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SOFTWAR philosophy | mutually assured preservation | electro-cyber warfare and zero-trust cooperation

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No.. he will delete the posts soon. Technically he's not supposed to be talking about it, he just skirts the rules a little.

He will let us know when he is cleared hot.

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Tomorrow I’m talking to the best #Bitcoin visualization creator nostr:npub14uhkst639zvc2trx2nlsvk4yqkjp690zk89keytnzgmq2az0qmnq58ez89 on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 (there is no second best).

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I wanna know if he's read SOFTWAR... but you can only ask him about it if you've also read it.

Why are those the only two countries you think of when you hear the word neighbors? The international neighborhood is a big place. The U.S. has many enemies, and a fully open southern border.

"The “might is right” pecking order heuristic for establishing interspecies dominance hierarchies creates an amoral foundation which can’t be exploited. “Might is right” could also be called “physics is right.” Wild animals which use physical power competitions to settle disputes and establish resource control authority (what we call warfare when our species performs the same activity) let physics and probability decide their pecking order for them. By using physics rather than abstract ideologies to determine the pecking order, wild animals don’t suffer from the same vulnerability that sapiens routinely suffer from: population-scale psychological abuse and exploitation."

- Jason Lowery

“There is a pattern that we see recurring throughout history… When survival is no longer at stake, selfish elites and other special interest groups capture the political agenda. The spirit that ‘we are all in the same boat’ disappears and is replaced by a ‘winner take all’ mentality. As the elites enrich themselves, the rest of the population is increasingly impoverished. Rampant inequality of wealth further corrodes cooperation. Beyond a certain point a formerly great empire becomes so dysfunctional that smaller, more cohesive neighbors begin tearing it apart. Eventually the capacity for cooperation declines to such a low level that barbarians can strike at the very heart of the empire without encountering significant resistance. But barbarians at the gate are not the real cause of imperial collapse. They are a consequence...”

- Peter Turchin

The Rise of Drone Warfare at the U.S. Southern Border

Recent developments along the U.S. southern border have highlighted an evolving security challenge: the use of drones by drug cartels. These drones are being used for both surveillance of U.S. border patrol and warfare due to infighting between these criminal organizations.

Drug cartels have increasingly employed drones for reconnaissance, scouting the movements of U.S. Border Patrol agents to facilitate the smuggling of drugs and humans across the border. This tactical use of technology allows cartels to adapt their smuggling routes in real-time, avoiding interception and maximizing their illicit profits. The drones, often commercially available models, are modified to carry payloads, ranging from small drug packages to surveillance equipment.

The escalation to drone bombs represents a significant shift in cartel tactics. Reports from the ground, especially from areas like Michoacán and Chiapas in Mexico, show drones being used to drop explosives. These attacks target rival cartels, Mexican security forces, and occasionally come dangerously close to U.S. territory. The use of explosive-laden drones introduces a new level of violence, turning what was once a tool for smuggling into a weapon of territorial warfare.

U.S. and Mexican authorities are grappling with this aerial threat. The U.S. has acknowledged over 1,000 drone incursions monthly, indicating the scale of the issue. However, exact numbers are hard to pin down due to the lack of comprehensive detection systems tailored for small, low-flying drones. The response includes deploying counter-drone technology, like radio-frequency jammers, but the adaptability and low cost of cartel drones make this an ongoing cat-and-mouse game.

The use of combat drones by cartels not only escalates the violence in Mexico but also poses a direct challenge to U.S. border security. It underscores the need for advanced technological countermeasures and increased international cooperation to tackle this transnational threat. Moreover, it raises concerns about the potential for these tactics to evolve further, possibly integrating more advanced technologies or even autonomous capabilities in the future.

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When I was growing up in middle school and high school, I had a next door neighbor trailer park friend named Jordan, who is quite a character and has showed up in detail in some of my long-form Nostr posts from a while ago. He ran a series of sand-pit fights in his backyard that I participated in.

Sadly, he had the most broken and crazy home, like him and his younger sister were often alone and figuring out life for themselves, with their mom coming back like every other day barely, but Jordan was so charismatic and funny and smart that I hung out with him and his sister a lot at home and at the bus stop. Their trailer was an absolute mess, but it had a chaotic warmth to it from the people there. Jordan basically ran the place. When his absentee single mother came home from time to time after work and whatever else she was up to, she'd be like, "Oh Lyn, hi! I've been out today due to motorcycle lessons. (???) Do you want a bagel? I've got bagels. Jordan, you should be more like Lyn, she's polite. She always says thank you. Stay as long as you want Lyn, sorry for the mess." And I'd be like, "uhmm, thanks!"

Jordan, who was two years older than me, taught me to play Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, and got me into anime via Trigun and Cowboy Beebop; all sorts of nerd stuff at a time when I was kind of otherwise aimless. I was living alone with my 60+ year old single father at the time.

We then became a funny duo as teenagers; him as the charismatic outlandish guy who usually got into trouble, taught me all sorts of nerd stuff, got his girlfriend pregnant at age18 and started a family with her, barely got out of high school, and me as the total opposite introverted bookish polite one next door that would play Magic the Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons with his friends group, and that he'd trick his friends into fighting in his sand pit as a joke since they didn't know what they were getting into, but that was like clean as a whistle in terms of schoolwork and relationships.

Anyway, the point of this rambling post is that I first watched Fight Club in the best possible setting. I went over to Jordan's house one evening, and we started watching it. But then his mother called him and said to come to help with some shit she was dealing with, so he was like, "hey I got to go Lyn, but you can keep watching it, no problem." So I was there at night, in his messy trailer alone (???), watching Fight Club. The place was a mess, I felt weird that I was the only one in their home despite not living there, and Jordan was basically a more benign equivalent of Tyler Durden. So actually the movie hit a bit harder because I was both enjoying it but also constantly on edge because I was in a weird environment that didn't quite feel right, and yet felt oddly on-brand for the movie.

Can't really replicate that. And it's burned into my memory better than most movies.

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I love this post so much... thanks for the story Lyn.

unless you control your own hash power, you are engaging in a trust-based system where you trust miners to include your transactions in the block, period.

El Salvador.. as the first country deeming it legal tender must mine their own blocks to guarantee they aren't censored for any reason. This is not disputable.