Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Living under a rapidly-consolidating authoritarian regime sucks, and I wish I knew how to contingency plan around it better.

The best I’ve come up with is setting aside some funds to help friends through losing their insurance and incomes, and to keep supporting my reps in their efforts to speed up inquiries into public corruption.

So he intends to cover up the whole thing, provide enough plausible deniability to help spin the narrative, push this all into the courts, and delay through 2020. Cool cool cool.

I am trying to see how getting him on the record now and subpoenaing Mueller in May isn’t playing an extremely dangerous game of chicken. I understand it’s the correct response to backstop a court challenge, but that kind of doesn’t matter if they dismantle the institutions in the meantime.

Taxes are finally done. Too... many... numbers. @..@

For a puzzle game about box pushing and arbitrary code execution, this pushes the concept really far.

Oh no, I’m to the part where I have to spell out objects and commands, and now this is Scribblenauts. @..@

The human suit is three sizes too small and very itchy along the wings. Good thing I only have to put it on once every four months or so.

It is one of the best feelings in the world, after a long work trip, to finally drop the disguise. Pretending to be unassumingly normal is hard work.

Hell of a thing, watching Adam Schiff stand defiant and hold his own against the Murdoch disinfo machine.

Also called my own rep, Adam Smith, to thank him for blocking misappropriations for the wall.

It’s good to finally have representation with both power and a spine.

So I’m wrapping up a trip for work, and I had a strange query for folks that travel, especially to the Bay Area.

This trip, I’ve noticed that multiple indoor spaces (my hotel, restaurants, the office building for my employer) now have omnipresent low frequency noise generation. It’s audible to me because my hearing dips in the low range, and noise levels in these closed spaces have notably been reduced.

Is building-scale active noise cancellation now a thing?

I guess I’d been kind of cynical about how things I do are seen by others, given how other people controlling the narrative seems to... be a thing. I guess I finally found a way to work around people reactive to controlled narratives and keep being me, which helps more than I think I knew.

Wish I still had faith in disinfo not dominating the process, but I’ll settle for “I can work within this framework and minimize my exposure.”

Haven’t posted much here, but I’ve been doing mostly better.

Something internally shifted that I’ll want to talk about at some point, loosely corresponding to no longer holding myself to arbitrary constraints from others. I’m not sure why, but talking about and reflecting on my own narrative helped.

As did spending time making things again, which apparently I hadn’t done in awhile? Being a builder and storyteller just seems to be my thing, for some reason.

The social media presidency has been a valuable lesson in how lies are laundered and sold as truths to orgs that otherwise know better.

Seeing headlines run this morning confusing Barr’s letter as total exoneration, which... it... doesn’t... say? It’s as charitable a read of a document we haven’t yet seen as possible, and its purpose was to set a preferred narrative.

Not that the distinction between “no evidence” and “not enough evidence to prosecute matters”, or knowing where things fall between them matters to the health of democracy, or anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯