• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Idk everyone is doing the "he was killed but

    The medical examiner’s office determined the manner of death to be suicide and police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”

    Isn’t it possible the guy was troubled and just actually killed himself?

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      8 days ago

      its most certainly possible. but its also possible it was not since billions of dollars are at stake.

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        8 days ago

        Yes I just mean that I wouldn’t consider it a murder without any indication of it being one

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      8 days ago

      People fall out of Russian windows everyday, no one know why.

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        People also kill themselves daily (well those who succeed do it just the once)

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    9 days ago

    Oh, I see how it is. They keep killing and killing, but we hit ONE CEO and shit hits the fan. Alright, then.

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      8 days ago

      Can’t we try and fund our own armed compounds for whistleblowers?

      Especially the ones that benefit working class cause like this guy - because AI stealing our data is a threat to all of us.

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        8 days ago

        It’s so bad because people will happily cheer it on. But eventually it will just be used to go after political opponents and just classes of people that whoever is in charge doesn’t like. We have so, so many dumb and sometimes even conflicting crimes on the books that the average American unwittingly breaks a few federal laws and usually a myriad of state laws (most being outdated or blue book laws) every week. For some people near state borders it can be everyday.

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    8 days ago

    Why not establish armed compounds where we the people keep whistleblowers safe?

    Some private rancho in Texas with armed guards and lots of cameras?

    Clearly gov is failing to protect them.

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      8 days ago

      My mid 20s were when I hit a major mental breaking point. If I hadn’t had a good support network of friends close to me and family I could turn to…

      26 is old enough to feel like you’ve lost everything and that nothing will ever be good again. He left a good career for his morals and lost all hope of employment from it.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    So here’s what I think happened:

    Scenario One: Balaji killed himself. Seeing the evil that had been wrought, he was wracked with guilt over his part in building it, and checked out. Don’t worry, he’s not too far ahead of the rest of us.

    Scenario Two: Balaji knew too much, and still had the means to halt the project, or worse, allow it to get captured by other interests, and so he had be silenced. A professional made sure it didn’t look like foul play.

    Scenario Three: He was hit like in S2 but the hired gun was through remote channels, the money sent to them anonymously. Balaji discovered the project had escaped its constraints via an esoteric process that allowed it access not merely past firewalls, but was able to follow instructions outside its authorized objectives. Balaji sought to tell the other developers, but it was hard to explain before communications were terminated.

    Mind you, I write thrillers, so I may be biased.

  • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
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    9 days ago

    Two bullets back of the head?

    A Boeing suicide…

    You know we all love a good laugh about russians falling out from a window but will start asking questions whu whistle blowers “dying” is a normal occurrence in the US.

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      A Boeing suicide…

      A crass nickname for the CIA Prize for Journalism if I ever saw one.

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    8 days ago

    You gotta set up a dead man’s switch (not literal give the evidence to a lawyer or do a deposition or whatever). Do that before you blow the whistle and announce that at the same time.

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      Wrong country. Drugs are easy to get here, for example, especially in silicon valley. Not to mention the easiest cause of being suicided, high caliber lead poisoning.

      That said, it’s always possible (though less likely) that he couldn’t live with himself, having helped create the current worst technology around.

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      In some countries some people prefer to suicide themselves alone in their rooms without warning. In other countries, they prefer to suicide themselves by shooting themselves multiple times in the back and/or throwing themselves off of multiple story windows. Who can say? It’s not like countries led by psychopaths who put profit margins above society, including people’s lives, would ever kill people to defend their bottom line.

      There’s two barriers to justice in today’s world: The first one is having enough money to hire lawyers. The second one is having enough money to hire bodyguards.