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You're right - it does have deco detailing ... and the overall silhouette is (I think) deliberately referencing deco styling, albeit on an extremely elongated scale. How the hell a building that thin and tall can be stable is a mystery to me, however. 😮I'd argue 111 W57 is actually pretty dang deco, at least as deco as you can get in contemporary construction & materials. The facade is all terracotta with some nice subtlety and the kind of glam detail you got with deco. Another thing it shares with deco - prodigiously expensive to build and made to look it.
With its slenderness ratio, the floor plate is pretty much dominated by the core. Luckily NYC doesn't need to deal with seismic...this would basically be a 1400' tower of solid reinforced concrete in San Francisco.
It's a pretty controversial project in architect circles, but I happen to think it's quite nice. It's hard enough to build anything this tall, let alone something with some real design in it.
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We should really have a "How is Elon Musk destroying Twitter today?" thread.
He fired more Twitter employees the night before Thanksgiving, paying them just one month of severance compared with the three months they would have gotten if they had chosen to leave the company in response to his ultimatum a week earlier.
"The thing is, this is completely false, as multiple studies have shown. Conservatives weren’t more affected—it wasn’t even equal. The reality is that Twitter itself admitted its algorithm was boosting right-wing politicians and media, an admission supported by at least one independent study as well. Musk is claiming to plan to “fix” a problem that is a lie. And he’s planning to do that because it benefits his far-right buddies."
He fired more Twitter employees the night before Thanksgiving, paying them just one month of severance compared with the three months they would have gotten if they had chosen to leave the company in response to his ultimatum a week earlier.
Elon Musk fires more Twitter engineers on Thanksgiving eve, continues embracing the far right
Elon Musk continues to make a name for himself as one of the worst bosses in the world at the same time he accelerates Twitter toward being a playground for the far right. Musk reportedly fired still more software engineers on the night before...
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The severance issue is even worse according to 1 former employee. He said he was given 3 months, then asked to come back bc he was vital. Was immediately fired again w/ 4 weeks instead which may or may not have legal repercussions behind such a decision.
Waiting to see if Christmas delivers with a giant nail in Elon’s Twitter coffin.
Waiting to see if Christmas delivers with a giant nail in Elon’s Twitter coffin.
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We should really have a "How is Elon Musk destroying Twitter today?" thread.
He fired more Twitter employees the night before Thanksgiving, paying them just one month of severance compared with the three months they would have gotten if they had chosen to leave the company in response to his ultimatum a week earlier.
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"The thing is, this is completely false, as multiple studies have shown. Conservatives weren’t more affected—it wasn’t even equal. The reality is that Twitter itself admitted its algorithm was boosting right-wing politicians and media, an admission supported by at least one independent study as well. Musk is claiming to plan to “fix” a problem that is a lie. And he’s planning to do that because it benefits his far-right buddies."Elon Musk fires more Twitter engineers on Thanksgiving eve, continues embracing the far right
Elon Musk continues to make a name for himself as one of the worst bosses in the world at the same time he accelerates Twitter toward being a playground for the far right. Musk reportedly fired still more software engineers on the night before...www.dailykos.com
It should be precisely no surprise to anyone that the white guy who grew up in Apartheid South Africa supports and simps for far-right white nationalism.
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Who follows Ted Cruz on purpose?
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I would think Elon could give a better made up reason for delaying his re-relaunch of paid verification besides "I forgot that Apple collects a 30% fee on revenue an app on their store like they have for the past 10+ years and just won a major court case regarding it."
These people are just engaging with the funny memes, of course. Why do you have to act like it's political?
We should really have a "How is Elon Musk destroying Twitter today?" thread.
He fired more Twitter employees the night before Thanksgiving, paying them just one month of severance compared with the three months they would have gotten if they had chosen to leave the company in response to his ultimatum a week earlier.
View attachment 1210970
"The thing is, this is completely false, as multiple studies have shown. Conservatives weren’t more affected—it wasn’t even equal. The reality is that Twitter itself admitted its algorithm was boosting right-wing politicians and media, an admission supported by at least one independent study as well. Musk is claiming to plan to “fix” a problem that is a lie. And he’s planning to do that because it benefits his far-right buddies."Elon Musk fires more Twitter engineers on Thanksgiving eve, continues embracing the far right
Elon Musk continues to make a name for himself as one of the worst bosses in the world at the same time he accelerates Twitter toward being a playground for the far right. Musk reportedly fired still more software engineers on the night before...www.dailykos.com
These people are just engaging with the funny memes, of course. Why do you have to act like it's political?
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Twitter gives up fight against COVID-19 misinformation
Ex-moderation lead says he does not feel the platform is 'safe' under Musk
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Anyone who remembers the debacle with Tumblr a few years back knows that algorithms and ML are basically worthless for something as constantly evolving as content moderation. They're only as good as the data that's put into them, and when people are intentionally looking for ways to confuse or circumvent what basically amounts to a very elaborate instruction sheet there's no way it can keep up with them. Especially when, y'know, most of the actual humans responsible for inputting data into those algorithms were sent out the door.
