What’s hilarious about it, though, was something evident while watching the outcome of the elections here in Australia.

The right wing funders pay for these bots. The tame billionaire press report on the groundswell of support… And then the right wing politicians and strategists believe the papers and TV pundits that they ‘trust’. Meaning that they have no actual fucking clue what the people’s mood truly is. And can’t react to it.

So you get the absolute hilarity of watching right wing pollies have their worldview crushed live on air as election results come in. Our right wing guys believed the press and their own analysis that they were in with a shot at government - and were disavowed fast and thoroughly while the nation watched them get the worst trouncing in decades.

The problem with disinformation programs is that you risk catching yourself in them.

I am going to invoke the XKCD comic on you in return.

I work in a library. I help people with computer issues every day on their personal computers and the public ones…

99% of people would freak out if you expected them to know what Task Manager even is, let alone what it does or how to open it.

This entire conversation is vastly overestimating people’s abilities and confidence when it comes to computer use.