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  • The Anarchist’s Cookbook is mostly bullshit.

    A few ways for how to do fraud back in the 60s, that haven’t worked for 40 years now, a few recipes for bullshit drugs that aren’t real, a few useful methods for sabotaging stuff mixed in with other useless ones, and basically a bunch of high school/college pranks taken too far.

    … You can easily find old US Army field manuals with much, much more accurate and still useful information.

    Your first step is going to be figuring out the OPSEC required to even acquire information without anyone being able to easily track that you are doing so.


  • I remember a few more terms and phrases…

    But… ok so this may also sound ridiculous, but basically, when I speak in Japanese, I find my tone just naturally shifts to be lower, bassier.

    I am decently good at singing in English, and am a baritone.

    But when I just normally speak in English, its usually a bit higher pitched than the middle point of my singing range.

    … But when I speak in Japanese, it is either at or lower than the middle point of my English singing range.

    I do not do this intentionally and am not sure why… I do this, lol.

    Maybe it is again trained into me from associating shouting out numbers and osu in Japanese with very intentional diapraghm/breathing control from Karate?


  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldNot a dragqueen
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    That pistol he grabbed from the vehicle…

    …was his Mom’s old service pistol.

    His Mom was a school resource officer and later deputized into the Leon County Sheriffs.

    https://www.newsweek.com/fsu-shooter-leon-county-deputy-phoenix-jessica-ikner-2061301

    In a news conference hours after the first reports of the active shooting were announced, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil identified the suspect.

    “The shooter is 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner … and he is the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy,” McNeil said.

    According to Revell during the news conference, Jessica Ikner [the shooter’s mother] is a school resource officer in Leon County. The county sheriff’s office website lists her as a “middle schools deputy.”

    Deputy Ikner was awarded law enforcement employee of the month in March 2024, the sheriff’s office posted on Facebook.

    [The Shooter] was “a long-standing member” of the Leon County Sheriff’s Office Youth Advisory Council, McNeil said during the news conference.

    “He has been steep in the Leon County Sheriff’s Office Family,” McNeil said, adding that it is “not a surprise” that Ikner had access to weapons.

    (apologies for possibly paywalled link, try internet archive if its blocked for you)

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/04/18/florida-state-university-shooting-what-we-know-about-the-suspect/

    Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old son of a sheriff’s deputy whom police accuse of using his mother’s gun, is in police custody after being identified as a suspect in a shooting on Florida State University’s campus Thursday, which killed two people and injured at least six others.

    https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2025/04/18/fsu-shooting-phoenix-ikener-fired-guns-deputy-mother-jessica-ikner/83159241007/

    Jessica Ikner, a beloved Raa Middle School student resource deputy, was the 2023 law enforcement officer of the year with the Leon County Sheriff’s Office.

    She also practiced shooting with her stepson, Phoenix, at a firing range, but “not in an official capacity,” according to LCSO.

    Yeah so this guy was trained to shoot by his armed-with-a-firearm, middle school guard / county deputy mom, and he then took his mom’s service pistol to shoot up his own school/uni.

    I can’t find more details on the shotgun, but it could also be the case that that is or was a service weapon as well… but that is barely informed speculation on my part, I just know that a lot of US cops also have a shotgun in their cruiser.








  • What is this goddamned clownworld timeline we live in where David fucking Brooks is calling for a mass revolt, a literal insurrection, against the pinnacle, ultimate form of what he and his ilk have advocated for and done their level best to make a reality for longer than I’ve been alive?

    I mean… at this point, fuck it, this is good news, we are gonna need as many bodies in the streets and feet on the ground, from as many backgrounds and persuasions of all kinds to have any chance at all of stopping this madness…

    But Jesus Christ if this isn’t the most ‘Dog finally catches car and is disappointed’ fucking thing.



  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldYou Are Here
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    … hey are the .world mods still banning people for celebrating the death of the United Healthcare CEO?

    Last time I posted a picture of the Bear Jew (from Inglorious Basterds) and said a Louisville Slugger would make Marjorie Taylor Green finally see those Jewish Space Lasers in her eyes, along with a bunch of other people posting guillotine sharpening advice, that whole comment section got nuked… that was maybe a week or two ago.

    Yes, you can invent an alternate reality where the largely corporate controlled and decorum and norms obsessed Democratic party actually prosecuted everyone up to and including Trump…

    … and also pretend that entire process would not be capable of being derailed by a few very Trump friendly judges… and a heavily conservative Supreme Court… that did not (in your alternate timeline) invent an insane loophole interpretation of Presidential Immunity that effectively makes it legal for them to commit any crime while in office…

    Or you could accept the reality that none of that worked, the MAGAs outplayed and thus subverted the entire legal system, is now openly defying the Supreme Court irt illegally renditioning legal immigrants to an overseas concentration/death camp, that ‘the law’ (as in armed agents of the state) are now totally lawless and not even trying to follow due process or habeas corpus…

    … and that this new reality doesn’t play by the now broken rules that you seem to think will save us, and that … ironically, more traditional means of dealing with an oppressive violent fascist junta should… maybe at least be able to be discussed in an indirect, non specific manner.


  • I used to mildly follow the biohacking scene a bit over a decade ago.

    Lots of stories of DIY implanting an RFID chip into your hand or finger … and mostly a whole bunch of stories about infections, a few about ‘wait the battery died now i have to dig it out’ … basically just learning the hard way all the lessons actual medical implant designers learned 30 or 40 yeats prior.

    For now, our cyberpunk dystopia is gonna be mostly low tech, inexpensive jerry rigged solutions with as little high tech as necessary.

    Why do you think anyone that actually knows anything about cybersecurity laughs at the idea of having a ‘smart home’ filled with easily hackable or just self-bricking bluetooth doodads?

    I saw a post a few hours ago about Seattle officially turning on its AI camera system.

    People saying ah yeah, tear em down Seattle!

    … these would in all likelihood be the same people that would have their phones on them while they do this, with wifi and gps and bluetooth all actively pinging out their exact identity and location to every nearby wifi hotspot/router and cell tower… and cop cars with a stingray device that acts as a mobile spoofed wifi/4g/5g man in the middle attack that sniffs all your data as it passes it back and forth to a real data source…

    …unaware that gait analysis (exactly how you carry yourself when you walk or run) is a far more reliable way of fingerprinting a person than facial analysis, in the context of a surveillance system…

    The simplest solutions are often the best.

    Leave your phone at home, and get some glasses frames with bright IR emmitters. Not guaranteed to work against higher end cameras, but against most surveillance cameras? Bright enough IR light will just make you a giant glowing white spot.

    Harder to do gait analysis on an amorphous blob.


  • $9.99 on Amazon, probably can find similar prices for similar stuff at a hardware store or auto supply shop.

    If you wanna conserve your night vision, just find one with a weaker lamp or variable strength dial… and then wrap some red plastic wrap over the lamp.

    A laser would have to be pretty strong to illuminate much more than the exact point its aimed at… meaning you either wouldn’t really gain much illumination from the laser and wouldn’t be able to see the toilet… or the laser would be so strong you’d be able to see the beam itself, and that’d wreck your night vision.

    Also, for it to actually be safe to uh… install in your unit, it’d have to be made of bioinert material, medical grade stainless steel or some such, otherwise it would get infected… and if you are more of a grower than a shower, doesn’t matter what its made if, its basically going to hurt and cause damage as your willy goes from nilly to silly.

    Save your junk the trouble, choom.



  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldThe Goldeneye special.
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    Japan, more specifically, the Harajuku district of Tokyo, has a number of … very aesthetically bold subcultures, which certain people take extremely seriously.

    One of which is basically exagerated 1950s American Rockabilly.

    https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/01/07/the-tokyo-subculture-of-1950s-rockabilly-gangs/

    A good number of these guys are in actual Rockabilly bands.

    I dunno if this guy’s PS1 blocky haircut really fits into an existing subculture, or if it is a joke off of this subculture… or if it is totally unrelated to all that…

    But there actually are a good number of very dedicated aesthetic subcultures in the Harajuku district, Rockabilly is one… the ‘gothic lolita’ style almost certainly came out of Harajuku… there are many other niche identity/aesthetic/lifestyle cliques.

    That is what I was referring to, not just… psycho/rockabilly generally around the world.


  • I can count to ten in English (native), Japanese (did Karate for about a decade) and Spanish (took classes in middle and high school).

    I can … read and listen to Spanish and maybe understand at about a 2nd or 3rd grade level… very much out of practice.

    I would not say I can speak Japanese or understand it … basically at all, unless the conversation entirely consists of either counting, or using nouns describing Karate forms, lol.

    The first time I dated … a combination weeabo and owns her own horses, horse girl, who was actually taking Japanese in college to major in it…

    She asked me a very grammatically basic question in Japanese, a yes no question…

    And I responded ‘Osu!’… and then quickly learned that that is not a standard Japanese word for ‘yes’, that would be ‘Hai’, and that Osu … basically only contextually makes sense in the context of a dojo or some other sports/military type setting.

    Apparently in proper/normal? Japanese it is a casual greeting amongst martial arts practitioners… but I was literally drilled to say it as an enthusiastic, affirmative response to any command.

    EDIT: Also, this will sound insane, but I swear to god this actually happened: Many years after the aforementioned clarification from my at the time gf… I later encountered a man who told me he was … a yakuza, specifically a yakushi… we chatted for hours, he showed me how one of his fingers had been severely busted at the knuckle.

    He explained to me that… there had been a fuckup on his part, but his… direct superior decided to basically accept some of the blame for the fuckup of this guy I met, and struck him with the blunt side of the blade instead of the sharp side… and then exiled him.

    Which was why he was in America, and could no longer safely return to Japan.

    Anyway, he explained to me that the reason why… most Japanese say ‘yon’ instead of ‘shi’ to mean ‘4’ … is because ‘shi’ is also the character/sound that… basically means ‘death’.

    Which then circled around to why he referred to himself as a ‘yakushi’.

    As he explained it to me, it meant that he had both dealt, and been sparred from death.

    … I have no idea if what this guy was saying is actually true, if he actually was a yakuza… but he did tell me these things and seemed very serious about them.


  • It is astonishingly easy to get basically any LLM to output a simple iteration from one to ten function in all of those languages, and more.

    Here’s Assembly:

        newline db 0xA  ; Newline character
    
    section .bss
        number resb 1  ; Reserve a byte for the number
    
    section .text
        global _start
    
    _start:
        mov ecx, 1  ; Start with 1
        mov edx, 10 ; End with 10
    
    loop_start:
        cmp ecx, edx  ; Compare ecx with edx
        jg loop_end   ; If ecx > edx, jump to loop_end
    
        ; Convert number to ASCII
        add ecx, '0'  ; Convert number to ASCII
        mov [number], ecx  ; Store the ASCII value in number
    
        ; Print the number
        mov eax, 4        ; sys_write system call
        mov ebx, 1        ; File descriptor 1 is stdout
        mov ecx, number   ; Pointer to the number
        mov edx, 1        ; Number of bytes to write
        int 0x80          ; Call kernel
    
        ; Print newline
        mov eax, 4        ; sys_write system call
        mov ebx, 1        ; File descriptor 1 is stdout
        mov ecx, newline  ; Pointer to the newline character
        mov edx, 1        ; Number of bytes to write
        int 0x80          ; Call kernel
    
        sub ecx, '0'  ; Convert ASCII back to number
        inc ecx        ; Increment the number
        jmp loop_start  ; Jump back to the start of the loop
    
    loop_end:
        ; Exit the program
        mov eax, 1        ; sys_exit system call
        xor ebx, ebx      ; Exit code 0
        int 0x80          ; Call kernel
    

    Here’s FORTRAN

    program iterate_from_one_to_ten
        implicit none
        integer :: i
    
        ! Loop from 1 to 10
        do i = 1, 10
            print *, i
        end do
    end program iterate_from_one_to_ten
    

    Here’s COBOL

    PROGRAM-ID. IterateFromOneToTen.
    
    ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
    
    DATA DIVISION.
    WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
        01  WS-Counter PIC 9(2) VALUE 1.
    
    PROCEDURE DIVISION.
        PERFORM VARYING WS-Counter FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL WS-Counter > 10
            DISPLAY WS-Counter
        END-PERFORM.
    
        STOP RUN.