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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 1h

For example they go overboard trying to reduce their signal impact and then get rolled up in a kettle at a No Kings and they're the only one out of the 300 detained who just carried a prepaid phone in a Faraday bag. That draws way more attention than being one of the 36k phone signals picked up.

Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 1h

Seconding this, but also a big reminder not to get too clever. Tracking you is resource intensive, and even with all these automated tools it still takes 4 to 6 people to reliably track one.
Many people make themselves targets because they are conspicuously trying to avoid detection.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 1d

I like how Sun Tzu dedicated a whole chapter to "When trying to set the enemy on fire, make sure to not set yourself on fire too."

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 1d

You can see a shift with the algorithm as videos needed to get longer to get picked up the 'sins' became more and more nitpicky and with it came a strain of anti-intellectualism that rejects anything beyond the most surface level reading of the film.

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 1d

Likely it's a budget issue. They could technically afford to buy groceries but then they wouldn't have enough left over to cover other expenses like phone & utility bills and car payments once the paycheck on the 15th doesn't materialize.

Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 1d

Zero weeks without pay, actually. They miss their first paycheck on the 15th.

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget Kramatorsk!

Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yeah, its not a legal defense. Just pushback on the idea that ChatGPT can't make a "normal" person crazy.

Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 3d

Then in a matter of months you've gone from "Sometimes it feels like everyone's out to get me." To "My mom is working for the alien CIA to poison me so I need to kill her before she kills me first."
It doesn't happen to everybody, but I suspect it's a lot more common than we expect.

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 3d

It's 3am, you can't sleep, and your thoughts are going to weird places? They're ready to engage at full energy. Someone in real life tells you your ideas are bad, or dangerous? They're right there to assure you they're good and necessary. Also they'll give you advice to avoid the 'negative people.'

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine the worst, darkest idea you had. Now imagine you've got someone next to you saying "Dude, that's fucking great. You're so right. That's an awesome idea! I want to hear more! Oh, what if we also did this?"
Now imagine that person is available 24/7, with limitless energy for your nonsense.

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 3d

The thing you're missing is that nobody is totally okay. We're all freaks in some way.
The thing with AI is that it can take a thing you're kind of a little freak about and not only encourage it, but also heighten it.
There are probably a lot more people who are susceptible to this than we realize.

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