Breaking: As part of an aggressive plan to trim costs that involves firing thousands of Twitter employees, Musk’s management team cut a team of artificial intelligence researchers who were working toward making Twitter’s algorithms more transparent & fair. wired.trib.al/RAxJ3T7

I'm noticing a trend.

1/ Here’s everything we know about the mass Twitter advertising exodus in plain language. So, Elno acquires Twitter and advertisers are FREAKED. Would be a good time to reassure them, right? Except Twitter’s Chief Revenue officer Sarah Personette quits on Friday. Literally walks out.

🎉 This paper on contextualized evaluation for #XAI was given a Best Paper Honorable Mention at #HCOMP2022. Great experience attending HCOMP 2024 for the first time! Thanks for the recognition 🙏 Congrats to my co-authors Yunfeng Zhang Ronny Luss Finale Doshi-Velez Amit Dhurandhar

Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy was a possibility, according to a person familiar with the matter trib.al/Wd3G92i

Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions? Yes.

This wave of contractor layoff is fucked up. They really are trying to be as cruel as they can be

They have no idea what kind of talent they just fired. No fucking idea

Lmao. Let this be the lesson for all the billionaires who want to fuck around and find out

Everyone on Twitter to Elon Musk right now #RIPTwitter #TwitterTakeover

It’s happening

Alright. This is turning into a horror show. Not fun anymore

佟丽娅发文悼念乌鲁木齐火灾遇难同胞 据称这是截止目前首位公开发声的艺人。

Twitter's former head of trust and safety has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk's campaign of criticism against him, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. cnn.it/3Wb4BQl

WTF is a software and servers team?

In case anyone's wondering whether Musk's latest one neat trick ploy is real

My op ed about the last days of Twitter is out. It was sad to reflect on all that could have been. I write this piece not just as a commemoration but as a warning - we need better systems of tech oversight theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:

Personal update: After 8 amazing years in industry, I will join Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan in fall 2025. I look forward to putting more energy into mentoring, teaching, and collaborating across disciplines and organizations I will look for PhD students this cycle and a postdoc