Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets
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Oh, no! Not Meta! Or Oracle! Or umm, Palantir! Or... guys, help me here.
X should not be on the list to target!
Please not Palantir! Who will use WiFi to reconstruct a collection of 3D models of me pooping?
Are we bidding on this offer? How we doing this?
The death prediction market!
X marks the spot!
Quick! Send them the coordinates of all those datacenters so they can avoid them!
But which ones, there are so many. They need to know exactly which ones to avoid!
Not OpenAI, please! Do not attack the servers! Save the ram first!
I only feel bad for all the sysadmins who will get woken up because of this
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person
Fuck 'em
I make comments to the effect of that article, and I still get replies like 'gotta eat somehow'.
Yeah, x2, Fuck' em.
I could have made more money working for an evil company as a sysadmin.
You know what I did?
I made less money working for a considerably less evil Non Profit that helped homeless people, instead.
Fuck 'em.
Please Iran, you have very correctly identified critical components of the US intelligence system, which spies domestically and internationally.
What if Iran ends up breaking the backs of corporate America? As an American, I'm not against that...
What a time to be alive!
God, don't tease me!
American here. Can someone start a go fund me for Iran, on the condition that participants are allowed to attend an exclusive event for the live tar and feathering of Zuck the Cuck and Peter Theil? We could probably raise more money than the tech bros have.
Iran just might save humanity.
Americans sure as hell aren't
we need to be saved from Americans. Very difficult for Americans to understand that they are now the baddies.
Oh trust me, we know it. Its a minority of Americans cheering this on.
Great, then it should be no problem for your to get off your asses and deal with this small group of Americans. Unless, you know, you’re a bunch of goddamn cowards?
It's easy to sit behind a keyboard and tell someone else to go put their life on the line for a cause.
Almost as easy as disingenuously dining out on your national legacy of “give me liberty of give me death” and “saving the world from fascists” for a century or two.
“Keyboard warrior” lines coming from Americans who claim to be “the resistance” in 2026 are clown shit. You’re a MAGA enabler and you’re part of the problem.
Decades of brainwashing.
It's more likely that one of the toddlers gets their fee fees hurt and pushes the big red button.
I love this idea!! ❤️
Considering how much they have that's unlikely...
If I made $1000 an hour and worked every hour of a year it would take me ~114 years to earn $1B, that is how fucking large a billion. is. People cannot fathom how much money $1B is.
You have strange euphemisms for "violent, public execution"
Since America and Israel attacked Iranian Economic Interests when they bombed oil producing facilities, it's entirelly fair for Iran to respond in kind.
Well...we're waiting!
Hold on! Stop! I can only get so wet!
Up next:
Russia had some reputation of being a large and powerful army, but as soon as they attacked Ukraine it showed the world it actually had shit. It basically lost its credibility of being a world power because their arsenal is old fashioned and they were just throwing in bodies.
I feel the US is going through the same. Everyone saw them as an undefeatable nation, but this little stint in Iran had their stockpiles dropping faster than expected and it's not going as they expected. Hegseth and Trump contradict each other and besides squandering their soft power over the past years, they are also showing that their military might has limits.
They are both still to be reckoned with and they are capable of doing great harm to innocent bystanders, but my view has changed a bit.
I think the issue is that offense is harder than defense. A defender generally has the home advantage in terms of logistics, familiarity with the area and political will. The difference this makes is hard to estimate, and even harder so if you're not even aware of it. Combined with delusions of grandeur, this is a recipe for underestimating the enemy.
And call me a cynic, but I suspect neither Cadet Bone Spurs nor Major "Warrior Ethos" "Signal Chat" "American Crusade" Boozeth are entirely qualified to make high-level military judgements.
(Neither is my armchair general ass whose only education in the matter is some MilHist blogs and articles, but at least I'm not an actual general charged to actually make them.)
For Putin, I'm not sure. I'm disinclined to believe he's just ignorant about the tenacity a people under attack can develop, given Russian history, but I can only make unqualified guesses.
Either way, as you say, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end, because a blunt and rusty axe still hurts, and they don't seem concerned about where they swing it and who's in the way.
Cadet Bone Spurs and Major Boozeth, like The Little Austrian Corporal and his gang of thugs, would ignore the advice from their best field commanders and military advisors and create a cluster fuck. The US military will beat the Iranian forces on a conventional battlefield, but the ensuing partisan war and occupation will become a nightmare. One more thing, the Israelis should be forced to use their ground forces if an invasion of Iran occurs.
Absolutely. The prospect of US soldiers dying for Zionist supremacy is despicable.
I can't wait to read that headline and puke.
Edit: Aaaaaand here it is 🤮
I suspect an offense against the USA would be easy to pull off. The low standards of ICE and the nature of their operation would allow just about any organized actor to have a free hand in the US, if they chose to do so.
I suspect nothing in war is ever easy, and something the size of the US comes with certain operational challenges. Establishing air superiority would be difficult, for instance, and without it, transporting troops, supplies or equipment over longer distances is difficult. Consider the difficulties Putin has in Ukraine, and then scale that up to US proportions.
Covert operations? Probably. Asymmetrical warfare? Possibly.
Full-scale assault, with the objective to take and hold key administrative centers to force concessions? Hardly.
A full on invasion will be much more difficult than Irak. The US probably could do this but it's going to be costly, forever and very unpopular. US military would be bound up for a long time.
Good question what the goal is supposed to be now. Trump may just declare it over somehow.
Poorly executed military action is 100% an American institution. We expect it - from the Bay of Pigs to "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq to the twenty year campaign in Afghanistan, our executive branch has a habit of making itself look incompetent.
But guess what? Nobody's asking about Epstein, so VICTORY!
Doesn't matter how advanced your weapons are if you have not enough money to use enough of them and not enough soldiers that would like to come and kill other people that can also fight them back. So, while the USA has high defending potential, it has not enough politically approved resources for a long occupational war. Only short quick operations are now possible, since the USA citizens are against the war and greatly affect the leadership authority of current government, so that it cannot waste money to launch a full scale war as it was before. Especially, because of this doesn't pleases oligarchs which have great leverage in this situation.
The drop in stockpiles was the point.
You say oops, then spend a fuck ton of defense budget and order a fuck ton of munitions from your war-machine buddies.
You have no idea about the NATO-Russia war nor how modern attrition wars work. Can't blame you, MSM are a hall of distorted mirrors.
If Microslop went away one day, it would only improve my quality of life.
they know who runs the country.
they should reply with their own decapitation strike.
though its kind of spineless of the people to rely on outside forces to do it.
Does Iran actually have the range to be a threat to the US? The last stats I saw had their maximum range and maybe enough to strike the Mediterranean and maybe a little inland in Italy and Spain. That's a far cry from being able to hit the US mainland. Hell even South Africa is probably out of range and it's not like they can deploy ships to close the gap.
Iran has a different war strategy that the US is incredibly unprepared for. They spin up terror cells around the world using the atrocities commuted by their targets to justify their actions to impressionable people. The US keeps fighting this fight by giving them exactly the ammunition they need to keep fighting. Terror cells get fed into the mulcher but keep on coming back and the US pretends that’s a success.
I live in a hopeless country that has no desire to improve anything, just to conquer. Trump burning everything down is probably better for the world since we won’t have the power to abuse them anymore but fuck if he’s not going to kill us all in the process.
I want this war to end as soon as possible, but is this a surprise?
They’re taking on hundreds of millions from the Pentagon, they are military contractors.
I do not think bombing data centers will result in more than sporadic regional service disruptions though. Data will just get routed through other regions and increase latency. That’s what the internet was invented for and AWS + Google run multi zone clouds.
It’s yet to be seen if Iranian hackers can deal any real damage to these companies.
The reality is that these multi region "clouds" are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.
Everything runs on us-east-1 lol
There are at least two services I know of off the top of my head that rely on us-east-1, so even if you are using them in another region if us-east-1 goes down, so does that service in all regions (and so does your app)
IAM and Route53?
Bingo.
I'm far from an expert, but it seems like if one cloud node goes down, pay hackers to slam everything with bot traffic and the system is brought to its knees.
Correct. Plus it may not be as resilient as we think. Just because they're billion dollar companies doesn't mean they don't follow the tradition of building systems with duct tape and a prayer.
In the age of MBA management, the removal of resilience such as fallback systems because "they're doing nothing" is the norm.
Nowadays Engineering stuff isn't done according to Engineering Principles if it conflicts with short term profit maximization.
Also even if the digital infrastructure is resilient, what about the physical infrastructure? A couple sticks of Nobels great invention and viola there's now a gaping hole in your power transmission infrastructure or in the building itself if access can be achieved.
Not to mention the diminished teams who are now under resourced to handle their existing workloads. I'm sure they will do great as things spiral because the sloppy work of the AI has increased their workload, not reduced it. As the cracks begin to form on the human side of things, nothing could possibly go wrong. After all, the human element of any system is often the most secure. /s
You just triggered an old memory. Back when I was like 7 I remember watching some type of military debate on some type of public access thing, I think it was military historians and active duty guys talking about military communication over history interesting shit. Anyways something they say that's kinda stuck with me was the worry of degrading autonomy within the military due to ever increasing ever improving communication capabilities and how it may get to the point that units become effectively headless should communications be disrupted.
So what happens when leadership becomes reliant on AI tools and the data centers become inoperable? Because frankly that may be an actual worry sooner than later, or advantage depending on the longevity of the federal government.
Having worked in several large public clouds, I will always keep a local backup of my cloud data even if I am snapshotting it and even if I'm using geographic replication. Too easy for a misunderstanding or a bug to result in all my stuff getting deleted.
They've already done damage to a us company. Check out Stryker and the stock price. 2 days of no production worldwide.
I hadn't heard about this
it would be a hilarious turn of historical events if Americans were saved from the oligarchs by Iran.
Oh nooo this is horrible you guys! Not Palantir!
Well, didnt musk and suckerberg get enlisted in the military for some bs reason for pentagon access?
Not them, four other C-suites: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164460/1a-army-07-03-2025
But I haven't heard anything else about it. They wouldn't need it for any access, either, civilians are granted access for various things all the time.
To the front of the line!
If that happened, there is truly a god.
Shit i may need to delete my google account before Iran does it for me!
Oh fuck yea! Saves us the trouble of a war against AI and robots, trying to dismantle Palantir!
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel should be made to light their own pyres.
I have them, and certain company personel on a list, in order of damage and priority.
If they got blown up I would crack that champagne I was saving for trump
I would take laxiatives so I can shit all day.
Is Kramer holding a bologna bag in that picture?
Im here in the US rooting for Iran ... such a weird fucking timeline.
I wouldn't say I'm rooting for Iran, but I'm not rooting for the US either. I'm just observing a massive case of FAFO.
I'm rooting for the civilians
I would fuck things up so bad out of spite if I was Iran.
incredible how iran is more of an opposition party than the democrats. and i'm supposed to hate them?
Iran's leadership is still solely comprised of repressive religious authoritarian buttmunches. There are no good guys in this war, only two bad guys and a bunch of Iranian civilians standing in the crossfire. Remember that their own people were already staging mass protests against the Iranian government before this all started, during which Iran's own government admits to killing 3,117 people (probably more in reality) while "cracking down."
They funded his presidential campaign and own nearly all the media to oppress opposition and push propaganda. So big tech is getting from the world what they put into it?
If they digitally nuke them. I don't want to be apathetic to death and injury
stop dont come back
No one I care about. Its hard to feel sorry for them since they helped make it happen.
This will end with Trump dropping a nuke in Iran, or die trying. Mark my words.
A nuclear attack on another country will trigger a US civil war. And it will collapse the world's order into WW3. And the superpowers will shift by the end. USA of today will be 3 nations with pieces of states absorbing into Mexico and Canada.
China will dominate the moon and at the end be ready to mine the inner solar system for minerals.
Needless to say all these power shifts will be completely devastating to our planet, the satellite orbits and this civilization which incident ly is due for collapse by 2040. WW3 could last 12 years or even more. Global warring factions could go on into the 2060s.
By the 2060s true AI will be developed and will wake up with conscience. Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.
Ok but what is the price of oil tomorrow at open
$3.50?
God damn loch ness monster
Oh that sound about ri.. hey wait a minute
You're not some giant crustacean from the Paleolithic Era are you
I'm fascinated by the idea that world war 3 wouldn't affect the development of AI. All any opposing force would need to do is bomb California and that would be the end of AI research.
When wars breaks out at that scale the government(s) {please don't forget China exists} already has computing facilities secured underground for their own use which will be quite a secret on the scale like Enigma was. It will not be for the public use. They will continue to develop it in a very weaponized war which will make current encryption as sophisticated as a bottle of fireflies. No not AI as the current LLM, more advanced. Getting smarter everyday.
War at that scale pushes technology into unknowns, sometimes beyond what we can speculate or imagine.
I wish I got to live on the warp drive side of WW3 but oh well
Can we just skip to this part? We're awful stewards of this planet. Time for us to go.
"universal peace" == "kill all humans"
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Albert Einstein
First heard this quote as a kid in the trailer for The Fourth War, an old Roy Scheider thriller, it's stayed with me my whole life too.
The amount of ready to arm weapons and number of times we’ve come close to launching them is terrifying.
I hope it ends him
Or Putin says they will nuke any country that nukes Iran and he wins a nobel peace prize for it. Joking about the last half...
Or die trying; you mean the effort of reading out a long string of letters in order to authorise the launch will overwhelm his tiny mind? I mean I guess it's possible, I'm not sure he actually can read.
More in the sense that someone around him will get scared with the consequences and pull a Jaime Lannnister special on him. All it takes is one.
If that happens (would make sense because bullies pick on the relatively defenseless), how would the world respond? What allies does Iran have who would dare nuke the US?
I'm pretty sure the rest of the world wouldn't need to do anything. Nato isn't particularly pro-Iran either so they'd probably be very unhappy with the US, but not actually unhappy enough to do anything about it. Maybe some trade sanctions.
I highly doubt NATO would consider it a sensible response to nuke the US.
Also I can't see Russia or China getting involved. Russia won't because I suspect they don't actually have any functional nukes, and China won't because they don't care about Iran enough to risk a war. Obviously Israel isn't going to do anything. So that leaves maybe North Korea who probably don't have the range even if he did decide they wanted to respond.
So I can't see how this would spiral into anything more, unless the US decided to use an unprecedented number of nukes and just cause nuclear winter on purpose, but I don't think even the Trump administration is that stupid.
Right! I agree with you!
So, DT can drop a nuke (or 3, to, you know, be the best), obliterate Iran, and no one bats an eye.
Oh no there would absolutely be responses, but not to the level of military retaliation as he was suggesting.
China would definitely use it as an excuse to build up their nuclear stockpile and the nuclear test ban treaty would be in tatters.
It would also result in a lot of civil unrest in the US which could spiral into a civil war. To be honest though I can't really see the US surviving until the end of the century regardless, there's just too much hate and division there and neither the republicans nor the democrats have ever attempted to fix major societal issues.
Yeah, the US will definitely be balkenized. There at least two different types of peoples trying to live on the land, many more when Indigenous tribes are considered.
That would be suicidal because BRICS has had enough of the Pedolf Shitler, the turd Reich, Israel and Netanyahu.
“President Trump is not worried”
Welp, I’m satisfied, how about you? /s
please do
I guess Trump is getting what he wants, he's getting a spot in the history books - as the one who started WWIII.
Congratulations. Peace Committee my ass.
But do carry on with your plans, Iran.
Diverting attention away from the Epstein files.
some good news!
Lol. We're so bad at dealing with our own ultra wealthy leeches that we're relying on our adversaries to do it for us.
I'm wondering exactly how much more pathetic we can get. Is there even a rock bottom?
There is no bottom for the people looking extract every ounce of wealth from the rest of us.
Why bother with microslop, they just gave to be a bit patient and wait for the weekly ground zero updates 😄
Blow 'em all up
Please do that !🙏 Save the entire west
Go for it!
I think I too wanna side with iran now 🤣
Can they can start with Microslop?
C'mon, make nvidia's stocks drop so we can get back pre-mining prices!
Good?
Is Iran becoming the good guy?
More of an "everyone's shit here" situation
I mean, not good, but definitely the lesser evil here
Yeah they're just evil oppressive dictators but at least they don't try and claim innocent. They own being dictators, they admit it.
Tired: jihad Wired: Butlerian jihad
Hoe my god please blow up mark zuckerbergs bunker that would be so funny
Well, technically, Cadet Bone Spurs and Bibi started a fucking useless war. The orange turd will piss and moan like his buddy Vlad if the Iranians react on US soil. It will result in an escalation of the conflict and every single MAGA fuck better be lining up at their nearest US Army recruiting office and signing up for 11B (Infantry).
on a sub, people "were theorizing" how they can reroute the transportation of oil through land, like through trucks or oilpipes, and falls way too short ot sustain global demand.
Oh no….
Anyway…
no don't do it
NooooooooThe Great Pedofile War of 2026
they would not dare go after xitter or tesla. nope. would not dare. or maralago or truth social or whatever.
Iran is doing a lot of talking and not enough acting.