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@pizzapatch@pdx.social fun fact: malware developers were hired by mainstream developers more and more, starting in the late 90s, until malware became just another part of the technology stack everyone uses, namely normie computer users without tech skills. Malware was far too profitable and addictive to rich people, so it was only a matter of time before they moved mountains to embed malware in *everything*, culminating in "AI" trash.

@stavvers@masto.ai so basically ANOTHER example of where everything that is worst about america is russian, eh? The russians are basically behind everything we've done to ourselves since world war 2, by golly. I wonder if Smedley Butler was with the Russians?

@copter_chief@mstdn.party yeah maybe people will be confused enough to vote for democrats if democrats would focus on the bad, stupid shit Trump says!! They should try to make him the "face of the republican party" in the media! He will lose his 3rd term bid, for sure. What I think they should do is impeach him, by golly. I mean he said he doesn't care about poor people! That has to he impeachable, right? Covfefeeeee everyoneeeeee1 we've got him on the ropes now! Just look how he does his hair hah hah!

@AnotherJen@mindly.social general action NOW! We dont let fascists into our state and into our personal lives, we killed fascists on the beaches of Germany in the last world war, demonstrating clearly how america feels about fascists. You know the people in the state, claiming lately they will "hunt down and kill anti fascists"? Those nazis? We hunt and kill nazis, like most of the world has been doing since ww2. General action now!

@hdv@front-end.social and frankly, there is a hard end coming to all of this that anyone somewhat science literate can see. The energy consumption alone is entirely unsustainable, the people behind this tech are literally fascist pirates who have plagiarized everything they can suck down and plan to sell it back to us, and the job loss (which is mostly because of economic recession, depression - the entire economy is unprofitable), if real, would destroy the entire nation. Not to mention the genocide.....

@hdv@front-end.social 1) many accounts that claim interest are not authentic, 2) there are plenty of professionals doing studies on the matter, 3) there are well known games being played, where a small number of companies are using ALL THE TOKENS EVERY DAY, then execs use those numbers to claim massive interest & adoption, 4) Ive personally been in tech almost 35ish years, and Im in the industry - MOST people around me are adversarial or, at best, disgusted and avoidant. Even the non tech folks are waking up.

@w3c@w3c.social @hdv@front-end.social nobody wants agentic web. Nobody wants fucking ai. It doesnt work, its stolen info, its unsustainable, etc etc etc. There is no version of it we will accept, and Ive been in tech for over 30 years. Ive already come to the conclusion ill abandon this entire career and become adversarial to all infrastructure infected with it, and I have the skills to put my money where my mouth is. Fuck all of this.

@foone@digipres.club rip the drive and the embedded system off. Make a small cover for the board. A little more than you might have been expecting, but maybe it still works?

@foone@digipres.club whoa.. I rarely see tech, especially digital camera tech, from that era that Ive never seen. Nice find. Floppy memory stick adapter lol!

This perfectly describes the "let's go to mars/moon/live in space" grift and the pseudo religion that has emerged from it all in recent years and is really a great talk.

This was never even remotely possible, and being someone interested in science and space exploration for a long time, it struck me as odd that this group of people announces its suddenly happening as if all the core barriers to living in space were gone.

https://youtu.be/7CmnQD3QHeY?si=BDKdM39eY23p3xZv

#generalaction
#generalstrike
#shutitdown
#mayday
#freepalestine
#deathtofascism

Intuit/Turbotax have genocidal IDF soldiers *IN UNIFORM* at the office, on conference calls, etc. Employees are asked to be "extra kind to israeli coworkers" in official internal company communications. STOP using Turbotax.

https://scheerpost.com/2026/04/29/exclusive-the-us-tech-giant-where-employees-wear-idf-uniforms-to-work/

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange oh, right. You and I are the only people talking about how the US is behind much of the world's problems today, im sure.

All the evidence that demonstrates, increasingly over the last 50 years -all the failed non defensive wars, propaganda schools, CIA offices in 100s of countries,, must be... made up by those who hate, how does it go again? Those who hate "american freedom"! Those who are jealous of all our success. 😂

Are you with Bush jr?? What a blast from the past

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange you aren't a 3rd party source? You assert that you are a firsthand source becaue you claim you did some research, created some content that reflects this? Lol the US government, not to mention in the wild, has false attribution tools and philosophies that are widely known, understood. How would I, or anyone, have the ability to refute what you wrote, or what the Whitehouse wrote about WMDs in Iraq? This isnt falsifiable currently, but you and I know *it doesn't matter*.

@malwaretech and speaking of our own work and 'tankies' or whatever, im a nearly 40 year neteng, sysadmin, generalist. I've been paying attention to tech-related US foreign policy stuff my *entire adult life*, but somehow my analysis and your analysis are diametrically opposed. Fun times. Let's just say, im not fucking stupid. 🤫

@malwaretech 4 months of your own intelligence work eh. 😅 sorry for your loss. Whats a 'tankie'? Is that a type of person you refuse to engage with when they bring up difficult topics?

@koosswart no but there must be more than this cyber report, lol, and its allegations, but since nobody really needs (or understands) evidence against nations targeted by the US late capitalist oligarchy, nobody asks for it. Its iust assumed and presumed that that little country cant keep the electricity on BUT are also super duper hackers. Always that crypto being stolen, too. How sad.

@malwaretech do you have any first hand evidence of this I can peruse? You know, you hear SO MUCH about that little impoverished, low tech communist country basically being super hackers, behind most world hacks, whose population we firebombed from the air and killed 25% of in a non-defensive conflict once upon a time. Im an old neteng. Do you have anything I can peruse that can help me understand how this is DPRK? Thanks.

@dadbod I mean we stopped being amazon customers in like 2016. You could see ALL of this coming decades ago, lol. We went as far a hiring a lawyer to go after a bullshit online seller who hid the fact they were an amazon storefront. We would never use a kindle, and have our own source for ebooks. I hear its getting pretty wild in amazon land =P

@mntmn @raymierussell this^^^ Ive been in this career close to 40 years, and Im struggling with the idea of continuing it in this dystopic paradigm. Anti ai countermeasures would be excellent....

@jensorensen@mastodon.social Many 'dems' will or already have moved to the right. Its easier for them than buying a latte. The cartoonist seems to think neoliberals can become ethical humanists. Best of luck.

The people who want you to think they are "the good guys" in america (neoliberals) also want you to see the proxy war between russia & ukraine, orchestrated, funded, often operated by America using american tech, weapons, comm systems, etc etc, as the Good War -- that the Good Guys support. (you are a good guy too, right?) They also want you to see that only actual fascists (Vance, Trump, etc) *oppose* this war, so that any antiwar leftists, too, get swallowed whole into that chaos propaganda.

@georgetakei yes, for great clarity and the construction of a more resilient and full future democracy in america, what we must do is bake in the idea that only right wing fascists inside america oppose the glorious and good proxy war being operated by america, using ukrainian blood against russia. This is a great starting point for the next 20 years of global military interventionism and chaos, maybe a fun old world war or 2. Isnt it friends. Lets pretend the Ukraine proxy war is a good war.

@dec23k @adamshostack uhg! How embarrassing. Nasa should get a real email system.

@adamshostack huh?

@Garwboy capitalists must face the obsolescence of their favorite violent, corrupt economic system, which has shat the bed again, is starting world wars again, and is trying to replace millions of us at our workplaces without any solution for unemployment. No, the people face nothing other than the imminent collapse of this economy BECAUSE of this fraud tech.

@inthehands disgusting bourgeoisie parasite. She got rich- up from a teachers salary to *billions* thanks to Potter- and now she's using them to further the same dark ages nonsense trans folk have been dealing with SINCE the fucking dark ages. All potter bullshit is banned in our home, and I have 2 children who would be big fans otherwise. We haven't given that nasty lady a dime in a decade or so, but... I did buy the original potter movies forever ago.

More about me/us(my small family and I):

Zero tolerance for "AI" slop and sales pitches. I've been in tech nearly 40 years if you consider my youth spent hanging out in Unisys datacenters with an older family member, and I completely understand the grift and fraud and plagiarism and fascist, totalitarian goals these LLM companies are engaged in. If they can, they will destroy 10s of millions of jobs without any contingency plan, on TOP of the energy waste, autonomous killing, etc. Full stop.