From that article: "Mr. Musk’s team was asked to comb through messages in Twitter’s internal chat platform and make a list of employees who were insubordinate, people briefed on the plan said."
CULTURE
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Mastodon’s Safety-First Design Built by Underrepresented Communities
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Mastodon was built by sensible, thoughtful people, many from underrepresented communities who had very clear needs around safety and moderation – they've put a lot of careful work into that, and the community there continues to invest in it I'm optimistic!
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Elon Musk fires Twitter employees for internal disagreement
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He isn't just firing people who posted in public, he's actively hunting down people who disagreed with him internally too https://
nytimes.com/2022/11/15/tec
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Decentralized Social Networks: The Feature That Matters Most
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I ignored Mastodon for 6 years because I knew that decentralized social networks could never be as low friction and easy to use as something like Twitter … but they also can't be bought by a billionaire narcissist, and it turns out that might be the feature that matters most!
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Fediverse as Twitter Alternative: Decentralized Future Trust
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I'm honestly having trouble imagining a viable future Twitter alternative that isn't part of the fediverse (Mastodon is currently just the most visible implementation) Are we really all going to trust some new centralized startup, after how badly we got burned on Twitter?
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Twitter Culture Shift: Firings for Previously Celebrated Behavior
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Evidently Twitter culture previously celebrated the exact things people are getting fired for (especially since many of those fired were talking on company Slack, not in public)
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AI Reimagines Historical Figures: Al Capone Today
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You have probably never wondered what Al Capone would look like today, but in case you did, Artificial Intelligence can tell you ! Photographer Uses AI to Imagine What Historical Icons Would Look Like Today https://
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Facts Tell Stories Sell: Marketing Strategy Insights
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‘Facts tell, stories sell!’ (Heard at a marketing forum)
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Japanese Student Ambassadors from Tohoku University Recognized
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Big kudos to our Japanese Student Ambassadors from Tohoku University @sp_coffee_py @pdgwg8379 @h1ro_funa