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| Location | Lehi, Utah, USA |
| Language | en |
| orgs | https://chaos.social/tags/dn42 |
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Layoffs and stock buybacks are usually perceived by investors as savvy business decisions by pragmatic leaders when in reality both are an admission by the board and management that they have no idea what they're doing.
Layoffs are an admission the company doesn't know how to use human resources.
Stock buybacks are an admission the company doesn't know how to use capital.
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research โ by him, and others โ has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
My PR for @elk was just merged into main! As a result Elk will soon support the Web Share Target API ๐
This means you will be able to select an image/video/text on your phone (and on ChromeOS) and choose Elk as the app to share with!
This was one of my first open source contributions and certainly the biggest, so I would like to thank @userquin for all of his help and guidance. It was a great experience, can't wait to find something else to solve ๐
It's good to see that some Oregon universities are pushing back hard against perhaps greediest academic publishing company. https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/pressing-pause-on-elsevier-subscription/article_93c07dec-9120-11ed-8ce9-abbca97ab954.html
But I fear it'll make no difference in the end. Universities around the world have to organize against a rapacious cartel that pays researchers nothing and charges kings ransoms for access to the research.
h/t @erinnacland