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Aha, but the knocks were reported at least half a week later.

We're not in the world of Cyberpunk 2077's Trauma Team. Yet.

It is unclear, the story is poorly documented and heavily politicized, so most prefer not to pry.

Similar rocketships were featured in much of the artworks.

Kursk wibes... Various sounds were reported at a point when, from forensic evidence, everyone was already dead.

Steam Screenshots and Artwork are dominated by posts such as this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2992016981 The comments below are rather inauthentic, and it's often the same suspects. This feels like botting. But why would anyone use bots for such a thing, and if it's a meaningful purpose, why is Valve doing nothing to counter?

It's an undocumented feature.

And this peculiar crew already makes conspiracy theories swirl.

Finland still uses the Criminal Code of 1889. Which means that, were you to open it, you would be greeted with the words "We Alexander the Third, by the Grace of God, Emperor and Sovereign of all Russias, Czar of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, et cetera et cetera et cetera..." I get forgotten laws like the ban on wearing armor in the British Parliament, but I'm surprised that nobody's tried taking a bulldozer to the preamble of a law so vital.

No. I think we're actually slowly coming to grips with just the opposite. The news media has always been the delegation of fact-finding and thinking to a different person; the idealized careful consumer who read news critically and weighed them for plausibility never really existed. The first form of such media was the town crier - a person you trusted due to cohabitation and common self-interest, who you could, at worst, punch sense into. This didn't change much with the advent of the printing press. This did, however, change with the rise of the telegraph, which concentrated information in the hands of the newswires. Today's two-tier system emerged, with less than a half-dozen companies providing all the headlines, and a second tier of media echoing them. It's also the system that enabled the rise of modernist nation-states with the above-mentioned common political reality and news agenda. But note how this didn't set off the collapse of local newspapers - only the TV did. It did so because it provided a form of parasocial relationship with the new form of street crier. However, I think, mass media guys made the wrong conclusions. They thought this new industrialized mass media was the product of their highfalutin standards of objectivity, et cetera et cetera. They sought the secret sauce to Walter Cronkite was the CBS backstage, and not Walter Cronkite. They were completely taken aback when the new social media-enabled street criers turned out to garner legitimacy more easily than some faceless cubicle rat at Reuters. Indeed, consider that their preferred response to "misinformation" is deeply bureaucratic in fashion, trying to rein the situation in and put social media under censorship by Old Media. The problem is that people still go to street criers of their choice, and they gain utility when the street crier's thought process matches their own, causing them to cover issues of concern and follow similar patterns of analysis. Otherwise you end up arguing with the TV presenter, which is entertaining, but not too pragmatic. And so people have, do, and always will look for news sources that share their worldview. It may be Contrapoints. Or it may be Maryanna "Wagner Group Bunny" Bat'kova. Therefore, the old method of imposing a shared reality through an institutional hegemony is dead. That means a shared reality could only be based around the opinions of widely accepted authority figures. But the allure of discounting massive swathes of society as not worthy of being included into your consensus is too great; in some cases, it may be an unachievable task. But first and foremost, you need to recognize the problem start making an effort at it, even if it would take a saint. In the past, falsified letters presented a similar problem with similar outcomes. Again, not a qualitative change.

...that she actually knew personally. Just... meh.

The well-publicised story of Alisa Teplyakova (accepted to a bachelor of psychology program at age 9) is very, very illustrative here. She failed one of her early exams, ran away crying, and her dad proceeded to rough up the staff. Unfortunately the story is still developing, apparently Alisa is currently enrolled into anywhere between two and five universities, with her dad boasting that she's gone through 40 exams. He's making a similar push with her junior brother Heimdall (typical Belarusian name, natch). And these are just two of their seven kids.

Further to the above (literal law-mowing thought) the ability to produce fake content would have two-pronged consequences. It will allow members of existing opinion groups to engage in greater self-delusion; they already treat outside content with bad faith ("inoculation"). The real battle would, however, be over the few remaining neutrals. This group would, however, quickly become jaded and vanishingly small. To again use Sunlit's example, this sorts of hacked broadcasts have been a fixture since the beginning of, ahem, known events. The only new thing was the video format and the associated deepfake; indeed, the way the content matched prior psyops tripped many peoples' alarm bells (except, maybe, Tuymen, which isn't close enough to the action to be inoculated).

That was actually the worst possible example to base this off of. The photo quite literally looked like a random plume of smoke; AI was unnecessary to create it, and... how do we even know it was? The recent Trump-Fauci debacle (which had telltale signs of AI, like bad lattering on the White House seal) or @SunlitZelkova's example of a speech by our Darkest Overlord (Наитемнейший) are far more poignant. It's been a long time coming owing to the Memory Wars. Heck, the use of neural networks as an excuse to dismiss reality is almost outpacing their use to fabricate reality.

That we know of. It's one of the older tricks in the book, after all.

Well, there is a target type that is just that slow, so they can't afford to keep the Doppler cutoff high. https://t.me/rybar/39258

First Order of Gagarin goes to Tereshkova http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/0001202306160001

Akshually... if I saw it right, that was a US shuttle on top of it.

piloting blimps.

"Me, holding a cat in front of the camera" "Everyboby else in my Zoom meeting"

... There's a KSP2?

Kononeko to nurse quail eggs in space, inckuding one in a centrifuge . That about sums the news up. https://www.roscosmos.ru/39374/

When it isn't? You know, I'm somewhat of an expert myself...

Detailed pics on the new Russian air defense decoy drone have just dropped. Orlan-10 was widely mocked for using the cap of a 5-liter water bottle as part of its fuel system, but here we see a an actual 5-liter bottle as fuel tank held in place by duct tape. https://t.me/xronikabpla/4752 Looks like it's a simplification from an earlier pattern. There is a perverse beauty in these things looking so WWI.

You're saying this tradition is post-WWII only?