A lightning strike.
Five new subscribers to my Substack page prompted me to write a self intro here in the blog. its at the “Last post” link above. Before plunging into my second task of the day I thought I should clear my mind with a short cat nap especially after seeing I had 164 views. This Substack think might be what I’ve waited for a very long time. So far its just a jar full of lightning bugs but after forty years not a bad ten hours worth of recognition.
An Unwelcome call
So, I took my buzzing head and attempted to empty it for five minutes when I got a call. I’d set the phone within reach and saw the call was from a small town not far away called Side Lake. It was a ghost call from one of the least intelligible phone marketers from somewhere in the Indian subcontinent. She introduced herself with the unlikely name of Samantha and said something I couldn’t quite understand a poor beginning for a nervous telemarketer. in the background I could hear dozens of other voices in her call room the sure sign of a call center where cold calls return a dividend of one positive reply for every 1000 calls, if that.
If she makes one successful call a day I’d be surprised and whatever she earns after listing to hundreds of angry voices I have no idea. I was kind but my reaction still is asking me about my Medicare with her limited English skills is part of foreign scam that may have been sublet to the poorest of the poor English speakers somewhere in or near India is only worth while because someone got a hold of likely Medicare users personal details and that leads me to Mr. Paranoia.
Mr. Paranoia
Three weeks ago I spoke to the mother of an attorney who knew my daughter in high school. Today she is an attorney for the Treasury Department and the DOGE team has taken over the building and put the massive computer system behind locked doors which only Musk’s DOGE Whiz kids can visit.
Every employee of the Treasure Department is scared shitless what these wunderkind are doing with American citizens most vital and vulnerable information…..like my phone number and Medicare info. The Attorney believes all this data is being sent to cheap Indian data centers where it is vulnerable to Russian bribes, hackers and God knows what else.
About a week ago I read a headline that said Russian Hackers had made many attempts to break into National Labor Relations data banks here moments after DOGE opened them to extract infor. That’s a different DATA base but Musk runs America now instead of TESLA. No doubt he’s driving America into the same direction.
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