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@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-21 03:47:39

Learning how to psyop Third World populations with Manual of The Mercenary Soldier
archive.org/details/PaulBalorM

Your best psy-op is that which seems to demonstrate to the enemy as well as your people that the enemy has lost control of the situation. You can be pretty sure that by the | time you go in, the bad guys have had things going their way. And you’re not going to reverse that with words alone.

Remember . . . you’re not going up against an open Western society or one of the West’s sloppy, half-assed Third World client states. You’re going up against rebels or a regime which is totalitarian in…
tunity to “build bridges to the people.” Unfortunately, building that bridge takes too long and it is too easily blown. Your opposition gives lip service to civic action— but he practices “grab ’em by the balls and yank. Their hearts and minds will follow.” And damned if they don’t!
Sample psy-op:

Your conflicts always throw up little local despots in the countryside. They may be the rural police chief, a militia captain, guerrilla leader, even a local religious figure. They may be on either side. Or no side. What they have in com¬ mon is that they’re vicious, detested by the local people they oppress. Select one. Take him out. Visibly. Hoist his body in the village square.

And, of course, broadcast the fact. Now you’re really in the hearts-and-minds business.

Your best…
Not for you any cold, colorless recitation of facts. You’re not the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Marti. . . . Come on strong. Speak passionate truths! Feel free to indulge in color, symbolism, folklore, histrionics, and invective! You have to not only inform—you also must entertain.

But never forget: Third worlders are realists. They have to be. They’ve been exposed to the application of raw power all their lives. They want to survive. They’ll accom¬ modate whoever is able to app…
@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2026-03-19 18:52:22

I think I need to put into my talk this line that keeps running through my head
So many leaders want people to trust them, which is exactly backwards
In organizations, positions are typically appointed through the hierarchy and authority of the organization. However, like trust, "leadership" is earned: slowly built and quickly lost.
Asking how to earn trust means admitting you have failed, and more importantly means committing to a change. If you don't uphold…

“I need you to trust me.”

“I need you to be trustworthy."

In the thick dimness of the room she watched the black-garbed girl in front of her struggle around a thing that had set-tled over them like a net; a thing that had fused between them like a badly broken limb, shattered numerous times, healing gnarled and awful. Gideon recognised these strictures all of a sudden: the rope tying her to Harrow and back to the bars of the House of the Ninth. They stared at each other with shared panic.

Ha…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-03-20 11:30:20

Historic Glacial Confluence
This is the site of confluence of the former glaciers Vernagtferner and Hintereisferner, two of the most (and longest) studied glaciers in the world. It is the site (at ~2200m) where several times over the past thousand years the ice of the Vernagtferner would pile up to form a massive dam, 150-200m tall, which caused a semi-permanent ice lake to form in the Rofen/Hintereis valley above (the one visible from ~7 seconds). Many times this lake would get up to …

300 degree video panorama/pan of a high alpine landscape showing the confluence of two former glaciers, now reduced to rocky river beds cutting through canyons in a vast tree-less landscape shaped by glacial activity. Snow capped mountains in the distance. Sunny day with semi-overcast blue sky.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2026-03-20 12:20:06

Companies are realizing that pushing people to using "AI" is expensive (even at the subsidized pricing going on right now)
(Original title: Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due)
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/19/com

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-19 20:50:02

Hey, Denmark is a monarchy. Get His Maj Frederik, who’s a good-looking dude, to offer the orange one a Royal Duchy that comes with a cool golden crown or something like that if he’ll shut up about Greenland. Orange guy loves royalty.
kongehuset.dk/en/the-royal-fam

The King and Queen of Denmark
@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-02-21 04:00:05

RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115
Puppies and cats are always fun to watch

Video of four golden retriever puppies jumping up and trying to lick and play with a fluffy cat on a stone bench by a fence. Unfortunately for thr kitty, who just wants to sit on the bench, one puppy gets their tail and eventually brings them down. Face lick ensues, and the cat, who is being gentle to the little doggies despite the tail tugging, eventually breaks free to return to the stone bench. Tail swishing from the cat shows slight irritation, but the smartly position their tail away from …
@david@boles.xyz
2026-02-20 15:35:49

The Conceit of the Clock: Aristotle, Time, and the Hunger That Devours Us
Aristotle opens his investigation of time in Book IV of the Physics with a question so destabilizing it threatens to collapse the inquiry before it begins: does time even exist? His reasoning is not coy. The past has ceased to be. The future has not yet arrived. The present, the "now," is not a duration but a limit, a dimensionless boundary between what was and what will be.

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-01-21 09:03:24

There's a lot to like in this government initiative but concerning that improved heat-tightness (chiefly via insulation) doesn't get the leading emphasis it should have. Instead a lot of emphasis on solar, but the EROI of solar isn't great in the UK.
Skip past the copious puff to the bottom, notes to editors, to find a bit of detail.
Families to save in biggest home upgrade plan in British history - GOV.UK

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-20 16:20:51

Claude's C Compiler shows AI elevates the role of human judgment and vision; it's a milestone, but closely mirrors LLVM/GCC, and hard codes things to pass tests (Chris Lattner/Modular Blog)
modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-

@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
2026-03-20 02:41:06

Thanks to @… I'm working on the next improvement to my Single-Paddle Morse code key. I thought that adding the stabilizer bar to the bottom had solved the problem of accidentally keying by squeezing the body of the key too firmly, …

FreeCAD screen shot showing a single-paddle key with a highlighted bar that represents a set screw (or grub screw) that holds the arms apart.
FreeCAD screen shot without the new grub screw present, showing that the hole for mounting it is on only one side, pressing against the other side.