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New comment by tamarinddreams in "Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son"

tamarinddreams — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:16:51 +0000

Yet another attempt to store a lot of Cheddar.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

New comment by tamarinddreams in "Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE"

tamarinddreams — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:41:40 +0000

CEOs restructure. Haliburton for example seems to have head quarters psychizophrenia.

Google headquartered in the US is weak. Google headquartered in Ireland can play the negotiation farce and will either win in the end or will be able to write off the US in a better position.

Similarly they can move anyone who is uncomfortable to other GEOs individually. Kind of a weak move that may be enough if the current administration falls apart.

New comment by tamarinddreams in "Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE"

tamarinddreams — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:28:59 +0000

I think you are maybe approaching this from some rational place with some kind of assumption of good will. ICE on the other hand invaded Hyundai and arrested a bunch of people on various visas without knowing what was law enforcement and what was kidnapping. Big mistake maybe, for who? Met their quota. Only one guy? Can call others as soon as they have found a suspicion and then it is not reasonable to deny other enforcement. It is potentially as illegal as blocking backup to an active crime scene.

New comment by tamarinddreams in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

tamarinddreams — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:40:59 +0000

China had the less sophisticated tools of groups like the Stasi in that era.. 3 weeks of terror was not much more in retrospect.

Americans who are currently protesting should consider if the apparatus will be subtly manipulating their environment not just in the next months or years but from now on with high quality data it will have perfectly categorized mined and will re-mine.

New comment by tamarinddreams in "Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews"

tamarinddreams — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:42:06 +0000

Given the argument over LLMs consuming books illegally, I think publishers could be a little concerned that an LLM that combined partial previews on every modern work on a subject might be a destroyer of the market for the average book on the subject with the license to do so having been properly granted via this feature.