How is that identity verified?
"Will these all fall into a crowd funding situation?"
Yes, charities and the church did this before modern social democracies and could easily do it again. If you remove most other forced taxes and fees, people can decide for themselves who to support with that money. And not just by giving away cash to organizations or people, but also via considerable discounts on services or products they provide directly to the families in question.
Enjoying Shortwave a lot since I installed it a few weeks ago. Very nice, simple Internet radio player with integrated search for stations:
https://flathub.org/apps/de.haeckerfelix.Shortwave
Shill me your favorite stations!
Her living room has the size of other people's house but the poor girl cannot afford organic blueberries. Life is brutal!
https://video.nostr.build/83a633dc75c3ac1854bbd2ca2e5ef33788cf424588d36815f4a3a3883b29601d.mp4
Pretty sure humans can survive without organic blueberries from the supermarket. But what do I know?!
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
They also claim bitcointv.com doesn't have a publicly available feed (it does), and violated community guidelines or ToS (I'm sure none of the videos do). Totally not copied from random fedi blocklists I'm sure!
How is there even a presidential debate, when neither of the participants haven even been nominated as candidates by their party yet?
I guess their goal is to see if Biden, in his current condition, has any chance whatsoever of winning against Trump; and if not, to nominate someone else to avoid a certain loss.
Is there a Bitaxe manufacturer that ships to the EU? Asking for a friend.
#bitcoin #mining #asknostr
A round of applause for the Wau Holland Foundation, please! 👏
"The foundation has so far spent a total of over 16 million euros on lawyers and campaigns, not including the costs of the flight to Australia chartered by the Australian government and guaranteed for by the foundation. In addition to ten law firms in eight countries, human rights lawyers, international journalist associations and the commissioning of lobbying and PR firms, the Foundation has been involved in many activities to draw attention to Julian’s situation and the associated threat to freedom of the press and freedom of expression. The countless supporters who organized local campaigns and regular vigils for Julian also contributed to this result."
https://wauland.de/en/news/2024/06/julian-assange-free/
#assange
Oof, that court kept me up until almost 5am. Good morning!
It's not theft, because it's extortion.
However, since the entire trial so far was a complete and utter joke, and they even contemplated outright murdering him before, I wouldn't count on this being an important detail. The only thing that really keeps him safe is as many people as possible knowing who he is, what he actually did, and what they did to him.
If the plea deal is officially confirmed by a judge, then yes, Julian will be safe from being prosecuted again for the same charges if another administration were to change their mind about his fate in the future. This is due to the Double Jeopardy Clause, which is specified in the 5th Amendment:
Wikileaks accepting BTC donations, when the U.S. finance oligopoly blocked their access to online payments and even Western Union in 2010, was one of the first important use cases for #bitcoin at the time. Never forget!
Another chapter closes. I vividly remember watching Julian presenting Wikileaks 1.0 at the 26C3 in Berlin in December of 2009.
Less than a year later, the Swedish government issued what we now know was an arrest warrant based on bullshit accusations, intended to get Julian to a place that would immediately extradite him to the U.S. Then-vice-president of the U.S. Joe Biden called him a "hi-tech terrorist" at the end of that year.
After the initial legal back-and-forth, the Ecuadorian government at the time granted him asylum in their London embassy building, where he was then holed up until 2019, even though in 2017, the Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation against him and the European arrest warrant was withdrawn. But in 2018, we finally got proof of a sealed criminal case by the U.S. government against him, which was the reason for his unlawful detainment all along.
When British police were finally allowed to arrest Julian, mainstream media ran another smear campaign, claiming that the Ecuadorian government was sick of Julian's political opinions, like e.g. supporting the Catalan independence movement. Laughable.
Meanwhile, the Ecuadorian government had changed. After the socialist president Correa had run the country's finances into the shitter (and just by the way, Ecuador is using USD as their own legal tender), the newly elected former vice president was much more eager to cooperate with the U.S. government. So it wasn't that big of a surprise when Moreno signed MOUs with USAID in 2019, which resulted in a direct $62.5M investment, followed by a $6.5B IMF loan in 2020. Julian obviously being part of a quid pro quo.
Then, the worst part began. The U.K. government, stooges of the U.S. as they are, decided to not just detain Julian on behalf of the U.S. government (with Donald Trump being president at the time), but they thought putting a journalist and publisher in a supermax prison built for terrorists, rapists, and murderers was the most reasonable course of action. And they kept him there, in a 2x3 meter cell, isolated for 23 hours a day, for 1901 days.
The process was the punishment. Julian exposed war criminals, who *all* walk free today, and never served a day in prison. And he's one of us. A hacker, whose only goal was to help people by giving them the information that their own warmongering, secretive governments denied them.
There are not many people I have more respect for than this person. And I don't think I ever felt this much sorrow for someone's misfortune, outside of my own family's tragedies.
I can't wait for the next chapter to begin. But I'm so incredibly glad that this one is over!
🙏
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Then you can update your profile with the NIP-05 address "_@lynalden.com". The underscore is a reserved name to indicate that you are the domain owner, so it will simply show as "lynalden.com" in clients (as opposed to something redundant like "lyn@lynalden.com").
(eab0e756d32b80bcd464f3d844b8040303075a13eabc3599a762c9ac7ab91f4f is your public key in hexadecimal format)