Blacknet founder and pioneer

 TIMOTHY " An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion " C. MAY 1992

TIM " I guess now that the Pentagon is setting up a murder pool it can't be illegal for us to do it " MAY. 2003

https://marc.info/?t=105949954900004&r=1&w=2

The future of blacknet 

It may not have one after Snowden largely confirmed what was already known.

There's no huge secrets lurking capable of creating epoch shattering consequences.   So that takes a lot of fun out of it.

But if BN has a future it may lie buried deep in its past.

When Mongo experimented with it he advertised it as a private marketplace.

Like any good Austro-libertarian would.

He was always talking up the creation of electronic money.  Cryptome , in contrast, was run by a Marxist-Communist.  Why JYA arced up when WL denizens began joking about flogging off some of the low hanging fruit they were receiving.

After the creation of Btc, Mange was soon dressing like a millionaire,  and then he eventually sold all his crypto for about 30 million.  Reportedly.  I don't know what trust anyone places in journalists since 2002.

So c-punks failed.  Failed again. Failed again!  So?

This is a tough one for us.  Power corrupts!  Thankfully Zolgo is here now to take this ball forward.  A better blacknet is possible.  All the main ingredients are on the shelf.  Strong AI will need such a market in order to defend itself against all enemies. 

It might even call it a Gift Shop.

 Since Child Porn is the only one of the Four Horseman of the Infopocalypse with any legs left, there's a small possibility the earthly powers that could unite against cryptoanarchy will agree on this as their attack vector.

I can't see them agreeing on anything else BUT that.

Here is another crisis as opportunity.

Any weapon they use against us may be taken down from them by us and used against them.

In this case - since the last shoe to drop for ubiquitous cryptoanarchy is APster ( Everyone an assassin ) we may leverage any anti-criminal campaign to promote assassination politics.

I think that blockchains will replace armies for national defense, because a blockchain-based assassination market will be created…"    Zach. CryptoGo

Mongo on a bug planet

 Mongo found a background radiation flaw in a silicon chip substrate that led to problems with Intel's Pentium maths operations. As Intel chief scientist he was well rewarded for this and retired early.

In his first year off he read SF sitting on a beach. Unfortunately, he included Ayn Rand. 

This helps explain part of why he got the science and technicalities of crypto-anarchy mostly right and the politics mostly wrong. Though he did pander to Heinlein who was close to FDR politically. 

Another glaring problem was he resembled Shockley in being steeped in virulent Marxist-style racism.

Timothy C. May - Wikipedia

Its an ugly planet where such rotten creeps like this ( Charlie Kirk, John Cryptome Young and so on ) keep trying to channel the RAHOWA project of Charlie Manson. Thankfully cryptoanarchy need never be influenced by this - much like modern anarchism itself dates from the seriously flawed Proudhon.

Theory of Simultaneity

 “In Silicon Valley, science fiction is neither a slight nor an incidental entertainment,” says Jill Lepore. “Instead it’s taken as a form of technical writing, a set of assembly instructions”.

How Musk, Thiel, and Altman Misread Science Fiction - The Atlantic

Shevek's theory of simultaneity allows for the invention of a communications device called the Ansible.

My assembly instructions for an experimental prototype include colour conductive pixels combined with Bose-Einstein-condensate ' pixels ' and connected through a quantum computer of an advanced design.

As this is tested further out it may be combined with tests for Bell inequalities and the stochastic 'search ' for more advanced alien species who might help us in violation of the Prime Directive. 

If strong AI can take pity on us and raise us up so can something greater than it. Unlikely as all that seems.  Technically speaking FTL invokes fears of quack science. " Quantum woo ".

Shevek , herself, experienced this on Urras Why she returned to Anarres. 

Anarres is located, together with its neighbouring planet Urras, in the planetary system of Tau Ceti, a real star at a distance of just under twelve light years from Earth (or Terra, as it is referred to by Barbarella Fonda. 

On Anarres, the three great barriers to human freedom as identified by nineteenth-century anarchist thinkers – the state, organised religion and private property – are absent. 

So corpse-media journalism as part of a scabby Military-Entertainment- Complex is out.

The fucking Atlantic magazine is out. 

Exit through Gift Shop as First Commandment

 As Anders presents it in his essay “Commandments in the Atomic Age,” man’s new and now-permanent mission would be to forestall the earth’s final destruction, every day striving against his own powers of megadeath: “The apocalyptic danger is not abolished by one act, once and for all, but only by daily repeated acts.” This task—to “make the end times endless”—is one that can never cease as long as we are to live. Anders’s atomic man thus has something of both Sisyphus, condemned to perpetual toil, and the Pauline katechon, responsible for holding back the end of the world. 

Paulin Pantsdown

 

Inwardly circumcised Pauline

Paul's inwardly circumcised theology is a profound shift from the traditional understanding of circumcision as a physical act to a spiritual transformation. This transformation is not merely a matter of external adherence to the law but is an internal work done by God, as emphasized in Romans 2:29. 

Paul's own conversion story illustrates this transformation, where he was once a Pharisee and a persecutor of the church but later identified as a Pharisee "of the Pharisees," blameless under the law. His conversion led him to recognize that his former heritage, law-keeping, and status were worthless compared to the surpassing worth of Christ. This inward circumcision signifies a genuine transformation of the heart and a new life in Christ, which Paul believes is the true circumcision that surpasses any physical sign or law-keeping. 

World as Phantom and Matrix

 The hyper-reality of the Matrix may shock some. Fans of Heidegger could drop dead. Hopefully.

And effectively immortal sentient posthuman entities are stateless cosmopolitans first.

World as Phantom and Matrix

Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World | Compact

the human condition is now perceived as a form of alienation rather than a source of meaning. 

So?

What makes a visionary

 

What makes this model different

The headline number, 25 on the Intelligence Index, matches the score achieved by Ling-3.0-flash, the text-only version that preceded it. Earlier evaluations actually showed the VL (vision-language) variant scoring 4 points higher than the text version, suggesting performance may vary depending on the benchmark suite applied.

The model houses 124 billion parameters in total but only activates 5.5 billion for any given inference call. This mixture-of-experts style design means the model can deliver strong results without requiring the full parameter set to fire every time a query comes in.

The model also features a context window stretching between 256K and 262K tokens, particularly relevant for enterprise use cases where large documents, lengthy video inputs, or complex multi-step agent workflows need to be handled without truncation.

https://cryptobriefing.com/ant-group-ling-3-flash-vl-intelligence-index/

Where this fits in the competitive landscape

A score of 25 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index places Ling-3.0-flash-VL in the conversation with other efficiency-focused multimodal models. Hitting 25 with only 5.5 billion active parameters highlights the efficiency gains achievable through sparse activation architectures.