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Submission + - Twitter offices shut down after mass resignations (marketwatch.com) 7

quonset writes: Elon Musk gave a deadline of 5 PM Thursday for Twitter employees to decide whether they want to commit to “extremely hardcore” work or else leave the company. As of Friday morning Twitter offices are shut down because so many people tendered their resignation. From the story:

The full scope of the departures wasn’t immediately clear. After the Thursday deadline passed and resignations became apparent, Twitter emailed employees saying that the company was temporarily closing its office buildings effective immediately. The offices will reopen Monday, the email said.

As the deadline approached Thursday, some employees posted farewells to the company’s internal Slack messaging platform, according to screenshots viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Some posted the “saluting face” emoji, which many employees had adopted as a symbol of the end of Twitter’s pre-Musk era following mass layoffs earlier this month.

This continues the ongong saga of Musk's attempt to take control over the company. It began with his comment (on Twitter no less) that he would be buying the company, followed by months of him trying to get out of the $44 billion arrangement.

After acceding to the purchase, he then proceeded to fire the Twitter board, half of its workforce, then promptly said Twitter may have to declare bankruptcy as more and more advertisers stopped buying ad space.

Musk then said he'd implement an $8/month fee for people to have the vaunted blue checkmark, the sign of a verified account, which instantly led to massive trolling, including in one case for Eli Lily which said it would give insulin shots away for free leading to a 5% decline in the company stock.

Musk continued his purge by firing 80% of all Twitter contractors, without notice, and firing employees who corrected him.

Stay tuned.

Comment Re: Dozens of European startups ready to replace i (Score 1) 217

Not if other globalized business become regional.

But social Media shouldn't be about business, if it's about business, then it's simply an extended, outsourced PR department. Social media it's about connecting people who are close to you, in most cases, this is literal, meaning people who lives in the same region of the world.

Comment Web Pages Use Same Imaging Model (Score 1) 227

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

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