On a personal note...

The world keeps turning. Until it doesn't.

I miss the old Twitter. Censorious as they were, they were incredibly incompetent and ham-fisted about it. So long as you avoided using a few specific words they plugged in at any given time, the basic functions still worked: you followed people, people followed you, you could tweet to everyone and everyone would actually see it.

I remember, for a brief moment in ‘24, Musk’s algo completely broke for a few hours. I tweeted something, and it was read by about 30,000 people within about five minutes. Since then, they’ve had it pretty thoroughly locked down. I barely see anything from most of the people I follow, no matter which tab I use, and I’ll be lucky for any given post of my own to reach a thousand without DMing it to half the country.

The old management and coding team was, in all their DEI glory, deeply incompetent, and that allowed a measure of truly free speech to persist. Even with the FBI and the EU breathing down their necks to censor and manage the public discourse, they just didn’t have the intellectual faculties to do anything forum hosts weren’t doing in 1999.

Musk didn’t free the bird. He replaced obvious, ham-fisted, algorithmic banishments with the first truly modern, AI-powered censorship regime. “Freedom of speech, not freedom of reach” is a reasonable-sounding way to say, “we’ll decide who your friends are and what you’re all allowed to talk about.” I’ve lost contact with so many good friends because of Elon’s censorship regime. Fortunately, a lot of you subscribed here before it truly went downhill into complete unusability. In case you didn’t notice, they also recently took my blue check. That much further into the depths of the shadowban.

That loss, as I’m sure was their intent, also severely compromised my (and surely many others’) ability to do, and to live whilst doing, the kind of efforts to which we have dedicated the better part of the last six years of our lives. They turned X from a social network, one that was able to drive seismic changes in the world, into a glorified RSS news feed, that they control. That work was only possible because we were able to speak, organize, and be heard.

It was also nice, and necessary, to just be able to talk to people. Not everything had to be a big news announcement to potentially be seen. When you had questions, you could just come ask. Random conversations about nothing in particular ended up leading to some of the most substantial developments and connections that we made over these last few years. It’s barely worth trying to post anything but big breaking news these days. I’ll probably cross-post this, too, for the handful that might be allowed to lay eyes on it, for whatsoever that might be worth.

I bring this up now…

… because, frankly, we’re in trouble.

Not ‘we’, in the grand, we-the-people sense (although, that too.) My family and I are in trouble, and we could use some help right now.

We’ve been completely off-grid, 30 miles from the middle of nowhere, for the better part of this year. No road, no utilities, pretty much nothing at all but for sun, land and wind, wild horses, time, and a Starlink that has enabled us to carry on our work. If we’ve managed to stay in touch, we’ve probably talked about it, and if not - well - now you know, and we probably miss you, so come say hi. The comments are open below. Maybe Substack could become what Twitter used to be.

In case you thought “middle of nowhere” was an overstatement.

Since the events of late ‘23, in part as evolved from our visit to Mar-a-Lago, and the two years of ceaseless assault on our family and our work from every conceivable angle that ensued, this seemed like the wiser place to be. Given that the vast majority of our work is research, development, organizing, and making the news now and then, it’s been perfectly feasible, and generally a lot safer, to carry out that work from our little slice of the middle of nowhere out here.

Well - that changed last night. As of right now, due to the rather foreseeable consequences of a lot of long-deferred maintenance, our last vehicle - out of the two that we brought - broke down, and we are all but stranded out here, with a few more days of food and water, and about $50 to our name. And $50 ain’t enough for a tow. Much less the long-overdue repair that it needs.

X’s censorship isn’t the only reason I’ve been quieter lately. After spending the last five years doing what we’ve been doing, and doing it very publicly, I made a judgment call after the election: we won, so now it’s time to set these various things right through official, private channels, right? The time for rallying the world, bringing people together to demand what was right, and saving lives from the merciless regime propaganda was all but over, for everyone but those who just love the attention so much they couldn’t bear to step out of the limelight, and it was time to get to work on bringing this war to a close, seeing justice done, and setting things right.

Well, a year later, I can confidently say that that was emphatically the wrong call. “We” did not win, the people that should have been given offices were not, and our newly elected leadership appears to have little to no intention of ever setting any of this right, from the top on down. I’m in the middle of another article about why I decided against taking a role in the admin, which should be quite elucidating as to what I’ve learned over the last year, but suffice to say, at least in terms of continuing this work, that was decidedly the right call. In terms of survival, though?… maybe it would have been wise. It sure would have made life a whole lot easier than it’s been.

It’s been a long, long time since we have asked for your support. Even as we are deeply grateful for your continued support here, we’ve learned the hard way that releasing cures just isn’t a sustainable business model. We never considered it business; we do the work that we do for the betterment of humanity, in any capacity we find ourselves able; but after a year spent making the world aware of IVM and FBZ’ extraordinary utility for cancer treatment, our standard of living has been ever so gradually declining. I never was much for the clickbait, high-frequency news publishing; once I publish a cure, it’s out, and that seems to be about all there is to it as others eventually pick it up and run with it. Nevertheless, I’ve been working, for quite a while and as time and wherewithal has permitted, on a cure protocol for vaccine-induced autoimmune disorders at large, and I think I am relatively close to having it fleshed out and nailed down now, albeit with a lot of work yet to be done. Thanks to your continued support, we have been able to maintain a pretty minimal subsistence, which is all we ever wanted to still be able to carry on this work, but the sacrifices we’ve had to make are starting to add up. Vehicle maintenance among them. 🤕

There is a deep rot in this admin that is going to necessitate a very different approach if we ever want to see justice done; for the victims, for the criminals who committed this genocide, and for the people still being harmed and lied to to this day; my research efforts are still ongoing; and if and when we can get through this very unpleasant period, I think that we are otherwise very well positioned to carry on this fight, turn it around, and begin meaningfully organizing again in light of what we now know.

We’ve been living on very little for a very long time, reluctant to ask for any support beyond what so many of you have already been regularly providing us here, and it just makes everything so much harder than it needs to be. We’ve sacrificed so much to come this far, and I do not think that we are done - but that truly appears to be out of our hands right now.

If our work over these last six years has been of any value to you, or your friends and loved ones, and if you have the means, we need your support right now. We can’t do it alone.

The sound of the last two wheel studs holding on for dear life. At least we made it most of the way...

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Hope to hear from you in the comments.