CovertOperative

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Ich bin allgemein kein großer Fan von Quoten, aber Bundespräsident ist in erster Linie ein repräsentatives Amt. Da sollte die andere Hälfte der Menschheit schon auch mal repräsentiert werden.

Throbbing_banjo was curious about their blocklist, they did not criticize anything. The reason for having a lot of lemmy.world users on there, as Eldritch said, is most likely statistics. You talk about being rational while battling made up phantoms.

on Not getting notifications · c/summit · 1 pts · 2d

None of the Lemmy/piefed apps I tried give me push notifications. Summit also doesn't show a dot on the inbox in the app.

The US research enterprise too heavily centers on people who know what the scientific method is elite research institutions, and fails idiots who do shit based on vibes individual researchers with bold ideas, suggests the White House Office of Science and Technology in a new report.

The first time I heard about this was from this article: https://www.srf.ch/kultur/gesellschaft-religion/jagd-auf-alte-buecher-ki-firmen-kaufen-antiquariate-leer-und-vernichten-die-buecher

A translated quote from it:

"Not rarities, but the exact opposite," the dealer reports: “What specifically was bought were nonfiction titles from 1970 onward with ISBN numbers—dusty, unsold stock that no one had wanted for years. Resale is completely out of the question: The books are worthless, and for each title only exactly one copy was purchased.”

That article still tries to frame this as "Rare antique books are going to be lost forever".

I'm not an expert at corpo terminology either, so maybe "middle management" is wrong, but I'm certain "senior director" is still not part of the executive ranks.

Wikipedia has an overview about all of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

I don't think the employees/managers were just fall guys, but I don't believe for a second the execs knew nothing about what they did. And I find it suspicious that the employees seemingly plead guilty without a lawyer, as the article you're quoting says.