happybeing @happybeing@mastodon.technology

"There were at least four meetings between the main funder of the #Brexit campaign and the Russian government. There are reasonable grounds to believe there were many more"

[Liar (acc. to the judge)] Arron Banks almost crushed me... - @carolecadwalla https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2022/jun/19/arron-banks-set-out-to-crush-me-in-court-instead-my-quest-for-the-facts-was-vindicated

Grappling with decentralisation and governance in an increasingly difficult legal environment, ongoing discussion:

"The question is how does humanity articulate those questions, and demands? That is the problem to be solved." Jim Collinson, MaidSafe.

https://safenetforum.org/t/dealing-with-horrific-content-or-something/37121/233?u=happybeing

Good overview of the state, pros and cons of current #Blockchain technology for currency applications by Matthew Green:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2022/06/09/in-defense-of-cryptocurrency/

"The problem is viewing growth of capital as an ends and not a means. If we do not demand that our systems maximize the well-being of humans and the environment which sustains us, then all is lost."

#AI has been eating the world for centuries: Capitalism https://thoughtinfection.com/2014/04/19/capitalism-is-a-paperclip-maximizer/

@aaronbieber thanks.

To use Startpage search in Firefox:

Settings > Search > Other > Add

Use Search string:

https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=%s

Having learned we can't trust Duck Duck Go what to use? See replies to thread below.

TL;DR: Startpage with EU servers

https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/1529601896947896320

"But drinking wasn't limited to Fridays. One former official describes turning up at work in No 10 often to find "A mess! There were bottles, empties, rubbish - in the bin, but overflowing - or indeed sometimes left on the table."" #PartyGate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61566410

Fascinating #SafeNetwork update this week announcing Safe Labs and explaining how Node Age protects against Sybil attacks. https://safenetforum.org/t/update-may-12-2022/37047?u=happybeing

The headline! 🙏🏼

> Picnics banned in Rome in effort to combat wild boar incursions https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/08/picnics-banned-in-rome-in-bid-to-combat-wild-boar-incursions

A digital cash Big Bang is coming, on #SafeNetwork: "Once the network launches for real, the genesis DBC will be reissued and subdivided and spread across the firmament. The best mechanism for this distribution is what we’re looking into now." https://safenetforum.org/t/update-5-may-2022/37018?u=happybeing

A unique situation, weeks of Russian soldiers living with a devastated Ukrainian family opened their eyes and gives us all insight and hope:

"Irina seemed to believe that all she had done was survive, but she & her family had done far more. Zelensky... and the Horbonoses, through their remarkable dialogue with their Russian enemies, had shown us how this war could actually end" by twitter.com/peterpomeranzev https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/putin-war-propaganda-russian-support/629714/

Musk didn't buy Twitter he bought us: our attention, data, thoughts, fears, interests, allegiances, connections, private messages and..

..more importantly he bought the ability to inspect and control all of that.

He paid about $200 for each of us. #twittersold

Safe Network takes a big step towards: "Membership has now been integrated into the Safe Network. This is the culmination of an epic slog by the whole team and it represents a major milestone" 👏

And a new era for Digital Bearer Certificates explained:
https://safenetforum.org/t/update-21-april-2022/36951?u=happybeing

Tory government turns a proud, diverse, prosperous Britain into a petty third world, asset stripped kleptocracy.

> Women in England’s poorest areas die younger than in most OECD countries https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/17/women-in-englands-poorest-areas-die-younger-than-in-most-oecd-countries

A good start to the day, a young sculler, her coach and a handful of boaters saved a deer from drowning in the canal.

Another Brexit failure.
Another Boris Johnson lie.

> ‘An outrage’: Tories’ post-Brexit fund will not match EU grants until 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/14/an-outrage-tories-post-brexit-fund-will-not-match-eu-grants-until-2025?CMP=share_btn_tw

@otso yeh, first week in a while. We're waiting for a build with a new bugfix and features.