cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55039106
I knew both of these happened, but I didn’t compare them in my brain until now. But that’s crazy.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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Aaron Schwartz and Ian Murdock are the two people I have never met I truly mourn to this day. So much good that was just not compatible with this shitty world.
I immediately thought of Aaron when I read about Facebook torrenting books.
A wise man once told me: "there's no such thing as problems, just expenses"
As someone who made several bold moves over the last 7 years to get on the right side of a very obvious societal slide to selfishness, I can confirm.
The assets I cobbled together have allowed me to do the little things like sanitize all my house's air and water on entry ahead of this digital cold war. China is literally dormant in a large percentage of US utilities' networks waiting for orders. I expect them to poison water supplies remotely by releasing normally-benign water treatment chemicals in unsafe doses.
To all those who said I was crazy for putting my sweat and tears into preparing: I never could have guessed it'd be this bad, this quickly either. Happy I followed my gut though!
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but we shouldn't want anyone prosecuted at all
Agreed. Prosecution is mostly revenge at this point
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