What we have been seeing with "drones" is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China in the east coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we and China have this capability. Our OPEN location for this activity in the box is below.
"China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force and they are using it similar to how they used the balloon for sigint and isr, which are also part of the integrated coms system. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time.
"The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned AC, they are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the WH if they wanted. It's checkmate.
The UFO “community” is going nuts over this.
They want their disclosure. And they can’t decide if this is intended to make them look like fools, or if it means they are getting disclosure soon.
If you’re confused, it’s because you don’t realize the gravitic propulsion is from recovered NHI (non human intelligence) vehicles that crashed. As the story goes.
The fact this is covered in NewsWeek is probally making them really excited.
There were two paths for Twitter, in the eyes of many idealistic people like me. One path was something terrible like what happened with Musk. The second path was one that treated it as a public commons of the world.
That second path is how many grew to understand Twitter during its rise and peak. This is why there are so many situations where various public and governmental groups used it as a notification feed/system.
You can go on about how they should just start their own ActivityPub based solution, or move to bluesky or whatever. But it’s not that simple for all of them. Nor are all of the groups involved in posting these feeds technically savvy to do so. Twitter made it easy, and it made sense.
The article could have easily been just as absurd if it was about how people didn’t get the alert because the alerts were moved to a mastodon instance and people are upset because they don’t want to have to go through the trouble of picking a server. heh.
It’s so unfortunate that Twitter went this way. No more free and easy api, no more third party apps and tools. No more expectation that everyone is there. No more expectation that public alerts make sense there.
Yes, centralizing all of this is a big problem. And musk is just one example of why. But, it could have gone the other way.
That’s someone actively editing the content. Not just hauling it from one spot to another.
And yes, saving and reuploading jpegs has been a thing for ages, and this did indeed deep fry the images. I’m specifically just musing about screenshots, and how they became the next step after saving a jpeg and reuploading. And how they are different from opening something in GIMP and nesting it.
Memes use to be just the image with text on it. Edited, created. (Bottom text) Now it’s often the image under the text in a tweet and the composition is captured with a screenshot.
And we have this whole culture of screenshotting text instead of copying and quoting the text.
This all really did evolve in the social media time post Twitter.
It use to be the source image was shared, and those would get deep fried. It’s like we zoomed out a level and now it’s the original UI and attribution, and screens have relatively similar resolutions. Can we zoom out one more level?
It’s times like this where I’m sad that our upvotes and comments don’t federate back to the original post. So the original poster sees them.
So much stuff is copied and pasted around these days. Once everyone learned how to take and manage screenshots on their phones, everything changed. Social networks became places where you look at screenshots of the other social networks.
Am I the only one who noticed the shift in culture that happened when a large number of people learned how to take screenshots? Maybe it’s just the shift to a screen oriented society I’m noticing.
Just some random thoughts about how we use social media. I’m not on a crusade to change anything.
Yeah, in my case I legit thought he intentionally didn’t mention PayPal. Turns out I stopped watching the video _just _ before he does mention it, in the last minute of the 11 min video.
I think all the weird hate he got for the AI devices earlier last year was nonsense. Claiming he needs to be nicer so he doesn’t destroy companies is total nonsense.
But then I found it odd that he seemed to be avoiding associating Honey with PayPal. So I guess I have weird suspicions about influencers too…
Edit: I just took a look again and I was mistaken. He mentions their name twice in the last minute of the 11 min video. Early on he refers to it as its own company.
Yeah, I’m mostly responding to the people I perceive to always shit on VR by mocking the idea of a metaverse or Meta’s version of a metaverse.
People dismiss the whole medium because of Zuck going wild with metaverse hype, and causing the whole industry to make all these nonsense metaverse claims.
Even Microsoft Teams was boasting about metaverse aspects at one point.
That’s true. I’m thinking of the subscribe/follow aspect.