Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMicrosoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square142linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’www.theverge.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square142linkfedilink
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
minus-squareunderwire212@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoProblems can be ongoing or increase in severity. Just because it’s been an issue for a while doesn’t mean it’s too late for change. Also, some people don’t have the luxury to choose an ethical employer (if they even exist).
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minus-squareEl Barto@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year ago…maybe. Or, hear me out, the dude specifically applied for Microsoft with the intention of changing shit.
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoDirect participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex. The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAn active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement? Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past. And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support. Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
minus-squareShardikprime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoLiterally this It’s like they are signaling to the world how virtuous they are A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will
minus-squareRowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
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Problems can be ongoing or increase in severity. Just because it’s been an issue for a while doesn’t mean it’s too late for change.
Also, some people don’t have the luxury to choose an ethical employer (if they even exist).
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Ethical options?
…maybe.
Or, hear me out, the dude specifically applied for Microsoft with the intention of changing shit.
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Direct participation in the military systems for a genocide is a tad further than the military industrial complex.
The message is that people participating in genocide will not be made at the very least very uncomfortable for doing so.
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An active mass genocide is an odd time to make a statement?
Microsoft lied about not supplying the IDF military cloud in the past.
And AI is a far more direct contribution to genocide than excel support.
Plenty of reasons to do it now. And better now than tomorrow.
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Literally this
It’s like they are signaling to the world how virtuous they are
A kind of high ground moral messaging if you will
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