Meh. CWing things as a courtesy is fine, but militantly hall monitoring anything outside a particular bubble viewpoint seems like a problem. Now they’re going to be dealing with a mass influx of non-whitebread, non-English speaking, non-American posts.
I hope that they can handle the shock.
Some of that might be unconscious cultural assumptions about what is controversial, and what’s not, and some might be creepier attempts to use wedges.
World’s richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course
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Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported conversations with engineers who said there were six critical systems – such as “serving tweets” – that no longer had tech staff to support them. “There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop,” one said.
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Musk’s Twitter buyout relied on his own money and $12.5 billion lending from major banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Barclays.
Having read news of chaos within the company, those who signed off the loans can log into the website this morning to see the man in charge finding the time to post memes about Twitter burying itself and a (now-deleted) tweet making references to jumping the shark.
I laughed, and then I cried, being part of the group deciding on the “conduct of code” (as I like to call the coding guidelines).
Religions and politics are not controversial topics, code formatting, on the other hand, can break decennial friendships.
