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Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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,,The ML Ethics, Transparency, & Accountability team was one of a kind'' Sure, something nobody has heared of and nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

> nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

If you don't know you're the problem tbh

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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,,The ML Ethics, Transparency, & Accountability team was one of a kind'' Sure, something nobody has heared of and nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

> nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter. If you don't know you're the problem tbh

Can you explain how the team added value to shareholders who want to maximize their long term ROI (which is the job of the CEO)?

We're living in a world where voting rights of pensioners have been delegated to big companies like Vanguard and Black Rock. They clearly are not keeping the best interest of the shareholders which would be their duty, and vote politically instead.

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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I'm pretty curious about how and where Twitter employees were distributed. For a company ostensibly worth $44 billion, having 7,500 staff feels pretty damn lean. It feels like Musk isn't just purging people, he's purging the Twitter culture...

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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In my view no single medium (the media is the message) has done more to weaken the quality of public discourse in the world than Twitter. But maybe Facebook proves that even if you're allowed to use prose crazies dominate so maybe the issue is deeper
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