The dinosaurs want us to be successful and join them, that’s why they keep helping us!

Be strong for Elwood.

When the dinosaurs send arks to bring us home to glorious Planet 9, I’ll make sure to save you a seat.

It’s going to be glorious.

Wait til we discover the launchpads in the geologic record.

I have it on good authority that the dinosaurs didn’t go extinct, they predicted the Chicxulub collision and escaped the Earth on arks. Of course they realized that their warm blooded servitor species would survive the impact and evolve sentience much like their own (they created our genomes, so it was easy to predict), so they hid the launchpads until we would be ready to see them.

The arks landed on Planet 9 (the big one, not the lil one), since it was less likely to be hit by similar events. They hollowed it out, helping to create Pluto and Ceres, and have been living in there ever since.

Discovering the launchpads will show them that we’ve achieved sufficient technological prowess for them to reveal themselves to us. I can’t wait!

That’s good enough for the AI.

And a reason Henry Kissinger had a website celebrating his death.

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I’ll allow it.

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That is horrific

Remember when you just needed to count teeth to detect AI images? Those were good times.

I’m not sure how many napalm bombs the US military has, but I’m pretty sure that they don’t have tons of flamethrowers.

/unjerk so googling around slows that the US military stopped using them in the 1970s. TIL.

/rejerk

Say that three times fast and a SIG sales rep appears behind you.

The campaign is ongoing and Microsoft tracked emails “sent to thousands of targets in over 100 organizations.” The emails contained configuration files for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that are connected to servers controlled by the hackers.

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Even security keys and point of sale devices could be affected by opening the RDP attachment. The access would allow hackers to install malware, map the victim’s network, install other tools and gain access to credentials.

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The campaign was particularly noteworthy because the use of RDP configuration files was a novel advancement in Midnight Blizzard’s tactics. Microsoft noted that both Amazon and the Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine have seen similar activity.

I’m surprised that using RDP is novel for spear phishing, but Microsoft knows more about it than I do.

But it gets the spirit right

/s

Imagine engineering a missile that hits decoys. All the other missile engineers would laugh at you.

Some examples

In this example, the speaker said, “as the um, the, her father dies not too long after he remarried….” while the program transcribes that as " It’s fine. It’s just too sensitive to tell. She does die at 65….”

In this example, the speaker said, “and after she got the telephone he began to pray” while the program transcribes that as “I feel like I’m going to fall. I feel like I’m going to fall, I feel like I’m going to fall….”

Task failed successfully

You could have seeded nonsense into Google any time in the past nearly 3 decades because that’s how all of this works

That’s the SEO arms race. Ad peddlers have been creating sites to bump up their Page Rank, and Google has been adding secret sauce to detect and deprioritize them.

The difference is that Google over prioritized Reddit pages, trusting Reddit’s updoots. Google now needs to find other signals to determine if a Reddit post is as valuable as the updoots suggest.

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