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George Carlin: "You and I are not in the Big Club"

Astroturfing and opinion manipulation.

Take your meds and get to bed grandpa.

I think there's massive astroturfing with the usual talking points about drug trafficking, Maduro a dictator, Venezuelans are "Happy" plastered everywhere to try and distract from the naked fact of the oil.

It's not about drugs, it's about oil. Anyone saying otherwise is just arguing in bad faith.

I'm left wondering what this covert mesh traffic is actually accomplishing, and whether it's actually controversial or whether the researcher came across a red herring (Perhaps background file transfer such as airdrop while in airplane mode, unlikely as that sounds?).

Good catch! checked sharingd (PID 75) in spindump: <0.001s CPU time while mDNSResponder processed the 84MB. Traffic attribution rules out AirDrop. The 67:1 RX/TX asymmetry and idle sharing daemon confirm this isn't file transfer.

My guess would it has to do with find my iPhone and AirTag tracking features.

Not possible due to directionality and volume:

Find My/AirTag: Characteristic low-payload outbound beacons (Egress).

Observed Reality: 84.5 MB Ingress (Received) vs. 1.25 MB Egress.


Thanks for sharing, good luck and Godspeed!

I can only foresee a continued degradation of the online commons as AI unleashes a torrential firehose of deleterious content at any bad actors' whims.

Mice are going to have the best mental health in the Universe before the decade is out.

I wouldn't apply the usual "but mice" appeal to purity in this case.

For one, the paper specifically studied brain structures that are directly homologous in both mice and humans (retrosplenial cortex). The researchers specifically targeted evolutionarily-conserved circuitry.

Second, there is already human research on the topic, too, and this paper is reporting on a likely mechanism to understand "why" rather than "if." Here's one from a Yale researcher:

https://news.yale.edu/2025/09/23/psilocybin-breakthrough-men...


Thanks for the chuckle

Try focusing on software architecture and organisation/factoring since AI is an incredible force multiplier for these skills currently and foreseeably.

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