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Wow, what a lovely page you've linked.
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https://archive.ph/tgv8I
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They had such a brief moment in the sun.
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If interest rates drop and the free money starts up again, they'll be back.
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Who's to say the next round of grifting will keep the same form? Maybe companies will all get very info feng shui and hire whole departments to make sure everyone's chairs are arranged properly.
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I honestly miss that form of bullshit time wasting. At least you can get a little tiny sandbox on your desk to play with.
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One of the gals in my office brings her cat to work, we keep his sandbox in the gender neutral restroom.
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EXCLUSIVE: DEI gone mad! Companies provide cat litter for gender non-conforming employees
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the restroom (and the enbies in it):
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My coworker is trying so hard to induce toxoplasmosis site-wide for a few days off
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I have an idea - mortgage, auto, and small business loans for individuals worth less than $5m pegged to a 3% prime rate at the counter.
Everyone else - whatever rate is needed to keep inflation <1%. (I don't give a shit about 3% being "optimal", that is a lie.)
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This is how you restart inflation, regardless of what you charge HNW entities. TANSTAAFL
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Just as I predicted as soon as the Fee hiked rates
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Rehire James Demore
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whats that neighbor up to these days
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He settled with Google. and neither side would disclose anything about the settlement (including even acknowledging that they settled) so - likely just being extremely wealthy.
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hahahahha yeah the interns are totes just as productive as the full-timers and totally don't have to be fricking babysat through their code changes
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not even real interns. diversity interns.
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You get what you fricking deserve.
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Contributing thousands of lines of poorly documented, untested code
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and most of those lines of code are just code of conduct
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Quite good.
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Who is gonna make sure AI doesn't say slurs now? this is devastating.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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I work in a field tangentially related to ai/ml shit and I'm so sick of the "ai safety" grifters. Its always the dumbest people making everyone sit through another PowerPoint on biased models
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The devs deserve it. I work in an industry where "AI/ML" is starting to find its way into the execs' and senior management's brains. Every time a vendor contacts them with some bullshit that's "AI" they want us to justify why we WOULDN'T immediately buy this thing and put it on production.
I'm going to start hammering all AI/ML vendors with r-slurred questions and statements about how racist their product is because of models.
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Every application is now AI driven. Take your DB software, import Langchain and all of a sudden it's an AI driven app!! Price accordingly
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They unfortunately have half a point. Your model will never be perfect, and if the errors correlate at all with any of the social cleavage points the revolutionaries are trying to wedge apart then you're going to have a bad time. This isn't the point they think they're making, but it's the one they've got.
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Worse are the fats
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average google employee
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needs more blue hair
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Im not saying that i personally know the pheno type or am related to one. But i will say that its about as bad as you would imagine minus him being fat
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I learned real quick I'd never make it in the corporate world.
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Same man, it's so annoying. Also, we have a really good product with a bunch of big HPC customers bugging us about our launch date, but for some stupid reason we're trying to tailor our performance to AI/ML despite having exactly zero customers lined up with those kinds of workloads.
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Me not pretending to be black anymore
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I'm shocked they didn't have to replace the CEO first for that to happen tbh.
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All most all Indians abroad(and a decent chunk of middle class ones here) are more deracinated than any other race on Earth.
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Indians hate anyone who isn't western-white (no Slavs pls sir) or Indian. I'm sure a cucked Westernoid Paj like Google's CEO doesn't feel this way but he has to go see his folks from time-to-time and then he gets to hear his dad's experiences with the Gentlepeople-of-Color outside the Kwik-E-Mart and the dumb Vietnamese b-word on the checkout.
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What, running a racial affinity group doesn't protect you when it's layoff time?
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ERGs are so fricking straggy, literally like leadership clubs and student council tier shit but for your corpo
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First business day of the year sees this and the DEI dean get dunked.
Year of the Chud off to a roaring start.
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I think it's safe to say it's Decade of the Chud at this point.
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The problem with layoffs isn't that people are out of work, it's that the remaining people don't feel like they have job security. If you could just fix that feeling everything would be fine.
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make a single comment r-slur
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Wait what. I thought that was ages ago. Is my sense of time off, or is NYT just that slow?
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After noticing the issue they spent 5 years trying to build an AI model that can perfectly distinguish images of apes from images of humans. It can't be done, so they gave up and simply stopped labeling anything.
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It is kinda funny that they make the AI not believe it's lying eyes. It correctly recognises that black people and apes look similar, but then there's just a line of code that says "if the result would be ape, just say nothing". Perfectly emulating how polite society works, where everypony knows they look like that but we just don't say it out loud
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found the incel
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sign of an incoming recession, when big corps drop diversity hire practices, you should feel impending doom.
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Ah, the joys of working at a place where half the client portfolio is countercyclical.
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Market research is not a thing. Focus groups are not a thing. Formal requirements analysis is not a thing.
The only way you can know something, is if you're part of a demographic that know that thing inherently.
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Good
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Yeah, people who just can't cut it are clearly victims of insufficient support; they can't possibly just be .
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This is entirely worse than the linked CNBC article it cribs from.
What's the word for "blogspam, but form a supposedly reputable news site"?
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Lol i guess forbes hasnt laid off its dei hires yet
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Business Insider
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Is this @Sylveon?
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No, I'm Sylveon, hello!
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every company started tightening their money and cutting unnecessary departments back around october when FY24 was set to start.
lots of companies making dumb decisions to save money and buyers are getting mad, but gutting DEI is the second smartest decision, first being not creating a DEI department to begin with.
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