I think once you’re in the leadership role you get to decide what people are allowed to do
PaddleMaster@beehaw.org
on 20 Mar 2025 13:32
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I don’t use any meta software and I haven’t heard anything about this. So clearly something is working. I will read this. Thanks for sharing!
Powderhorn@beehaw.org
on 20 Mar 2025 16:27
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Update, March 18, 2025, 1:57 PM PT: Wynn-Williams describes her tenure at Facebook as lasting seven years, beginning in 2011. But, according to a Meta spokesperson, she was fired in “late 2017.” This story has been updated to reflect that she worked at Facebook for “nearly” seven years.
What possible reason is there to believe Meta’s side of the story here?
skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
on 20 Mar 2025 23:55
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But more importantly, who cares?
I lived in my previous city for 9years 9m. I usually tell people I lived there 10 years, I don’t expect they’ll fell very betrayed when they learn the truth.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org
on 20 Mar 2025 23:58
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I’m actually in the same boat. I’m three months out from being here a decade, but as with infants, we start rounding at a certain point.
Different cultures count differently. eg Jesus was not born in zero AD but in one AD. His whole first year of life he was considered to be in his first year.
I think some countries count age this way too (hopefully someone can confirm to satisfy my nerdy curiosity).
skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
on 21 Mar 2025 12:52
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Not sure what you’re talking about.
I was just saying that rounding is a normal thing to do and not lying.
I was saying that apart from rounding up there is also this convention. I agree it is not important - am just nerding.
BC means Before Christ. Since Jesus Christ obviously was not born 4 years before he was born, are you saying his real birthdate was found to be different from what it was initially thought to be but it was too late to change the numbering system?
EDIT: The date of the birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources and the evidence is too incomplete to allow for consistent dating. However, most biblical scholars and ancient historians believe that his birth date is around 6 to 4 BC.
Thanks. I did not know that until you had me look it up.
I got exactly what you were saying and how your brain made that connection, just for the record! It made perfect sense to me. My brain works similarly, haha.
mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de
on 21 Mar 2025 14:13
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Centennial liker here
somegeek@programming.dev
on 21 Mar 2025 20:39
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Dude I hate meta and zuckerberg religiously but all of these points seemed like making a fuss about nothing to make profit.
Most things here seemed pretty normal and expected for a company that big and it’s CEO.
Now I’m speculating if all of this book and suing it’s writer is a psyops by meta to say “these are the worst things that they could come up with. These are as bad as it gets”
This article does almost seem written to downplay the book’s most damaging claims. They buried the Myanmar story at the end and the detailed account the author gave to the carelessness with which the execs treated the riots and violence.
Another anecdote missing from this article is how they are pushing weight loss and beauty ads to teen girls right when they delete a recently taken selfie and how execs responded when this was brought up. Not that that is news exactly as we already know Meta does that sort of thing
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Worth a read, one TL;DR is that Zuck is just as weird as all those unflattering pictures of him make him look
No one in leadership roles should be allowed to be that out of touch.
I think once you’re in the leadership role you get to decide what people are allowed to do
I don’t use any meta software and I haven’t heard anything about this. So clearly something is working. I will read this. Thanks for sharing!
What possible reason is there to believe Meta’s side of the story here?
But more importantly, who cares?
I lived in my previous city for 9years 9m. I usually tell people I lived there 10 years, I don’t expect they’ll fell very betrayed when they learn the truth.
I’m actually in the same boat. I’m three months out from being here a decade, but as with infants, we start rounding at a certain point.
Different cultures count differently. eg Jesus was not born in zero AD but in one AD. His whole first year of life he was considered to be in his first year.
I think some countries count age this way too (hopefully someone can confirm to satisfy my nerdy curiosity).
Not sure what you’re talking about.
I was just saying that rounding is a normal thing to do and not lying.
Also Jesus was born in like 4 BC.
I was saying that apart from rounding up there is also this convention. I agree it is not important - am just nerding.
BC means Before Christ. Since Jesus Christ obviously was not born 4 years before he was born, are you saying his real birthdate was found to be different from what it was initially thought to be but it was too late to change the numbering system?
EDIT: The date of the birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources and the evidence is too incomplete to allow for consistent dating. However, most biblical scholars and ancient historians believe that his birth date is around 6 to 4 BC.
Thanks. I did not know that until you had me look it up.
I got exactly what you were saying and how your brain made that connection, just for the record! It made perfect sense to me. My brain works similarly, haha.
Centennial liker here
Dude I hate meta and zuckerberg religiously but all of these points seemed like making a fuss about nothing to make profit. Most things here seemed pretty normal and expected for a company that big and it’s CEO.
Now I’m speculating if all of this book and suing it’s writer is a psyops by meta to say “these are the worst things that they could come up with. These are as bad as it gets”
This article does almost seem written to downplay the book’s most damaging claims. They buried the Myanmar story at the end and the detailed account the author gave to the carelessness with which the execs treated the riots and violence. Another anecdote missing from this article is how they are pushing weight loss and beauty ads to teen girls right when they delete a recently taken selfie and how execs responded when this was brought up. Not that that is news exactly as we already know Meta does that sort of thing