This Bachelor shares base is powered by Blogger, a subsidiary/subdivision of Google.  So with that one disclaimer out of the way, we observe that among other things, the lawsuit against Google was a long time coming.  Big Tech had always believed it somehow had an entitled ownership of human culture, and that everyone had to do what Big Tech told them to do.  We've observed that everyone actually did believe they owed Big Tech, and the Heir still believes that people still do believe they owe Big Tech, including the progressives, the powering of whose online funding and organizing the progressives see as almost totally depending on the dominance of Big Tech.  This lawsuit means that that dominance is coming to an end, but Big Tech is going to fight back against the rest of humanity.  They might end up driving down the capacity of their data centers so that human activity ends up slowing down and running into a crisis as a result.  Because here's the thing, and this is why we need the concept of Prepper Maker.  We as a society can throw all we can at Big Tech, but all Big Tech needs to do is whip out that one agreement that every single human being signed with their blood in the "disruptions" 2010s, and remind everyone that they agreed with Big Tech that they somehow *need* Big Tech.  It's kind of like the Matrix or Skynet that way.  Prepper Maker and the DIY Insurgency on a public commons level like with our own networks and processors would be our declaration as a species that we *do not* need Big Tech.  We don't need Big Tech to run society for us.  Big Tech needs *us* to run their businesses with.  That's why the Heir's working feverishly in the coming of tropical soul on his DIY music player, and once it's running properly, he will physically hold it up against Big Tech's physical holding up of that agreement of that Faustian deal that humanity was forced to make with them.

"Once I get that DIY player done, that will be Prepper Maker proof that we as a human species don't need Big Tech in order to survive.  And maybe then we'll see the dawning of a new era."

The Heir's just brimming with ideas where GPNX is concerned.  So he woke me up the Mentor just now and I was like, dang Heir it's 1:30 in the dang morning, I ought to lose my Fonzie cool and get mad at you, so what is it now.  He managed not to accidentally wake up Leeanna in the same bed, who's incidentally a deep sleeper, different than her Burmese heritage I guess.  So the Heir comes back and says he's got some aesthetic ideas for both the name and the logo.  I guess that's easy enough stuff to figure out while there's that big hurdle of license free amateur status that he needs for the repeaters at least.  So he's now thinking that a better name for GPNX is PBNX, better known as Public Basic Networks.  He feels that's more descriptive than General Public Networks, because it would use a General Packet Radio Service, which commercial providers would consider the equivalent of 2G.  This is a reminder that it's only for the basics, not for real time streaming a blockbuster movie in IMAX format.  He's also had ideas of how to redesignate the buckets of cellular, but I thought we already talked about that below.  But the Heir also has an idea for the logo for PBNX.  It's made up of an upturned bell shape with cell bars filling in the spaces on either side of the bell.  I told the Heir that he had better research whether both the logo and the name have already been used, otherwise he would almost certainly get sued by someone.  And being a food clerk for the Bland Barns Catering Counter, he just can't afford it.  He's not filthy rich, and he's not desperately poor.  So he's not going to have his own personal legal team, and he's not going to have someone go pro Bono with him.  The Heir is effectively in that terrible and awful doughnut hole.  That's why he's considering the concept of PBNX in the first place, so that he doesn't have to play business politics with our current commercial provider.  It's getting worse than haggling over the price of a car, except that Big Tech Salespeople won't hesitate to use gaslighting and guilt trips and logical fallacies in their arguments, as well as fake outrage and yelling and screaming and pounding on tables.  Because that's where it's all going right now.  Looks like the Heir will have to wait till later in the week to get with repurposing the cellular buckets for PBNX.  Let's go to dang bed already, and no tossing or turning Heir with whatever other ideas you come up with.  Really, about *anything*, including butterscotch pancakes.

Hey Heir.  No butterscotch pancakes for *you*.  At least until you get some shut-eye.

It's only between conventions, but the Heir can't wait until both are over before talking about how terrible this last one was.  He's going to need to follow up after the Elephantine to talk about how bad that one was as well.  It hasn't happened yet, and it's already a "was."  But the Heir goes after the Donkeys-FTP for their everything-depends-on-one-thing fatalism.  This is what they did in 2004.  Trump is on the ropes in the swing state polls, and right-track-wrong-track polls, so he's clearly going to lose.  But the Heir sees the Donkey/progressive fatalism as disingenuous, because you hear Type-A Western observers talk about how "genius" it was for Biden to pick Kamala Harris as his running mate. But the Heir thinks it's the opposite, absolutely terrible, because Harris gets high points of approval from Big Tech.  The Heir believes you have to assume that anyone who gets that kind of high pointage from Big Tech is just bad for our cultural health.  Big Tech seems pretty sure that a Biden/Harris presidency will never hold them to account for anything, let alone the personal corruption of forced obsolescence.  Biden has yet to hold his phone up in public and go, "I have no idea how this thing works," but he's going to reinforce the Old Person And Tech Stereotype.  It was the personal corruption of the 2010s stemming from Big Tech and Ed Snowden, and progressive participation in both, that allowed Trump to rise to power to begin with.  So the Heir's thinking, so we need to go with them again!?  To begin that cycle again!?  And endanger old school standardized cultural technology such as terrestrial analog radio and feed based podcasts!?  Also from the Heir's point of view, Biden has signaled that his Justice Department will never go after an ex-President Trump for anything, which even at this early juncture has killed Biden's presidency.  The Heir really doesn't give a rat's ass about all those very verbally chiseled "inspiring" speeches, because he's already fast-forwarded to the day after Biden's first 100 days.  So unlike the progressives, the politically skeptical Heir sees very little political hope for the future.  Of course when the Elephantine comes around, the Heir expects to hear that convention get with hate, misinformation and conspiracy theories.  At least they're saying outright they have no intention to do any real governance whatsoever.  In the meantime, seven years after Ed Snowden, the Heir's still waiting our personally corrupt culture to reform on its own, and he may very well have to take the bull by the horns himself, possibly alone in a sea of 7 billion people.

"This election is already over before it even got started, and all of us are the losers."

So here's more stuff the Heir has on GPNX, particularly with the repeaters.  So talked about below, even though the GPNX lifestyle doesn't necessarily require a purchase of a repeater along with a hub, it's highly encouraged.  But what the Heir wants to add is that in keeping with the GPNX spec of low power (or rather, resource conservation), the repeater needs to have an emergency power capability.  It would be either plugged into regular household power or a solar unit (you can even try wind we guess, but the Heir doesn't think wind power is far along enough for there to be small enough turbines for your backyard or a deck for an apartment or a condo).  The repeater can power externally, but it would always be constantly charging.  That way, when the power goes out (and because of the outage caused by Isaiah, it's a matter of when, not if), the repeater would still run off its recharged batteries.  So that way, GPNX would still be up for its users.  The hubs themselves would be constantly charged as well, but resource conservation ensures continuous uptime.

"More to come on GPNX."

Here's more stuff the Heir has to say about the concept of GPNX.  I the Mentor put up a post here when the Heir initially started talking about it, so that should be below this post if you filter posts based on the Prepper Maker label/tag.  But the Heir has a list of attributes that at least at this time he sees as descriptive of GPNX: non-commercial, community-based, low power, global reach.  He geeks out on some details, like each GPNX converter hub acting at least as a passive repeater, with the encouraged purchase of an active repeater along with either rabbit ears or a dish or the ordinary Joe connecting the repeater to his drainpipe system.  So if this is how it can work, the more repeater'ing the Heir sees going on, the stronger signal you yourself would have, and the stronger signal your GPNX peers would have.  He sees the initial signals as starting out at a handful of cellular type towers that directly connect to the Internet via a T1 type connection.  Those signals would repeat as per that community base along with volunteer type efforts by your library or your emergency services or basic utility companies, or your local/divisional infrastructure like traffic lights at major intersections.  In terms of protocols, the Heir is looking at those that the major cell companies have discontinued for commercial use, but which the Heir sees as still useful for non-commercial use, like the stuff that's equated with 2G.  2G may sound like something that would be as slow as a dog, but the Heir asks us not to forget that there are three cellular buckets: talk, text, and data.  The Heir sees the data bit as the relevant one, and wants to repurpose the first two as data as well, specifically Internet data.  Maybe this will make things go somewhat faster, who knows, if you just might get broader bandwidth.  But the Heir wants to see if something equivalent or similar to GPNX already exists, and what the technical caveats are, and potential legal or economic or political issues, including those possibly mounted by the more commercial cellular companies if they think the Heir's cutting in on their business just by floating GPNX as an idea.  But he also sees a series of puzzle pieces all waiting to be put together by the right dedicated people.

Heir: "If I didn't mention it before, this kind of thing would benefit those with economic hardships, the survivalists, people in emergency situations, and those in remote locations."

So amidst all the excitement the Heir was hearing on audio with the latest on Ed Snowden and the Russian Vaccine, he wants to start getting the word out about an idea he calls GPNX.  This stands for General Public Networks, and he intends it as a non-commercial form of cellular-based Internet for the people.  It's kind of late now, so he isn't going to impart details, but he sees GPNX as the Linux or the NPR of cellular-based Internet.

"Stay tuned."

It looks as though Big Tech is trying to barge on in on the rescue efforts amidst the wildfires in California, by deploying drones meant to help map the disaster area.  The Heir sees two things wrong with this.  Firstly, there's no evidence that the drones will actually help find people in need of rescue or save their properties.  Also, it's all too likely that the drones being so proprietary and off-the-shelf will lose telemetry with all the smoke and intense heat, and will either fail to record or send back data properly, or they'll just drop into the smoldering flames.

"Let a reliable DIY person get a drone in there with the specific wildfire situation in mind.  Never mind Silicon Valley with its failures."

The Heir's wondering with what he derides as Proverbial Autism, what others may call high functioning autism, what exactly is the opposite of high funk autism?  Is there even a word for it?  Neurotypical?  Is that even a word?  Neurotypicalism?  What exactly is the operational definition of that in science?  Looks like the Heir might need to do some research, but he might end up running a hundred dead ends here.  Because no one's really thought about it, it seems.  When Prepper Maker emerges in the next couple of years, expect more people to look back and go, now wait a minute.

"And while I'm being a whiny bitch again people, please be sure to listen in on our latest episode on audio, either below or through the streaming/audio link."