Notices by cratermoon (cratermoon@zirk.us)

@soatok the longer the grift continues before the bubble pops, the bigger and more destructive the bang

@scottjenson @trevdev @Gargron @evan Of course anyone is welcome to join any instance or set up an instance. I don't intend to gatekeep. I am expressing my intent to ignore and never boost the boosters. Or the "existential risk" doomers, for that matter.

@scottjenson @Gargron I'd have to ask, what value would an an AI Booster community bring to the FediVerse?

@inthehands Totalitarian leaders never derive their power from facts. According to Hannah Arendt, the facts are a problem to be solved with propaganda, conspiracy theories, and terror. What's true is whatever the leader says is true, and may change from day to day. Fortunately for leader, his followers profess an odd mix of gullibility and cynicism, making it possible for him to make contradictory statements and not lose his power.

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/-gullibility-and-cynicism-2022-01-09

@inthehands https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-lesson-in-copspeak/

@inthehands @cstross Re: efficiency v resiliency, we got a pretty good demonstration of that when the pandemic started and the collapse of global supply chains crushed companies with just-in-time inventory systems.

@inthehands I know DOGE was bad but I haven't seen any reports on the specific tools they were using. Do you happen to have any links or other sources to satisfy my programmer curiosity?

@inthehands @coreyspowell looks like Dormammu https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Hub:Dormammu

@cstross Side note: has Encyclopedia Astronautica been updated since about 2018-2019?

@ParanoidFactoid That's T's left ear. The photo is flopped horizontally. Unflopped it looks like:

@rysiek @lunch OK my mistake. I thought you were blaming Microsoft for crowdstrike because they were forced to open kernel mode up to 3rd party vendors.

@rysiek @lunch Microsoft *did* push back on letting these firms have kernel-mode access, and in 2006 Symantec launched an official complaint over the matter with the European Union.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2006/10/7998/

@inthehands Johnson, 1968 presidential race. Vietnam.