I imagine what got them worried was that they saw that they couldn’t control the narrative anymore. If this was happening 20 years ago, we wouldn’t even know there was a genocide happening in Gaza. The news wouldn’t cover it, we’d be told that Palestinians are eating babies, and heroic Israel is defending our glorious western civilization against these savages who are attacking it completely unprovoked. But that doesn’t work when Israeli atrocities are being live streamed to everyone’s phones. All of a sudden people start asking questions, and that puts traditional media in a bind. If they keep ignoring it they become completely discredited, and if they start. covering it, then it confirms what people are seeing.

So now they’re going after all the alternative channels to shut them down and make sure that you only get sanitized information that doesn’t challenge the official narrative.

an app designed to harvest phone numbers isn’t a privacy tool lmfao

nice thanks!

yeah same here, the whole thing is incredibly relatable

Ah, I never read the book. Sounds like it could be entertaining.

cry harder

still entertaining, and does describe how large corps work internally fairly accurately based on my experience

so brave

I was complaining about copilot specifically, which is an embarrassingly terrible product

those are not normal salaries for people working on regular open source projects though

I don’t know why you think I would care about that. Sounds like you should work on your narcissism.

the whole context here are the insane payouts for the execs

🤣

I’ve heard about this kind of shit, but never seen it myself.

yeah most companies don’t even bother with the courtesy email anymore

The way that normally works is that the US will isolate a country that can’t fight back and then commit war crimes there for decades because it’s a good profit vehicle for the military industry. They control the level of escalation, and they’re able to turn heat up when they want or to cool things down when they need to.

The difference with Iran is that it’s not isolated, and it’s able to fight back in a meaningful way. The US does not have escalatory dominance in this conflict. And that’s a whole new development for the burger reich.

not to mention that Iran is systematically destroying US radars across the region as we speak

Indeed, a lot of the US capabilities and limitations are being revealed now. I’d also be shocked if China wasn’t quietly testing stuff like radars in Iran to see if they can detect US stealth jets for example.

You’d think the US would’ve already been learning these lessons in Ukraine, but evidently they were not. And this is the first time the US got itself into a war where it does not control escalation. I don’t see why Iran would settle for anything less than pushing the US out of the region entirely at this point.