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Just a reminder: Don't take yourselves too seriously. All that seriousness is just exhausting. <insert emoji here> <insert hashtag here>

Ο κύριος αυτός που χρησιμοποιεί τη λέξη "αυτισμός" ως αρνητικό χαρακτηρισμό για μικροπολιτικούς λόγους, είναι υφυπουργός Παιδείας. #Βουλή #προταση_μομφης #Neurodiversity

@niallm I do not know business-wise, but we are lead to believe that this was not a business acquisition, but for the attention, and the impact it will have to the world. And attention is something that personas feed on.

@niallm It is part of the persona. For insiders, it is your off-the-shelf scare tactic. The Boss. For outsiders, it's the bad boy, the ruthless business man you want to become, the eccentric billionaire you admire, and other things narrow minded people perceive as "qualities".

Reluctant as I am to direct more attention to <gestures> this, it seems clear that the contemptous behaviour displayed below is going to be hugely expensive and damaging. Is it really worth it, business-wise, to send this very strong "don't care about people" message?

Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future of social media doesn't have to belong to a billionaire, it can be in the hands of its users.

Celebrating someone else's win is healthy for our work environment. We should do it more often!

@moraitakis So, IIRC, if someone can't make the extra time, because we should be frank, this discussion is about working more than average, then, they can't make top professionals. That's actually OK. 1x.engineer

@moraitakis Those sound so inspiring, in theory. In practice, if doing all those things do not fit into the 40hrs work week, or any paid/agreed overtime, then what is sacrificed 99.9% of the time, is an employee's personal time. That is not possible for everyone, eg people with families

So let’s say you’re a twitter employee and you don’t like Elon, or going to the office, or working hard. You were really there for the fat comp and the free mimosas. Good. Now, what’s your story on the next interview? Can’t be “I left cause they asked me to actually work”.

@moraitakis Work ethic being, spending every waking hour serving your company because it needs you?

@manjiki I understand the theory. Yet, in most professions, the people at the very top seem invariably to also have high work ethic and resilience. You can ignore this on a money-overflowing market. Not in a competitive one. My original point is these people are signaling wrong.

@moraitakis When employees work "hard", and by "hard" we mean long long hours, it is highly likely they do the work of more than one people, aka the org is understaffed. Since when an org being understaffed is an engineering problem? Especially when we are talking for a 44bn company

@manjiki It doesn’t last. That’s what’s wrong with it :)

It appears we will soon find out Twitter's bus factor

Disney+ broke on all my linux machines a few days ago but I have fixed it by setting my User-Agent string to "Definitely Windows".

And it is a wrap! @niallm @DashaRV Thank you for a wonderful #srecon @usenix

Why not have an internal, not fancy, status page? @nocoot #srecon

The tl;dr of statistics: Someone will win the lottery, and it won't be you. @nukemberg #srecon

How to upgrade 101 @ignatkn #srecon

How do we know we are futureproofing and not overengineering? @EmilStolarsky #srecon

"curl is my best friend" @KumariRadha3 #srecon

We can't have 1-1 mapping of features between technologies @KumariRadha3 #srecon