It’s downright shocking to me that so many of my contemporaries have NOT read the Monkeywrench Gang. #books

Anyway I’m on the downhill slope on my new manuscript #Sabot, which is a reimagining of Edward Abbey’s original story - a near-future realistic #Fiction piece that’s a departure from my obsession with science fiction. I’m confident it’ll be out in the first half of ‘26.

```
~ # cut -f 1 -d\ /var/log/nginx/access.log | cut -f 1-2 -d. | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
2618 20.171
2417 47.79
2239 47.82
1516 51.222
535 193.41
464 54.36
335 45.89
324 45.93
313 146.103
311 102.129
```

Seems my sabot has ensnared Microsoft and Alibaba.

#AI #Sabot

You may have heard that President Musk's latest inane demand to the civil service was an email that went out demanding that all U.S. government employees summarize what they accomplished in 5 bullet points, and send it via email to [email protected] .

This is, of course, ludicrous and pointless. There's no real way to use such unstructured data - it's probably just another attempt to terrorize employees into quitting.

However... if you assume they do actually want to do something with this data, then polluting that data with garbage, lots of garbage, enough to drown out any real responses, would be a good way of throwing a wrench into that bit of ratf*ckery (the workers threw their shoes, called sabot, into the machines, hence ... sabotage).

This would be impossible, of course, if the email address [email protected] were closed to submissions from outside government networks, as it should be. But it isn't. The DOGE bros are incompetent as well as everything else.

It would be a real shame if [email protected] drowned in useless reports, preventing this technique from working. So don't do that.

That email address, again, is `[email protected]`. That's `hr` at `opm.gov`.

#sabot #email #doge #elmo #PresidentMusk #ratfcker #DontDoThis