@I_amMukhtar this is strategic. he's whipping up the foamers to blame jews and immigrants for the coming collapse of our ecosystems and economy that he would otherwise be (correctly) blamed for
@jan_murray@unherd "duty-bound" is truly an insane way to describe pathologically seeking attention on the internet to society's detriment and for pure personal gain.
@MikeMuellerLate SVP will uuuunbedingt Frauen schützen aber komischerweise nur vor extrem spezifischen, kaum existenten Bedrohungen die mit ihren rückständigen Zielen zusammenpassen, nicht vor echten Gefahren.
The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove.
Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001. About a dozen early employees were in the room, working through what their core values should be. The conversation had stalled on the kind of polite corporate statements that nobody disagrees with and nobody remembers.
Buchheit later explained why he picked those three words instead. He wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out. He framed it as a jab at competitors who he felt were already exploiting their users.
Amit Patel, another engineer from the same meeting, scribbled the phrase on whiteboards across the company for months until it stuck. It went into the founding letter of the 2004 IPO prospectus. It sat at the top of the corporate code of conduct for seventeen years.
Then in 2018, Google quietly removed it from the preface.
The timing is the part everyone forgets. In March of that year, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract called Project Maven, building AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.
The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.
Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface. A Gizmodo reporter caught it by comparing Wayback Machine snapshots. Google never announced the removal.
What I find clarifying about the sequence is what it means structurally. The motto was designed in 2001 by an engineer who wanted a sentence his bosses could not erase if the company drifted. Seventeen years later, with the company being publicly accused of building drone targeting AI, his own employer responded by quietly erasing the sentence.
He had been right about exactly one thing. The phrase was hard to take out. It took a Pentagon scandal to do it.
Buchheit, who left Google in 2006, is now a partner at Y Combinator. He has not commented publicly on the removal.
@Jeremyakee Also, to anyone without brainworms, this is completely logical. You spend time in romantic relationships, you center them in your life, that leads to success. Only extreme brainwashing could lead anyone to think that avoiding it will somehow lead to a *more* positive outcome.
@Jeremyakee It's bc. conservatism, like every far-right ideology is the expression of a death drive, that offers the most destructive course of action and a negative outcome is the most common result. (see incels, inbreeding programs like "eugenics", i could go on).
@CsSte52487 Und wer ist jetzt schuld daran? die GL, die das entschieden hat offenbar sichernöd sondern definitiv irgendwie die anderen Arbeiter/innen aus dem Ausland. (Und wenn du das Gefühl hast, dass die Arbeit"geber" partei SVP so etwas verhindern wird, dann viel Glück)
@WhiskyJB2@retolipp@NZZ die Zukunft der Schweiz wird von der Weltlage bestimmt, babes. Nicht davon, wie sehr du dir wünschst alles wäre für immer wie auf einer Postkarte aus den 90ern.