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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…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-03-16 06:52:57

Under R-party/maga theocratic principles it would be expected that those who benefit from this pay the costs. In other words, why should we taxpayers pay for this DHS expense when it benefits the airlines and the passengers?
(I'm saying this to demonstrate how much airlines love to offload expenses onto the taxpayers while keeping income to themselves. If these airline CEOs want this then what will they give up to us, the taxpayers. I could suggest lower salaries for CEOs, highe…

Airline CEOs urge Congress to fund Department of Homeland Security amid shutdown
The CEOs of the nation’s top airline companies are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a bipartisan solution to pay federal aviation workers, including airport security officers, during a partial government shutdown. In an open letter posted online Sunday and in The Washington Post, they noted that Congress should pass the Aviation Funding Solvency Act and the Aviation Funding Stability Act, which would guarantee air traffic controllers are…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-19 06:01:46

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/open

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW | TechCrunch
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.

@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-02 19:38:21

Finished prepping the NESessity NES mainboard for the new front loader mechanism. I got lazy when I installed all the components on the NESessity board and maybe didn't clean the flux off as well as I should have. However, since I've gotten open the NES up, figured I'd do a proper 99% isopropyl alcohol bath and a good scrub. The board is looking great, now to wait for the cartridge slot to come in and get it buttoned up again.

The top of the NESessity mainboard showing a surprising lack of flux after being submerged in isopropyl alcohol.
The bottom of the NESessity mainboard with the NESRGB installed.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2026-03-10 12:39:08

Our brainy cat, Tails, seems to have house trained herself. They've been spending increasing amounts of time outside but as their Petflap hasn't gone in yet it means leaving doors open, which is a bit brisk atm, and getting them back in if we go out, which I *was* expecting to do. Anyway, got them in then a bit later Tails starts yowling to go out. I thought it was just for fun so didn't let her go as I may yet need to go out* and moments later heard

Tails the genius cat who would rather crap en plein air than in a box of wood chippings 👏
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-08 16:40:59

Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8% (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/04/08/meta-debut

Meta debuts new AI model, attempting to catch Google, OpenAI after spending billions
Meta debuted its first major large language model, Muse Spark, spearheaded by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-13 13:06:36

Der Saugroboter ist noch da, aber seine Intelligenz wohnt leider nicht mehr hier. 🤤
Nachdem Vorwerk die Cloud-Plattform im Oktober 2025 abgeschaltet hat, fühlen sich viele Käufer im Stich gelassen.
Zum Artikel: heise.de/-11206147?wt_mc=sm.re

Das Bild zeigt einen Saugroboter der Marke Neato. Im Bild steht: "Aus Saugroboter wird Saugblöd: Saugroboter werden zu Elektroschrott nach Cloud-Abschaltung durch Vorwerk" darunter steht: "Knapp 4700 Nutzer fordern jetzt in einer Petition eine Open-Source-Lösung, damit ihre Neato-Geräte nicht zu Elektroschrott werden."
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-16 23:06:32

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
John Luther Adams:
🎵 Canticles of the Sky: I. Sky with Four Suns
#JohnLutherAdams
open.spotify.com/track/4ghJePs

@pre@boing.world
2026-01-30 23:03:39

Asimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.
His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.
#ai #anthropic