The OSS team affected could contact major insurers and insurance industry trade orgs for legal and financial assistance. It's quite likeky this Laqua guy has made enemies and his "startup ethics" potentially has Corgi violating numerous laws and regulations in what is a fairly well regulated industry.

Well that PR is cheaper than buying Johnny Ives for $6 billion. You could probably buy an entire Ivy League philosophy department for 60 million.

The AI price inflation is unreal. Used to be that you could get the grad students doing all the actual work for the price of a pizza party and alcohol.

A wonderfully unexpected piece of creativity and worldbuilding, thanks for sharing. Feels like a setting eager to come back to life.

It's laughable to assume good intentions at this point, this predatory monopolist makes every decision against a free and open internet and in favor of monetization, authoritarianism, and enshittification.

A fair and impartial jury is a fundamental part of freedom. I genuinely cannot believe that we have been reduced to wanting to destroy the jury system to punish companies we don’t agree with. At this point, this is less activism and more weaponized disrespect for fundamental freedoms.

What is the principle you’re using here?

What an awful name, "s&box", it reads like a text rendering error.

I think it's supposed to be pronounced "Sandbox", but they realized that the word Sandbox would be unsearchable.

It's a name best saved for an embodied humanobot that can do laundry, etc., too, as well as answer questions, screen calls, etc.

What makes you think the outsourcing firm didn't raise these concerns in email or meetings? You think these people wanted to lose jobs and income? That's irrational.

Why reflexively defend a massive tech corporation caught repeatedly violating the law?

> Why reflexively defend a massive tech corporation caught repeatedly violating the law?

Because it is the natural expansion of the quote attributed to Upton Sinclair:

> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires

Leaving OPEC right now means little short-term with so much production shut-in. Long-term, the UAE may cease to exist if this war goes on. Its population is 80%+ guest workers, it's totally dependent on desalination, food imports, and oil/gas exports and is incapable of defending itself on its own.

I doubt gray market sites have any kind of longterm value or predictable revenues. Who knows what kind of site it was, but to be valued so lowly the regulatory risk might be very high.