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  • Or, it’s because whoever is doing this hates freedom of information and historical evidence. There’s a long list of powerful people and governments who have the resources and will to carry out these attacks.

    Cyber warfare is real, and the Internet archive is a museum and library of culture and truth. It provides evidence and context to our past.

    As in conventional war, it is valuable to the amoral to destroy culture and truth in order to control it. Many would like to kill that to supplant it with their version of events that can’t be refuted with evidence.



  • Reddit did that and then instantly multiple serious competitors began to siphon off their power users both out of principle and practicality, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

    YouTube i think understands to not cross the line because if they no longer have a monopoly on mid to long form content their golden goose dies. People are already on edge after a long sequence of attacks against non-premium users.

    Personally, If they do do that, and at least some amount of the channels I care about move to a different platform, I’ll happily move with them and cancel my YouTube premium.





  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeidasTouch#History

    The group name and slogan come from their mother and father, combining their father’s last name, Meiselas, and their mother’s maiden name, Golden,[14] while alluding to the mythological Greek king Midas known for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold.

    On July 21, 2023, MeidasTouch filed paperwork to rename itself to Democracy Defense Action,[19] and later that year, news reporting indicated the MeidasTouch name was being used for a news network called MeidasTouch Network











  • It starts with a staff shortage while scaling up, or a small project that current employees don’t have capacity for.

    The execs have a decision, find and hire a long term employee(s), train them up, make sure it’s a good culture fit, and pay their benefits and compensation

    or get a contractor firm to fill seats and pay the contract.

    It’s all downhill from there once they pick a contracting firm.

    The contracting firm is a Trojan horse for the short term philosophy, while also eroding away the skill pipeline of raising juniors to senior talent so the company eventually has to keep going back to firms.

    Instead of scaling up and building the knowledge pool as the company grows organically, they want to massively scale up and down and cycle through many people and skim the good contractors off the top. But this does not work.

    The bad contractors overflow the org with tech debt. Seniors don’t have juniors to train, nor do they work on the core stuff to keep their skills. The seniors and good contractors skimmed off the top turn into contractor babysitters. The juniors don’t exist. The seniors eventually turn into managers or leave for greener pastures where their original skills are wanted and respected and fostered.

    Eventually the company is left a husk of past talent and mountain of tech debt, and no in-house skill to turn things around, so the options are to stay with contracting indefinitely or start at ground 0.

    Combined with not increasing wages to match cost of living and inflation, not giving bonuses when there profits, and now you’ve got most of corporate America with their burnt out workforce skeleton crew.