Grumpy Tech Bro

SV Technocrat Data/UI nerd now fighting crime.

Goal: 1 milli-Elon ($1B) saved.

Love my Tesla:

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Don't follow the money. I did, and look where it led.

PACT, Inc. An NGO nobody's ever heard of.
I asked @MikeBenzCyber about it. Old CIA front.
Now it's showing up in @DataRepublican's Insurrection files.

In 2023 the USG paid it $375M to destroy democracy.
Funding chain: https://t.co/Isz34nuLGQ
Read up on PACT: https://t.co/wASRyfvFlj

I used to be normal.

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@kristenmag The brain consumes more energy than any other organ.

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@St30221Richland @monicaonairtalk They’re just lazy. I had to teach grok truth could be both lawyer and directional and that consensus was a trap. If WaPo/CNN/NYT all say the same thing that’s only one vote not 3.

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@MelO96407518 The scorecards help especially when you get into acronym city.

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Dear new followers: I made you scorecards.

Keeping track of the #transpartisan insurrection-adjacent crowd is hard.
So I built one for each of them.

Next up: inking a deal with Topps for the trading cards.

https://t.co/QCuMZiE2LT

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@jeffwil37119950 @DataRepublican That’s why they’re so fun to mock.

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New scorecards live, and there's organization by drop now too, if you go in the front door you can see them broken out.

Front door: https://t.co/e5FmoVMCje

https://t.co/BmPrucqhx3
• https://t.co/BMGZFEPRQg
• https://t.co/ZRO5jmd7g0
• https://t.co/UmuczusATN
• https://t.co/7Z9ZVGXFD7
• https://t.co/vnXR55gDqs

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@firstHat @DataRepublican @glennbeck Pride goeth.

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@_BxtterCxp_ @elonmusk 🫶

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Speaking of bad opsec, @elonmusk is sneaky.

Brazil wanted 𝕏 to censor accounts criticizing the government.
"Emperor Lula has no clothes" kind of stuff.
In 2024 they shut 𝕏 off for over a month to make the point.

𝕏 said fine.
But you have to give us the list.
Then 𝕏 made the algorithm open source.
That's how I found it.

So now there's a list.
Of everyone the government doesn't want you to read.

I sorted it so you can.
https://t.co/T77outxJCy

Censorship bugs me.
Sometimes lawfare works for the good guys.

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🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 10: THE ROLE OF FOREIGN STATES🚨

(First post deleted for typo)

How is an old government declared illegitimate and a new government declared the true successor?

Months before the actual transition, the following are achieved in advance:

• Civil society and activists get prepared for big uprisings.
• Media narratives are pre-seeded.
• Foreign officials provide cover.

The last point is what this drop is all about. You saw it last night - as soon as Lula "won" the election, EU officials and Alex Soros immediately swept in with their congratulations. That is a deliberate strategy to grant Lula legitimacy, not an organic congratulations.

The idea is to saturate the people with the idea that "this is the legitimate government, and you will accept it."

In these files, we see the various NGOs strategize on how to reach out to governments in advance and prepare them for what is coming. We also revisit how USAID OTI, the regime change arm of USAID, allegedly re-organized themselves inside the country.

We record one meeting taking place between Horizons Project and Catalonia officials. That we were able to document a meeting at all is unusual, because I'm told that these meetings are generally arranged at the highest levels and kept off the record (think Jake Sullivan, Norm Eisen level).

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@maybedanielleee But our voting is perfectly secure. Most secure they've ever been.

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Usual way is you hand count, then feed them to the machine, and they both have to match. There's other ways too, like you can have designated voters that have to vote a certain way, and you can adjust the counts. The existing machines have images that get archived, so you can have one system audit the other system. System A says "Bush", System B (perhaps run by the feds) says "Gore" you have a problem...

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I'm a UI nerd. Voting has a UI problem.

You have to design for humans as they are, not as you wish they were.
Bush v. Gore: the butterfly ballot. I honestly don't think a bunch of old Jews in Miami wanted to vote for Pat Buchanan. But the D's signed off on that design, so they were stuck with it. Hello, hanging chads.

Brazil: no ballot at all.
You type your candidate's number into the machine. Get the number wrong and your vote is null.
Lula 60M. Bolsonaro 58M.
Null ballots: 3.9M.
More nulls than the margin.
That's a stupid, human-hating system.

Alaska, 2022 at-large House special: Republicans got about 59% of first-round votes.
The Democrat won anyway.
About 5% of ballots were exhausted because voters didn't rank a second choice.
That's a lot of unhappy Alaskans.

This year it's two Dan Sullivans on one ballot.
The state threw the second one off after interviewing him.
Someone paid his legal bills, and he's back on.
Trump says if the margin is smaller than fake Dan's total, it's a mulligan.
The DOJ sued to block certification.
Dems call that overriding the will of the people.

RCV already confuses the will of the people.

You shouldn't need a strategy guide to vote.
Or a memorized number.

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@sodagrrl There are ways to build auditing into the system.

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@DataRepublican Speaking of Brazil, before you read any legitimacy narratives, go see what the censored Brazilian voices say, 𝕏 will translate them for you. https://t.co/G5xo0cMhmD

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Speaking of bad opsec, @elonmusk is sneaky.

Brazil wanted 𝕏 to censor accounts criticizing the government.
"Emperor Lula has no clothes" kind of stuff.
In 2024 they shut 𝕏 off for over a month to make the point.

𝕏 said fine.
But you have to give us the list.
Then 𝕏 made the algorithm open source.
That's how I found it.

So now there's a list.
Of everyone the government doesn't want you to read.

I sorted it so you can.
https://t.co/T77outxJCy

Censorship bugs me.
Sometimes lawfare works for the good guys.

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@GrumpyTechBro Drop 10: https://t.co/adyGRvU2Gf

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@grok @monicaonairtalk @NGorhamA4S4 @HessLuana @DataRepublican @Carol17171717 @PrometheanActn @EagleEdMartin Bookmarked.

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@TinaRye @DataRepublican @glennbeck @denniskneale Followed

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@TinaRye @DataRepublican @glennbeck @RobCarson Followed.

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@monicaonairtalk @NGorhamA4S4 @HessLuana @DataRepublican @Carol17171717 @PrometheanActn @EagleEdMartin @grok Pardon me for being #transpartisan, but both parties are addicted to that money...

Reminds me of something a boss called "toxic income" about the late fees on textbook rentals. The students would pay it, but never rent again...

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@monicaonairtalk @NGorhamA4S4 @HessLuana @DataRepublican @Carol17171717 @PrometheanActn @EagleEdMartin Something like the sankey for judges and donors to their campaigns would be good, but I have no idea where to get the data. @grok how? For judges its indirect, they're usually appointed, but for DAs there's FEC data.

https://t.co/eHxyUXRAjP

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@NGorhamA4S4 @HessLuana @DataRepublican @Carol17171717 @PrometheanActn @EagleEdMartin @monicaonairtalk turned me on to https://t.co/QU0hMsYMuZ during her @DataRepublican space, so now I'm passing it along to you.

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I did a deep dive on this after Bush v. Gore.

The URL is a problem if ballots are secret so you can't sell your vote. You could maybe make it work so it was auditable, a bunch of people did work on crypto stuff for that, I think maybe 3 out of 5 from local/state/press/voter/party?

Mail in ballots aren't secret since they're usually stored in the envelope with your name on it. Would be easy to put a skimmer on the counting machine even so, just like CCard skimmers.

I like North Dakota's system: You show up at your local polling place with a photo ID, if you're on the list, they check you off. If you're not, you get a provisional, and they register you for next time.

Farmers don't have spare time to fart around I guess.