News - February 12, 2025

Alright, listen up, edgerunners. The latest power grabs from the corpos-in-chief, Trump and Musk, on February 12 are the kind of dystopian dreck that’d make a neon ghost weep. Musk’s X, the glorified black-market bazaar of bad takes, just forked over $10 million to settle Trump’s lawsuit over his deplatforming. What’s that smell? Oh yeah—backroom deals and corpo loyalty oaths. Meanwhile, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk’s pet project to gut federal spending, is now packing a hundred operatives with orders to slash a trillion eddies from the system. First target? FEMA funds meant to keep displaced migrants from flatlining in the gutter.

A judge just gave the green light for DOGE’s grand culling: bribing fed workers with buyouts to get them to ghost their gigs. 65,000 have already taken the bait, swapping job security for a corpo-slimy eight months of pay. Musk, ever the smirking overlord, shrugs off accusations that he's staging a hostile takeover of the system while torching grants, contracts, and entire agencies like he’s playing corpo Jenga. The Department of Education? Getting shredded. Transparency? A thing of the past. And if you think the corpos are satisfied yet, you ain't been paying attention.

Democratic state attorneys general are flashing red alarms, calling this a full-tilt sprint toward autocracy. Court battles are incoming, but let’s not kid ourselves—the system’s integrity is circling the drain, and the corpos have already got their claws in deep. Tesla, once Musk’s golden goose, is now in freefall, bleeding out profits while he chases cybernetic fever dreams of AI, autonomous rigs, and robo-revolutions. And somehow, investors are still mainlining the hype, oblivious to the wolves circling in the dark.

The TL;DR? The corpos and politicos are officially merging, and if you’re not one of the chosen few riding the gravy train, you’re just another street-level ghost getting ground under the gears. So keep your optics sharp and your cred untraceable, ‘cause the megas are out for blood, and they don’t care whose.

Now, onto something actually useful—Bruce firmware for the M5Stack Cardputer. If you're rolling with an ESP32-based deck, Bruce is your new best choom. Built for netrunners and red-team ops, it turns your Cardputer into a full-fledged cyberwarfare toolkit. We're talking Wi-Fi pwnage, deauth attacks, beacon spam, BLE exploits, and RF signal trickery straight out of a cyberpunk fever dream. Setup’s a breeze—burn it with the Web Flasher or M5Burner, and you’re jacked in. Stay ice-cold, stay ghost, and never trust a corpo suit.