Since there is no due process, there is absolutely no protection for US citizens. Once you’re in their custody, how would you prove you’re a citizen without having due process?
They’re just starting with the easy targets to feel out how much resistance there’s going to be before they scale it up and move on to snatching up citizens who’ve displeased them.
Or, she’s working with the US government in some secret capacity and now thanks to Trump they know about it.
It could just be random. But either one is a strong possibility, and Putin’s involvement seems likely.
Disagreeing with the orthodoxy is a good way to draw a lot of attention to yourself, which has benefits both social and financial. And, if you exist in a fact-free culture like the US has, there’s no immediate harm to yourself even if your counter-orthodoxy is both wrong and dangerous. I don’t think it is much more complicated than that.
Don’t forget the huge transfer of assets that currently belong to the US treasury into the hands of like 20 crypto bros. That’s another key goal.
Disrespectful?
Troublesome?
1968 would like a word. 💔
There are so many ways to engineer something into the system that will go sideways in some nightmarish way if you are not there to prevent it.
I get that not every person has write privileges on every piece of software that is important anywhere in the company, let alone a steady enough rate of commits to sneak something into production. But that’s where you gotta get creative. Or, if you’re just going to write an explicit bomb that is hooked up to a isDLEnabledInAD() function, you gotta just not be in the country anymore when it goes off or something.
Yeah. Honestly, I want to fault Zelensky a little bit in a theoretical sense for not being more “diplomatic,” but:
(a) The fact that he has some integrity, for example not just sitting silently by while Trump shittily claims that the EU has given less than the US, is why Ukraine is still alive.
(b) There is no winning the game of trying to make Trump happy. Whatever level of shit you want to throw at Zelensky for doing 10% of instigating the shouting match while Trump and Vance happily did the other 90%, it hardly matters. Trump was always going to do Trump stuff. Focusing on the reliable partners, and shooting straight with them and expecting straight answers, fair treatment, and respect from them in turn, is 1,000% better of a game to play.
"I’ll tune in the Raspberry Pi to the airplane’s network … and then I’ll have a little five-dollar Raspberry Pi Zero, I’ll have it put on a second Wi-Fi of its own and name the network ‘spanky’ with no password. Everyone on the plane can log in… eleven people connected. So I started using it as a honeypot.
This is vastly underselling Woz’s pranks. He made up a fake ID for himself from the “Department of Defiance,” and he would get himself on airplanes with it. He said in his mind it wasn’t fake, because it wasn’t an ID for anything in particular, just kind of an official-looking thing he would show to people. He said that whenever he would use it, people would get really deferential to him and wave him right on through. He used to print out perforated sheets of 2-dollar bills, like a huge post-it note, and try to pay for stuff with them, because it was perfect legal tender but as far, as he could figure out a way to get, away from something that looked real. A lot of times people wouldn’t take them.
He loved phone pranks. As far as I know, to this day if you dial 888-888-8888 you’ll get Woz, or at least an answering machine controlled by him. He snatched it up the instant they made the 888 toll free area code available, because before that all he could get was 800-888-8888 and that wasn’t really satisfying.
It’s kind of hard to explain. Maybe all of this just sounds jumbled and odd.
None of any of what he did was malicious in any way. I can guarantee he didn’t try to steal any private information from anyone who used his fake airport hotspot. He might have run a little squid proxy that did a MITM attack to turn 1% of their images upside-down, something like that.
When Steve Jobs cheated a bunch of employees out of some money he’d said they would get, Woz found out about it and gave them all the money they were supposed to get, out of his personal money. He didn’t have a shortage, at that point, but still, he didn’t have to do it, and such a thing is basically un heard of in silicon valley.
He’s a pretty unique person, but also, there are others like him. People just found out about him and he got famous (Not really. Steve Jobs is famous, and gets the credit for Apple, because he fits what TV likes people to be, i.e. awful.) But there used to be thousands of these guys running around, behind the scenes. They all operate in a certain way. They made the microcomputer revolution happen, and the video game industry, and the web. A generation before that, they had a lot to do with winning World War 2.
I don’t know what they are doing now. The ecosystem is very hostile to them, now, both in and out of the computer.
Peretti complains about something he calls SNARF, an acronym for “stakes, novelty, anger, retention, fear,”
To build a new social media platform called BF Island
Peretti claims BF Island will be “built specifically to spread joy and enable playful creative expression.”
I guarantee you he used AI to come up with some of his concept. No human being comes up with shit like this.
I am not joking. Ask a million bajillion people what they want their new social media concept to be called, and I can guarantee you that not a single one will say “BF Island.”
For a second after I glanced at the headline, I swear to God I thought it said he’d killed an environmentalist.
CRJ: Even if you flip me over I’m going to do my best to keep the survival space intact and everyone alive
Boeing: Hey just for a prank what if I took over and flew myself into the ground
Don’t blame this asshole on the US, he is clearly an Israel problem. Our variety of violent assholes are a different type.
For those who don’t know what a true POS Elon Musk is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRjVH66vdQ
TL;DR He got butthurt because the actual founder of Tesla was more visionary and skilled at engineering and business than he was, and so forced him out of his own company so he could take credit for everything. He cheated the guy out of both his business and his agreed-upon money, and stole the first Tesla Roadster off the line that was supposed to go to the founder since he did all the groundbreaking work to design the thing. Then, just to fuck with him, Musk shot it into space, and delivered to him instead a wreck of a car that had been crashed into the back of a truck. He didn’t just become an asshole recently. He has always been an absolute psychopath who enjoys flexing his power to hurt innocent people.
“Mistake” implies that fucking things up for Ukraine isn’t part of the goal.
I am saying they’re being shockingly naïve, or more likely sanewashing on purpose Trump’s clear fondness for repression, when they describe Trump getting involved with Belarus/Lukashenko as “raising hopes of loosening his repression.”
raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.
Fuckin’ New York Times. You idiots.
If you are the health care provider, then sick people make you tons of money. The sicker the better. Healthy people make you nothing.
Insurance companies have to pay out sometimes, of course, but they’re fairly good at minimizing it. In general, sick people result in an influx of cash to the system that doesn’t exist for healthy people. I think the current decision-makers in Washington are far more on the side of the health care industry as a whole, than they are of the patients and parents who are now getting squeezed for all those tasty payments.
Hm. I set it up: !keyosc@rss.ponder.cat
However, I’m a little unsure about it from a spam perspective. It kind of looks like maybe we’ll be getting quite a lot of postings from this with all of these forums added. I’ve been trying to avoid having any of these “replicate a different non-Lemmy forum over in Lemmy instead” bots just because they tend to have a pretty low signal-to-noise ratio.
How do you feel about just interacting with the bot, and having it post direct to the !idm@lemm.ee community so you can keep this stuff curated to a useful set of feeds? I can probably make some reformatting edits if you want. I added the direct link to the RSS feed each one was pulled from which I think is a good addition.
I haven’t decided for sure, I wanted to see how it looks in practice, but I’m pretty concerned about the spam level just looking at it a little bit.