Surprised this post wasn't flagged on HN.

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/ready-for-brain-transparency

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460819

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/10hbd73/world_economic_forum_speaker_touts_technology/

https://xeiaso.net/blog/%F0%9F%A5%BA

Literally a feral human, she is speaking in tongues and throwing food and shit.

Also lmao at the police not responding even after being called 25 times, where is all that tax money going to?

Wish me luck, codecels!

Jan 20 (Reuters) - Google's parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) is eliminating about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, the company said Friday, in the latest cuts to shake the technology sector.

Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's CEO, said in a staff memo shared with Reuters that the company had rapidly expanded headcount in recent years "for a different economic reality than the one we face today."

"I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here," he said.

The cuts come days after rival Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said it would lay off 10,000 workers.

Alphabet's job losses affect teams across the company including recruiting and some corporate functions, as well as some engineering and products teams.

The layoffs are global and impact U.S. staff immediately.

Alphabet has already emailed affected employees, the memo said, while the process will take longer in other countries due to local employment laws and practices.

The news comes during a period of economic uncertainty as well as technological promise, in which Google and Microsoft have been investing in a burgeoning area of software known as generative artificial intelligence.

"I am confident about the huge opportunity in front of us thanks to the strength of our mission, the value of our products and services, and our early investments in AI," Pichai said in the note.

Reuters was first to report the news.

https://archived.moe/g/thread/90991502

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446126

thelayoff.com's thread

r/nova thread

https://archived.moe/g/thread/90980042#p90981348

Context

For my recent project to add hashtags to automeme, I created a database that contained the strength of the relationship between every pair of tokens that appeared in rdrama comments since August of last year. (Two tokens are said to be "related" if they appear in the same comment)

This allows me to find keywords that might be related to other keywords. For instance, "train" relates to these words (excluding "uninteresting" words) (in order of most to least powerful):

• trains
• women
• trans
• drama
• ai
• twitter
• kids
• posts
• online
• men
• dude
• retarded
• thread
• rdrama
• ones
• weird
• crazy
• funny
• gay
• chud
• reddit

RDrama relates to

• reddit
• drama
• rightoids
• thread
• marsey
• website
• banned
• comments
• internet
• funny
• jannies
• carp
• twitter
• fun
• rightoid
• sub
• bait
• online
• retarded
• chud
• net
• dot
• content

Okay, so it isn't perfect. But it is cheap! Running this system lasts only a few seconds (I do a lot of additional processing, including some graph searches for adjacent topics

Most Powerful

The most used (INTERESTING) words are

women - 7291
based - 5466
retarded - 5045
reddit - 5030
true - 4211
rdrama - 4158
funny - 4097
gay - 3836
twitter - 3775
men - 3762
god - 3746
fat - 3672
kids - 3621
fun - 3500
drama - 3368
trans - 3333
dude - 3256
internet - 3227
chud - 3214
foid - 3187
tbh - 3030
marsey - 2958
foids - 2898
unironically - 2806
sounds - 2799
retard - 2720
ones - 2698
cool - 2675
thread - 2673
ass - 2648
days - 2603
tho - 2602
times - 2599
weird - 2588
posts - 2528
stupid - 2385
comments - 2279
carp - 2263

Yes, dramatards are obsessed with women. Straggot alert!

What are the most powerful relationships? Well...

(women, men) 1208
(women, trans) 449
(ukraine, russia) 419
(jesus, christ) 416
(mental, illness) 343
(twink, cute) 281
(harry, potter) 263
(rightoids, leftoids) 253
(russia, russian) 249
(twitter, elon) 243
(ukraine, russian) 238
(men, gay) 236
(kids, parents) 229
(male, female) 229
(trans, rights) 215
(women, male) 214
(foids, foid) 208
(trans, lives) 205
(twitter, reddit) 200
(times, multiple) 195
(women, foids) 195
(foids, moids) 195
(women, fat) 194
(women, gay) 191
(cope, seethe) 191
(sub, bait) 189
(sub, reddit) 188
(reddit, banned) 187
(musk, elon) 184
(chud, award) 183
(rdrama, reddit) 183
(men, foids) 176
(women, female) 174
(reddit, comments) 170
(women, children) 168
(russian, ukrainian) 167
(kids, children) 166
(users, rdrama) 155
(posts, comments) 155
(reddit, subs) 153
(kiwi, farms) 153
(posts, reddit) 153
(tate, andrew) 150
(cute, twinks) 144
(women, foid) 143
(men, trans) 142
(women, attractive) 142
(online, internet) 141
(women, funny) 139
(filter, slur) 137
(youtube, videos) 137
(men, male) 137
(china, russia) 136
(thread, reddit) 135
(women, true) 135
(ai, artists) 133
(alex, jones) 131
(reddit, jannies) 130
(ukraine, ukrainian) 129
(rdrama, user) 129
(god, bless) 128
(chad, virgin) 128
(foid, moid) 128
(kids, women) 128
(women, rape) 128
(democratic, collapse) 127
(heckin, valid) 126
(retarded, women) 126
(women, ones) 125
(ugly, fat) 125

Pretty Graphs

The image above is a graph that links the most common words together. The darker the line connecting them, the more powerful the connection.

Here's a slightly more frantic one, with a lot more nodes...

Here's one with around a thousand nodes

Future

The algorithim as I implemented it does not understand n-grams, and I have been brainstorming ways to add n-gram support. Also, a lot of the tokens are the same word in different tenses, so perhaps I could consolidate those tokens.

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big news for font freaks: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department & replaced by Calibri. Secretary Blinken sent a cable to all embassies today directing staff not to send him any more papers with Times New Roman. Subject: "The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin" pic.twitter.com/HENLbRH3UQ

— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) January 17, 2023

If you were not aware, Amazon Smile was a program where you selected a charity and Amazon would donate a % of your purchases towards them.

Got this email a bit ago.

Dear customer,

In 2013, we launched AmazonSmile to make it easier for customers to support their favorite charities. However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped. With so many eligible organizations—more than 1 million globally—our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin.

We are writing to let you know that we plan to wind down AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023. We will continue to pursue and invest in other areas where we’ve seen we can make meaningful change—from building affordable housing to providing access to computer science education for students in underserved communities to using our logistics infrastructure and technology to assist broad communities impacted by natural disasters.

To help charities that have been a part of the AmazonSmile program with this transition, we will be providing them with a one-time donation equivalent to three months of what they earned in 2022 through the program, and they will also be able to accrue additional donations until the program officially closes in February. Once AmazonSmile closes, charities will still be able to seek support from Amazon customers by creating their own wish lists.

As a company, we will continue supporting a wide range of other programs that help thousands of charities and communities across the U.S. For instance:

Housing Equity Fund: We’re investing $2 billion to build and preserve affordable housing in our hometown communities. In just two years, we’ve provided funding to create more than 14,000 affordable homes—and we expect to build at least 6,000 more in the coming months. These units will host more than 18,000 moderate- to low-income families, many of them with children. In one year alone, our investments have been able to increase the affordable housing stock in communities like Bellevue, Washington and Arlington, Virginia by at least 20%.

Amazon Future Engineer: We’ve funded computer science curriculum for more than 600,000 students across over 5,000 schools—all in underserved communities. We have plans to reach an additional 1 million students this year. We’ve also provided immediate assistance to 55,000 students in our hometown communities by giving them warm clothes for the winter, food, and school supplies.

Community Delivery Program: We’ve partnered with food banks in 35 U.S. cities to deliver more than 23 million meals, using our logistics infrastructure to help families in need access healthy food—and we plan to deliver 12 million more meals this year alone. In addition to our delivery services, we’ve also donated 30 million meals in communities across the country.

Amazon Disaster Relief: We’re using our logistics capabilities, inventory, and cloud technology to provide fast aid to communities affected by natural disasters. For example, we’ve created a Disaster Relief Hub in Atlanta with more than 1 million relief items ready for deployment, our Disaster Relief team has responded to more than 95 natural disasters, and we’ve donated more than 20 million relief products to nonprofits assisting communities on the ground.

Community giving: We support hundreds of local nonprofits doing meaningful work in cities where our employees and their families live. For example, each year we donate hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations working to build stronger communities, from youth sport leagues, to local community colleges, to shelters for families experiencing homelessness.

We’ll continue working to make a difference in many ways, and our long-term commitment to our communities remains the same—we’re determined to do every day better for our customers, our employees, and the world at large.

Thank you for being an Amazon customer.

The program raised something like $400 million dollars (but there were 1 million eligible charities ) so Amazon is axing it because they know how to better donate then plebs.

As usual, people (aka non-bootlickers, which makes them Chuds) point out how Amazon made in painfully hard to actually use the program.

There were seemingly odd hoops for customers to jump through to have their purchases qualify for Smile. Didn't type in the 'smile' URL? Too bad, no donation for you. One of the oddest was requiring push notifications in order for mobile purchases to count (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233815).

So more layoffs, raising the price of Amazon Prime, and now deleting their public Charity drive, good look Amazon

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for what? to write better glue code for your b2b saas invoicing app?

john von neumann’s favorite hobby was drunk driving

— skooks (@skooookum) January 18, 2023