AHH was talking about teaching English as a home school addendum to unreal school.  This is not so easy.

https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1833103082101576026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1833103082101576026%7Ctwgr%5E605bfc99e22bc831e0f1420ddfa0a197646af572%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FPicturesFoIder%2Fstatus%2F1833103082101576026

Maduro is not playing any longer. He just cut water to the Argentinian embassy that is under the control of Brazil, because he through Argentinians out. But Brazil (probably keeping the peace, or not?) kept asylum seekers in the Embassy. Venezuela revoked the Brazilian protection of the Argentinean Embassy, where various of members of the members of the Venezuelan opposition took asylum – this is what it looks like, but don’t take it to the bank.

I have no idea what is happening and will search it out during the day from reliable sources. I kept in touch with those guys on X, but now, oh boy, it is a mess. So I’ll have to search. They are there, but where?

The necessaries have offers of decision support as to where to go and how.  Off-shore Yes.

I am going to redesign GlobalSouth.co to get rid of WordPress.  There are two ways to use it, either on the WordPress site, or as standalone software.  We have standalone, which should be fine, but I’ve suddenly stopped trusting the updates, and software need updates.

See why I am skreetching for a pair of technical hands!

Yeah, that fellow is not on my normal route of reading.

In that piece, there are so many inaccuracies that one can dish them out with a spoon.  Once someone that knows nothing about crypto, starts talking about crypto, it is a joke.  Btw, it is Toncoin.  It trades like a normal crypto on the normal crypto markets and that is the valuation used for all the valuation that he can only describe in supposed convoluted financial twists because he just does not know.   It has dropped severely over the past few weeks.  https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/toncoin

Toncoin is not owned by Durov, but it is managed by a fund specifically created for this, as crypto companies do.   Durov probably owns a ton of Toncoin.  I would not be surprised if Toncoin is used for some cross-border payments between Russia and suppliers or buyers.  The users own it as is normal for cryptos.  Crypto companies do not situate in the US because of the inane laws from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.  Texas has gone around those but I cannot say I know what has happened.  IPO for Telegram in the US?  Not on your nellie.

So Durov had a photo shoot with a theme.  Oh dear, what a venal or mortal sin.  It is not my interest but millions and I mean that, are ‘influencers’ on the internet, it is an alive business model, good ‘influencers’ get paid good money and in today’s world, it is another career.  Think of PewDiePie – who has now moved to Japan and was the most subscribed and most viewed ‘personality’ on youtube for about 10 years – Time magazine included him as one of the ‘world’s most influential people’, and he sold gaming software and collected money for charities and made millions.  Sure, he did themed photo shoots as well.  It is not my world but it exists.   The Chinese ‘influencers’ are superstars!  They sell everything – from bedroom slippers to vehicle accouterments and anything in between.  It is today’s method of marketing and taking over the late night shows on television – old marketing model.  Somehow people want those that they can emulate, that they can identify with.  They want their heroes.

Selling private bonds also does not spell anything nefarious.  It is a fine funding mechanism for privately owned companies.  A Bond is a repayable instrument and a good private and silent investment in that world.

Selling what Dances calls ‘collectibles’ and he does not know the name even .. NFT’s – non fungible tokens, which buys a formal identity on a blockchain.  Again, nothing new, only to those that do not understand the business.  Melania Trump made a fat bunch on making a blockchain and selling NFT’s.

His trip to Azerbaijan – of course, he was looking for a place to place servers.  It is not nefarious and Azerbaijan is friendly to crypto companies with friendly laws, has excellent power sources, and is close to the burgeoning cross-border trade.  I suggested this to one crypto, but they were too ‘Murray Rothbardish’ capitalists and would not mix with those people.

What else – Oh yes, Iran has banned Telegram.  What a piece of baloney and shifting of the situation.  All social media was banned in Iran at the time of some riots in 2018.  The ban was lifted in a matter of weeks.  I read some Iranian telegram news channels daily.

That is all I can remember and not going to read it again.  Paul Du Rove .. the guy explained the French passport name but The Dancer here did not read even a modicum of what is real and what is not.  I grant, there is a lot that we don’t know.

Thanks, Mr.P.  I keep looking for something positive but it is not exactly a good essay that portrays things as they are.  In the end there he gets maudlin though.  And now, he wants the man released.   Oy vey!   Let me go and have a coffee.

I did not mean for it to sting AHH.  I just talked factually.  We all read his blog, and that is a fact.  In reality, I worked with his blog and his information for a very long time at the Saker site.  And even then there is stuff that I will not say.  I am not interested in stinging him and if I was, I promise you I can do much better than that poor sentence.  Why I do not even have to go into the past.  The criticism today is a notch or ten above stinging.

What I am truly pissed off about, is the information thrown about by people that know diddly squat about the man and his work.  One does not have to love him, or even trust him, but man!  He did a great piece of software and his brother did a superb backend and held out for a very long time.  I really think Russia lost, by their own doing, a very valuable son.   (Btw, I just absolutely hate the front end of Telegram! but I am talking as a software tech now who has done my fair share of user interface design)  Mr.P talks about how he must put himself ahead of the government and the state. Hell Yes!  If he does that.  Those entities have us, and they are responsible to us.  WE the people eh.  Putin and Xi understand that.

But let me tell a joke.  Back on the Saker site, I reposted one of Smoothie’s blogs which contained two or so pages out of some manual about netcentric warfare.  I like it when he talks about the principles and the weapons because I think he really knows that stuff.  Anyway, I read those pages and then gave them to my husband – with a casual inquiry.. What do you think about this?  He read them and frowned and asked me .. which network topology is this?  And then I laughed …  Netcentric warfare can just as well be a technical networking topology.   It is a stack, and the best-known one is called the OSI Model with seven layers, still a basic on the internet.

You say you are a luddite, but you have never pretended knowledge that you did not have.  That is the problem for me.  People take this fellow called Durov to the cleaners without knowing one word about what he said, what he did, what his relationship is with his users and how committed he is to freedom of speech.  It has been a black hole that they desperately try to fill, but the information is there for the looking.

If you ask me for something I have no proof of, I think the interview with Tucker Carlson has a lot to do with kidnapping Durov.  I think Carlson asked some questions, that he quickly said are not necessary to answer, that opened a gate to the thinking of the man Durov.

The narrative distraction?  It is not a bug, it is feature – it is designed to be so.

But about Durov, show me the one person that knows this – look at the people who use Telegram to run their businesses.

https://t.me/durov/295

or this:

https://t.me/durov/326

And all these people that suddenly know all about Telegram, do not even mention that it is open source code and one of the most verifiable codes on GitHub.

A story shared (https://x.com/jack/status/1787895769183268948) by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, uncovered that the current leaders of Signal, an allegedly “secure” messaging app, are activists used by the US state department (https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem) for regime change abroad 🥷

🥸 The US government spent $3M to build Signal’s encryption, and today the exact same encryption is implemented in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Messages and even Skype. It looks almost as if big tech in the US is not allowed to build its own encryption protocols that would be independent of government interference 🐕‍🦺

🕵️‍♂️ An alarming number of important people I’ve spoken to remarked that their “private” Signal messages had been exploited against them in US courts or media. But whenever somebody raises doubt about their encryption, Signal’s typical response is “we are open source so anyone can verify that everything is all right”. That, however, is a trick 🤡

🕵️‍♂️ Unlike Telegram, Signal doesn’t allow researchers to make sure that their GitHub code is the same code that is used in the Signal app run on users’ iPhones. Signal refused to add reproducible builds (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641) for iOS, closing a GitHub request from the community. And WhatsApp doesn’t even publish the code of its apps, so all their talk about “privacy” is an even more obvious circus trick 💤

🛡 Telegram is the only massively popular messaging service that allows everyone to make sure (https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds) that all of its apps indeed use the same open source code that is published on Github. For the past ten years, Telegram Secret Chats have remained the only popular method of communication that is verifiably private 💪

Why do you think the Russian MoD uses it.

I leave this here because my brain is discombobulated and I cannot integrate this history.

https://archive.ph/yTOUU

This I did not know.  Zionist Militia’s Efforts to Recruit Nazis in Fight Against the British.

I think the idea is because the Brits gave the land of Israel to the zionists (and they called themselves zionist), they were of course in a state of being British subjects and as such colonized.  That is how this makes sense to me.