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I really don’t mean to scare you guys, but I think we’re going to enter a COVID like scenario with cyber-security in the next month…
Pablo Antonio retweeted
It's hard to stockpile a 90-day doomsday kit if you are like me and live in a tiny NYC apartment..
Well worry no longer! I put together a supply list optimized for under-the-bed storage
apartmentdoomsdaykit.com/
Pablo Antonio retweeted
You can start a lodge now
W E L C O M E T O L O D G E
I’m delighted to announce Urban Tiger’s first product, Lodge, now generally available. To host a lodge, just go to urbit.house. To be a guest, wait till someone invites you!
Lodge is “half Eyes Wide Shut, half Chatham House Rules.” It’s a private chat/forum with strong anonymity. Everyone gets a random name from the blockchain. No one, not even you, has any record of who is who. Your forum runs on your private, encrypted cloud server (*).
Lodge is for all human beings who cannot speak their true minds if there is any risk that they might be “held accountable.” We do everything possible to prevent doxing. You can even cover your financial tracks with ZCash. (But you don’t need to know anything about crypto.)
Who needs a lodge? Your office needs a lodge. Your campus or department. Your agency. Start a lodge, and find a way to get the invite link or QR code to your founding members.
Secret societies are a human universal. It doesn’t get more secret than Lodge.
To use Lodge, you and your guests install the House web app (app stores don’t like meta-apps). You’ll save your secret with a passkey and back it up with a 6-word poem. Your name is also a wallet, which holds its own token. (But you don’t need to know anything about crypto.)
Lodge is the first app on Urban Tiger’s new version of Urbit. Unlike the old Urbit experience (Tlon Messenger), urbit.house is both fully noncustodial, and fully general-purpose. Also, your guests don’t need their own servers. (But if they want to start their own lodges, it only takes a few clicks.)
The Lodge UX is “half forum, half chat.” Like a forum, it has a timeline tree. Like a chat, it flows through your unreads. The design was inspired by the original social network, Usenet. On a desktop you even “doomspace,” like it was 1986.
You’ll be billed for your server in crypto—by usage, not time (since it’s a functional server). It’s cheap. And you can charge dues.
Check it out: urbit.house
(*—the servers aren’t encrypted quite yet. Give us a couple more weeks to spin up the TEEs. Then we’ll destroy the old cleartext.)
Pablo Antonio retweeted
CIA Reading Room is great for this. A personal favorite of mine given my peculiar interests cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA…
Oh, it’s over over…
BREAKING: Intel stock, $INTC, crashes over -22% after reporting weaker than expected earnings.
Intel blamed weak earnings on "softness in the PC market."
Esoteric PDF meetup, Washington DC, Nov 15th.
Print your most esoteric PDFs and share them over drinks.
DM me up for details.
Our plans are measured in centuries…
NEW: Pope Leo XIV is set to become the first sitting pontiff in the Catholic Church’s two-thousand-year history to vote in a secular election.
Leo requested an Illinois mail ballot on Oct. 3, and it was sent to his brother John’s home in New Lenox, Ill.
John Prevost visited the pope at the Vatican on Wednesday and may now be carrying the ballot back to the Will County clerk by hand. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope…
"the data security companies that supply the most reliable data security services will end up exercising new modes of authority with the fee for their services resembling the tributes paid by subjects to monarchs as sovereignty relinquishes all of the bureaucratic trappings that made it appear an indispensable and immovable machine, returning them to what sovereignty has always been—the largest property owner, establishing and presiding over the nomos"
"The “creation” of the human was an astonishing accomplishment against all odds requiring a new level of discipline, a new mode of courage and an unprecedented type of devotion in the participants on the originary scene, which would seem to suggest that at least some of us were made for such things."
