Science and Technology thread

[bfactor]

For your entertainment needs: https://old.reddit.com/r/twbluechecktakeover/

 

[aiw]

Musk seriously has no idea what he's doing. Read the rest of the thread.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Didn’t realize Duke-Forum was almost all of Twitter’s website traffic referrals.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Twitter cuts a large number of contract workers without giving internal teams a heads up

Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the social media business has implemented mass layoffs and now steep cuts to its contract workforce.

www.cnbc.com

I mean, the company is going to go under, right? You can’t lay off half the employees and also cut 80% of the contractors. The people who are left are not working 80 hour weeks unless they’re terrible so they can’t get other jobs. That leaves you with either no work getting done or pervasive incompetence.

 

[bfactor]

At this point the entire platform could go down for days due to a single SEV that would have formerly caused a five minute disruption. The infra to run this kind of stuff at scale is really complex and fragile, plus them rushing out all of these half baked experimental features all of a sudden accelerates the tech debt. Playing with fire.

 

[deepdarkblue]

Daily reminder that Elon Musk is a vindictive snowflake bitch who doesn't actually know how to do anything.

 

[bfactor]

Top tier trolling.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Just laughing at this.

 

[Topher]

This guy is actually just Kelvin Gemstone running the God Squad

 

[deepdarkblue]

Just laughing at this.

Here's someone who never had to work in his life demanding that others work more than a reasonable amount on his behalf.

 

[rome8180]

I would take my three months' severance and trust that other companies understand how shitty it got there.

 

[bfactor]

Outside of the mega-sized tech companies that overhired during/after the pandemic, it’s actually a very healthy job market right now in tech for the experienced folks. Good time to take severance and find something else. Slightly more challenging for new grads but it just means they need to drop their expectations a down a tier. I hope it results in more people considering what they’d like to work on vs how prestigious the company seems. Definitely due for a reset there.

 

[aiw]

Will it be here on Monday? Read thread.

 

[aiw]

 

[aiw]

Twitter can suck, but I have learned a lot of things in a lot of different subjects because of it. I will miss it for the most part.

 

[DrKlahn]

Well i just posted a dick pic, so that should be all

 

[rome8180]

I will miss that license plate thread you showed me the other day. That's about it.

Bite sized chunks of information aren't interesting to me. I use social media to offset my lackluster social life. I like social media sites that drive actual conversations and virtual friendships, like this one. Twitter drives snark, arguments, and lame Gen Z humor.

#oldmanrant over.

 

[rhfarmer]

Twitter is the only social media platform I use.

 

[deeyoukayeee]

Super 70s Sports feed would be a big loss. Otherwise no big deal.