Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas
The fight between Ketamine Boy and the MAGAts is definitely a time to root for injuries … David Ingram / NBC News : Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree with him about immigr...
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry
Can't say I did not see this coming, tbh. — x.com/LauraLoomer/... @thetnholler : In-fighting : “The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate - over H-1b visas. It started whe...
An employee who worked as one of ~60 fallbacks for a real estate AI chatbot for $25/hour details the experience of pretending to be a bot pretending to be human
Links are at the end. Click some; your life will be enriched. Tweets: Ross Dawson / @rossdawson : Lovely story about what it's like being backup support for a chat bot - a real-time human pretending ...
A worker who served as a fallback for a real estate AI chatbot for $25/hour details the experience of pretending to be a bot as part of a sixty-strong team
a human pretending to be a robot pretending to be a human! https://www.nplusonemag.com/ ... @frankpasquale : “I wasn't really training Brenda to think like a human. Brenda was training me to think lik...
Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work
money that will go plenty further somewhere else.” Great piece by @NellieBowles https://www.nytimes.com/... JP Mangalindan / @jpmanga : Ironically, that's my old SF apartment building in the photo. ht...
Alt-right commentator Laura Loomer handcuffed self to Twitter NYC door to protest her ban from the service; NYPD cut cuffs at Loomer's request after a few hours
one cop says, “You know, Twitter isn't the only thing for media.” pic.twitter.com/RTS0NsgQxr Will Sommer / @willsommer : Yes, Laura Loomer is wearing a yellow Jewish star to protest being banned from ...
Ellen Pao says she is leaving Kapor Capital and Kapor Center to work full-time on Project Include, a non-profit focused on promoting diversity in tech
Ellen K. Pao / Project Include : Tweets: @ericajoy , @projectinclude , @hutchamachutch , @laura , and @sw Tweets: Erica Joy / @ericajoy : So @ekp was like “I'm gonna put my money where my mouth is,” ...
Microsoft mapping course to a Jetsons-style future
Redmond, Washington: Meet Laura, the virtual personal assistant for those of us who cannot afford a human one. — Built by researchers at Microsoft, Laura appears as a talking head on a screen. You ...