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• D.J.P. O'Kane commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
  Has this been posted yet? The FBI tried to compile a list of internet slang terms, only to end up with severe EOF (Egg On Face): http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/17/the-fbi-maintains-an-83-page-glossary-of-internet-slang-and-it-is-hilariously-frighteningly-out-of-touch/...
• Jay commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
  I wonder what their entry for "We are aware of all internet traditions" looks like. Which level of irony escaped them?...
• paws4thot commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
  The FB are USian, and government, and law enforcement, so I'd say "all levels of irony, including ones not even known to the rest of us"....
• J Thomas commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
  "Even if they get this ludicrous linguistic hard AI, it would drown in so many petabytes of surveillance that it's still futile." Yes, but they don't need something that works. They need something they can claim they believe will work. If they get an assassination attempt that they did not predict, that had internet messages they should have predicted from, that will look bad after it happens provided the public hears about it. But right now they look bad for getting buried in petabytes of surveillance. If they can just get a good excuse to ignore that stuff they will...
• JamesPadraicR commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
  This article seems to fit this thread: The FBI maintains an 83-page glossary of Internet slang. And it is hilariously, frighteningly out of touch. Apparently somebody in the FBI thinks that any acronym used on Twitter must be in common usage....