My wife calls me, panicked(twitter.com)
21 pointsby latchkey6 hours ago9 comments
  • Lerc3 hours ago
    This reads like it has been specifically worded to read like it is a claim of something that happened, but when disproven can be pointed to to say the use of the present tense clearly shows that it is describing a hypothetical situation.
  • zahlman5 hours ago
    Even the advisories about how to deal with AI-powered threats are AI-written now....
  • RealityVoid4 hours ago
    I seriously doubt this happened.
    • distances4 hours ago
      It was clearly just an imagined scenario to illustrate the author's point.
      • RealityVoid3 hours ago
        Ok... Maybe I missed the ques for that, but if that's the case, It's really not obvious from the post. Not to mention the whole thing sounds completely unhinged.
  • 5 hours ago
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  • andsoitis5 hours ago
    > Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail.

    This claim seems way overblown.

    • peddling-brink5 hours ago
      This was a minor sub-plot to Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson. Excellent book.

      The defense must scale with the offense. We’ll have agents to cut through the noise.

      And then, maybe someone can finally design the Torment Nexus..

      • amazingman3 hours ago
        My favorite NS in a long time. I'm embarrassed by how long it took me to realize who "Elmo" is meant to reference ...
    • latchkey5 hours ago
      Maybe, but he also drinks from the firehose.
  • BugsJustFindMe3 hours ago
    "our son" would be a tell. Who talks like that about their child to their spouse?

    Also emergency rooms in the US have an obligation to treat to stabilization in emergency situations regardless of ability to pay, so if they're demanding payment then it's not actually an emergency.

    • watwut2 hours ago
      Parents definition of emergency extends goes beyond "direct threat to life right now".
  • fancy_pantser3 hours ago
    ...or just ask something only they would know? takes no coordination, works even in a stressful situation, and you can always follow up with more
    • xorvoid3 hours ago
      This was my thought as well. We have a lot of shared knowledge and memories with details that are definitely not shared in any online artifact. Those would be very hard to spoof for any casual attack. We'd have to be talking state level attacks...
  • ddtaylor4 hours ago
    Now do the same with your grandma, Grandpa, aunt, sister, etc. Seems to scale poorly =(
  • wiredpancake5 hours ago
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