Life imitates...
...Avenue 5 (but at least the techie doesn't end up dead).
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We had a Computing Surface at uni as well (maybe it's the same one - the Octagonal Tower mean anything to you?). As part of my degree course we had a short series of lectures on Occam and were allowed to look at (but not touch!) the Meiko running full-motion real-time fractal generation (this was 1990ish).
> merrily rejigging System 6 with ResEdit to make my Mac SE/30 blurt out audio snippets
I made my IIsi play the entire intro from The Prisoner on bootup (the audio file took up a sizable proportion of the 80Mb hard drive - I'd recorded it off the telly). The error sound was Ren Höek saying "You eeeee-diot!" (actually taken from the resource fork of the game Maelstrom - still a great version of Asteroids, incidentally).
Here's a recent summary of some of Bellingcat's work:
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/04/30/war-propaganda-firm-bellingcat-continues-lying-about-syria/
I don't doubt that they do "good stuff" too, but that makes it easier to hide the disinformation/misinformation when required.
Consent manufacturing go brrrr.....
Relevant: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/11/19/nobody-who-says-you-can-criticize-washington-and-beijing-actually-does/
"The US empire has killed millions and displaced tens of millions in its still-ongoing global “war on terror” since 9/11. It is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, its sanctions and blockades are starving people to death en masse every single day, and it actively works to destroy any nation whose government disobeys its commands.
Nothing China is doing rises anywhere near this level of evil, either within its own borders or on the world stage. This is evident even if you believe every single claim the western empire has been asserting about the Chinese government’s behavior (which would of course be a very silly thing to do)."