The struggle is real…

  • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    I fully endorse this headline. Unrelated: I stop reading at apostrophes.

    Edit: In this case, I meant the second apostrophe. Fail.

  • vexikron@lemmy.zip
    519·
    7 months ago

    That emoji captures how I feel toward anyone who still has a Facebook account.

    Facebook got its angel investment from a front company for the NSA, and the NSA cancelled a project to figure out how to do mass domestic surveillance literally 24 hours prior.

      • Wogi@lemmy.world
        13·
        7 months ago

        His citation is just a picture of Obi-Wan Kenobi saying of course he’s got a source.

      • vexikron@lemmy.zip
        48·
        7 months ago

        Apologies, it was DARPA program, and the funding came from the CIA, to Peter Thiel, to Facebook. Got my alphabet soup a bit mixed up.

        https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook/

        I assumed this story was common knowledge?

        Guess not.

        Anyway yeah, when part of your job includes managing cybersecurity policies for a medium sized organization, its behooves oneself to do some research into the most well known data thieves in the world, the US Government.

        • _Mantissa@lemmy.world
          21·
          7 months ago

          oh neat, the author (and owner of the website) has a podcast, “Whitney Webb on deep diving into Epstein, 9/11, Covid, and more” “Whitney Webb is a researcher and a proper journalist.”

          Now, I hate ethos based rhetoric as much as the next guy, but I think if someone hangs a neon sign on their chest that says “im an idiot” then I can just dismiss their ideas without thoroughly debunking them. I mean, I’m certainly not wasting an afternoon and the alternative is blindly believing a wall of text written by a known idiot. So I’m kind of backed into a corner here.

          • vexikron@lemmy.zip
            14·
            7 months ago

            Ah I see, the author who you were unaware of until now is a ‘known idiot’, so you are not interested in reading then citation I provided.

            Welp, cant argue with that!

            • _Mantissa@lemmy.world
              1·
              7 months ago

              No, read the citation. and I didn’t say known to me to be an idiot, I said known idiot, which they are based on the results of googling them. But Instead of thinking “that doesn’t sound right, better check that to make sure” I think “this follows the same pattern of other conspiracy theories and when i’ve researched them in the past they have all been misleading or false”. I’ve gone down that rabbit hole before and it always ends the same way. Professional misinformation is designed to be difficult to debunk but that doesn’t make it correct. and I’m not calling you an idiot for reading or believing it. I would suggest you dig a little deeper though, because that is at the very least a conspiracy (if true) and at worst blatantly misleading. either way, facebook is evil enough in daylight for me to wage war so I don’t really need to lie to myself to be more angry at them.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      91·
      7 months ago

      What brand of foil do you use for your hats? I find Reynolds to be too expensive but anything else I just don’t feel like does a good job blocking the beta waves

      • vexikron@lemmy.zip
        24·
        7 months ago

        I only use the tinfoil in my wallet.

        I remember everyone calling me crazy in the early 2010’s for pointing out that the new smart chips in credit cards could be read by various electronic devices, and that this could be blocked by basically lining your wallet with tinfoil.

        Nowadays of course you can just buy wallets with it neatly built in.

        You can also line a backpack or laptop bag with tinfoil on the inside to do shoplifting, as long as they have the older style scanning towers.