And Then the Car Wash Cost Five Dollars

They were heckling the actors in Ford's theater on the day Lincoln was shot.

They heckled the first reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

They heckled the first lifeform to crawl onto land.

"I can tell."

"How so?"

"Because this show is a waste of it!"

A mouth-watering fuck-ton of hand angle references.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-30/avi-yemini-free-palestine-political-party-concerns-experts/106618082

Here's that link but clickable.

The TL;DR of it is that far-right YouTuber/self confessed domestic abuser Avi Yemini registered a party called "Free Palestine" in Victoria with the expressed aim of misleading voters and tricking those who want Israel to stop committing genocide against the Palestinian people into casting a vote for a far-right party. (Yemini is Israeli btw and deliberately spreads anti-Palestinian misinformation and propaganda to deny the genocide is even happening.)

He registered this to exploit group voting tickets, which is when someone votes above the line and their preferences are then chosen by that party. He's not expecting the Free Palestine candidate to get elected - it's a fake party to funnel votes directly to One Nation.

BUT! The good news is Victoria JUST abolished group voting tickets! (it's the last place in Australia to do that). So his exploit isn't going to work and he's already paid money to register it. BUT there's still a problem: if it gets more than 4% of the first preferences then the party will be paid based on how many votes it got. It's a way to reimburse parties for their expenditure and make elections more competitive but in this case while it's not a way to sneakily siphon votes to One Nation it's still now a way that Yemini can make money.

(she/it/he)

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.

Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.

I also made a PDF version!!

Ischigualastia be upon y'all