....wow

That timeline reads to me like he was in withdrawal, vomited, and likely aspirated on his own vomit. All due to lack of actual human care in a supposed ICU. I say "supposed", because that shit shouldn't even be legal for tele-health in the first place.

Marketing be like "this service pairs expert remote monitoring with skilled bedside care" and I translate that bullshit as "we farm monitoring jobs to cheaper labor markets and they watch people die, on Zoom".

Doesn't matter to her. She'll land a lucrative gig on one of the right wing propaganda networks, not go back to practicing law.

Now if she faces criminal and civil penalties beyond that disbarment, that's a different story. Especially at the state level.

While I agree they are unlikely to get a fair trial

1. They don't deserve fairness
2. If this wasn't leaked, they would go un-judged, which is the opposite end of that sliding scale they are complaining about by being outed as torturers.

I do wonder how much of it was "following orders" and how much was pure bloodlust. Neither excuses this, but the former would be indicative of bigger evil up the chain of command.

The fact that these photos and PII (personally identifiable information) were not destroyed after the verification process was certified is absolutely atrocious OpSec. I don't even care which of the two companies is ultimately responsible, because they are both responsible.

1. Zendesk for their bad OpSec
2. Discord for both outsourcing this AND not having contractual requirements to properly secure and destroy PII when it was no longer required.

I work in IT, and treat PII like it's dangerously radioactive, because in the digital world, it really is.

They just assume Uncle Sam will bail them out, no matter what. They are not wrong, much to the frustration of a large portion of the US population.

Yeah, this is the case for most "public to private" company moves, and other types of private equity acquisition deals. They are all just a massive shell game to liquidate a company's value and transfer it to those private equity companies. Vulture Capitalism

The only time I ever fell for a "lifetime" software purchase was back when Trillian (the IM client) was popular. That lasted less than 5 years. Then they released "Astas", which was just a UI refresh, but they treated it like it was a whole new company and product. "Lifetime" is always a scam.

"Sharing" is a funny way to word a headline. They are selling it, for a profit, because it's legal. It's immoral and shady as hell, but "prevent it or expect it" applies here.

“Protect your privacy” is literally why we use uBO…

He is facing his second Christmas without his mother

He's a senior citizen, that is such a weak grab for pity.

So Google, like Amazon, is trying to play the "they work for a subcontractor that only supports us, so it's their fault, not ours" card. I really want to see the NLRB smack this pattern down hard and set an example for all the other companies to try to avoid unionization by way of not directly hiring people.

Some day, we'll have a technology sub that isn't polluted with Twitter "news".