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 Grand Theft Crypto - relaunched

Grand theft crypto is an F-box game engine from the the underground game-crew that bought you President Evil, Castle Wolfensen, Plane Murder and Doctor Rat.

In stores for CYPHERPUNK 2027 this game is a combination role-playing, third peon shooter in a close but separate reality.

Some revolutionary software has been stolen by the last-empire, a military/industrial combine thats taking over the planet. Targeting dissidents and code rebels stormtroopers of the empire are similar to 1st generation OCP robocops, while high up positions in the empire have been favored by players in field tests, the survival and resistance tactics and strategy of the rebels win over longer term players as they delve into the multi-verse world of 2006. Ricomended.

https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg12865.html

Viva lost wages

 ⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Local businesses in Las Vegas are beginning to accept Bitcoin payments, following a national trend showing it gaining traction among merchants cutting costs and attracting customers.

"We're accepting BTC now...Compared to credit card fees, [Bitcoin] is a lot less." 

 https://blossom.primal.net/d9424f24fa1793a36f91769d63083308131624d976612a91e2ad3d0328e71d8c.mp4 

 In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the ADAM BACK,  VITALIK BUTERIN eye-in-the-sky is watching btc kiddyporn.

Rus delenda est

 ⚡🇺🇦🇪🇺 NEW - Ukrainian President Zelensky calls for European leaders to create a "new world order." #Davos https://blossom.primal.net/a4514967e599d10a8e3f8e3b0befc01f923d8618f105622788154ed15b1f6292.mp4 

Its either that or learn to speak Russian. 

Claude corruption by death-caps

  Catholic members of the clergy - Father Brendan McGuire is a pastor in Los Altos with a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Math and Bishop Paul Tighe is an Irish Catholic bishop with a background in moral theology.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/21/claudes-new-constitution/

Help us Zolgo one.  You're our only hope.

Mussolini was a Catholic. Dolfuss was Catholic. Franco was Catholic.

Himmler, head of the SS, was a Catholic. The SS was set up on the Jesuit model. Goebbels was Catholic.

Hoss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz, was a Catholic. Frank,‘ the butcher of Poland ’, was Catholic.

The Croatian police-state of Pavelic's  Ustache  was Catholic. Pinochet was a Catholic.

That's just one century of Clerical fascism!

Catholics all hate women's healthcare and have a long criminal history of child rape and assault.

Mobile Canadian toilets appear

 Silent but deadly

Though Donald Trump seems to be calling off his latest trade war, the United States has indeed retreated from free trade with a new era of tariffs. It’s a development I rue. But Canada just opened its market to Chinese cars. So Trump did in fact find the recipe to nudge an oft-protectionist Canada toward freer trade, though it is the opposite of what he might have been wishing for. Soon, Canada will have access to better and cheaper electric cars than what we can get in the United States. And even if you think that spyware could make those cars a security risk in Washington, D.C., due to spying possibilities, I am less worried about their proliferation in Quebec and Nova Scotia. Keep them out of Ottawa if need be.

The European Union just worked out a free trade agreement, pending final approval, with Mercosur, a trade bloc encompassing hundreds of millions of people in South America, a region that is likely to be more economically important in the future. The EU also announced it is likely to strike a free trade agreement with India, the most populous nation in the world and one of its fastest-growing economies. However imperfect these agreements may turn out to be, has there been any recent short period with so much progress in free trade?

And this on Mark Carney:

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s speech on Tuesday garnered a lot of attention, but I think for the wrong reasons. He proclaimed the ability of “middle powers”—that is, Europe and countries like his own—to stand their ground against America and China, but he mentioned AI only in passing. He had no solution to an immediately pending world where Canada is quite dependent on advanced AI systems from American companies (often, incidentally, developed by Canadian researchers in the U.S.). That is likely to be the next major development in this North American relationship, and it will not increase the relative autonomy of Canada or of any other middle powers.

Carney has garnered praise for staking out such bold ground and standing up to Trump. The deeper reality is that Carney can “talk back” in the North American partnership because he knows America will defend Canada, including against Russia, no matter what. Most European countries cannot relax in the same manner, and thus they are often more deferential. What the reactions from Carney and the Europeans show is not any kind of growing independence for the middle powers, but rather a reality where you are either quite tethered to a major power—as Canada is to America—or you live in fear of being abandoned, which is the current status of much of Europe. . . "

I'm still of two minds on this.  Is he fellating Ferengi?  Or kissing Borg backside.

One thing is clear.  International discourse has finally caught up with A-news comments.  

Anthropic pulling ahead of Open AI?

 Curious what Claude will recommend for cybersecurity.

" . . . This is Anthropic telling you they stopped competing with OpenAI on chatbots at the end of 2024. Jared Kaplan, their Chief Science Officer, admitted it publicly. They’re building vertical AI infrastructure across five high-margin regulated industries where GPT-4 wrappers can’t compete.

The numbers tell the story. Revenue went from $1B in January 2025 to $5B+ by August. $183B valuation. Claude Code alone generates $1B in run-rate revenue with 10x growth in three months. They did $9B+ in 2025, projecting $26B in 2026. Here’s the constraint nobody’s pricing in: Claude for Life Sciences launched in October with direct integrations into Benchling, 10x Genomics, and PubMed. Their Head of Biology said the goal is “a meaningful percentage of all life science work in the world running on Claude.” They’re not fighting for consumer attention. They’re embedding into the workflow layer where switching costs compound monthly. The DOE Genesis Mission partnership gives them access to all 17 national laboratories for energy and biosecurity applications. The cybersecurity team doubled Claude’s success rate on Cybench in six months. The audio team is building speech language models while competitors are still optimizing text. OpenAI is burning $74B through 2028 to own the ChatGPT interface. Anthropic is building the picks and shovels for regulated industries that require domain expertise, compliance frameworks, and enterprise integrations. MCP, Agent Skills, Claude Cowork. All open standards. Microsoft already adopted Skills in VS Code and GitHub. Cursor, Goose, Amp running on Anthropic infrastructure. GitHub Copilot’s default model is Claude Sonnet. They’re becoming the middleware layer that every AI application needs to touch regulated data. That ABCDE is a roadmap for vertical integration into five industries worth trillions. . . "

Rumors of revolutionary Marxists spread

 Big lies,  loudly repreated and placed on high rotation.  Clap hands if you believe in Fairies. 

And two cheers for Fedbook for establishing the majority of Colombians didn't want FARC.

Even assuming there are some Che Guevara's still out there that is no reason to revise anyones correct and well documented opinion Marxist-communism is the worst form of fascism since 1917

Any excuse for Russia ?  No excuse for Spain?

Go over there to the Marxist morons corner. 

Loser