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Musk's actions have certainly damaged Twitter and its engineering. When you set the house on fire of course some termites will get killed but then you might als
by rhuru 3y ago
Musk's actions have certainly damaged Twitter and its engineering. When you set the house on fire of course some termites will get killed but then you might also kill some babies and the family dog.
A lot of tech companies have bloat in the form of AI ethics people, DEI people and so on. They need to go. But Musk probably hurt twitter a lot in short term by firing a lot of engineers and making it a place that made people unhappy.
- csomar 3y ago> AI ethics people These do actually have a proper job. They do ethics laundering for the tech companies and are very valuable.
- duckhelmet 3y ago[dead]
- mk89 3y agoHe is squeezing everything as much as he can. Introduced failing ideas that made him ridiculous world wide, ... to finally hire a CEO. And now he is using the platform to influence elections and events - free for all. Sure.
- dingdong33 3y agoOur company has a position like a DEI director, and honestly, it baffles me. All they seem to do is push what some might call 'leftist woke propaganda' in their never-ending meetings, and I question whether our company's resources should be invested in that.
- bornfreddy 3y agoTIL: DEI == Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (if anyone else didn't know).
- rhuru 3y agoIgnorance is bliss. If you do not know what DEI is it is a bit like not knowing how to be an overweight. You are better off not knowing it.
- esperent 3y agoCould you give some concrete examples from this DEI director of the kind of things you're calling 'leftist woke propaganda'?
- rhuru 3y agoI am not OP but one of the things I have seen these people do is to insist on removing words like "nitty gritty" from our developer documentation by calling it racist.
- agentgumshoe 3y agoIt's just 'brand.' Companies don't generally give two stuffs about their staff, as you find out when anything like unions or HR complaints come up.