R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town

Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees

So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it

Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs

An astounding image of our moment at the precipice:

Climate activists standing against the inhuman-scale machinery of the open-pit Lützerath brown coal mine, with a wind farm visible in the distance.
#climate #LützerathLebt #coal #renewable

hot take the tech layoffs are as much about investor appeasement as they are a shot across the bow to the incipient tech labour movement pass it on

The French Striking workers bringing a rail mounted BBQ to the front-line is a thing of beauty.

Layers of best-in-class #COVID safety for Davos, the White House, and Westminster. Virtually no protections for most workplaces, schools, and public transport. The pandemic isn't over. It's just much more inequitable.

Why isnt anyone calling out Microsoft for switching to unlimited PTO 2 weeks before layoffs?

Neither Microsoft, nor Amazon, nor Google, nor Meta are hurting for money. They are not belt tightening so they can survive the coming crunch.

They're doing just fine and could have easily found productive things for all those people to do.

They're laying off tens of thousands of people to make shareholders happy.

Why is the prevailing story in the media “the price of eggs is high” and not “record windfall profits from food and oil companies” ??

America’s largest egg producer Cal-Maine reported a record quarterly profit of $198 million

Anti-poverty charity Oxfam is calling for governments to impose windfall taxes on large food companies

THAT’S the story.

This is very cool: autocomplete and client side query help built in the #AWS CLI itself 😀 : https://itnext.io/the-aws-cli-just-got-much-better-31d102feac4b

(via the newsletter of @Quinnypig).

The state of maturin/pyo3 is absolutely brilliant. The fact that writing Rust bindings for Python is so easy now really makes me much more optimistic about the utility of Python going forward. The experimental MiniJinja Python bindings are tiny and use zero unsafe code. https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja/tree/main/minijinja-py