So stupid it takes them 3 hours to watch “60 Minutes!" So they take it off the air.

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[–] 131 points 10 months ago (8 children)

It could have been incompetence, yes... Or it could have been someone who knew this would slip by the Trump loyalists and end up getting published.

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  • [–] [S] 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    True enough. I waffle between good intention and incompetence.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Ah yes, the famously super-competent FBI directed by political loyalists who's only qualifications are heavy plastic surgery and blind faith in an evil idiot.

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    If anyone like me was looking for proof this is actually possible in the files:

    Broe's video showed him copying several paragraphs from one document in the DOJ's Epstein library/2022.03.17-1%20Exhibit%201.pdf) from the "Court Records" section. While the paragraph Broe selected includes several redactions, all of the redactions were removed after Broe pasted the paragraph in question into a Word document. AlterNet was able to confirm that that specific document's redactions could be read in Word, as well as in Mac's Pages application and in Google Docs.

    https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6yrpknzx7zqsvzfxrljm3q3b/post/3maoa7cssos2f

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago

    bad apple FBI redactions

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    There is a non negligible chance that some of this was done on purpose.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Maybe they are not stupid. Maybe some junior analyst don't agree with this so they left like that on purpose

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It might be a choreographed “gotcha” too. Like they intentionally made the documents like that so people would think they found out The Big Secret and stop pushing for other files that could still be completely hidden. Idk though, it also seems really generous to think this administration could do anything that smart.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    This is a really important part of the CIA guide to sabotaging Fascism. https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

    Don't encourage good people to quit.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    This is the crazy thing. This is some kind of invocation of Poe's Law around Hanlon's Razor. I want to believe this is someone on the inside resisting, but we've already seen so many examples of this administration's gross incompetence that I don't feel certain of that. It's this real incompetence? Or resistance as a parody of that incompetence?

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    My humble yuletide shitpost. It's the giving season, don't you know?

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Working IT, it's impressive how many people don't understand basic computer functions. Even young people who grew up with technology. I impressed someone by fixing something by quitting and relaunching an app the other day. C'mon…

    For those who don't know, the title of the post refers to an error code, ID-Ten-Tee, meaning IDIOT.

    Another would be PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Even young people who grew up with technology.

    There is now a middle sweet spot of computer literacy that spans Gen X and Millennials. When you go younger than that, you start running into people who never owned a normal computer growing up and only ever used smartphones/tablets.

    By making devices simple enough for grandma to use, we inadvertently fostered a new generation of people who are as computer literate as grandma.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    this is how I feel when I was on the FBI page and saw the now deleted trump photo before they deleted it. Surreal experience.

    that was my "what radicalized me" moment

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Is there a collection/description of all the data gathered this way?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Back in my days, it was only ID10T. The s is new >_<

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Oooh, those hackers who crtl-c ctrl-v are so damn smart!

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    It's possible that the right people in the administrator wanted to "redact" them like this.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    IIT: People who think they're oh so smart.

    Also ITT: Those same people thinking Trump personally hired the people redacting the files.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Is there any archived version of these files somewhere?

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    🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽

    🧅🧅🧅🧅🧅

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