The Info Op

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Another indictment of Chinese covert operations.

Twitter avatar for @switch_dswitched @switch_d
U.S. Citizen and Four Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged with Spying on Prominent Dissidents, Human Rights Leaders and Pro-Democracy Activists | OPA | Department of Justice
justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citi…

May 18th 2022

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Twitter avatar for @gariusJohn Bull @garius
"The difference between us and the SAS is we don't write a tell-all autobiography every time we blow up a penguin colony" - SBS Veteran to me

The Spectator @spectator

Want to know the difference between the SBS and the SAS? The Marines and the Paras? Here you get it. ✍️ Melanie McDonagh https://t.co/vEwoYAiASH

May 18th 2022

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Well, that’s rather interesting

Twitter avatar for @Sonja_Drimmer𝕊onja Drimmer @Sonja_Drimmer
People typically associate apps with smartphones (in definition apps are just programs designed to execute tasks that don't run the computer itself). But apps are common in premodern books. A 🧵 on app technology in this book from 16th-century England!/1
A photo of my left hand holding the book. I am a 5'4 woman with small hands, and it fits comfortably in my hand and is roughly the length from my wrist to the tip of my middle finger. What we can see of the book here is the leather upper binding, which has been blind tooled with a centerpiece in the shape of a long lozenge. For information on the technique known as "blind tooling" [I'm conscious of the awkwardness of writing that here], consult this link: https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/cases/blindtooling/index.html

May 18th 2022

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PSYOPS are getting good.

Twitter avatar for @BehaviouralCBehavioural Conflict 🇺🇦 @BehaviouralC
I’m told it says ‘we know where you are; Kherson is Ukranian’ Excellent PsyOps; creating fear in an enemy is a powerful behavioural motivator.

Expat in Kyiv @expatua

It's an increasingly rough business being a Russian occupier in Ukraine where the locals want them dead. Kherson partisans have taken out around 300 Russians, mostly at night with small arms, knives and poison. https://t.co/dT1Q4FXyhI

May 19th 2022

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If you’ve been reading this Substack for a while, you’re familiar with the DPRK job applicants. Well, it seems the FBI have been reading this Substack too! ;)

Twitter avatar for @mrkootMatthijs R. Koot @mrkoot
U.S. Treasury, State Dept. and DOJ warn of attempts by DPRK (North Korea) IT workers to obtain employment while posing as non-North Korean nationals (.pdf, May 2022, 16 pages)
home.treasury.gov/system/files/1… /c @thegrugq @Elsine_van_Os #DPRK #intelligence
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May 18th 2022

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Ok, fine, the dates don’t match up, nor do the specific threats, but it is definitely probably maybe part of the same phenomenon.

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I was talking with a friend about military manuals and readability (don’t ask), and I mentioned the Nazi Tiger tank manuals with their bawdy cartoons. He’d never seen them, so a quick Google later, I ended up with the operational manual for the V2 rocket. As one does.

You don’t even have to Google.

https://stephentaylorhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/a4-fibel-v2-rocket.pdf

And here is the sexist Nazi Tiger tank manual too. Another historical curiosity.

https://stephentaylorhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/die-tigerfibel-1943-tiger-tank.pdf

And, if after all that, you want to know more about the readability of Army manuals, here’s a paper I found from the Vietnam era (when the Army transitioned to all volunteer, requiring them to rewrite all the manuals).

Kniffin, J. D. “The New Readability Requirements For Military Technical Manuals.” Technical Communication 26, no. 3 (1979): 16–19. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43086724.

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If you read only one retired Russian Colonel’s assessment of a war in Ukraine published in early February 2022, read this one. (Extremely readable with Google translate. He is a very good writer.)

https://nvo.ng.ru/realty/2022-02-03/3_1175_donbass.

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Twitter avatar for @DavidUbertiDavid Uberti @DavidUberti
Eye-popping stat from @chainalysis’ conference today: North Korea is believed to have stolen $800 million in crypto from DeFi platforms in 2022. That’s already double its estimated crypto theft last year

May 18th 2022

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One star review of the trolley problem trolly.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-passengers-one-star-review-of-the-trolley-ride-from-the-trolley-problem

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Crypto. Fraud. Scam. The website tracking it

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

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The hacker partisans are certainly creative.

https://www.techspot.com/news/94641-hackers-created-robocaller-waste-russian-officials-time-you.html

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Some humorous history!

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Fun fact: CNN photoshopped a "Verified" ✸ tag next to my name when they showed my tweet.
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June 30th 2017

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Twitter avatar for @USN_Submariner🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️ @USN_Submariner
Rare photo of an actual "baby boomer". You can pet them when they're little.
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May 19th 2022

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