NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts.
Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more, and more.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
From @zoeschiffer and me.
Last week, I started calckey.social, which is a general Calckey instance for casual chat.
Today, I'm inviting creatives of all stripes to join calckey.art.
Why specifically for art?
Because Calckey has incredible features that creatives might enjoy.
For example, it's got incredible support for galleries, and thus is an excellent space for curating your art.
It also has support for channels (a.k.a. groups). Which means that if you're a film enthusiast, you can create your own Film channel!
🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found:
One thing I've always said about women in tech is it's not that it's overt sexism, it's subtle, it's like your credentials get tested much more in interactions. For example:
Man: I'm in IT
Others: That's cool.
Woman: I'm in IT
Others: Oh, how would you solve problem X using technology Y.
I just ignore it now, they'll work it out that I might actually know some tech stuff when they work with me for a bit, but I'm sure as hell not going to prove myself to 'Jim the new network guy' just because he wants to know what the woman in the team is doing there (diversity hire, team admin etc...).
I too don't always have the correct answer (as there is always sooo much to learn and everyday some new thing rears its ugly head!), but at least I'm at a place I can ignore the need to prove myself to everyone I get introduced to now, by simply no longer indulging it.
Grace Tame & I stood together to call out social problems
@[email protected] & I have stood together to call out a medical one
All of us have experienced horrific abuse. From twitter to work email
Who could speak in this climate?
Who couldn’t speak, with so much at stake #auspol
Seasonal reminder: Alcohol is a completely legal drug that destroys lives, relationships and families. Don't make it hard for people who are trying to stay sober to enjoy festivities and functions.
(The author of the image is https://www.madsahara.com/illustration/)
@av1d I think most of us, even though happy here, struggle to comprehend what is happening.
It's like how life suddenly changed around us when Covid arrived. It was uncertain, information was not clear and it just felt surreal. To see something again, in such a short timeframe, just be so different to the reality you remember is why I am still curious about what is happening there, even if I nuked my account.
Casey Newton
Chris Trottier
Rod Hilton
Billy Perrigo
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Prof Gemma Carey
Mozilla
Katrin Bretscher 💛💙