[-] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

The wedge already exists. The Trump people started leaking that Elon is a seagull less than 3 days after the election. The problem is that Elon paid for Trump's victory and he's continuing to throw money around. Trump knows this and it's why he keeps appointing Elon's goons to the administration (beginning with JD Vance and continuing with David Sachs and all the other VC).

[-] anachronist@midwest.social -3 points 1 day ago

Anarchists find it really hard to support despotic regimes even when they're opposing the USA.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 78 points 1 day ago

Next time they pick a patsy for a guy with distinctive eyebrows they should find a guy with the same eyebrows.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

"Invading" is a curious word to use when the US military is already the main military presence on the island.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You're overthinking it.

In any case, The USA already controls Greenland in every way that matters from a strategic perspective, and has since the 40s.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 23 points 5 days ago

Tesla is the new BMW and nobody's using those buttons.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 11 points 6 days ago

You'd probably have to lie between them instead of just looking at a photo, to assess if it's still possible.

Clearly they were put there with the intention of making it difficult/uncomfortable to lie down on the subway vent. If they were installed incompetently that doesn't make them unhostile though, it just makes them ineffective for their obviously intended purpose.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 51 points 6 days ago

Also the future is bleak in the poly-crisis.

302
submitted 4 months ago by anachronist@midwest.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Is it weird to be an American interested in Canadian news?

270
submitted 5 months ago by anachronist@midwest.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
1285
submitted 5 months ago by anachronist@midwest.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
[-] anachronist@midwest.social 69 points 5 months ago

I mean yeah I don't think Chinese companies are going to have crowdstrike installed given that it's essentially a rootkit controlled by an American company. It'd be like American companies installing Kaspersky or Xuexi Qiangguo.

463
Crypt force one. (midwest.social)
submitted 5 months ago by anachronist@midwest.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
756
Citroën did it better (midwest.social)
submitted 5 months ago by anachronist@midwest.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
998
submitted 7 months ago by anachronist@midwest.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
[-] anachronist@midwest.social 69 points 9 months ago

"You know what would be totally sick? What if we made our building's roof into a matrix of inverted metal parabolas?"

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In 2004 I was a radical young man protesting for bikes and against the Iraq War. At one of the meetups another kid who had been at the RNC protest in New York showed us this software someone had hacked together overnight to broadcast SMS messages. Basically you could send an SMS to a VOIP phone number and it would echo the SMS to everyone subscribed. They were using it to communicate in the crowd at the protest and avoid police kettles. It was pretty cool but I admit I didn't really see it as being more broadly useful.

Later that night the group went for drinks and I was talking with one of the older radicals and he was telling me that the internet was too good and too powerful and they were going to shut it down. I thought that was absurd. How could they get rid of the internet!? He said they would figure out a way to shut it down, there's just no way they could leave it out there, it's too dangerous for them to do so.

Now I look at the thing we call "the internet" in 2023 and it looks nothing like that internet. The current internet is completely corralled, controlled and monetized. He was totally right. While they never "flipped the switch" on it they used salami tactics little by little until there was nothing left.

view more: next ›

anachronist

joined 2 years ago