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Silicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missile(www.ycombinator.com)

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swlabr@awful.systems
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they’re idea guys

Please, he prefers “Psychological Operations specialist”. From the linkedin of one of the two:

Devan served in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Psychological Operations specialist at a Tactical Psyop Company under 7th Psychological Operations Group.

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barsquid@lemmy.world
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Can anyone translate that into English? I’m worried that description means he was online posting memes. If it does then I am not laughing nearly hard enough.

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skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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psyop is glorified weaponised advertising

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self@awful.systems
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Tactical Psyop Company

underbarrel t-shirt cannons? clearing rooms by being the worst, loudest sealion possible? or just the usual thinly-veiled torture?

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antifuchs@awful.systems
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Easy to arrive at that being the ideal profile:

  • Ufos are a psyop
  • Ufos fly
  • cruise missiles fly
  • hence, cruise missiles are a psyop.
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skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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  • birds aren’t real
  • birds are government drones
  • birds fly
  • drones fly
  • cruise missiles fly
  • hence, government drones are cruise missiles
  • hence, just strap a claymore to a quadrocopter and government will pay for it
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YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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I mean, hand grenades dropped from quadcopter were unironically effective against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the early days, and arguably a lot of the current emphasis on FPV drones and loitering munitions represent an evolution of the same tactical concept.

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