Why didn’t Luigi build an autonomous drone to do it? He’s probably capable of it.
He’s probably smart enough he could have built a drone to do it.
Looking forward to a new round of proposed regulations on 3D printers. 😒
No. It will almost certainly be a US drone strike or special forces raid at some point.
It would be nice if the components were modular and replaceable, but that wouldn’t be good for business.
The fall of the Assad Regime in Syria seemed to come out of nowhere. After 13 years of civil war, most of which had been a stalemate for years, one group of rebels takes over Aleppo, Homs, and finally Damascus in two weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Assad_regime
So who are the rebels? Tahrir al Sham https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_al-Sham They’re a faction that is opposed to Al-Queda and ISIS with some support from Qatar and Turkey. It seems like it’s mostly a remixing of Islamic groups which had led the civil war for a long time, but when Iran, Russia, Hezbollah, Israel, and The US got distracted elsewhere they were able to use some support from Turkey to finally overthrow Assad and capture Damascus. My guess is once they took Aleppo and discovered Assad wasn’t able to bring in help in a counter offensive then faith in the regime amongst its soldiers collapsed.
I’m personally really concerned about what will happen to the Rojava, the autonomous Kurdish region ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_North_and_East_Syria ). At the start of the civil war Kurds who are aligned with the Turkish PKK took over and liberated their own land, then got support from the US to defeat ISIS. The region has been effectively an independent country for the last 12 years. Ideologically the PKK used to be a Marxist group but they shifted to Social Ecology, a branch of left Anarchism founded by Murray Bookchin a couple decades ago. They do not believe in a centralized government and have run their region with a network of independent democratic local governments, associations, businesses, and militias. The US government maintains military bases and cooperation with Rojava. While many people in Rojava are religious the movement is multiethnic and non-Islamist in its political ideology. I find it kind of crazy that such an interesting radical political and economic project can emerge in what is clearly one of the most difficult and conflict ridden places.
Despite the US and Turkish governments being close allies and the US providing military support to the Kurds in Rojava, the Turkish government hates the Kurdish sovereignty movement. Turkey wants to prevent the emergence of any independent Kurdish country, even one without a state as such like exists in Rojava.
Will Turkey turn on and invade Rojava now that they have something like allies in power in Damascus? It doesn’t seem to make like Tahrir al Sham is an agent of Turkey, there are militias directly under the control of Turkey occupying land which is nominally Syrian, plus regular Turkish troops, but more like Tahrir al Sham is just getting support where it can. So we shall see.
One last thing I find interesting is the positive statements put out by governments around the world about the fall of the Assad regime to an organization that those same governments have declared a terrorist group. Does a terrorist grouping become a military when it gains control of a nation state?
Seems like Turkey will have strong influence on the new government which initially sounds bad for the Kurds. Turkey also likely has US diplomats persistently in its ear urging moderation in Syria and peaceful relations with Kurds. What kind of leverage the US has over Turkey I’m not sure.
After suggesting that everyone use encrypted messaging apps that work cross-platform the FBI again, to no one’s surprise, demands back doors that give them access. 🙄
A censorship-resistant Tik Tok functionality actually has potential to be kinda lit when algorithms don’t boost communists to socially engineer the US youth. Of course nostr users should also be able to entirely filter out that type of content if they want.
Nostr already has videos. Tik Tok, aside from the data collection and algorithms for social engineering, is really just a UX convenience for short video creation, hosting and sharing.
Are there ways to get Tik Tok-like features and UX for nostr? Is it an effort anywhere?
They clearly haven’t upgraded from simple script to AI yet. An AI would give you a whole history lesson on potatoes.
I wouldn’t expect it to last long, but maybe the 58k gang will get their fleeting dip. 😂
Browsing left-leaning social media reactions to the UnitedHealthCare CEO shooting makes me realize Bitcoiners will have to take vigilance and self defense extremely seriously.
They laugh, but I think this could actually help a lot of normal, non-techy people who want get off of Windows move to Linux.
Idk the technical details but the main ones I’ve heard are that it increases the hardware overhead of miners who want to be profitable, further centralizing mining, and creating MEV. The idea is that widely used sidechains would result in miners needing to run nodes for them while also giving them more opportunities for out-of-band payments (not just network fees).
When will 580k become the new 58k?
I hope there are people actually posting this up out there.
Meanwhile frenchies have forked off that line somewhere and don’t make dog sounds.