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From User #3566 in https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/05/02/0037247
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An open question.
What could/should be done to prevent these shenanigans in the future?
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Your question is why I wrote this book and wrote here all of last year, so it is ironic to to me anyone even needs to ask.
https://jmichaelhudson.net/rated-soylent-comments/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
https://archive.is/FHpOa [archive.is]
And I also wrote essays and put them into a book:
https://leanpub.com/mentalselfdefense [leanpub.com]
This will warn and instruct all civilians on the depth and sophistication of efforts by various state and corporate actors to infiltrate and disintegrate all effective civilian organizations, while using their remaining air of legitimacy, even in the obvious absence of it, to endorse other tyrannical measures.
Read my comments here: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/44gq/saidit_has_the_chance_to_become_a_free_speech/ [saidit.net]
That is the way forward, I have been saying this for nearly 20 years and I am not changing my tune, everything has only further proven I was right when I got my degree in 2001. We need to accept that mediation and moderation and administration of forums is at this point not a hobby or volunteer effort, but legitimate, necessary-for-survival element of human governance, and recognize that this costs money.
Also that the people who have a billion dollars to ruin .org clearly have too much money they do not deserve, so the money is there, we just need to move it to where it will solve problems rather than create them(or build the entire internet into a tyrannical control mechanism for a tiny handful of https://archive.is/2MFbn [archive.is] to turn the world into an even worse place.
Roberts rules of order need to be updated, digitized, and secured, as do voting, or the internet is going to plunge us into a regressive dark age, which is really what is being threatened at the moment. And what spooky silver spoon jackasses like erik brooks either do not understand, or understand all too well.
I mean, he should a strong background to grasp these concepts after managing children's musical concerts, right? /s
Or you can consider the ideas of someone like myself, who was talking about this at the very beginning when people thought it would all just sort itself out somehow and we would never face a scenario where the entire world could not figure out who to trust on the matter of a pandemic.
(and the greatest enabler of computer viruses was for some reason suddenly the global authority on biological viruses...)
Meanwhile the most popular *dialogue* in the history of the world got 1 million live views for a simple conversation, and the most famous internet company is outright censoring the participants without even have to justify their actions.
And you will also notice archive.is came under attack this week for daring to make things that cannot be censored.
You tell me how far we have come, but to me it looks like backwards.
When you get stuck, you have to question your assumptions. And the entire premise of your question is just that, so maybe you should consider the ideas of people like me who have been singing the same tune from the beginning and saw all of this coming.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday May 04 2020, @06:44PM (14 children)
I just wanted to take the top comment so that the top comment isnt the jackasses who just post ad hominem attacks.
http://archive.is/HcmdM [archive.is] thinking behaviors
https://infogalactic.com/info/File:Debate_Pyramid.jpg [infogalactic.com] debate pyramid
https://archive.is/ybsu6 [archive.is] fauci group photo wtf
https://archive.is/tGjUS [archive.is] drug dealers
https://archive.is/JMCBX [archive.is] ep before after
https://archive.is/DEMNz [archive.is]
https://archive.is/hfvoX [archive.is]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @07:25PM (3 children)
OMFG I was skeptic but a photo of Tony Fauci attending a society dinner is all the convincing I need that this coronahoax is a global conspiracy and would like to subscribe to your newsletter if you have a newsletter and bill gates will not climb out of my email and wrap his hands around my throat while screaming that i should never have pirated windows 98 lol
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @07:55AM (1 child)
https://archive.is/ybsu6 [archive.is]
Jeez, wouldn't it improve the planet if a bomb went off in that room.
(Score: 3, Funny) by khallow on Tuesday May 05 2020, @04:11PM
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday May 06 2020, @09:40AM
If you like that, youll love this:
https://saidit.net/s/conspiracy/comments/46sg/saidit_conspiracy_photoshop_battle_1/ [saidit.net]
(Score: 2) by patella.whack on Monday May 04 2020, @11:54PM (5 children)
Well Insane is only the association between events that others dont agree about. Actually that's not quite true dude. there is an objective reality as far as we can know is real. Do you agree?
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday May 06 2020, @09:56AM (4 children)
I believe in objective reality.
What I find difficult to believe is that there are non-shill user accounts remaining on the internet, but I am holding onto my faith.
Sure it could be an epic gaslight simulation, but even in that case you are not going to win a prize for going out and shouting at the sky THIS IS AN EPIC GASLIGHT SIMULATION SHOW YOURSELVES!
Objectivity is like a line and we are the assymytotes(sp), like in calc with L'Hopital. We can all try to get closer, and together we can get close, but to ever think you achieve it is hubris.
Read my asimov and feynman quotes at my site on the top smart quotes page,
jmichaelhudson.net/top-smart-quotes
That is one of the most valuable things I have even posted, further study will be rewarded. (also the info memes...which by the logs is very popular...)
(Score: 2) by patella.whack on Friday May 08 2020, @02:32AM (3 children)
Well, in my estimation most accounts aren't shills. Let's except the popular commercial instas etc.. And let's except Fox News. Kudos to you for being an iconoclast, which I think is valuable in this climate, but don't worry, no one is after you, and while your post are commendable in a certain little brother vein, you should probably graduate to more sophisticated things if you want impact.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday May 08 2020, @01:09PM
That is wrong, most accounts here and everywhere are shills.
Scientific article about twitter, a little old.
https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1053&context=isw [ecu.edu.au]
Remember eglin afb was the #1 reddit poster and they stopped ever reporting on this after it was revealed.
Anyone who denies cointelpro or has no interest in discussing it, at all, is a shill, so that includes you.
Your response has obvious psychologically offensive aspects to it, calling me "little brother", dismissively saying "no one is after you", implying I am "unsophisticated", these are all well known online shill tactics, and tailored to my profile.
See my next journal entry. Leave me alone. But I know you wont. You make money doing this bullshit, rethink your life.
https://archive.is/IZsOB [archive.is] standard response
https://archive.is/rWnr8 [archive.is] forums
https://archive.ph/EdHYz [archive.ph] jtrig explained
https://archive.is/iOckl [archive.is] eglin info
https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1053&context=isw [ecu.edu.au]
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday May 11 2020, @12:04PM (1 child)
and wow, to come out of 3 year retirement just to say this, gosh, sounds so legit
/s
Patellar Fractures (Broken Kneecap) - OrthoInfo - AAOS
https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases--conditions/patellar-kneecap-fractures [aaos.org]
A patellar fracture is a break in the patella, or kneecap, the small bone that sits at the front of your knee. Because the patella acts as a shield for your knee joint, it is vulnerable to fracture if you fall directly onto your knee or hit it against the dashboard in a vehicle collision.
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To any observer: this was a threat of physical violence
(Score: 2) by patella.whack on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:07PM
Thinking I retired and that it's evidence of something illegitimate is telling. Good luck to you, I suppose
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday May 05 2020, @08:06AM (3 children)
I like this one. https://archive.is/DEMNz [archive.is]
You should put it on a T-shirt, it's a widespread sentiment and the target market is the union of the sets rather than the usual intersection.
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday May 06 2020, @02:37PM (2 children)
Is the Poe quote from his story "The Gold Bug"? I enjoyed that one.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday May 06 2020, @04:00PM (1 child)
https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/fwsw0741.htm [eapoe.org]
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday May 10 2020, @11:40PM
Nice! The Gold Bug was my first introduction to cryptanalysis. Now there's more by the same author!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @07:25PM (5 children)
But you are pretty lucid on this one. Some of your links actually meant something this time.
Are you getting better, or is the world getting worse?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @12:42AM (1 child)
Perhaps the hippy retreat in Deutschland is doing some good after all.
Last we heard, j-michael had unrequited love for the manageress, which lead to a meltdown when she rebuffed his love sonnets and political discourse.
(Score: 2) by Aegis on Tuesday May 05 2020, @02:15PM
Well I'm just glad someone reads these things so I don't have to.
You should post a tl;dr for all of them!
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday May 06 2020, @09:51AM (2 children)
Fair question lol.
I think it is after all a sign of sanity and good humor to be able to respond to allegations that your brain is malfunctioning, up to a point(that some on this site clearly go far beyond...)
What you consider the center is likely an illusion, and as that illusion crumbles(and it is crumbling, finally) the actual center becomes apparent and suddenly the solutions that were discarded without thought ten(in this case 20) years ago suddenly start to seem sensible compared to the solutions offered by those who are now revealed to be charlatans, with no solutions. (other than maybe to chip you with a mystery vax for a mystery bug and offer you a 20% loan for the privilege)
This is what happens when you follow reason and the best ideas rather than what is on the tv, for a time you are considered a loon, but then eventually people have no choice but to see the light.
Thus has it ever been. That is why you have to have balls, and not shrink away when people call you names and repeat failed ideas over and over, and have some hope and trust in your beliefs, so you are not a lemming feather in the hurricane of bullshit.
A better illustration of this concept may be difficult to find, thank you for noticing my demonstration.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday May 06 2020, @02:41PM (1 child)
What I've discovered is that memories change with experience. So the ideas that you discarded ten or, in my case fifty, years ago can seem quite reasonable now because they are no longer the same ideas. They have been refined.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday May 08 2020, @01:14PM
This is to an extent true, the book I wrote on this subject was unrefined and now my ideas are refined.
But the main idea was correct and the people who told me that idea is not worth exploring were very wrong.
I said shills would take over if moderation was not respected as work, and the means to make this respected work were not created.
Could I have said it as well then, no. Because I was 25 and hadnt written so many million words.
Imagine a reddit where shills could not exist, I can.
Not that a reddit with shills, and many of them, would not exist, that is inevitable, but a major league forum for argument between real people without interference is what is still needed, anyone who says otherwise is a billionaire trying to implement you in their control mechanism.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 05 2020, @01:28PM (11 children)
As I wrote in reply, decentralize DNS. Not my idea (seen discussion of it in somebody's journal which I can't find), but it works. .org would no longer be a massive food source for a would-be rent-seeker, if a lot of parties were splitting the pie. Presently, since ICANN is the sole controlling entity, it'll continue to be a huge target for these games.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @03:17PM (1 child)
https://soylentnews.org/~exaeta/journal/4801 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 05 2020, @04:02PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2020, @08:12AM (5 children)
What are you willing to give up for your decentralized DNS? Will it be the human-meaningful aspect of the names or their security against malicious actors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2020, @09:54AM (2 children)
Human meaningful names don't matter. You can just use bookmarks or URLs.
Security doesn't matter. Just don't use JS or login to anything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2020, @08:27PM (1 child)
And how am I supposed to tell my bank from another website? What about advertisements? I can't tell my neighbor to go to SN if there is not soylentnews.org but https://1082774087r8ffas9d078709fodfh.50798709s87fxvuhofhowueho4h/ instead. Or Google, Reddit, and Facebook decide to blacklist all links to a location, basically your gone for most of the internet in that case.
And security doesn't matter? What? Without security, you can't be sure that a name sends you where it is supposed to. A bad actor poisons your cache, you are screwed without some security measure. Or a compromised network, etc. Security is the only thing that allows you to trust the name resolution at all!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @05:48AM
Alternative DNS isn't for using your bank. It's for sites that would be completely censored.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 06 2020, @12:58PM (1 child)
How secure is present day DNS again? You already don't know if DNS is connecting you to the right party for various reasons.
And human-meaningful names still would happen, they just wouldn't be dished out by a central authority which could dish out Ethos-style rent seeking monopolies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2020, @08:15PM
With DNSSEC, short of a root compromise of some form, you can know if DNS is connecting you to the right party. Although, you are assuming a root compromise so that doesn't really matter.
Human-meaningful names will not happen. It is technically impossible to do so because there is no way to guarantee the uniqueness of the name. TOR, I2P, Freenet and others have all tried various solutions and each made different tradeoffs. But you literally cannot have human-meaningful names, security from malicious actors, and decentralization simultaneously. The more of one you have, the less of the others you can have.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday May 06 2020, @10:07AM
Man it is nice when people just come in and want to say constructive things to the discussion. So nice, how hard was that?
Exaeta is who you are talking about with this apostrophe addition to all urls.
It sounds like a nice hack but it would be an impossible sell on the public who is locked into this.
That is what is so pernicious and even devlish about the .org power grab, it is at a level of the internet that only about 1% of people even know exists.
So that fraction of the 1% that cares are fighting a billion dollars of pressure with no public support or awareness, and if we try to explain we get glazed eyes, and the same would happen if we tried to switch everyone to the new dns or add the apostrophe.
This is sadly an argument that a technocracy is inevitable, which is what ethos and thrive "capital" corruptly and opaquely and misleadingly represent, but I am holding out that there is a way for the non-devlish people to represent the public, but we have to morph the internet into something that replaces CNN, which if you have been watching closely, I have been doing at my static site, and here, and saidit, twitter, voat, minds, leanpub, and my vast collection now at archive.is.(which they have started to see as a threat if you have been paying attention)
But if you have the guts to wade through the garbage and traps to find the gems, /pol anons are also kicking ass. I havent laughed in a month I think and I laughed my ass off there last night. And found a lot of truth, good writing, pro memes....
Be the change you want to see, build the internet you want to have, Im doing it, are you?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday May 06 2020, @02:44PM (1 child)
At present it looks as if the .org sale isn't going through.
Sigh of relief.
-- hendrik
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 06 2020, @03:17PM