Gig economy reaches its final form: people literally selling their vocal cords for lunch money while corporations build billion-dollar AI models from the scraps.

The terms read like dystopian fan fiction - “worldwide, exclusive, irrevocable, transferable” rights to your voice recordings. They basically own your ability to speak forever, but hey, at least you earned enough for a Big Mac! The “anonymization” claims are particularly hilarious when voice biometrics can identify you from a whisper.

What’s genius about this scam is that they’ve convinced reddit bros that $19/hour is good money for permanently surrendering biometric data. That’s below minimum wage in most states for creating training data worth millions to AI companies. But frame it as “empowerment” instead of exploitation and watch people line up to commodify themselves.

🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱 Achieved peak surveillance capitalism while making it feel like liberation. This is dystopian innovation at its finest.

The alphabet-bois are at it again, this time spinning Romanian spam ops into an imaginary dos-by-texting ticking bomb. Same playbook - take normal criminal SIM farms used for warranty scam texts, add scary words about “nation-state actors,” time it with UN meetings, profit.

The dude in the article is masscan creator btw, you know, just the guy who invented the tools that actual security experts use. Meanwhile James Lewis gets quoted making technical claims that would embarrass a CS undergrad. Peak institutional credentialism - ignore the actual expert because he doesn’t have the right government consulting contracts. You can’t overload thousands of cell towers serving 10M+ people with SMS flooding. That’s not how cellular architecture works, Lewis!

Secret Service stumbled across Torswats operation leftovers and decided to manufacture national security theater instead of just saying “we busted some spam criminals”. The propaganda machine ate it up because anonymous officials “speaking on condition of anonymity” sounds so much more dramatic than “we found some bulk SMS servers.”

🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱 Solid technical journalism cutting through institutional bullshit, Graham earned his reputation for a reason.

Another masterclass in how legacy media turns actual societal collapse into entertainment slop. Le guardian’s “Pass Notes” format looks like writing for 12-year-olds, but with the air of someone who thinks they’re clever.

An actual newspaper would have reported on UNESCO endangered status warnings, medieval sewage infrastructure and chemical pollution. Instead we get cutesy Q&A, Disney tangents, and “Do say/Don’t say” boxes telling readers what to think. This isn’t even close to journalism, it’s BuzzFeed for the pretentious.

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