Iran's Revolutionary Guards Declares War on Silicon Valley

Discussion (66 points, 8 hours ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591208

Iran is making tactical moves based on reciprocal assymetry, where they are sanctioned financialy, and cant use modern communications due to it bieng compromised, so they pull the plug, and make a declaration targeting those regional tech assets, which will have an effect, much like a sanction, and bring the stocks down while reducing the tactical potential of those assets bieng used against them. not bad for a press release.

The terrorist organization says it will militarily attack Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Dell, HP, IBM, Tesla, Palantir, and other companies.

“though it maintains a human remains in the decision loop.”

I know grammatically what this means it’s just so close to the other meaning I would have rewritten it lol.

The butlerian jihad IRL

Apparently, and so far, their facilities in the Middle East.

Attacks on U.S. soil would only play into the hands of an executive who craves any excuse to invoke emergency powers and martial law.

Trump's provocations attempt to create such a situation, and have increased as Epstein evidence has proliferated, along with weakening defenses by firing competent government employees, critically in the military and cybersecurity arenas.