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You've seen an employee send out an email to colleagues instructing people of color to stop their efforts to improve the company, claiming the internal review process was an act of…

FAANG employees tend to consistently be among the most vocal and outspoken critics of FAANG. Also see the 1,200+ employees who signed a petition unconditionally supporting Gebru wh…

As a white man, when my work is rejected, I assume it's because my work needs improvement. This is an advantage of being a white man. When things don't go my way, I don't need to w…

That's another beauty of modern discrimination: it's unfalsifiable. From everything made public, her behavior constitutes a fireable offense at any company I've ever worked at, reg…

What are the arguments about racism that were suppressed? The paper that didn't pass internal review was about the external costs of training large models (correction: the paper al…

This was a tool designed to notify employees of security alerts, not a chat app. These are not the same. It feels like people are being purposefully dense at this point.

About 14% of the US population (1 in 7 people) were born in another country. Compare this to 0.07% of the Chinese population. San Francisco is 34% foreign born, compared to 0.7% in…

Bioengineering in academia. Moved to software engineering for an extra $100,000/year. In hindsight, my overall my standard of living has gone down despite the extra money due the h…

My father turned 80 recently and he still works five days a week. That wouldn’t be ideal for everyone, but he enjoys his job and he’s remained sharp and capable. That milestone rea…

I’m sure the man was doing everything in his power to suppress his natural male urge to leap across the table and attack. Because that’s exactly how men are. You’re incredibly brav…