@natfriedman At Xamarin I left every day at 5pm and I prioritized a healthy life/work balance - and hope I lead my people that way.
I think that asking people to work extra hours just give you low quality output. And in the context of these layoffs is crass.
Context: Microsoft's first installed CEO at GitHub starts a thread about how employees should work unpaid overtime and sleep in the office. People tell him that's wrong. He equates their arguments, and his having to hear them, to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Before Twitter becomes 2chan we still need to (widely) acknowledge my new internetism: "girlbosswashing" in which people clown on a marginally feminist event because they are too broken and cynical to appreciate the times they live in and how important those times are for humans.
Justice Thomas violated 28 USC 455, requiring any "justice" to recuse when his or her "impartiality might reasonably be questioned" or his or her "spouse is known by the justice to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome" https://t.co/QPfCGCefLA
And yes, I'm literally describing DMCA for AI art. Why is this ethical? Until we move to a world free of the grift known as "Intellectual Property" this is the world we live in.
Without this firms can copyright generated output and effectively steal copyright assignment.
Free business idea: Software tool for reversing attribution and data-set usage used by AI art tools. Org attached to a legal team and lobbying effort to create IP/royalty regulation. Artists opt-in to protect usage of their work and pay percentage of recovered accruals to org.