Likes from 7 November 2022

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Let me get this straight. You lay them off. Realize you made a mistake and ask them to come back. Then have the audacity to only give them AN HOUR to respond?!?! THE AUDACITY.

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What I'm hearing from inside Twitter: Several people who were let go on Friday, then asked to come back were given less than an hour as a deadline. Software engineers who got this call I know of all said "no" and the only ones who could eventually say "yes" are on visas. Also:

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:09 GMT

Taylor Poindexter (@engineering_bae)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:58 GMT

What I'm hearing from inside Twitter: Several people who were let go on Friday, then asked to come back were given less than an hour as a deadline. Software engineers who got this call I know of all said "no" and the only ones who could eventually say "yes" are on visas. Also:

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:09 GMT

How it started. How it’s going.

Jules Morgan 🇺🇸 (@glamelegance)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:01 GMT

i was born in the last century (20th) and i often work with people born in this century (21st). most children born today are likely to live into the next century (22nd). the work we all do today will affect the people of the 22nd century. think about that. #TheFutureIsNow

Mike Amundsen (@mamund)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:21 GMT

there are no ads and we're just dunking on an evil billionaire maybe this is the communist dream

E. Alex Jung (probably) (@e_alexjung)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:59 GMT

what the fuck

The Very Hungry Caterpillar (@TheVeryHungryC)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:53 GMT

https://twitter.com/TheVeryHungryC/status/1589647270550458368

🎃Spooky_Man🎃 (@Toad_Man102)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:22 GMT

[twitter corporate meeting where no one will bring up mastodon] it’s time to address the elephant relative in the room

Amy (@lolennui)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:44 GMT

how tf do people organize shit? im such a mess 😭😭

𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖊 🏳️‍⚧️🖤 (@slutpilled)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:17 GMT

twitter users stone age in 2022 hunter-gatherers 🤝 should we follow that mastodon??

Amy (@lolennui)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:56 GMT

.@ElonMusk. This is a soldier of the 3rd Reich. This is a German soldier who swore an oath of allegiance and obedience to Adolph Hitler. This is a photo of a Nazi soldier. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:52 GMT

holy shit the onion held absolutely no punches

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Please Like Me bit.ly/3FSBY5w

The Onion (@TheOnion)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:32 GMT

cowboy cat (@skeletonpup)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:36 GMT

Doing my periodic Game of Thrones rewatch to take my mind off the election and getting mad at how the Starks would’ve been fine if they had just listened to Catelyn.

The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:54 GMT

you don't have to sleep on office floors or work ridiculous hours to have a career in tech. especially if you're working for someone else demanding that you do that. sacrificing YOUR life and health for THEIR riches is not worth it. and the boundary crossing will never stop.

Emily Kager (@EmilyKager)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:14 GMT

I know multiple people who have been admitted to the hospital bc of overworking themselves. None of this is worth your LIFE.

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https://twitter.com/EmilyKager/status/1589682771261554688

+1000 this I had friends who fucking died from the grind back in 1999/2000. I was drinking vodka at 3am to get to sleep and sleeping under my desk. fucking STOP it. it's not healthy.

Adrian Chadd (@erikarn@mstdn.social) (@erikarn)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:19 GMT

Emily Kager (@EmilyKager)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:00 GMT

RT @gonadic_io don't be sad it's over. be sad it happened.

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:56 GMT

https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1589562672013611008

Thanks for reporting, all! This was indeed a Bridgy Fed bug. I've fixed it, feel free to try again. github.com/snarfed/bridgy…

Ryan Barrett (@schnarfed)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:25 GMT

I’ve heard rumors of elon unblocking himself from accounts and its true! I’ve had him blocked and muted for 5 years and now he’s just muted 🥴world’s most cartoonishly pathetic billionaire

shan horan 🎷 🐛 (@shanhorandraws)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:17 GMT

Lmao I didn’t believe this until I started seeing his fucking tweets again. I’ve had him blocked for years

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I’ve heard rumors of elon unblocking himself from accounts and its true! I’ve had him blocked and muted for 5 years and now he’s just muted 🥴world’s most cartoonishly pathetic billionaire

shan horan 🎷 🐛 (@shanhorandraws)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:17 GMT

Butt Praxis (@buttpraxis)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:44 GMT

a CEO fucking with users' privacy settings should be illegal? is it illegal?

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Lmao I didn’t believe this until I started seeing his fucking tweets again. I’ve had him blocked for years twitter.com/shanhorandraws…

Butt Praxis (@buttpraxis)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:44 GMT

Cara (@caraesten)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:46 GMT

https://twitter.com/annesecure/status/1588999064049549312

It’s a period, Michael. What could it cost, one tampon?

Elon Musk “(parody)” (@nowah)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:20 GMT

No, this is how sev1 incidents are built. I don’t want the shitty output people deliver at 80+ hours/week. I want the best work my well-rested colleagues can do in a reasonable number of working hours. And I want people bringing the inspiration they find in outside interests.

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This is how great new things are built, more often than anyone has been willing to say during the last decade's cultural revolution in Silicon Valley. twitter.com/esthercrawford…

Nat Friedman (@natfriedman)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:24 GMT

the apocalypse, but make it fashion. ✨ (@ElleArmageddon)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288

You mean like Heartbleed? “Near midnight on New Year’s Eve 2011, OpenSSL accidentally introduced a bug into the heartbeat routine.” buzzfeed.com/chrisstokelwal…

the apocalypse, but make it fashion. ✨ (@ElleArmageddon)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:43 GMT

I can see why major advertising brands would want to be associated with a CEO making masturbation jokes while urging people to vote Republican.

Eric Schmeltzer 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@JustSchmeltzer)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:14 GMT

https://twitter.com/AvaSantina/status/1589529670885965825

These & their right-wing media empire..

Jase ⚫️⚪️ ♿️ (@jasonhebron)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:34 GMT

monzo would never

laura (parody) (@freezydorito)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:24 GMT

tried to change my name on here and a self-driving tesla pulled up outside my aparment and blew itself up

first-mate prance (@bocxtop)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/krisnova/status/1589581035792388096

Other platforms where you may find me: - twitch.tv/krisnova - hachyderm.io/web/@nova - medium.com/@kris-nova - nivenly.com Kris Nóva <kris@nivenly.com>

Kris Nóva (@krisnova)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:30 GMT

Accidentally I ran an interesting experiment comparing Twitter and Mastodon this morning when I tweeted/tooted about a blog post Mastodon: 3,000 followers (all from the last few days), 25 replies, 91 reblogs, 184 faves Twitter: 43,000 followers, 7 replies, 31 retweets, 183 likes

Simon Willison (@simonw)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 02:50 GMT

Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter was so outlandishly high that a.) Twitter's old board couldn't say no, b.) Musk himself couldn't afford it, and c.) it damned the entire company to significant debt and massive layoffs. Every part of this deal has been and continues to be stupid.

Scott Nover (@ScottNover)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:16 GMT

Yo @elonmusk while I have your attention, why should people pay $8 just for their app to get bricked when they say something you don’t like? This is what my app has looked like ever since my tweet upset you yesterday. What’s good? Doesn’t seem very free speechy to me 🤔

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:23 GMT

LMFAO, Elon Musk claimed "comedy is now legal on Twitter" but now he's suspending accounts that parody him, fucking snowflake

BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:50 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

i know I speak for my fellow conservatives who care about free speech when i say you are CRUSHING it. Please ignore the haters who keep pointing out how close you were with epstein and that your hair is fake

eve6 (@Eve6)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 04:46 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

Is that because flying everywhere is contributing to the death of this planet through CO2 emissions and will ultimately kill us all? x

Parody Laura Kuenssberg (@LKTranslator)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:21 GMT

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1589421611043938305

The guy who tweeted out conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi after a conspiracy theorist bashed in his head is concerned with direct personal safety risks

Argle-Bargler (@ABargler)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:03 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

Favorite movie lines (@TitlesInMedia)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 02:28 GMT

https://twitter.com/legaladvice_txt/status/1589444686347108353

Commemorate it with Oreos

Michael T. Rose (@MikeTRose)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 02:36 GMT

Poorly Aged Things (@PoorlyAgedStuff)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:34 GMT

We are here, on this website at this specific moment, to witness the most dunked-upon person in human history.

r/LegalAdvice.txt (@legaladvice_txt)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 02:28 GMT

My thoughts and experiences in the world of software and technology

As requested by the owner of this website, I have added ‘parody’ to my name so that no one ever gets confused and so he doesn’t cancel Me. It is so nice that comedy is legal again. I, for one, welcome our new insect overlord.

God Parody Account ⚡️ (@thegoodgodabove)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/ElleArmageddon/status/1589555158287290369

I think it would be a very different kind of funny if Twitter tried to handle its own payment processing. 🙃

the apocalypse, but make it fashion. ✨ (@ElleArmageddon)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:52 GMT

I think it would be very funny if Twitter used Stripe for payment processing, instead of Jack’s company.

the apocalypse, but make it fashion. ✨ (@ElleArmageddon)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:47 GMT

https://twitter.com/type__error/status/1589557919015530497

nickrw (@nickrw)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 10:01 GMT

I think we called it Star Wars

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Opinion: Should Luke Skywalker Have His Own Series? ow.ly/fRWo50Lstzy

Star Wars Culture (@SWCulture)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:50 GMT

🕷️miri's island✡️ (@DykescoSpider)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 22:49 GMT

The pager schedule updated and I'm on call today, for a bunch of systems which I've only heard the names of before. The true experts in them are no longer here.

nickrw (@nickrw)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:49 GMT

When it came time to reckon with social media’s failings, nobody ran to the “web3” platforms. Nobody asked “can I get paid per message”? Nobody asked about the blockchain. The community of people …

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288

This perpetuates a fundamentally bad idea: that you need to sacrifice health and friends etc to succeed in sv tech. Of course that’s not true and it sets young people on the wrong path.

Rasmus Andersson (@rsms)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:16 GMT

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288

Nat, no. 1) this feature is no “great new thing. Let’s not pretend it is 2) there’s a huge difference between working hard because you’re personally motivated by the mission vs a culture of fear 3) you know how many people do their best work when they’re burnt out? None.

Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:54 GMT

https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1589501860389728257

An engineer stopping a $10M mistake is doing more work than an engineer grinding for years. How do you award that?

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:18 GMT

What's the point of building 10 features that are destined to fail and waste your company's money?

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:15 GMT

Memo to the media: Please don't say inflation is at a 40-year high without also mentioning that corporate profits are at a 70-year high. Give the people the full picture.

Robert Reich (@RBReich)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:26 GMT

[reading the bible but getting impressed by the wrong parts] woah this guy had 12 friends in his 30’s

soul nate (@MNateShyamalan)Tue, 18 Oct 2022 21:22 +0000

When you're trying to enter the bios menu after booting

José M Sánchez 🤔 (@Josemas)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:26 GMT

being on Twitter right now is like playing the violin on the titanic except we are also making fun of the iceberg and the iceberg is getting genuinely mad

🌻✨️Lauren Dombrowski🏴‍☠️🍊 (@callmekitto)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:59 GMT

https://twitter.com/callmekitto/status/1589407148462964736

also the iceberg got its start with apartheid emerald money and its wife left it

🌻✨️Lauren Dombrowski🏴‍☠️🍊 (@callmekitto)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:01 GMT

how it started vs how it’s going

taha (@KhanStopMe)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:14 GMT

https://twitter.com/Appyg99/status/1588917038881595392

In my experience most valuable engineers with in-out knowledge of complex domains & large codebases are too valuable to write code. Instead they act as leverage doing design, code reviews & PoCs. If they grew in the same company, their past LoC will be v high but not recent LoC.

Nitish (नितिश) (@nitish)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 15:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/Appyg99/status/1588917038881595392

It’s actually not a metric the big companies use at all. Nor does it indicate poor performance. People working on the hardest problems write less code, because the work isn’t in the coding, it’s in solving the problem. This shows you don’t understand software development.

Kelly Ellis (@justkelly_ok)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:48 GMT

Literally stupid. If I write a function, and EVERYONE uses that function over & over & over because it’s so incredibly useful, do I get LOC credit for every where it’s used? I swear, I’m gonna die whilst yelling “Goodhart’s law! They didn’t listen to Goodhart’s law!”

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Here is a big co secret (esp engineers whose main job is to code) — People will look at lines of code written to decide if you’re in or out. You can cry all about how it’s gameable, it’s not efficient etc. But that’s a metric all big cos use to assess poor performers.

Apoorva Govind (@Appyg99)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 15:31 GMT

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:53 GMT

https://twitter.com/Appyg99/status/1588917038881595392

At lots of Big Tech, during promotions, a frequent reason to deny promotions to senior and the next level (eg staff) is not frequent enough coding. They might not tell you this upfront btw. There’s the expectation that up to staff+ levels, you lead by example w coding output.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:40 GMT

The dichotomy of a girl in sweat pants truly comfy boarding this plane and then also with a face full of makeup … truly wild to me.

reba t (@rebajesse)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:59 GMT

Naren is looking for next project (@DudeWhoCode)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:56 GMT

Who among us has not both fucked around and found out?

Hank Green is Changing his Name While He Can (@hankgreen)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:20 GMT

Forbidden frankfurters

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Hi there, to round out your weekend, you've officially been notified that there's endemic Mexican maize that has aerial roots that use bacterial colonies to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. It looks like this. You needed to know that.

Planthropology Podcast🌵 (@Planthropology_)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:39 GMT

genecluck (@genehack)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:23 GMT

In my early 20s, I thought sleeping only for four hours a day and working 80+ hours a week was fine. I have two chronic diseases and I rely on meds now. Don’t compromise your sleep and health for a job even if you’re the founder.

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:39 GMT