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  • Upcoming Robocall Legislation is a Cosmic Joke

    The House has passed new robocall legislation which is likely to pass the Senate and actually create a law that addresses an actual modern concern, the massive waste of time and fraud that automated calls cause.

    The number of robocallers dialing up U.S. consumers is on the rise. Some estimates say there were more than 48 billion robocalls in 2018, up almost 50 percent from the previous year.
    The measure would give the FCC more time to investigate and punish illegal robocallers, require the agency to pare down the list of companies that are allowed to use robocalling services and raise the penalty for illegal robocallers to $10,000 per violation from $1,500.

    It won’t work of course. First, because many of these abusers are not located in America. Go try and fine an Indian or Chinese or Thai call center. Might want to learn some Hindi curses first.

    But even the provisions that mandate that telcos implement new blocking technology won’t work because there are no real fines that they face, and telcos actually make money on these calls (due to caller ID lookup services and the like).

    And if you think telcos have some crazy amazing tech that they can implement to detect and block call centers and robocalls, what exactly is it? And why haven’t they deployed it yet?

    There are ways to do this with machine learning and analyzing call content, but if you think Verizon is going to pull that off then I have a bundled internet/tv/phone package to sell you.

    The truth is, laws like this are bad technology that give a false sense of security that the government is actually doing something about this massive issue. This is about the lack of accountability in telcos, and letting them control something as important as who can contact your personal line, which is in effect your public identity. At best these companies are incompetent, at worst they are knowingly engaging in fraud by allowing it to happen. But “magic technology” will now fix this once the “magic technology” of laws mandate it, right? (/s)

    This isn’t a question of who guards the guards. It’s a question of: can a compromised Government force a toothless Federal Agency to enforce hazy mandates against unethical telcos to prevent bad foreign actors from undermining the security of our phone system? From stealing the only thing we really have, our time on the planet.

    Frankly, the foreign call centers are the only ones I have sympathy for in this web of lies and deception. Actually, screw that, they are horrible also.

    If you want to secure your device but still keep your number open I think the only sane solution is doing the kind of call screening the Pixel is doing. I don’t have a Pixel but plan on making it my next device. Sometimes the only way to beat a company is to have another company make it into a business opportunity. See: antivirus, spam filtering, identity protection, etc.

    I have no doubt the FCC will eventually solve this problem, right before the heat death of the Universe. That will be followed by the FTC deciding they need to protect Americans against fraud.

    Images above of dystopian madness of a Chinese click farm (good article btw worth clicking), which are also sources of robocalls and fraud. Sorry if it appeared I was only targeting Indian centers in rant above.

  • Attempts to Ban Face Recognition and ML Will (and Should) Fail

    You can’t ban facial recognition technology as this BuzzFeed screampiece suggests. You can’t ban building a model and querying the model, neural networks, or recording digital video. That genie has left the bottle and is on a plane to Singapore sipping mimosas.

    You can ban misuse of the result of those models, but we already have laws for that.

    Sure, facial recognition is going to be used by authoritarian regimes to oppress and enslave us. Last I checked, so were tanks, nukes, taxes, water rights, and every single piece of technology humans have ever created.

    Stop thinking that the problem is technology, and start thinking the problem is naked apes in silk suits pretending they are leading while they are just grunting in favor of their own tribal power.

    So why should we think face recognition or machine learning tech isn’t terrifying? One reason: there are thousands and thousands of GitHub repos where normal programmers are hacking and reverse engineering the future. Because unlike tanks and artillery, ML can be used against the ruling class just as it can be used against us.

    Here’s an example: let’s say I want to prove that a Politicians or CEO is lying. I know, a real edge case.

    The way it works now is we wait 24 hours for some intrepid reporter at huffpost or wherever to dig up the video, and… we have already moved on as a society (and the liar has gotten away with it). All this depends too much on people who care knowing what happened in the distant past, and people who care going to a website and caring enough to care.

    In the computing world, we would say our monitoring and alerting system for truth is not alerting fast enough. Thanks journalism, but turns out you are waaaaaay too slow for the 21st.

    But what if everything a professional liar ever said was indexed and put into a model of them, where a system that understands their words would instantly pull up video of their previous lies alongside their current bullshitting. ML could allow us an experience of multiplexed video of those people through time.

    In other words the next time a liar like Zuckerberg lies in front of Congress, we can display realtime his previous lies which expose his new ones. Like this 2009 video of him saying Facebook will never sell your data.

    Imagine having to give testimony when your previous lies are blasted in your face. Go ahead, argue with yourself for a while. Imagine a reporter holding up their phone and asking questions in real-time based on what an ML analysis of the liar’s words were.

    I would guess that liars would hate that. Good, let’s drive them into the darkness.

    Quit pretending that this is about appealing to reason, or protecting our imaginary rights. This is historical, epic war, and to win against the oligarchy we are going to need to have our own suite of metaphorical weapons. ML is going to give us the tools to change the game, and secure a future based on supporting the health and happiness of individual humans, Singletons, which I would argue isn’t socialism at all.

    It may take fifty years, or a hundred, but society will evolve around this tech as it always does. But if try to ban ML, you’re taking away our best technique of making this change equitable.

    Because real equality needs real data, and tools and people to understand it.

    Render by Mike Winkelmann

  • George Carlin Made Fun of Me

    Mostly I try to stay on-topic for this blog, but I’m going to veer wildly off today to talk a little about George Carlin, and my experience as his webmaster. But first, please watch the video about rights, which is Carlin near the end but still ripping.

    Growing up in the 80s, George’s HBO specials were my gold standard, not only for comedy but for freedom of expression and ideas. He was anti-theist, anti-government, and anti-bullshit in ways that were revolutionary for the time and for today.

    I guess I knew when I became a comic in 1990 that I would never be as good as George, but I still felt inspired and wanted to build comedy that asked questions and twisted reality like his did. Then, after several years on the road with, at best, moderate success, I found myself in LA, sick of performance and sick of the lifestyle. All is wanted was to be a software engineer, and turns out I hit the perfect time in history to have an impact in that field.

    But imagine my surprise when, in 1999, I found myself sitting across from George Carlin’s business partner for laugh.com, Bob Kohn, at the Friar’s Club in LA over lunch. Bob was asking me to come be the engineering lead for laugh.com. They were going to rerelease classic comedy and new content online. This was the age of Flash, mp3s, and boundless optimism about what the Internet could be.

    Of course, I said “yes”.

    A few weeks later, as I was in the process of rebuilding their site, I sat across from George in an office on Wilshire, where he was asking me why the web firm that he had hired to build georgecarlin.com was charging him $80,000 for a license for an Oracle database. I said “George, let me take a look at it”.

    The database was being used to pull exactly one text field into his homepage.

    It took me an afternoon or two to write him up a simple content management system, and replace Oracle. Then we were off to the races. I was George’s webmaster for around six years, and I never sent him a single bill.

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    Georgecarlin.com site around 2005 via the wayback machine.  Apologies for the design.

     

    He was a kind guy, not anything like his stage persona that I saw. Unbelievably dedicated to his craft. Extremely interested in technology. Spent hours a day honing and practicing jokes. Did hundreds of shows a year.

    As a guy who had been a comic, working with him before his death in 2008 convinced me I had made the right choice in becoming a technologist. I could never have rivaled his output or skill, but I could build and maintain things he could not.

    There were two major things I did with George on the website: fought incorrect Carlin quotations in viral emails, and managed his message board. In the days before social media, memes would spread via email mostly, and many people sent emails of quotes supposedly said by Carlin. This drove him insane, because most of the quotes were sentimental crap and he never would have said them. So we had to post the truth on his website denying them.

    Yep, the web used to be a source of truth. Sigh.

    But the message boards (or BBS, Bulletin Board System as we called it), was where the action was on the site. As admin I let freedom reign in the days before Reddit and social media. It was beautiful chaos, and the only times I ever stepped in was when it degenerated to death threats. Which was very very rare. Anyhow, I salute the insane Carlin fans who populated those boards. Good folks with good ideas mostly.

    It really never occurred to me that someday the entire Net would reflect this chaos, but with automated bots and paid actors promoting products. But that’s because I was CTO of a video streaming company at that time, working with George on the side, and I thought video was the future, protecting us from the trash of text. I was right, and wrong…text will persist because of its ease of scanning, and video will also blossom and wilt in a million forms over the coming decades.

    George had wanted to do more video stuff on his site, but he was dedicated to his craft of standup, and didn’t want the distraction. So besides the message board, the site stagnated, and eventually was taken over by his daughter. But for a few years my phone would ring and it would be George, asking about posting a message or asking about some tech he wanted to understand better.

    But the one memory I have clearest is when we spent a day in my buddy’s Venice apartment recording audio for a series of very dark Flash greeting cards you could send to friends via email. George was the funny, nice, consumate pro he always was, and I cringe now to think about how crappy our setup was – George stood in a hot closet for most of the day, which was our soundbooth. This was a guy who owned aircraft, had cases before the Supreme Court, and a 40 year history of standup and movies.

    My favorite audio bit he recorded that day was:

    “You’re born alone, you die alone, and in between…you’re all alone”

    Carlin had lost his first wife to cancer. He was happy and bitter at the same time. He was a Capitalist who hated the system. He had pill and alcohol problems. He crafted every word of every routine that somehow came out in what appeared to be extemporaneous rants.

    He was a perfect, flawed human.

    I have never followed a guru, and George was not one for sure. But I was lucky in a way that few people are to be treated as an equal by one of my intellectual idols. To see his human side. His cozy house in the canals of Venice, CA.

    One night George invited me to watch some new material he was working on at the Laugh Factory, and he made sure to point me out and make fun of me in the audience during his set. He made a joke about my bald head or something like that, I honestly can’t recall. But I do remember him apologizing backstage to me afterwards with a serious face, making sure I was not really offended. I assured him I was not.

    I had been anointed by a godkiller, and it still brings a smile to my face.

  • Corps Control Government with Winks and Jobs

    America is cursed with a terrible, creaking Government system only because we were early adopters of the freedom tech the Enlightenment was selling. But I don’t blame my ancestors for believing in the people. I honor them for it.

    But what is cool is that we adapted and built these entities called corporations. They were purpose driven Mini governments that could dominate markets, and change lives, and influence the big lumbering Government.

    Then the entities broke the law, and the government fought them, and asserted authority. The battle for control raged through the courts, and the Government even resorted to breaking up companies.

    Starting in the late Twentieth, the companies figured out how they could take over the government.

    Then they did.

    Turns out offering nice “consulting” jobs after exiting Government was all they needed to do. Bingo, state control via corp bribery was born.

    Corporations have taken over Government before and been driven back. It will happen again. It’s the cycle of control that will only be resolved historically when one thing happens:

    When people, individuals, Singletons, are able to use technology and laws to fairly control both companies and Government.

    Because both Government and corporate Entities are real only as control surfaces for crowds. Only individuals are real, and worth protecting.

    Render by Mike Winkelmann

  • The GreatFake

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    On April 1, 2022, the GreatFake occcurred.

    It started at 3:30AM Eastern Time, when 17,985 state and local police departments began receiving a slightly elevated number of phony 911 calls. These calls took the form of local residents, panicked about a variety of fantastical things. Lights in the sky. Weird sounds and voices from their computers. Sometimes it was them reporting some terrible crime they had just seen another local commit. Other times, committing suicide on the phone call.

    These were not local residents, of course. These were human controlled networks of AI bots, using tens of thousands of local personas crafted by mining social media for voice and speech patterns. They were the voices of real people, and could answer simple questions about the people they were posing as. They could easily pass any Turning test a harried 911 officer could concoct.

    We simply had no defense for this. As the calls escalated, by 5:30AM the call centers were jammed to a point where the Federal Government was on the case.

    Unfortunately for the Federal Government agencies, they had been hit by a similar assault. But this time it was AI posing as people’s bosses calling them and telling them not to come into work, that they were fired, or committing suicide on the phone.

    It quickly became clear that every government and police official in the country had an AI version of him or herself running amuck. These AIs were sending offensive emails to the press, deep-fake nude photos of colleagues, and locking police and emergency responders out of critical systems.

    On YouTube, deepfake versions of celebrities spouted conspiracy theories in crafted videos. The president was shown doing terrible things, but nobody really cared. In fact, what folks had missed all along was that the threat deepfakes posed wasn’t to celebrities, it was to them. Their everyday lives.

    What the nation awoke to on that April 1 was a complete breakdown in trust of voice and video. The repercussions were profound. Thousands died. Cities rioted. Fear of bots spread like a cancer. Social media networks were shut down by the government.

    It sucked.

    And the perpetrators were only doing it to short-sell stocks in American markets, and buy cheap on the bounce back. A bunch of gangsters. In this case, Russia was pissed because they stole the plan it had saved for a rainy day.

    But then something happened. We cleaned up the mess and decided to fight back. Systems for controlling your identity and validating content creation quickly took hold and flourished. There were false starts, but within five years every human on the planet who could afford an electronic device, which was most of them, could validate any video or voice communication of themselves easily and securely. And without that validation, video and voice communication was instantly rejected as compromised.

    We whitelisted ourselves.

    The GreatFake, like the Thanos snap, was inevitable. The only question was what form it would take. In another, darker world, perhaps the attackers went after our nuclear facilities.

    We were lucky.

    Image from 3D printed mask to help you evade surveillance, project here.

    Story inspired somewhat from this research to put words in your mouth.

    By analyzing the speech patterns in a video of one person speaking into a camera, they’re able to swap whole phrases for completely different ones. The result is pretty realistic.

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  • Humans Above Technology

    Humans Above Technology

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    Super excited to announce that the organization behind TrustNoRobot is now a non-profit that has been created to help promote humans above technology.   Our simple belief is that technology should work for humans and better their condition and never have a negative impact on humanity.

    Please stand by for our projects and activities that grow past this blog.  Our mission is clear and there are difficult waters ahead to navigate in this time of massive change for humanity.  We need to make sure every technology is examined and hold it up to a standard of what is in the best interest of humanity, not just the bottom line of a company, government or simple convenience.    We are all interconnected, we live on the same rock floating through the universe.  We need to be thoughtful of our decisions and what we will accept and what we need to stand against.   We can no longer tolerate ‘progress’ at the cost of human rights and condition without inspection and accountability.

    I thank you for reading this blog and hope you stay to collaborate on where we go from here.  Exit the matrix and join us.. more to come from Humans Above Technology..  

  • Why Are We Idiots?

    Reading my colleague’s blog on grey goo, I was struck by his conclusion:

    So maybe we intentionally wipe everyone out with Nanobots or maybe we accidentally do it. In some sense justice would be better served if stupidity killed us rather than malice. Its just the way we are. We are idiots.

    What I suddenly realized is that in my whole life I had never asked a simple question: why are we idiots?

    See, when people ask that, they usually have an agenda to sell. “People are idiots because education sucks, video games, Millennials and ribbons, etc”

    But why are we actually idiots?

    And then it hit me like a diamond bullet right in the center of my forehead.

    We are idiots because that’s what works best from an evolutionary perspective.

    Stretching back behind you in history is a million year history of ancestors who believed idiotic shit, and it kept them alive. Because bands of people believing idiotic shit will almost always beat bands of individuals who are not synching on some foolishness.

    “Let’s kill that mammoth. Then we will eat for weeks!”

    At some point, one of your ancestors said something like that. Or more likely they just nodded and picked up their spear when they heard it.

    “Life is ok, but I hear in America the streets are paved with freedom!”

    Uh huh. Not smart. But following that fantasy kept a lot of people alive, made a very small percentage rich beyond imagining, and that foolish thought brought the best idiots the world can make into our free market.

    To be an intellectual on any scale is to swim against the tide in some way, to question and probe your own suppositions. I think intellectuals need to stop thinking that their thoughts will somehow stop the great waves of stupidity we all swim in.

    The job of a white blood cell is not to change all the other blood cells into white blood cells. Its to defend the body by attacking foreign agents.

    The job of a thinker in the 21st is not to rally people around a cause. Like a white blood cell, we should defend our society of fellow idiots by attacking or repairing bad ideas.

    Building self replicating nanobots is a bad idea. Building bot managers is a bad idea. Handing over society to AI is a bad idea. Autonomous vehicles are bad in many situations but make perfect sense in others.

    We can debate the specifics for sure, but if you feel in any way like we do about the threat that stupidity in science and technology pose, raise your voice. Don’t just forward info on social media, put your identity and voice into it. It’s worth more than you know.

    Because here is the secret: ideas, dropped into a ripe bowl of idiots, are self-replicating also. And dangerous as hell.

    Because the reason we are all still here is because just one person in the tribe said:

    “If you’re gonna kill the mammoth, you’re going to need a bigger spear. Let me help.”

    The first white blood cell, the first thinker, the first engineer.

    Image from here

  • Empathy Will Not Scale

    The limitations of empathy as a model of morality are more than just philosophical ones. The capacity for empathy is not only a finite resource, it is a zero sum one.

    We know empathy is finite because of Dunbar’s Number, the limitation we have as humans to maintain social networks.

    Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.[

    The exact number, be it 150 or 10, of your empathy range is irrelevant. As the illustration above shows, there are various boundaries/sizes of different social types. The point is, you only have so many slots that can be filled with real people that you actually care about enough to see the world through their eyes, and shuffling folks in and out of slots doesn’t change this finite capacity.

    Neither does the trick of some religions of slotting in God or all other humans into an empathy slot – the abstractions are easy to imagine but almost impossible to realize for most folks over a lifetime. Holy men and women can pull it off, but they are outliers for sure.

    I think the best way to think about empathy is as another physical sense, the bonding one. And just like you can’t see over the horizon or hear all things at all times, you can’t suddenly will yourself into having a super-empathetic sense.

    Plus, we have another conundrum, and maybe the bigger one: even if we can somehow juggle our way around Dunbar’s spectrum and feel something for everyone, the people we are having empathy with have no requirement to give us empathy in return.

    We can understand the terrorists all we want, but if they don’t understand us then it’s a pointless undertaking.

    I grew up in the 70s, when there was a belief that without empathy for everyone we couldn’t end racism or prevent a final world war. But racism has not gone anywhere, and war has just morphed to remain profitable.

    So let’s quit making each other feel guilty that we aren’t universal empathy machines. Let’s find a new way forward.

    My suggestion is the Singleton Pattern, which is a recognition of the special status of humans in the universe as distinct and special. It’s not about recognizing empathy, it’s about recognizing value. Together, small teams of humans can make massive improvements to our reality. We are all Worthy.

    When you walk through a forest, you can feel deep affection for the natural world and want to preserve it, but that doesn’t mean you have empathy for every tree. It’s a different feeling, and that’s the feeling we need for society.

    Instead of using guilt and shame to force folks to have empathy for all, we should find ways to discuss our goals for society. And that entails putting some numbers to things.

    What crime rate are you willing to tolerate? What rate of abortions? What rate of poverty? What is the minimum cost college should be? Homelessness %? Tax rate?

    The metrics of the world, and building a data driven society, do not require empathy. They just require understanding statistics and percentiles, and believing that caring about data is more maintainable than your emotional connection to other individuals. High school math, and caring about your grade.

    I don’t need a leader telling me how to think or feel. I’ve got that covered, thanks. What I need is leaders who care about demonstrable, quantifiable results of policy choices.

    Dunbar boundary Image from this article.

  • In 2016, America Failed the Turing Test

    The problem with the Turing test is we are conducting it against our whole civilization, and in this case the testers, normal Americans using social media, were not exactly looking to help contribute to a philosophical discussion about AI sentience.

    In 2016, America failed the modern version of the Turing test. We proved that we could not distinguish bot networks from real human networks.

    The testers, in the case of Americans dealing with networks of bots posing as humans on social media, were angry, scared, distracted humans who are looking to validate their own beliefs.

    These bot networks still exist and lie in wait for the next election cycle to commence. And no law will fully stop them, though I applaud the effort. Another point, these bot networks are controlled by self-serving assholes.

    Let’s switch this up.

    Instead of the Turing Test, what if the test was harder. Not a little bit harder. A lot. And what if it was designed not to detect if a computer could pass as a human, but instead if a human could validate its status as a known entity.

    The Turing Test asks if a human can be fooled into thinking a computer program is a human. It sets up conditions that do not penalize the computer program for not being biological – by putting the human behind text messaging, the test lets the tester focus on just the content of the messages.

    But see, a human isn’t a text message, and in this case, the medium is truly the (text) message. By crippling the human in this test, and letting the bot hide behind text, we create an illusion of equality. But we are not equal with programs, that is a category error that is deeply confusing to many.

    To help eliminate this confusion, and focus on the real issues around identity and bot defense, I propose the Distributed Human Identification Test.

    1) The DHIT test is conducted via videoconference conversations with multiple remote people over long periods of time, in other words, whenever you video chat with someone the test is in effect.

    2) In the DHIT test, you talk to someone you know in a regular conversation. This is a video chat, and can be a business call or a friendly share.

    3) At the end of each conversation, you will be asked if there was anything to indicate that the entity you were taking to was transformed or artificial in any way.

    4) Over time, and many tests, a validity score can be built up about an individual. If they drop beneath a certain threshold that individual would need to take further steps to confirm their human Identity.

    The point of this test is not to determine if a computer can fool a human. We have bots that can do that now, in the wild, outside of the laboratory. Spoiler alert: They can even get bumbling Presidents elected.

    The point of the Distributed Human Identification Test is to confirm human Identity. If you can pass it, you are a real person, known by other real people. We don’t need Equifax for identity confirmation when we have the people you went to high school with.

    By using video in realtime and normal conversation we make the test very difficult for an AI to ever pass. By conducting the test with people you actually know we make this almost impossible to fool. By making it distributed we use the power of large real social networks to build a constantly evaluated Web of Identity.

    The DHIT will protect us from bots, and turn our attention to the real danger: if realtime deepfake videos of us as individuals start being used to commit crimes and spread misinformation, by shitty humans, we will have no defense.

    An AI bot who can get a home loan over videoconference using our identity can ruin your life in twenty minutes, and bring down a civilization in an hour.

    But your Mom knows you, your friends know you, your boss knows you, the network of real people know you.

    Properly integrated into existing video chat systems, the DHIT could be our greatest defense grid against deepfake fraud. And eliminate the greatest security risk, passwords, once and for all. Because boiling things down to text, be it a Twitter post or a password, is the root of the problem.

    Because text doesn’t matter.

    Ideas don’t matter.

    Only people matter.

    Render by Mike Winkelmann

    Painting by Simon Stålenhag

  • The Last President

    Most of us are guilty of thinking small. Of playing by the rules as long as they suit us. Of changing the rules only to the extent they benefit us.

    But in the election of 2028 we saw something else. A new kind of candidate who didn’t want power.

    In that election, besides the major candidates for election, there was an outsider who ran on a simple proposition. She was a community college professor who just wanted to fix a broken system. Her one platform: If elected, she would immediately convene a constitutional convention to pass an amendment that would eliminate the office of the Presidency. Then, she would immediately resign as the Last President.

    The Amendment stipulated that in place of this single role would exist elected officials in roles most closely reflected by the cabinet positions of previous administrations. Secretaries of education, the environment, the financial systems, commerce, etc. The military would be controlled by a council of both military and elected civilians. Which made these positions more accountable, and not the nepotistic whims of an autocrat.

    The 28th Amendment also did a couple of other things.

    It specificed actual proportional representation in the House. Suddenly America had over 10000 members of the House of Representatives, meeting virtually daily. And the 28th Amendment eliminated all but the ceremonial powers of the Senate.

    It also set term limits on members of the Supreme Court and federal judges.

    To save the Republic, we had to jettison the parts that had been compromised. The offices of the Presidency, and the Senate, and the Supreme Court had been shown to be too fragile, too susceptible to control by external influence and money. Too political. Because by 2028, with Millennials controlling a large part of the voting power, hope for improved relations between the major parties had been lost, and the political parties had no way to talk to anyone but their fringe devotees.

    The 2028 candidate, despite all the dismissal of pundits, was able to sell total reform to the people of America in debate after debate. That we didn’t need a King. That we didn’t need a Senate. That the business of America was Business, and the Business of supporting each other, and we could do this on our own without the compromises written into the original document.

    The Contitutional Convention of 2029, held to pass the 28th Amendment, was held in early Feb after the Inauguration. The world watched with bated breath as the Last President presided over a raucous and wholly American affair. Like a game show it was run, a coronation of the States, and it was no surprise when over 80% of the individuals States supported its passage.

    The next day, our newly empowered, massive distributed House passed its initial Bill: to make the White House into a National Monument, owned by the people, who could visit the home their ancestors had built to honor the faux king.

    The Last President did as she said she would and resigned in glory and celebration, and went back to teaching.

    That day, in 2028, America became the nation it was always meant to be, and the Republic was saved.

    And we never looked back.