• NaibofTabr
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    71 day ago

    Like something was switched off…

    funding from the Kremlin

    • @[email protected]
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      221 hours ago

      I suddenly stopped seeing a bunch of posters I had tagged as a “Russian Asset”. I’m sure it’s because I blocked some of them, but the fact that I don’t have any false positives left to plague me tells me a lot.

      • @simplymath
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        217 hours ago

        lol. do you honestly think there are psyop campaigns on Lemmy? for all 12 of us? lololol. I thought I was paranoid, but goddamn.

        Do you know how much it costs to run a chat bot?

        • @lurklurk
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          210 hours ago

          What, you don’t think Russia can afford it?

        • @[email protected]
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          09 hours ago

          Do you know how much it costs to start a war? Do you think russia is a fiscally responsible terrorist organisation?

          • @simplymath
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            -19 hours ago

            Pretty sure the Russian economy just passed Japan’s in terms of GDP. I’m not saying they can’t afford it. I’m saying that paying Tim Pool and buying up Facebook ads is a lot cheaper and far more effective.

            • @[email protected]
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              58 hours ago

              Wtf are you on about. Japan’s GDP is more than twice as big as russias. Both per capita and annual.

              I’m telling you that russia does not give a fuck about effectiveness.

                • @[email protected]
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                  27 hours ago

                  Oh wow, you found a metric where russia better, besides alcoholism!

                  By PPP metric India is better off than Germany, France and UK combined.

                  When you’re sanctioned to shit, you probably don’t have a lot of alternatives of what you can and cannot buy…

                  You’re comparing “Local Market” data, when talking about puchasing ads from X and Facebook…

                  Congrats, you’ve earned youself a tag.

                  • @simplymath
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                    -27 hours ago

                    you don’t think 1 billion people have more economic output than the 150 million or so that live in Germany, France and the UK? That’s pretty fucking racist.

          • @simplymath
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            -317 hours ago

            nah, just published and cited for work on power management for AI training

            • @[email protected]
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              116 hours ago

              Oh you’re published? It’s cute you think that means anything in this context.

              Russia is known to pay flesh-and-blood human beings to act as agents in information campaigns. The fact that you don’t know that and just assumed I was talking about chat bots for no apparent reason tells me everything I need to know. It’s why I was mocking you; your statement just had nothing to do with what was being spoken of, and you’re either dishonest or too oblivious and self-absorbed to realize that.

              For the record, there are full grown adults who were born after my first research project with publishable results.

              • @simplymath
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                ah. right. I totally forgot how flesh and blood people were cheaper than chat bots (they aren’t) and that they have tons of excess manpower to throw at the task-- that’s why they’re relying on North Koreans to defend Kursk.

                Yeah, they paid Tim Pool and other right wing podcasters to shill for them, but there’s no evidence anywhere that they’re targeting fucking Lemmy. It’s an absurd position given the size of the user base and the nature of federation.

                How much is a Facebook ad these days? probably a lot cheaper than paying people to troll you in their non native language.