It’s an interesting dynamic where the ransomware groups have to be reliable and professional for their business model to work.

I was young in the 90s/2000s and it honestly felt like computing was a new stage for human progress.

I clearly wasn’t the only one. There was the “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” in 1996:

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

I think the moral of all this is that fundamentally technology doesn’t matter. If you don’t have the public structures to reign in the oligarchs, shills and liars, you’re not going to get anywhere.

Google had a privacy chief?

What exactly was he doing? Jacking off Pichai?

Guess, I will need to stop using Chrome unless I have no other option (I mostly use Firefox, but I occasionally use Chrome).

I think US consumers will manage. As non-American I find it strange that so few Americans seem to recognize that trade isn’t going to magically make the world a peaceful united place.

Yeah, the employees definitely don’t give a shit about ethical AI or any of those PR talking points. They only care about their vested shares.

I am also betting they will bounce back; hopefully this is indeed a good opportunity to buy the stock for cheap.