Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and - no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses - no goals for hiring women and minorities
Heading into the weekend.
Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement. This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
I am so thrilled to say that all 3 Sweet Treats kittens are ready for adoption. They’ll definitely need someone a bit cat-savvy to help them settle in a new place, but they are good, sweet kids once they trust you. They’re very cat-friendly, ok w/our dogs, but no kids, please. More info in thread:
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Brief check in- Bleak House was so far, spared. We hand carried over 100 pieces out of the collecton. Many friends lost their homes. Helping them now. Will be absent here for a while. Stay safe.
Good morning from 100 Centre Street in Manhattan, where the President-elect is set to be criminally sentenced on 34 felony convictions for falsification of business records. I’m here with and for . Follow along 👇 ⬇️🧵
have to say, all the outrage from FB employees is extremely funny to me. you know you work at the evil nerd surveillance factory - you didn’t realize you were the baddies until now?
After a phone theft, and a bunch of other chaos, I’ve logged back in to blue sky. Besides my city burning, how is everybody else in the world?
NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
The letter signed by >15,000 physicians re: RFK Jr www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
the "esc" key on a keyboard is a holdover from early-'90s personal computers. on some models it would dispense a can of escargot out of one of the unused drive bays. they put it in the corner so you wouldn't press it by accident because you only got three of them. i pushed it once and got grounded
A lot of people will criticize for visiting trump. Don't. Imo, the best way to win voters is to do all you can to represent your constituents first. Your party last. Voters want results. If he can use Trump to get that. Amen.
The DNC will choose a new chair Feb 1. But the names of the members who will vote is secret, even to *other members.* Until today. We are publishing a list of all 448 voting members of the DNC, to show how power is concentrated & flows inside the national party. Micah Sifry has the story.
Happy five year anniversary to the hardest I've ever been owned on social media. x.com/GabrielBrang...
A screenshot of a tweet with a photo of a mannequin in a store window wearing a button down shirt, chore jacket with the sleeves rolled up, and blue jeans. Tweet says it's backlon
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The weekend's in sight... Happy
! 📷 Paul Browning
A kestrel soars towards the camera, wings outstretched and talons ready. Its sharp eyes and slightly open beak give it a look of focus and anticipation, as if it's spotted something exciting just ahead... the weekend.
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My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.
Attempted to demonstrate my modular synth to my parents and couldnt even make the drum machine make a drum noise.
A mandatory one-year moratorium preventing homeowners insurance cancellations and non-renewals in affected areas of Southern California has been issued by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara.
Just wild to think back how 15 years ago it was a massive cost and headache to figure out how to have source control and code reviews. Today, the answer is obvious: GitHub How GitHub solved a massive pain point plus won in a competitive industry is nothing short of incredible
Just saw a no-longer relevant evacuation notice on instagram from five hours ago and remembered — that’s right, due to hyper-monetization every major social network no longer shows you life-saving breaking news as it happens. They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”
I refrain from posting swag on principle, but this is just too cute
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