I love it when people are like “I support your opposition to all of these other injustices but this specific one that benefits me, personally? Now that’s a step too far.”
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to bsmall2 • • •Mister Dave
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •"In every American community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally."
David Culley
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I just experienced that this month myself 😒 when I revealed (in a 200 person all-hands meeting where my departure was announced and I was thanked for my contributions) my true reasons for why I resigned:
Because my employer knowingly does business with customers who are complicit in a genocide and/or with customers who are full-blown US fascists. Specifically with Perplexity AI who partner with Donald Trump, Ben Shapiro, and other fascist propagandists. The business with AWS, Microsoft, and Google is given.
I was immediately called in for a meeting by my manager, skip-level manager, and CTO. And was told all the typical cowardly liberal bullshit:
"We hear your concerns, we observe the situation, for now we will continue our partnership with them".
"It's a very complex topic and shouldn't be discussed in public. The economy is currently very hard on us and we hear your concerns, yet we cannot afford to leave business opportunities on the table. We have no other choice, really! Think of the shareholders."
I answered: "If some SS officer had said
... show moreI just experienced that this month myself 😒 when I revealed (in a 200 person all-hands meeting where my departure was announced and I was thanked for my contributions) my true reasons for why I resigned:
Because my employer knowingly does business with customers who are complicit in a genocide and/or with customers who are full-blown US fascists. Specifically with Perplexity AI who partner with Donald Trump, Ben Shapiro, and other fascist propagandists. The business with AWS, Microsoft, and Google is given.
I was immediately called in for a meeting by my manager, skip-level manager, and CTO. And was told all the typical cowardly liberal bullshit:
"We hear your concerns, we observe the situation, for now we will continue our partnership with them".
"It's a very complex topic and shouldn't be discussed in public. The economy is currently very hard on us and we hear your concerns, yet we cannot afford to leave business opportunities on the table. We have no other choice, really! Think of the shareholders."
I answered: "If some SS officer had said, 'We know we're building gas chambers, but the company isn't doing so well financially. If we don't do this, the company might go bankrupt. So we HAVE to do this, really.' That is no excuse."
If I burned a bridge, it was worth it. It had to be said.
oatmeal
in reply to David Culley • • •@davidculley I’ve never seen this before and was not aware #perplexity “the #gazagenocide denying chatbot “fact checked” for Ben Shapiro… not surprising they’re desperate to create their own #Wikipedia
> It’s pretty clear that Wikipedia is biased. I’m happy to support anyone who wants to build an alternative to it that’s more neutral and unbiased using Perplexity APIs. It’s a long project that needs serious commitment. So, please ping if you want to do it.
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> — Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) [January 14, 2025](twitter.com/AravSrinivas/statu…)
I believe it was deleted since.
David Culley
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