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The only Retvrn I'll ever endorse is Exile. if execs are going to be social cancers, then they should be excised and marooned on a rock in the middle of the Pacific.

Your coworkers already know you got laid off, because they work for Microsoft. So either they got laid off too and are also looking for work, or they work for Microsoft which isn't hiring right now, because they just did a huge round of layoffs.

Matt Turnbull has been at Microsoft for almost 14 consecutive years. Genuinely fucking staggering levels of cognitive disconnect to say he's been "experimenting with ways to use LLM AI tools to help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss" Motherfucker, WHAT job loss?

Love that this makes them mask off though. Like "Yeah, the only way AI becomes profitable is if we make people addicted and emotionally dependant on it to do thinking for them." Great way to drive people further away.

I think it's (even) more sinister than it seems. If you talk to AI, you talk less to other people, so you don't take collective action with them. And the company can control the narrative