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  • Twitter lays off staff including whole ethics team, temporarily closes offices

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    mbs will now be in charge of ethics at Twitter.
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    I was reading on the BBC this morning that many of the employees were notified they were getting laid off, by their company computers having been remotely wiped. 

    Just a piss poor way to handle staff, but then Musk is known for this. I’m sure the remaining staff are feeling REALLY secure. I would not be surprised if a lot of them jump ship as soon as a recruiter calls, and they will be calling. So all of the people who know how to keep Twitter systems working will be gone.

    Yeah this is going to end well. /s
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  • iOS 16.2 surfaces relevant Apple News stories in the Weather app

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    You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

    He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster

    I fear for Apple. I love the products, but slowly they’ve changed. The thing with Apple News in the Weather App is not really a big deal, but neither were the increasing number of ads in the AppStore. Neither were any of the other things that have slipped in, the lapses, the mistakes. It’s like the death of a thousand cuts. Slowly it feels like Apple is becoming a giant grey corporation that puts profits above all else. Above even the user experience. I seem to remember Jobs was once asked about Apple being profitable. He replied something to the effect, and I don’t remember the exact quote, make great products and the profits would follow. Apple is now so focussing on profits that the products are slowly, one incremental bit at a time, becoming less great. Ok, the apologists, and for a long time I would count myself among them, would poo poo the idea. But increasingly  I’ve been seeing compromises in the user experience, in software quality, in options, in pricing. 

    In many ways Apple’s image is tarnishing. They aren’t the upstart company with ‘the computer for the rest of us” any more. They have grown into a giant mega corporation, and I fear in doing that they have forgotten their roots. Forgotten what drew us to them over the competition. Forgotten what made them so appealing. It is why things like this now seem like a good idea to them
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  • Apple Towson union files labor complaint against Apple over withholding benefits

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    While I agree, if you’re in a union, then you have to negotiate and get a contract to get any change in benefits. That’s how it works.

    Buuuuuut

    If the NLRB finds that Apple was giving non unionized workers benefits that they were not offering for the Union contract that could get them in hot water.
    If the NLRB finds that Apple is offering substantially better pay and benefits to non Union workers doing the same job in an effort to get people to quit the Union, to bust it, that could get them in hot water.
    If the NLRB finds that Apple is improving pay and benefits for non union workers, while delaying the start of negotiations, and/or not negotiating in good faith, that could get them in hot water.

    It is up to the NLRB to see if there is a pattern here. Apple may have broken the law. Only time will tell.
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  • Musk tells Twitter engineers to bring Vine back from the dead

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    ophello said:
    DAalseth said:
    So he wants this done, and reports are he’s going to fire most of the staff, and this isn’t the only nearly impossible task he wants the programmers to do, and he’s fired the CEO and the board and is running the place single handedly. 

    Oh this is going to end badly LMAO
    Well this is just false. He has already brought in a team of engineers to help. Furthermore, he's not firing useful people. There were 10 managers for every one coder. Elon Musk knows how to create and run extremely efficient companies. And to argue otherwise is either due to overwhelming ignorance, or just plain hatred of Musk. So which one are you?
    Musk WAS a brilliant entrepreneur, not engineer, entrepreneur. He always hires people to do the hard technical heavy lifting. He has however fallen for the common trap that a lot of rich/famous people fall into. He has started to believe he can’t fail. He’s started to believe his own publicity.  You know how it says on every prospectus, “Prior performance does not guarantee future results”, well that’s the case with every new venture. In this case Musk is going into something he doesn’t know anything about, is a mess, and has at best barely made a profit. He’s bringing in a bunch of engineers who will take how long to get up to speed on the systems? They are not interchangeable parts, even the best take some time to learn the systems, but he’s showing signs of trying to get rid of the old ones before they cost him some money. That means the moral of the remaining staff will drop through the floor. I suspect the best and brightest are already sending out feelers for new positions. So he will have a green staff, without the really capable people to teach them how to work the system, and vague plans to revolutionize the it. Then with his history, especially in recent years, those plans will be revised regularly giving them a moving target. There are already rumbling from the user base that he’s going to destroy Twitter so any move he makes will be greeted with howls of protest. Couple that with the plans he’s talked about that are self contradictory, and in some cases impossible, and you have something I wouldn’t bet on. 

    I USED to have a lot of respect for Musk. His erratic behaviour and stupid statements in recent years have caused myself, and a lot of other people to lose that respect. We’ll see if he can pull this rabbit out, but I suspect, win or lose, he will spend a hell of a lot more than he already has in trying to do so.
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  • Musk tells Twitter engineers to bring Vine back from the dead

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    cfilipponi said:
    DAalseth said:
    So he wants this done, and reports are he’s going to fire most of the staff, and this isn’t the only nearly impossible task he wants the programmers to do, and he’s fired the CEO and the board and is running the place single handedly. 

    Oh this is going to end badly LMAO
    I'm sure you know.  What companies do you own?  
    I don’t need to be a fireman to know when the building is going up in smoke. 
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