In January, Humane laid off about 10 employees. A month later, a senior software engineer was let go after she questioned whether the Ai Pin would be ready by April. In a company meeting after the dismissal, Mr. Chaudhri and Ms. Bongiorno said the employee had violated policy by talking negatively about Humane, two attendees said.
If you were someone who believed in IQ like a religion, but had just made a stupid and costly mistake, I would hope you’d take a second to think. Maybe IQ isn’t everything, and it’s definitely not the only thing, that makes people successful or unsuccessful.
Instead he busts out a slur and jokes about having an IQ of 26
Which woman is that? I thought most of the “disappeared” of Scientology were the relatively high ranking sea org members who were purged after L Ron Hubbard died.
Apparently deaf people never have kids. Hmm. Alright. Okay.
This guy isn’t even the first techbro to suggest recently that if disabled people are allowed to have kids, eventually we will all be disabled. I know very very little about genetics, but I’m still pretty sure it doesn’t work that way.
All I can say is bring it on. These guys seem to assume women will be furious about being replaced in this hypothetical scenario. I imagine most women would be relieved to have more free time and greater opportunities. Losing your role is only scary if you have benefited from your social position.
Irish Travellers/Mincéir are hugely discriminated against in both Britain and Ireland. I would tell this guy to go crack a book but he would probably just write another racist article about Travellers.
There’s something so… crypto bro… about someone mad that influencers spill personal info for profit instead of having it stolen from them by hackers. “Hey! That was my payday!”
It’s quite sick to podcast about hypothetical genocides you might cause while an actual genocide is taking place. I guess these guys get off on the idea that they might have the power of life and death.
Not a mention in the article of the impact of pollution on fertility, which isn’t inconsiderable.
Two factors that have made the birth rate go down are a) greater access to contraception and abortion for women and b) reduced numbers of teenage pregnancies. Of course forced births and forced labour are a-ok with these two.
Reaching through my screen into this photo so I can pull out the rifle and shoot myself
Who thought it would be a good idea to keep that in a household with 3 kids under 5. Is it just so they can flash it at Republicans and win primary votes??
Oh wait I got this, how about the bit about the oldest child taking care of the younger ones. They get to grow up fast and spend their precious time being an unpaid babysitter instead of actually being a kid pretty much ruining their childhood.
Common practice among quiverfull creeps.
My mum grew up in Ireland in the 60s (one of 8 children) and witnessed some of this at school: little girls from families of 15 or 20, missing classes so they could mind their younger siblings.
That’s because there is no “movement” and the whole thing is a stunt to promote the ideas of the least thoughtful of all the unthoughtful people who nonetheless consider themselves intellectuals.
She is obviously not a very nice person but he really is a piece of work. Yeah, go on, encourage your wife to risk her health and her life to have kids you aren’t even interested in.
Enforced positivity policy at Humane (arstechnica.com)
Apparently a senior SW engineer got fired for questioning readiness of the product, dude must still be chuckling to himself....
A Story in Two Pictures, Or Solidity? Why Worry! (wandering.shop)
(Found by way of @cstross)...
the loons are at it again (righttowarn.ai)
this time in open letter format! that’ll sure do it!...
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we're not Nazis btw (awful.systems)
America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)
The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.