Duolingo blog on Ukrainian language has more nuance and moral authority than most of what the Big Tech companies have put out this week
Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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- NEW: Elon Musk ignored legal disclosure requirements and kept buying Twitter stock well after he was supposed to tell the market. It made him $156 million. From @ReedAlbergotti
- My summary of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar's vision for the company she laid out today at WSJ tech conference
- NEW - Google will delete location history for people who go to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters and a few other sensitive places. blog.google/technology/saf…
- Deal is closed. Musk immediately fired the CEO, CFO and head of safety washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
- NEW - OpenAI employees pushed back internally against the company's deal with Anduril. One pointed out that Terminator's Skynet was also originally meant to be an aerial defense weapon
- NEW - Russian tech workers are circulating a petition opposing their government's invasion of Ukraine. More than 10,000 have signed so far
- NEW - YouTube is taking down the accounts of some of the biggest anti-vaccine activists — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
- I am hearing that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella voiced the words "enterprise metaverse" on the call today. Pls make it stop
- YouTube says it's now re-instated the channel. They took it down by mistake, spokesman saysNEW from me: Right Wing Watch's Kyle Mantyla told me that YouTube issued a final strike against RWW's channel and removed its account based on a video that had been up for 8 years. The ban removes a deep archive of thousands of clips exposing extremism. thedailybeast.com/youtube-perman…
- This is a MASSIVE story - a Catholic news substack got @Grindr location data and used it to out a very senior priest. He's now resigned. From @mboorstein and @marisa_iati
- this has been in my parents house for like 15 years and my dad insists his name is Boba Fett. my mom says "bubba the hub"
