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ex-{mathematician, cryptographer, cypherpunk} // navigating the library of babel
To be clear, the institutions (an entirely misguided US DoJ/SDNY) attempting to jail software devs and investors are the only enemy in this situation Supporting @rstormsf @alex_pertsev @tomhschmidt @hosseeb @dragonfly_xyz 🫡
Dragonfly finally makes a public statement on Tornado Cash This comes after prosecutors stated yday that they are considering charges against multiple Dragonfly employees This follows the Defense hoping Tom would testify, but he pleaded the 5th Notifications on for @ameensol
> i wouldn’t use the term “jailbreak” > ok. would someone else use the term “jailbreak”? > …. maybe …
“in every single case…the Def directly connected w/ the SDN or created a tool *for* the SDN specifically. There was no case - none - where a Def made a tool w/ no particular end user in mind & was then convicted of violating sanctions b/c an SDN ended up with that tool in hand.”
As of Thursday, in their Rule 29 response, the DOJ is still pushing this theory that Storm, by publishing TC software, provided a "valuable service" to a sanctioned entity because DPRK used the protocol. This flawed principle is limitless: if I make a hammer with no particular…
i get very confused when someone says “you’re arguing semantics” in a discussion about what things mean. yes, exactly?
i’ve been reading old newspapers recently and there’s good stuff in there
It is interesting that so many people insist on treating copyright as if it has moral value, when it is just a policy tool intended to encourage people to create works of authorship. When policy tools are no longer efficient, we can & should change them.
read PIHKAL, there are plenty of paths into the dark forest with warning signs posted
do you ever think about how (salvia aside) common psychedelics are selected for feeling either meaningful or good? there must be a whole dark forest of research chemicals with the power to provide insight nobody wants
from the end of the first century of the imperial age something sultry and oppressive appears, a darkening of the atmosphere of life … here we find that the process has reached the stage of a magical and sensory dehumanization
Another perspective on the Roman Storm trial: the FBI failed to stop the government of North Korea from stealing billions of dollars from innocent people and using it to build weapons. So the FBI is scapegoating the one person they *can* reach: an innocent software developer.
if you think the models have interesting embedded waluigis, wait until you meet the alignment researchers