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Fine, but the teeth of this act belong to some future justice department. I predict Trump will issue blanket pardons for everyone involved, up to Bondi; and that none of them will respect a congressional subpoena.

It’s funny that this effort, the largest exertion of FBI agents second only to 9/11, seems to be unprepared to redact. Cynically, I’m prepared for it to be part of a generative set of PDFs derived from the prompt “create court documents consistent with these 16 PDFs which obscure the role of Donald Trump between 1993 and 1998.”

I feel like the defense against drones is denser, sharper turbines.

In some cases, shar would be a useful wrapper for that.

What I mean is an .rsync-filter with ‘H Cache/‘ or some lines of patterns to exclude. You’ll need to run with -F every time. On the sending side, a recent tar will accept —-exclude-caches if you can be diligent about creating CACHEDIR.TAG.

You can set HOME to some temporary path of your choosing. You’ll still need to be a little careful.

He was very close to Epstein. So far as I know, the only mention of Bannon at Turning Point USA was a call to release the 12-15 hours of taped media training he gave Epstein in 2019.

Part of the law mandates that all redactions will be listed for Congress within 15 days.

Any sufficiently-advanced automated rsync would have a filter for caches.

I’m trying to imagine why sshfs mounting the less-capable remote onto the workstation would be blocked.

The social connections between Jared and Ivanka, Alex Farkas, and Harvey Weinstein. Those connections lasted after Epstein completed his 13 month sentence.

Let me take the opposing position about a program to wire LLMs into their already-advanced sensory database.

I assume the CIA is lying about simulating world leaders. These are narcissistic personalities and it’s jarring to hear that they can be replaced, either by a body double or an indistinguishable chatbot. Also, it’s still cheaper to have humans do this.

More likely, the CIA is modeling its own experts. Not as useful a press release and not as impressive to the fractious executive branch. But consider having downtime as a CIA expert on submarine cables. You might be predicting what kind of available data is capable of predicting the cause and/or effect of cuts. Ten years ago, an ensemble of such models was state of the art, but its sensory libraries were based on maybe traceroute and marine shipping. With an LLM, you can generate a whole lot of training data that an expert can refine during his/her downtime. Maybe there’s a potent new data source that an expensive operation could unlock. That ensemble of ML models from ten years ago can still be refined.

And then there’s modeling things that don’t exist. Maybe it’s important to optimize a statement for its disinfo potency. Try it harmlessly on LLMs fed event data. What happens if some oligarch retires unexpectedly? Who rises? That kind of stuff.

To your last point, with this executive branch, I expect their very first question to CIA wasn’t about aliens or which nations have a copy of a particular tape of Trump, but can you make us money. So the approaches above all have some way of producing business intelligence. Whereas a Kim Jong Un bobblehead does not.

Specifically, a defendant pursuing an insanity plea just had that road shortened considerably by the President of the United States diagnosing the situation where normal thinking can’t apply.

Very straightforward projection.

We’ll see; the edit is not very deceptive to me. Now that he’s claimed he actually never said the words and it was synthesized with AI, the order of words is no longer important.

I guess, in order to object to the Russian drone overflights, maybe they have to object to US refueling over Curaçao.

Well, Guadaloupe, Martinique and Curaçao are part of the EU.

Yes. Of course. It ended the tanker war.

Iraq and Iran had been pissant slap-fighting over oil tankers for years. The tanker war ended with the Vincennes incident.

María Corina Machado believes this. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025. Attacking Venezuela would still be illegal, but it would achieve her aims.

48.34% shouldn’t be confused with majority.

No, in the US electoral formula, not every vote for President will make a difference. Seven out of 50 states are close, so in 43 states it’s only a protest vote.

On a site called Hacker News, we need more analysis of one of the classic hacker skills, social engineering. Our first luminary hackers, and their first books, and our first movies, are about manipulating your average office worker or security guard. It doesn't work every time, but those people vote and hackers illuminated some early tools at automating the manipulation.

The turning point was smartphones. No, they don't clandestinely listen to the audio, or smuggle tower locations of unimportant people. But (all of our) behavior changes when we rely on an app and give up those other liberties because app. Some social engineering was required for mass adoption thereof, and most of us here are acquainted with the analytical means to concentrate delivering that. Half of our society has weaknesses that we euphemize as "gaming habits" or "addictive personalities". Maybe they know it; I'm not down here haughtily scoffing that they cannot know it.

China and Russia and North Korea don't show those weaknesses because those people are down in the mines. The powers learned social engineering within their closed societies, not in our open societies. They promote a nation and a people unified with one personality. The United States and similar freedom exponents have to contend with attracting the world's talent by explicitly tolerating any personality. At least for now

You’ll have to decide under “About this account” whether this True American might have intelligently chosen a VPN endpoint in those regions.

For this specific movement, venturing outside Facebook Messenger is an important cue.

Since Anom, we need a new word than “honeypot”. The next secure messenger will not be created by these types. But many will be incrementally marketed, and each campaign will succeed in reaching a new batch of near-hit recruits.

Colorado has had over 1,000 papers. The tactics of the largest paper during the mid 20th century included cries for attention that no dignified monopolist would try.

That’s going a little far, I think. The Enquirer was mentioned during jury selection and not for facts. When the defense wanted to leak a story, they went to the New Yorker.

I think it’s worth going into a particular detail: Pete Hegseth and operational security. The test is a pass-fail based on a variable number of risk assessments. It is possible to take the test without knowing that. Sometimes, noise allows a lucky pass.

The question is: how does each member of that Signal group think they’ll do on a re-test? The investigation in the aftermath shows that the higher-ranked ones thought they’d do better and the lower-ranked ones realized the incompetence of their superiors. To me, it doesn’t get more Dunning-Kruger than that.

Thats the Indian governments official line from 1979. The CIA is more worried, and I’m inclined to believe that the climber is correct about 50 lbs of missing shielding.

journalctl with -o export produces a binary interchange format. Would you rather have bugs or API rot from that, or in an internal tool?

The mercury and other pollution dusted by coal doesn’t degrade. It has the same two solutions as nuclear waste: ignore or concentrate.