Tag: technology

Biden supporters and the media – but I repeat myself – keep demanding evidence. They’re going to get what they’re asking for, and more.

Apple cultists have long argued that Apple is superior to the Facebook Amazon Google Twitter technocabal because it protects user privacy in its walled garden. But that does not, in fact, appear to be the case, at least, not any longer.

On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.

It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slow and it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet.

Because it does this using the internet, the server sees your IP, of course, and knows what time the request came in. An IP address allows for coarse, city-level and ISP-level geolocation, and allows for a table that has the following headings:

Date, Time, Computer, ISP, City, State, Application Hash

Apple (or anyone else) can, of course, calculate these hashes for common programs: everything in the App Store, the Creative Cloud, Tor Browser, cracking or reverse engineering tools, whatever.

This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel on a trip to another city.

Now, there is only so much you can do to avoid this sort of thing. I prefer to operate under the full knowledge that my every online activity – and probably the greater part of my real world activities – are being watched, recorded, and processed for analysis, although at this point that’s completely redundant given the fact that I am a confirmed badthinker and thought criminal. 

The thing is, living in a digital panopticon is really not a problem for any student of philosophy, much less any Christian. We are perfectly aware that all our secrets and our sins are known.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

– Epictetus, Book I

But it is still good to know who the Watchers are, and Apple is now confirmed to be among them.

 It appears Patreon has learned literally nothing from its losing legal battle with the Bears:

Patreon — a platform that provides “content creators” with tools to run membership-based subscription services and earn a monthly income — is helping QAnon influencers monetize the dangerous conspiracy theory. And it appears the company is cashing in too, taking a 5-12{3aedcb51dac2fbb83a885d32b07950f3050377138d02430f831f0a3ede84357a} cut depending on the user’s payment plan even though the content seemingly violates the platform’s terms of use. 

Media Matters has identified 14 prominent QAnon content creators on Patreon who are profiting by peddling the violent conspiracy theory. 

Update (10/22/20): Following Media Matters’ reporting, Patreon announced it will ban creators that promote QAnon misinformation from using the platform.

At least now we have a pretty good idea what that $90 million in new investment money was intended for. But it was nice of Media Matters to spell the whole process out in public for everyone to see. And with over 4,500 backers behind them, I would expect that these recently deplatformed content creators can wield a considerable legal hammer if they are so inclined.

Some will argue that these deplatformings “don’t make any sense”. But that argument betrays an inability to recognize that we’re no longer operating in a Smithian marketplace here.

For a media empire operating at the highest levels, the influence it wields on the public’s mind is far more valuable to the ruling power structure than any self-contained profit that could be generated by optimizing their news product to suit the taste of the audience…. Just as a social media company’s true product is its user data, the true product of a major media company is the flow of narratives that shape the perception of reality. Wielding influence over the public mind will always be more valuable than any profit that could be generated by optimizing the news to suit public tastes.

This is information war, not business. It’s about control of the information flow, not maximizing profits or market share. And you’ll note that they ban Q, not unicorns, leprechauns, or perpetual-motion machines.

 The longer this goes on, the more that will come out:

“NEW DOMINION VOTING MACHINES NOT OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED

2019 Arizona Revised Statutes

Title 16 – Elections and Electors

§ 16-449 Required test of equipment and programs; notice; procedures manual

The test shall be observed by at least two election inspectors, who shall not be of the same political party, and shall be open to representatives of the political parties, candidates, the press and the public.

Neither a Libertarian Party agency Representative NOR the Republican GOP Chair Rae Chornenky was preset at this REQUIRED test and by statute there SHALL be at least 2 official observers from differing parties present to certify the machines

THE MACHINES WERE NOT OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED ACCORDING TO STATUTE”

Ignore the media’s propaganda campaign. Its whole purpose is to wear you down and demoralize you.

SomeBitchToldMe has discovered that the systematic voter fraud based on the maiden names of married women goes considerably beyond premarital surnames:

I wasn’t thinking big enough at all. This isn’t just name changes.This isn’t just state changes. This isn’t just women.

This is anyone who has ever lived in multiple places and registered different times to vote. This is anyone who has registered in ONE place ever, but had a name change.

• Men.
• Women.
• Military.
• Divorced.
• Married.
• Adopted.
• Transgendered (we’ve found at least one).

What I need you to do is check your registration and ballot status in whatever states you might have lived in under whatever names you might have gone by.

Even check aliases on your credit report that sound like you but are a little off. My name is Lauren, but I have a “Laurie” that I have been trying to get removed for nearly a year, from when I lived in Georgia. As soon as I finish writing this, I’m going to check and see if there was a ballot cast under that name.

If you do find something, please get in touch with me at maidengate@protonmail.com.

You can check your registration and ballot status by following the links provided on my website. No ads, no bullshit, just the info. Find it here:

Let’s keep this fight going.

It’s not just the dead whose votes they’re stealing.

It’s the living.

You wanted to know how you could help the God-Emperor deal with the fraud? Here is how. 

UPDATE: You want evidence? Here is your evidence. Biden didn’t win.

In Georgia, among ballots that only voted for President and no other races, these are the number of votes:

• Trump: 818
• Biden: 95,801

Another of those gosh-darned computer glitches just happened to switch votes from President Trump to Creepy Joe in Wisconsin:

We have identified approximately 10,000 votes that were moved from President Trump to Biden in just one Wisconsin County. This information came from an individual who saw this happen in Rock County Wisconsin.

On election night the results of the county were presented during the evening and showed that President Trump won Wisconsin in 2016.  At 10:59 the votes came in and the race was close with both candidates at around 29,000 ballots.  Then by 11:12 President Trump had taken a nearly 1,000 vote lead on Biden with 31,000 votes to Biden’s 30,000:

At 11:21 these results had not changed much.  Then at 11:43 more votes came in and they showed Trump had taken a commanding lead at 46,649 to Biden’s 37,133.  This was a 9,516 vote lead for Trump. 

But then suddenly at 11:57 these votes had swapped.  Biden was reported with 46,649 and Trump was reduced to Biden’s former total of 37,133.  These votes had swapped from the President Trump to Biden – again a swap from a Republican to a Democrat. The net impact was 19,032 votes.

We checked these numbers again tonight from a different source and the final numbers are still showing Biden ahead of President Trump by the same 9,516 votes.

Currently the race in Wisconsin is showing Biden with a lead of 1,630,570 votes to President Trump’s 1,610,030 votes.  When this adjustment is confirmed Biden will only hold a 1,508 vote lead.  This of course is before any of the hundreds of thousands of questionable votes showing up for Biden in Milwaukee early in the morning after the election are validated.

If, at this point, you have any doubt that President Trump was duly and legitimately reelected by the legal votes of the U.S. electorate, you’re simply not paying attention. Have you not noticed the weak wave of Democratic triumphalism has already died down? Have you not observed the way the media is beginning to hedge its statements? Have you not heard that the mainstream media is attempting to bury all of its live election coverage? 

Can you not smell the fear?

 Or, apparently, that he is alive. Drat those decaying algorithms!

Never mind, that whole vote thing was just an unfortunate series of software glitches that all happened to randomly go the same way. Whatcha gonna do about it, hey?

Software used to tabulate votes cast in 47 Michigan counties erroneously gave 6,000 votes to Joe Biden in Anterim County, according to state GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox.

“In Antrim County, ballots were counted for Democrats that were meant for Republicans, causing a 6,000 vote swing against our candidates. The county clerk came forward and said ‘tabulating software glitched and caused a miscalculation of the vote.’ Since then, we have now discovered the 47 counties used the same software in the same capacity,” she said, adding “Antrim County had to hand count all of the ballots, and these counties that used the software need to closely examine their results for similar discrepancies.”

Of note, Trump won Antrim County in 2016 with 62{3aedcb51dac2fbb83a885d32b07950f3050377138d02430f831f0a3ede84357a} of the vote vs. 33{3aedcb51dac2fbb83a885d32b07950f3050377138d02430f831f0a3ede84357a} for Hillary Clinton.

It was an accident. A glitch. No need to send in the U.S. Marshals…. 

Facebook’s intervention in U.S. election politics is not exactly a surprise, of course:

Facebook Inc. is tightening its grip on speech across its platforms, invoking some of the emergency measures that executives previously described as their “break glass” options to respond to postelection unrest.

The company announced temporary measures to limit the spread of false and possibly dangerous content late on Thursday, hours after it took down a fast-growing group called “Stop the Steal” that was organizing protests of vote counts around the country.

If you’re still on Facebook, then I really don’t know what to tell you. You’re like an animal that voluntarily straps on its own muzzle. And before the first moron tries to respond “but… but YOU’RE on Blogger”, please feel free to point to the evidence, any evidence at all, that a single one of my millions of words posted here has ever been censored in any way.