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Dekonstruktion! #project25

The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M tied to Helix crypto mixer last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced to three years in 2024 (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/356443/us-forfeiture-400-million-helix-darknet-mixer

US Finalizes Forfeiture of $400 Million Tied to Helix Darknet Mixer
The mixer processed hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin that prosecutors say were tied to illicit activity on the dark web.

Back when we tried people for committing genocide instead of calling them our allies, funding, and arming them.
#israel #genocide #Gaza

Brains aren’t computers.
It’s self-evident:
🤖 Computers (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff that no brain can.
🧠 Brains (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff no computer can.
You know what’s really interesting?
That brains never evolved to be really fast and precise calculating things—which is exactly the raison d’être for computers.
(It’s either not necessary for consciousness or maybe actively detrimental to it?)

If you can't accomplish most of what you want to do in a homelab with VMs on a laptop or docker containers on a 16GB Raspberry Pi, and RAM prices are what's keeping you down, consider buying some old-ass server or Dell workstation instead. You'll pay more in power, and performance won't be cutting-edge, but REG ECC DDR3 is under $1/GB on AliExpress, and you can still slap a 5090 into into the box if you insist (with some degree of PCIe throttling that shouldn't bother you…

Inside the FBI's Review and Redaction of Epstein Files (Jason Leopold/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-25/epstein-files-new-fbi-emails-detail-review-special-redaction-project?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDEwNjcwNiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0NzExNTA2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNkFYQjlLR0NUSDcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQjE3NzFFOTlEODc0QzRDOTY1Njg1RTZBQkJGM0QwRCJ9.4AhUWGtFVEVSrO7l-hOVhSm9BzndW2MU61lqEJqTNs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p114#a251125p114

Chinese-language crypto laundering networks processed ~$16.1B in 2025, or $44M per day on average across 1,799 wallets, representing 20% of laundering activity (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2026-crypto-money-laundering/

The Chinese-language Underground Crypto Money Laundering Ecosystem
Chinese-language money laundering networks processed $16.1 billion in illicit funds in 2025, dominating over 20% of crypto money laundering activity.

The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…

Efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide
through a combination of new legislation,
novel uses of existing legal processes,
police actions,
vilification of activists,
and both violence and killings.
Acts of repression are likely to expand and intensify
as authoritarian regimes roll back climate policies,
with a particular focus on Trump’s actions in office
criminalizing protest,
increasing police po…

Here's the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.

Team Cymru @… has a article on current TTPs used by Scattered Spider. Worth a read to stay up to date on this APT (Advanced Persistent Teenagers) #cybersecurity

Scattered Spider Attacks | Infrastructure and TTP Analysis
An in-depth analysis of Scattered Spider attacks, detailing the group’s infrastructure usage and TTPs to help defenders detect and disrupt activity earlier.