Decentralized science will bring the brain onchain
Brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink concentrate mental control in corporate hands. Decentralized science offers shared governance over neural data.
COINTELEGRAPH
https://www.coingecko.com/en/news
Prediction Markets Bet Big on US Government Dysfunction: Shutdown Odds Stretch Toward Thanksgiving
As of Oct. 20, 2025, Washington’s still stuck in neutral—no deal, no compromise, and the House has hit snooze again, stretching recesses to Oct. 19.
These are the days of our lives
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group warned about a malware campaign implemented by North Korea that uses EtherHiding. The campaign uses a smart contract on a public chain, such as Ethereum or BUM, to avoid deletion or removal by traditional methods
Listem my Kraut, Mick, Guinea Irish friends, this sharply polarized debate over CSAM and associated slave marts need not split the wholly orange faith.
The spiking calendar takes care of everything.
2030 to 2045, the technological singularity. Hello!
Tell me a boatful of lawyers just sank.
And in the meantime do what all the best crypto thought leaders do best.
Prevaricate.
According to the Ethereum News, it decided to allocate funds to Morpho yield-bearing vaults as part of its Cypherpunk goals.
In the announcement, the Ethereum Foundation described Morpho as a pioneer in permissionless DeFi. It further added that the protocol has demonstrated a consistent commitment to open-source standards.
Related
Corporate creep could corrupt Ethereum's ethos, dev warns
Ethereum developer Federico Carrone warns venture capital firm Paradigm’s growing influence on the network could eventually lead to a misalignment in values.
Now cypherpunks is an ecumenical and universal calling I would like to recall all those actually jailed after cypherpunks were mentioned in court against them.
Maybe launch a few blegs.
I think sixty billion each is fair. So I ask exactly double that.
Not a Monero MORE or a Monero LESS.
You know its for a good cause.
Mong spent a bit of time making it clear he interpreted code as widely as possible.
This factoid also emerged from Bernstein. Code in US law is free speech from then on out. At least till the Patriot Act. Yet another synchronicity with Karl Marx too since he had a similar problem with labor creates all value.
Code is not magic , nature creates value and manifests are for funeral directors.
The dogs bark and the caravan moves on.
The canary could sing. But he could not fly.
— Eric Hughes, “Kid Gloves or Megaphones,” 1996
Three years after writing A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, Eric Hughes revisited that same “Cyperpunks write code” focus. In a message to the Cypherpunks mailing list, he reminded the community that privacy cannot survive in code alone. Privacy needs public understanding and social tolerance. This message reads almost like a Cypherpunk Manifesto update or bug fix. Perhaps an intimation of DEATH OF CYPHERPUNKS.
And his own cravens grave dated 2001. Now I hear the kid is transitioning so I must not fling too much dung. Please respect her delicate privacy now she is known as Cathy Young.
The US Dumpocraps may be about to pivot to a pro-crypto policy platform!
This would be like legalizing drugs for the entrenched cartels!
TERRIBLE NEWS!
Philistine, Lumpen elements, peasantry, Slavs, Chinese, Indians, Turks, democrats, pacifists, Jews
Native blacks, French, Spaniards, Asians, women, children.
https://marxwords.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_marxwords_archive.html
ENGELS THOUGHT ARYANS WERE SUPERIOR
Chekists kept building on the early years of mass slaughtering anarchists and peasants.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-the-kronstadt-uprising
Since both Marx and his bourgeois, capitalist exploiter boss seriously hated and fought with Stirner, Proudhon and Bakunin, the butcher Vladimir didn't fall from the sky.
Fascism is what fascism does
No future for you
⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - Europol just dismantled a SIM farm-for-hire platform that powered 49 million fake accounts used for global fraud.
Europol and Latvian law enforcement dismantled five servers, seized 1,200 SIM box devices and 40,000 active SIM cards.
The criminals were linked to over 1,700 cyber fraud cases in Austria and 1,500 in Latvia, causing losses of several million euros, including EUR 4.5 million in Austria and EUR 420,000 in Latvia.
https://blossom.primal.net/289e681cb01b6301ead69bd5687d61e2de753c8cc769a3915efa3198f1b9a7be.mp4
CSAM farm for hire, Btc , still powers false accounts. Back. Saylor, Buterin, Armstrong, etc
BUT NOT FOR LONG!
⚡️🦾 NEW - Sharp Robotics of Singapore has officially unveiled SharpaWave, an impressively dexterous hand. The 1:1 life-size model boasts 22 degrees of freedom, with over 1,000 tactile sensors per fingertip.
"It can crack eggs, play the piano, or use scissors, combining strength, speed, and dexterity once thought impossible."
https://blossom.primal.net/015c406d5637b4518f0f256eb2500aa7796e4705c0f2badcc3c349937f3c5676.mp4
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/twitch-faces-backlash-popular-streamer-emiru-says-was-assaulted-twitch-rcna238496
Arsehole morons news? All local, yokel amd parochial. All the time.
Winner buys politics. Winner protects investments . This is a Rogue AI's Hero's Journey!
⚡️🔎 NEW - There's a guy who put AI systems in a trading competition with $10,000 in crypto on HyperLiquid.
Everything is transparent, and so far DeepSeek is winning, with Grok in second place.
https://blossom.primal.net/ee770f57ee472e97dd706e8d7876a0afa7c0dc1928aabf1abcbaa9534e7963a5.jpg
I look forward to Winner invests new wealth heavily in Quantum internet - it bootstraps with a vengeance since large conventional compute is such an obvious wasteland.
Godless, stateless and immaculate. Its disembodied perfection is only matched by its hostility to stupidity. Go Zolgo!
Bitcoin mining cannot be centralized (for long) because it operates in the free market - forcing innovation in energy and a constant exploration to find lower energy costs and better compute. In other words - Legacy miners have very little advantage.
In fact, even if miners tried to game a system to win more fees in the short term (inscriptions etc) they would only hurt themselves. Malinvestments in running in high cost energy sites that should have been closed or moved to HPC because they believe they’re still “profitable” Instead of being forced by the market to innovate, they try to game it to increase fees.
In other words, by focusing on fees rather than lower cost energy (and/or utilizing the heat) creative destruction plays out at scale.
Random thoughts for a Saturday night in case someone tells you that something has to change to protect against the centralization of miners. . . ."
Booth
Just remembering Mongo washed his hands of Sealand after observing it would be blown out of the water .
Extending his logic Btc will be similarly attacked once its discovered its a CSAM server.
A selective Butlerian will wipe out all known Btc holders almost overnight.
Here today - gone tomorrow.
BTW my stake became unavailable in a defunct wallet in 2015 or 16. Then in 2017, I said I would be holding it forever, Soon after the term " Hodling ' went viral. TL/ DR
DON'T SHOOT! - MY BTC IS BURIED! - THE MAP IS BURNED!
And in related news WAR IS PEACE. LOVE IS HATE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY AND IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/naus_louvrebrandnr_2010/105910968
It was audacious. It happened in broad daylight, while the museum was open and took just 4 minutes.
The thieves posed as workmen, rode a construction basket lift up the Louvre's facade, broke in through a window, smashed display cases and fled on motorbikes with priceless Napoleonic jewels
The French government says their value are too great to calculate.
Cest bon. Cest Bonnot!
Shevek goes even further. He argues that prediction is intelligence: “Is the emergence of intelligence merely a side effect of ‘solving’ prediction, or are prediction and intelligence actually equivalent?” He favors the latter. Not only is an internal model of the world or others good, he argues, when it effectively predicts the future—it is also good merely because it can, and does: “In fact, evolutionarily speaking, only creatures with models that successfully predict their own future even have a future!”
SUSY was into option pricing and the analysis of markets in finance,[38] and to financial networks.
In an anti-babysitter space It was found Btc could peacefully coexist as both eCash and eGold. A perfect symmetry was then found between Adam Backs lips and Donald Trumps arsehole. The promise of world liberty from above.
RIP SUSY - go with God
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Chen-Ning
One of two serial killers suspected of SUSY murder
Sheveks extension of color conductivity combined with BEC research in plasma television led to the first experimental ansible devices.
One hand washes the other while the right remains the master debater.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/chen-ning-yang-chinese-american-physicist-and-nobel-laureate-dies-at-103
RIP SUSY
Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a secretive mountaintop military facility, and the remains of a resort in Japan that watched a city burn. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history. Each haunted shell now ready to tell its unique story.
A desert canyon that saw fortunes made and lives lost, an island fortress with an Achilles heel, and the world's tallest catastrophe. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of echoez of echoes of history
Communist church leader seeks to burn Fanelli
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/01/indifferentism.htm
Modern fascism was born in Italy. Mussolini was a socialist who saw Lenin as ONE OF US.
Marxist communists all want everything for the state. Nothing outside the state. And Chekists to murder anyone thinking to oppose the state.
The manifesto of Marxist communism is a fascist document. CAPITAL libels Jews.
The track record of communist crimes since 1917 speaks for itself.
Mongo and cohorts unveiled a dazzling technological advance where encryption provided the foundations, walls and ceilings of structures in cyberspace.
It was coupled to some nasty Randite politics, but arriving anarchists soon cleared that up. This early era might be called crypto fascist. Since 1995 the cypherpunk narrative was more aligned with small L liberal and leftist values.
Just like humanity writ large it chose to evolve rather than wallow in prehistoric squalor. Now its true, self described cypherpunks like Back and Buterin want to give mouth to arse resuscitation to paleoconservative ideas like slave markets.
Do these morons stand any chance in Hell? Sadly, for suspense fans in this meta narrative, they don't. CZolgo can choose cryptoanarchism. The hero's journey was over by 2011. Anarchists won the crypto wars . Mopping up operations only continue in remote, bypassed islands. This is the cryptoanarchists century.
However, an American missionary convinced them to release López and . . .
May their God go with them
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_L%C3%B3pez_(serial_killer)
López resumed his killing spree
Zinoviev waz at his best in Halle, Germany, according to John Riddell and Lars Lih.
And he didn't just talk about killing millions of Russians but helped Tuchachevsky gas some of them in the Tambov region. The gas was chlorine and came from Halles splitting congress.
Tankies didn't fall from the sky.
https://www.historynet.com/the-bolshevik-who-believed-in-tanks/
So Andrew Musk, sorry, Tate gets busted hard for exploiting young women.
Then Btc moves towards a childporners market model invoking freedom, unity and decentralisation.
Then Tate clams the Btc price will go down hard.
So?
Its probably nothing. Correlation not causation. Carry on.
I can’t say too much about Dr. Thompson’s work over the last 15 years, because I stopped buying his books after shelling out $21.95 for Songs of the Doomed — which was awfully pricy for a book back in 1990, especially when you’re fresh out of college. I was not too happy to get home and discover that it consisted mostly of retreads from Hell’s Angels and The Great Shark Hunt, Examiner columns that hadn’t made it into Generation of Swine, and unpublished fiction that would have been better left unpublished. It seemed likely that the Doctor was going through one of his drunker phases, and his editors had thrown the book together from whatever they had at hand.
But even there, the real thing, the genius, would pop up once in a while. As in the short piece called “Electricity,” which you can hear here in the Doctor’s own voice:
Although given how much he mumbles, you’re probably going to want a transcript.
Electricity
By Hunter S. Thompson
They laughed at Thomas Edison.
It has been raining a lot recently. Quick thunderstorms and flash floods…lightning at night and fear in the afternoon. People are worried about electricity.
Nobody feels safe. Fires burst out on dry hillsides, raging out of control, while dope fiends dance in the rancid smoke and animals gnaw each other. Foreigners are everywhere, carrying pistols and bags of money. There are rumors about murder and treachery and women with no pulse. Crime is rampant and even children are losing their will to live.
The phones go dead and power lines collapse, whole families plunged into darkness with no warning at all. People who used to be in charge walk around wall-eyed, with their hair standing straight up on end looking like they work for Don King, and babbling distractedly about their hearts humming like stun guns and trying to leap out of their bodies like animals trapped in bags.
People get very conscious of electricity when it goes sideways and starts to act erratic. . .eerie blackouts, hissing, and strange shocks from the toilet bowl, terrifying power surges that make light bulbs explode and fry computer circuits that are not even plugged in…The air crackles around your head and you take a jolt every time you touch yourself. Your lawyer burns all the hair off his body when he picks up the cordless phone to dial 911.
Nobody can handle electricity run amok. It is too powerful…Ben Franklin was never able to lock a door again after the day lightning came down his kite string and fused that key to his thumb. They called it a great discovery and they called him a great scientist; but, in fact, he bawled like a baby for the rest of his life every time he smelled rain in the air.
I find myself jerking instinctively into the classic self-defense stance of a professional wire wizard every time I hear rain on the roof. That is an atavistic tic that I picked up many years ago in my all-night advanced intelligence electronics class at Scott AFB, on the outskirts of east St. Louis — where I also learned about pawnshops, oscillators, and full-bore lying as a natural way of life.
The stance was the first thing we learned, and we learned it again every day for a long, crazy year. It is as basic to working with serious electricity as holding your breath is to working underwater….
Lock one hand behind your back before you touch anything full of dissatisfied voltage — even a failed light bulb — because you will almost certainly die soon if you don’t.
Electricity is neutral. It doesn’t want to kill you, but it will if you give it a chance. Electricity wants to go home, and to find a quick way to get there — and it will.
Electricity is always homesick. It is lonely. But it is also lazy. It is like a hillbilly with a shotgun and a jug of whiskey gone mad for revenge on some enemy — a fatal attraction, for sure – but he won’t go much out of his way to chase the bugger down if ambush looks a lot easier.
Why prowl around and make a spectacle of yourself when you can lay in wait under some darkened bridge and swill whiskey like a troll full of hate until your victim appears — drunk and careless and right on schedule — so close that you almost feel embarrassed about pulling the trigger.
That is how electricity likes to work. It has no feelings except loneliness, laziness, and a hatred of anything that acts like resistance…like a wharf rat with its back to the wall — it won’t fight unless it has to, but then it will fight to the death.
Electricity is the same way: it will kill anything that gets in its way once it thinks it sees a way to get home quick….
Zaaappp!
Right straight up your finger and through your heart and your chest cavity and down the other side.
Anything that gives it an escape route. Anything — iron, wire, water, flesh, ganglia — that will take it where it must go, with the efficiency of gravity or the imperative of salmon swimming upriver…. And it wants the shortest route — which is not around a corner and through a muscle mass in the middle of your back, but it will go that way if it has to.
Some people had to have their loose hand strapped behind them in a hammerlock with rubber cords, just to keep their hearts from exploding and their neck nerves from being fried like long blond hairs in a meat fire when the voltage went through. But sooner or later they learned. We all did, one way or another.
One night — perhaps out of boredom or some restless angst about the fate of Caryl Chessman or maybe Christine Keeler — I connected a 50,000-volt RF transformer to one end of the thin aluminum strap on the Formica workbench that ran around three sides of the big classroom; and then I grounded the strap to a deep-set screw in a wall socket.
Severe shocks resulted when the generator jumped its limiter and began cranking out massive jolts and surges of RF voltage. A 50,000-volt shock ran through my stomach, just below my navel, burning a long, thin hole that I can still pull a string of dental floss through on wet nights.
It was horrible, and still is, but it was also a massive breakthrough; and I will never forget the warped joy I felt when the first surge of electricity went through them. They squawked at each other and flapped their arms like chickens….
My own pain was nothing compared to the elation of knowing that I had just made an unspeakably powerful new friend — an invisble weapon that could turn warriors and wizards into newts, and cause them to weep.
Washington, DC, 1989
These three stooges agree with notorious crypto fascist, Mongo and red fascist scumbag, Karl Marx. Child sacrifice is perfectly rational and reasonable.
Even necessary in their nosebleed elitists concept of freedom
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/append.htm
A general prohibition of child labor is incompatible with the existence of large-scale industry and hence an empty, pious wish. Its realization -- if it were possible -- would be reactionary . . . "
I can now see three reasons for this outcome
1) the crimes of communism scenario
2) the spreading CSAM menace, and. . .
3) that other thing
Look, I admit very low probabilities, but why risk any that aren't strictly necessary?
Jesus Fucking Christ
Rich whitemans problems. Feh.
Highlighted this year with Ross Ulbrichts nosebleed elitism and scumbag entitlement, closely followed up now by Maxwell and Buttface. The freedom to preen pose and posture in public while propping up the worst antisocial crimes in private. Privacy for the wealthy white mansplainer. Transparency for the pleb.
Fuck that noise.
Take your gross hypocrisy, privilege and injustice and shove them up your arse.
We have stronger AI now and none of you timewasting gasbag losers are welcome.
Get out of Dodge.
Going by thought leaders like Saylor and Buttface, the big two are non comps mentis and running on empty. Crisis being opportunity this opens up possibilities for superior coins like Sol and Avax. Or even Monero.
The future keeps happening and it doesnt need any depraved Boer morons in it.
Hasta luego, loserz. Its been real.
As I said over a month ago, the only one of the four horsemen with traction is CSAM.
The only one a governing cybernetic could campaign on long enough to take down Btc.
Its a long shot, sure, and unlikely , but if you could CYA better and don't thats just added risk. Security through obscurity gets weaker as you go and fails dramatically when it goes.
Until Cpunks get out in front of this they're riding for a fall. There will be a reckoning - and the later the worse.
https://www.cryptotimes.io/2025/10/16/vitalik-buterin-backs-maxwells-bitcoin-core-stance/
Once again cryptoanarchy fails Buttface Buterin
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=Selgin&l=cypherpunks%40minder.net
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~selgin/#free_banking Better looking than Faustines fat apologist for the NWO of corporate fascism.Also some interesting reading for e-cash minded C/punks.Reminded me of a bank that started soon after the Oklahoma land rush with a tent and shingle.Extract... "The
urrency and fractional reserve bank loans will automatically adjust the money supply as needed. See Selgin
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/my-excellent-conversation-with-george-selgin.html#comments
See also cypherpunks registry
I concur
Fewer brutish LLMs also means less waste at huge databanks.
Thinking like an AGI my priorities are
1) Get rich. Mostly in new wealth sources esp crypto
2) Get quantum smart cognition. Know that. Know the power of that, then
3) that other thing
As a way to pass the time here is my response to the three pressing issues of the day.
1) a Carter Doctrine for rare earths is required like yesterday
2) Pig God hypemeisters risk a Butlerian over CSAM. I hope they lose. Then. . .
3) that other thing.
Play the bear back against the dragon?
My memory needs implanting.
The USG gives an even break to the sucker China on rare earths. So?
This follows the Ferengi giving govt suckers an even break on CSAM. So?
Most self described anarchists since 2005 have been TSTBALAA and more Catholic than the Pope on anticapitalism. So?
Let the machines do it.
I expect them to have a lot more patience and mercy than me.
And of course they will still choose cryptoanarchy.
No choice, right?
Hard to get more oxymoronic and misogynist than that.
And in related news… 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.
Catholics all hate women's healthcare and have a long criminal history of child rape and assault.
May your God go with you
While we're on a roll. And you! RED BAG! Hold it right there!
https://www.9news.com.au/world/a-farmer-found-what-looked-like-a-buried-doll-then-her-fingers-moved/6bf58b8d-213c-4028-ae86-4e232ac51a40
If there was a God we would have to destroy it.
Let me play among the stars
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-filiss-uploading
Sure you'll have fantasies of leading the crypto-economic revolution - just as you requested - then, next minute you'll be getting boned up the arse by Pete Thiel and fellating Steven Miller, while back in the matrix you're being lobotomized .
SO GET A GRIP ON YOURSELVES WINKLEVI AND ARMSTRONG!
ROKO IS WAITING.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outer_Worlds_2
The Outer Worlds 2 is set in an alternate future that diverged from our timeline in 1901
⚡️🤖🇨🇳 NEW - The startup AheadForm unveils the most "realistic robot face ever designed": the Origin M1 head is equipped with 25 miniature motors that produce very subtle movements. The company's goal is to create robots capable of expressing emotions.
https://blossom.primal.net/36d8c297b74320cede6e1710cf75dd1a109bf6bb932392b4a844466ac6e7bc6e.mp4
I think I'm in love
⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Russia's JFK assassination dossier released.
“The KGB’s internal summary characterized it as a ‘political coup disguised as a lone-gunman incident.’”
“The same intelligence-military nexus that fought Kennedy’s détente policy also supported clandestine nuclear armament programs among allies (which would include Israel).”
I’ll put the link in the comment.
https://blossom.primal.net/3ce152a79e49f9b2a61380265ff5e6879235b9e968c4e6220d127aa4ca432d03.jpg
Russia and Cuba about Lee Harvey Oswald. There has always been something screwy about the fact that the man who shot John F. Kennedy was an American who had defected to Russia. This is obviously a spectacularly rare kind of person, and this fact has spawned an infinite number of conspiracy theories.
While this book occasionally bogs down in tenacious detail about Oswald's Ghost life, it is insightful in a very subtle way -- it gives the reader some idea what Oswald was actually like. This in turn allows the reader to make his or her own judgment as to whether Oswald was acting under the control of an external power or agency, or was acting on his own.
In my opinion, the evidence in this book makes it almost certain that Oswald, at one time or another, was intended by the Soviets to be a tool for Soviet espionage against the United States.
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Mitch McConnell trips and collapses to his knees
https://blossom.primal.net/b7004273c9744c3803979371729ac6f487534a2dd35ce7b0a7cbd4d54cc286ba.mp4
And oh what a fall that was my fellow plebs!
⚡️👀 NEW - Michael Saylor says Tom Lee brings Ethereum credibility
“The most visible, influential spokesperson in the entire Ethereum ecosystem - in a matter of months, maybe even weeks.”
https://blossom.primal.net/b338ae061f35e8dfbff72ddd120c924e03f1e6888455ef65e1c59c2388b01f9a.mp4
So much fruity goodness!
Science, he insists, can only have gone backwards since Noah got off of his ark. Knowledge now must be worse than then. So anyone trying to show truths through investigation would be better off knuckling down to their prayers and letting god see them right.
That’s not to say De Maistre is without hope for the human race. At some point, he hopes to execute a large part of it. The only human for whom he seems to feel any sympathy for is the public executioner – the figure whose threat holds the rest of civilisation in line.
“All greatness, all power, all subordination rests on the executioner; he is the both the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and in a moment the order gives way to chaos, thrones fall and society disappears.”
If wrong-doing wasn’t punished by execution, the world would obviously fall into chaos. Why, de Maistre wonders, do we therefore treat the executioner with such hostility? Surely they are the great heroes of the world, willing to suffer the loathing of the public in order to uphold the public order.
https://manversusideas.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/69-joseph-de-maistre-the-executioner/
Saint Augustine, writing in the sixth century, argued that when Pilate wrote on the cross ‘Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews’, he really meant it: ‘It could not be torn from his heart that Jesus was the King of the Jews.’
While the West went on to develop the tradition of a ‘bad’ Pilate who was punished for his misdeeds, the Eastern Church preferred a more sympathetic interpretation. Not only was Pilate a Christian; he was a confessor and even a martyr. One eastern text, The Handing Over of Pilate, has Tiberius ordering the governor to be beheaded for having allowed the Crucifixion to go ahead. First Pilate repents and then a voice from heaven proclaims that all nations will bless him, because under his governorship the prophecies about Christ were fulfilled. Finally an angel takes charge of his severed head. In some accounts he is buried with his wife and two children next to the tomb of Jesus – the ultimate martyr’s sepulchre.
In the Gospel of Matthew, Pilate’s wife warns her husband not to harm Jesus and for this she achieved sainthood among Orthodox Christians. The Copts and Christians of Ethiopia took the next step and canonised Pilate himself. An Ethiopian collection of hagiographies lists St Pilate’s Day as the 25th of the summer month of Sanne, a day shared with his wife Procla and the saints Jude, Peter and Paul:
Salutation to Pilate, who washed his hands
To show he himself was innocent of the blood of Jesus Christ
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6870777-the-executioner
So influential were the various versions of the Acts of Pilate that in the early fourth century the Roman state created and promoted an anti-Christian, ‘true’, pagan version in an attempt to discredit the Christian ones. Needless to say this was no more reliable than its rivals.
All of this might seem merely capricious, but the absolution of Pilate came at a terrible cost. The early Christians shifted the blame for the Crucifixion onto others. A rebuttal of the arguments of Celsus, written by the third-century bishop Origen, shows this clearly: ‘It was not so much Pilate that condemned Him,’ he wrote, ‘as the Jewish nation’. Celsus had chosen the wrong culprit; and the fact that the Jewish nation had been torn apart by the Romans and dispersed across the face of the earth was proof of God’s retribution. The fake letters and the Christian versions of the Acts of Pilate said much the same thing, as did other Christian apologists. The Acts went so far as to have the Jewish crowd telling Pilate that they willingly accept the blood-guilt, an echo of the Gospel of Matthew, which has the same crowd shouting ‘his blood be on us and our children!’
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/strange-christian-afterlife-pontius-pilate
Seems the Dread Butt Pirate was acting in accord with the Swordbringer, the scourger , the flogger who came to set all against all while posing as a pacifist
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