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• @bressansar Sarah Bressan on bluesky

  Have I ever seen anything weaker?  —  Maybe not.  (memo to staff from Meta/facebook) www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...  [image]

• @hypervisible @hypervisible on bluesky

  “Candi Castleberry, Amazon's VP of inclusive experiences and technology, said the company was in the process of ‘winding down outdated programs and materials’ as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives.”

• @ashthayer Ash on bluesky

  It reads “racism is back in style & inclusion is so 8 years ago” 🤦🏽‍♀️

• @3fecta Dag on bluesky

  Outdated, means Bezos no longer needs to pretend.  The tech lords are making a big bet on Trump, but he can just as soon start a war against Amazonians because Lynda Carter was so unfair to him, than stay focused on their machinations.  [embedded post]

• @lorak Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  Annie Palmer got the Amazon memo discussing why they're halting their DEI programs.  Here at @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/01/10/a...

• @tdmoss Tim Moss on bluesky

  Uncanny how coordinated this is.  [embedded post]

• @rayminehane Ray Minehane on bluesky

  The Appeasement sure is something [embedded post]

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  faster than i thought. après Zuck le déluge [image]

• r/popculturechat r on reddit

  Amazon to halt some of its DEI programs: Internal memo

• r/technology r on reddit

  Amazon to halt some of its DEI programs: Internal memo

• r/SeattleWA r on reddit

  Amazon to halt some of its DEI programs: Internal memo

• r/redscarepod r on reddit

  Meta ends DEI programs for hiring

• r/technology r on reddit

  Read Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

• @jesseb4me Jesse B on bluesky

  They're not perfect, but it is reassuring to see Apple pushing back against nonsense shareholder proposals.  —  9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/a...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads

  A conservative think tank has submitted a shareholder proposal to Apple to end its DEI programs.  Apple has asked its shareholders to vote against the proposal because “At Apple, we believe that how we conduct ourselves is as critical to Apple's success as making the best product…

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads

  I lost a few hundred followers this afternoon.  I'm honestly surprised that people who've been following me would find either commending Apple on their DEI stance or saying the U.S. is reverting to mean on racial justice issues as controversial. …

• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  Apple CEO Tim Cook's pay rose 18% to $74.6 million and the company shot down an outside shareholder proposal to abolish its DEI efforts. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• r/technology r on reddit

  Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts: ‘We strive to create a culture of belonging’

• @mattmcneilshow Matt McNeil Show on bluesky

  These billionaires are horrible.  Trying their hardest to make sure white, male, straight, Christian is the only protected class in America.  —  FYI, since I started mocking Zuck's turn toward MAGA yesterday, I lost 40 followers on Threads. www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...

• @arozenshtein Alan Rozenshtein on bluesky

  1/ I think this is actually a more important story than Meta's content moderation changes.  It's not just about appeasing Trump—it reflects a shift in Zuckerberg's political views, away from the progressive/far-left values that dominated elite culture from 2014-2020/21. www.axios…

• @quinnypig.com Corey Quinn on bluesky

  It's wild how quickly companies are pivoting from a position of “striving to correct systemic biases, you belong here” to “Black people are obsolete farm equipment, now get back to work” the instant it becomes politically expedient.  [embedded post]

• @mmasnick Mike Masnick on bluesky

  If you're going to rip off the mask, make sure to take it all the way off as quickly as possible, apparently.  [embedded post]

• @marsrover @marsrover on bluesky

  When I lived in Seattle I had a “good” corp job w/ insurance that allowed a whopping 19 PhysTher/OT visits/yr for my decades-old spinal fusion & nerve-damaged limbs.  —  A FB employee came in behind me.  They had unlimited.  And NO copay.  —  Don't believe their “Internal Concern…

• @accidentalflyer @accidentalflyer on bluesky

  Guess Meta is going back to its Facebook root, when the company was basically a frat house.  [embedded post]

• @hypervisible @hypervisible on bluesky

  But Zuck one time displayed a BLM sign and cited MLK in a speech so there will be lots of hand wringing over what this means.

• @golikehellmachine.com @golikehellmachine.com on bluesky

  i think half of this is zuckerberg being roid brained and redpilled and half of it is an attempt to push out their lavishly salaried workforce in favor of contractors at half the price [embedded post]

• @evangreer Evan Greer on bluesky

  Surely they are doing this because free speech right? [embedded post]

• @autistichalsin Sammy on bluesky

  Well at least Facebook's determination to kill diversity is going to end up killing the company first and foremost.  Any company too dumb to realize diversity is strength will inevitably fail (and then blame “the woke") [embedded post]

• @daveweigel Dave Weigel on bluesky

  Agree w Melissa, but the CYA line in memo about the “legal and policy landscape” changing is true.  Orgs will either cite Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC to scrap their race conscious programs or they'll get sued and scrap them.  —  Liberals lost 2016 with SCOTUS on the line,…

• @nickhasthoughts.com @nickhasthoughts.com on bluesky

  look man this sucks for a lot of pretty terrifying reasons but in a purely business sense I am not sure it's a good move. all the people who want to throw slurs are already Facebook. all this is doing is alienating a user base who has no reason to hang around & X already cornered…

• @utopia-defer.red @utopia-defer.red on bluesky

  put into context, it was already pretty normal to face discrimination based on the sound of your name on a resume.  i think plenty of trans women and minorities can testify to that when it comes to tech hiring.  [embedded post]

• @gwbiscuit George Wishart on bluesky

  - Every Friday will feature employees debuting new slurs and racist jokes they've come up with.  — Employees must wear blackface and talk like “Amos & Andy” characters throughout February for Black History Month.  — Toilet paper will be replaced with cut-up Pride flags.  [embedde…

• @jamesrball.com James Ball on bluesky

  Less a dogwhistle than a bullhorn [embedded post]

• @davidandress Dave Andress on bluesky

  Full-spectrum hard-core reaction in progress folks, in case you hadn't noticed.  Welcome to the 1930s.  [embedded post]

• @melissaryan Melissa Ryan on bluesky

  I do appreciate how the media is framing this as Zuckerberg caving to Trump and MAGA.  I suspect Zuck wants to do a lot of this crap anyway, but he's absolutely bowing to his new overlord.

• @nilo Nilo Cobau on bluesky

  Seems like a great way to alienate your workforce? [embedded post]

• @shishiqiushi @shishiqiushi on bluesky

  If I was a civil rights lawyer I would be getting ready for some meta cases to come in about 4 years...  [embedded post]

• @saltlick Bear Wilner-Nugent on bluesky

  If you work at Meta, don't walk, run to a better employer.  [embedded post]

• @kateconger.com Kate Conger on bluesky

  Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social  — no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion  — no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses  — no goals for hiring women and minoritie…

• @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social Jeff Jarvis on mastodon

  Zuckerberg's next giant step into full MAGAdom:  —  Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs https://www.axios.com/...

• @crumbler Casey Newton on threads

  NEW: Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program.  Employees aren't buying the company's argument that it's the result of a ‘shifting legal landscape.’ What they're saying inside the company ➡️ https://www.platformer.news/ ...  [image]

• @alexandr_wang Alexandr Wang on x

  MEI is the way

• @dhh @dhh on x

  The collective insanity that was the DEI era already looks terrible, but in time it'll be clear to most just what an absurd perversion of humanistic ideals it really was. Good fucking riddance.

• @xlr8harder @xlr8harder on x

  incredible. here's some posts from Meta blind. I thought it was celebrating for the first paragraph, but apparently not! [image]

• @tekbog @tekbog on x

  showing up to Meta interview and saying the n word

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  VP of civil rights Roy Austin resigns from Meta last time I spoke with Austin was when meta was being sued for discrimination by the DOJ for discriminating against Facebook users by restricting who was able to see housing ads based on their race, gender and ZIP code [image]

• @timodc Tim Miller on x

  Axios 2033: “In the wake of President Ocasio Cortez's victory, Meta has vowed to lay off employees who launched the controversial Pepe AI Meme Squad and the company is promising to reach a 25% threshold for female BIPOC executives.”

• @lunayian Luna on x

  I am typically squarely focused on their XR stuff but for anyone wondering, to my knowledge it is a quite the mess inside of this company right now.

• @pinboard @pinboard on x

  In 2017 we knew that programmers at big tech companies had no appetite to unionize, so we tried to push for more targeted goals like “make management give you a board seat”, with zero success. It's frustrating that employee power was there for the taking and no one bothered.

• @jessicalessin Jessica Lessin on x

  The best hiring practices are the ones that reach the MAXIMUM number of possible qualified candidates and accept the people best qualified for the job.  I'm not sure this is possible without deliberate and concerted efforts to reach pools of candidates outside the conventional on…

• @dhh @dhh on x

  This is what America has done better than any other country: Attracting and letting merit rise to the top, regardless of background or identity. It's never a perfect process, but it's delusional to think it ever would be. Americans should be ever so proud of how well it's worked.

• @dhh @dhh on x

  Meta takes another win by vanquishing all forms of DEI from the company, effective immediately. May the rest of the laggards in our industry swiftly follow. This was always the real structural racism. Merit is so back 🤘 https://www.axios.com/...

• @nkulw Jimmy Putler on x

  Whats funny is that the kkkonservatives who are meant to be appeased by this will probably keep calling Facebook gay and Jewish

• @samstein Sam Stein on x

  FWIW. as of earlier this week a person familiar with the policy said Meta would still be cover the cost of employees who seek abortions out of state because their state has limits on the procedure. I asked because of the news that the company's footprint in Texas was growing.

• @jakuuire Joe on x

  Meta to DEI: DIE

• @landonhall Landon Hall on x

  Eliminating diversity is the quickest way to death in corporate America in the 21st century. Facebook will die out.

• @charliepop2001 @charliepop2001 on x

  Lol tech bros were faking it for 2 decades

• @mattboxer94 @mattboxer94 on x

  Mixed. No DEI is fine but this could be going too far

• @nicoleperlroth Nicole Perlroth on x

  I had dinner with several Fortune 500 CEOs. One shared a story about calling Mark Zuckerberg after the NZ shooting had spread like crazy on FB. He had one Q for Zuck: “What is your North Star?” Zuck didn't have one. He didn't even understand the Q. This week, we saw that.

• @matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x

  Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about any of this stuff, he wants (1) an end to the FTC antitrust suit against the firm (2) removing the consent decree that bans the targeting of children and (3) the government to legalize mass copyright violations for AI training models.

• @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x

  Scoop: @Meta rolling back #DEI programs in latest bow to #Trump — DEI team cut — Equity and inclusion programs ending — Sunsetting supplier diversity efforts — Ending representation goals — Ending the “Diverse Slate Approach” to hiring With @mikeallen: https://www.axios.com/...

• @jimvandehei Jim VandeHei on x

  🚨🚨🚨Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is terminating major DEI programs, effective immediately — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers, according to a new employee memo obtained by @axios https://www.axios.com/...

• @inafried Ina Fried on x

  Exclusive: Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump https://www.axios.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  BIG changes in hiring practices just announced inside of Meta, per sources: No longer teams at meta devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion No diversity working with outside minority owned supplier businesses No goals for hiring women and minorities w @kateconger

• r/NewsOfTheStupid r on reddit

  Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs

• r/Enough_Sanders_Spam r on reddit

  Meta cuts diversity, equity and inclusion efforts after cutting fact checking

• r/economy r on reddit

  Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs

• r/ExperiencedDevs r on reddit

  Meta kills DEI programs

• r/technology r on reddit

  Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs

• r/Destiny r on reddit

  Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump

• r/neoliberal r on reddit

  Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs

• r/JordanPeterson r on reddit

  Meta kills DEI programs