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What's a little more interesting (and not at all mentioned in the Axios article) is there is a parallel increase in /active disengagement/. There's clearly a significant minority who consistently feels disconnected from work, but this is back on the rise.
We're also reading a summary of a summary of a Gallup poll by Jim Harter, Ph.D. who posted 5 months ago [2] that "U.S. Employee Engagement Inches Up Slightly After 11-Year Low" [3], so I'm not sure what conclusions to draw.
Unrelated to the links, DOE immediately stop as soon as they realize they're reading derivative commentary and immediately search for whatever source material is being referenced? Unless you have access to the survey information[4] everyone in this thread is already at least two degrees removed from the data (Jim Harter -> Emily Peck -> HN).
[1] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/654911/employee-engagement-...
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jkharter_after-us-employee-en...
[3] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/647564/employee-engagement-...
...and recently at Coachella: https://youtu.be/sDoNJSvByN4
I kid. Every 40K fan wants this, but it almost feels like hubris to hope it actually happens. I have to wonder if the Amazon deal[1] is Games Workshop's attempt to get out of the streaming business. Nothing coming out of Warhammer+ is breaking out of the core fanbase; I couldn't fathom suggesting to anyone not familiar with the universe, "Yo, you got to checkout this show The Exodite."
My guess is GW is falling back to its comfort zone of licensing IP: "Amazon Studios today announced that it has secured global rights to Warhammer 40,000...The agreement encompasses rights to the universe across series, film, and more..."[2] When you have two producers from Vertigo Entertainment, one of which happens to be dating Henry Cavill, brokering an escape hatch I'm sure they were, "Yes, please."
My guess is we're going to see Eisenhorn first[3] which feels like a far more approachable introduction to the setting anyways.
[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/henry-cavill-wa... [2] https://www.warhammer-community.com/press_releases/amazon-st... [3] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/warhammer-tv-se...
That said you gotta be _asleep_ to not see the tightening of the reins coming from these mega-companies sitting on fertile creative IP. Marvel Cinematic Universe only made — what? — $28B worldwide while making Rocket-fucking-Raccoon a household name. Games Workshop put the screws to content creators leading to the launch of Warhammer+ and r/grimdank is still hitting the front page of Reddit. Not to mention Uber-nerd Henry Cavill is hooking up with Amazon to bring 40K to streaming.
The strategy works and I suspect it's driven entirely by folks — all grown up and with deep pockets — thirsty to see their marginalized childhood hobbies hit the mainstream. I'm conflicted. As much as I want to say, "Fuck WotC. Fuck Games Workshop" there's visceral appeal in hoping for good Drizzt Do'Urden movie or the Drop Site Massacre becoming as much a cultural touchstone as the The Red Wedding.
Or do you mean that in the past decade the Internet has come to its senses and contemporary usage of the meme means: “I am posting this as an affirmation that I _should_ be able to post it, not that I’m a racist, so don’t question my motivation. I come in peace. ;);)”[2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/comments/z5f7kj/8...
The screenshots of the app review don't corroborate the "disallowed almost anything related to Covid, especially vaccines or human origins of the virus", but the Pepe the Frog[3] images could certainly run afoul of Apple's "Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content" restrictions[4]
The App Store Review's comment "We continue to find that your app or metadata includes content that some users may find upsetting, offensive, or otherwise objectionable" also makes it sound like they went around the block a couple of times with this and Odysee was either unwilling or unable to apply content restrictions.
Related, why does it seem like every time Musk rallies for free speech it's adjacent to some hateful dog whistle?
Unrelated, LBRY seems like a hot mess[5].
[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597285572699074560 [2] https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-t... [3] https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/09/28/pepe-joins-ec... [4] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#saf... [5] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/07/lbry-sold-tokens-...
[1] https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...
Some folks seem content to give this behavior a pass citing Musk’s admission that he works 100 hours a week The self-satisfied joy that the gravy train is over for these “lazy tech socialists” is surreal. When you consider that Musk is literally the richest person on earth, it is physically impossible for Musk to work enough hours — over multiple lifetimes — to reconcile a $193B net worth with what any reasonable person would consider a fair compensation.
And to believe that he has a plan for Twitter 2.0 as a “digital town square”[3] strains credulity when he’s been a notorious shitposter. It’s almost as if he insists on sincere engagement from everyone but himself. The Twitter Blue fiasco makes it look like Musk is struggling with his first truly /complex/ challenge. As opposed to, you know, simply complicated shit like rockets and electric vehicles.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-fires-twitt... [2] https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/158770970548883046... [3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441
But now, articles like the TechDirt post are extremely verifiable (admittedly, the "anticipating a messy collision" is my own editorializing.) Don't believe Twitter is under a consent order? Go read it[2]. Don't believe their CSIO quit? Go look at their LinkedIn profile[3]
But I suspect your issue is not with the facts of the article, but the motivation behind making this /news/. I'd argue it absolutely is news regardless of the circus surrounding surrounding the acquisition especially if you care about consumer privacy. You can go read the 2011 complaint[4]; TLDR Twitter was super cavalier with non-public consumer data and the FTC was, "Clean this shit up and put a process in place so it doesn't happen again." And it did happen again! This year Twitter paid $150M for using 2FA numbers for ad targeting[5].
So you now have to think: is Musk going to make consumer privacy a priority? Maybe these exoduses are a good thing? Clean house and all. Or maybe he still coming up with a plan while courting advertisers[6] and scrambling for recurring revenue? But that comes back to the original question: even if Musk gave a shit, does Twitter retain the organizational capacity to police itself?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism [2] https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/2010... [3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/lea-kissner/ [4] https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/2011... [5] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/twitter-p... [6] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728
The stage is set with a billionaire doubling down on a meme and then stumbling into an absurd $45B baby trap. The Internet loves watching a fool and their money parted; Twitter definitely loves watching a fool and their money parted.
And then, for some, it’s dawning that Musk has been on this MAGA-infused, grade-school-interpretation-of-free-speech trajectory and the stakes of this Twitter acquisition are suddenly much higher. Doubly so when you review the behind the scenes discussions [1] and believe Musk is completely disingenuous (any guess who “the boss himself” is?) in his desire for a neutral platform[2].
I’ve been doom-scrolling the Elon-Twitter news mostly for the rapid unravelling of Musk’s ur-engineer persona. His engineering management has been a cavalcade of bully choices: shitcan half the company, stack rank your engineers by LOC, enforce work-the-weekend death marches, and throw all your coders on to a manager schedule...in an office...in 2022.
Maybe my opinion will change when I start hearing stories about the first of his Twitter pull requests, but right now he’s looking like a dilettante who meme'd into a shit show and has forgotten his ambitions to make us a multi-planet species.
[1] https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#22 [2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589639376186724354
The original article is anticipating a messy collision Twitter's legal obligations to the FTC and Musk's inscrutable product development roadmap given the recent employee churn (both layoffs and exits from key roles, e.g. CISO, CPO, & CCO.)
[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2011/03/...
The interesting proposition here is that Twitter could have lost the organizational capacity to comply with these consent decrees, or at least abdicated the responsibility to the engineers...which sounds bananas.
The Prequel-meme writes itself...
ELON-AKIN: I'm not worried about the FTC. I build rockets.
PADME-GNINEER: Then I shouldn't be either.
ELON-AKIN: ...
PADME-GNINEER: I shouldn't be either, right?It's such a better driving experience. Untethered from buying gas, I'm now astonished how much infrastructure is dedicated to internal combustion vehicles.
[1]https://rh.com/restaurants, https://rh.com/one, https://rh.com/three
Would it be less worrisome if the game "only" required, say, $600 to max out?
It seems in both cases consumers are at the precipice of a digital money pit and it's not clear whose responsibility it is to keep people from falling in.
It would be more disturbing if players at this end of the spending curve _didn't_ encounter game-breaking issues. I'd be more alarmed if the headline read: "After $100K, YouTuber professes, 'This is where the game gets fun.'"
What sort of option agreement requires employees to immediately exercise on vesting? That seems odder than the rest of the story.
[1] https://jobs.lever.co/GraphCDN/33bc14f9-4671-4540-8862-7d358...
I know you want to roll your eyes at the middle-aged woman as being a hand-wringing looky-loo, but maybe that's just what the social safety net that makes free range kids a possibility looks like.
My elementary school-age kids walk to school. They know they might get approached by an adult asking where they live; they know how to answer: "I live up the street. No, I don't need help." NBD.
A counter example, I pulled over on my drive home from work to ask a five year old in pajamas wandering the streets near dark what he was doing out. I walked him home. Mom was horrified to realize the little dude had wandered out of the house.
One final thought on the original article, I think the author is willfully ignoring the banal reality of the situation to make their point. I'm sure the school representative wanted to say, "Listen lady, I've got 30 kids I need to monitor at recess and while you're probably a nice person you're another variable I need to keep in the corner of my eye. Take a walk."
Yeah, maybe shoo her away from the playground.
That said, I hope they support video soon so I can get rid of that annoying NetflixHBOHuluDisney+ paywall.
No, wait, that's _insane_. What the hell is wrong with people?
In this thread, SaltySloth's comment [2] is most prescient and provides the best practical advice.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430888 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430583
[1] http://ruralsportsman.com/rediscover-the-baker-tent/ [2] https://www.surviveoutdoorslonger.com/survive-outdoors-longe...