Yeah, and the article the user @technocrit posted before that in this community is from 2021.

This is report is more than 3 years old.

This is a rhetorical question, right?

Predatory Sparrow is distinguished most of all by its apparent interest in sending a specific geopolitical message with its attacks, says Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, an analyst at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne who has tracked the group for years. Those messages are all variations on a theme: If you attack Israel or its allies, we have the ability to deeply disrupt your civilization.

I am not sure if this ‘specific geopitical message’ is so unique to Israel. This is what countries like China , Russia, and others are doing as well, aren’t they?

Seems Israel and China are competing to sell their spyware to world.

The content spread by the right-wing creators is misi.formation, not the linked article itself. I edited the title a bit to avoid a misunderstanding.

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@PatheticGroundThing It really helps if you read the entire article before posting.

@PatheticGroundThing

It’s in the article:

Why the company chose to hire human cosplayers for last week’s World Robot Conference remains unclear. Were they hired as “booth babes,” an outdated and sexist form of promotion? Or were they purposefully there to trick attendees into thinking they were robots?

Given the reception of the videos on social media, it’s possible it’s a mix of both.

Yeah, I too hope she is well but there’s been no news in a long time.

Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (August 2023) — [Archived version]

When China’s prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn’t just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than as genuine human beings.

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Naomi Wu’s devastating July 7th [2023] tweet alluded to a pressure that had long been feared by many, yet optimistically hoped she could manage to avoid indefinitely.

Ok for those of you that haven’t figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren’t gentle about it- so there’s not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can’t so we’re just going to follow the new rules and…

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) July 8, 2023

Reid Hoffman & Co have been heavily lobbying against Linda Khan, recently also with donations to Kamala Harris’ campaign. I also hope Ms. Khan keeps her job after Ms. Harris became president …

A far right-wing agenda by Trump’s supporters to overthrow democracy in the U.S. See, for example, here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240810100005/https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election

Addition: This is also a good link to find yozr way through Project 2025: https://www.25and.me

There is a good series of research articles on mis/disinformation. It’s content isn’t completely new and focused on the U.S., but it applies to any regions imho.

Reckoning with Mis/Disinformation in 2024: A four-part series

[…] Political rhetoric is again ramping up and new technologies are casting a shadow over public deliberation […] In this four-part series, members of our research network reflect on their influential work on mis- and disinformation in the context of today’s challenges, laying out some essential questions and insights to bolster public discourse in fraught times.​

they both distrust each other’s currency

Yes, I fully agree especially with this, but also the other views.

good reason to get out and vote.

Well said. I wholeheartedly agree.

net neutrality is on hold indefinitely.

I would rather say that The fight for net neutrality is forever

Even though progress can feel inevitable, the best laws and regulations are never really permanent; they require maintenance from every generation […] And it’s still worth fighting for.

The FCC restored net neutrality, reversing a Trump decision, to name a recent example. So we shouldn’t throw the towel too early. Question is whether the new AI rules will be effective before November …

Yes, but for the West it’s just easier to block Swift than a decentralized network. But in principle I agree. That China and Russia haven’t obviously found something better to arrange payments than barter and a blockchain is a clear sign imo that they are in big trouble.

This has nothing to do with dedollarization imho but rather with circumventing sanctions. China has been refusing to use Swift over fear of Western sanctions. Now China and Russia might even use barter trades at larger scale by the end of this year.