Least I Tried

On July 17 I cut off tech I cannot in good conscious engage. That means this is the last Bluesky post, as I'm disabling the bridge I use from ActivityPub. As they say, 9 people may sit at the table without objection, but not I. If future people look back I have no regrets, because: At least I tried.

As the saying goes, 9 people may be able to sit at the table without objection, but not I. If future people look back I have no regrets, because: At least I tried. (2/2)

@Hammer-Space “surprise”, they never cared about them, like we’ve always known

@Cool Daddy, Cool 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 It's like bed bugs

Engagement is a currency, and Fediverse has allowed me to spend mine more wisely and enjoyably than ever before. (5/5)

- Getting a ton of stuff done around the house and yard
- Able to get to way more other hobbies in than i have in years
- Able to keep up with current events without feeling like i crawled through toxic waste (4/5)

which will be my area of focus ultimately. (4/4)

@altnps.bsky.social for added viz. if we don’t get those kids out of there we’re all hosed. Use the “Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986” or whatever else we’ve got to intervene

An excerpt of a WIRED report detailing DOGE’s upcoming “hackathon” of the IRS: “Corcos and DOGE indicated to IRS employees that they intended to first apply the API to the agency’s mainframes and then move on to every other internal system. Initiating a plan like this would likely touch all data within the IRS including taxpayer names, addresses, social security numbers, as well as tax return and employment data. Currently, the IRS runs on dozens of disparate systems hosted in on-premises data centers and in the cloud that are purposefully compartmentalized. Accessing these systems requires special permissions and workers are typically only granted access on a need-to-know basis”. Members of DOGE have been found to have ties with cyber criminal outfits because they were never vetted.

Headline from WIRED “Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free. It’s the culmination of a weeks long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the US Institute of Peace”. The USIP was not a government agency, it was a private third part, and the DOGE has illegally seized their building and all the stuff inside it. This Government will just seize your company and all its stuff, your company is next.

An excerpt from an MIT Technology Review article about how scammer syndicates in Myanmar operate and have directed their efforts westward while social media execs shrug and profit. The paragraph details how the syndicates operate, with the line “partnership with corrupt regimes” is highlighted. The full piece can be read at https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1113782/scam-compound-meta-facebook-pig-butchering-wechat/

1 if by land
2 if by sea
3 if by thumb drive.
3️⃣🚨⚠️
DOGE is going to steal ALL YOUR personal data and sell it to the Myanmar scam syndicates.
And do it from a building they seized and stole! (Your Company assets and land holdings are next)

People REALLY don’t remember history, not even in their own lifetime, about how professional tech companies - even billion dollar ones - shutter things on them ALL THE TIME 😂
#Fediverse #ActivityPub (3/3)

Rejoice tho, spammers are a badge of honor for a system seeking growth. Spammers mean a thing has gotten enough people to bother. (10/10)

Holding-tank strategy is an art, I’ll make a blog post about it later for the grow fediverse guide, but this should get you started.
2. (5/10)

Alright wish me luck, about to flash some usb 3 with distros and try out #Linux on a PC for the first time as a total newbie 👀

I often like posting long threads like this for the “Bluesky is better” crowd, because on Mastodon microblog it will just gracefully “read more”s my long form Fiendica posts so the microbloggers can ignore it. 😂) (18/18)

People have NO idea how many of THE WORLD’S phones, servers, home appliances, and devices are running on Linux guts. (But I suppose there’s also people who think that their phone transmits its data like a walkie talkie right to their friends and family, (13/18)

options) or “how to dine at THIS particular cuisine” (which is how I think of the different social types) …
But at some point I also promised to teach them how to cook at home too if they want, which is how i picture doing their own social hosting. (4/18)

I’ve hit choice paralysis, help me decide which of these distros to try out:
A) Mint (Ubuntu)
B) LMDE (Debian)
C) Zorin (Ubuntu)
D) Kubuntu (Ubuntu)
E) Nobara (Fedora)
F) Garuda (Arch)
G) Bedrock (Neither linux nor unix but a secret third thing)
#Linux

Misappropriation of funds redirected to a group disguised as federal empls under an "agency" banner not duly authorized by law?

Sounds like a fraud being perpetrated to me, & any citizen being harmed by such an agency for lack of funds who diverted funds to DOGE has standing.
@whitehouse.senate.gov

The Shell is like Virgil trying to help the user, Dante, make it down to the center of hell, the Hardware, to try and do like … anything useful (but will probably instead get the monkey’s paw version of what they ask for because you dont use NLP to communicate in the shell).” (2/2)

In summary: don’t fall for fake engagement. If you just wanna get dopamine from Number Go Up, save yourself the hassle and download an idle clicker game. (5/5)

Reminder #Fediverse folks: When your engagement is higher in the big commercial platforms (clicks, reshares), that’s because it’s not from or going to actual people.
60% of reshares in some platforms are by bots. (1/5)

I hope more and more small servers and self hosting continue among Mastodon and other ActivityPub based socials. It really helps to mitigate the “expense” of trying to keep a social service up for … the entire planet 🫠 Spread out folks.
mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra… (2/2)

Because algorithms bump what ppl discuss, and “treasury” is a “boring” word. (5/5)

(Sorry for the lack of alt text on this next one, ran outta time will add when I get a chance)

Exactly. This is a coup of a coup. They don’t know how to react to what just happened to all of them. They are ALL leveraged assets now, he has their secrets and control of payments.

Quote text explaining that the US Treasury has been busted into like that scene in Rick & Morty where Rick hacks a super power’s treasury and topples it because they can’t figure out how to pay for anything. It further explains that “He gained private banking info and proprietary biz info. It’s why Rocketboy is posing in his office next to him like he’s showing off the fish he caught. Cuz he did. A coup of the coup 😬 Besides holding the literal purse strings, all that data means he has mega blackmail material against ALL of them, of any party. It’s why it seems like they’re doing nothing about it. They don’t know what to do about dude who knows all their secrets and knows how to use technology they don’t understand to break the money system.

Quote text “Happy ‘your constitution doesn’t matter day’ to all who celebrate. Seriously tho, what pray tell is ‘the moment’ *you* are waiting for? You’re waiting for some single magic moment to be ‘the signal’ that it’s ‘time’ for you to mobilize. That’s not how it works. It’s not a movie or book. There’s no nice clean crescendo to a key scene where you the hero must answer The Call of Destiny because now is clearly The Time. You’re waiting for a bus that already left the station. Get involved with your local community. These misery profiteers make money off your anxiety while you infinite scroll the horror show of them ruining people’s lives. Pivot. Reclaim your time by investing it into community with others doing direct helpful activities. That can take MANY shapes. Use the skills and affinity you have. People ask me all the time how I seem to ‘know what to do’. But all I do is harness what I’m good at and my deep love of people and ponder how I can use that to help, to to uphold law, or to support others. If you don’t know how to help or what to do, tell me what you’re good at and I’ll suggest a way you can help. But whatever you do, don’t wait for ‘the moment’. It’s now. It has always been now!” then with emphasis and a text line break “IT’S NOW”

Quote text explaining that the youth who accessed the Treasury systems already uploaded it to the Cloud. “They can parse all that data with AI to sell to Russia or whomever. People are thinking like this is paper files or physical disks you can track down. But these are virtual servers all over the world, able to be bulk distributed and replicated infinitely. All the data in those systems are compromised forever, there’s no way to undo this

Quote text explaining that in the past coups looked different. The center of power was in buildings, and occupying i with guns would be recognizable to the average person as a coup. Now instead civilians with Zip drives used social engineering of technical jargon and claims that they worked somewhere they don’t to access the core computer systems of the govt and its entire financial system, working for a billionaire.

It’s more that they’re now ALL leveraged assets and have no idea how to stop it. He spear phished his way into their secrets and control of all payment systems. Musk is prez now. Literally.

Quote text explaining that the US Treasury has been busted into like that scene in Rick & Morty where Rick hacks a super power’s treasury and topples it because they can’t figure out how to pay for anything. It further explains that “He gained private banking info and proprietary biz info. It’s why Rocketboy is posing in his office next to him like he’s showing off the fish he caught. Cuz he did. A coup of the coup 😬 Besides holding the literal purse strings, all that data means he has mega blackmail material against ALL of them, of any party. It’s why it seems like they’re doing nothing about it. They don’t know what to do about dude who knows all their secrets and knows how to use technology they don’t understand to break the money system.

Quote text “Happy ‘your constitution doesn’t matter day’ to all who celebrate. Seriously tho, what pray tell is ‘the moment’ *you* are waiting for? You’re waiting for some single magic moment to be ‘the signal’ that it’s ‘time’ for you to mobilize. That’s not how it works. It’s not a movie or book. There’s no nice clean crescendo to a key scene where you the hero must answer The Call of Destiny because now is clearly The Time. You’re waiting for a bus that already left the station. Get involved with your local community. These misery profiteers make money off your anxiety while you infinite scroll the horror show of them ruining people’s lives. Pivot. Reclaim your time by investing it into community with others doing direct helpful activities. That can take MANY shapes. Use the skills and affinity you have. People ask me all the time how I seem to ‘know what to do’. But all I do is harness what I’m good at and my deep love of people and ponder how I can use that to help, to to uphold law, or to support others. If you don’t know how to help or what to do, tell me what you’re good at and I’ll suggest a way you can help. But whatever you do, don’t wait for ‘the moment’. It’s now. It has always been now!” then with emphasis and a text line break “IT’S NOW”

Ah yes, he ‘hired’ him. I’m sorry but this is a coup of a coup, they don’t know how to react to what was done to them. Video for reference of what’s happening at the Fed right now: youtu.be/noQsHiTJAXo

Quote text explaining that the US Treasury has been busted into like that scene in Rick & Morty where Rick hacks a super power’s treasury and topples it because they can’t figure out how to pay for anything. It further explains that “He gained private banking info and proprietary biz info. It’s why Rocketboy is posing in his office next to him like he’s showing off the fish he caught. Cuz he did. A coup of the coup 😬 Besides holding the literal purse strings, all that data means he has mega blackmail material against ALL of them, of any party. It’s why it seems like they’re doing nothing about it. They don’t know what to do about dude who knows all their secrets and knows how to use technology they don’t understand to break the money system.

Quote text “Happy ‘your constitution doesn’t matter day’ to all who celebrate. Seriously tho, what pray tell is ‘the moment’ *you* are waiting for? You’re waiting for some single magic moment to be ‘the signal’ that it’s ‘time’ for you to mobilize. That’s not how it works. It’s not a movie or book. There’s no nice clean crescendo to a key scene where you the hero must answer The Call of Destiny because now is clearly The Time. You’re waiting for a bus that already left the station. Get involved with your local community. These misery profiteers make money off your anxiety while you infinite scroll the horror show of them ruining people’s lives. Pivot. Reclaim your time by investing it into community with others doing direct helpful activities. That can take MANY shapes. Use the skills and affinity you have. People ask me all the time how I seem to ‘know what to do’. But all I do is harness what I’m good at and my deep love of people and ponder how I can use that to help, to to uphold law, or to support others. If you don’t know how to help or what to do, tell me what you’re good at and I’ll suggest a way you can help. But whatever you do, don’t wait for ‘the moment’. It’s now. It has always been now!” then with emphasis and a text line break “IT’S NOW”

Because he can’t stop him. An unauthorized nerd hooked computer systems to the US treasury and now these dudes are like that scene from Rick & Morty:
youtu.be/noQsHiTJAXo

Quote text explaining that the US Treasury has been busted into like that scene in Rick & Morty where Rick hacks a super power’s treasury and topples it because they can’t figure out how to pay for anything. It further explains that “He gained private banking info and proprietary biz info. It’s why Rocketboy is posing in his office next to him like he’s showing off the fish he caught. Cuz he did. A coup of the coup 😬 Besides holding the literal purse strings, all that data means he has mega blackmail material against ALL of them, of any party. It’s why it seems like they’re doing nothing about it. They don’t know what to do about dude who knows all their secrets and knows how to use technology they don’t understand to break the money system.

Quote text “Happy ‘your constitution doesn’t matter day’ to all who celebrate. Seriously tho, what pray tell is ‘the moment’ *you* are waiting for? You’re waiting for some single magic moment to be ‘the signal’ that it’s ‘time’ for you to mobilize. That’s not how it works. It’s not a movie or book. There’s no nice clean crescendo to a key scene where you the hero must answer The Call of Destiny because now is clearly The Time. You’re waiting for a bus that already left the station. Get involved with your local community. These misery profiteers make money off your anxiety while you infinite scroll the horror show of them ruining people’s lives. Pivot. Reclaim your time by investing it into community with others doing direct helpful activities. That can take MANY shapes. Use the skills and affinity you have. People ask me all the time how I seem to ‘know what to do’. But all I do is harness what I’m good at and my deep love of people and ponder how I can use that to help, to to uphold law, or to support others. If you don’t know how to help or what to do, tell me what you’re good at and I’ll suggest a way you can help. But whatever you do, don’t wait for ‘the moment’. It’s now. It has always been now!” then with emphasis and a text line break “IT’S NOW”

Distraction from the “coup of the coup” inside the Treasury. Pivot. Focus on the compromise of the Treasury. It’s bad for EVERY party, because Rocketboy can now withhold the $ to anything of his choosing law or party be damned. This is the Fed right now:
youtu.be/noQsHiTJAXo

Quote text “Happy ‘your constitution doesn’t matter day’ to all who celebrate. Seriously tho, what pray tell is ‘the moment’ *you* are waiting for? You’re waiting for some single magic moment to be ‘the signal’ that it’s ‘time’ for you to mobilize. That’s not how it works. It’s not a movie or book. There’s no nice clean crescendo to a key scene where you the hero must answer The Call of Destiny because now is clearly The Time. You’re waiting for a bus that already left the station. Get involved with your local community. These misery profiteers make money off your anxiety while you infinite scroll the horror show of them ruining people’s lives. Pivot. Reclaim your time by investing it into community with others doing direct helpful activities. That can take MANY shapes. Use the skills and affinity you have. People ask me all the time how I seem to ‘know what to do’. But all I do is harness what I’m good at and my deep love of people and ponder how I can use that to help, to to uphold law, or to support others. If you don’t know how to help or what to do, tell me what you’re good at and I’ll suggest a way you can help. But whatever you do, don’t wait for ‘the moment’. It’s now. It has always been now!” then with emphasis and a text line break “IT’S NOW”

Quote text explaining that the US Treasury has been busted into like that scene in Rick & Morty where Rick hacks a super power’s treasury and topples it because they can’t figure out how to pay for anything. It further explains that “He gained private banking info and proprietary biz info. It’s why Rocketboy is posing in his office next to him like he’s showing off the fish he caught. Cuz he did. A coup of the coup 😬 Besides holding the literal purse strings, all that data means he has mega blackmail material against ALL of them, of any party. It’s why it seems like they’re doing nothing about it. They don’t know what to do about dude who knows all their secrets and knows how to use technology they don’t understand to break the money system.

In your great roles, your heroes often answer a key moment, a call of destiny. But in life there’s no such thing. Get involved now. The treasury has been seized in a coup of coup. Use your brand reach to raise awareness.