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Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by pakyr on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:24PM (#42373409)
Was this linked from any of his existing social medias? Do we have any way of knowing it's actually him? I'd be just a tad cautious at this stage, given that the Substack page says it was 'Launched an hour ago' as of writing. The article, sure, dead man's switch, but the Substack publication itself was only created after his arrest?

Edit: also worth noting that whatever this is, it's not the document he had with him when he was arrested, since that apparently contained[0] the following excerpt, while this doesn't

> “These parasites had it coming,” one line from the document reads, according to a police official who has seen it. Another reads, “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian...

Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by matrix87 on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:31PM (#42373443)
this archive link is floating around on blind and reddit. I have no idea if it's authentic. I didn't find a link to his other social media but the part about back pain lines up with this bit I found in a nymag article [0]

> Something seems to have changed in recent months. Martin told a Hawaii publication that his friend had suffered chronic back pain and texted him images after getting surgery before going “radio silent” over the summer. Asked in court if he was in contact with family, Mangione said “until recently.”

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/luigi-mangione-unite...

Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by pakyr on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:35PM (#42373464)
The Substack is still live[0]. Anyway, one of the images in his Twitter banner[1] is an X-ray of a spine with a bunch of screws in it. The Substack is also named after Breloom and has a picture at the bottom, and that's also in the Twitter banner but doesn't seem otherwise prominent in any of his social medias. Not very hard to figure out a spinal issue as a potential motive and guess at an interest based on the banner and cook up a quick viral post. I'm not saying it's definitely fake, just urging a bit of caution for the time being.

[0]https://breloomlegacy.substack.com/p/the-allopathic-complex-...

[1]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeYOLH2WgAA16X7.jpg

Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by burningChrome on Monday December 09, 2024 @11:43PM (#42373832)
My buddy sent me a link to that archive.ph version of the substack, but it showed it was published today??
Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by matrix87 on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:38PM (#42373481)
> The Substack is still live

This might be a bug in substack? If you go to https://substack.com/@breloomlegacy it says "Profile not found", so they might've tried to scrub it

maybe some cache ttl hasn't run out yet or something :/

Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by pakyr on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:50PM (#42373549)
I dunno, but the article continues to be live, and I can't imagine Substack doesn't know how to scrub posts from their platform if they wanted to. We'll find out eventually I guess, so I'll continue to urge people to be cautious with this and wait a bit.
Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by lolinder on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @12:17AM (#42374003)
It's gone from Substack now, but I agree with you that we should be cautious in assuming anything at this point.
Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by blackeyeblitzar on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @02:22AM (#42374617)
Why would substack scrub it? I thought they were anti censorship.
Re:Software developer arrested in connection with murder of ... by ayewo on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @05:21AM (#42375490)
I'm guessing they are afraid of inspiring copy-cats.

Not that it would stop a really determined copy-cat from taking notes from Luigi Mangione.