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@mozilla Hi, I'm sure that whoever runs this account has no idea who I am, but I founded @mozilla and I'm here to say fuck you and fuck this. Every...

#dnalounge #archer_crypto

Judging from the comments on his page, it appears that Steven B Harris has died. My deepest sympathies to his friends and family. I worked with him at 21st Century Medicine, and he always struck me as kind and highly knowledgeable across many disciplines. He--along with Mike Darwin, Brian Wowk, and Greg Fahy--deserves kudos for advancing the state of the art of cryobiological science. (1) He was one of the few MD's willing to publicly stick up for cryonics research in the face of severe professional ostracism. (2) He also assisted with a number of cryonics cases. I hope that he was successfully cryopreserved, and that he will someday enjoy much more life thanks to the technology he helped to advance. #archer_cryonics #cryonics (1)

Physical and biological aspects of renal vitrification - PMC

Cryopreservation would potentially very much facilitate the inventory control and distribution of laboratory-produced organs and tissues. Although ...

(2)

Cryonics Archive

Cold War The Conflict Between Cryonicists and Cryobiologists - Cryonics Archive

If Tether can unilterally freeze a "criminal's" wallet, Tether can freeze anyone's wallets. "Tether, the largest company in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and leading global crypto exchange and Web3 technology company OKX, today announced that they have collaborated with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in an investigation that led to Tether proactively and voluntarily freezing approximately 225 million in USDT tokens in external self-custodied wallets linked to an international human trafficking syndicate in Southeast Asia responsible for a global “pig butchering” romance scam. The joint investigation was conducted using tools from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, and the action by Tether represents the largest-ever freeze of USDT in history." #archer_politics #archer_crypto https://tether.to/en/following-investigations-by-tether-okx-and-the-us-department-of-justice-tether-voluntarily-freezes-225m-in-stolen-usdt-linked-to-international-crime-syndicate/

Holy crap! Good news for Argentina! I did not think it possible for a large nation state to elect a libertarianish candidate. This gives me hope that libertarians can win the governorship / Congress of New Hampshire. "Argentina elected right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as its new president on Sunday, rolling the dice on an outsider with radical views to fix an economy battered by triple-digit inflation, a looming recession and rising poverty. Milei, who rode a wave of voter anger with the political mainstream, won by a wider-than-expected margin. He landed some 56% of the vote versus just over 44% for his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who conceded." #archer_politics #fsp #freestateproject #grownostr https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-readies-vote-likely-presidential-election-thriller-2023-11-19/

#archer_humor #archer_ai

#archer_politics #archer_education Why is it that otherwise intelligent people can grasp that all manner of goods-- food, clothing, shelter, transportation--can be provided in abundance via voluntary trade, yet still think that childhood education can only be provided by a coercive state run monopoly? Perhaps it's because they've been coercively brainwashed for 12 years by Democrats? "While it unsurprising that among actors and actresses there are 90 Democrats for every 10 Republicans, many would be amazed to discover that teachers are actually as liberal or even more so than those in acting. Among English teachers, there are 97 Democrats for every three Republicans, with the proportion being even more one-sided among health teachers, with 99 Democrats for every one Republican. While there are slightly more Republicans among math and science teachers, among high school teachers overall, there are 87 Democrats for every 13 Republicans."

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Why Are Teachers Mostly Liberal? - Pacific Research Institute

The wave of teacher strikes across the country, with their focus on killing education reforms such as charter schools, have focused attention on th...

#archer_humor

It's so weird that otherwise intelligent people can grasp that all manner of goods-- food, clothing, shelter, transportation--can be provided in abundance via voluntary trade, but that education can only be provided by a coercive state run monopoly. It's almost as if they've been brainwashed for 12 years by Democrats. "While it unsurprising that among actors and actresses there are 90 Democrats for every 10 Republicans, many would be amazed to discover that teachers are actually as liberal or even more so than those in acting. Among English teachers, there are 97 Democrats for every three Republicans, with the proportion being even more one-sided among health teachers, with 99 Democrats for every one Republican. While there are slightly more Republicans among math and science teachers, among high school teachers overall, there are 87 Democrats for every 13 Republicans." https://web.archive.org/web/20231107045319/https://www.pacificresearc)h.org/why-are-teachers-mostly-liberal/

"This project scores all 50 states on their overall respect for individual freedom and on their respect for three dimensions of freedom considered separately: fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and personal freedom. To calculate these scores, we weight public policies according to the estimated costs that individuals suffer when government restricts their freedom. However, we happily concede that different people value aspects of freedom differently. Hence, our website provides the raw data and weightings so that interested readers can construct their own freedom rankings." ... "New Hampshire is once again the freest state in the Union and in 2022 set the record for the highest freedom score ever recorded in the 21st century. Governor Chris Sununu and the New Hampshire legislature have much to be proud of. " https://www.freedominthe50states.org/ #archer_politics #fsp #freestateproject #grownostr

Is there a standardized way to tell which NIPs a given client has implemented?

The Free State Project (FSP) has enjoyed such success in New Hampshire, that the progressive advocacy group Granite State Matters has written a 24 page attack on libertarians: https://granitestatematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NH-Battleground-in-the-Fight-to-Dismantle-Democracy-electronic.pdf #grownostr #freestateproject #fsp #archer_politics

If you care about government surveillance, make sure to tell your representative to vote not to renew section 702: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-absent-major-changes-702-should-not-be-renewed "Section 702 authorizes the government to collect, without a warrant and from American companies like Google and AT&T, the private messages of targeted foreigners abroad — even when they are communicating with Americans. The F.B.I.’s ability to search for information about Americans in the repository of intercepted messages has been a focus of controversy."

Lawmaker Says He Was Target of F.B.I. Surveillance Material Searches (Published 2023)

The revelation by Representative Darin LaHood, Republican of Illinois, put a twist on a murky incident that has loomed over a debate on reauthorizi...

The law has been used to spy on Congress, protestors:

the Guardian

NSA statement does not deny

Agency responds to questions from Senator Bernie Sanders with statement citing

#archer_censorship #archer_spying #archer_politics

Of course, these $10,000 Toyota trucks won't be sold in the US, due to the protectionist Chicken Tax:

Chicken tax - Wikipedia

Laws like the Chicken Tax cause me to feel rage whenever some smarmy progressive waxes rhapsodic about how the government is necessary to "protect" the interests of the poor. "The Toyota Tacoma pickup is built in America for Americans and Canadians, to dodge the "chicken tax," but 181 other countries around the world get the Toyota Hilux pickup. It looks a bit like our Tacoma, but more basic. You'd recognize it from global news footage of relief aid or conflict areas. Well, apparently it had gotten a trifle fancy and at about $15,200 to start, it was pricing itself out of some of those markets. The Toyota IMV 0 intends to fill in that low-cost space beneath the Hilux with a target starting price of $10,000. "

MotorTrend

First Drive: Toyota's $10,000 Pickup Truck Is Perfect. So, Why Are We Sad?

This Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series lookalike is a no-frills, cost-reduced Hilux flatbed/pickup optimized for lower-GDP markets.

#archer_politics

We should also give prisoners vouchers, and let them choose which prison to be in. That way, prisons are incentivized to treat prisoners humanely. #prison_reform #grownostr

Sam Bankman-Fried caused enormous harm, and I, like many others, want him to face justice. But letting him rot in prison seems like a waste. To me, proper justice would involve him making as much restitution to his victims as he can with his remaining life. He's non-violent, so there's no physical threat that requires locking him away from the rest of society. Instead, he should be forced to wear an ankle monitor, and allowed to find what jobs he can. In order to incentivize him to work, he should get to keep a percentage of the money he earns above the amount required to monitor him. (The rest should go toward a victim restitution fund.) The more he makes, the higher the percentage of his earnings he gets to keep. #prison_reform #grownostr

Is there an extension that allows you to "retweet" a twitter post to your nostr timeline, instead of your twitter timeline? #grownostr #nostr

@SpencrGreenberg proposes many people would be better off if they curated their social media feed more carefully:

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Spencer Greenberg 🔍 (@SpencrGreenberg) on X

Imagine you lived in a universe where whatever you give your attention to gets drawn to you. So if you pay attention to cute dogs on the street, so...

Economist Bryan Caplan advocates something similar more generally:

Econlib

My Beautiful Bubble - Econlib

Unlike many readers of Coming Apart, you don’t have to convince me that I live in a Bubble. I’ve known it for decades. In fact, I thi...

IMO, I think it's a good idea, but done at the level of the person, rather than the level of posts. It would be easier to just post funny memes and interesting science. It's time consuming and unpleasant to make unpopular points (such as the fact that Israeli bombs and food/fuel/water embargoes have killed far more children than Hamas has). But imagine if you knew that Jews were being gassed by your government, and you said nothing because it was unpopular? Many controversial topics are also heavily throttled by social media's censorship algorithms. I might feel more relaxed about building a bubble for myself if I trusted that mainstream media sources weren't routinely spreading lies and propaganda (I bet many people still believe Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian plant, that Kyle Rittenhouse murdered three black men in cold blood, or that 300 K children are being trafficked in the US ). So rather than build my bubble at the level of the post, I try to surround myself with peple who can discuss controversial discuss topic politely, follow good argumentation practices, and assume good will. People who fail to do those things consistently get dropped from my feed. One of my dreams is to find a forum that enforces / rewards good argumentation / epistemic practices:

Tips for Debate, part 1

Many people don’t argue very well.

Tips for Debate, part 2

These are the rest of my tips for debating controversial questions well.

Econlib

The Bettor's Oath - Econlib

Another great thing about my new daughter: she got me to start watching Game of Thrones. The first episode didn’t hook me last year, but now...

"Freifunk (German for: "free radio") is a non-commercial open grassroots initiative to support free computer networks in the German region. Freifunk is part of the international movement for a wireless community network. The initiative counts about 400 local communities[1] with over 41,000 access points.[2] Among them, Münster, Aachen, Munich, Hanover, Stuttgart, and Uelzen are the biggest communities, with more than 1,000 access points each."

Freifunk - Wikipedia

#mesh #censorship #freifunk

Sorry for the repost, but I had to correct the spelling of Pihkal and Tihkal. An Alexander and Ann Shulgin Pixar biopic would be amazing. Miyasaki / Studio Ghibli is also acceptable. #archer_humor #archer_drugs #dnm #monero

After the CCS hack, fluffypony proposes breaking up the Monero Core team: "Currently the Monero Core Team is responsible for a number of things that are critical to Monero, and as a result there is a great level of trust implicit in them. For instance, a malicious Monero Core Team member could hijack the domain, and serve up malicious Monero downloads right after a new release. No matter how quickly this is detected, there will be many affected downloads, and could cause massive financial and privacy-related network damage. The recent CSS wallet incident is also an example of risks that the Core Team presents. Additionally, this has been a thankless job that the Core Team has taken on (for no compensation), although even if there were compensation and constant praise it would still be a centralising force that we should try and eviscerate. My suggestion, and I encourage us to use this thread to iterate on it in public, is to break the Core Team up into 6 self-assembling workgroups. This is not a complicated exercise, apart from the community coming to consensus as to who should form part of the workgroups. I would suggest we aim for a January 1st, 2025, cutover date for this."

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Proposal: Disband Core · Issue #921 · monero-project/meta

Currently the Monero Core Team is responsible for a number of things that are critical to Monero, and as a result there is a great level of trust i...

#monero #archer_crypto