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Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers with ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos

14 points by voisin 5y ago

HNTA_1 5y ago
/r/antiwork may be one of the greatest psyop of our time. I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years we find out that Russian propaganda assets created and fueled the antiwork movement to accelerate the social divisiveness and strife in the US/West.
- fiiv 5y ago
  Or it could be mostly people fed up with working under shitty conditions.
- commoner 5y ago
  The current top 5 posts on /r/antiwork are: 1. Complaint about recruiter who asked OP to interview for a job that paid $6/hour less than their current job: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r870et/got_a_call_from_a_recruiter_and_he_got_mad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r870et/got_a_call... 2. Grammatically incorrect "new rules" (e.g. no days off in December) enforced by company that just implemented $15 minimum wage: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r86aka/they_started_paying_us_15hr_last_week/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r86aka/they_start... 3. Discussion about red-flag phrases used in interviews: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r8eqt2/whats_the_buzz_wordphrase_that_automatically/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r8eqt2/whats_the_... 4. OP announcing that they went on vacation even though management declined the vacation request at the last minute despite approving it 4 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r827fd/my_boss_declined_my_vacation_after_having_4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r827fd/my_boss_de... 5. Repost of a story about a person whose wife had cancer, which resulted in healthcare costs that devastated the couple's finances despite insurance: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r89m0e/when_your_works_health_insurance_doesnt_insure/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r89m0e/when_your_... None of these posts seem unreasonable. What exactly is the problem here?
  - HNTA_1 5y ago
    If anything, you've just convinced me even more that this is some propaganda campaign: Two of those posts are from accounts that are less than a month old. One of them has a first post in /r/shadowban to see if the account is globally shadow banned or not. Also posting in /r/FreeKarma4U for similar reasons. Common for troll/bots. One of them reposted an obviously fake post about wife having cancer. The original account that posted that story has been permanently suspended. One of them hasn't posted since a week after they created their account, magically deleted some of their posts, and is now posting a year later with obviously fake karma farming stuff. >None of these posts seem unreasonable. Almost all of them are obviously fake or karma whoring. >What exactly is the problem here? There are obvious troll farms on reddit shaping narratives. We had a federal investigation and congressional hearings that confirmed this to be true. I'd be willing to bet half or more of these accounts will be suspended at the end of the next presidential election.
    - Apocryphon 5y ago
      Your very own account was created less than three weeks ago.
      - HNTA_1 5y ago
        Except this isn't reddit, I'm not making karma farming posts, and there haven't been federal investigations and congressional hearings that confirmed HackerNews is a known target for propaganda campaigns. You're actually agreeing with me.
        Apocryphon 5y ago
        I agree that it does seem rather suspect that a subreddit can seemingly multiply its number of subscribers in a matter of months. I further agree that it does seem like agent provocateurs are at work, namely in this very thread, because if I was in charge of a disinfo op, the easiest thing I would do to throw off the trail is to immediately prematurely saturate it with hyperbolic paranoiac allegations like “greatest psyop of our time”, to discredit the idea that my op is an op, by making the idea seem ridiculous and absurd and fringe and cringe.
- Apocryphon 5y ago
  Uh huh. And if you were a Chinese netizen on Weibo, would you likewise be posting about how the CIA is behind the lying flat and touching fish memes?
  - 0dayz 5y ago
    But antiwork isn't some deliberate meme subreddit. And i would imagine the nationalists would think so.
    - Apocryphon 5y ago
      That subreddit has existed for years, and this “movement” is so far just a Reddit meme. r/antiwork isn’t the reason for the Great Resignation, nor for general worker discontent. It’s a symptom of it. One wonders if people here think r/WallStreetBets is an op as well.
- peakaboo 5y ago
  Have you seen how the media writes about the pandemic for the last few years? That's a world changing psy-op that you don't even think is a psy-op. It has turned vaccinated people against unvaccinated and normalised it as what we do now. It's a massive change in perception of the world.
donkarma 5y ago
can hardly call this hacking when it's literally an open door, this has been happening for years

14 points by voisin 5y ago

/r/antiwork may be one of the greatest psyop of our time. I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years we find out that Russian propaganda assets created and fueled the antiwork movement to accelerate the social divisiveness and strife in the US/West.

fiiv 5y ago
Or it could be mostly people fed up with working under shitty conditions.
commoner 5y ago
The current top 5 posts on /r/antiwork are: 1. Complaint about recruiter who asked OP to interview for a job that paid $6/hour less than their current job: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r870et/got_a_call_from_a_recruiter_and_he_got_mad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r870et/got_a_call... 2. Grammatically incorrect "new rules" (e.g. no days off in December) enforced by company that just implemented $15 minimum wage: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r86aka/they_started_paying_us_15hr_last_week/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r86aka/they_start... 3. Discussion about red-flag phrases used in interviews: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r8eqt2/whats_the_buzz_wordphrase_that_automatically/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r8eqt2/whats_the_... 4. OP announcing that they went on vacation even though management declined the vacation request at the last minute despite approving it 4 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r827fd/my_boss_declined_my_vacation_after_having_4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r827fd/my_boss_de... 5. Repost of a story about a person whose wife had cancer, which resulted in healthcare costs that devastated the couple's finances despite insurance: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r89m0e/when_your_works_health_insurance_doesnt_insure/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r89m0e/when_your_... None of these posts seem unreasonable. What exactly is the problem here?
- HNTA_1 5y ago
  If anything, you've just convinced me even more that this is some propaganda campaign: Two of those posts are from accounts that are less than a month old. One of them has a first post in /r/shadowban to see if the account is globally shadow banned or not. Also posting in /r/FreeKarma4U for similar reasons. Common for troll/bots. One of them reposted an obviously fake post about wife having cancer. The original account that posted that story has been permanently suspended. One of them hasn't posted since a week after they created their account, magically deleted some of their posts, and is now posting a year later with obviously fake karma farming stuff. >None of these posts seem unreasonable. Almost all of them are obviously fake or karma whoring. >What exactly is the problem here? There are obvious troll farms on reddit shaping narratives. We had a federal investigation and congressional hearings that confirmed this to be true. I'd be willing to bet half or more of these accounts will be suspended at the end of the next presidential election.
  - Apocryphon 5y ago
    Your very own account was created less than three weeks ago.
    - HNTA_1 5y ago
      Except this isn't reddit, I'm not making karma farming posts, and there haven't been federal investigations and congressional hearings that confirmed HackerNews is a known target for propaganda campaigns. You're actually agreeing with me.
      - Apocryphon 5y ago
        I agree that it does seem rather suspect that a subreddit can seemingly multiply its number of subscribers in a matter of months. I further agree that it does seem like agent provocateurs are at work, namely in this very thread, because if I was in charge of a disinfo op, the easiest thing I would do to throw off the trail is to immediately prematurely saturate it with hyperbolic paranoiac allegations like “greatest psyop of our time”, to discredit the idea that my op is an op, by making the idea seem ridiculous and absurd and fringe and cringe.
Apocryphon 5y ago
Uh huh. And if you were a Chinese netizen on Weibo, would you likewise be posting about how the CIA is behind the lying flat and touching fish memes?
- 0dayz 5y ago
  But antiwork isn't some deliberate meme subreddit. And i would imagine the nationalists would think so.
  - Apocryphon 5y ago
    That subreddit has existed for years, and this “movement” is so far just a Reddit meme. r/antiwork isn’t the reason for the Great Resignation, nor for general worker discontent. It’s a symptom of it. One wonders if people here think r/WallStreetBets is an op as well.
peakaboo 5y ago
Have you seen how the media writes about the pandemic for the last few years? That's a world changing psy-op that you don't even think is a psy-op. It has turned vaccinated people against unvaccinated and normalised it as what we do now. It's a massive change in perception of the world.

donkarma 5y ago

can hardly call this hacking when it's literally an open door, this has been happening for years