I read it more as a data exfiltration thing vs fundraising, but that's also compatible with your point, I think, and taking the article at face value is for sure unwise. Thanks.
That scene in The Two Towers where Saruman's raising his army, Christopher Lee delivers this line "they drove your people into the hills," and his intonation on the way he draws out the last word somehow makes this one of my favorite scenes in the entire trilogy
I'm no expert but I've worked with people who've accessed our corporate VPN while abroad in another global north country and that raised alarm bells. Surely Amazon is at least as careful as my rinkydink org, and would've blocked a request from DPRK, no?
Just speculating since the article's light on details but I'll bet they had to VPN to get on Amazon's net in the first place, and that's where the latency was introduced. Not sure how you'd work backwards to DPRK from there but again I'm not an expert.
put on my electrode shower cap thingy, log into the net, the excitement for the latest releases from my favorite brainwave pattern creators drains away as I realize now it's all neuroslop
I apologize, didn't intend to come off as insulting. Your top level comment demonstrates awareness for sure but your subsequent ones read to me as written by someone who doesn't, they give me a very "end of history vibes," as if the very examples you cite aren't being degraded and hollowed out in real time before our eyes. not apologizing for assuming the audience isn't aware of regulatory capture. I find it odd you'd assume the opposite tbh.
I think at the very least we disagree on the definition of "black pilled doomerism," in the context of responding to this news, but to be frank that's not a discussion I'm interested in having presently.
I'm thinking about the person from the sign company who had to deliver and install this. Were they into it? Do they carry trauma with them? Was it just another job executed with cold dispassion? I hope they're doing OK wherever they are
Until political scientists invent self-enforcing regulations, there will be humans doing it, and there is an obvious conflict of interest in having this particular human be responsible for this particular issue.
Can't stop thinking about the scene on the stairs after Light and L come in from the rain. It wasn't exactly subtle but I still appreciated how they conveyed L's acceptance of his imminent death with the Jesus/Judas imagery well before he asks "It'll be lonely, won't it?"
Been watching Death Note with one of my kids. Just finished Ep 25, Silence. No spoilers but what the fuck. Kinda feel like this could be a series finale and I wouldn't even miss the denouement. But we press on.
I'll be like that pharmacist who reviews gas station speed but only for KB