CriticalResist8 @ CriticalResist8 @lemmygrad.ml

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Okay I wasn't aware you could just buy them lol! I didn't know anyone was selling those

Do you have a source for the latch mechanism? I don't see it on the pictures but I'm having trouble finding good pictures of the model.

My understanding is usually this is something they 3d-print completely aftermarket (at least in Ukraine they did).

I'm more interested in seeing people join Pal Action to sabotage Elbit factories (and the factory in the US that produces these Autel drones too!) than seeing them take to social media to criticize China to an audience of liberals who already went through 4 years of HK riots-Uyghur 'genocide'-South China Sea claims cycle. Priorities.

Mostly Ukraine from their wording imo

The only mention I could find of the drone used in the attack being a Blowfish is from friendlyjordies, and I have yet to watch his entire 45 minute video just to find this mention.

The drone was described by eyewitnesses and matched to the Blowfish afterwards. It could also be an "Israeli" Golden Eagle, which looks similar:

Blowfish for comparison:

Despite Indonesia's policy on Palestine they still acquire "Israeli" tech, such as the IAI drone, through middlemen.

I reiterate what I said in the OP, that our countries are the ones enabling genocide. The attack was carried out by 4 helicopters, one of which was Airbus, one drone (the one in question), and used Serbian-made Krušik mortar shells and French Thales rockets. Indonesia is confirmed to possess at least one blowfish, but whether it was used at Kiwirok is another question, and we also don't know at this time where exactly the got it from and in what condition.

She's now at CHRD and learned her lesson because CHRD doesn't divulge any information about itself. All they have is a collection of articles they get from other places.

Yet just a few days ago the Guardian wrote:

According to data gathered by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a US-based NGO, between 2017 and 2019, there were 29 cases of law firms or lawyers having their licences revoked or suspended, compared with nine cases between 2014 and 2016.

Which means this no-name, opaque NGO is able to investigate this kind of stuff. Who pays for it? Like I get doing a labor of love but I also doubt people like Sophie Richardson don't have a source of income.

In a way it makes them glow even more because you have to wonder how exactly that no-name NGO with a website made in 2008 counts as a job. This is the only job she has listed on her linkedin, along with her previous title at HRW and a one-year stint as a 'visiting scholar' at Stanford in-between the two.

CHRD on linkedin itself has only 2-10 employees; this is filled in by how many people list them as their employer. They have a "Team associate" living in Hong Kong... unfortunately, their profile is private. CHRD is based in Washington ostensibly as it lists two employees in washington, one of them being Sophie.

OSINT is a joke but sometimes we can still use a bit of it lol

Some people use totanota but imo it's kind of all the same. Email is not designed for privacy because of the protocols it's based on which are super old. Assume all email can be backdoored.

Thank you everyone. The circular pipeline basically goes like this:

CIA does the actual heavy lifting and finds the documents, maps, testimonies, etc. -> they are sent to journalists or NGOs to base a story on -> the state department uses the resulting articles to make policy -> the journalists receive an award from a state dept. NGO to deflect criticism of the "investigation".

OSINT is a lie, it's the CIA all the way down, philanthropy isn't real.

One more thing because I know a lot of people use proton. In 1970 a longstanding company based in Switzerland, Crypto AG, was found to have been owned by the CIA. An investigation found that the swiss intelligence services benefited from this relationship for years. Today, Proton Mail is based in switzerland despite not being owned or founded by swiss nationals. in 2024, they ran a raffle fundraiser and the first beneficiary of the raised money they listed was fucking freedom house. There is now a clear link between proton and the state department through freedom house.

This is the type of content I log on for 🫡

I just recently learned that Methyl anthranilate, the artificial grape flavoring, also repels birds and is used heavily by the agro industry nowadays. I imagine because of all the other products they also use they don't need the birds around anymore.

You can also use old cd-roms tied to a long-ish string btw, the sparkling makes birds stay away.

he locked up a lot of people during the cultural revolution sometimes for quite arbitrary reasons

He was not the one who signed arrest orders or ran trials though, a lot of different people were involved in that. You can't blame Mao as an individual for stuff that other people did. You can't run an entire state with just one person.

the backyard steel and culling of the sparrows

Nobody in the 60s knew about the importance of sparrows in agriculture. Not even in the West. I think it's easy to say "oh well duh of course don't kill the sparrows" but who here among us is an actual farmer? Who here knew that sparrows ate more bugs than grain before it was told to them? I can barely grow a plant, I have no room to judge others when it comes to growing food.

I just didn’t find it to be very relevant to me

I'm an adult in Europe and I find Mao's writing to be both relevant and applicable. But there is Mao the general and Mao the chairman. By the end of his life he was definitely saying some stuff that I don't think even he believed in. But theory is an all encompassing body, and that is true in all fields. One couldn't read one physics paper about gravity and then say "now I know how to launch a rocket to the moon". I opened up my copy of the red book randomly and here's one:

"Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas and leadership -- such is the basic method of leadership"

It makes perfect sense to me, but that's also because I have the associated baggage to understand what he means there and how that fits in not only to more of Mao's writings but also in regards to other figures, the 'best practices' if you will of organizing.

I also found it really interesting that deepseek would refuse to answer any questions on Mao

The deepseek devs want it to be mainly used for math, coding, and other STEM applications for lack of a better word. There's nothing wrong with that, in fact personally I think people should stop using LLMs as oracles so much and focus them on tasks instead. Deepseek produces great results (and all for free with no rate limits) if you give it some code to start with, because it needs proper framing of the project to avoid trying to overdo it. I usually start with chatGPT, have it do the first working version of the code, and then switch it to deepseek to finish it, and it works almost perfect on the first try.

You're not contradicting my previous comment so I would just be repeating myself. Moreover, I find it strange that you recognize that he was convicted but feel the need to preface that with "it wasn't an actual child" as if that's a defense or somehow makes it better.

And he not only did it once, but twice.

2001: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/24/usa.davidteather

2009: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45049386

But sure yeah let's listen to the ex-marine who pulls shit out of his ass and pretends to be an anti-imperialist when it suits him.

If we could kill the Vatican next that'd be dope

No way they needed to plant anything on his drive. Dude has been convicted of child enticement and his defense was, I kid you not, "I knew I was talking to an officer so therefore I committed no crime because they were an adult and we were roleplaying". He didn't even deny it and still doesn't.

I've always felt that he took up the anti-imperialism mantle to try and clear his name so that when you look him up online you come across his many youtube appearances instead of the court case. Because he started being a public figure after he was convicted if I have my timeline correct.

Maoism is a dogmatist deviation of marxism and completely divorced from Mao himself, it came from the Shining Path in Peru in 1988. Now there is a maoism in China but the way they use the word means Mao Zedong Thought, not Guzman's interpretation. Actually I don't even think most Chinese are aware of the Shining Path. Today China's ideology is officially Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.

Oh I don't disagree with you, I disagree with the article that puts Ghibli on a pedestal as if Miyazaki was untouchable, and acts as though some sacred foundation just came crumbling down from an AI doing Ghibli better than previous models did. It's Miyazaki today and it'll be Van Gogh tomorrow. What this shows is that AI image is getting better and is not hitting the plateau yet.

That's my counterpoint to the article and by extension to the writer; I don't care what Miyazaki thinks of AI and that his art style is now getting copied by AI. Miyazaki himself is a multi-millionaire (if that still means anything nowadays lol); this new development won't invalidate his human work, won't put him out of a job, and won't ruin his existing movies for people that liked them before - at least until some company does an "AI edit" of Princess Mononoke or whatever lol. In fact, he has a financial interest in edifying his style to something non-copiable (or that seems like it can't be copied). If Miyazaki wants to do something against openAI over this he has the means to do it.

Of course Altman is a fascist! I don't disagree with the author there and have written about him myself a couple times and how these tech figures are conspiring to reshape society in their individual image. But he will be a fascist with or without a Ghibli AI model.

Counterpoint: I don't care about Ghibli and Miyazaki!

I think there's a lot of emergent theories that can come out of this new development, which is why I ended publishing the piece (it had been in my drafts 90% finished for over a month lol). So yeah, I can't say you're wrong or that I'm also absolutely right. I think it's definitely a development to keep an eye on, and it might not be entirely new (we have a book that makes a case about Shining Path operating like a CIA operation, and then of course I think of the Iran-Contra affair), but we may see more of it from now on. It also lends credence to the color coup as something that can happen with imperial involvement. Many people are not aware the US created ISIS (through Al Qaida) and funded them too.

One thing I'd like to add is these terror cells build their own governance aside from the government's and therefore fund themselves, which is not the case with the color revolution. We see in Ukraine that they had to restart the maidan protests after they started fizzling out come Jan. 2014. It also gives an excuse for the US to intervene militarily. France was doing Operation Serval in West Africa for a few years against the ISIS cells established in the Sahel, and this gave the impetus to form the AES because French troops were more concerned with looting Africa than actually doing something about the terrorists.

Oh for sure, well, there is a qualitative difference between the two but they are not completely new. Mind you, you still need to find elements that will be happy to do terrorism for years in the first place, and I'm not sure if these exist in South America. The difference between Chile and Syria is that Pinochet was embedded into the government, it was a military coup. We also see ISIS in West Asia, particularly in the Sahel region, but they predates the AES.

At a certain level we can abstract it to: when possible and when it makes more sense, protracted terrorism will be seeded instead of peaceful protests.

Edit: there was also this comment that I liked:

a very well summarized report on US's regime change process that involves both psyops and clandestine intervention, should psyops by itself fail to achieve regime change. The most important part: US no longer feels they need to convert the local population to their cause to start a color revolution, rather they just finance deranged psychotic terrorist from abroad to completely destroy your country by committing endless massacres. This achieves the regime change goal for USA and the massacres are no longer a problem in the post Gaza world we live in.

Haha you're welcome