: When the sex bots and "shock jocks" show up here at #CoSo, the ghosts of all of their predecessors laugh at them from the virtual grave.
Federal authorities have arrested a Nashville man on charges he hosted laptops at his residences in a scheme to deceive US companies into hiring foreign remote IT workers who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in income to fund North Korea’s weapons program. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/nashville-man-arrested-for-running-laptop-farm-to-get-jobs-for-north-koreans/
: In my ongoing search to optimize uses of energy, time, and resources I am always delighted to find new things, especially when those things are old things that for usually really dumbass reasons fell out of fashion. (Because people do shit like that to things, not to mention people).
This message brought to you by my receiving via PayPal the $50 I bet a friend that if he used the recipe I sent him to make a dish, his parents and his husband wouldn't know it wasn't made posh. #booyah
2/2: … this lately development grabs them by the Charlies and yanks like nothing else. There is no spin to put on it from their end, that they may try. Also, militarily it’s the best way to come in from behind their assault against Ukraine and to potentially fuck that front up entirely and hobble the Russian military at least temporarily but leave a lasting mark.
I cannot say I am wholly optimistic because fog of war. I’m just hoping and then some that works out for the Ukrainians.
1/2: I am really rooting for the Ukrainians, even more than I was before, seeing as how it looks like this might really be a turning point that’s positive for them in their war against the Russian invaders. I understand that not few people actively dislike and publicly decry that the Ukrainians went on the offensive into Russia’s borders, but in my opinion, what the fuck else were they gonna do? Vladimir Putin and his circle don’t care about anything other than their own pride and image, and…
: They allow that stuff, not to mention all the Charlie Kirk, Andy Tate, Nick Fuentes, and other such type of hatespam accounts... oh, and all the psuedoscience and medical quackery accounts, and they do that because they would lost 100s of 1,000s (or more) accounts if they did that, which would look bad to investors.
"It's just business."
: I objected to IG's reason for removing the post. They said I was harassing and threatening "someone" and dehumanizing and shaming them. And they removed the post in less than two minutes, and so this was an AI call, which demonstrates how bullshit IG is about their own CoC and ToS.
They can instantly spot "mean" posts but can't instantly spot obvious porn spambot accounts with the same photos and the same links, and even when reported, they take them down less than half the time.
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