Saturday, July 1, 2023

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The British constantly push the large powers into conflict. This war is nothing more than a British psy-op, as always.

 
16:50. The best plan that emerged from this, a plan that is usually attributed to to a guy by the name of W.T. Stead, 1849-1912, he was a very prominent British journalist he worked as a journalist I've read that he's he was actually an intelligence operative very high level one in British intelligence he was certainly somebody much more than a journalist he was a leading planner of imperial policy and worked at a very high level with very top figures in the British establishment and he wrote a book in 1901, called the Americanization of the World in which Mr. Stead basically argued that in order to keep its predominant position in the world, its place of power, Great Britain would have to actually merge with the United States.  They foresaw that the US would emerge as a global superpower, and Stead understood that England could either be a rival of the United States, and that wasn't going to end well for England, they could foresee even then, or England could manage a process of merging with the United States to create a global English-speaking superstate that would be basically under British control by taking the initiative in making this happen.  The British would ensure that they would control them and this is very important for people to understand because I think most people if they think on this question at all they understand that because of NATO and because of the five eyes intelligence agencies treaty just because of all these transnational treaties and transnational institutions that have been set up especially after World War II I think most people understand that the United States and Great Britain are locked together in all kinds of complexional institutional Frameworks to the point where they don't completely exist independent as as independent countries

“You’d have to burn a pizza stove 849 years to equal one year of John Kerry’s private jet”

"the fact that Musk is doing this now and here in the United States, you are going to hear the censorship industry howl all over this, 'He's destroying democracy.'"

00:40  He mentions his website, Foundation for Freedom Online.  His Twitter feed is here.

04:00  Twitter is by far and away the intelligence agency, the State Department, the Defense Department, and the NGO-plex, social media platform par excellence.  They much prefer the intel they can scrape from Twitter than from any other social media company.  And there's good reason for this, other than LinkedIn, I would say, and they would say.  And part of that is because Twitter is not a walled garden like Facebook.  Facebook is also a social media platform, obviously, but most private accounts you can only access if you are friends with that person or friends of a friend.  Twitter did not have that.  And YouTube there's a giant divide between producers and consumers.  Consumers on YouTube are not content creators.  That's not the case on Twitter.  Every Twitter user is a content creator when they click the retweet button.  And so you can map real-time narrative emergence on Twitter in a way that you can't do on any other social media platform.  And that has been used by the CIA, the State Department, the Defense Department, hundreds of censorship, government-funded NGOs, centers, non-profit foundations, "university research centers," and the works.  In order to build their social media censorship Death Star, they need to be able to scrape hundreds of millions of tweets.  And what Musk is doing here is very interesting, because on the one hand, you could argue it's a sort of, kind of form of, I wouldn't say censorship necessarily, because it's not like a particular person is singled out, but you are limiting the openness of the internet by doing this.  But on the other hand, you are actually, potentially preserving the openness of the internet by preventing the construction of this censorship Death Star that is getting more and more refined every day and is getting funded by your tax dollars to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from DARPA and the National Science Foundation to say nothing about the State Department and USAID, and National Endowment for Democracy grants.  so it's all very interesting.  That's just one thing to keep in mind on top of the fact that this is obviously going to be a revenue generator for Musk as he sees it.  He drew a distinction between verified accounts and unverified accounts, where you can sort of have normal Twitter if you have a verified account because that 8,000 rate limit is pretty substantial.  But 800 is not a lot, so it's highly incentivized for people to get Verified Accounts, so obviously this could . . . I'm not sure that Elon Musk is doing this to throttle the AI Censorship Death Star constructed out of the censorship industry.  He may just be doing this for cynical business reasons in order to pump up the subscription base, or a privacy reason independent of censorship.  But whether he knows it or not, there are going to be hundreds of censorship operatives housed in the University research centers this week, howling at the moon that this is an attack on democracy for Musk to limit their access because it has been for years now a big bugaboo for all of the university censorship operatives who cloak themselves as "researchers" when what they are is operatives.  That if they lose access to the underlying data on which their AI censorship models are built, then they will not be able to do their jobs as effective as fast, precise, and comprehensive as social media censors.  So they've been having a big fight about this exact issue in Europe because of Europe's GDPR laws, their data privacy laws, and other sovereign European state restrictions on 3rd party access to social media user-level data.  And so they tried to get around that by having certain journalists and researchers they've sort of designated "privileged class" to get so that only they can be sort of the trusted keepers of this information that used to be public but now is not.  So the fact that Musk is doing this now and here in the United States, you are going to hear the censorship industry howl all over this.  Whether Musk knows this or not, he has stepped on a rattlesnake.  We'll see how it plays out, but I am very curious to see how this rattlesnake reacts to this new boot.  And in a weird way, even though the boot may be cutting off some amount of openness of Twitter, it may also represent, in some way, the boot of freedom. 8:52 

"if you're not paying for the product, you are the product"

Email wasn't designed with privacy or security in mind.  And it's original form email was transferred completely in the open everything was readable by anyone who watched Network traffic and there were little to no checks to prevent impersonation but as email is important screw instead of overhauling the way it works to provide security and privacy various protocols were layered over it to try and address these issues but let's be honest most people aren't going just give up their email not only do we rely on it for work communicating with loved ones we also use email addresses to sign up to various websites to reset our passwords email is a core part of our digital identity.

What are some of the things that we can do to increase our email privacy?  Most importantly find an email provider that provides the following Services:

1) Collection Retains Minimum Metadata.  Metadata is personal information about you, stuff like email subjects, sender, and receiver, and the date.  You don't want an email provider that is keeping a database of all this information. 

The rest of the criteria revolves around encryption like a digital lock and key
2) Transport Layer Encryption, TLE.  This means your email is encrypted while it travels over the Internet which makes it harder for third parties to intercept and read most email providers worth their salt will provide this.
3) Zero Access Encryption, ZAE. This means that your email and attachments are encrypted while stored so that your email provider can't read them zero access encryption prevents the messages in your mailbox from being shared with third parties or leaked in the event of a data breach but encryption and decryption still happens by the email provider and there is a split second in which the message is accessible to the email provider before it is encrypted and finally,
4) End-to-End Encryption, EEE. This takes things a step further than zero access encryption instead of just storing emails in an encrypted way encryption and decryption of emails happen entire entirely on a user's device so that whatever information the email provider receives is already encrypted and given these criteria how did the most popular email providers Stack Up well let's start with the free ones.

The vast majority of users rely on free online email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook.

Gmail alone has 1.8 billion users making up almost half of the entire email market share.  Gmail Outlook in Yahoo actually do a good job with transport layer encryption and use the TLs by default as long as the receiving email address supports it given the large amount of emails that flow through these email providers this was a huge step in securing a large bulk of the world's emails while in transit but there's a reason why these companies are willing to provide email services for free.  The saying "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product" rings true here.  

Web-based emails' primary job is to scan your email.  

The content of your emails is visible to the likes of Google and Yahoo or Microsoft and they use this data to build profiles of you and Target you with advertising.