Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • Through UCLA’s Technology Transfer Group, which transforms brilliant research into global market products, the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals

    In case you were curious how this publicly funded research is going to be turned into private profits.







  • statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars … When their lie catches up with them … decide to end it all"

    This is a very unlikely situation.

    These stories of nefarious liars abusing poor defenseless corporations would be publicized widely if true. We’d have prominent, well known examples.

    This needs people who think the threats and reputational damage of being a whistleblower are worth it for the ‘recognition’, who are smart enough to construct a believable sounding claim but not smart enough to see the inevitable consequences. That specific kind of person is going to be much rarer than people who work for a legitimately shitty company and don’t like it.


  • It’s not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it’s leverage that enshittifies a service.

    A VC that understands that they can force you to wreck your users’ lives is always in danger of doing so. A VC who understands that doing this will make your service into an empty – and thus worthless – server is far less likely to do so (and if they do, at least your users can escape).

    Incredibly clear article pointing out that no individuals will ever be able to resist enshittifaction pressures indefinitely.

    The only way to prevent people with power from emiserating others is to structurally remove any benefit to doing so.