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    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Twitter’s former executives might not get their golden parachutes.

    Chief Twit, aka Elon Musk, fired Twitter’s top executives “for cause,” according to a report from The Information. This means the company’s CEO, CFO, policy chief, and others may not get their hefty severance pay (which totaled $38.7 million for former CEO Parag Agrawal).

    Musk also reportedly ordered company-wide layoffs on Saturday, and wants to complete the job cuts by November 1st, the same day employees are supposed to get their stock grants.

    Musk Fired Executives For ‘Cause,’ In Apparent Attempt to Avoid Payouts

    [The Information]

    Elon Musk reportedly ordered company-wide layoffs at TwitterElon Musk reportedly ordered company-wide layoffs at Twitter
    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Can we make this the universal button layout?

    Game designer Alex Camilleri shared an image of a controller button layout created by his wife, and it makes a lot more sense than the designs we have now.

    Instead of sporting the traditional X, B, A, and Y layout, this controller mockup turns the buttons into a compass rose, naming them N, S, E, and W for each cardinal direction. Why didn’t anyone think of this in the first place?

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    Emma Roth
    YouTube posted a touching tribute to the late Technoblade.

    Technoblade, a popular Minecraft YouTuber, died at age 23 in June due to cancer. His channel just turned nine yesterday, and YouTube posted a video to celebrate Technoblade’s impact on the platform.

    The video, appropriately titled “Technoblade never dies” after his famous catchphrase, already has over 4 million views and counting. You might also might notice a neat little Easter Egg if you type “Technoblade” in YouTube’s search bar.

    GM pauses ads on Twitter after Elon Musk’s acquisitionGM pauses ads on Twitter after Elon Musk’s acquisition
    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Avatar 2 is three hours and 10 minutes long.

    That’s according to The Hollywood Reporter, and if true, would make the flick even longer than the first Avatar, which has a two-hour and 41-minute runtime. In July, director James Cameron said this about the upcoming film’s length (and I have to say, he has a point):

    I don’t want anybody whining about length when they sit and binge-watch [television] for eight hours... I’ve watched my kids sit and do five one-hour episodes in a row. Here’s the big social paradigm shift that has to happen: it’s okay to get up and go pee.

    ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Runtime Sails Past Three Hours

    [The Hollywood Reporter]

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