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#272Anyone who's a whistleblower should compile key docs and put it in a "dead man's switch" service that releases your testimony/docs to multiple news agencies in the event of your untimely demise. The company you're whistle blowing against and their major shareholders should know this exists. Also, regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state.
Less techy, but how about personal relationships you can trust?
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Totally agree, there's just not enough money going around in the valley to make it worthwhile discontinuing a person's life. Glad we're on the same page.
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#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I'm a whistleblower in an active case and I end up dead before testifying, I absolutely DO want the general public to speculate about my cause of death.
Agreed. This is a good time to revisit an Intercept investigation from last year that explored another suspicious suicide by a tech titan whistleblower: https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/
Indeed, public speculation is what keeps these cases from getting swept under the rug.
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, that's the first time I'm hearing about that tactic. And it's dawning on me how egregious that is because it could be inoculating you against the very messages meant to dissuade you. Though I'm unsure how effective those messages were to begin with.
Yeah, it's making you look back at yourself. Like when someone tells you that you look tired or sick or something like that, and you are actually not but you still need to check it up because they might have a point. Then more often than not you start feeling that way. It's suggestive.
Might be worth investing some energy leveling up skills of not lettting random internet jerks have that much power over thy emotions
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to see a statistical analysis of whistleblower deaths on the US over the last 15 years. I'd be extremely susprised if it wasn't enormously anomalous.
It’d be hard to draw any conclusion. A whistleblower must be under extreme stress and pressure which in itself in some way or other will increase the risk of death — so that has to be taken account before saying the plausible cause for the excess deaths is assassination.
Let's start with keeping the whistleblowers alive and we have more time to figure out the cause and effect later.
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#277RIP. Suchir was a man of principles, he probably had to give up his OpenAI options as a result of his stance - OpenAI is reported to have a very restrictive offboarding agreements [1] " It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it. If a departing employee declines to sign the document, or if they violate it, they can…
I am amazed that such things are possible. Here on France this is so illegal that it is laughable.
I am saying "laughable" because there are small things companies try to enforce, and say sorry afterwards. But telling you that you are stuck with this for life is comedy grade.
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#278Anyone who's a whistleblower should compile key docs and put it in a "dead man's switch" service that releases your testimony/docs to multiple news agencies in the event of your untimely demise. The company you're whistle blowing against and their major shareholders should know this exists. Also, regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state.
> multiple news agencies In the case of the US, you cannot make your selection wide enough. For optimal security, get it to both local news organizations and serious European press agencies. The US news media do not have independent editorial boards. Several titles are actually from the same house. Corporate ownership, and professionals going to the dark side via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_capture are just s…
This is what was done with WikiLeaks - a few major European journals worked on the information together
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#279When I die, as a last wish, I hope people will go wild with speculative assassination theories. Especially if the police find "no evidence" of foul-play or the coroner says it was due to "old age"--it can only mean the cops and docs are also in on it.
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America has always been batshit insane. Arguably it's democracy that gives this insanity political power.