There's an uncomfortable comfort in shitposting through the coolzone again after all these years. And yeah, I do kinda want to see some kid micro-ing a few hundred drones through an air-defense network.
Repeating and building on my most libbed up opinion: Jack Dorsey was the most benevolent CEO of a platform like Twitter that we can expect under capitalism. It's also incredibly fucking hilarious that he managed to get out of Twitter while retaining the right to create a Twitter 2.0 literal clone of Twitter.
If one day Twitter is a wasteland of tumbleweeds and Bluesky reaches Twitter levels of value. Maybe that will be the event that triggers my predicted Elon's full spiral and inevitable death at his own hands.
Throwing that in the MonkeyPaw-Wish-Caster-9000X (now with 75% more monkey paw!)
He should die historic
Choking on hard vacuum or incinerated in rocket fuel are good options
Honestly I hope he goes out the same way Jobs did, with a totally curable cancer that he tries to juice his way through rather than take medicine for. That's the most fitting end for all these tech "geniuses" because it's hilarious to bring up every time someone starts talking about how smart they were
Still love how he tried to ankle his way up onto the organ transplant list only to be told "You can't cure cancer with organ transplants"
God, I wish I could have seen his face at that moment
Jack left Bluesky's board because it wasn't racist enough and went back to twitter which is pretty fitting for the guy who invented a website as awful as twitter
After bluesky jack started funding nostr which is a protocol for social media (like activitypub) but designed to resist censorship as a primary goal (and marketing focus). I really like the tech behind it, but by sheer coincidence the user population is mostly Bitcoin fanatics and antivaxxers.
The south has starcraft gamers and the north has artillery that flattens Seoul in less than 2 hours.
Even matchup methinks
This is in response to the coup (which has already flared out, as the president is too unpopular to even order the military properly). He accused the opposition legislature of being North Korean agents, declared martial law to try and close the parliament, and then got swamped by protests before he could get tanks and helicopters into position.
This would have been South on South violence if it hadn't already ended
The south has more advanced artillery though, they've been modernizing a bunch of their old systems based off what's been going on in Ukraine; a WWII 105mm howitzer is unlikely to survive towed to 6 miles of the target, set up, and sit there firing shells in the era of drones.
But throw that thing into the back of a truck that automatically tells the gunner where to shoot and can leave before the drones/counter-fire arrives, and you've at least got something that's not just a death sentence.
Here's a youtuber who talks about warfare and economics who went to a korean arms expo
If NK is prepared to fight WWII, but on the Korean peninsula, it's not going to go well.
This is the same sort of thing people were saying in the early days of the Ukraine War. It turns out the West's Wunderwaffen weren't a magical "I win" button.
Yeah, they got damaged or ran out of ammunition and all of a sudden they're doing trench warfare, but with drones
Ukraine (also Armenia/Azerbaijan) showed everyone that the tactics of even a decade ago don't work on a modern battlefield.
I've seen some indication of South Korea responding accordingly. I know nothing of North Korea's response to these latest changes, but I assume their practical experience and information sharing with Russia will help.
Cheap, practical solutions like sticking 70 year old artillery in the back of a truck with some computers so you can use your 70 year old artillery shells is hardly wonderwaffen.
Hard disagree. What the Ukraine war has shown is that NATO tactics (and tactics attempting to emulate NATO, i.e. the initial Russian push) don't work against opponents who are sufficiently armed and entrenched. You have to go back to literal WWII block and push tactics, but also mix in electronic warfare and drones.
NK is more than sufficiently armed, and their general strategy, which will likely be to blow the hell out of Seoul, doesn't require them to move any of their artillery or bunkers, and still has no real counter outside of preemptive bunker busters, which SK does not have nearly enough of to destroy those emplacements. They would likely have a difficult time ever advancing on SK, but it is more than within their power to stalemate any aggression that comes towards them. The only way that doesn't happen is if the majority of the NK military literally breaks and runs. Which could happen, but there isn't anywhere for them to go.
lmao. you atlanticist brains are almost as predictable as all the wars you start, lose decisively, and claim victory about.
the SK "military" is a fucking fart somebody had inside a phone booth 40 years ago. it only exists to do crimes against unarmed Koreans, provoke it's neighbors, spend money on US equipment, and hide behind the US' 70 years of threats to do another nuclear war.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It is. He's got some nasty Internet brain, but I think that comes with the profession
I mean if you do a podcast on Q anon and adjacent cults you gotta enjoy gallows humour
Is BlueSky redeemable? I installed it but most of the shit I've come across felt like reddit but in shitty twitter form.
It was super trans for a while, but now it's been flooded with marvel-hamilton-reddit-resist libs, but right wing hate accounts like libsoftiktok have been banned immediately.
It's better than X the everything app though.
The secret is to find starter packs that sound like your vibes (socialist, shit posters etc) follow them all then unfollow the ones you end up disliking.
I've been using it just fine, but I also use it the same way that I use Twitter. I mostly just followed the Chapo boys and my Internet art friends and put it on Following only, instead of interacting with randos.
I read that pro-Palestine accounts started getting shut down very aggressively pretty much right away, but I don't have an account there so I cannot independently verify that.
Yeah pretty much. relevant thread https://bsky.app/profile/mommunism.bsky.social/post/3lb66ewnpjc2o
It's still early days. They are committed to open source code and their work shares some cadres and ideas with the original scuttlebutt (secure-ssb), so for now I have faith that they can build a sustainable open ecosystem before they get eaten by capitalism. The slogans and technical plans have been saying mostly all the right things, the ceo is a millennial former OWS activist, etc.
The actual practice of how they've responded to the recent growth surge is lackluster. They should be working on end-user/volunteer moderation tooling and instead they're putting out statements about "verification".
Their own site moderation has their hands full with just right wingers and illegal shit, but the flood of transphobic resist libs is still enough to drive some of the cool LGBT leftists off the site, since private accounts are not a thing and will not be for a while.
ok this has no bearing on anything but would you consider rms a lib
ish. he's certainly not a communist.
if anything free software is what happens when your anticapitalist movement has no grounding in anticapitalist theory
It’s so cool that this is the same usernames and profile pics as twitter for both these guys.
Some Europeans can compete but they are outliers and it's still accurate to say that Korea produces the best players. If Starcraft ability turned out to be a valuable skill during a civil war (it won't) then it is definitely fair to say that South Korea has the greatest reserve of it taking into consideration the great many retired pro-players (who do not compete anymore in the now dead scene for table scraps).
Europe has got many more current and ex pro FPS players which is probably more likely to be actually transferable (but not really).
If any skill were actually transferable to a civil war it would be organizational skills (of real people not the magic absolute orders of RTS) so as much as I hate to admit it the gamers you actually want on your side is the ex-WoW players.
You definitely don't want 1v1 gamers. But counterstrike, dota, LoL, MMOs, all the team games probably have very transferable skills. The inside of a modern tank, turret/machine gun control looks very similar to many game interfaces, drones definitely.
AFAIR the US military decided to control their drones with an Xbox controller partly because most kids would be already familiar with it
Just as they designed their grenades (in ww2) to be roughly the same size as a baseball so most kids would be familiar.
I mean, it's a good decision. Even from my own experience, when getting invited to play FIFA on a friend's Xbox (360), never having played anything on an Xbox before, the controller wasn't the reason I've lost badly, it being somewhat intuitive and handling reasonably smoothly
Not an expert but heard this only really applies to light quadcopters. A large part of modern drone warfare are fpvs which are a lot harder to fly and require specialized controls (and training for them).
I had a friend who was a pro starcraft player a few years ago. He drank ½-1 gallon of 3.5% milk every day and was thin as a reed and pale as a ghost.
