Tbh I don’t feel comfortable speculating on what state stupidity operations are. My exposure to some as an info sec enthusiast suggests they’re extremely varied and often quite stupid. Following the same logic as scams a lot of the time: go wide and see who bites.

But to get back to the point: there’s this growing trend of liberals (little ell) blaming everything they don’t like about politics on Russian/Chinese psyops which credits state stupidity too much and disguises the underlying issues in our society.

Further xenophobic paranoia and militarism is… unlikely, shall we say, to address or protect against the political movements that fester in such environments.

There’s so many. I was there 2000 years ago when we just hung out on IRCs and xmpp.

If you actually dig into the studies a lot of the excessive socmed time of kids is chatting. what we used to do with MSN and shite.

Kids will find a way to hang out and share stuff. Probably better that it happens in the light.

I am reminded of older attitudes towards sex and teens. Preventing kids from being open about their sexual activities didn’t make it safe, it meant that people fucked in filthy places and didn’t have a proper education, or made friends with someone seedy as to get porn.

We should provide safe(\r) alternatives, not ban things and then pretend that bored teenagers aren’t some of the most creative people on the planet.

I wish we could just regulate algorithmic recommendation and make companies over a certain size liable for content they promote (like publishing houses are) instead.

I am really concerned that this will do nothing to stop general social degradation and may actually cement the power of large operators by making smaller companies of ambiguous status legally risky; also pushing children to engage with hellscape platforms like 4chan or platforms run by other states Australia has less ability to regulate.

Also it’s a fucking privacy nightmare, but I’m aware that us tinhatters are alone in our damn Cassandra complexes as everything we’ve warned about happens over and over again.

TIL Russian spies grew the NSN members in vats and loosed them on us. They are also behind the white Australia policy and our refusal to reckon with genocidal and slaving history.

Like I’m sure operatives can do a few nudges or offer some funding or training but like… the Nazis are coming from inside the house.

Don’t gell-mann yourself.

If it spits out plausible looking but incorrect things you notice with high frequency, how much do you not notice?

Haha fucking idiot clankerwanker.

These machines generate plausible text. That’s all.

There is a massive rise in b6 poisoning. Although it’s in fucking everything leading to double dosing. E.g. magnesium supplement? b6, hangover cure? b6, energy drink? b6, multivitamin? b6 etc

https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2025/august/pyridoxine-toxicity-from-over-the-counter-suppleme

TGA gonna regulate it. Rare win for that horrible body: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/sweeping-vitamin-b6-restrictions-proposed

historical materialism

There’s actually a really good method of analysis that is highly predictive about the actions of classes of people politically.

But… you didn’t take a look at the report and were talking about the most anodyne interpretation when they

a) explain why 18 b) explain the scope c) break down the kinds of attraction by age group d) break down the kinds of offences

Asking if you looked at the report and what you thought about one of the most shocking things is completely reasonable.

Why did you have to be so rude and smug earlier? you hadn’t read that part of the report so you didn’t have a good reason to assume I was making shit up.

I copied the title of the authors in that piece, I don’t want to inflame people, I wanted a discussion of something I found extraordinarily shocking.

Would have sexual contact with a child younger than 10 years if no one would find out (4.0%)

page 12, midwit.

It happened the other way because the vast amount (97%) of convicted offenders are men, and that expert consensus is men are vastly more likely to offend. People have limited time and money, so research is funded when it is able to clearly state its impact.

I wish we had infinite resources in the academy, but we do not.

There are many requirements in the police training manual. For instance anyone being searched at all is meant to be taken somewhere private and their dignity preserved. I assume most people have seen this not happen.

Same gender is one such requirement.

At least one Australian expert says between 3% as likely as men to 25% as likely as men to offend. See below.

You can just look stuff up you know.

Joe Sullivan has spent 26 years counselling child sex offenders in the United Kingdom and is visiting Australia to attend an international police conference at Bond University on the Gold Coast.

While experts agree the majority of paedophiles are men, Dr Sullivan says women are responsible for more offences than previously thought.

“What I can say for certain is that it’s way more prevalent than people fully appreciate or understand,” he told the ABC.

"There’s some research to suggest it could be as high as 25 per cent.

“However, when you look at the representation within the criminal justice system it could be as low as 3 to 4 per cent of overall convictions.”

source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-28/female-paedophiles-prevalent-says-leading-forensic-psychologist/6428710

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Well it’s hard to say. Their sampling is pretty good, although mostly reflects the white population here as they discuss.

We don’t really have better stats than self reports, and this is a good study of self reports. You could dive into the data to see exactly what are the major areas, they indicate it’s CP, CP when also a child, sexual chats online mostly. With about 3% assault or worse.

Keep in mind it’s not uniform, the wierdos and freaks are amusingly less likely to. It’s more likely to be the well dressed guy with a family. So social elites. Depending on your crowd you might be pretty unlikely to know someone who does this.

Australia, or at least NSW, is a police state. You are getting filmed, tracked, your browsing history saved, your financial purchases archived, you need government ID regularly updated which requires entering your biometrics into a database.

You need to apply for permits to protest and they are routinely denied. Move along and non association orders are routinely employed to silence dissent, police extort cultural events for ludicrous fees, use dogs which have been demonstrated to not work as justification for routine searching of the public. We are already here.

This /is/ what living in a police state is. No it’s not as bad as it could get but we are already there.

Call me a loser, call me a boomer, call me an anarkiddy, but never call me a pessimist :)