no good guys in this story
I would just say no good outcomes in this story. If you really meant "no good guys", care to expand why you think so?
Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site
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#52This guy is incredible, I've been following him on Twitter since his Ueno days. An amazing designer and leader. One of my favorite projects he worked on was to literally build ramps all around Iceland: https://rampur.super.site/
Looks like people mostly praise him for those ramps, his bar, his awards, and how cool he is in general. It's still not clear what he got done at his job.
> I now work at Twitter where I led an innovation team that among others spearheaded Communities on the platform as well as the long awaited (and finally launched) edit button. I also tweet a lot on there.
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#53It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…
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#54I wish I had the skills to create beautiful/art like website. is there anywhere to get started learning?
He's definitely going for the style of Tintin comics, the so-called ligne claire. The books I see which claim to teach that style are in French, and out of print: the 2-volume L'atelier de la bande dessinée avec Hergé. But, read the comics anyway, they are fun.
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#55It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…
> It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handed built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. Haraldur seems like a pretty accomplished guy and I don't like what Musk did either. But none of the things you…
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handed built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. Haraldur seems like a pretty accomplished guy and I don't like what Musk did either. But none of the things you…
> but it is possible for a accomplished individual to join a company and then lose motivation and not do much Nobody deserves to be fired without communication , without HR being able to confirm if they work at the company, and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability. Speculating about the person's work at Twitter is beside the point. Thousands of Twitter employees have been let go…
> and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability
Today is my first time hearing about this scandal. Do you have a link to the mocking in question?
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#57It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…
yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong
I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s one thing to decide that someone’s role is no longer necessary at a company. It’s business, things change, no role is guaranteed to exist forever. But firing someone without communication and with HR unable to confirm it is just low. Mocking them on Twitter for their well-documented physical disability is just abhorrent. This could have been a completely different exchange if the response was a simple “Sorry for…
> Mocking them on Twitter for their well-documented physical disability is just abhorrent. I agree, but we've allowed our upper class to do this since November 26, 2015.
You must be referring to the mocking of a reporter by TFG. I wouldn't say we allowed it. We elected one fool, he got almost dictatorial powers. It could literally lead to the end of our country. We are of course stuck in a dictatorship of the electoral collage at this point. Might as well call it the proletariat.
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#59It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…
Elon did what he's done for the past decade. Can't help but play to a crowd and let the lawyers figure it out later. This is a cocktail of calling a rescue diver a pedophile, mocking all skills that aren't coders, and unnecessary cruelty when laying off workers. If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up…
> If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up in Halli's DMs.
Considering there were entire articles by news outlets like the BBC just queued up and ready to go. My sense is this was premeditated. Elon is such an easy target.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but it is possible for a accomplished individual to join a company and then lose motivation and not do much Nobody deserves to be fired without communication , without HR being able to confirm if they work at the company, and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability. Speculating about the person's work at Twitter is beside the point. Thousands of Twitter employees have been let go…
> and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability Today is my first time hearing about this scandal. Do you have a link to the mocking in question?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633011448459964417
He also had a (now deleted) comment where he called the guy "just the worst":
https://twitter.com/JamesClayton5/status/1633155915892527104