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Bard spotting on Bluesky 29 November 2024 
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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Hey, I ought to leave the DNS alone,
But ain't no skyline, when it's gone
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Folks, it was 90°F here the day before Thanksgiving, in late November. It's been so hot and dry here that I'm saving 5% on my home insurance, because that's how much square footage shrink there's been on my home
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
By the end of Thanksgiving dinner we were eating breadcrumbs, turkey jerky, and cranberry fruit rollups
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Texas' electric regulatory body, ERCOT, issued a press release begging people to put on leather soled houseshoes and scuff over carpet to an outlet
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'm not saying it's dry or anything, but we had to plant thumpers to hail the bus to work this morning
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Governor Abbott issued a press release advising Texans not to become addicted to water, as they will resent the absence of it
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Reminder to myself: Always, always read the profile. BitCoin merchants deserve to be blocked, not to be attempted to be persuaded
American Book Dragon (@americanbookdragon.bsky.social):
I'm tired of persuading people to see perfectly reasonable points.
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Raea 🦋✨🏳️⚧️🏴 (former peepeegirl 😽) (@raea.meangirls.online):
it really is a profound testament to the power of transition that we're all facing genocide and you'd be hard pressed to find one of us among millions who regrets coming out
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Such a sunny day,
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
As I responded to another person, this isn't a situation where the transaction is condoned & we are negotiating terms. It's a situation that the finance instrument is designed to facilitate the crime.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It is not a case of how badly one group (that consistently mishandles their own opsec) bungles laundering their transactions; it is a case that the class of financial instrument uniquely facilitates the range of crimes.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
We are in a thread where five task force committee reports have been cited to you.
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Bluesky Safety (@safety.bsky.app):
1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
Professional Hater (@pyrholidon.bsky.social):
One potential drawback to the domain verification is that someone can set up a domain to work as just a redicrect to someone's verified social media. That should absolutely not be treated as officially verified on its own, especially if the website is relatively new or doesn't have a landing page
PL (kar) (@karitham.dev):
How does that help them? They can't impersonate the 3rd party anyways. I couldn't impersonate @pragmaticengineer.com without owning the domain?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It works as:
Bad Actor A makes account impersonating, let's say, Hans-Hermann Hoppe; registers AustrianSchool dot xyz, makes it their account handle & points the domain at the Mises Institute's website.
Incautious Person B believes @austrianschool.xyz is actually Hoppe, buys their bitcoin offer.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Or Miseslnstitute.org
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Catherine (@cathy3of6.bsky.social):
Anybody here who buys and sells bitcoin should be blocked. And their account deleted
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I don't think there should be a universal site rule against it, but I do have a blocklist for cryptocurrency promoters / traders.
NFTs? No F*#$&in' Thanks!
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(@melondropkick.bsky.social):
Wait, like buys and sells bitcoin anywhere, even outside the platform, anywhere?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My issue with bitcoin is threefold:
Promotion of it is often spam / UCE;
A significant market for it is in financing terrorism and human trafficking;
Contribution to anthropogenic climate change.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
1&3 are mitigatable; 2 is not, and that's by design of many cryptocurrencies. 2 makes it unconscionable to trade in.
ĐaꝞ①ꞧuꞩ.₿ 🟠 (@dav1rus.bsky.social):
Sorry, but 1 and 3 are mitigable and 2 is just untrue.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...
eucrim.eu/articles/pro...
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb...
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This is literally what I do day to day, so kindly 180° out of my mentions
ĐaꝞ①ꞧuꞩ.₿ 🟠 (@dav1rus.bsky.social):
Simple question if you are an expert: how big of a % of Bitcoin transactions are related to crime/terrorism?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Enough to kill people, s*x trafficking women & children, and keep terrorists operating.
This is not a game of "how much suffering / which groups suffering, shall we tolerate". Like lead in diets, there is no safe acceptable minimum.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Inconscionable".
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ĐaꝞ①ꞧuꞩ.₿ 🟠 (@dav1rus.bsky.social):
What? So apply the same logic to all money. They get paid in gold and fiat too. Abolish that too. Same level of imoral.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Gold transfer & paper money transfer involve logistics, which can be used evidentiarily to counter & prevent the trade, prosecute after the fact, etc. Gold is harder to trace in small amounts but is also non-trivial logistically at scale.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
S*x trafficking is wrong, & cryptocurrency facilitates it like no other instrument.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Note: If you are a BitCoin / cryptocurrency marketer, turn around and do not enter my mentions, or you will be shamed and then placed on my blocklist. Three have tried in the past hour.
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William Nelson (@boogers.io):
I thought the one crypto guy's "gotcha" was a pretty funny self-defeating argument, "if we banned crypto, they'd just use cash."
The fact that they don't use cash should tell us something. They're probably not just fans of the idea of decentralized finance. Crypto materially helps them operate.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Cash has serial numbers, which banks have been able to make automated records of for a decade+ now. Gold incurs significant logistics difficulties at scale. Crypto is around the world in the push of a button, & laundered from there in automated scripts.
William Nelson (@boogers.io):
I think sometimes people lose track of issues of scale. I think the average guy could probably launder $100k without anyone noticing.
But scaling up to a million? Five million? 50 million? Things get really complicated.
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(@melondropkick.bsky.social):
USD cash is used overwhelmingly in human trafficking and terrorism. If bitcoin disappeared, it would represent close to 100%. What are your thoughts on dollars?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The issues arise from differences in how the compared stores / conveyances of value / trade function. Cryptocurrencies function differently than banked transfers & cash.
(@melondropkick.bsky.social):
So its not that bitcoin is used in human trafficking and terrorism -- it's that it doesn't work in the same way as dollars can be used in human trafficking and terrorism?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'm not going to play a game where you put words in my mouth. You are free to re-read what I've already written in clear and concise English.
Lord Kajafas (@lordkajafas.bsky.social):
Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker, but I didn't understand and I'm generally curious to what your argument is why using crypto for trafficking is worse than when dollars are used
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's because the "defeat regulation / government oversight / auditing / forensic accounting" feature of most cryptocurrencies. When a bank is used to transfer money to buy s*x slaves, that paper trail & oversight can be used to find & stop them.
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(@melondropkick.bsky.social):
First link: "Cryptocurrencies are not the main financing stream of terrorism"
I mean, how outsized is your distaste of bitcoin, compared to, say, hawala?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Not the primary" =/= "not significant"
Again - And I will not say it a third time - I'm not playing games where you put words in my mouth, and you can read what I wrote.
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Brent (@netmojo.ca):
2 & 3 are not true.
2. The U.S. dollar and banking system is by far the largest share of the $4 Trillion money laundering market.
3. 10 out of the last 11 peer-reviewed research papers on Bitcoin's impact found it to be a net benefit. Will soon be carbon negative. Citations @ x.com/dsbatten/sta...
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"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez" (@captainruck.bsky.social):
"whataboutism" actually comes from a letter to the editor in the 70s who was trying to discredit (accurate) Irish criticisms about British actions during the Troubles
"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez" (@captainruck.bsky.social):
I'm not exaggerating even a little
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's both —
"Whatabout" is from the Irish-English usage you've pointed out; the technique is well-known from a documented Soviet propaganda technique, А у вас негров вешают
Abramson, nevertheless, is late to the table
"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez" (@captainruck.bsky.social):
the "technique" of pointing out someone's hypocrisy? the "technique" of accurately observing that someone condemning violence is committing violence against the same people they're condemning?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The technique of rhetorical derailing
"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez" (@captainruck.bsky.social):
But it's not derailing. It's accurately pointing out when someone is criticizing you for things they do themselves!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Need the "Rate Limit Exceeded" badge of [honour|shame] on my account, now
Kramec, Loutresky Edition (@kramec.bsky.social):
If only.
I need to use a secondary account to divide my blocklists.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
David Lynch's 1984 Dune is set in the same universe as The Elder Scrolls
Yamara (@yamara.bsky.social):
Now I expect to open Skyrim and be able to yank a boiled tongue out a dragon and eat it.
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Adrian Edmondson (@adrianedmondson.bsky.social):
Bizarre thing happened to me yesterday that my teenage self would not believe. I was playing at the gig to celebrate the life of the genius that was Neil Innes. Whilst waiting backstage to go on, Michael Palin sang the lumberjack song to me, in German.
Lloyd Bayley (@lloydbayley.bsky.social):
God...That could NOT be more "him"! :) What a treat!
🏳️🌈 Jayne Silver 🏳️⚧️ (@jaynetherainbow.bsky.social):
Oh, I think it could. He could've done it while on a trans-continental train, before catching his transfer to a hot air balloon!
Lloyd Bayley (@lloydbayley.bsky.social):
Well blimey! You win! :)
🏳️🌈 Jayne Silver 🏳️⚧️ (@jaynetherainbow.bsky.social):
Now look, I came here for an argument...
Linda Clark (@lindyjc57.bsky.social):
That's not an argument; that's a contradiction…!
🏳️🌈 Jayne Silver 🏳️⚧️ (@jaynetherainbow.bsky.social):
Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Not necessarily; Dialectical Synthesis is the result of two arguments reinforcing one another on a particular set of points, & mere contradiction does not, itself, rise to the distinction of "argument", which is properly a cogent, purposeful, structured defense or attack of positions. In this essay—
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olive consumer (@machete.gay):
Once again experiencing a moment of nostalgia as I lament the loss of pre-QAnon prepper communities.
Back when it was a lot of water wheel discourse and people arguing about jerky and home brewing.
Sure, there were some nasty folks, but they were mostly freaks.
They were MY freaks, darn it.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
How to use a rocket stove to make a warm adobe bench
Genderflux Superfluid (@rewhan.bsky.social):
I've seen that one I think
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Elon Musk wanting to buy Hasbro to run Wizards of the Coast into the ground is merely proof that the cast, crew, & guests of Dimension20 / DropOut are undervalued as cultural treasures
"Envision a world where we seize destiny for ourselves"
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olive consumer (@machete.gay):
But Dr. Henry, I sell weird anti-social behavior to the community.
extremely chill homie da king of kings (@eagleman42069.bsky.social):
What is the nerd even saying? I swear these guys do themselves and their supposed "audience" a disservice by using words like shibboleth
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
« "shibboleth" is an in-group shibboleth » 👩🍳😙
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
But, the plain English there is,
"For the love of all that is good, please be a Real Person with your social media account, not an 'I'm just here to frick shit up' Type"
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Sasha ↙️↙️↙️ (@2darntrans.bsky.social):
So why'd they do this? My hunch is that they were still trying to keep up the pretence of being "left-wing feminists", but the rest of the "gender-critical" movement long ago jumped into the deep end of far-right politics. Unsustainable.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
One might argue they did this b/c "Mission Accomplished"
equally cynically, b/c "Mission Accomplished", the rubles dried up
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
hopping in the shower can i get y'all anything?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Have you charged your SCS?
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
it's above 50%
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
huggggg
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
All of what she's mentioned was aimed at Reddit between 2015 & the present day.
There's a reason ATProto is a standardised protocol - it isn't economically feasible to sue 10,000 PDS operators into bankruptcy, impossible to torpedo all of them
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
You can't buy / hostile takeover / backdoor / overhaul case law in the corporation's chartered jurisdiction if there's 100's of jurisdictions
You can't buy 10,000 judges and AGs and governors
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Something people keep asking for is "When are ya gonna make private accounts"
Private accounts aren't in the design specs
Using ECDSA crypto to cryptographically sign the underlying records, already is
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The servers are already likely employing hardware like surplus GPUs & HTTPS accelerator silicon to do the trustability signing
Future extensions could possibly integrate user key exchange, perfect forward secrecy, etc etc etc
Just a matter of talented people building on the foundation here
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The AOC thread a few days ago, where everyone and their dog responded with "Get Signal" —
This is the model (threat model, hardening model, distribution of domains model) Signal uses.
Everyone their own server
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What does that mean?
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He thinks there's dedicated hardware that makes HTTPS faster
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Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.
6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.
Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.
Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.
Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.
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