Category: Editorial

what did musk expect?

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Reports are now appearing on all the major news services that “scores” of remaining Twitter employees have rejected the Muskrat’s ultimatum to sign up for “hard-core” work or else resign and take three months of severance. It appears as if the majority of the remaining employees are cashing out. A number of sources are saying that as of this point, up to 88% of the initial employees that were working at Twitter when Muskrat first took over have been fired or left on their on. According to my calculator, 88% of 7,500 is 6,600, leaving a skeleton crew of just 900.

I’m sure that there are a lot of arm chair engineers out there that think that Twitter should be just fine with 900. Which would be true if you kept the most valuable 900. But you can’t cut loose 6,600 employees (in addition to some 5,000 contractors) and not loose a lot of institutional knowledge. The most valuable asset in any company, especially a knowledge-based company which includes Twitter, are all the employees who come to work every day.

To add insult to injury, Twitter management (whomever that may be now) has locked out all employees by disabling their key cards. That lockout will continue until next Monday. Lord help ’em if something should happen at Twitter before they open up on Monday. Now that the Muskrat has pulled this lockout stunt, I wonder how many more who were ambivalent will decide to pull the magic parachute ripcord and cash out themselves.

Not only has the Muskrat burned down a social media company, he’s pretty much set $44 billion on fire as well, as well as his personal reputation/”brand”. There will be those who blindly follow the Muskrat no matter what, but for the rest of us I think we see that the Muskrat king has no clothes.

Update 18 November

Satire for your reading pleasure.

Twitter is Going Great! — https://twitterisgoinggreat.com

Web3 is Going Just Great — https://web3isgoinggreat.com

 

a league of traitors

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My world view at the moment (it’s this afternoon’s thunderstorms in central Florida)

I spent the last weeks of August off social media, including this blog. I needed to detox a bit from the fetid information stew swirling around the internet. What’s been stirring a good deal of this is the search warrant executed on Mar-A-Logo, Trump’s Florida residence.

I’ve spent the last twenty-plus years with a high clearance due to the type of work I did, and on occasion still do. I’ve been investigated regularly to keep that clearance because that’s the way a clearance works. They just don’t walk up to a stranger and hand out  clearances like free tickets to a movie. I’ve laid my life bare on multiple SF-86 documents because, again, that’s the way it works (and paid the price; my SF-86 information was part of the the OPM cyber breach of 2015 ( https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-incidents ). I know the rules and what document clearance covers look like. You go through yearly security training to refresh that knowledge and to learn of any changes, and those training classes are also logged. Fail to take your training and you lose your clearance. That information was always locked in a SCIF or locked in a heavy upright safe inside a secure area. If I needed that information, and if I was cleared to see it, then it was logged when I received it and locked back up at the end of my shift. Leave out any secured documents and again you lose your clearance. There is too much at stake to treat such sensitive information lackadaisically.

When I viewed the photo of what the FBI found at Mar-A-Logo the first thought to cross my mind was how Trump wasn’t in jail, followed by the thought that if I’d done anything close to that I’d be in handcuffs on the way to jail.

Trump is a traitor to this country. Any defense of Trump on the specific crimes of the miss-handling of classified documents and the obstruction of trying to recover those documents, should be a litmus test of finding other traitors to this country. And right now, based on what I’ve seen and read in the news, those traitors are legion.