Following the wise advice of Prince Charming, I edited a custom personal 256 bit secret into the php code of Avatar Privacy avatar generator, so that now it actually works as it is supposed to. So now we have avatars, and actually do have privacy. My own personal experience in security is that your boss orders one to do something inexplicably stupid that introduces a subtle flaw, an order that …
Back again
My blog has been down for a while – the perils of being your own system administrator. Because of political events, I have moved the blog onto a server physically located on the boundary between the US empire and the Chinese hegemony, in a country that piously proclaims fealty to both, and tends to be left alone by both. (Which means we are now being spied on by twice as …
Where we go from here
Electoral politics is dead, though its corpse will continue to be paraded about for a considerable time. It will not be revived for a very long time, for a live Republic requires a virtuous elite, and creating a virtuous elite is a project that requires a virtuous King, and a few generations. I hoped and prayed that Trump would retain power – either as president, or as leader of the …
Now we are in trouble
It is not over till the fat lady sings on January 20th, but things do not look good. We inevitably lost because our people did not have legitimate authority to use lethal force, and the other side did. In order to grant our people legitimate authority to use lethal force, Trump needs to proclaim the insurrection act and call out the militia. I was hoping that yesterday would provide a …
Election fraud hearings
I normally do not comment on current events, because in the long run, they seldom matter. What is important is the long term direction, which can only be seen by looking backwards, usually a very long way backwards. But, today, a crisis point comes that will make a great difference. If Pence carries out his promise to hear the evidence of election fraud, if he is able to carry out …
I am back
If you have problems viewing this site or commenting, clear your browser caches (except for passwords and such) Some browsers cached messed up data during the transition. I am feeling optimistic about my safety, because I have taken some additional precautions, and the move seems to have taken me off the radar. About America, not so much. After the Republic died in Rome, it took a long time for a …
This blog is going down
This blog, and the associated email addresses are going away until it becomes apparent which way the wind blows. I am going to sell the domain name. When it becomes apparent which way the wind blows, a similar blog, with all the original content and comments, will re-open on a less valuable domain name in a safer administration. Bets on the outcome of current events should be settled in 2020 …
Normality bias
In the year fifty eight years before Christ in Rome it became obvious that elections were rigged. Courts and due process had ended in the sense that some political violence went unpunished, and attempting to defend oneself against political violence was the gravest of crimes, in the sense that political disagreement was a crime, as Roger Stone and Sheriff Joe recently discovered, while political violence was not, as those who …
Time to cross the Rubicon
It becomes apparent that no court, including the supposedly conservative majority supreme court, is willing to look at the decisive and overwhelming evidence that the election was stolen. Trump is going to have to proclaim the Insurrection Act under article four of the constitution, for which he is going to need a general, perhaps General Flynn, who has already called upon him to proclaim the Insurrection act. Trump is likely …
The fall of the Republic
Today in America it is the year in Rome fifty eight years before Christ. We are here. The mob is on the streets, which the courts decline to put down, courts and legal processes of the Republic politicized and defunct, carrying out political vengeance and refusing to enforce law, elections blatantly fraudulent and discredited. Caesar crossing the Rubicon was the culmination of more Rubicons than you can shake a stick …