Some say it was a guy in Australia that created the original Q account (Paul Furber, https://t.co/d94IPkxc92) cosplaying with others who made the same sort of accounts (like a bunch of nerds) on 4chan; and that he moved to an image board on 8chan, becoming even more popular.
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How many of us saw the double entendre in the QAnon slogan, “The Storm.”
We all probably assumed it had to do with proverbial precipitation. No, it literally meant the act of storming.
QAnon presents a threat to us, because it is severely misinforming our loved ones.
Some say it was a guy in Australia that created the original Q account (Paul Furber, https://t.co/d94IPkxc92) cosplaying with others who made the same sort of accounts (like a bunch of nerds) on 4chan; and that he moved to an image board on 8chan, becoming even more popular.
But he got his password hacked twice. The first time it happened, they guessed his password (some derivative of “Matlock”). Because random people could post as Q, he changed it by adding an exclamation point.
The second time, though, the owners of 8chan stole Furber’s Q account for themselves. They’d also “stolen” 2chan from a Japanese guy named, Hiroyuki Nishimura: https://t.co/I8AtBEPJee
(Due to talk of the person behind the Q account leaving 8chan and starting his own chan)
With that account would go all of Q’s followers, so they seized the account.
Their message board, their coding, their rules.
Furber couldn’t complain about it either, or it would reveal him as a fraud. He’d already gone on Infowars and talked about it like it was all real
How could he complain that someone took over the account of his imaginary friend and then turned his imaginary friend against him?
The owners of 8chan, the new owners of the Q account, are alleged to be the Watkins duo who moved to the Philippines to allegedly...
-try to gain global power through image board creation and acquisition (this according to a coder they hired to create the code for 8chan).
The whistleblower/coder is a handicapped guy who has brittle bone disease named, Frederick Brennan. They’d invited him to live...
-in the Philippines to develop their 8chan code from the start.
Brennan tattled after the Q account started inspiring dangerous people, so they allegedly set him up to be arrested on a charge of cyber libel. Due to his condition, he would have died...
-if he’d been in jail for even 3 days. He barely escaped the Philippines with his life, even as authorities were looking for him in the airport.
After his escape, he started campaigning against his own creation. That’s what led to a series of events and...
-investigations that caused 8chan’s hosting service to go down.
Brennan also contacted any other potential hosting services and tried to block them that way. It worked for 3 months. No 8chan boards, no Q posts.
Eventually, the father/son duo got a version of the board back up and called something like 8kun. The only people left from the old 8chan were the Q people, but the board didn’t work very well and third party accounts weren’t able to get messages to post.
Ron and Jim Watkins would need to change all the passwords in order to reset the software and fix it (by “rotating the SALT on the trip-codes”). But how do you do that without resetting the Q’s account password and...
-effectively making it impossible for the Q identity to be verified for drops to the message board? For any tech savvy Q followers paying attention, that would be an issue for the integrity of the fraudulent narrative they’d built.
Their half-baked solution:
1. Tweeting about the need to change the password; then,
2. Having the Q account post on the board saying that Q had seen the tweet and how it would lock him out if they did that; then,
3. Finally offering the solution that Q should...
-start his own chan.
This is ironic, since the rationale for taking over Furber’s Q account in the first place was allegedly to avoid having Q leave 8chan. But, since they now controlled the account (and, by extension, the followers), that no longer mattered.
The only thing is, if you remember, no third parties could get messages to go through to their “new” board at that time; hence the need for the SALT rotation on the trip-codes. That means, the Q message would have had to have come through the admin account, since those...
-were delivered to the board differently than third party messages. Frederick Brennan (the whistleblower/coder) explains the whole timeline in fascinating detail here: https://t.co/0HfLxc1Xt2
There, you hear the following:
1. Q started off as a fantasy cosplay account on 4chan in Australia by Paul Furber, before growing in popularity and being moved to 8chan.
2. It was secretly taken over by Jim and Ron Watkins in the Philippines, after Furber moved it.
3. Watkins still manipulates the account’s fan base today (even taking donations “on behalf of Q”); fomenting conspiracy theories that have resulted in acts of domestic terrorism in the United States of America; comms with other prominent Q figures
https://t.co/49Ac6mOILh
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- Forget what you don't have, make your strength bold
- Pick one work experience and explain what you did in detail w/ bullet points
- Write it towards the role you apply
- Give social proof
/thread
"But I got no work experience..."
Make a open source lib, make a small side project for yourself, do freelance work, ask friends to work with them, no friends? Find friends on Github, and Twitter.
Bonus points:
- Show you care about the company: I used the company's brand font and gradient for in the resume for my name and "Thank You" note.
- Don't list 15 things and libraries you worked with, pick the most related ones to the role you're applying.
-🙅♂️"copy cover letter"
"I got no firends, no work"
One practical way is to reach out to conferences and offer to make their website for free. But make sure to do it good. You'll get:
- a project for portfolio
- new friends
- work experience
- learnt new stuff
- new thing for Twitter bio
If you don't even have the skills yet, why not try your chance for @LambdaSchool? No? @freeCodeCamp. Still not? Pick something from here and learn https://t.co/7NPS1zbLTi
You'll feel very overwhelmed, no escape, just acknowledge it and keep pushing.
- Forget what you don't have, make your strength bold
- Pick one work experience and explain what you did in detail w/ bullet points
- Write it towards the role you apply
- Give social proof
/thread
"But I got no work experience..."
Make a open source lib, make a small side project for yourself, do freelance work, ask friends to work with them, no friends? Find friends on Github, and Twitter.
Bonus points:
- Show you care about the company: I used the company's brand font and gradient for in the resume for my name and "Thank You" note.
- Don't list 15 things and libraries you worked with, pick the most related ones to the role you're applying.
-🙅♂️"copy cover letter"
"I got no firends, no work"
One practical way is to reach out to conferences and offer to make their website for free. But make sure to do it good. You'll get:
- a project for portfolio
- new friends
- work experience
- learnt new stuff
- new thing for Twitter bio
If you don't even have the skills yet, why not try your chance for @LambdaSchool? No? @freeCodeCamp. Still not? Pick something from here and learn https://t.co/7NPS1zbLTi
You'll feel very overwhelmed, no escape, just acknowledge it and keep pushing.
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The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
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— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
