serious adverse effects on financial stability in the US.

“You can leave your fate in the hands of people debating how to best screw you over. By making it unaffordable to buy things, or to make you lose your job? Or .. opt out, and start saving in #Bitcoin.”

Investors and depositors tried to pull $42 billion from Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday, per Bloomberg. SVB’s CFO, CEO, and CMO fortunately cashed out before the crash.

Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of the bank’s assets on Friday. The failure raised concerns that other banks could face problems, too.

FDIC Creates a Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara to Protect Insured Depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California

Wells Fargo says ‘technical issue’ causing customers to report missing deposits
The bank sought to reassure frustrated customers that their accounts remained secure and said it was working to resolve the issue.

Normally FDIC insurance stops this kind of run from happening.
Because everyone knows the federal government will cover their deposits, they aren’t worried about losing their money in a run, so they’re never in a rush to pull it out. And because they never rush to pull it out, runs can’t even get started. For a normal bank, about 50% of deposits are FDIC insured
But 93% of SVB’s deposits were not FDIC insured. So SVB was vulnerable to a classic, textbook bank run.

“Why this sudden meltdown in bank stocks?
A couple of interesting theories and charts are doing the rounds, so let’s have a look under the hood. A thread. 1/

‘Pathetic’: Feds Rule Candidate ‘Slush Funds’ Are Legal

BITCOIN released in 2009

BECAUSE of Bank Failures in 2008

Financial regulation to protect your money FROM a system designed to steal your money is an oxymoron.

2008: #Bitcoin is born amidst a financial crisis
2023: #Bitcoin will thrive amidst a financial crisis

#Bitcoin  is the safest money out there – Tim Draper, Billionaire Silicon Valley VC

THIS IS THE VALUE PROPOSITION THAT BITCOIN PROVIDES

Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin Paperback

AUDIO: My reading of “SoftWar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin” by Major Jason Paul Lowery. This video uses the book in accordance with http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 under which the book was published. Minimal commentary. Minimal video edits. Any commentary is my own opinion./Any deviation from the source material is an unintentional error.

Jason Lowery on Twitter:
“NOT BUYING #BITCOIN IS A US NATIONAL STRATEGIC SECURITY HAZARD.”

Fiat-pegged coins like Tether, USDC, and Dai, don’t deserve to be called “stable”-coins. Fiat currencies are not stable. Circle’s eight page single-spaced memo to congress included zero instances of the word “Bitcoin.” Play fiat games, win fiat prizes.

1st they ignore you
2nd they laugh at you
3rd they fight you <WE ARE HERE>
4th We Win!

The Silent March of Bitcoin Policies Across US States
Because it separates state from money, Bitcoin is inherently a political animal.
Bitcoiners may not want to interact with the state, but the state wants to contend with Bitcoin.

AI

People Used Facebook’s Leaked AI to Create a ‘Based’ Chatbot that Says the N-Word
After 4chan published LLaMa online, others have taken the language model and created a functioning chat bot in Discord, which claimed that the n-word can refer to people who don’t have good intentions.

After 4chan published Facebook’s LLaMa online, others have taken the language model and created a functioning chat bot in Discord, which claimed that the n-word can refer to people who don’t have good intentions.

Simple regurgitation of search engine results and mutations of artwork is not AI. ChatGPT cannot pass my test. It is not AI. It’s nowhere close. ChatGPT is a “Machine Learning” model (“ML”). It is not AI and you should stop calling it AI.

My proposed standard for determining legitimate creation of ‘Artificial Intelligence’:
“The Vickery AI Test”

PRIVACY

Mental health provider Cerebral alerts 3.1M people of data breach

@matthew_d_green
The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

Section 702 has become something Congress never authorized: a domestic spying tool. Congress should consider ending the program entirely, but shouldn’t reauthorize it without critical reforms, including true accountability and oversight.

PREGNANCY

“Michigan voters enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution during the midterms, a move that was intended to help block the ban from taking effect… ‘This is proof positive that elections matter.’”

Lauren Boebert will became a grandmother at 36 years old the same age her mother did, announcing her 17-year-old son got 15 year old little girl pregnant.

Maybe instead of teaching Kaydon how to hold a gun she should have taught him how to hold a condom.
Boebert was pregnant at 17 (2003) dropped out of high school (to support her family, i.e. self/baby). She didn’t marry her husband until 2007.
Boebert’s 17 year old son got a 15 year old pregnant. That’s Statutory Rape. Where’s the outrage.
Age of consent in Colorado is 17… Boebert’s son, Kaydon Boebert, raped a 15 year old and got her pregnant. Belongs in jail. She was not of age to consent.

When you get pregnant as a teenager and drop out of school like Lauren Boebert did, you are highly unlikely to return. Boebert didn’t.
It’s likely her son’s gf won’t either. This sets up a trajectory of poverty and illiteracy in most instances. It’s not to be celebrated.
Sarah Palin’s daughter was pregnant at 17, and now Lauren Boebert’s son
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3894140-boebert-praises-high-rural-teen-birth-rates-while-announcing-first-grandchild/

West Virginia Child Marriage is just fine.
West Virginia Republicans Block Child Marriage Ban
According to Unchained At Last, 78 percent of marriages involving a minor are between an underage girl and an adult man.

Neo-Nazi Homeschoolers Could Be Paid $22,000 to Teach Their Kids About Hitler

NATIONALIZE THE RAILROADS

Medical guidance is thin in East Palestine. Scared and sick citizens are calling a health hotline operated not by the EPA, but CTEH, a consulting company regularly accused of downplaying health risks that Norfolk Southern hired to test if the air was safe.

FBI investigates data breach impacting U.S. House members and staff