AcidiclyBasicGlitch
@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works
Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: pimento-mori.ghost.io
I only recently began using ghost, and am slowly figuring things out. Apologies for any formatting issues.
- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 2 days ago:
There’s a lot of crazy conspiracy theorists who believe Kennedy rejecting the operation in 1962 may have had something to do with his head doing that thing it did in Dallas in 1963.
Obviously not the only factor. He had a lot of strikes against him for pushing back on the plans of men who weren’t elected to run the United States, but felt entitled to do so on account of knowing what was best for democracy.
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 1 week ago:
But without children, who will fight your forever wars and be trafficked by the Oligarchs who want to create 24/7 mass surveillance with live facial recognition tracking?
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 1 week ago:
Oh you can’t find a partner even willing to get married and reproduce right now?
They just keep repeating the same nonsense on loop like:
“Are you literally insane?”
“Have you even noticed the present reality we’re living in?”
“I could be charged with a crime just for having complications during pregnancy.”
“They hooked a braindead woman in Georgia up to life support last year like a human incubator. She had tried to go to the ER the day before because of a painful headache. Instead of helping her they gave her 2 aspirin and sent her home where she suffered a brain aneurysm.”
“They literally just sent her away when she sought their help, but after declaring her braindead they decided to actually admit her to the hospital.”
“They made her family wait to remove her from life support until she had given birth to a premature baby. The baby was born with multiple birth defects he will struggle with for the rest of his life.”
“Of course they aren’t even giving him healthcare or helping to pay his medical bills. They kept his mother alive like some kind of science experiment from the Handmaid’s Tale, and demanded he be born simply to refuse to help him survive.”
“Because it turns out the world is literally run by completely sadistic pedophiles. They don’t even need an Epstein anymore because now they’re legally allowed to kidnap and traffick children!”
“They’re splitting families apart and holding them indefinitely in concentration camps. There’s been multiple documented cases of sexual assault by guards, and we’re just letting it happen. Now they’re buying up warehouses across the country to convert into more camps!”
“How can you even think about something like that?! They’re dragging us into an endless WWIII just to distract from the pedophiles and help corporations increase their profits! What the fuck do you think they’re planning to do with all these kids they’re trying to force us to give birth to?”
Psssh, sounds like typical unhinged feminism. Destroying the American dream.
- Comment on 'They Were All I Had': Lebanese Father Buries Parents, 4 Daughters Killed by Israeli Bombing 1 week ago:
there would have been a war of justice against rich white pedophiliacs. trump could have done something great for once, but he chose war as a masquerade.
Because he is a rich white pedophiliac. He made a choice because that’s his tribe. That’s who he cares about and protects before America or even his MAGA base. They see everyone who isn’t part of club Ped as disposable. It’s clear just reading about the disgusting photos in those files. Not only were they doing all these horrific things, they felt the need to document it with photos.
They have no empathy for anyone else. The more fucked up it is, the more they get off on it. They view themselves as Gods, and truly believe others are born and exist only to serve them and die when they decide.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 week ago:
Also known as McNamara’s Morons
That seems a bit on the nose
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 week ago:
Up next: Image
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
To me the odd pace and the cinematography of Vince Gilligan shows are part of the draw.
Like a lot of his shows feel like they’re meant to convey a peak into the beauty of niche monotony. It can definitely be difficult if not impossible to keep that entertaining while stretching out over several seasons.
When it’s done right, it kind of disarms you/hooks into your sense of empathy and reels you in. It’s more than just slice of life where you’re watching as part of the audience. You get to momentarily slip into the perspective of a stranger by feeling what they’re feeling.
For example, always feeling a bit out of place among your elite peers at a prestigious law firm. Convinced that no matter how hard you try or how successful you are, somehow they just know you’re not like them. And you’re not exactly wrong.
Finding yourself looking forward most to moments when you slip away from the job you fought so hard to land, for a quick a smoke break where you can finally let your guard down and just breathe and let it all out with the only other person who really gets it.
Or, finding yourself looking back at the end of your career as a dirty cop with deep sorrow and regret for all the things you did while knowing it was the wrong thing to do. Yet always choosing to take the easy way for your own sake. Then trying to start over new, by picking what feels like the safest most routine job you can find as a parking attendant, just trying to break good.
Even the little peaks into the lives of side characters tend to give little brief glimpses in their shoes.
There’s a throw away scene in the first episode of Pluribus before the aliens begin to take over that stuck with me. It shows a big group of industry scientists pipetting in synchronization while they toil away in a huge lab.
No lines, the characters are all extras, and it’s such a niche scene, but it also perfectly conveys the kind of hive mind flow that tends to become a normal tendency for all humans when you’re working together, and also foreshadows the entire plot of the show.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
I mean everybody is entitled to their own opinions, and after so many seasons, inevitably a show will have moments that are better and worse.
However, if you just shit on Vince Gilligan shows in general, what kind of shows do you actually enjoy watching?
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
Blasphemy!
And Chuck was amazing!!
- Comment on OpenAI delays ‘adult mode’ for ChatGPT to focus on work of higher priority 1 week ago:
The dumbest fucking timeline that just keeps on giving
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- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 1 week ago:
It’s the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here.
- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 1 week ago:
These systems were trained on 4Chan, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter posts and comments. They weren’t trained on military communication, guidelines, etc.
They know more about Call of Duty than they know about actual warfare. What the fuck do you think they’re gonna recommend?
Honestly, this applies to the entire DOW under Hegseth. The fact that we even have to use a term like “double tap” to describe genocide and war crimes committed by the U.S. and have Marco Rubio tweeting about it with fucking emojis is so fucking disgusting and shameful, but also part of the propaganda they’re relying on to sell this back to their base.
It down plays the seriousness of the entire situation, and makes naive people feel much safer than they should. Almost like a stranger in a van offering candy to kids, so that by the time they realize they’re in danger it’s too late.
Propaganda aside and more to the point of why it’s so dangerous, you might find this article posted a while back interesting. You’re absolutely right, and the point should really be brought up all the time, but it never is.
We’ve always know war is good business. If you can create eternal war, you never have to worry about peacetime getting in the way of your profits.
Private Tech Companies, the State, and the New Character of War carnegieendowment.org/…/ukraine-war-tech-companie…
Mass surveillance and social media now generate huge amounts of data during war. At the same time, the widespread availability of the smartphone means civilians carry around advanced sensors that can broadcast data more quickly than the armed forces themselves.4 This enables civilians to provide intelligence to the armed forces in ways that were not previously possible.5 Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins label this a “new war ecology” that is “weaponizing our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end . . . [by] collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon.”6 In this ecology, warfare is participatory. Social media platforms such as TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and Telegram are no longer merely tools for consuming war reportage; militaries accessing and processing open-source data from these platforms shapes the battlespace in real time by contributing to wider situational awareness.
As a result of their work in Ukraine, a slew of companies like Palantir have drawn media attention.9 While commercial interests have rarely aligned neatly with geopolitics, circumstances are changing; private technology firms increasingly occupy, manage, and in some cases dominate the digital infrastructure upon which militaries now rely. States themselves have fostered this shift through selective deregulation and outsourcing of technology development. These dynamics are visible in the war in Ukraine and in the wider geopolitical contest over the global digital stack. As we argued in “Virtual Sovereignty,” a paper we published in International Affairs, this influence has major geopolitical consequences for how states use power.
What is at stake, beyond the conflict itself, is the nature of state sovereignty. The ability of states to govern, defend, and act independently is increasingly mediated by private technology firms and global finance. This is not entirely new. States have long relied on private contractors, but the kind of dependency has changed. Unlike traditional arms manufacturers, today’s defense-tech firms control the digital platforms, data flows, and algorithmic systems that underpin military decisionmaking. At the same time, civilian platforms like Telegram and TikTok shape the informational terrain of conflict, influencing how wars are perceived and fought.
- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 1 week ago:
Maybe he’s telling the truth and by "prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems,” he means human responsibility is strictly prohibited.
- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 1 week ago:
I’m no AI, so take this with a grain of salt, but my own facial recognition training tells me that’s not the facial expression of somebody who makes a habit of being very open and honest
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- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on commitment 2 weeks ago:
His kids are going to resent him when he brags about this in 30 years, and roll their eyes when he suggests maybe they just need to learn to be more responsible about rationing their Soylent Green.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 3 weeks ago:
Also, not sure if you’ve already read this, but I just stumbled across this book connecting the Michigan cases with the cases in my city, as well as cases involving operations in Chicago and California. Fucking wild.
I’m really glad I saw your comment bc otherwise I never would have really made the connection when Fox Island was mentioned.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 3 weeks ago:
Democracy was literally the remedy for it and we’ve allowed democracy to be removed from the hands of the many in favour of the few.
Exactly, the entire point of having a government is supposed to be to protect society from these people.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 3 weeks ago:
I hate to say this, but the Internet is not the same as it was back when I was growing up.
You always had the possibility of stumbling across a bad actor. Now the billionaire tech broligoply who own most social media are the bad actors. How many websites did you visit where the person running the website has been caught repeatedly trying to psychologically manipulate and control the masses via disinformation?
Back in the day, nobody would be doing whatever the fuck it is these people are doing with kids and their pedo adjacent targeted ads and chat bots bc they would be afraid of being sent to jail for cp
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 3 weeks ago:
Why does it need to take decades though?
I bet if there were actual consequences for this shit, like in the form of seizing assets to be paid to victims, the issue would be solved very quickly.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 3 weeks ago:
It’s so fucking creepy. It’s not just making people dumber, its literally exposing kids to sexual content and sexualizing children in advertisements aimed at adults.
At what point is it ok for all of society to demand these people either be put in jail or at least exiled from the rest of society?
- Comment on World Leaders Near Declaration on AI, Indian Government Says 3 weeks ago:
Attending the summit, Kratsios, the White House representative, addressed middle powers’ fears. “Real AI sovereignty means owning and using best-in-class technology for the benefit of your people,” he said. “Complete technological self-containment is unrealistic for any country, because the AI stack is incredibly complex. But strategic autonomy alongside rapid AI adoption is achievable, and it is a necessity for independent nations. America wants to help.”
“America is the only AI superpower willing and able to truly empower partner nations in your pursuit of meaningful AI sovereignty,” he went on. “American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk. They build it; it’s yours.”
… Are you fucking kidding me. America wants to help? America is being held hostage by these shitbag oligarchs. It needs help.
Also, American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk?
Who TF are you kidding with this bullshit. Nobody paying attention to any of the bullshit DOGE did (that we know about so far) under the anti-regulatory administration you work for. Given you’re the big AI policy guy, and you paved the path for everything DOGE did during Trump’s first administration, this is really your fault as much as it is Musk’s.
Government Data Breach Sparks Fears Millions May Need New Social Security Numbers
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them richfortune.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 96 comments
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 3 weeks ago:
Saints Row 2 was one of my favorite games mainly because you had the option of picking people up and throwing them to fight.
I made my character a giant, and I’m pretty sure I played through ~75% of the game without ever needing to use a weapon because I could just pick everybody up and take them out with one or 2 throws. I also remember giving her the derpy face option.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 4 weeks ago:
I feel like he would just buy his luxury in prison like Pablo Escobar.
I think the worst punishment for people like Thiel and Musk would be to have their assets seized and any future wages garnished to be paid to the victims of their crimes, while they’re forced to attempt to survive in the society they’ve helped create.
The consequences they face will serve as an example and deterrent for others like them and one of two things would happen. Billionaires suddenly experience empathy/gain a conscience and conditions improve for all of society, or, billionaires continue to maintain the conditions they’ve created while one by one falling victim to their own creations. Most likely they check themselves out very quickly rather than attempt to survive the nightmare they had no problems inflicting on others. Either way equals a net gain for society.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 4 weeks ago:
I could use an extra $2500.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 4 weeks ago:
Thanks a lot DOGE. So clearly Elon Musk gives every American compensation, we get new numbers and have all of our credit history wiped clean to start new right? Bc otherwise this just means we’ve all been massively fucked by Trump and his band of idiots
