Code quality has been trashed, the algorithm team is weak and tired at Twitter.

Staff who are still stuck in the dictatorship, like Tesla, warn potential hires to work somewhere, anywhere, other than for Elon Musk.

“Don’t come here if you value well-being or a safe workplace.” [It’s now] “cut-throat culture” and “leadership just sucking up to EM”…supervised by under-qualified engineers, no credit for work, no decision-making power.

The CEO responsible for creating this talent crisis (already infamous for racism and trying to normalize Hitler in America) has allegedly been personally reinstating the worst Nazis to his platform.

Even self-proclaimed Nazis guilty of breaking laws and ruled dangerous are released by Twitter now without care, and then violent hate is promoted.

The racist, antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic Anglin — who declared in 2018 that he hates women and believes they “deserve to be beaten, raped and locked in cages” — owes Obeidallah millions of dollars from a libel suit for fake tweets that potentially put his life at risk.

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Anglin told his followers to “go confront Dean,” Obeidallah recounted. “So I got a ton of death threats. And I sued him in federal court and I won.”

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Unbelievably, Twitter’s interface was reportedly recommending on Friday that users follow the neo-Nazi’s account.

Believable.

Twitter is now unsafe by design.

As the collapse of FTX reverberates through the financial community, Stanford deserves ever more scrutiny.

Here’s a giant clue: the villain of FTX was born and grew up entirely in Stanford, the son of two Stanford professors. He is quite possibly the most accurate example of the Stanford mindset.

Take his mother for example.

First she says this:

Fried told the Stanford Daily that her absence was simply due to a “long-planned” decision to retire and has “nothing to do with anything else going on,” presumably referencing the downfall of her son’s fake crypto empire.

Then she throws this wrench into her own story:

She added that she would like to make a return to teaching in the future, which somewhat refutes her earlier statement.

I love the fact that a reporter calls attention immediately to BS coming out of both sides of her mouth.

A long-planned decision that she would stop on this spot, contradicted by saying she will decide to start again any minute.

Any guess where she plans to retire? Here’s a giant clue:

The news comes amidst criticisms surrounding the [FTX CEO] family’s acquisition of a $16.4 million vacation home from FTX shortly before its collapse.

When you really look at Stanford setting up a Potemkin village to lobby government, funded by Facebook and run by the “retired” Facebook executive embroiled in GDPR and Cambridge Analytica breaches (let alone worst privacy breaches of all time)… FTX seems to fit a pattern of fabricating reality to suit only the holier-than-thou of Stanford.

As I’ve explained before, the very name Stanford represents cruel fraud, systemic racism and ultimately genocide.

It’s always been odd to me that people willingly associate themselves with Stanford. Some surely swallowed the mantra they always could find a way to be right while doing wrong. It’s the worst possible version of what some today call a plan for “Metaverse”.

In that sense I wonder if the villain of FTX ever really tasted reality before now. And on that note the real villain of Stanford was and always will be… Stanford.

Once again, the timing is highly suspicious.

In September, Liu purchased a $31 million house in Beverly Hills.

September was basically a month ago, when everyone already was talking about CEOs missing targets heading into recession.

However, this CEO didn’t even really acknowledge the times, just that he likes to break the necks of his staff.

“In trying to do too many things at once, we have grown our organization at a breakneck pace over the past few years,” Airtable CEO and co-founder Howie Liu said in the note to staff. […] Unlike many other tech layoffs of late, the company’s note did not acknowledge broader economic issues as part of the layoffs — and only alluded to outsized growth in recent years.

$31 million is a lot of broken necks.

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Update Dec 12: Head of children’s charity paying himself an absurd $2m/day demands Google fire “overpaid” staff to increase margins (and put children at risk).

The American halls of justice seemed to let the predator roam for decades and find new victims, which could be in the 1000s.

Prosecutors say Giblin targeted vulnerable women, including widows, women with physical disabilities and single mothers — including at least one who had recently lost a child.

“Giblin went after the lonely, and broken hearted. Figured out their soft spots and attacked those when he didn’t get his money,” Kathy Waters, executive director of Advocating Against Romance Scammers, told CNN. “The victims are not only abused financially, but emotionally and psychologically as well. He is a master manipulator who has scammed an unknown amount of people, since some never come forward.”

Notably, he even continued the crimes while he was briefly in jail.

Despite convictions and serving prison time, he continued to defraud women, even after he was caught and twice escaped from federal custody.

Prosecutors say Giblin even scammed women from prison while he was serving time on similar charges, and after he became a fugitive for failing to show up at a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey.

Read that again: “…even scammed women from prison while he was serving time…”.

He ran the scam from inside the system that was allegedly working to prevent it.

One has to wonder why women were exposed to this over such a long time, given how obvious and odious his crimes were to the courts and police.

I am reminded of Texas, where it’s “unsolved” how young women are killed and dumped into an easily monitored oil company property.

…more than 30 bodies—of mostly young women and girls—were found in “The Killing Fields” between 1971 and 1999…

How? Texas basically ignored large numbers of young vulnerable people being targeted.

…for much of the history of the murders here, investigations were muddled and dispersed amongst 11 different departments.

A huge factor in this long tragedy is how vulnerable groups in America get treated by the justice system as though nobody cares or would miss them.

Terms like “runaway” or “disabled” are used as labels to deprioritize protection unless someone claims a high “asset” value, which is exactly backwards. But even then, asset value can backfire.

In other words America very purposefully allowed the country to become increasingly unsafe to those needing protection because it was founded upon and still harbors a very narrow view of power preservation (white men).

The Revolutionary War was primarily about profit making, not protection.

American history tells us even if someone did try to represent or defend a victim, the system had been overly designed to favor predators (e.g. violent extraction philosophy of oilmen).

In his new book, Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann describes how white people in the area conspired to kill Osage members in order steal their oil wealth, which could only be passed on through inheritance. “This was a culture of complicity,” he says, “and it was allowed to go on for so long because so many people were part of the plot. You had lawmen, you had prosecutors, you had the reporters who wouldn’t cover it. You had oilmen who wouldn’t speak out. You had morticians who would cover up the murders when they buried the body. You had doctors who helped give poison to people.”

A racist healthcare and legal system designed for wealth reallocation.

Wait, it gets worse.

It involved a level of calculation and a level of betraying the very people you pretended to love. And the way these murders would take place is that people would marry into the families and then begin to kill each member of the family.

That sounds just like General Lee to me, such that many Americans even put up statues of him to encourage widespread targeted victimization of women.

Giblin thus represents yet another sadly predictable chapter of women abused systematically in America, also as I’ve written about before in context of Missouri police directly implicated in the rape and murder of black girls.

Despite representing 12.85% of the population, black Americans accounted for nearly 226,000 — or 34% — of all missing persons reported in 2012.

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“I spent six months at the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy in Ashburn, Va., where we had only two hours of training on missing persons cases,” she told Essence. “In the field, I’ve seen a majority of black missing children classified as runaways, who don’t get Amber Alerts.”

Plus: “For black adults, police usually link their disappearances to criminal activity, so they aren’t valued as much.”

Devalued lives seems to be behind many of these stories where predators are able to strike repeatedly in America without consequences, sometimes even with the help of those supposedly sworn to stop them.