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505 of 700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign.
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Even if it doesn't, the consequences of the board ignoring this is catastrophic to the company. One way or another, the workers will have a victory here.
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505 of 700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign.
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Even if it doesn't, the consequences of the board ignoring this is catastrophic to the company. One way or another, the workers will have a victory here.
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The question doesn't need to be hypothetical. I am moving to a country exactly like that. From the US.
Lack of modern health care coverage alone is enough to justify it. A bonus is that the quality of life across the board is significantly higher.
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We will not
What? It was the easiest move I've ever made. Deleted a 13+ year old account. I'm loving it here. Fuck Reddit.
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Mormon church fined over scheme to hide $32 billion investment fund behind shell companies
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A long time ago, it was so that they could use the additional resources for helping the needy and less fortunate instead of the government. The idea being a Church was a community organization and would know better than the government what the community needed.
In order to get the tax credit, the church agreed to never get involved politically with anything.
Fast forward to now, and churches are violating that agreement in a big way
Now they deserve to be taxed.
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Sync for Lemmy is now available for everyone
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Sometimes you have to pay for keeping things free, of that makes any sense.
FOSS can't exist in a vacuum. The developers spend s lot of time on things and they need to be paid for their efforts, otherwise we won't get great products like Sync.
If you want things that are well maintained and supported, then there has to be income for those owners to provide those services.
Sync for lemmy is a top tier clients. I'm willing to pay to get and support that model. It's not like the 17 dollars a year is a big deal. I spend more than that on a single sushi roll sometimes.
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It's a little dramatic
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Furthermore, he's really only talking about the Shakespeare interpretation of that, which took plenty of liberties with the historical accounts.
There is absolutely no record of him ever saying that. In fact, the opposite is true. We have accounts that he was mostly just screaming and crying in pain the whole time and didn't say a damn thing.
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Twitter owes ex-employees $500 mln in severance, lawsuit claims
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He's been doing this for a while now. He fired the entire PR department and set it to respond with poop emojis and every article editor that's reached out for a comment has had this as their reply.
He's a man-child. And one of the most powerful and influential people on earth.
This is far from ok. ☹️
But so it goes...
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Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses
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Correct. This is largely for a time pre Musk.
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What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
“It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us – but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.” — Carl Sagan
This one has been my go to for years and years.
It gives me comfort. In that we probably won't every get there, because of our evolutionary failures as a species, but that's ok. Because the next species or evolution of our kind will stand a better chance.
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Texas Supreme Court rules against woman who sought abortion hours after she says she’ll travel out of state
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It sounds that way, because it is that way.
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Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
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TL;DR; The board basically caved to the demands of the 500+ employees that penned and signed a letter telling them to reinstate Sam Altman and disband the current board.
In addition to reinstating him, most of the board is "quitting".
In this case, the employees won out.
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So, where do we go now?
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Unless they pull an EEE. Which they absolutely would.
The fediverse admins all over would need to be vigilant and refuse Facebook access to the fediverse, otherwise we'll get extinguished, just like XMPP
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Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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That's not what murder is, and you know it.
Stop it with this weak rhetoric.
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Yeah, most likely. This lets his rich buddies give him money for bribes and shit and it acts as "income"
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Rome didn't fall in a day. Or a year.
Takes a lot longer than most people think.
If nothing else, this shows just how well architected and built the original Twitter infrastructure was. Being able to withstand the chaos monkey that is Musk should be its own SLA tier.
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We don't deserve librarians
If that's the same Pflugerville I'm thinking of, they're basically a suburb of Austin, my wife worked in the Austin public library system for a very long time, and yes, i agree, we don't deserve librarians. They are awesome. I love my wife.
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well, it is, but it's like saying EA is less awful than Monsanto
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Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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It has no life to have a right to until it's born.
Go ahead and tell me about all the experiences you had in your mother's womb. About the goals and aspirations you had before you came out. Tell me about your experiences, your emotional fortitude, hell, tell me anything at all about the time before you were born, from your perspective.
A fetus does not have a right to life, but the mother does.
Your views are getting real people with all their dreams, aspirations, goals, hopes, etc. killed, just so you can feel a warped sense of false moral superiority for a few minutes on the Internet.
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First image of Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman in DEADPOOL 3
As a child who grew up watching 80's and 90's cartoons, specifically the X-Men TV Series. This looks fucking amazing, and I'm here for it.
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98 years worth of progress.
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Good news then. Disney Land is in California.