so Elon
1. Fired half of the company, without determining whether they were necessary employees
2.Shut down 80% of microservices, without determining what was actually necessary for site operation
Looking forward to him believing he can remove the useless 90% of his brain.
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The Steelcase Vintage Quidditch Chair: boffosocko.com/?p=55811553
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The Twitter engineering director just addressed his leaked messages during a staff meeting and said sorry 🙃
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Next time someone says: “both sides are the same…”, only one side has signs like this up in Georgia. #WarnockforSenate
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Looking at some rough statistics for the Fediverse tonight and it appears that since November 4 that there are now 1,785 more instances or nodes in the network. About 60 of those are WordPress-based sites! (boffosocko.com/?p=55811538)
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Are you rocking the boat during eternal Caturday?
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Our #CSCW2022 paper, “Maintaining Values: Navigating Diverse Perspectives in Value-Charged Discussions in Open Source Development” is now available on the ACM DL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3555550
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Max was kind of a jerk though, no?
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Just now catching up on the GP, and very pleased with a strong finish by Carlos and Charles. One more race to defend P2 in both championships. #F1
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I successfully navigated the timezone changes to London and back and didn't lose my Duolingo streak, AMA 🔥
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Live now on youtube youtu.be/Z8-jOIE5QEk
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Scheduled tweets still working or has all the infrastructure on twitter collapsed? I'm live in 1 hour over on youtube to talk student loan forgiveness youtu.be/Z8-jOIE5QEk
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Twitter laid off roughly 4,400 of 5,500 contractors yesterday, per Casey:
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Twitter contractors are also losing their healthcare on Monday — with roughly 48 hours notice. Workers with ongoing health conditions, and some who are pregnant, are scrambling. Information about COBRA is going out via snail mail.
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"text": "Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others"
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