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Anyone knows what the author meant by the "LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY" message?

It's unclear if it's referring to current authoritarian turns in our western world, big corps using his software for free, or something else.

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The author of this package was caught with 50lbs of Potassium Nitrate (in the middle of NYC) and a bunch of materials on making bombs and booby traps when his apartment caught fire:

https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...

https://www.qgazette.com/articles/more-charges-possible-for-...

https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/resident-of-nyc-home-with-susp...

He might have been the unibomber in training.

Don't want to pile on, but dude clearly seems to be going through mental issues.

He’s also going on about a wild conspiracy theory about Aaron Swartz getting assassinated because he was on to Ghislaine Maxwell, or something like that. And linking it to his open source comments in a way that doesn’t seem to make sense.

He’s almost certainly going through major mental issues, along the lines of schizophrenia or something similar. He needs help.

How is that a wild conspiracy theory?

For one thing, the MIT Media Lab is an associate of Epstein's.

context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838084

as is usual with a lot of recent conspiracy theories, seems analogous to apophenia[0] to me, or something similar.

the non-conspiracy "fact" seems to be what most people here think about Swartz: that he killed himself after a overzealous prosecution. Nothing to do with Epstein or Swartz's role at Reddit.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

What’s the concrete evidence making this likely to be true? If there’s none, just wild speculation, then I’d consider it a wild conspiracy theory.

The link seems to be “Swartz downloaded millions of scholarly articles using an MIT network, and Epstein/Maxwell donated money to MIT.” That seems to be about it? Not exactly a logical reason to conclude that Swartz was assassinated as part of an Epstein/Maxwell coverup.

He's a nutjob that blew up his own house while trying to make a bomb or something. There's even an article somewhere. It's not the first time he's being ..weird.

I posted this earlier, but it got flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859476

His twitter post. https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272

The author apparently got political, had issues with the law enforcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839786

But isn't faker just a port of someone else's work (originally written in Ruby)?

The oldest version of it dates back to Perl ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Faker ) - but yes.

> It's unclear if it's referring to current authoritarian turns in our western world, big corps using his software for free, or something else.

Or both of those two.

or the insurance company jingle

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