"Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google."
[0] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364732480958467?s... [1] https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
Then the language used by Timnit could analyzed and reasoned through to determine if it counts as a formal offer to resign or not.
I not jumping on any bandwagons without at least that or equivalent.
Which is exactly why she has refrained from releasing it throughout this whole drama: plausible deniability.
I do not think there is evidence for that. It is normal to remove employee access to email if they are leaving so it is unlikely Timnit would have access to the email to share.
Timnit says says she has been cut off from her corp account as well: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364734418726912
If it's that clear cut it's that clear cut. Without the email I can not tell.
Timnit Gebru said she "hadn't resigned" and "had asked for simple conditions". So according to her the intent to resign was not in her email.
https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334341991795142667
It's possible to not have the intent and still word something as a clear cut formal offer to resign however. With out the email it is not possible to tell where this falls.