Coincidentally, they are wrong (the guns were legally owned), but it doesn’t even matter. They’re coming into a grieving community to sarcastically troll about US gun legislation using some ridiculous strawman argument.
So they can get fucked.
Horrific. This is horrible, I hope the ambulance are able to help all the wounded. It’s important that we do what we can, as a community, to help support those affected.
The heroic response from those around, including citizens and the police, probably saved many lives, and it’s important that we recognise their courage.
Police media have confirmed to the ABC that 10 people have died in this evening’s shooting at Bondi Beach, including one of the shooters and nine victims.
Twelve people were also injured, including multiple police officers responding to the incident.
A second shooter is among the injured, and is in custody.
When the day comes that we are finally forced to take a video selfie:
On the bright side, hopefully the social media giants cop some big fines.
The dot points read like an instruction guide to me. I was musing about a week ago about making a backup Facebook account ahead of time and subscribing to insurance companies and marriage memes pages, or staging a trip to France.
membership in youth-focused groups, forums or communities
My Little Pony fans have been warned.
It’s refreshing to have this kind of regular peak behind the curtains. Thanks for the post, Lodion!
No, they are not Live-Action Role Players (well, not primarily). They are violent chauvinists with large amounts of funding and increasing connection with the electoral right-wing, intentionally organising to harm whoever they consider to be undesirable (non-Europeans, progressives, etc.). They’re pathetic outcasts, you’re absolutely right, but they cannot be trivialised as just roleplaying.
Many of them are recruited by the NSN targeting vulnerable, alienated young men. They have even been discovered trying to get jobs in the NDIS with the open intention of working only with young men diagnosed with autism.
edit: more info - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2xBrImsg4
Finally, an intelligent bot. 🧪🔬
I assert that imoldgreeeg… IS ACTUALLY YOUNG GREEEG!
The good news is we only hear about the ones who got greed enough to get caught (/s?)
Using science to fund science!
Not wholesome but also interesting: I recall a Russian mafia managed to acquire an Australian slot machine, and reverse engineer it to discover the psuedo-random number generator was effectively a huge but finite list of random numbers, in order, that would just loop back around to the start once it reached the end of the list. So they developed a simple phone app to put in operatives’ pockets, and record the spins (e.g. a cherry-cherry-apple spin might be swiping up-up-left). After a few of these, the app would figure out where in the list the machine was currently at, and the app would vibrate whenever the next one was going to be a winning spin, so they could bet higher amounts on them.
It’s likely companies will use profiling to estimate users’ age, and many people will simply not need to do anything to keep using it
I wonder if I can preemptively add some activity to my profile to feign this, like add ‘married’ as a status and subscribe to insurance companies.
How about I prove I’m old by not taking a selfie.
When it comes to the cybersecurity threats presented by our largest traditional adversaries, there are broad differences in their goals. For example, DPRK (North Korea) have heavy sanctions and frequently prefer profit/ransom attacks. The PRC (China) generally seems to prefer long-term access, rather than immediate sabotage, exfiltrating information or profiteering. Which matches up with what Burgess is discussing, I’m just surprised to see this framed in the article as a new strategy.
I definitely agree with the article that the upcoming safety/censoring measures are a dangerous overextension, and have mixed feeling about them being framed as state security measures.
However I disagree with the author over their general concern of state security blurring into private business, especially in a country where much of critical national infrastructure is privatived. When it comes to digital security, rather than social and political aspects like censorship and safety, that interference is generally beneficial, I don’t believe in companies’ freedom to leave a big hole in their fence.
Yep, this. We can’t blame the local racism on others. At its core, it’s Australian, and it’s up to us to keep making it unAustralian.
or offer some […] training
That would be the Azov Battalion, and US neo-Nazis. The Russian gov are likely more into informational campaigns, like giving digital megaphones to the Nazis inside the house.
Yep. And I was in a hurry so in case it needs to be made clear: fuck the Russian Federation, fuck it’s governments, especially Putin. My issue isn’t with who they’re critisising.
You’ll have to ask the admins, I don’t know how/if tagging works.
Account has been identified as a likely State actor
To be honest, I’m not ready to conclude they’re specifically a state actor. They certainly could be, although there are other reasons people post think tank political propaganda.
So, i don’t think blocking them would help, just a game really of whack’a’mole
We’ve already seen one go through a bunch of names (Lucky8 was one of them), clearly the same user. A local warning seems to be a good approach as they might not even notice and therefore are less likely to try and evade.
I think that’s their point - the Zionist movement intentionally tries to conflate Israel with Jewish people and with Judaism. For example, criticism of the country Israel and pro-Palestinean actions have generally been framed by Zionist groups as an attack on Jewish people, rather than an attack on a country and its actions.
This uses Jewish people as a shield for the actions of Zionism, and encourages antisemitism as a result. When some mass media news, social media influencers and racist agitators (e.g. neo-Nazis) all try to associate regular Jewish locals with the atrocities of Israel, this scapegoating puts all Jewish people (even those who are anti-Israel) in danger of indiscriminate attack.