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Sabrina Carpenter did a racism then had a copyright notice to have Reddit remove the post criticizing her
I don't know who Sabrina Carpenter nor do I give a shit. I am interested if rich people's lawyers think they can remove shit on Lemmy.
link to the removed post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1sijtm5/during_coachella_someone_did_a_zaghroot_an_arab/
This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good
I use a few social media platforms at the same time. I'm used to seeing the same things on each platform. That's how the internet has been for years - you read the same things on the same five sites.
To be fully transparent, Lemmy isn't at the top. I don't post much and I lurk. Sometimes I post a comment here and there.
But this past week, I'm seeing more and more interesting content in the "Everything" section of Lemmy that I didn't see in my other social media feeds. New communities and more interesting convos.
Uncertain if the fediverse has gotten a wave of new posters, some algorithm has changed, or every other social media company is sucking more and more thanks to America Team Police...
Just wanted to share my extremely limited anecdotal non-fact checked viewpoint.
Reminder when CEOs complain about taxes
Massachusetts’s Millionaire Tax Didn’t Lead the Rich to Flee
My company is quietly removing a bunch of upper management and I'm relieved
I work in a 4,000+ person company. Two years ago, the CEO created a dozen new positions underneath him. President. Chief of Marketing. Chief of Design. Chief of Product. Chief of Buildings. Etc.
Some of it was needed. Many were not. My boss, a director level person, would end up in a room with like 15 of these Chiefs-of-X, and hundreds of other directors. There was no heirarchy. You'd have a Chief of Product working with the Chief of Design and Chief of Marketing.
Many of them would just walk around, making demands to push their personal initiative, do 2-3 "update meetings" a day then go fuck around and collect their $500k salary
Late 2024, a lot of us found ourselves in "Office Space"-level BS where we'd have multiple bosses. I was reporting to two directors, and four Chiefs myself. Every week, I would get verbally chewed out by one, and praised by another - all different every time.
Last month, we got a memo that there was going to be some "restructuring" of departments. Then last week, half the Chiefs were quietly demoted to Dept Leads managing a small team, or fired. No other staff was fired except the C-levels.
I don't know what sparked it.
But I won't deny this seems like a path in the right direction.
Where do I post gaming memes?
Been loving Oblivion Remaster and not sure where to share these.
The interns complained about having to pay $18 for parking and I'm conflicted
I work downtown. I personally take the bus to work and walk.
While getting feedback from our paid intern's experience, one complained about having to pay for parking.
Because I naturally always support the interns, I pushed for that perk. Why shouldn't they get all the help they need? They're young, they have a busy life and they're trying their best.
But my coworker (who drives) said, "Theres street parking and they are complaining they have to walk 14 minutes over."
Now my internal "Fuck Cars" position is battling with my "Give the Interns everything".
I'm not the deciding factor. Just wanted to share this.
Amazon boycott: The ‘economic blackout’ movement shifts to e-commerce giant Friday
John Schwarz, the 57-year-old founder of The People's Union USA, is calling on Americans to boycott Amazon and its companies, including Zappos, Ring, Whole Foods, Twitch and Prime Video, for one week.
Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim - Ars Technica
Summary
Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating 375 swatting incidents between August 2022 and January 2024. Operating under various aliases, Filion charged clients for making false emergency calls that prompted significant police responses. His hoaxes included threats of school shootings and bombings, targeting institutions across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Despite being questioned by the FBI in July 2023, he continued his activities until his arrest in January 2024, where he pled guilty to multiple charges.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/swatting-as-a-service-meet-the-kid-who-terrorized-america-with-375-violent-hoaxes/Open linkView original on lemmy.today‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.
https://www.404media.co/forbidden-words-github-reveals-how-software-engineers-are-purging-federal-databases/Open linkView original on lemmy.today