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Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by moralestapia on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:38PM (#46787283)
The story doesn't make sense, tbh ...

One single guy. What was he supposed to do after they let him in? Just start asking people about their legal status? I doubt Google has many illegal immigrants working there ... I doubt there's even one.

Then this guy finds them, allegedly, does he just arrests them and take them out the building? All by himself? With all the cameras and phones on the planet recording it? Inside Google, from all places?

It just doesn't make sense.

From the article:

>Google’s top brass—including CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis—have remained silent on Pretti’s killing even inside the company, sources say.

Why would they, though?

Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by tamarinddreams on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:28PM (#46788687)
I think you are maybe approaching this from some rational place with some kind of assumption of good will. ICE on the other hand invaded Hyundai and arrested a bunch of people on various visas without knowing what was law enforcement and what was kidnapping. Big mistake maybe, for who? Met their quota. Only one guy? Can call others as soon as they have found a suspicion and then it is not reasonable to deny other enforcement. It is potentially as illegal as blocking backup to an active crime scene.
Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by motbus3 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:04AM (#46793318)
I am not saying it is related, but the SS police was famous for solving their personal problems while using the uniform too.

They also escorted politicians and stuff on events although it was completely unrelated to their role. Later on, the SS became what they became.

Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by xp84 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:47PM (#46787412)
I agree, I don't need to hear my CEO's opinions on whatever controversy is big today. Run the company, focus on that.
Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:37PM (#46788099)
I'd like to hear my CEO say that he won't allow goons into the building to drag me away to a concentration camp.
Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by moralestapia on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:46PM (#46788226)
There's not much a CEO can do about that ... (nor it should).
Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by watwut on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:06PM (#46788463)
CEO are among the few people who can actually do something about that.
Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by moralestapia on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:21PM (#46788603)
I don't follow.

Do you have a concrete example?

Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by moralestapia on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:50AM (#46793688)
>No.

A classic.

Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by tamarinddreams on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:41AM (#46794086)
CEOs restructure. Haliburton for example seems to have head quarters psychizophrenia.

Google headquartered in the US is weak. Google headquartered in Ireland can play the negotiation farce and will either win in the end or will be able to write off the US in a better position.

Similarly they can move anyone who is uncomfortable to other GEOs individually. Kind of a weak move that may be enough if the current administration falls apart.

Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by moralestapia on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:25AM (#46795831)
None of this makes sense to me.
Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by xp84 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:13AM (#46792913)
What concentration camp? They're sending people home. Do I have a right to just show up and stay indefinitely in any country on earth just because I don't like my home country? Obama supported deporting people all day long, especially criminals, but now believing the existence of borders supposedly makes one "MAGA."
Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by motbus3 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:07AM (#46793344)
I guess no one questions about illegal immigrants being deported, but actually being physically attacked, abused and havr authorities blatantly denying wrongdoing even when they are caught (besides using AI for editing images to create certain narratives and supporting such actions when they are found doing that)

But anyway. That's not my problem. I hope all ends well for everyone

Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by tastyface on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:00AM (#46793775)
Are you shitting me? Which Venezuelans call CECOT home? What about all the other Latin American and African torture camps people are getting sent to? https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/trump-administratio...
Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by intermerda on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:15AM (#46797291)
> What concentration camp?

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/27/us-witnessed-many-i...

https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/trump-administratio...

> They're sending people home.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/third-country-deportations-a...

> Do I have a right to just show up and stay indefinitely in any country on earth just because I don't like my home country?

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-ja...

> Obama supported deporting people all day long, especially criminals, but now believing the existence of borders supposedly makes one "MAGA."

Ignorance, wilful lying, no respect for due process, support for illegal state-sponsored terrorism, lack of empathy are some of the things that makes one MAGA. Not belief in the existence of borders.

Re:Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physic... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:37PM (#46788094)
But consider: they're all really fucking stupid.