PhilipTheBucket

It's a hell of a lot wider than one specific sloppy contractor. They basically compromised everybody (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Lumen, Consolidated Communications, Windstream, the system for CALEA requests, routers made by Cisco, phones belonging to Trump and Vance... basically, everything.) Viasat is on that list, but they're no more particularly sloppy than any other contractor in that space. Basically it would have been truly remarkable if some Guard agency had managed to hire a cloud contractor that was able to resist it.

Hope you enjoy! Yeah, for me it is the best. It's pretty horror, as horror goes, just so you're aware.

Yeah. "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" was out of the cocaine days and into the normal period, so I don't have the same level of love for it as I do for the earlier stuff, but it still had some absolute gems. It was still in the golden age.

They also made a made-for-TV miniseries of "The Langoliers" which was far better and more accurate than it had any right to be. Whoever did the CGI for it clearly had basically nothing to work with and still did their best lol.

The mod in question is apparently convinced that Lemmy is full of "anti-AI trolls" who are planning to brigade their communities with mass downvotes, accuse them of pedophilia, send death threats, and all kinds of stuff.

“From the moment I started the [redacted] community here people have been brigading it trying to suppress it, and had I not had the sense to ban the droves of anti-AI trolls who come to downvote it into oblivion. They probably would be continuing to do so in insanely large volume. A lot of the users who come to downvote do so with empty no content accounts, but a lot are also trolls from the !fuck_AI@lemmy.world community. I’ve also received a fair amount of harassment including threats and bad faith accusations from it like people saying I’m a pedophile or saying I’m pretending to be nonbinary over the fact that I like and use genAI. Really awful behavior that has no place on this instance of this community.”

-https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43560521

And so, the only solution is to cast about for random people all over the Lemmyverse (including me, well known hater of all things AI) and send out bans like stray beads of spittle flying from a drunk politician's mouth. Obviously. It's the only way to keep us safe.

I feel like it's a toss-up whether this person is stirring drama on purpose (trying to create "pro-AI" and "anti-AI" camps and instigate disagreements between them), or whether they've just got some screws loose and like to paint themselves as the victim of a vast conspiracy and also enjoy using the "ban" button that comes with their UI. IDK. It's not really that big a deal, honestly, I feel like it could be solved in a day or so with some frank conversations and openness on all sides. I'm not sure why so little energy is going towards that, and why so much energy is going towards deciding which specific strictures we're going to have the software enforce on all of us going forward and who the enemy needs to be.

Something is weird about it, that's all I can really say.

There are dozens of us not on Lemmy...

(quokk.au is using Piefed)

"The Last Rung on the Ladder," "The Mangler," "Gramma," "The Raft," "The Jaunt," "Graveyard Shift"...

Patriots are defensive, for shooting down other missiles.

I actually think, weirdly enough, that Trump is telling the truth about wanting to arm Ukraine right now, but if the Patriots do get diverted they would get sent to Israel to be used in shooting down other people's counterattacks.

He explained right after when people got salty about it:

Did Epstein traffic young girl? Yes, of course. Is there a client list? Doubtful. Conspiracy fodder.

I've actually been deliberately not using the phrasing "client list" for this exact reason. Trump admin people talked about a specific client list, of course, and there were surely multiple lists of people involved in Epstein's files, but the idea that there is a single master list of "clients," with people either on it and guilty, or not on it and innocent, is almost certainly false and probably a harmful oversimplification in both directions.

1. Wanting to stir up inter-instance drama on purpose for whatever inscrutable reasons (bringing "neoliberal" into it seems guaranteed to get people excited)
2. Mental illness / need for attention, see also possibility 1

I'm sure that this has nothing to do with possibility 3, a good-faith effort to run an orderly community. Honestly, I just think Lemmy's model of little fiefdoms where particular people have unlimited power to wield over all the plebs in their little domain is unhealthy for a few different reasons, this type of thing being one of them.

I have no particular place at the table to weigh in on the db0 governance issue. I'm not sure how big a deal it is one way or another (like I said in the other thread people just do weird stuff sometimes). For me I probably would have a chat with the mod and see what their thinking is here, maybe encourage them not to do this anymore because of the extremely low productiveness vs. drama ratio involved with actions like this.

That's my 2c for what it is worth.

I only noticed because it sent me notifications for it. I guess it is just one weird moderator though, for some reason I thought it was more of a db0 official thing but it looks like it is not.

"Cannot confirm because Trump is talking out of his ass and it's a coin flip whether there will even be any missiles but they're definitely not on their way right now like he said they were, any more than Jeffrey Epstein was a fake story made up by the Bidens."

His old short story collections are absolutely top-notch. "Skeleton Crew" and "Night Shift." "Different Seasons" is also quite good but doesn't have the rawness and variety that the shorter stuff has.