After hiring bonanza, tech workers face layoffs and disillusionment The industry — which for so long has been filled will promises of unending opportunity — is now oversaturated with candidates. 04/26/2024 - 3:31 am | View Link
After Tesla layoffs, price cuts and Cybertruck recall, earnings call finds Musk focused on AI Elon Musk said that he sees Tesla as an artificial intelligence company, doubles down on self driving in first quarter investor call. 04/23/2024 - 2:40 pm | View Link
2023 layoff tracker: The latest on which companies have ... New York CNN — BuzzFeed, Lyft, Whole Foods and Deloitte all recently announced layoffs affecting thousands of US workers. They join a growing list of companies cutting back on their workforce... 04/19/2024 - 10:03 pm | View Link
Tesla Layoffs Continue As Recruiters Get Cut Smith Collection/Gado. Tesla informed some of its recruiters on Friday that they'd been laid off, sources told BI. Elon Musk announced a more than 10% headcount reduction on Sunday night. Some ... 04/19/2024 - 1:42 pm | View Link
What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR Swayne B. Hall/AP. Last year was, by all accounts, a bloodbath for the tech industry, with more than 260,000 jobs vanishing — the worst 12 months for Silicon Valley since the dot-com crash of the... 04/19/2024 - 12:09 pm | View Link
Google’s latest layoffs are in finance and real estate Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised more layoffs at Google this year, and the company is delivering. Business Insider was the first to report the latest cuts are to "several teams" in Google's real ... 04/18/2024 - 1:08 pm | View Link
Tech layoffs: Google and Rivian both cut jobs Year to date, nearly 75,000 tech workers have lost their jobs at 257 companies, including Tesla, Dell, Cisco, and SAP, according to Layoffs.fyi. The Google cuts were foreshadowed earlier this year. 04/17/2024 - 5:55 pm | View Link
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.
Politico's magazine did a cover story on the New York Times and their feud with the Biden White House, and boy, was it enlightening. Well, maybe not. There wasn't much we didn't already guess, it was just weird to hear them say it out loud.
I find it so puzzling when the people who work there don't understand how much bad faith coverage it took to lose the support of liberal Democrats.
During the Supreme Court hearing that will likely determine whether or not Donald Trump is tried before the next presidential election over his attempt to steal the last one, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a question that should alarm everybody.
Speaking of President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Kavanaugh correctly noted that it was “very controversial in the moment” and probably why Ford lost the 1976 presidential election.
The Just Waiting For Another Kent State Shooting Edition
A. L. Katz makes some interesting claims. What is w/ Melania Trump?
Dispatches From A Collapsing State has another long one, against the neo-liberal order. Good luck w/ that, optimist.
Public Notice also goes on at length about Don Snorleone.
And someone not in love w/ the sound of his own typing, the mercifully short Politicalprof.
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After 15 months of trying to pull a Biden family crime spree out of thin air, lead impeachment zealot James Comer has watched his dreams of MAGA glory crumble into dust. Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, told a Republican colleague that he’s ready to be “done with” the whole fiasco, according to CNN.