News is now breaking a story I've talked about off and on for more than a year. China is installing microscopic SoC's on motherboards sold to Amazon, the CIA's InQTel, and more. When I can sit down with my laptop, a publication is incoming.

Just got done with the doctor. She is requesting a battery of tests from rheumatology to oncology and hematology.

Thank you. It's the first tiny step toward a real life, so it of course has me quite anxious.

Thank you ❤️

I am allergic to giving up. My plan, currently, is to get into a university and try to build stability there. When one lacks family, university can provide the next best.

Most couldn't imagine having no family, for example. But family is a safeguard even in the worst of situations. Another problem can be what I call the pernicious pride. Too proud to ask for help, you freefall to a point where you have no other choice.

Homelessness is a difficult topic to breach. It makes many uncomfortable... Their immediate response is to consider critical mental health and behavioural issues but it is often far more complex.

Sometimes, you just have nowhere else when all goes wrong.

It's an early morning for me. I'll be going to the doctor's today, struggling with the social security office, and with hope be able to get my ID again.

I'll be a person, legally speaking!

https://sevvie.ltd/politics/the-growing-heat-of-an-old-cold-civil-war/

Holding together. My service dog has been very anxious today so I think she got bit by some bugs, and I'm preparing to give her a bath. Not the best place to do it but not much choice otherwise.

Also, thank you so much. ❤️

https://sevvie.ltd/homelessness/that-paradoxical-fear-homelessness/

Trying something different with my writing. I'm trying to capture bits and pieces of the soul beneath the bottom of the barrel.

Thank you. With a bad hip, that's about all I can do, but I'm keeping going.

I had only just started rebuilding when the rug was pulled out from under me this time... But I have experience living rough, and I think I have a bit of a calling to help the homeless... Once I get stable again.

Thank you so much! I'm in Indiana currently.

Heya Peepeth. Sorry I haven't been around in a while. I'm homeless again. I just got a data plan for my phone, so I can get back to doing what I do and probably more.

Sitting and staring into vim won't make the code come any faster. Then again, neither will wishing...

Google China's "Project Dragonfly" will not only provide censorship tools to China, but associate phone numbers to searches. https://sevvie.ltd/censorship/google-china-will-link-searches-to-phone-numbers/

Brave, a privacy-oriented web browser company, has filed a GDPR complaint against Google for their practice of selling sensitive personal information to advertisers. https://sevvie.ltd/news/brave-files-gdpr-privacy-complaint-against-google/

You either stand for free speech for everyone, or you don't really stand for anything: what the censorship of ThinkProgress really tells us. #politics

https://sevvie.ltd/censorship/what-censorship-thinkprogress-tells-us/

This reward IS different. You can choose to excuse it but that doesn't change the fact. This is a core functionality extended, not a t-shirt or fine mug. The system, for a select few, is better than for anyone else.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain are great equalizers. dApp Wallets & zeroNets are the first steps toward freedom from tyrannical invasion of privacy. Creating "classes" of people, however, defeats that purpose.

Anyway. I'll shut up now. I know I drag the conversation down.

Peepeth lives on a blockchain. Its interface is lighter-weight and better-suited to older hardware than Gab or Minds. In search of voice, those in the third world should be using this.

But if their first experience is seeing others having greater liberty, it will be passed-over.

Allow me to clarify my point about this.
Consider the growth of platforms like Minds and Gab.ai. Their explosions are based on the influx from Vietnam/Cambodia and Brazil respectively. I don't think the same could happen here, despite the code better suiting it.

// @pluma @bevan

My tone may sound negative. My word choices may sound insulting. But that's how they sound -- not how they are. I brought up my limited wealth to clarify, not to make anyone feel guilty. Because it's not about me or you. It's about the future we are all rapidly approaching.

Cut my character count specifically back to 140 characters. I will adapt. Others won't -- they'll just leave, as many already have based on decisions made already.

This is the bubble to which I refer. It's killed social networks before -- look into App.net for an example.

I bring up the point of character counts, and my financial limitations, not because I want a larger character count, but because there will be others who need a voice more than I, who will be less able to use this platform as that voice, lost between the essays of early-adopters.

Unlike others, I hold no resentment for those wealthier than me. Merit and circumstance granted them that, and focusing on what they have does nothing for me. I am appreciative of what I have. But I am not blind to how others will perceive the larger character counts.

That point was rather direct and simple: speaking idealistically and generally does nothing to actually address the limitations created by decisions made for this platform.

The choice to give people who offered more money in crowdfunding larger character limits is divisive.

I don't see why you would say this. Nothing I said was a condemnation of your wealth; the only reason I could imagine you would say that you won't be made to feel bad is because you DID feel bad.

But I didn't make you feel that way. You chose to, instead of recognising my point.

And to the point of "accessibility for all," those who cannot meet the level of wealth considered minimum wage in the first world, or live in a stark third world, are granted no easier access to Peepeth by the crowdfunding of others. Idealistic as it may be, it is still a bubble.

Respectfully, if you make minimum wage or greater in any nation in the first world, you are wealthy. Wealth is relative; I mean to make no accusation against wealth but rather addressed the specific limitations created for those who lack any wealth to share.

People don't hire the sickly and dying, you see. Add to that my conservative and starkly-libertarian views, and it becomes clear why I don't have a better, higher-paying job or funds in the form of welfare.

It wouldn't be right of me to, and I am not right for "corp. culture."

In addition to my content creation work, which amounts to about $250/mo, I've taken up a job with a start-up which is yet unable to pay me, but provides me with room and board while I develop an abstract blockchain system. I have roof over my head, and food, but little more.

It is infeasible for me to even think I might be able to donate any amount to the crowdfunding, for this, as much as it bothers me. I would love to support the project and, in turn, increase my voice on the platform through greater character counts. Instead I am forced to "spam".

I currently live off 1/5th the minimum wage in the US. After cancer left me homeless, and homelessness left me with an enormous gap in my resume, my income has been sustained through content creation, and most of that goes toward business expense -- VPSes, Adobe, etc.

If there is one fact that bothers me more than any other about Peepeth, it is that because I am poor, I will always be restricted to saying less, per post, than wealthy crowdfunders.

Is the Bigger Threat to our Elections Russia, or Google? #politics https://sevvie.ltd/politics/is-bigger-threat-elections-russia-google/

I've been digging up all the details about this. The e-mail has been independently corroborated, but I haven't found it published raw yet so I'm still digging.

Information Laundering: the act of leaking information to the press, and then using the subsequent publications to make it appear as though your information is corroborated. #politics

https://sevvie.ltd/corruption/fbi-media-leak-strategy-information-laundering/

I'm a programmer. When I say "ETH's value", I'm referring to it in the way I refer to a variable's value. But yes, I should consider the definitions as used in economics when discussing cryptocurrencies.

ETH's value has been holding quite low for a number of days now... hrm.

New video essay: https://sevvie.ltd/video-essays/memory-hole-greater-male-variability-hypothesis/

ZeroNet has grown so much since the last time I checked in on it. It's a shame more people don't use it, but nonetheless, 660 peers, and no less than 75 active at any moment is huge.

I've been posting my essays on Peepeth for some time. I occasionally forget to add the hashtag; that's my mistake. But is it necessary to be so hostile, just because you disagree?

This is the picture which will come to mind for Elon Musk forevermore. And that is a good thing.

Sen. Sasse's speech at Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing was amazing. His damning address to every Congressman who has abandoned their job to bureaucracy reveals one of the major swamps in need of draining.

https://sevvie.ltd/politics/ben-sasse-school-house-rock-speech/

People love the quote, "In war, truth is often the first casualty," but do you know the rest of it?

"and often, it is not just our president or a secretary of defense [...] who do the killing. Our brothers and sisters in the media also participate in the execution."

I hadn't really left. I just haven't had much to say in the last week. I get that way about once a month...