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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • From what I gather, this is not unlike his method for taking over other businesses and them claiming them for himself and then aggrandizing himself as the inventor or founder or creator or chief engineer, or I’m sure the list goes on.

    He uses his money to buy a spot on the board. If that’s not enough, he uses more money to buy the Chairman of the Board seat. And then he dictates to the President/CEO what to do, or uses his power and leverage over them to force them to bend to his will or replaces them with an already-placed yes-man.

    The already-placed yes-man is Vance. Vance is there because Peter Thiel paid for him to be there. He did that because Vance likes the Curtis Yarvin plan for a weird techno-fascist future with corporate fiefdoms instead of actual American democracy. Elon and Thiel go way back to Paypal together and have been drinking the Yarvin Koolaid for a while.

    He’s doing what he did to Paypal and Tesla to the US government and the Republicans are allowing it to happen while the corporate-aligned Democrats say “they can’t just do that, there are rules” and “the people of America need to make their voices heard” and only a handful of Progressive voices are even allowed to take up any oxygen and say that we’ve lost our democracy to oligarchs. And between Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, RedNote, and whatever else, they’ve got captive audiences to funnel AI-driven and optimized right-wing messaging out constantly while also working ever so steadily at collectively hampering our population’s opportunity to educate ourselves out of this mess.

    It’s truly scary, and also very sad, to watch from the inside.









  • I’ve been mostly using Nginx Proxy Manager, but I recently set up Bunkerweb as a WAF for a couple of public services I’m hosting and I kind of like it. It does reverse proxy along with a bunch of other things (bad behavior blocking, geographic blocking, SSL cert handling, it does a lot).

    Mentioning it because I didn’t see any other mention of it yet.

    NPM is easy to use. Caddy sounds like something I’d like to try too now.