Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Casey Newton (tech guy) reports this evening 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. Contractors aren’t being notified at all, they’re just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system.” Yikes. 😳
Phil Rees@austinkocher I'm beginning to wonder whether there's something clinical going on with him. He's doing this knowing the amount of scrutiny he's already under. If he were in his right mind he'd surely realize the damage this will do to motivation and staff retention at his other businesses.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@phrees @austinkocher I've had the same thought. Yesterday he posted (not a reply) "I did it for the lulz" with some sort of emoji, then deleted it within an hour. Not an Elon-watcher generally, but he does not seem well.
@phrees @austinkocher Yesterday he seemed to spend time following and tweeting back to threads on crypto. He seems disconnected, but what do I know, I'm not a billionaire. He also seems to have lost Matt Taibbi, who seems to want the speech-free-for-all thing to be more robustly welcoming to lost souls jonesing for the contrarian takes of the Matt Taibbi substack.