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NEARLY 1 OUT OF 3 (60,000 EMPLOYEES) AT MICROSOFT BEING OFFERED VOLUNTARY TERMINATION
Emails should be going out any minute to those receiving the offer.
Absolutely insane.
$MSFT offers 60,000 employees a voluntary exit.
60K Y’all!!
First time this has ever been offered at Microsoft and it will affect employees in India, The United States, Canada, and the UK at level 70 or below…
Employees find out in a few hours if they are being targeted for this.
This just makes me think that H127 layoffs sound intense. Is this a pre-layoff round?
Also makes me wonder if they changed some scheduled layoffs due to be called out by @VP. Peace offering? 🤔 Timing is just interesting.
More to come.
Talkie does consider Italians and Irish White. It is hyper focused on the Caucasian category though. So, it also considers Middle Easterners to be White.
If Trump had lost in 24, it only would’ve emboldened the “traditional” wing of the Republican Party. Trump winning meant that MAGA was here to stay. I’m not convinced that Trump losing would’ve pressured Republicans to listen more to their base. It would’ve been the opposite
The Bush family are determined to bring down Trump - even if it means turning Texas blue to achieve it: 'It's political civil war' trib.al/N3tYbBb
I wonder if a vintage LLM trained on pre-1938 data could’ve predicted the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. If Hitler had decided to go in a different direction, most historians would probably be stating that he was too uncompromising and bigoted to have struck a deal with Communists.
Even beyond that, after the pact, would it have predicted the German invasion of the Soviet Union? I feel like it would give a higher chance on that.
"During the development of a platypus foetus, they do temporily start to grow teeth which are soon re-absorbed into the skull. This is an interesting reverse of what most animals do – to have babies with no teeth and then adults with teeth."
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s discovered that monotremes lasted much longer in South America.
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🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨
Fossil teeth belonging to the toothed platypus genus, Obdurodon, have been described from a deposit from New South Wales dating to.....the Pleistocene! All previous specimens were from Oligocene to Miocene! Ultimate Ghost Lineage!
🎨: JuliusCsotonyi
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Wow.
For context, this is talkie, a LLM trained only on text written before 1930, I'm running it locally.
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Removed all of the samsung spyware from my TV with Codex (Claude refused to root the tv lol)
It's insane how much bloat samsung packs into their TVs to track you and sell your data. Here's just some of what I turned off that made my tv 3x faster:
- screenshot your screen a few times a second to see what you're streaming and fingerprint you to sell your data
- reading your hdmi inputs to do the same thing while you have a game console plugged in
- Voice assistants: Bixby wake-word detectors listening and tracking what you say in your house
Before and after speed of my TV:
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I didn’t know my brain was still holding onto this news article I read from 2002, but this tweet pulled it out of me
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North African Zebra
(Equus mauritanicus)
~ lived in: North Africa
~ cause of decline: aridification
~ last record: 4000 BC
~ status: extinct
📸: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…
