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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 44m

I love my autistic horse child (she didn't win the final but my Seiun Sky did)

Mihono Bourbon being asked "Would you mind smiling for a photo to go in the publication?". She responds "I can try. Like... like this? Error. I'll learn to program a smile by the time I'm in the winner's circle."

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 54m

Turns out they only believe in "efficiency" when they have the opportunity to fire people who actually do something useful. They take it as a given that parasites like themselves who've never contributed anything to the world in their lives should be exempt.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 56m

I personally think we should apply fund managers' standards to fund managers. To a first approximation, there exist zero fund managers who provide more value than a robot that just tracks a decent index, so they should all be fired in order to produce greater value for investors

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

get you a girl who can do both

(the alphabet shareholder letter that helped push layoffs in tech)

Sundar Pichai
Chief Executive Officer
Alphabet
Mountain View, CA 94043
Cc: Board of Directors
20* January 2023
Dear Sundar,
I have appreciated our recent dialogue concerning Alphabet's cost base. I am encouraged to see that you are now taking some action to right size Alphabet's cost base and understand that it is never an easy decision to let people go.
I argued in my previous letter that Alphabet's headcount has grown beyond what is required operationally. Over the last 5 years, Alphabet more than doubled its headcount, adding over 100,000 employees, of which over 30,000 were added in the first 9 months of 2022 alone. The decision to cut 12,000 jobs is a step in the right direction, but it does not even reverse the very strong headcount growth of 2022. Ultimately management will need to go further.
I believe that management should aim to reduce headcount to around 150,000, which is in line with Alphabet's headcount at the end of 2021. This would require a total headcount reduction in the order of 20%.
Importantly, management should also take the opportunity to address excessive employee compensation. The median salary at Alphabet in 2021 amounted to nearly $300,000, and the average salary is much higher. Competition for talent in the technology industry has fallen significantly allowing Alphabet to materially reduce compensation per employee. In particular, Alphabet should limit stock-based compensation given the depressed share price.
I hope to have further dialogue with you on these matters in due course.
Yours sincerely,
CHim
Christopher Hohn
7 Clifford Street, London, WIS 2FT Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7440 2330
Fund Management Limited is a private limited company incorporated and existing under the laws of England

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1h

I haven't seen anything about them doing this for ATC, for example, which, well, there's another new path to the United Airlines-Disney coup d'etat I guess

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · Aug 7

i hope they really try it. ban all jet-powered flight over the US. i wanna see how many hours their government lasts before Disney and United Airlines stage a joint coup.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 6

Mace: I would support any action to remove fluoride from the water. And ban also chemtrails

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1h

I don't work for the federal government, but if I were a federal worker watching them illegally pay a bunch of other people while ignoring me...whew

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 2h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

www.cbsnews.com

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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 2h

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 3h

David Brooks directly quoting the Communist Manifesto last spring was the point where I knew things were going to be truly *weird* for the foreseeable future

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 3h

Reason #739026292 to decarbonize as fast as possible: the things that will happen to the Saudi monarchy when nobody needs their oil anymore

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 3h

Remember the time a Saudi state media-affiliated Twitter account with like half a million followers threatened to 9/11 Canada?

Anyway isn't it fascinating how the US government still treats Saudi Arabia like an ally

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 3h

I think the thing that clinches it for me (vs grouping Pittsburgh in the category where I put Detroit) is CMU <-> UChicago and Pitt <-> UIC

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 3h

"what if Philly was culturally dominated by its heavily white suburbs"

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 6h

(obviously this is like 80% me doing an intentionally reductive bit because I think it's funny)

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 6h

Put another way, Portland is "what if you made a city out of just SF's cringe", and Seattle is "what if you made a city out of just SF's angsty middle class and a bunch of drizzle"

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 6h

Instantiate the shared metacity with:

white theater kids -> Portland

white kids with dirt cheap electric guitars and depression -> Seattle

both of those plus lots of Asian & Hispanic immigrants -> SF

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 6h

On the other hand, while a superficial analysis might label Miama a Los Angeles, I think they're actually distinct in a very particular way: Miami is Los Angeles's Wario

Unfortunately (because New Yorkers' sense of their own importance doesn't need the boost) I do think that only NYC is an NYC

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 6h

How many different cities does the US have? By which I mean, for example: I think it's pretty easy to establish that Pittsburgh is a Chicago, and that SF, Seattle, and Portland are all just different reified aspects of a single city

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 8h

Also sfmta had two fare cops trying to handle everyone at the east exit at embarcadero, highly efficient use of resources with like 30 people standing there waiting 🙄

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 8h

oh motherfucker it's dreamforce isn't it, no wonder my train was so full

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 8h

Economists right now are like "the US economy is extremely healthy, and also on the brink of collapse" lol

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 9h

"guys stop slut shaming the reporter who was fucking her source" is discourse that belongs back in like 2013

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

pls I'm not some kind of PgM or PM or whatever I'm not built for this

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

Giving me three hours of meetings in one day is a violation of the NAP

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

good morning

Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

VOLITION - You got up from this floor because of a holy vow you made sixteen years ago. With *me*. To wake up exactly 07:30 every morning until the day you die.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

ok does anyone have a good tldr of what's changed in Rimworld in the last *checks Steam history* uhhh five years, jesus

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 2d

I would be so owned if Republicans made it so that a like D+3 swing nationally was enough to give Democrats 300 seats in the house

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