Dietrich Daroch

@dietrich.daroch.me

OK-ish guitar player and mediocre cyclist, but pretty good when it comes to doing both at the same time.

Back when I was a young man, CEOs made about 20 times the salary of their employees. Today a typical CEO makes over 280 times more. Here's what we can do about it.

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact

Collage titled "Trust is not Governance — an essay from inside Google DeepMind, written in personal capacity." 

A 2014 memorandum, "Conditions of the Acquisition," lists: military applications of DeepMind technology banned; deployment decisions before an independent ethics board (as reported in Mallaby's The Infinity Machine). 

Red threads lead to a 2026 U.S. Department of Defense agreement for classified networks reading "any lawful government purpose," with safety settings and filters adjusted at the government's request and no contractor veto (reported terms, The Information, Apr. 2026). 

Below: a 2018 AI Principles strip ("no weapons, no surveillance") stamped DROPPED 2025, and a Project Mario 2016–2021 tag stamped ABANDONED.

By now you’ve heard that the Supreme Court shot down Trump’s executive order that attempted to eliminate birthright citizenship. SCOTUS did the right thing — but the fact that the decision was so close is alarming. It makes serious court reform all the more important.

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.

Hitler lied to his country about why he went to war, about how great the German economy was, how the world envied them, how the German people supported him, how the media was the enemy, how “vermin” were poisoning the country, and how he was making Germany Great Again. This post is not about Hitler.

If a 1m 240W 80Gbps USB-C cable is $26 they should straight out forbid selling any inferior cable and end the current cable lottery of cables that might or not work as you need them to

what's your ai strategy? what's your quantum computing strategy? what's your ww3 strategy? what's your collapse of consensus reality strategy? what's your restructuring of global supply chains strategy? what's your pedophile billionaire cabal blackmail ring strategy?