cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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Cake day: January 17th, 2022

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  • No they aren’t, Russia wouldn’t have purchased thousands of Iranian drones if they could produce them domestically.

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    Russia put out propaganda

    The original link in this post is to an article by the Associated Press (syndicated on a website owned by Bell Canada) and it cites “U.S. and European officials” as its primary source to support the claim made in the headline that Russia is supplying drones to Iran.

    I’m curious: did you call this Russian propaganda after reading only the headline, without actually realizing who is saying what here?

    Correct me if I’m wrong but I suspect that after you read the article and see that Russia in fact denies sending drones to Iran (and says the seven trucks they just sent have food and medical supplies) you’ll probably change your mind and decide that they probably are in fact sending drones.



















  • FYI, the day after you published this blog post, a spam blog posted… their AI reimplementation of it 🤦

    details:

    here is a snapshot of (maybe?) the “original” slop post borrowing from your title; i first saw it reposted on this slightly-more-credible-looking (at least if you haven’t seen it in previous search results and already realized it is spam) page:

    screenshot of dev dot to spam site

    i tried to archive that page with the repost of it, to avoid directly linking to spam from this comment, but it crashes archive.org’s browser:

    archive.org screenshot showing error message saying their browser crashed

    i also was curious to see if this spam is in search engines, so i searched for AI reimplementation, and… well, the good news is that your blog post is the first hit and the above-linked spam blog is pretty far down in the results list.

    The bad news is that the second hit is to yet another piece of slop/spam evidently also “inspired” by your post:

    duckduckgo screenshot