OpenClaw (the idea) is amazing: Obvious in hindsight, deceptively simple. In the end, it’s really just taking “what if we gave an agent access to personal data and communication channels as context” and running with it, nevermind the consequences. But so are many groundbreaking new ideas!
OpenClaw (the software project) is one of the worst messes I’ve ever seen in any git repository. Security, capabilities, simplicity, and they chose at most one.
Interesting to read that there is little to no legal action that can be taken to halt operations at the plant, which means that unfortunately it may take a long time for this to be resolved.
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It’s interesting that in 2018 we didn’t see any anonymous posts confirming the story. This recent article suggests that knowledge was fairly well spread amongst government agencies and their suppliers. Impressive that the culture of secrecy remains so strong.
Given that his entire family in China has effectively been erased as far as he knows, I think the CCP has a pretty strong level of control in the vast majority of cases.
He currently lives in Netherlands while his wife and child are in Turkey.
Of course there are primary sources, it's just that they're usually in Mandarin or Uyghur or some other non-English language of the region, and they're not nicely reduced down to a few key statements like a news article.
> Those involved became so concerned that they developed a list of people in California they could frame if authorities tracked the harassment there, Lelling said
It would be interesting to know the middleman involved in hiring BellTroX; surely Exxon didn’t hire them directly but were working with a “public relations” company that took initiative to hire this shady firm. Knowing the middleman might help connect the loose threads
