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celtoid··on Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
They forgot the /s after "sincerely".
celtoid··on How the Baltic states became the hub of crypto money laundering and fraud
Jeez...why can't they launder their money through the Seychelles and Dominica like normal people do?
celtoid··on How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
Alt headline: Crazed military contractor teams up with public university to torture animals in the name of science.

"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." -Schopenhauer

celtoid··on How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments
> 2. Assume good faith until iron-clad evidence to the contrary (X years later). Then after that, of course, in any new scenario keep assuming good faith because there has been no FOIA or release of declassified documents yet

A lot of Americans suffer from "lazy decency bias". It allows for the worst of humanity to regularly skate for some heinous actions.

celtoid··on How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments
> "The CIA ~was~ clearly prepared to kill innocent American citizens."

Is.

celtoid··on If money rules the world, who rules money? (2008) [pdf]
And most people can't be troubled to seek out the answers.
celtoid··on If money rules the world, who rules money? (2008) [pdf]
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, money creation happens in banks, not in government.

"The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in banks." [0]

[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern_Money_Mechanics/Introd...

celtoid··on SMS Security and Privacy Gaps
I've been using SimpleX [0] with a couple of friends recently. It appears to work as advertised.

[0] https://simplex.chat

celtoid··on Mark, Bezos, Gates. Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire Is a Father with Money
Elon came from a very privileged background. Of late, he's been trying to spin his bio as as plucky guy with little money. His family was upper middle class. Poor little rich boy.
celtoid··on Mark, Bezos, Gates. Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire Is a Father with Money
Can't forget Elon.
celtoid··on The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
Sassaman was probably Satoshi. He and Finney worked together at PGP.
celtoid··on Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
https://drop.lol

Github: https://github.com/mat-sz/filedrop

celtoid··on The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
Len's publications list [0] alone should be the clincher. People want to believe in shadowy orgs instead of basic human ingenuity.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Len-Sa...

celtoid··on The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
Len's connection to Hal Finney, the first recipient of a Bitcoin transaction and a hell of a cryptographer in his own right, is quite the breadcrumb.
celtoid··on The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
In 2008, there were only a relative few people who could've created Bitcoin. Len Sassaman, dead since 2011, is the best fit imo.

"By all accounts, Len was on track to be one of the most important cryptographers of his time. But on July 3rd, 2011, he tragically took his own life at 31, following a long battle with depression and functional neurological disorders.

His death coincided with the disappearance of the world’s most famous cypherpunk: Satoshi Nakamoto. Only 2 months before Len died, Satoshi sent their final communication:

I’ve moved on to other things and probably won’t be around in the future." [0]

[0] https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...

celtoid··on Twitter Worth Only Third of Elon Musk's Purchase: Fidelity
Money down the xitter. Elon's Folly is a toxic dump of wasted potential.
celtoid··on Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called
FTA:

> By midday Friday, UAW's verified check was reinstated. The Intercept's reporter, Ryan Grim, posted on X, writing, "Elon put the blue check back up. Maybe the Big Three will fold this fast too."

celtoid··on Saudi Arabia Is Murdering Ethiopian Migrants. Washington Is Silent
"Human rights" would be an issue for the US if the US thought it could invade Saudi Arabia and steal its oil.
celtoid··on NASA says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs
So either parts of the US government have been lying about for years about not having "alien" bodies and tech or parts of the US government are lying now about having "alien" bodies and tech.

In five years, a "conspiracy theorist" will be defined as someone who refuses to believe the propaganda from on high about UFOs/UAPs.

celtoid··on NASA says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs
The Military-intelligence sector has a long history of pushing things out that are less than true, often for the benefit of the national security state.

This UFO/UAP guff is great cover for the advanced AI piloted aircraft/spacecraft sightings that will be inevitable in the coming years.

Bonus: The Controlled Disclosure Campaign Plan [0]

[0] https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2023/07/18/169/123/CREC-20...

celtoid··on That’s What I Call Ponzinomics
> It is unfortunate that you lost money chasing after a short squeeze

I don't participate in the stock market but this isn't about me anyway. It's about Wall St itself being a massive scam.

celtoid··on Suspected Chinese operatives using AI images to spread disinformation among US
Good thing that US three letter agencies would never do such a thing. /s
celtoid··on X “unfit” for banking because of complicity in Saudi spying, lawyers argue
> The letter alleged that as proof of the platform's complicity, instead of cracking down on Saudi spying after the FBI alert, "Twitter began approving Saudi requests for confidential information, including 'emergency disclosures,' in 'droves.'"

On top of that, Xitter is using an Israeli intelligence firm for user verification. No way should Xitter become a bank with so many leaks to foreign intelligence services.

[0] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/x-twitter-israel-concerns...

celtoid··on My Open Letter to the Open Source Software Industry
Craig Wright is an oozing pustule.
celtoid··on NYPD spent millions to contract with firm banned by Meta for fake profiles
Voyager Labs and Cobwebs Technologies are both linked to foreign intelligence, specifically Israeli intelligence. NYPD and foreign intelligence are an uncomfortable mix, imo.
celtoid··on That’s What I Call Ponzinomics
> I don't see how that is relevant.

It's relevant.

"We have all been sold the fiction that when we buy a stock, we have become proud owners of a great American corporation. Our investment is funding that Company and America’s growth. This is not an accurate description. As I will show in this report, we are actually involved in commodity trading of street name securities in which the trading of and record keeping is completely controlled by DTCC and the elite Wall Street firms with no transparency for outsiders. Operating in this black hole of important information they use loopholes in the clearing and settlement system administered by DTCC and loopholes in the ineffective SHO regulations to create counterfeit shares at will. They can and do expand the supply of street name securities through creating counterfeit shares to overwhelm demand and drive down the stock price." [0]

[0] https://smithonstocks.com/part-8-illegal-naked-shorting-seri...

celtoid··on That’s What I Call Ponzinomics
> Are stock in general a ponzi-like scheme?

As a matter of fact, it sort of is. Look up Cede & Co and the Depository Trust Co.

"While private-company stock is still directly owned by shareholders, nearly all publicly traded equities and a majority of bonds are owned by a little-known partnership, Cede & Co., which is the nominee of the Depository Trust Co., a depository that holds securities for some 600 broker-dealers and banks. For each security, Cede & Co. owns a master certificate known as the "global security," which never leaves its vault. Transactions are recorded as debits and credits to DTC members' securities accounts, but the registered owner of the securities — Cede & Co. — remains the same.

What shareholders have rather than direct ownership, then, "is a [contractual] right against their broker...The broker then has a right against the depository institution where they have membership. Then the depository institution is beholden to the issuer. It's [at least] a three-step process before you get any rights to your stock." -American Banker, July 27, 2016 [0]

[0] https://archive.ph/qpyBe

celtoid··on Reddit using developers to suppress r/UFOs and r/SuperStonk?
Thank you for this. If the paper is right, it should be celebrated as a scientific achievement but instead, we got a boatload of national security state propaganda about ufos instead.
celtoid··on UK drops 'spy clause' for scanning encrypted messages, admits not 'feasible'
> Casual spying on citizens is new to Western governments

Five Eyes are old hands at spying on their citizens. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

celtoid··on Why Socialism? (1949)
You're describing commerce, a practice as old as humanity. Capitalism is a relatively recent development with very specific traits.
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