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The Title of the Thread (GitHub Director of engineering openly encourages racism) and her Linkedin say something different https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericajoy/

• dekhn 6y ago
  she left a week ago. See this dupe, which is flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25613717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25613717 for a tweet. There's no way that Github would ever entertain this idea.
  • pelasaco 6y ago
    well, looks like for some minutes ago you weren't aware of that too? "She will probably stay employed: github knows that the blowback of firing her will exceed the cost of maintaining her. Erica has a whole twitter posse ready, and she has a high profile in the media. github doesn't want a redo of timnit."
    • dekhn 6y ago
      that's correct, I learned of the job status within the time of the various comments being posted. Originally I thought she was still employed based on the title, just like you. "Stories" based on tweets often evolve within several hours.
• sanguy 6y ago
  Sorry, see my post above. Her personal page indicates she is director of engineering at GitHub but several have told me she left last week. Regardless what she tweeted is still wrong. https://www.ericabaker.com https://www.ericabaker.com