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3 days agoBut if it were my company, we would implement the terrible bad evil thing correctly. I’m smarter than the villain of the book, obviously.
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I don’t think Linus has any space here. Jets, ads, treating employees like shit, consolidating profits and barely paying his employees that were “friends.”
He’ll be the next Scam Altman if people keep giving him money.
Unfortunately, even when they, as a group, decide to cause harm and suffering. Cheaper to pay legal fees for death and dismemberment than pay for recalls.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/oct/17/pinto-memo-its-cheaper-let-them-burn/
Cheaper to pay for less/worse healthcare which leads to more death and bankruptcy…
Cheaper to eliminate roles and replace them with contract positions which don’t have benefits leading to the same as above…
Almost like they can’t be held accountable.
And then if it’s attempted, they can just defer the judgements which harms the victims more…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNo8Ve-Ej6U
Must be nice to be a person when it suits you and not a person when it suits you.
But corporations are people? They have more rights than women these days.
When you post/vote make sure to include a cancellation screenshot. That’s what I did.
10·6 days agoEven those are being replaced with robot dogs piloted by outsourced employment to save on cost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai_IEHLmhDU
And a Benn Jordan video for fun
But didn’t you hear when JD Vance spoke middle manager at the dude whose wife he and his pedophile president killed?
They’re still dealing with Biden’s economy.
Never said it wasn’t lol. But the way that narcissitic capitalists are rewarded by capitalism is why the implementation is the issue.
The only value being provided are to the billionaires who continue to get more wealthy to a point in which they literally control politics without being elected.
And just like the 08 recession they’re going to try their damndest for the only form of socialism they support: corporate socialism. Privatize the gains, and in this case, socialize the losses. They’re going to seek bailouts so that when their circular financing crumbles they drift down on golden parachutes while our tax dollars fund them, the burning of our atmosphere, the contamination of our air, our drinking water, and our very minds as their sycophancy psychosis machines run rampant and delude people into entirely false realities.
Motherfuckers socialized their own sycophancy, they insulated themselves with greedy yes men who just want their money. They then built machines that do the same to us, isolating us and agreeing with every idea we have.
But it’s not a bubble, right?
Ugh. Again? Really?
Welp, I’m thinking:
Vaultwarden for passwords and TOTP?
Aegis for TOTP if not vaultwarden
Recommendations for email? I use FairEmail if I need to access my old emails.
VPN? Ideally one that I can use on Graphene as well as OpenVPN for router. I’ve heard AirVPN maybe?
Storage? I just recently setup a backup on my homelab to export to Proton Drive via proton-CLI to have an offsite backup.
Rotten Tomatoes -> Bots and Tomatoes. Is it AI slop or hot?
You’ll enjoy this
Since the original post apparently disappeared:
Oct 26 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab said on Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the technology giant looks to contain costs and help fund its massive AI investments.
Staffers across the Windows maker would be eligible for the offers, including those working in AI experiences, Copilot, finance, human resources, Xbox and Windows + Devices, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, requesting anonymity as the matter was private. Units such as marketing, commercial business and security will be excluded, the source added.
“This offer gives eligible employees who may be considering a future outside the company a new choice to make that transition now with support. It also gives participating organizations another way to adapt their workforce to changing needs,” Chief People Officer Amy Coleman said in a staff memo.
Like other tech giants, Microsoft is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI data centers and chips, drawing scrutiny from investors over whether the returns will justify the staggering cost. The company, slated to report first-quarter results after markets close on Wednesday, has forecast $175 billion in capital expenditures for the 2026 calendar year.
Microsoft had 223,000 full-time employees globally as of June 30, 2026, according to its annual filing.
Shares of Microsoft, which had risen about 10% this year, were up about 1% on Monday. The development was first reported by Business Insider.
The company earlier this year offered voluntary buyouts to about 7% of its US workforce, or about 9,000 employees.
In July, Microsoft announced it would cut 4,800 jobs, or about 2.1% of its global workforce, overhauling its Xbox gaming business and divesting up to five studios as it looks to boost returns after years of heavy investment in the division.
“This offer will be available to eligible employees in participating teams in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States at level 70 and below,” Microsoft said on Monday.
The company said it was a time-limited, voluntary program and built on insights gained from a previous voluntary retirement program. The eligible employees will receive details within the next few hours, it added.
Only way I can possibly make sense of it is to put myself in the shoes of a capitalist executive. My job is on the line with AI companies reporting massive losses and an earnings call is coming up. If I don’t care about human beings, I can just lay them off and that will reduce headcount expenditure so that earnings looks better after spending massive capex on AI. Not to mention the market rewards such announcements by increasing stock valuations since we’re running more lean.
However, such a large amount of layoffs could prove unpredictable for workplace morale.
What if we didn’t have to pay most of the benefits we do and allow many of our headcount to choose on their own when to leave? We look better in the public eye, we can have a lead time for a couple months so that this earnings report on Wednesday will look like a massive shift for the year end earnings call when we’re looking for more investment. We’ll be operating so lean it’ll be insane. And anyone who doesn’t leave voluntarily we can simply lay off afterwards and it’ll be a smaller number of layoffs, which the public already treats as normal operating procedure, weeding out the undesirables.
Let’s do it.
That’s what they did with the first VEO, where it was available to anyone who’s age and years of service added up to 70. In order it went 15K layoffs, VEO for 70+ which 30% took, then another 5K layoffs after it closed.
Now it’s just everybody on your team if your team is eligible. Managers also weren’t informed beforehand as they were included as well.
With my friend, they got the offer, so did their entire team they talked to as well as their manager and their skip. And that’s across Azure, the real money maker, and Teams - CoPilot.
Employees should absolutley organize and stop work right now until Slopya resigns.
However, that’s exactly why this is a voluntary program first. A little bread upfront so you don’t get too angry to hold anyone accountable.
And then the rest of the layoffs will follow, exactly like last time.
121·10 days agoI imagine there’s also an element of obfuscating that these are effectively layoffs. Offer a small amount upfront and stem the anger to prevent worker organizing and work stoppages.
Block google, use duckduckgo.
Even better, the computer science and/or IT portions of school should have students learn how to set up, configure, and maintain their own instances of SearXNG that the school could use locally on their intranet.
Education, exposing kids to open source alternatives, and the school gets their own, and better, search aggregator that strips AI and ads. Sounds like a win-win-win to me.