RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116326343797220445

the golden rule that most venture backed startups forget

Today is the anniversary of discovery (!) of the series of Russian war crimes know in media as “Bucha massacres”.

The name is inaccurate as the war crimes happened in many places in Kyiv and Chernihiv regions controlled by #Russia and were systematic mop up operations involving killing of civilians, as known from Russian operations in Chechnya or Syria, clearly in compliance with orders from Russian military leadership.

The most miserable denial of these war crimes come from people who claim “this was fake” or “there’s no evidence”. There’s literally hundreds of hours of drone, smartphone and CCTV recordings literally showing Russian soldiers escorting and executing Ukrainian civilians. Many of them can be found here:

https://video.echelon.pl/search?tagsOneOf=Bucha

The second dumbest denial comes from those who repeat Russian fallacy that “there was no international investigation”. In reality there were hundreds of ICC and UN forensic experts investigating every aspect of these war crimes on the ground in Bucha and other places in the region, and then investigating more Russian war crimes e.g. in Izyum (400+ civilians killed) and other places. There’s numerous UN reports from these investigations. Russia has all the names of the perpetrators and evidence, but it simply chose to ignore them and conduct no investigation on their side.

The third popular yet false argument is that “Bucha caused Ukraine to retract from peace talks”. It did not - Ukraine delegation continued to meet its Russian counterparts well into April 2022 in spite of popular outcry in Ukrainian society. As we today from Putin’s aide Dmitry Kozak, it was Putin who stalled and ultimately had put negotiations on hold in 2022, convinced Russia will be able to grab much more land after announcing mobilisation.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/116326199617351251

the same proton who gave user info to a french LE agency?

well, better than US privacy, i guess...

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XVIII: How Does FPU Detection Work?

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xviii-how-does-fpu-detection-work/

The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate
across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda
and endorses Elon Musk’s X as an “innovative” tool to help do it.

The cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Monday
also suggests embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s psychological operations unit
to address the problem of rampant disinformation.

It lays out a sweeping set of instructions for how embassy staff should push back against what it describes as coordinated foreign efforts to undermine American interests abroad.

It comes as the United States is at war with Iran, whose government has for decades operated one of the world’s most sophisticated and prolific state disinformation apparatuses,
and as Russian and Chinese influence operations continue to target American allies across Europe, Asia and Latin America.

The cable instructs those embassies and consulates to pursue five broad goals:
countering hostile messaging,
expanding access to information,
exposing adversary behavior,
elevating local voices who support American interests,
and promoting what it calls “telling America’s story”.

Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad
to carry counter-propaganda messaging,
an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@tylerlwsmith/116317294680593193

Paging @pluralistic Google is finally dis-enshittifying AI Overview. This is a massive improvement.

If they get it to all zeroes it’ll be perfect.

MY FRIEND: So what have you been up to lately?

ME [ face smeared with chocolate ]: ...nothing

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nestle-kitkat-shipment-heist-stolen-europe/