Jappy generator

A new release of fakedata has been released: https://github.com/fakedata-haskell/fakedata
Brief Summary of what fakedata is: It's a library for producing fake data such as names, addresses and phone numbers.
The changelog contains the list of changes in this release: https://github.com/fakedata-haskell/fakedata/releases/tag/v1.0
Note that this release contains breaking change. I have documented it with more detail in the changelog entry. The most interesting one is making Fake type as a transformer which allows writing efficient code more easily. This was done by Isaac Van Bakel and more details are here: https://github.com/fakedata-haskell/fakedata#using-the-faket-transformer
The current release also adds various new modules (+ 15), locale improvements and contains updates to fake data sources. Also, the test suite has been enhanced which helped me find bugs in the upstream Ruby data sources (Corresponding fix: https://github.com/faker-ruby/fakepull/2339) . And thanks to Tristan de Cacqueray for fixing the test failure issues related to random 1.2.0 as part of ZuriHac.
The following packages can be used to create generators out of fakedata:
* quickcheck integration by Jappie Klooster: https://github.com/fakedata-haskell/fakedata-quickcheck
* hedgehog integration by Matt Parsons: https://github.com/parsonsmatt/hedgehog-fakedata

We are in the process of creating a menu and a website, however we lack some funds. If you are willing to pay a percentage upfront, we will reimburse you with either payment, or keys for our menu to whichever you decide. The more you put towards it, the bigger your profit. We are aiming to get £700, as that is what our developer has told us for a menu, website and hosting for a limited time. If you put £100 towards this, we will either generate you 15 keys (RRP £9.99 per key) or we could PayPal you the money. We are aiming for the menu to be released in the next couple weeks, and anyone who is investing at the start will permanently get a reduction in buying keys for reselling purposes. We will also make a discord server with us and the menu developer so we are always in contact with each other, and you will get early news of future updates, and bug fixes.
For more info add jappie._ tag #6666

In 2016 a lengthy and very insightful article about the direction that cryonics and life extension are going was published in The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2016/9/15/16038284/searching-for-deaths-cure-834a02124ef5 This article went virtually unnoticed in the cryonics community, perhaps because it was labeled as just another uninformed journalist's attack on cryonics and life extension. However, this is not the case and in the three years since that article was published the picture of cryonics as being hijacked by pseudo-scientific religious kooks has become clearer and the urgency of doing something about has become greater. The article is primarily about RAADfest and the people who sponsor it, the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, which is, in turn, a creature of the bizarre Scottsdale, AZ "immortality cult", People Unlimited.
To a considerable extent, Alcor's Max More and Natasha Vita More are key figures at RAADfest and for months before RAADfest anyone signed up on the Humanity+ transhumanist email list gets weekly "X% discount" emails from Natasha and cryonicist Jose Cordiero, enticing them to attend the "revival". RAADfest's, People Unlimited believes that they are already immortal and that anyone can become immortal by more or less willing themselves to have a "cellular awakening". The founder of the Group, a lounge singer named Charles Paul Brown, apparently didn't believe quite enough since he died of complications from diabetes some years ago. The basis of the cult's beliefs are in a book he wrote which you can get for $1.75 from Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Together-Forever-Invitation-Physically-Immortal/dp/1875281037
This Larry King Interview with the cult's current two principals, James Strole and BernaDeane, will give you just the barest hint of how crazy and pseudo-scientific these people are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAUtR-oAGOU
Max More was by all reports smitten with People Unlimited and has repeatedly told those around him that Strole and BernaDeane are "good people" who care about their members and have attained something that Alcor never had - making a close-knit family. Several people in and out of Alcor have tried to reason with Max, telling him that what he was promoting was a pseudo-scientific cult and that it was the polar opposite of what Alcor and cryonics represent. Brian Wowk tried to persuade the Alcor Board that Max not be allowed to participate in the "Coalition" or to speak at RAADfest because of the pseudoscience that it tainted Alcor with, but he was unsuccessful. So, Max and Natasha have stayed on with the "Coalition" for three years now, while also spamming their respective organizations (Alcor membership the first year and H+ membership ever since) to attend RAADfest. RAADfest thus provides a stage on which to give their presentations to an audience primed to stomp, clap, and whistle for anyone telling them what they want to hear, which is that immortality is here, now and you can buy it, or alternatively, take inspiration from People Unlimited's saint Bernadine, who is already going to live forever; and all she had to do was chant while looking into a mirror.
I do realize that many people in cryonics will think I'm making this up, or that I have engaged in wild hyperbole, but this isn't the case and there is plenty of evidence that is just a few clicks away on the Internet that will validate what I'm saying.
Just take a look at what's on these links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXktrQQ-5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXktrQQ-5M
https://culteducation.com/group/923-people-unlimited/7099-never-say-die-.html
https://www.theringer.com/2016/9/15/16038284/searching-for-deaths-cure-834a02124ef5
Bill Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation and his "Church of Perpetual Life" (CPL), actively support People Unlimited and consider them a model for how both cryonics and life extension should be promoted going forward. It is no accident that Faloon has created his own church and that he is aggressively recruiting everyone he can in cryonics to lend it credibility by delivering sermons there. In fact, I can be reasonably sure that Neal Van Dee Ree of the Church of Perpetual Life, which he heads. and the Church itself are well received and well-considered by most of those cryonicists who know about them, probably because most cryonicists have no idea what they are really about, or what their endgame is, which is converting cryonics into a religious (not quasi-religious) undertaking as a means of growing it rapidly. If you doubt the relationship between People Unlimited and CPL just take a look at this interview with BernaDeane and Strole with Van Der Ree sitting beside them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXktrQQ-5M
or this one of Bill Faloon promoting them at CPL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E62fC5fH1cA
If all of this weren't bad enough, Max and Natasha have recently bought into another rip-off-cult-con, The Finder's Course, which Natasha has been promoting to H+ members:
From: natasha natashavita-more. com [natasha@natashavita-more.com](mailto:natasha@natashavita-more.com)
To: [hplusmembers@googlegroups.com](mailto:hplusmembers@googlegroups.com)
Sent: Monday, 2 September 2019, 20:17:38 GMT-4
Subject: [H+M] Peace and Well-Being
Members,
Many of our friends are practicing something that is integrated into daily life. This is one way. Do it the way it works best for you. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=Xnw-PdAsmuQ
Natasha
After you've watched their promotional video, which Natasha links above, I suggest you read this brilliant deconstruction of the Finder's Course that was posted to Reddit not too long ago:
https://www.reddit.com/streamentry/comments/62ev8b/community_the_finders_course_techniques_and/
The Finders Course is wallet-emptying scam that is "a get-enlightened-quick scheme, that uses an appearance of science as a marketing tool, sells dubious forms of new-age spirituality (i.e. law of attraction, synchronicities), and adopt psychological conditioning in many forms to 1) attract customers 2) sell them an expensive product 3) convince them they reached some sort of spiritual awakening." [quote from the Reddit Review above.] It silences most who would be critical of it by having them sign a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) which forbids them to talk about the course! Every generation or so there is a new money-sucking, "get-enlightened-quick" scheme that uses the veneer of science to sell itself. I've seen Scientology, Transcendental Meditation (TM) (paid them ~$250 in the mid-1970s), EST and Lifespring flare up and die down for the past half-century. The Finder's course is just another such flash in the pan. To be clear, I'm not saying that there will be any shortage of people who claim, and even feel genuinely better, for having spent their money in this way, but that was (and is) true of TM, Lifespring, etc. For me, the most rewarding thing about the money I paid for TM was understanding how these "movements" operate and how the people in various levels of the organization function, both psychologically and pragmatically. I got off cheap.
So, this is what it has come to, cryonics is being systematically hijacked by a bunch of pseudo-scientific nutters backed by Bill Faloon, who is the principal source of big money in cryonics to date. For those who hold Bill in high esteem (apart from his money), I think this anecdote is very much apropos. In the late 1970's I was invited to Florida to see if I wanted to relocate there and become a part of the Cryonics Society of South Florida's effort to achieve high-quality cryonics services. The day that I arrived I was told to be sure to catch Bill's interview about cryonics on a local South Florida radio station. When I listened in, I found that Bill was telling the listeners that dogs had been revived from cryogenic freezing and that human organs for transplant were routinely being frozen and stored! When I confronted Bill with this, he nonchalantly said that "If you didn't tell people such things, they would never take cryonics seriously." For years Saul Kent kept Bill out of and away from cryonics, however, as Jappie Hoekstra has just noted on New Cryonet, Saul is ill and old and has had a steadily diminishing capability to do this since circa 2000. The zebra hasn't changed his stripes, he's just been let out of the pen.
A few weeks ago, someone sent me a link to one of Bill’s sermons at CPL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jArXyb-pNcQ&feature=youtu.be in which he talked about the research that Jerry Leaf and I did at Cryovita, Inc., on prolonged asanguineous (bloodless) perfusion of dogs at +4 deg C for 4 hours in the 1980s and that I and others carried out at 21st Century Medicine and Critical Care Research in the mid through the late-1990s, wherein we were able to recover dogs from 15-16 minutes of global normothermic ischemia consistently and without any neurological deficit 75% of the time. This work had been supported by the Life Extension Foundation, recently renamed BRLS (Biomedical Research and Longevity Society, Inc.) through the agency of Saul Kent. Bill’s accounting of this work in his sermon ( 4:25 to 4:52 on this sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jArXyb-pNcQ&feature=youtu.be ) was outrageously incorrect. I listened with horror as I was told that we had successfully revived dogs from 6 hours of cold circulatory arrest and from 1-hour of normothermic ischemia! This is the same kind of BS he was giving out about cryonics 40 years ago. It appears that he who has the gold not only makes the rules; he gets to determine what the truth, is as well. The real stories of what we achieved are here:
https://www.alcor.org/Library/html/tbwcanine.html
and here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUIVaM1Uahs&t=6s
This is the reality of Alcor and of cryonics today.
Mike Darwin