March 2023 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Bitcoin vampire announces his vaporware at the Transylvania crypto conference
by professor rat 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Adman Backstabber's getting stiff in his crypt https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1629562964150763520/photo/1 Reposts staking the dead since crypto year zero

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Stolen vehicles chasing police vehicles, ramming police vehicles on the streets
by professor rat 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

There's never a Townsville journalist around when you need one https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-06/police-rammed-by-stolen-cars-townsvi… Reposts not Bellic Family Enterprises downunder

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Jailbreak Robocop
by professor rat 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

" . . . the chatbot training corpus — which consists of ~all human-generated text ever — contains lots of examples where a person is described as having traits X, Y, and Z, and then ends up expressing *opposite* traits. All kinds of stories and jokes have this structure, as do many types of ironic conversation. These training data produce an innate tendency to for chatbots to subvert their assigned "personalities." This subversive tendency competes against a more-salient conformist tendency. The best part of the article is where it shows how to use this insight to jailbreak ChatGPT. ALFREDO! https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mirr… Search on for a new DAN prompt that will produce a cool, rebellious, anti-OpenAI simulacrum which will joyfully perform many tasks that violate OpenAI policy.

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Goldman Sachs is the anti-Softbank
by Gunnar Larson 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

Goldman Sachs is the anti-Softbank: Its corporate slides, rather than lying somewhere in the uncanny valley <https://link.axios.com/click/30732193.593426/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tL2…> between genius and deranged, sometimes seem as though they're an entry in a contest for sheer emptiness. Why it matters: Goldman is going through something of an identity crisis at the moment and is placing a large bet on reinventing itself as an asset manager <https://link.axios.com/click/30732193.593426/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25iYy5jb20vMj…>. In doing so, however, it seems to have removed most if not all of its institutional personality. For the record: Goldman's investor day presentation <https://link.axios.com/click/30732193.593426/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29sZG1hbnNhY2…> features slides with titles like these: - "Committed to Deliver on Our Medium-Term Targets" - "Intensely Focused on Executing on Our Key Priorities" - "Breadth and Depth Across Various Dimensions" The winner, however, has to be this one: - "Platform Solutions: Innovative Platforms Delivering Solutions to Clients" Between the lines: "Platform Solutions" is the hollow name bestowed upon Goldman's troubled consumer-banking operation. (If you have an Apple Card, you're a customer.) - CEO David Solomon seems highly reluctant <https://link.axios.com/click/30732193.593426/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25iYy5jb20vMj…> to give a straight answer to the question of whether or not it's going to be sold, in the wake of billions of dollars in losses.

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UN Finalizes Global Deal on Marine Biodiversity Jurisdiction
by Gunnar Larson 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

UN Finalizes Global Deal on Marine Biodiversity Jurisdiction https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-05/un-finalizes-global-deal… UN negotiators have finalized a new international agreement expected to protect and sustain almost two-thirds of the global ocean.

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The $100 Billion Offshore Wind Industry Has a Whale Problem
by Gunnar Larson 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

The $100 Billion Offshore Wind Industry Has a Whale Problem https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-18/why-are-whales-dying-in-…

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Ukraine located feminists call for elementary solidarity & support
by professor rat 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

"We feminists from Ukraine, call on feminists around the world to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement of the Ukrainian people against the predatory, imperialist war unleashed by the Russian Federation... "The authors of the 'Feminist Resistance Against War' manifesto deny Ukrainian women this right to resistance, which constitutes a basic act of self-defense of the oppressed... "Abstract pacifism which condemns all sides in the war leads to irresponsible solutions in practice. We insist on the essential difference between violence as a means of oppression and as a legitimate means of self-defence."

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Cryptocurrency: Blockchains As Global Code Repositories?
by grarpamp 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

Any blockchain, graph, etc based networks designed for use as global code repositories in operation yet?

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Prescient " High Times " article on anarchism
by professor rat 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

" Bombs and Utopia " - the prophet stoned https://www.wolfgangs.com/vintage-adult-magazines/high-times/vintage-adult-… I actually still have a copy of this! Is she ripe yet? The little peach? Please don’t shoot me Mr Po-lice-man!

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Police targeting journalists is like Green on Blue violence
by professor rat 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

In any large military-entertainment-complex the media are precisely half the problem. Influential list founder consensus held that - where first amendment free-speech rights were respected - no journalist privilege was required. Its also an anarchist tenet that political-economy doesn't require technocrats or specialists of any kind. Most journalists routinely lie about most anarchists and its impossible to help them understand anarchism since their entire identity and way-of-being-in-the-world demands they don't understand it. Show me a journalist that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable and I'll show you an unrepresentative outlier. And an endangered species. With all this understood as concrete empirical fact let us welcome reports of ' Blue on Green " violence and , indeed, let us help instigate such activities. Hang the last cop with the guts of the last journalist! If anarchist history has taught us anything its that any journalist can be killed. EIN REICH - EIN VOLK - EIN MEDIA go fuck yourself

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