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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.
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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…
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Last of the sabercats goes on a glorious man-eating rampage 2000 years ago in the Yucatan penninsula? :B inspired by a recent paper on the Loltun cave findings. Mind you, the paper says the megafauna remains were misplaced so this is just a nocturnal flight of fancy 🥲
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There were still prairies and savannas like today they were just full of ferns.
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16 Nisan 1918 Spa Mutabakatı (Almanya'nın I. Dünya Savaşı Doğu Planı), Rusya'nın Brest-Litovsk Antlaşması ile savaştan çekilmesinin ardından, Alman İmparatorluğu'nun Doğu Avrupa'yı kendi federe hanedanları arasında paylaştırarak inşa etmeyi planladığı devasa uydu devletler kuşağıdır.
Haritada gördüğümüz üzere bu gizli plan, Belçika'nın Spa kentindeki Alman askeri karargahında Şansölye Georg von Hertling ile askeri diktatörlük yürüten Başkomutanlık kurmayları Paul von Hindenburg ve Erich Ludendorff arasında kararlaştırılan radikal bir jeopolitik tasarımdır. Rus Çarlığı'ndan koparılan topraklarda kurulacak kukla monarşiler, Alman federal yapısını dengelemek amacıyla imparatorluk içindeki farklı hanedanlara "pay" olarak dağıtılmıştır.
* Baltık bölgesi (Kurlandiya, Livonya ve Estonya'yı kapsayan Birleşik Baltık Dükalığı) doğrudan Prusya ile şahsi birlik (personal union) içinde Hohenzollern Hanedanı'na bağlanıyor
* Sarı renkle gösterilen Litvanya Krallığı, Katolik Wettin Hanedanı'ndan bir Saksonya düküne (II. Mindaugas / Urach Dükü Wilhelm) tahsis edilmiş
* Açık turuncu renkle gösterilen Polonya Naip Krallığı ise Württemberg Kraliyet Hanedanı'na vadedilmiştir.
Bu planın ardındaki temel niyet; bir yandan Prusya'nın aşırı büyümesinden rahatsız olan Bavyera, Saksonya ve Württemberg gibi güney Alman krallıklarının kıskançlığını dindirmek, diğer yandan ise Rusya ile Almanya arasında Berlin'e göbekten bağlı, Alman prenslerinin yönettiği bir tampon devletler ve hammadde sömürgesi (Mitteleuropa) kuşağı inşa etmekti. Ancak Doğu'daki bu görkemli imparatorluk rüyası, haritada belirlenen sınırların mürekkebi dahi kurumadan; 1918 yazında Batı Cephesi'ndeki Alman Bahar Taarruzları'nın çökmesi, Kasım Devrimi ile monarşinin ilga edilmesi ve Almanya'nın teslim olmasıyla tarihin tozlu sayfalarında kalmış, yerini Versay düzeninin bağımsız ulus-devletlerine bırakmıştır.
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New from NYT: By executive action alone, the Trump administration has accomplised the largest cuts to legal immigration since the 1920s.
Muslim and African migration is down 90%. Visa issuance to Asia — including India and China — and Latin America has fallen across the board.
ALT https://archive.is/gCH3e
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SNAP usage is at its lowest level since 2009 and has fallen by nearly 7 million since Donald Trump took office.
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Excited to share about the latest discovery at the San José de la Tinaja fossil site- a vertebra from a pretty big Boa! First record for this giant snake at a Pleistocene site that already yielded crocodile, turtle, giant toad, and colubrids, as well as various mammals.
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Unexpected spread of poverty amongst the Manchu themselves. The 4th Qing Emperor's first response was to buy back Bannermen lands that had been mortgaged to Han creditors, but his advisors made persuasive McNuke arguments. Thus the Manchu were consigned to the dustbin of history.
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🧵 Mighty Mississippian Mastodons & Mammoths: learn about some of Mississippi's largest terrestrial mammals ever!
#paleoart
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🚨#BREAKING: Sri Lanka is reportedly experiencing one of the world's deadliest human-elephant conflicts, with an average of 138 people & 402 elephants killed annually since 2019.
