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  • Re: Mastodon - Wich Serve

    From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Monday, January 26, 2026 08:26:00
    No, we just had to deal with Russian bots on twitter influencing a US election.

    The Russian bit there is not really necessary as I have doubt they
    were the only ones. If you don't believe that social media companies do
    it themselves, that it will happen forever as long as we have social
    media, that other countries (China, North Korea, Iran) and persons in
    our own country were involved, and that all of this only influences
    people against your side (but not the other), I heard there is a bridge
    for sale... one you are quite familiar with... that I can help you buy.

    Just wire me a few thousand dollars and we will get started.
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  • From Adovka@VERT/ANETO to MIKE POWELL on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 07:37:46
    Re: Re: Mastodon - Wich Serve
    By: MIKE POWELL to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Mon Jan 26 2026 08:26 am

    The Russian bit there is not really necessary as I have doubt they were the
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  • From Adovka@VERT/ANETO to MIKE POWELL on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 07:42:40
    Re: Re: Mastodon - Wich Serve
    By: MIKE POWELL to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Mon Jan 26 2026 08:26 am

    The Russian bit there is not really necessary as I have doubt they were the only ones.

    Just have an urgent desire to state that "Russian bots" are russian not cuz of "Big big moscow influence" (even tho sometimes its true), but becuz russians/ru-netizens are mostly careless about cybercrime, everyone is a pirate, every second one would be in jail by several internet laws if they would have lived in EU or US, so yeah, Russian bots are russian cuz russians provide such services more often rather than anything else.
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  • From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to ADOVKA on Thursday, January 29, 2026 08:01:00
    The Russian bit there is not really necessary as I have doubt they were the only ones.

    Just have an urgent desire to state that "Russian bots" are russian not cuz o "Big big moscow influence" (even tho sometimes its true), but becuz russians/ru-netizens are mostly careless about cybercrime, everyone is a pirate, every second one would be in jail by several internet laws if they would have lived in EU or US, so yeah, Russian bots are russian cuz russians provide such services more often rather than anything else.

    Yes, but I seriously doubt that "Russian bots" are the only bots involved.
    China also has state-sponsored hackers and bots. So does North Korea. I suspect Iran also has them. The USA probably has them, too.

    And I have no doubt they all have a desire to meddle in our elections.

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