• @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    I am very skeptical that’s even what happened, but I can’t find any articles frankly explaining what happened. For one thing, three board members were replaced. How? I mean that very literally. If the three who left simply resigned, some mechanism must have been employed to select and empower the replacements. And yet the article I just linked doesn’t explain the machanism in any way.

    The article I linked makes it clear at least one of the three, Sutskever, didn’t sinply resign. He was removed. How was he removed? It is a mystery.

    All I want is for someone to lay out what happened. I doubt I will get what I want.

  • @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    Back in the day, joining a Union didn’t just mean the chance of getting fired; it meant a good chance of being thrown out of the house, arrested, or even shot.

    Join the Union, and if you don’t have one, start organizing.

  • rastilin
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    452 years ago

    It was easier because Microsoft had a budget and were willing to guarantee that those employees would get paid no matter what. If Unions were better funded they could guarantee the same.

  • maegul (he/they)
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    So much fucking this. I’ve said it else where, but I think the media and online talk about openAI and Altman was a great tiny little crucible for seeing the corporate and CEO cultism that dominates mainstream culture.

    Joining together for the CEO!! Whom everyone all of a sudden has some sympathy for. But laying off thousands of employees half a year earlier … business as usual!

    CEOs are just employees. Their value is as questionable as anyone else’s. It was just another layoff. Instead everyone revealed that we’re all closer to serfs.