Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings 4-6-2022

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With the mass exodus of Republicans swearing off trips to Disney World, it truly has become the happiest place on Earth.

Ignorance about religion in American political history linked to support for Christian nationalism

Merrick Garland is ignoring the DOJ’s original mission: Battling seditionists like Donald Trump

VIRUS

A LOT of non-covid viruses circulating since end of mask mandate.

Dozens of unidentified bat species likely live in Asia — and could host new viruses

We Study Virus Evolution. Here’s Where We Think the Coronavirus Is Going.
By Sarah Cobey, Jesse Bloom, Tyler Starr and Nathaniel Lash Mar 28 2022

The CDC is beholden to corporations and lost our trust. We need to start our own
We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid
By The People’s CDC

Divided Shanghai Battles Omicron Surge With First Pandemic Lockdown

SATOSHI

@hunterwalk with the money Elon Musk spent to buy twitter shares, he could have given every American family $100,000 and still had enough left over to cancel all student debt.
“This isn’t True! but it’s funny ~ECP”

#Bitcoin adoption is doubling every year.

@SenLummis calls the Federal Reserve a “Lawless Organization.”

“We haven’t seen significant evasion through crypto so far but we’ll monitor carefully to make sure this isn’t a major avenue for evasion,” @SecYellen told @RepJoshG during a @FSCDems @FinancialCmte hearing  on sanctions evasion using crypto.

To call Bitcoin a Ponzi is an insult to Ponzi schemes. While some funds from Madoff’s fraud have been returned to investors, Bitcoin holders won’t be able to recover any funds because there’s nothing there to recoup. And even if there was, who would they phone for help? Miners?

Interview with Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy on Bitcoin
Just as Hal Finney Predicted, Bitcoin Is Being Purchased to Act as a Reserve Currency

Welcome to Satoshi Island

@ExcellionThe #LightningNetwork has a theoretical throughput of 40 million #TPS. That’s the equivalent of 14.4 TB size blocks every 10 min. Lightning enables #Bitcoin to be a planetary scale decentralized medium of exchange.
Lightning Labs raises $70 MILLION to build a stablecoin and asset protocol on #Bitcoin

The 19th million #bitcoin has just been mined. 90.47% of supply is in circulation.

Michael Saylor⚡️ on Twitter: “#Bitcoin represents the great exodus of capital from analog assets in physical space to digital energy.

~Elon Musk bought $1.5 billion worth of #bitcoin and the code remains unchanged after a year.
~Elon Musk bought $3 billion worth of Twitter and the code is changing after a week.
~In case the difference wasn’t clear to you.
*Bitcoin’s governance vs all other governance.

If you don’t know Shannon, aspects of almost everything about the modern digital era can be traced to his work, particularly his seminal work on information theory he casually mentioned at the end of that letter.

POLITICS

$300,000,000 of Florida’s pension is wrapped up in Russia and Ron DeSantis has decided to keep it there, hoping Russia recovers. Ron is betting on Russia.

Biden Announces Another Five-Month Pause In Student Loan Payments that is the least he can do! He better cancel student debt now or he won’t win the next time.

Oklahoma lawmakers pass a near-total ban on abortion threatening providers with up to $100,000 in fines and 10 years in prison.

Noam Chomsky, speaks about Brexit, the war in Ukraine and the return of Donald Trump.
On the war in Ukraine: “It’s monstrous for Ukraine…Why did he do it? There are two ways of looking at this question. One way, the fashionable way in the West, is to plumb the recesses of Putin’s twisted mind and try to determine what’s happening in his deep psyche.”
On Trump’s return: “I remember listening to Hitler’s speeches on the radio. I didn’t understand the words…but I understood the mood. And it was frightening and terrifying. And when you watch one of Trump’s rallies that can’t fail to come to mind. That’s what we’re facing.”

  1. Why does Clarence Thomas get to sit on cases about keeping January 6th documents secret when his wife shows up in January 6th documents?
  2. Remember when Rudy ran a shadow foreign policy which resulted in the ouster of our Ambassador to Ukraine in a hurry?
    Remember when the FBI raided Rudy’s home and office?
    Remember Rudy tried to orchestrate the overthrow of our election with baseless challenges?
    Why is Rudy free?

And just like that, the Ginni Thomas story has been buried …
Steven Hassan, PhD on Twitter: “I knew Ginni Thomas. Ginni Thomas was in a cult (the large group awareness training)

Show the FBI Proof that Ginni Thomas is an Insurrectionist

To see the FULL video from this 1986 cult member support group conference, you can see that on my YouTube channel here (Ginni Thomas appears at the 17:30 mark)
For more on Ginni Thomas’ time in a cult, her cult activism in the 80s, and her turn to right-wing causes, this washingtonpost article from 1991 is surprisingly thorough.

Democrats in the U.S. Congress proposed a raft of new rules for the federal judiciary including a formal mechanism to remove judges from hearing cases in the event of a conflict of interest and another intended to reduce secret court filings.

US Lawmakers Pass E-Cash Bill That Replicates Physical Money, Leaving Aside the FED

Indian state gov’t uses Polygon to issue verifiable caste certificates Isn’t this the most disgusting thing you will read about today or maybe this is:
Russian oligarchs on UK sanctions list were granted ‘golden visas’
The Home Office has issued 2,581 investor visas to Russian citizens since the scheme was introduced in 2008.

A stunning portrait of political corruption”: Exactly how Joe Manchin made millions from coal

TECHNOLOGY

Block confirms Cash App breach after former employee accessed US customer data
Notifications going to 8.5M customers. The breach went undiscovered for four months, and was ultimately blamed on an ex-employee with insider access to customer data.

Google turned on activity tracking for many users that previously turned it off.
Google Workspace admins can no longer deactivate activity tracking for their users, Google says this is helping people.

Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests

Who’s Behind the Okta Hack?
EVEN IF YOU aren’t familiar with Okta, you’ve probably used it. The digital login system is used by thousands of companies across the world to manage employee logins to various cloud services. Which makes it a real problem when that system, and all that login info, gets hacked.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior writer Lily Hay Newman joins the show to tell us about the group behind the recent Okta hack, how the hackers took control of such a vast system, and what happened in the aftermath.

Biden Administration to release 2023 budget today including a new 20% billionaire tax

Anonymous Starts ‘Huge’ Data Dump That Will ‘Blow Russia Away,’ Leaks Rostproekt Emails

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ECP NetHappenings LinkedIn, BioTech, Sayor University, Banks

January 6 committee moves to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt.

Quietly, the Fed Releases the Names of Banks that Got Billions in Emergency Repo Loans in 2019
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has quietly posted the names of the banks that grabbed billions of dollars under the Fed’s emergency repo loan operations that commenced on September 17, 2019 – months before there was a COVID-19 crisis anywhere in the world. Deutsche Bank is a major derivatives counterparty to Wall Street mega banks. The emergency repo loans were made via Open Market operations at the New York Fed. Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, the names of the banks, dollar amounts borrowed, interest rate and collateral posted must be made public “on the last day of the eighth calendar quarter following the calendar quarter in which the covered transaction was conducted.”
Full List
Further information about repurchase & reverse repurchase operations is available here. Details on transactions since 2010 can be downloaded in EXCEL format.

 

*No shots, no school. That’s the law!*
Kyrie Irving is refusing to get vaccinated.
Muhammad Ali did a TV commercial urging parents to vaccinate their kids. Enough said.

LinkedIn to Shut Down Service in China, Citing ‘Challenging’ Environment
The Microsoft-owned service had censored posts in China, in compliance with the country’s laws, to operate there.

Henrietta Lacks family seeks justice: Grandchildren sue biotech company
“HeLa” cells have led to several medical breakthroughs.

Saylor University
A leading university in India now recognizes our #Bitcoin for Everybody course for credit towards a degree! @saylor Anyone can sign up for free ->

Satoshi’s exit is the greatest exit of a creator in the modern history.

The US controlling a majority of the hash rate is not a good thing.

It was 1967 Buckminster Fuller predicted Bitcoin and new wealth.
“I’ll talk about something that would be one of the realizations by 2018 a realistic—scientific accounting system—of what is wealth. Wealth isn’t the gold of pirates—wealth is energy” 1967.

 

2009 1st month #Satoshi bitcoin era mined just cashed out.

$500,000 Bitcoin stash from #Satoshi era just moved

The Bitcoin was mined within Bitcoin’s first month—and hadn’t moved since then. There are suggestions that the wallet was owned by Satoshi Nakamoto, or a close friend.

  • A Bitcoin wallet first opened in 2009 has suddenly cashed out.
  • Some $500,000 worth of the cryptocurrency was moved in one transaction, leading many to speculate on the owner’s origins, with some suggesting it could be Satoshi Nakamoto.
  • However, some commentators have suggested that this wallet was not owned by the anonymous creator.

https://decrypt.co/29525/500000-bitcoin-stash-from-satoshi-era-just-moved

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