#data weaponization

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Matt Davies

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

April 11, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Apr 12, 2025

On April 4, Trump fired head of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and director of the National Security Agency (NSA) General Timothy Haugh, apparently on the recommendation of right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who is pitching her new opposition research firm to “vet” candidates for jobs in Trump’s administration.

Former secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall wrote in Newsweek yesterday that the position Haugh held is “one of the most sensitive and powerful jobs in America.” Kendall writes that NSA and CYBERCOM oversee the world’s most sophisticated tools and techniques to penetrate computer systems, monitor communications around the globe, and, if national security requires it, attack those systems. U.S. law drastically curtails how those tools can be used in the U.S. and against American citizens and businesses. Will a Trump loyalist follow those laws? Kendall writes: “Every American should view this development with alarm.”

Just after 2:00 a.m. eastern time this morning, the Senate confirmed Retired Air Force Lieutenant General John Dan Caine, who goes by the nickname “Razin,” for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by a vote of 60–25. U.S. law requires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of staff of the Army, the chief of naval operations, the chief of staff of the Air Force, the commandant of the Marine Corps, or the commander of a unified or specified combatant command.

Although Caine has 34 years of military experience, he did not serve in any of the required positions. The law provides that the president can waive the requirement if “the President determines such action is necessary in the national interest,” and he has apparently done so for Caine. The politicization of the U.S. military by filling it with Trump loyalists is now, as Kendall writes, “indisputable.”

The politicization of data is also indisputable. Billionaire Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) claims to be saving Americans money, but the Wall Street Journal reported today that effort has been largely a failure (despite today’s announcement of devastating cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that monitors our weather). But what DOGE is really doing is burrowing into Americans’ data.

The first people to be targeted by that data collection appear to be undocumented immigrants. Jason Koebler of 404 Media reported on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been using a database that enables officials to search for people by filtering for “hundreds of different, highly specific categories,” including scars or tattoos, bankruptcy filings, Social Security number, hair color, and race. The system, called Investigative Case Management (ICM), was created by billionaire Peter Thiel’s software company Palantir, which in 2022 signed a $95.9 million contract with the government to develop ICM.

Three Trump officials told Sophia Cai of Politico that DOGE staffers embedded in agencies across the government are expanding government cooperation with immigration officials, using the information they’re gleaning from government databases to facilitate deportation. On Tuesday, DOGE software engineer Aram Moghaddassi sent the first 6,300 names of individuals whose temporary legal status had just been canceled. On the list, which Moghaddassi said covered those on “the terror watch list” or with “F.B.I. criminal records,” were eight minors, including one 13-year-old.

The Social Security Administration worked with the administration to get those people to “self-deport” by adding them to the agency's “death master file.” That file is supposed to track people whose death means they should no longer receive benefits. Adding to it people the administration wants to erase is “financial murder,” former SSA commissioner Martin O’Malley told Alexandra Berzon, Hamed Aleaziz, Nicholas Nehamas, Ryan Mac, and Tara Siegel Bernard of the New York Times. Those people will not be able to use credit cards or banks.

On Tuesday, Acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Melanie Krause resigned after the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security agreed to share sensitive taxpayer data with immigration authorities. Undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes, in part to demonstrate their commitment to citizenship, and the government has promised immigrants that it would not use that information for immigration enforcement. Until now, the IRS has protected sensitive taxpayer information.

Rene Marsh and Marshall Cohen of CNN note that “[m]ultiple senior career IRS officials refused to sign the data-sharing agreement with DHS,” which will enable HHS officials to ask the IRS for names and addresses of people they suspect are undocumented, “because of grave concerns about its legality.” Ultimately, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signed the agreement with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

Krause was only one of several senior career officials leaving the IRS, raising concerns among those staying that there is no longer a “defense against the potential unlawful use of taxpayer data by the Trump administration.”

Makena Kelly of Wired reported today that for the past three days, DOGE staffers have been working with representatives from Palantir and career engineers from the IRS in a giant “hackathon.” Their goal is to build a system that will be able to access all IRS records, including names, addresses, job data, and Social Security numbers, that can then be compared with data from other agencies.

But the administration’s attempt to automate deportation is riddled with errors. Last night the government sent threatening emails to U.S. citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) terminating “your parole” and giving them seven days to leave the U.S. One Massachusetts-born immigration lawyer asked on social media: “Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?”

The government is not keen to correct its errors. On March 15 the government rendered to prison in El Salvador a legal U.S. resident, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whom the courts had ordered the U.S. not to send to El Salvador, where his life was in danger. The government has admitted that its arrest and rendition of Abrego Garcia happened because of “administrative error” but now claims—without evidence—that he is a member of the MS-13 gang and that his return to the U.S. would threaten the public. Abrego Garcia says he is not a gang member and notes that he has never been charged with a crime.

On April 4, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis ordered the government to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. no later than 11:59 pm on April 7. The administration appealed to the Supreme Court, which handed down a 9–0 decision yesterday, saying the government must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release, but asked the district court to clarify what it meant by “effectuate,” noting that it must give “due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”

The Supreme Court also ordered that “the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.”

Legal analyst Joyce White Vance explained what happened next. Judge Xinis ordered the government to file an update by 9:30 a.m. today explaining where Abrego Garcia is, what the government is doing to get him back, and what more it will do. She planned an in-person hearing at 1:00 p.m.

The administration made clear it did not intend to comply. It answered that the judge had not given them enough time to answer and suggested that it would delay over the Supreme Court’s instruction that Xinis must show deference to the president’s ability to conduct foreign affairs. Xinis gave the government until 11:30 and said she would still hold the hearing. The government submitted its filing at about 12:15, saying that Abrego Garcia is “in the custody of a foreign sovereign,” but at the 1:00 hearing, as Anna Bower of Lawfare reported, the lawyer representing the government, Drew Ensign, said he did not have information about where Abrego Garcia is and that the government had done nothing to get him back. Ensign said he might have answers by next Tuesday. Xinis says they will have to give an update tomorrow.

As Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently warned, if the administration can take noncitizens off the streets, render them to prison in another country, and then claim it is helpless to correct the error because the person is out of reach of U.S. jurisdiction, it could do the same thing to citizens. Indeed, both President Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt have proposed that very thing.

Tonight, Trump signed a memorandum to the secretaries of defense, interior, agriculture, and homeland security calling for a “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions.” The memorandum creates a military buffer zone along the border so that any migrant crossing would be trespassing on a U.S. military base. This would allow active-duty soldiers to hold migrants until ICE agents take them.

By April 20, the secretaries of defense and homeland security are supposed to report to the president whether they think he should invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act to enable him to use the military to aid in mass deportations.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[star-pound-star]

The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off? Well, they may already be doing that thanks to a shady tactic called “surveillance pricing.” Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains what we can do about it.

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[howgalling]

idk if I mentioned but I got to speak to JRO after the con at tfnation; specifically about the first aid plot line he didn’t end up getting to include in the mtmte comics!!

I missed the panel where he was talking about it, but one of my friends mentioned it, so I had to ask for more information!!!!!. First Aid essentially loses the plot for a while trying to find a way to bring ambulon back. it’s briefly mentioned as an off comment by (maybe ratchet?) that first aid has been isolating himself for months with ambulon’s dead body in the comics. Which is crazy btw lol anyway

first aid spends all that time between the plot failing to find ways to bring ambulon back to life. He fully repairs ambulons body, every fragment of him is visually perfect, /technically/ functional. He even repaints ambulon, touching up the patchy paint job Ambulon was known for.

But ambulon is truly dead. What made ambulon who he was, his memories, his personality, his knowledge, his friendship- was obliterated in the bisecting, as was his spark. It was a complete brain-death by cybertronian standards.

As far as I’m aware, the spark is just a power source, relative to the memory banks portion of their processors and whatnot, specifically the sections that store the bots actual personality and memories. Though it’s always worded differently. JRO didn’t give an exact time range (understandable lol) for how long they were on Delphi, but the general thought is that First Aid and Ambulon were on Delphi together for a decent chunk of years, relative to the timeline.

:((( first aid and ambulon really endured Delphi together and bonded throughout that, and to see him murdered so abruptly, (by their ex-boss who they watched descend into madness- no less!!!) was extremely traumatising, as much as it’s played as a joke by the fandom lolol. ambulon suffered what was essentially complete brain death at the moment of injury, non-recoverable.

The dynamic between ratchet, Pharma and first aid/ambulon is really interesting, other people can word it better than me but it ties massively into the feedback loop first aid gets lost in from that point. Watching his closest friend die in a hysterical power play between his two superiors would be helpless agony. And it hurts more because we know first aids temperament :(( he’s still soft, despite it all, and he’s the type of character that you just want to shield from the nastiness of it all. 😭😭

First aid goes as far tracking down the mechs that were involved in the faulty combiner experiment Ambulon was forced into. Looking for maybe even an echo or an imprint, faint traces in the data+code of the mech’s that might have had /anything/ of his friend left in it. Pieces he could put together to make him whole again. But there’s nothing, just surface level memories from a bond that never succeeded. MAN

Anyway, I’m going to try and draw something for it, please give me focus

[i-can-kazoo]

Give murderbot a tail NOW

[its-buers-naptime]

“ His name is Planet Destroyer. “ “ So cool ! ! “

@shinazugawa-bros-week-2024 day 6: pets

[askprotoroll]

I think Fauxbot made a friend :)

fun little tidbit, if asked faux would say that ss!rock's form "feels different", probably because of the copy error thing he has. Faux can't copy weapons or anything while in the form of rock/roll/protoman or anyone who copies weapons (and tbh i'm still kinda tweaking how his ability works) but i like to think if Faux touched someone while "wearing" ss!rock he kinda "glitches" a bit before turning back to his default form. (It's hard to describe)

[allmyandroids]

💜 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓻𝓸𝓲𝓭 💜

[modeus-the-misanthrope]

Challenge for Mod Authors: Level Impossible

When writing down directions for how to fix issues in your mod, hand those instructions to 1 friend that doesn't have any experience in programming. If they say your instructions don't help solve their issue. Rewrite the instructions until it does.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

When the Numbers Lie

What happens when the government’s facts no longer align with the public’s reality—and data becomes a tool of power instead of a public good.

James B. Greenberg

Aug 01, 2025

Federal data. Yawn, right? But what’s happening to it is terrifying—and we need to pay attention.

There are countless ways to lie with numbers. So when we can no longer trust government data, the consequences run deeper than statistical error. We lose our bearings. As this administration continues to politicize federal agencies and staff them with loyalists, the risk isn’t just that the data will be wrong—but that it will be weaponized to support the president’s gaslighting and falsehoods.

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There’s a threshold that’s easy to miss but unmistakable once crossed: the moment when government data no longer reflects reality. A little distortion is enough to render the facts unreliable. And when that happens, the trust that holds shared understanding together begins to fray.

We’re seeing this now across multiple domains. It’s a pattern, sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant, that shifts data from a means of governance to a mechanism of control. As it progresses, the gap between official narrative and lived experience widens. At a certain point, the gap becomes a rupture.

Employment numbers offer a clear example. The headline unemployment rate suggests progress, but it leaves out millions—those working multiple jobs, stuck in gig work, or who’ve stopped looking altogether. If they’re not counted, they’re not addressed. And what doesn’t get addressed is allowed to fester.

The Consumer Price Index, the most widely cited inflation metric, has been retooled in ways that systematically understate rising costs. The most punishing expenses—housing, food, healthcare—are softened through formulas that assume quality gains offset price increases. But for those watching rent and grocery bills climb, abstract gains don’t count. When they’re told inflation is easing, but their paychecks don’t stretch far enough, disbelief isn’t irrational—it’s earned.

The damage to the credibility of CDC data during the pandemic—delayed reports, redactions, politicized framing—hasn’t been repaired. We still see incomplete reporting on vaccine uptake, long COVID, and chronic illness. In many states, disaggregated data isn’t submitted at all. The public health narrative becomes partial by design. When the numbers are obscured, the response can be, too.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ongoing anti-vaccine campaign feeds on this mistrust. He exploits the vacuum created by real lapses in transparency and builds a movement on partial truths and skewed interpretation. The damage isn’t limited to public health—it extends to how data itself is understood and contested.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have adopted new prior authorization rules in the name of efficiency. But in practice, what’s tracked is throughput—not whether patients received appropriate care. The appearance of functionality replaces the substance of it.

Government data is not just information—it’s infrastructure. It underpins decisions across nearly every sector of society. When that foundation is corrupted, planners can’t plan, businesses can’t forecast, researchers can’t track trends, and communities can’t prepare. The damage isn’t contained to public trust. It seeps into the daily operations of hospitals, schools, housing authorities, disaster agencies, and courts. A broken dataset isn’t just a political failure. It’s a systems failure.

These distortions don’t happen by accident. They serve someone. A suppressed CPI lets employers dodge wage increases. Claim denials help insurers cut costs. Softened climate projections give political cover to delay action. The damage isn’t evenly distributed. The profits are.

EPA reporting follows a similar path. Reports warn of worsening air quality, hazardous sites, and heat extremes—but the language is muted, the enforcement mechanisms weakened, and risk thresholds adjusted. The science is clear, but its policy implications are buried. In 2023, the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA decision and recent administrative actions recast CO₂ as a “naturally occurring gas,” not a pollutant. Industrial polluters continue expanding with fewer checks, and communities bear the cost.

Climate data, once a technical field, is now a terrain of political messaging. Agencies issue warnings but often soften the language or decouple forecasts from immediate decisions. The science persists, but its framing is filtered. The reports keep coming, but nothing follows. People stop listening not because they’re in denial, but because they no longer believe the reports will lead to action.

In education, test scores and graduation rates are up—but so is teacher attrition. Budgets are slashed, classrooms overcrowded, and basic literacy suffers. The statistics say the system is holding. Inside the system, everyone knows it’s falling apart.

The decline of public data doesn’t mean there’s less data. There’s more—only now it’s behind paywalls. Wall Street, tech firms, and logistics companies have access to real-time analytics: geolocation, purchase history, consumption patterns. The public gets headline stats. The powerful get foresight. This isn’t a crisis of information scarcity—it’s stratification.

From an anthropological view, data regimes are moral frameworks. They define what counts, and who counts. They assign recognition. If a category disappears from the data, it disappears from policy, and eventually, from view. “Disabled,” “unhoused,” “underemployed”—these aren’t neutral descriptors. They determine access to resources, or exclusion from them. When the definitions shift to save money or protect image, it isn’t reform—it’s erasure.

Data doesn’t simply record the world. It organizes it. It renders some lives legible to institutions and leaves others out. From a political ecology standpoint, that has material consequences. Without reliable climate data, communities can’t plan. Without honest health statistics, vulnerabilities go unmanaged. Risk accumulates—unseen, unmeasured, unaddressed.

The threat doesn’t stop at public statistics. When data becomes a tool of political control, personal data is not immune. Health records, tax filings, credit histories, even digital identity markers—these are all governed by systems vulnerable to manipulation. Once the precedent is set that official data can be shaped to serve power, the door opens to targeted abuse. The same apparatus that hides inflation or distorts climate risk could quietly alter a medical file, a criminal record, or a voting roll. A society that tolerates statistical deceit will find it harder to resist the weaponization of personal data. What begins as a breakdown in public trust can become a mechanism of private harm.

And when data fails, people don’t stop trying to understand the world—they turn elsewhere. To anecdote, rumor, partisan media, or conspiracy. That shift isn’t just a symptom of polarization. It’s a rational adaptation to the collapse of institutional credibility.

Some call this politics as usual. But what we’re seeing is more than spin. It’s systemic. It’s the gradual withdrawal of accountability disguised as modernization. The data is still there—just not where the public can use it.

When official numbers are shaped to protect the powerful, public reasoning breaks down. Shared problems become private burdens. Collective risk becomes individualized confusion. Decision-making turns into performance, presented in graphs but disconnected from reality.

Rebuilding trust in public data isn’t just about better charts or cleaner dashboards. It’s about reclaiming the idea that information belongs to the people it affects. That data should serve the public, not manage its expectations.

Because when the numbers lie, what’s at stake isn’t just accuracy—it’s whether people can act on what they know, or are left to guess in the dark.

Suggested Readings

Eubanks, Virginia. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018.

Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979. Edited by Michel Senellart. Translated by Graham Burchell. New York: Picador, 2010.

Jasanoff, Sheila. The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future. New York: W.W. Norton, 2016.

O’Neil, Cathy. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. New York: Crown Publishing, 2016.

Porter, Theodore M. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). COVID-19 Data Tracker. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2024. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker.

Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G. The Rise of Necro/Narco-Citizenship: Belonging and Dying in the National Borderlands. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025.

[moruteacademia]

Hi! I'm ally, this is my studyblr blog.

INTJ 5w4 584 mel-chol sx/so LVEF

Im currently studying Data Science, but besides coding I also enjoy cybersecurity, poetry, literature, universal history, philosophy, psychiatry, neurology, sociology, astronomy, feminism, music, typology, jung, enneagram, languages, urss, anarchism, ww, militaria.

Gonna use this blog for rant, motivation, quotes, pretty pictures of my study sessions and pretty pictures and info that I found comforting here.

If I have any mistake on english let me know, because my mother language is spanish. So if u r spanish speaker let's be friends pls!!

I'm 18 years old. She-her from Lima, Peru. And + I also enjoy rock and alt music, goth and punk subculture, aesthetics, fashion and lolita fashion, writing, comics, anime and memes.

I also have a blog that I don't really use but my @ is really cool @cryptidacademia and my girlblog @a-doll-is-a-gun

[the-c4ts-pajamas]

This is a great time to move away from big tech. I've seen a lot of people wanting to leave google specifically as more and more stories come out showing that they're a supervillain company, but not feeling like they can. It is possible, there are alternatives!

I didn't make this graphic, but I'd personally add GrayJay for YouTube, CollaBora Office for Google Docs, Ente for Google Photos, Signal for messaging, duckduckgo for Google Search, Aurora Store and F-Droid for the App Store, Magic Earth + Yelp for Google Maps, and ProtonMail for Gmail. If you'd like more recommendations r/degoogle is an excellent resource.

[lynns-bonkle-blog]

Metru Nui Archives data log 35494: Cordak Blaster Prototype

Log author: Chief Archivist Etoku

I am prefacing this data log with a reminder to the Kehrex Weapons Company that the Archives is not seeking a corporate sponsor, and that any attempts to convince us, or any other Metruan organisation, to convert to your philosophy of "capitalism" will not succeed, no matter how many "rare" prototype weapons you send us (if you wanted us to believe they were rare, you shouldn't have sent so many).

With that out of the way, let's talk about what our... magnanimous would-be benefactors thought was worth shipping all the way from Xia, starting with a bit of preamble about the history of Cordak Blasters.

The Cordak Blaster is a rotary-barrel, muzzle-loaded missile launcher, and one of the most widely used vehicle-mounted weapons in the universe, though beings with enough strength (or under other conditions that make things lighter such as being underwater or within the radius of a Toa of Gravity's powers) can also carry them as handheld weapons.

The Blasters work by using a reciprocating motor to drive a pump that pushes compressed air into the top barrel, propelling the missile (or "mini-rocket", as they are commonly known) forwards, while also triggering a mechanism that rotates the barrels through 60°, readying the next shot. Meanwhile, the missile's inbuilt propulsion system activates, and it travels in a roughly straight line before usually hitting its mark. This process takes such a short time that Cordak Blasters can fire rapidly, though their low ammunition capacity can be an issue.

As you can guess from its… unusual firing method, the Cordak Blaster was first conceptualised by the Vortixx of Xia during their industrial revolution. They were sold to military commanders and rulers on other islands, most of whom proceeded to resell theirs elsewhere.

The ammunition is surprisingly stable, and can be safely stored upon a being's armour with little to no fear of detonation. It's also worth noting that any object with a similar diameter to the barrels of a Cordak Blaster can also be fired by one, though it won't go far without any additional propulsion.

Along with the standard version, there's also a much larger variant, the "Nui Cordak", designed for mounting on warships and other large vehicles, and a smaller, cheaper variant known as the Firework Revolver, which is said to have been developed in collaboration with the legendary Nynrah Ghosts (though this could just be a fabrication for marketing purposes).

The weapon's name is derived from the Toa Cordak, a Toa Team who are most well-known for being disintegrated by Zyglak, to the point that, according to my more... outgoing colleagues, the word "Cordak" has come to be used as a colloquial synonym for desolation. Prior to the unfortunate demise of the Toa Cordak, they were referred to as simply "Revolving Blasters", and you can tell the age of a Cordak Blaster by whether the name on the side is prefaced with the word "Cordak".

Now then, let's get onto the topic at hand. This prototype Cordak Blaster looks and functions vastly differently than the final version.

To start with the least notable change, the pumping mechanism is an external unit, connected via thick, translucent hoses to the back of the weapon. The hoses would presumably have been a major weak-point, and the pump is about as large and as heavy as a regular Cordak Blaster.

But where things get interesting are with the weapon itself, as well as its ammunition. Rather than a rotary design that allows for rapid firing, the prototype Blaster instead uses a gravity-fed loading system, drawing from a box-magazine that clips onto the top, and fires from a single, rather bulky barrel.

The overall form-factor, air-pump aside, is much smaller, built into a gauntlet that is sized for most classes of Toa. The Matoran over in the Weapons Testing complex managed to get it to work by attaching it to an ancient artificial Toa arm from the Level 2 Prosthetics & Implants gallery, then controlling the arm using a machine that Archivists Nuparu and Mavrah designed for this exact purpose.

What this testing showed was how the prototype missiles worked; painted entirely yellow, they were cylindrical, rather than the thin, flared shape and red colouration of the final missile designs, and seemed to be made out of solid metallic protodermis. Rather than exploding on impact, they instead functioned similarly to traditional projectile weapons such as Kanoka, impacting the target with a large amount of physical force; all but one of the targets that the weapons-testers had set up were destroyed by the Blaster, with the remaining one gained a large dent in its torso-piece when the aiming system of the testing arm glitched.

Since Kehrex provided us with a hundred crates of ammunition (each crate contains seven magazines, for a total of exactly two-thousand eight-hundred projectiles) and twenty Blasters, I got the weapon testers to try loading the prototype projectiles into the final design and vice-versa, and the results were. Interesting.

Test 1 resulted in the projectiles loudly falling to the testing-chamber floor, due to the lack of additional propulsion. Rather disappointing, but to be expected. However, Test 2 was far more interesting; while the Blaster itself was damaged, the rockets fired as standard, albeit with a far higher initial launch velocity. I requested that the damaged blaster be put on display next to the intact versions, with an explanation of what happened to it, and that only one of the intact blasters be displayed; the rest will go into storage, along with the remaining ammunition.

Personally I believe these will be quite popular with visitors, though I doubt this will cause Kehrex to cease their attempts at buying our attention.

Artifact information:

Categories: Inanimate, Weapon

Current location: Level 3, Weapons gallery.

End of log.

Addendum by Surgical Director Gogot: Hey boss you should of just asked me what toa types it fits. You're office is literally like five doors from the dissection lab. For the record, its only compatible with the arm structures of class-2 toa, as they are the ones who were active during the creation of this weapon.

[doedipus]

Looking up videos of elden ring combo theory is kind of maddening. There's tech and it looks cool but the engine and frame data are so obviously fighting you more often than not. I wish fromsoft would further embrace the comparison to fighting games at some point and build a game with useful target combos and such. Hitconfirms and things like routing and meter management are really cool skills to call for in a game, and it's always frustrating that they're like, purely lab monster shit more often than not in these things. I guess ultimately souls games are more dungeon crawling rpgs than action or fighting games, but they've been leaning in that direction increasingly since bloodborne, so I'm surprised they haven't committed more

[the-east-art]

There’s aren’t really anything but do you understand my vision. The reason I haven’t posted art in four days is cuz I’ve been playing nier nonstop

[lal-ffxiv]

Two Star Clan Mark Bills