Meta claims it will find other ways to hire employees from different backgrounds.
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Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged”
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How dare you compare Denzel to the soulless husk of Zuck.
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[CITATION NEEDED] Because the actual science is that diverse teams work better than non-diverse teams.
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Sitting here thinking about how much I miss forums. Like, yeah, they still exist in some places <gestures at here> but just as a general place to hang out and not be subjected to engagement algorithms and stuff? And have multiple depending on your interests? Yeah those were cool days.
Also thinking about how to keep in touch with people who only have Facebook. I don’t want to give my relatives my phone number because that can lead to some whacked out shit.
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If you haven't read this story, I strongly suggest it. They quote directly from facebook's new content management rules, with a ton of examples of allowed and disallowed examples they're using for training.
Allowed:
Disallowed:
Free speech!
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The only way DEI has become "charged" is by a bunch of people loudly insisting that no one should hire women or minorities. This doublespeak he's engaging in is shameful.
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A wild taint vs a groomed taint is just splitting hairs.
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I'm already exhausted and there are still ten days until Trump takes office. I don't know how we're all going to survive this.
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It's not easy, but I'm doing my best. FB is a medium for keeping in touch with friends and family, and there's really no easy replacement. I've tried in the past. maybe private Bluesky profiles or groups might work.
But where do people like my partner go for social promotion of their small indy bookstore? Not Twitter, not Threads, and Bluesky is still way too small for the mass market. It's horrible out there. A wealth of potential, but nothing good.
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If we ever get to have a real election again, we really need to bring in people who will punish them, harshly, for this behavior.
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People bringing different life experiences to their work is critical to get a multitude of perspectives. And as much as some people want to claim that it's not true, people's color/gender/religion/nationality play heavily into those life experiences.
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Big if, and even if so do you put the odds higher of someone who will take action getting in or a meek centrist who will keep the seat warm for the next fascist?
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Trump has not been sworn yet and the sycophants are throwing themselves at his feet.
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Meta has managed to pull a record number of horrible bigoted moves in the past few days, but I feel like the headline focusing on the DEI programs being cut really buries the story that Meta is actively welcoming hate speech against trans people.
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This needs to be a significant portion of the next D platform. It needs to have teeth and follow-through. Especially since we're going to see what it's like to live in a country controlled by the rich.
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Some are asking if we want to survive it.
Don't hold your breath. The rich also control the Dems.
We need a new leftist party.
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If there’s an amusing aspect to this, perhaps it’s seeing zuck show the world that he’s such a hardcore sub when he meets a stern enough daddy (or two).
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True as that is, Meta doesn't want "perspectives". It wants exploitable, underpaid H1B visa holders.
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Diversity is stupid! Also, why is everyone is management so dumb? Nothing like having a bunch of like minded yes men doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
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Trump and Elon coming out in support H1B before distracting us with the Greenland nonsense should be enough info for everyone to understand exactly who the H1B program benefits.
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You are arguing from a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of DEI. DEI IS designed to hire the best candidates, by getting people who would otherwise not do so to consider candidates outside of their comfort zone. This IS best for shareholders because it results in better company performance.
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Not even a single vertebra between members of the executive class. I guess I should have seen it coming when he apologized to Jim Jordan and James Comer for moderating Facebook.
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J.C. Helios
Ars Scholae Palatinae
Subheadline feels too generous. They could fulfill their stated promise by doing literally nothing: Meta has 70,000 employees, so they're bound to hire people from all kinds of backgrounds purely by chance. In which case, there's nothing to "find."
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It's very generous of you folks to assume these people are arguing in good faith from a place of ignorance, when they more likely understand perfectly well what DEI systems do (counteract the long-standing biases in favor of white men) and hate it for exactly that.
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