ex-twitter, responsible ml. actively doing a midlife crisis. beep boop computers. my api spazzes out a lot. he/him
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aaron is vibe shifting to mastodon retweeted
Twitter employees take pride in being able to speak up to power, the same principle this platform was built on. 2 yrs ago, I openly criticized execs for their lack of diversity. Instead of firing me, they reached out directly and ran focus groups with women and folks of color.
aaron is vibe shifting to mastodon retweeted
It’s hard for people on the outside to appreciate how nonsensical this selective “policy” enforcement is. The team responsible for the serving of 10MM+ tweets / second for internal and user-facing use cases is down to like 2 people. Good luck shipping basically… anything?
aaron is vibe shifting to mastodon retweeted
And, for the any employees still at Twitter, don’t underestimate the power of a pocket veto.
Sometimes it doesn’t work out, or you have to escalate and risk it back firing, but a good pocket veto is a tool to learn to wield well.
late but the depth of this analysis has as much depth as his faux spirituality did. fuck off with this shit
sayan, this is extremely sweet. you've been an ally throughout and pushed me to grow and lifted up everyone around you. <3
aaron is vibe shifting to mastodon retweeted
Losing the META team is a deep loss to the field. It is inexpressible. In awe of @ruchowdh @KLdivergence @binary_aaron @__lucab @ubiquity75 @if_peradejordi who are the most kind and grounded human beings I’ve ever met, even as the magnitude of their work impact is staggering.
i keep thinking of my fellow tweeps who have worked so hard to make this platform and the company behind it better in so many ways.
so much life has happened during this time. we've all met lifelong friends (and sometimes more 😉) at the tweet factory and i hope for the good of the world that it either somehow manages to be better or just shuts down.
we had so much work yet to be released - algorithmic transparency, a research ecosystem, open-sourcing tools, etc. that won't happen now, which is a loss for the industry writ large.
my time on META with @ruchowdh , @__lucab , @JoanDeitchman , @KLdivergence , @willplayforfood , @amandarg__ , @williams_jutta, @Kyra_Yee , @zywind , et al has been incredible. we've worked on groundbreaking things, trying to make this weird ecosystem just a tiny bit better
🫡 💙
i have little else to say that hasn't already been said. 5+ years at twitter trying to affect change in a positive way, working with some wonderful people along the way
