how the world changes in a single generation from powerful, to embarrasing

@H. George Wells According to that article, xennials were born between 1977 and 1983.

I work in domestic counter-extremism, counter-terrorism and CI for a private firm in VA that contracts for lower level law enforcement and critical infrastructure. I come from a military intel background working CT in the late 90's and early 2000's.

the people who risked their lives defending britian as the germans bombed it are now watching from the nursing homes as their own kids give it to the germans (merkal and the EU)

@Misomania It's sad, that. My family immigrated to the US in the late 40's after having survived the Cardiff Blitz and I lost a Great Uncle to those bombs and NOW look at the state of things today. I weep for the UK.

so I suppose discord is a pretty decent place to find that sort of thing @Mr.McKinley

It can be, but like all places online, there are more shit-talkers than actual threats. Being able to tell the difference is not a skill that government law enforcement has for the most part.

I suspect there are almost no actual threats, to be honest

I may be a "boomer" but I've been "lurking" online since 56K Modems were still a thing.

You would be correct in that suspicion.l

and when they were like $400

because holy crap, they were exspensive when they launched

still had one on launch day

what can be found on discord, in great supply, is regular people who don't buy the bullshit any more

now... those people could be considered a threat

It's kind of like the "KKK Crisis"....Less than 4000 people, more than 700 of which are undercovers, who haven't committed a single act of violence since 1981 are all of a sudden a "crisis level threat"?!

in the same sense that Seth Rich was a threat, I suppose

jeremy just got back to me about the website

turns out he will he accept some free-writer crap

but he doesnt want to do it for free

he wants to exchange something

that was how they did it in 1984. An 'everpresent' though actually never present enemy that the state needs to be engaged with in an eternal war

Also a lot of 13 year old boys wit a mouth bigger than their brian talking ridiculous bullsit online because Mommy doesn't look over their shoulders while they type.

*brain

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the people talking about violence are almost exclusively gamer kids

^ This

and the violence is fantasy

and it is ridiculous

but

if you did sentiment analysis to determine whether the government has any credibility left

I doubt they would be pleased with the results

the media, certainly, has no credibility

Psycho-stylometric linguistic analysis is more accurate than algorthmic sentiment analysis, but it takes human to perform that type of analytical process.

you can run the algos across all the logs discord gives you

ibm watson has a nice api for that

My company has an Azure Government Account, but folks in my department rarely use algos. Most of our algo use is simply human assistance rather than human replacement.

that sounds expensive

Such as using an algo to run through tens of thousands of pages in a short time, but the data pulled from that run is analyzed by humans.

No, just takes smart people who are willing to work hard.

it would be cheaper, for example, to set up a vpn company on DOD ip space
and use it as a honey pot
to narrow down the target pool