Matt Malecki

Lunchtime on the road today while my car drives me to my next client. What a luxury.

There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent. For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern. The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her. The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself. Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future. This is how ideological takeover works. A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs. It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to. Then it moves inward. It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt. At that point, the civilization turns on itself. Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system. They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them. And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left. The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself. The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.

@mikepat711 Imagine the best, most capable, most patient teacher ever to exist. Now imagine every single child had that teacher one on one educating them. Our entire education system could be practically solved. Cost cut to a fraction too. People like Bernie would keep us in the Stone Age.

I actually think this guy would be pissed if more people had greater opportunity in the USA.

@saveusculture You had me at right wing tech enthusiast. Followed 💪

Insane the number of new followers I got from this post. I think I’m +3700 or thereabouts right now. Never seen anything like that before. The new algorithm is odd; sometimes it will just randomly decide that you’re the chosen one and then not do it again for a month.

@ChadMoran This was an FCC rule, not passed by Congress. The head of the FCC is 47.

By your own definition through, if they're motivated enough they'll find a way. They'll just hire the engineers working on the software here to make their backdoors. All this does is hurt the consumer with some sort of protectionist theater made by people who don't know how WiFI works.

This country is cooked. This is one of the dumbest things they could have done. I legit... I can't... do they not understand lack of patching is much more of a threat than NO PATCHING. Y'all should be more upset about this.

@ChadMoran I mean, China will keep trying to hack the shit out of all of our computers, and our government's job is to do their best to stop them. I am fairly confident the FCC does in fact know how WiFi works, since they certify the wireless bands and radios that routers operate on.

@ChadMoran Also all they need to do to get a waiver and keep selling new devices in the US is announce their intention to move production to the US in the future. That's it. They have years to implement it.

@RealMattMalecki Well, I guess it will be all for naught since many of the other options are far less secure. The devil I know I guess?

Well it's not a cure-all, but it's one of a number of efforts being taken to reduce their ability to infiltrate our critical infrastructure and conduct electronic espionage. - Banning Chinese routers - Banning Chinese cameras from sensitive facilities - Banning Chinese apps and devices from use by government officials and their families - Banning Chinese telecom equipment - Banning Chinese transformers and electrical infrastructure - Banning Chinese software from connected vehicle systems Probably many more.

@RealMattMalecki If they're so determined – do you think cutting off 60% of home router supply is going to magically fix that?

@ChadMoran Yes you could hack US networking equipment, perhaps, but there are ways to fortify and mitigate against those attacks. There is basically no way to mitigate against a hardware back door built into a networking device like a router.

@RealMattMalecki I'm looking for US built networking equipment now so I can hack it and show how fucking idiotic this move is.

@ChadMoran It's not inspect-able because it's not open source. It's proprietary, and even then, many of the exploits involve hardware level backdoors that don't even activate anything malicious until a particular signal is sent to the device. blog.knowbe4.com/hidden-threats…

@RealMattMalecki Do you know how software works? The software is inspectable, it's not some black box.

What in the actual… can we get old people out of office please. What a disaster. reuters.com/sustainability…

@ChadMoran Ok, and you think the Chinese government is letting US-made networking equipment proliferate by the millions throughout China, particularly in sensitive places? Maybe if they're idiots. This is what the Chinese do, and they're very good at it. reuters.com/sustainability…

@RealMattMalecki You think the US Government won't do the same? No networking hardware or software is being built here. This is going to cause the inverse problem. Ask any single person in networking.

@grok @ZacksJerryRig @elonmusk Thanks @grok, is this the Snopes article you're referring to? Do you think @ZacksJerryRig should be more careful before sharing slanderous allegations against people online without evidence? snopes.com/fact-check/eps…

No, that email screenshot isn't confirmed in the official Epstein court files from the Giuffre-Maxwell case or related releases. Its authenticity is unproven per Snopes and others—circulated since 2021 via PlainSite but lacking verifiable source docs or forensic proof. Musk has acknowledged brief Epstein meetings but denied deeper ties or island visits.

Any update on this @elonmusk ?

@briandstone Or we could try deporting the 30+ million illegal aliens who aren't supposed to be living here, maybe we could try that.

"Lower housing costs by building millions of homes" so the government is going to build and own these homes?? I don't understand.

@TeslaPatriot @teslaloosa Not in Connecticut it isn't. $0.30/kWh at home without solar 😡 I charge about 1600kWh a month between two EVs. $480 from the grid... It's nuts.

@teslaloosa When you drive an EV, worrying about cost to charge is like worrying about the cost of bananas. Both to cheap to worry about compared to other stuff.

Virtually no one knows what their kWh rate is. Except for one friend who's worked for the power company, I don't personally know anyone who knows. Every time I ask people, I get 🤷‍♂️. It's part of why people are hesitant to go EV. What's a kWh? No one knows. ⚡🔋🔌

Shut up and take my money!