Old Texas Dude ๐ตโ๏ธ๐๏ธRE: https://mastodon.social/@V64OTD/116795212759128178
I am new here. Giving up on X and Meta. I Federated my personal website. Please give me a follow.
#V64OTD
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A handful of AI companies just spent close to $30 million trying to decide the outcome of ONE House primary in Manhattan โ not to win an election, but to prove they can buy the outcome of who regulates them. Voting closes tonight. This is corporatocracy with the mask off.
#corporatocracy #aiRegulation #NY12 #darkMoney #superPACs #campaignFinance #v64OTD #bigTech #accountability #regulatoryCapture #news #topnews
https://v64otd.com/dispatch/corporatocracy-the-most-expensive-house-seat-in-america-decides-tonight/
The DEA had agents watching fentanyl deals happen in real time. They could count the pills by the thousand. They chose not to stop a single shipment โ because letting it move built a bigger case file. A whistleblower says it killed people. One of them was 15 months old. The bust made headlines. Nobody held a press conference for the dead.
#DEA #Fentanyl #Whistleblower #FederalOverreach #WarOnDrugs #Accountability #V64OTD #NewMexico #PublicSafety #ControlledDelivery
https://v64otd.com/dispatch/the-dea-let-it-walk-a-body-count-built-on-purpose/
๐ต Old Texas Dude here. Fort Worth, TX.
Deeply conservative independent โ no party label. 32ยฐ Scottish Rite Mason. Love traveling Europe โ Portugal holds a piece of my heart.
I write V64OTD โ daily Corporatocracy dispatches on government & corporations in bed together at the public's expense, plus the Hidden Ledger, a comparative religion series.
Seeking the Divine. Liberty. Right to be left alone.
Husband, father, builder. Truth over tribe.
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๐ v64otd.com is now federated!
I had no idea this was even possible until I saw @elena posts about the Fediverse and W Social. A few minutes of digging, 2 small code changes, and my site shows up natively on Mastodon via Bridgy Fed.
This feels almost unknown in the US โ we're so locked into corporate platforms that "own your domain, federate it" barely registers here.
Thanks for the push, Elena.
Follow @v64otd.com for dispatches straight from the site.
#Fediverse #IndieWeb #V64OTD
I had no idea this was even possible until I saw @elena posts about the Fediverse and W Social. A few minutes of digging, 2 small code changes, and my site shows up natively on Mastodon via Bridgy Fed.
This feels almost unknown in the US โ we're so locked into corporate platforms that "own your domain, federate it" barely registers here.
Thanks for the push, Elena.
Follow @v64otd.com for dispatches straight from the site.
#Fediverse #IndieWeb #V64OTD
Corporatocracy at work.
4 days before Olmstead v. L.C.'s 27th anniversary โ today โ DOJ quietly claimed disabled Americans have no enforceable right to community care over institutions.
The memo admits it's "out of step" with 27 yrs of precedent.
Not isolated: a 6-state lawsuit attacks the mandate. Nursing homes are 70% for-profit. Medicaid lost $1T.
Three fronts, one target.
#Corporatocracy #DisabilityRights #Olmstead #Medicaid #V64OTD
https://v64otd.com/dispatch/the-memo-that-came-four-days-early/
๐โก๏ธ Genesis calls it disobedience.
Qabalah calls it broken vessels โ shattered before Adam existed.
Gnostics called it forgetting โ a fall into matter erasing memory of divine origin.
Hermeticism calls it a descent through seven spheres, layering conditioning over the self.
Freemasonry calls it the murder of the master before the true word passed on.
Five mechanisms. One diagnosis.
#HiddenLedger #Gnosticism #Qabalah #V64OTD
https://open.substack.com/pub/v64otd/p/the-hidden-ledger-the-fall
Qabalah calls it broken vessels โ shattered before Adam existed.
Gnostics called it forgetting โ a fall into matter erasing memory of divine origin.
Hermeticism calls it a descent through seven spheres, layering conditioning over the self.
Freemasonry calls it the murder of the master before the true word passed on.
Five mechanisms. One diagnosis.
#HiddenLedger #Gnosticism #Qabalah #V64OTD
https://open.substack.com/pub/v64otd/p/the-hidden-ledger-the-fall
โก๏ธโ๏ธ Proverbs 8: Wisdom was present before creation โ rejoicing beside God in the work.
Qabalah calls her the Shekinah โ God's feminine face, in exile with the suffering.
Gnostics called her Sophia โ fallen into matter, longing for the infinite.
Hermeticism called her Isis. Masonry places her in the widow and the Temple.
She has always been in the text.
#HiddenLedger #Sophia #Shekinah #DivineFeminine #Freemasonry #V64OTD
https://v64otd.substack.com/p/the-hidden-ledger-sophia-and-the
๐ What if the God who made this world isn't the highest God?
The Gnostics said exactly that โ and were declared heretics for it.
The Qabalah maps a shadow Tree, the Qliphoth, mirroring the divine one.
Hermeticism's Demiurge governs matter but answers to something higher.
The question that ended Marcion's career โ still unresolved 1,800 years later.
#HiddenLedger #Gnosticism #Demiurge #Qabalah #V64OTD
https://v64otd.substack.com/p/the-hidden-ledger-the-demiurge
๐ผ๐ฝ "As above, so below" โ the Hermetic axiom everyone quotes, few trace.
It's in the Lord's Prayer: "on earth as it is in heaven."
It's in the Qabalistic Tree of Life โ ten Sephiroth mapping heaven onto the body.
It's in Gnostic cosmology โ matter as a flawed mirror of the Pleroma.
Masonic philosophy built on the same principle.
#HiddenLedger #Hermeticism #Qabalah #Freemasonry #V64OTD
https://v64otd.substack.com/p/the-hidden-ledger-as-above-so-below
