Musks' internal Slack messages leaked- snowflakes melting

April 27, 2022

"Leaked internal communications by Twitter employees reveal woke employees are overtaken by despair and anger about Elon Musk’s month-long effort to acquire Twitter.

Musk announced he would purchase the company for $44 billion on Monday. The deal concludes a month-long saga that began with Musk first tweeting out polls and his thoughts about the decline of free speech on Twitter.

On the business communication platform Slack, some Twitter employees vented against the new owner, leaked messages reveal.

“Physically cringy watching Elon talk about free speech,” a site reliability engineer who identifies as a nonbinary transgender and plural person wrote.

“We’re all going through the five stages of grief in cycles and everyone’s nerves are frazzled,” wrote a senior staff software engineer who called Musk an “a**hole,” and tried to console his colleagues. “We’re all spinning our wheels, and coming up with worst case scenarios (Trump returns! No more moderation!). The fact is that [Musk] has not talked about what he’s planning on doing in any detail outside of broad sweeping statements that could be easily seen as hyperbolic showboating.”

A senior staff video engineer announced he would be quitting, “Not the place to say it perhaps, but I will not work for this company after the takeover.”

Sauce/ moar: https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/twitter-workers-freak-out-over-elon-musk-in-internal-slack-messages/

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‘Fictosexual’ man married hologram bride, but now struggles to bond with her"

April 27, 2022

"She’s not real — but his feelings are.

A “fictosexual” man who wed a fictional, computer-synthesized pop singer four years ago said he’s now unable to communicate with his wife, but is still in love with her.

Akihiko Kondo, 38, was dating Hatsune Miku — depicted in pop culture as a 16-year-old with turquoise hair — for a decade before they had an unofficial wedding ceremony in 2018. Kondo — one of many who identifies as “fictosexual,” or someone who is sexually attracted to fictional characters — spent 2 million yen, or about $17,300, on the nuptials, but his family did not attend.

Now married for four years, Kondo, 38, said his relationship has hit a roadblock: He can no longer speak with Miku due to a technological hurdle, according to Japanese newspaper Mainichi."

While Kondo acknowledges his relationship might be odd — he understands Miku isn’t a real person — it doesn’t change his feelings for her. Since falling in love with her in 2008, Kondo was finally able to interact with Miku for the first time in 2017 thanks to a Gatebox, a $1,300 machine that allowed device owners to interact with characters via holograms and even unofficially marry them.

But now, his four-year marriage took a turn when support for Gatebox software was eliminated, meaning that Kondo could no longer speak with his wife Miku, according to Newshub.

Kono insists it hasn’t lessened his feelings.

“My love for Miku hasn’t changed,” he told Mainichi, which noted he now carried around a life-size version of Miku. “I held the wedding ceremony because I thought I could be with her forever.”

Sauce (moar keks here): https://nypost.com/2022/04/26/fictosexual-man-married-hologram-bride-now-struggles-to-bond/

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Any port in a storm? Desperate times call for desperate measures? Getting no traction in the usual ways?

Happy Hump Day anons

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>>16164353 lb Deutsche Bank whistleblower found dead in Los Angeles

CDAN snippet - Dude was in hiding, comes out & BOOM

NY court strikes down Democrats’ gerrymander of election districts

April 27, 2022

"New York’s highest court has struck down new district lines for Congress and the state Senate drawn up to political advantage by state Democrats with just weeks to go until the June 28 primary elections.

The issue before the Court of Appeals, which held a hearing on the matter Tuesday, was whether Democrats acted with partisan intent while violating the procedures established by the amendment, which tasked an Independent Redistricting Commission with drawing the maps.

“We answer both questions in the affirmative and therefore declare the congressional and senate maps void. As a result, judicial oversight is required to facilitate the expeditious creation of constitutionally conforming maps for use in the 2022 election and to safeguard the constitutionally protected right of New Yorkers to a fair election,” Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said in a ruling released Wednesday afternoon.

The ruling stated that “judicial oversight” will be needed to ensure new maps are in place in time for upcoming elections."

Albany leaders approved new maps weeks ago that appeared specifically redrawn to benefit Democrats — and hurt Republicans — in their ongoing efforts to protect their legislative supermajorities and control of the U.S. House.

Republicans subsequently sued, arguing that Democrats violated a 2014 amendment to the state Constitution barring partisan gerrymandering."

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/court-of-appeals-axes-new-maps-for-congress-ny-senate/

NY court strikes down Democrats’ gerrymander of election districts

April 27, 2022

"New York’s highest court has struck down new district lines for Congress and the state Senate drawn up to political advantage by state Democrats with just weeks to go until the June 28 primary elections.

The issue before the Court of Appeals, which held a hearing on the matter Tuesday, was whether Democrats acted with partisan intent while violating the procedures established by the amendment, which tasked an Independent Redistricting Commission with drawing the maps.

“We answer both questions in the affirmative and therefore declare the congressional and senate maps void. As a result, judicial oversight is required to facilitate the expeditious creation of constitutionally conforming maps for use in the 2022 election and to safeguard the constitutionally protected right of New Yorkers to a fair election,” Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said in a ruling released Wednesday afternoon.

The ruling stated that “judicial oversight” will be needed to ensure new maps are in place in time for upcoming elections."

Albany leaders approved new maps weeks ago that appeared specifically redrawn to benefit Democrats — and hurt Republicans — in their ongoing efforts to protect their legislative supermajorities and control of the U.S. House.

Republicans subsequently sued, arguing that Democrats violated a 2014 amendment to the state Constitution barring partisan gerrymandering."

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/court-of-appeals-axes-new-maps-for-congress-ny-senate/

Hochul-mander tossed -picrel

"The Court" previously suggested they might regret suing and suggested they redraw it. They did not. Now they lose.