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What hath the dark lord wrought?

@wizardpink / wizardpink.tumblr.com

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Okay, first of all: it is not at all surprising that tumblr is into this beef. at least half of being in fandom is beefing constantly, and the levels of haterdom that Kendrick Lamar has achieved are...... truly impressive and a little bit scary.

this is gonna be messy and not comprehensive but i've been thinking about this for like a week and there's just so much....... context. there's layers to this shit.

so let's start at the beginning.

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reblogged

Everyone knows that things aren't working anymore, it's just that if you have a scientific materialist understanding of the world you can actually know *why* it's not working, whereas if you have a demon-haunted view of the world, your impulse is going to be to try to sacrifice someone to appease the gods.

Ive never heard a better explanation of fundies and trumpers

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ralfmaximus
According to a recent report published by the Aargauer Zeitung (h/t Golem.de), around three million smart toothbrushes have been infected by hackers and enslaved into botnets.

The most cyberpunk thing on your dash today.

pulpwrit3r

This....this is why you do not need to connect EVERYTHING to the internet.

I'm comfused- how much damage could an enslaved toothbrush cause??

The aggressors installed remote control software onto the smart toothbrushes via their unprotected internet connections, aggregating 3 million of them into a botnet: a network of robot computers under remote control.

Next, they would instruct all 3 million of them to attack a website of their choosing, causing a distributed-denial-of-service (DDS) situation where the targeted website was so busy talking to hijacked toothbrushes that it couldn't do the work it was designed for, resulting in crashes and lost revenue.

A DDDS, or Dental Distributed Denial of Service, if you will

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dduane

(a) Re: the concept: Ow. (This is part of the reason we have no “smart” devices in our house.)

(b) Re: the joke: OW. 😏

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wizardpink

Everyone, please start AT LEAST clicking through to articles before sharing them, this entire story has been retracted as false.

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cerayanay

Also responsible for the Roosterteeth shut down, removing several shows from streaming to avoid paying residuals, as well as the scrapped Batgirl and Wile E Coyote vs Acme movies after completion as a tax write off. That’s just what I can think of without googling

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amuseoffyre

He's also the reason that the entire company is now under investigation by the Department of Justice:

“We respectfully urge the Justice Department to investigate the state of competition in affected labor and consumer markets following consummation of this merger, which appears to have enabled Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to adopt potentially anticompetitive practices that reduce consumer choice and harm workers in affected labor markets.” (x)

So far, two directors have resigned because of this probe, and only a few days after they went, Kevin Trehy - head of physical production - left the company too after 21 years. He was meant to be spearheading the London-based studio for the company.