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Spreading deadly pathogens under the disguise of popular music
- bigbacaloa 4y ago
- folli 4y ago
- klyrs 4y agoThis is an excellent reproduction of [the concept behind] Tesla's infamous earthquake machine. If you can make it resonate, you can destroy it.
- permo-w 4y agothe paranoid in me was expecting the article to be about the cultural memes and images that can be projected into a mind through catchy lyrics
- giantg2 4y agoSocial contagion of things like suicide is a real phenomenon. That was my first thought as well, except "pathogens" doesn't exactly fit.
- lampshades 4y agoI’ll probably get banned for it but I believe transgenderism is a social contagion. It spreads among friend groups of young people quickly due to social pressures (it seems to me) and the number of people who subscribe to it are rapidly increasing. All this is possibly fine if it weren’t for the fact that it’s self destructive and encourages self mutilation.
- BaculumMeumEst 4y agoIs that opinion based on speaking with transgender people you know personally, or things you read on the internet?
- lampshades 4y agoI work in tech, so both.
- bitwize 4y agoYou won't be working in tech for long if you keep spreading that bigoted nonsense.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoWhat do you call a group of trans women? Compiler developers
- avgcorrection 4y agoWhy specifically compilers?
- hombre_fatal 4y agoDeeper technical expertise.
- gsk22 4y agoHow does this opinion contribute positively to the discussion at hand? It feels like an excuse to just shoehorn in your hot take.
- lampshades 4y agoI commented in a comment thread about social contagions. Whether my take is hot or not should be irrelevant.
- yurymik 4y agoThere Is No Antimemetics Division.
- im3w1l 4y agoWe should start it! It would make a lot of sense, for instance we are both wearing joke-badges for it so we got that part covered.
- andrewflnr 4y agoThat's weird, I'm wearing a joke badge, too! It sure looks like the real thing, though, and I'm not sure where I got it. Hang on, let me try and find my real one...
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- alexmolas 4y agosolution: playing music and sing isn't allowed on NPR
- pessimizer 4y agoThey need jazz and classical music in order to continue to be named in the wills of octogenarians.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI wanna know how they're getting so many cars donated that it's worth devoting so damn much airtime to begging me to give them my car. I guess it must be working but I can't wrap my mind around how.
- CharlesW 4y ago"[NPR station] WAMU in Washington, D.C., raised a net $1 million annually from vehicle donations over the past four years, according to Walt Gillette, development director. The proceeds outpaced the $850,000 generated by WAMU’s workplace giving program in fiscal 2012." https://current.org/2013/07/donated-cars-bring-big-bucks-to-public-stations/ https://current.org/2013/07/donated-cars-bring-big-bucks-to-... (2013)
- saalweachter 4y agoHmmm, tax dodge? If you can get away with claiming a donated value for your car of $X, on your taxes, and you can only get $Y for it at trade-in, could you have a $Y sufficiently less than $X such that you get more back in your taxes than you would from the trade-in?
- VygmraMGVl 4y agoThe tax write-off you get is determined by how much the car goes for at auction. You get a receipt so you can accurately file your taxes. There's no gaming here, unless you lie on your taxes, which isn't really a tax dodge.
- GuB-42 4y agoAlternative title: "Music that make biolabs not suck"
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- mach1ne 4y agoThis is Stuxnet-like stuff which really reminds how out-of-world creations humans can come up with.
- sterlind 4y agosophisticated tradecraft has this air of magic to it. it's subtle and it fools you, it breaks our abstraction of "this device does X" by making it do Y, exploiting the details of the mechanism we gloss over. another example is the Pegasus spyware, which surreptitiously assembled a Turing machine out of PDF decompression logic in iMessage. or the Thing, an old Soviet bug with no electronics, just passive bits of metal that reflect and modulate an RF beam. there's probably many more examples of clever tricks that stayed secret, and are forgotten to time.
- SevenNation 4y agoThe description doesn't seem to include what kind of popular music works best for conveyance and stealth. I'd like to listen to the music to hear what the attack sounds like and how hard to detect it is. This also raises the question of whether existing, unaltered, popular music might be might be usable in such an attack. It also makes me wonder where else DPS are used as a crucial security component.
- anthk 4y agoMars Attacks meets Wargames.
- dylan604 4y agoI know when I hear music like that, my head feels like it's going to explode too
- unsupp0rted 4y agoIs it within the realm of likelihood this could happen accidentally at random, even if not as part of a targeted attack? Say if someone has a radio on inside an NPR 24/7/365?
- jeanofthedead 4y agoPontypool. Pontypool. Pontypool.