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Big (Quite Possibly Less Than Desirable) Changes Coming to Facebook?

Recently, I saw an article highlighting some possible changes that could be coming to Facebook —

The Admin Zone — Upcoming Facebook Changes by Lisa

H/T the Armed Equality Facebook page

Basically, where Facebook Groups are concerned, the Facebook admins and the robots that they task with doing most of […]

Yet Another Phisher?!

Oh, joy, another phisher trying to get my ProtonMail password —

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Sunday, June 16, 2019 4:35 PM, ProtonMail <vhost72692f0@accountaxxxx244.ee> wrote:

Dear Mikewb1971

Your mikewb1971@protonmail.com will be removed in the next 24 hours as your device has been sending a shut down request to our internal server.

Take […]

[TLE] Re: Excellent Article Today

Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

I hope all is well with you and yours, Neil!

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Sunday, June 16, 2019 10:16 AM, L. Neil Smith wrote:

Dear Mike —

I greatly enjoyed what you wrote for us today[1]. I love philosophy related specifically to hardware. Wish […]

Operation Choke Point Moves (Back) to the Private Sector

First, Big Finance tried to shut down the firearms industry in the 1990s when Bank of America, among others, decided that they would no longer provide financial services to federally-licensed unregulated firearms dealers and manufacturers —

https://startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=banks+refusing+firearms+business

Then in 2013, Barack Obama decided to make this sort of thing official federal […]

Cash In With “Gun Control” AND Support the Second Amendment

Every gun should be a happy and wanted gun, adopted by loving owners who will care for it and feed it and make sure that there are plenty of other guns nearby to keep it company.

Still, most of the Political Classholes, along with their flunkies among law enforcement and the media, […]

Another Phishing Attempt Upon Me

After logging into my ProtonMail account to send my latest to The Libertarian Enterprise, I noticed a bit of spam in my inbox there —

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Saturday, May 11, 2019 9:28 AM, Proton Team <MicrosoftS.Office.365-NotificatiSons-Noreplys@server102.hostwhitelaabel.com> wrote:

Mikewb1971

Your mikewb1971@protonmail.com will be removed in the next 24 […]

Transparent Aluminum — Star Trek Technology is Now Real [Video]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduO1fNzV4w&w=560&h=315]

FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

Wikipedia — Transparent aluminum

NOTES

Reposted – Personal blogs and micro-blogs – Diaspora* / Ello / Facebook / Friendica / Gab / Google Plus / Minds / Oneway / Tea Party Community / Twitter / VK Extropy Unbound Facebook page

[…]

About Those Self-Driving Cars . . . .

One question for those reading this —

How many of you remember this commercial from OnStar that aired a few years ago?

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y3D-tevC-w?rel=0&w=560&h=315]

There’s plenty more where that came from —

YouTube search: onstar stolen vehicle slowdown

YouTube search: onstar stolen vehicle slowdown commercial

I’m sure […]

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

by John Perry Barlow <barlow@eff.org>

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not […]

Freenet: The forgotten cryptopunk paradise, by “Draketo” / Arne Babenhauserheide

Freenet: The forgotten cryptopunk paradise

by “Draketo” / Arne Babenhauserheide

I planned to get this into a newspaper, but it was too technical for the Guardian and too non-practical for Linux Voice. Then my free time ran out. Today I saw Barret Brown report (freenet mirror) on his 5 years […]