u wot, comrade?

This reminds me of a Bush-era Robot Chicken bit where literally everything amounted to material support for “terrorism”.

https://youtu.be/jV5vRwnrlmQ

No, they’re saying that that US Navy vessel was le tired and too lazy to go to the pacific to do interdictions. So it had its predator drone(s) fire missiles from above, instead.

Totally relatable, btw. I hate having to traverse the seas to do my naval job and would much rather do it off the coast of a safe port.

In fact, we should just arm police helicopters with R9X missiles so they can remotely disable suspects during police chases.

No, no, because, you see—when the government does it, it’s ‘summary execution’ and not ‘murder’.

But I can see how easy it is to confuse the two.

Imagine a Venn-diagram, but instead of two slightly overlapping circles, it’s just one big circle (labeled ‘murder’) with a slightly smaller circle on the inside (labeled ‘summary execution’). Does that make sense?

(/s)

Yeah, my boss routinely shares logins for things over slack group channels. 😟

The weakest link in any system is the user, not the security policy (or lack thereof).

I’ve seen this particular policy aggravate users to the point where they would rather export sensitive company data onto their own personal machines rather than deal with having to reauth once per hour into some Entra ID SSO-backed web app.

Or even users who generate service account credentials that they share around with their team such that nobody uses their own account to login anymore

When your policy teeters towards aggravating users, many of them will just find clever ways to circumvent it, which is a losing situation for everyone.

I was referring to the Winnie the Pooh thing as being racist. Although the Winnie the Pooh joke started out in China, it has since been repeatedly taken up by Western, English-speaking critics in bad faith.

It’s just a silly way of signaling “oh look at the Chinese, their political system is so fragile and so authoritarian that you can’t even make a harmless joke. Such a backwards society!”

Never mind the fact that in the United States we have the same thing. It’s illegal to be an avowed member of the Communist party in America. Criticism of America’s allies (specifically, Israel) is also apparently a deportable offense.

Like I’m sorry, if your beef with China is that their free AI platform that’s baked into toys you give to your children (because the thought of spending time with them or socializing them is absolutely mortifying to you) discourages them from name-calling people, you might need to grow up a bit.

“Waahhh, this doll is teaching my 3 year old to become a Chinese sleeper cell spy for the great socialist revolution.”

Are you fucking high? Your 3 year old is going to be fine.

I’m sympathetic, but I’m of the mind that it should just be the duration of the workday. Certainly not an hour like some places.

If this is a login for a work/school account, it’s because someone in your IT department thinks that applying a short “max session length” policy is “extra secure”.

Basically no different than shitty password rules or some places that make you change your password every 90 days.

I bet you could upcharge Americans for AI with “ideological reinforcement expansion packs”.

Like a “States’ Rights!” DLC or “Vegans for Israel” DLC.

🤔

The CCP “talking points”?

Miiloo […] would at times, in tests with NBC News, indicate it was programmed to reflect Chinese Communist Party values.

Asked why Chinese President Xi Jinping looks like the cartoon Winnie the Pooh […] Miiloo responded that “your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable.”

Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment.

“Talking points” is a bit strong of a way to say, “the toys kept telling our kids to stop being assholes and responded to complex geopolitical questions on the statehood of a seceded territory with the stated position of the country of origin.”

Yeesh… China isn’t exactly glaze-worthy, but Americans really need to stop throwing their racist-tinged stones from inside their glass rental homes. :/

Things must be dire. He’s actually hitting the “fuck it, decriminalize weed, please clap” button.

but /dev/null has no mass.

you’re thinking of /tmp, which is indeed a slow growing pseudo-void whence nothing escapes.

neuroconvergence, you say?

Your government leaders and their military industry backers are now openly telling you that killing people without trial or due process is ‘virtuous’ manly shit.

“The leftists are violent, which is why we need to vaporize people at sea and bring back public lynchings.” 🙄

More like slave catchers tracking down fugitive slaves, but sending them back to their supposed “colony of origin”.

The Nazis were following American tradition, btw: How the Nazis Were Inspired by Jim Crow.

Totally agree with you.

I think it’s a losing battle to argue that universities shouldn’t have some basic protections in place for unpublished/proprietary/underdeveloped research*, but this guy implicitly takes that way too far.

War research—if it should exist at all—should be done at war colleges. The U.S. has the Naval War College, the Army War College, the Air Force University, USMC War College, and the National War College. Canada has three RMC campuses and the CFC.

*Obviously assuming it’s not publicly funded research, else the Uni should refund grant monies for programs that don’t publish their findings.

The frontline has moved, from being focused on government information to private sector innovation, research innovation and universities […]

What a way for that guy to muddy the waters. Research innovation at publicly subsidized universities is the same as government infiltration if the research in question is government-funded miltech.

Vigneault highlighted Beijing as the main culprit, saying it was using a combination of cyber-attacks, infiltrated agents and recruitment among university staff to acquire sensitive technologies.

Ah, there it is. He won’t say it bluntly, but the problem is that the PLA is essentially stealing missile tech and/or CBW research “that we totally weren’t planning to use for miltech, guys.” (/s)

Speaking as an American, maybe we wouldn’t have to worry so much about Chinese infiltration and theft of university-derived missile/robo tech if Lockeed (& ilk) weren’t constantly sponsoring student competitions as an avenue for recruitment.

If not valid military intelligence target, why military intelligence target shaped? :/

ETA:

University staff were recruited by foreign powers based on either naivety, ideology or greed, he said.

Have they tried paying in another currency other than peanuts?

Get what for free? Get stipends for free?

Are you saying things like Fulbright/AAUW should be more than merit based?

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You’re not beating the illiteracy accusation.

I s’pose you’re right. Walks like a chauvinistic Russian Nazi, talks like a chauvinistic Russian Nazi and all. 😗