thewildginger

Smedly Butler's short book War is a Racket is a must read. He was the first popular American icon to criticize the American Defense Industrial base.

Out of respect I wanted to reply and say thank you for the links, and justification for another view. While I would say deliberate prejudice very possibly wasn't in the decision making process, a risk assessment was made. One where the risk of gassing black communities in places like St. Louis was the "safer option" because black people were second class citizens. They had no means to challenge it. If they found out, who would believe them? Who would care? For this reason institutional racism was reinforced by the military and to say " well it wasn't to be mean, they had to gas someone unfortunately" doesn't really make the decisions behind it not a decision based on race to hurt those who couldn't stand up for themselves because of their race , and therefore racism. Were other cities that were mostly white gassed to test biological warfare distribution methods? Yes. Did it impact them negatively too? Yes. Did it affect them the same way? No. the white community had a chance to expose it? Yes. Did they have an opportunity to try? Yes. They tried, and it failed. But what of the mostly African-american counterparts? At the time, none of that. Looks.pretty racist from here.

>nor access to printers

You fail to realize what you're asking. The military is a system where the older you are while surviving the institution, the more pull you have. These dinosaurs are what stop this from happening. They ignore a reality where the things THEY understand do not exist and have priority. The average O-1 officer can't imagine themselves or their command not having certain communication tools. The Boss at the top? Just yell louder, it's how wars have been won in the past, it should work now. The joint chiefs of staff are not young, and have every intention to keep it that way.

Telling the DoD no printers would legit cause an existential crisis for career officers. You cannot suggest something less popular among them. This is not an exaggeration. Do you think a tank platoon commander, or submarine commander, can imagine an operations room without paper laying around? Because they cannot imagine it, it does not exist. While I agree this is the way forward, it will not happen for another 20 years.

Yup. Definitely didn't know that. Americans sure don't get told this about the cold war. It is also omitted that mass testing of these bio weapons was done on black communities, hence the distrust of both doctors and the government. That part I learned about from the Tuskegee study, this is also really bad.

And limiting player rotations will help. It ruined baseball for all leftie hitters completely.

For any HN readers, go look up this ridiculous practice. It will impress the number cruncher types, and it will impress you how much the TV companies practically cover it up so people think the game is still fair.

The real interest is where it was found. There's so many sites that are not able to be excavated due to the limit of efficiency of the Mexican government and a very select few universities, after the pilfering of colleges in the northern hemisphere

The thing about something like this is that there are always individuals who will seek gain from classified access for themselves. The US has a singular focus on financial gain, but mental evaluation needs to be a more clear part to this.

The problem is "clout" seekers are all over the military. Have a conversation with a person in a highly selective field in the military and you'll find a crazy high amount of capable narcissists and God complex egos to go around.

This is why I'm saying to a degree this isn't a surprise to people in the IC.

I mentioned conspiratorial thinking, and they doubled down! It's scary. Thank you for being a voice of rationality. You put it better than me.

I have never seen so much paranoia and conspiratorial thinking from Hacker news than with this story unfolding. Many comments saying "it can't be this easy and dumb, can it?" Ask any government worker who works in classified spaces, and the answer is overwhelmingly yes.

There are 19 year olds with TS clearances. Some jobs just require it. It can be written into an enlistment contract. National guard and reserve units of different kinds are also kind of known for having serious racism problems. Racists use it to network and meet other racists, get the training and some credibility without actually committing to active duty. That shit in active duty is not tolerated, usually cause it's actually diverse unlike a reserve unit in a place like Massachusetts.

Another problem with clearances in general is that often those eligible come from less diverse backgrounds due to parental citizenship considerations. fields that require a clearance are often less diverse because of this.

People who have some time in the military probably won't be surprised if the situation is what the media is portraying it to be. As Abraham Lincoln pointed out about the US, the biggest problems for the country will come from within.

Just say crypto bros. We all know someone who treats crypto like it's CrossFit. We'll get what you mean. Even a miner and exchanger is a crypto bro, even if they don't want to admit it. They're in it for the money.

I think most 12 step people who find success actually acknowledge what the psychiatrist is saying. Addiction isnt just one thing, often it can be a bunch of things, a big one being un-treated mental health problems like depression, anxiety, or even add/ADHD. It can be as he said feelings of powerlessness and displacing problems, like chemical procrastination of emotional processing. If that is a source of the issue it would make sense that addiction would be more common in society where emotions are not discussed or stigmatized but alcoholism is not.

This is all to say 12 steps isn't enough by itself and as far as I know most addicts in recovery stress that. I have known heroin addicts who are in recovery who go to meetings, but they also take meds, changed where they live, who they hang out with, media they consume, I even think they went to behavioral health therapy for a while to help change how they approach problems like stress, anger, communication, etc.

I don't know if the Woodstock comparison at the beginning was trying to do this, but Woodstock while being a celebration and a symbol of the times in 1969 has also symbolized a shift of the beginning of the end. Adam Curtis's documentary HyperNormalization marked Woodstock and its corresponding generation's actions as the symbol of the last attempt at large social organization to revolutionize every day life, and that no one has tried to fight back in any serious way since.

A lack of awareness about this point of view did not move me to have faith in the next generation of AI, instead basically the opposite. The sign that so many people are making so much money and investors are jumping in head first just marks another corporate capture of every day life with a gilding of "this will make life better" while actual persistent issues don't change and for many things become worse.

I welcome opposing views to temper my grimness. Probably better that way.

Defense is the critical problem. There is very little in the way of serious cyber security defensive minded assessment before projects are on-boarded. Technical vulnerability assessment, reverse engineering, security-by-design, all of that doesn't really exist and isn't thought of as a NECESSITY. Contractors pitch toys to different commanders, they say hell yeah, then security is this after thought and not part of development from an engineering perspective, just like almost every business working in technology. All the money goes to attacking bad guys, not to protecting what's there. Most people think it's no big deal until you realize it means the enemy can destroy expensive tools and possibly injure personnel without any physical involvement.

Legislation on security-centered development is a possible solution, but the political will from congressional sub-comittees just is not there. It could be if it was pitched as a way of enriching the states those reps are from with high paying white-collar jobs that would make states like Mississippi, Ohio and other struggling but MIC centered states at the center of a growing and important field, but alas, the contractors doing the hiring probably won't want to balance the budget on their current money printing machines for that.

This is something worth talking to your member of Congress about. Budgets might be bigger, but it helps some destitute states, improves national defense (defense defense, not war in the name of defense), and makes politicians re-electable.

It gets hazy. Here's a little article about the armed personnel side of the agency.

https://www.nsa.gov/About/Central-Security-Service/

This is the real reason, they don't want people to coordinate anything, and they don't want employees spiting the company and leaving with valuable info.

The last portion about the personal motives of the top lawyers behind M&As and the heads of the FTC was funny. Nothing like personal grudges of elites to alter hundreds of thousands of people's lives haha.

Acknowledging the historical power of violence is not "irresponsible" and neither is acknowledging every day violence perpetuated by institutions we are all beholden to.

Building the weapons of war to improve military intelligence in the form of targeting and operational capability with computers at the forefront is described in the article. People violently opposed the violence being pointed at someone else. This is a fact, one conveniently ignored for the contradictions it brings up (a point of the article). This isn't advocating violence, it is a plain explanation of the nature of the historical events. It is uncomfortable and not fun to acknowledge, and goes against what many are taught I will give you that.

While this was the southern district of new York, the 9th circuit court of appeals ruled on a similar issue with Vidangel on 2016. They would buy DVDs and let people pay to watch a censored version, even going so far as to purchase a physical version for every one that was streamed for censorship, and they claimed fair use. They were ruled against and filed for chapter 11.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._VidAngel#:~:text=J...

I'm sure someone will reply to tell us how it's not really that similar but I thought there were some parallels

But a possibly better and more optimized implementation can't be put in place until the current one fails, that's the core issue here. Many people want reforms to the banking system, bit the system is defended fiercely until it's un-ignorable. This is a defense of god awful ways of doing things so the general public can ignore it.

Banks directly acting to help their competition? Why? Isn't that how competition is supposed to work?

What we're seeing is yet another version of capital and capitalism in decline, and rich financiers are still claiming the empire is wearing a wonderful robe. News flash! he's wearing nothing at all.

Article said a patch was released tuesday

I don't know, given all the funny stuff going on the power might REALLY shift soon haha

I have no admiration nor pity for a billionaire inheritor who's used their wealth to try to delay the mass psychosis that is a symptom of capitalism. She can eat my behind and call me mommy and I still would not care.

The day she starts a workers co-op, a Marxist book group or a coffee klatch for civil rights groups and union reps then I might be impressed or have some sense of respect. Until then this whole article reeks of repugnance.

This whole article is a neoliberal wet dream lacking any kind of self awareness. I thought this was a substack parody piece that was supposed to make you chuckle with it's serious tone about California hippie ideas about love and peace while still doing nothing to fix core problems.

She lives, we sleep, don't forget to wear your sunglasses.

I have a feeling some devs are more loyal to the brand than the owners, and this is an appeal to the fans

They are players in this game too. They could "lobby" Congress to change the laws to allow them not to be shitty. But they won't. Part of stopping the game is shitting on ANYONE who wants to play that wah

Shelter as a necessity for life that is artificial and cities being the main entry point for wealth in the world kind of make this a necessity. It's not like any of these business owners will stop being landlords because they will still make money. Making money without working for it should be hard. What is nasty about not allowing a select few to control a basic human necessity?

A problem with the argument of IT being such a free market right now is the pattern of labor markets. Look at the AI leaps and you have yourself a foreseeable "streamlining" that every other profession of the past has gone through. Miners, mechanics, longshoreman, factory workers, truck drivers, printers, brick layers, glass makers, textile workers, typists, computing specialists, librarians. The pattern is always the same. It's a hot and competitive market until it is captured by automation. Google announced going public with the project to automate programming yesterday! You seriously think the job that is coincidentally useful now will exist forever?

Software Engineers are falling prey to what every other person on this planet save a very rich few live with. Welcome to reality. "The free market" always becomes a cartel. When the government stops the cartels, the cartels take over the government in the form of lobbying, campaign contributions, government employee hiring/revolving door.

And yet developed nations where unions are a facet of the labor market have fewer of these issues, and on a less grand scale.

I did have mass climate decline on my doomsday bingo card, but not dustbowl 2. Probably not my Sunday at the bingo parlor.

Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.