My wife calls me, panicked

(twitter.com)

19 points | by latchkey 3 hours ago

9 comments

  • Lerc 1 hour 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.
  • zahlman 3 hours ago
    Even the advisories about how to deal with AI-powered threats are AI-written now....
  • RealityVoid 2 hours ago
    I seriously doubt this happened.
    • distances 2 hours ago
      It was clearly just an imagined scenario to illustrate the author's point.
      • RealityVoid 1 hour 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.
  • BugsJustFindMe 1 hour 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.

  • andsoitis 3 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-brink 2 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..

      • amazingman 43 minutes 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 ...
    • latchkey 3 hours ago
      Maybe, but he also drinks from the firehose.
  • fancy_pantser 53 minutes 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
    • xorvoid 46 minutes 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...
  • ddtaylor 2 hours ago
    Now do the same with your grandma, Grandpa, aunt, sister, etc. Seems to scale poorly =(
  • wiredpancake 3 hours ago
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