kevin collins
@kevbob
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Alum: Flickr & Glitch the game (proto-Slack). Current: fraud fighter. PDX 🇺🇸 🌎 CEB 🌏 🇵🇭 (voxkev on bird site)
@heather going to jump in a time machine with a grey shroud, some bike chains, and print outs of the current situation and dump them on the table at a board meeting circa 2011. "I am the ghost of your future" and watch dickc ev and jack turn green.
Well well, the community manager by default of bird site discovered why some specific rules were in place, managed by those people he fired. Turns out KW was a leopard in the leopard eating people’s faces party and EM got his face eaten for a community problem.
Fuck that site and fuck those guys.
1.3.6.1.4.1.61513A lot of Mastodon instance admins are either getting their first hosting bill or getting a very increased bill from extreme growth and usage. Some may be experiencing bill shock.
Please make sure your paying/supporting them!
Twitter was free because you were the product. Mastodon doesn't work this way.
Many instances list a patreon or donation links on their about page.
@amye No, I like chili.
AkivaMCohenSo here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.
I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.
I regret to inform you that I inadvertently purchased a bar of dark chocolate, bit into it and threw the rest away.
Carry on.
Bill WoodcockI keep going back and re-reading this, because it so perfectly exemplifies a fundamentally different mind-set about employment in the US and Europe.
On the one hand, "I'm the boss, I can fire people." On the other hand, "What delusion is this bozo under, to think he can treat people as though they're no longer employed by the company?"
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/news/twitter-has-reinstated-senior-irish-executive-sinead-mcsweeney-following-generic-firing-email-high-court-told-42185817.html
On the one hand, "I'm the boss, I can fire people." On the other hand, "What delusion is this bozo under, to think he can treat people as though they're no longer employed by the company?"
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/news/twitter-has-reinstated-senior-irish-executive-sinead-mcsweeney-following-generic-firing-email-high-court-told-42185817.html
🦊.rawr => lambda yip: yap(yip)Remember: if you get Wikipedia "pls give us money" begging, give to the Internet Archive instead.
The internet archive is perpetually underfunded, whereas Wikipedia has enough cash on hand to continue operating at twice its capacity for about 3 decades.
Editors strongly opposed the wording of the recent beg banner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics
“At SpaceX, we're told we can change the world. I couldn't, however, stop getting sexually harassed.
From the man who brought you TITS U, I present SpaceX: an environmentally irresponsible company so rife with sexism, the only remedy is for women to leave.”
