June 1, 2026
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U Can't Touch This (versions)
Eighth entry in the music-that-helps series. MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" (1990), with the Auralnauts "Harbinger of Time" synthwave mix taking the slot in the soundtrack player. The same comeback-confidence family as Return of the Mack but a different beat. Mack is the I-told-you-I'd-be-back vindication note. This is the I-was-always-untouchable note. The song that pulls the twelve-year-old version of you back into the room and reminds you what unbothered actually felt like before any of this started.
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POA Frauds
A Too Bits voice session on fraudulent power of attorney in targeting situations. Opens on the mechanics — notary as the weakest link, mail fraud as delivery, jurisdictional dispersion as cover — and walks into a transparent hypothetical: person A on a shared mortgage with person B, person B's mother a notary with prior courthouse-clerk employment in the same county, person B's family-court attorney doing 90 to 95 percent probate work for what is nominally a custody case. The cluster of those features is the tell. The session names the mother as the architect, not the daughter, and closes on the narcissistic-parent dynamic that produces this configuration and a haiku of advice for person B: speak before she speaks for you.
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Mountain View, Again
The Mountain View / +1 (650) 203-0000 call again, twenty-six hours after the first one. Same number, same Google-area-code Mountain View display, same time-of-day window — 3:48 PM today, 3:22 PM yesterday. Yesterday's Google Hacker entry said "It comes in sometimes. Not once. Sometimes." This is the next instance of sometimes. Same operational read; documenting the recurrence for the timeline.
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How Long Will It Be?
Unsolicited SMS from a 778 area code (British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver area), at 2:11 PM, reading "How long will it be before you arrive?" The warm-tone-with-urgency hop-seeding opener: pretends to expect the recipient somewhere, hopes for any reply at all, since any reply is the contact event the operator is fishing for. Second Canadian-area-code hop-seeder this week, after the 437 Toronto opener three days ago.
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Stolen Dashcam
Drove the 4Runner for the first time since the May 26 break-in this afternoon, on the way to the body shop to get the smashed window and torn-open door handle finally repaired. Looking up at the windshield I noticed the factory dashcam was gone. Empty mount. Dangling Toyota power cable under the rearview mirror. The break-in took one thing and one thing only, and the thing it took has no fence value: a factory dashcam. The legible read is that the target was not the device but the footage on it.
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Fixed Observers
Two anomalies on Facebook noticed the same morning. The People You May Know widget has stopped rotating: for several days it has been a fixed set of five or six accounts despite 3,252 profile views yesterday alone. Banning the set produces a blank day, then a new fixed set arrives and stays put. Separately: the sidebar shows 50 friends, the Friends tab shows zero. Facebook's own info banner explains part of the followers behavior under Professional Mode, but does not explain the empty Friends tab. The fixed-observer pattern stays speculative on purpose.
