Were you expecting Amazon to simply announce its expected 10,000 layoffs? Recode writes that the company’s swinging the ax quietly instead — quietly enough that many don’t know what’s going on. Meanwhile, “large swaths of the company’s HR division” are receiving voluntary buyout offers.
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Dungeons & Dragons is getting an official Lego set based on designs from fans — and those fans are telling Lego loud and clear that the Mimic deserves consideration. Over two dozen different Mimic designs have been submitted (out of 621 total entries), but I can’t get over how beautifully / terrifyingly Varghoss’s Ultra Mimic here comes to life.
The mass layoffs at Twitter, Meta, and soon possibly Amazon are just the tip of the iceberg.
Tech job marketplace TrueUp.io has been keeping track — and it says over 183,000 people have already been hit by tech layoffs so far in 2022. You can see the details in the company’s interactive tracker here.
Could it have something to do with how the world’s-fourth-richest-man’s company is reportedly about to announce the biggest job cuts in its history, leaving 10,000 people out of work amidst crippling inflation while he sits on enough money to end hunger in the United States many times over?
Because Bezos certainly doesn’t seem to have been all that interested in philanthropy before: this is the notorious cheapskate who “donated” $200 million to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in exchange for 50-year naming rights and they can’t even take his name off if he does something despicable.
Microsoft is pausing the rollout of the latest update for systems that have specific games installed, because they are “inadvertently enabling GPU performance debugging features” that might cause your games to stutter or take a hit to performance.
Frustratingly, Microsoft doesn’t say which games those are — just that it recommends you don’t upgrade until it’s fixed the problem.
When Mario flipped Twitter the bird, it was impersonating a big brand — something Twitter wants to stop so it can get that sweet advertiser cash. Yet Elon keeps insisting parody is allowed, and what the heck is the difference? But guy’s latest tweet makes me think he’s talking about a specific kind of parody.
See, Jesus Christ has been doing this for well over a decade, and so Twitter wasn’t just going to roll Him for fun, even if making big pharma lose billions is arguably way funnier. But if Twitter gives Jesus a “Parody” badge — a la the new “Official” badge — then Elon gets to be arbiter of what is and isn’t funny. Wait, I guess that isn’t actually better?
