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| schestowitz[TR2] | "" | Sep 09 03:23 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Is an “Amazon Worker Intifada” forming? | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Thanks to an Amazon insider we have received a few details. | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Over the last few weeks we’ve watched as the “Microsoft Worker Intifada” has caused chaos within Microsoft (ransacking a farmers market, becoming aggressive with police, breaking and entering, and chanting “Go away, Jews!” to their Jewish co-workers)… and now it appears something similar is brewing within Amazon in Seattle. | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | One Amazon / Whole Foods Software Developer is denouncing the Amazon CEO for expressing sympathy with the victims of the October 7th attacks by Hamas… calling that sympathy with the victims a “blatant act of White Supremacy”. | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He is calling on his fellow Amazon employees to “Resist directly”. Telling Amazon executives that the Pro-Hamas employees “outnumber you” and “we will force your hand”. | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “Palestinian resistance is forming at Amazon.” | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He included a sign up form to organize employees on Signal under the name “Amazon Worker Intifada” — with employees meeting at lunch. | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | How serious is this? How many employees are involved? Remains to be seen. But the Microsoft “Intifada” managed to cause quite a bit of damage. | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If you work for Amazon (or a subsidiary, such as Whole Foods) and have any additional information regarding this potential “Intifada”, you can reach out to The Lunduke Journal here on X (DMs are, as the kids say, open), or at https://lunduke.com | Sep 09 03:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The identities of whistleblowers are kept confidential." | Sep 09 03:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-The Lunduke Journal & The Lunduke Computer Operating System | Sep 09 03:23 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Nice! I was digging through all the information and I know the register got to it today before I got you a draft, but here’s the thing during my deep dive into the OSI. I discovered something very interesting. However, in their bylaws, it says specifically and explicitly declares no members. Yes. I had to read that three times because I couldn’t believe my eyes. You can’t make this stuff up! | Sep 09 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 09 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4fkycj8 | Sep 09 05:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4fkycj8 ) | Sep 09 05:48 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "I started working at IBM in 1993 as a supplemental, changing to regular a couple of years later. IBM at that time was bloated, with TOO MUCH of everything. Too many data centers. Too many internal mainframe installs. Too much staff. Too many administrators. Callup hierarchies (remember Callup?) with 10 layers of management before you hit regular employees. | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Gerstner continued firing people like his predecessor Akers...he had to, IBM was bleeding money. He got rid of divisions that weren't performing. The difference between then and now was that IBM could monetize services, and monetize it did...for a time. But now in the present day, IBM has run out of room. It has sold off almost all its divisions, leaving only mainframes and software. The mainframes and software are based on a 1960s | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | architecture, which is good enough for now...but competition isn't standing still. | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It's hard to imagine how IBM could be saved at this point. | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 11 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @kq+1k4fkycj8 | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 0 | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Started April Fools Day 4-1-93 when the G Man Lou Gerstner came in and THOUGHT he had a culture problem that needed to be destroyed, visibly and violently. He knew nothing about IT and computers and had never been in a data ctr etc. I bet the first time he heard "...but Lou we cannot do that as that would violate the 3 Basic Beliefs we have held as bonds for decades..." he went ballistic. Then he had to satisfy Wall St and did mass | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ive layoffs. Then he started the "fuzzy math and financial engineering" and broke the pension promises hyped during recruiting" etc etc. So for over 30 years IBM has been adrift and wandering in the woods once WINTEL took over for compute and Cisco networking and EMC storage and then AWS/MSFT/Google for cloud more recently. Almost 200 acquisitions since 2000. IBM no longer has customer relationships, everything is a transaction. IB | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | M no longer has people that know what customers want (used to be called Offering Mgrs who knew very little) and now called Product Mgrs (who also know very little). As a returning IBMer I was stunned to see how WOKE IBM became. You have many people who just spew WOKE opinions in Slack all day and do nothing else. It is so blatant the recruiting and hiring being done seeking young, female, offshore, non male non white people. Being | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | a white male over 35 at IBM is a very hostile place to be. I saw Slack channels dedicated to women only. I saw mtgs and trainings be setup for women only. When I asked a trusted lady why this is, she sighed and said ..."well I also do not like how males are excluded at IBM but some females feel "safer and more comfortable" in female only things". That was the day I decided to leave. Imagine if males (God forbid white makes over 35) | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | started to have their own channels and mtgs?! IBM is toast like that leaking toilet. It still kind of works but reeks with bad smells and do-do all over the floor. | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 09 05:48 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4e2284n | Sep 09 05:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4e2284n ) | Sep 09 05:55 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "here is the AI article from the White House : | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-tech-leaders-unite-american-ai-dominance/ | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @q7+1k4e2284n | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @ng | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And Alvind is too cheap (as usual) to make a donation...he would likely ask for his money back, if IBM didn't get any new Federal contracts involving AI. But then IBM AI is worthless junk. | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | No sign of the Hoodie Monster (RT) either, which was for the best. After all, how many "normal" people want to be seated next to a known co sua at the dinner table ? | Sep 09 05:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 09 05:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.whitehouse.gov | President Trump, Tech Leaders Unite to Power American AI Dominance – The White House | Sep 09 05:55 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > Dear Roy | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Thank you for contacting us about communication you have received in | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > relation to feeding pigeons. I have been unable to identify a Council | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > team that has contacted you about this. If you have received any written | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > communication from us, please can you let us have a copy so that we can | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > use this to see which team sent it. | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > It may be that the communication you have received was from the local | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > housing provider, One Manchester. If so, we can only advise you to | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > contact them directly to raise any concerns you have. You can do this | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > via their website at Complaints | One Manchester | Sep 09 14:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > <https://www.onemanchester.co.uk/complaints>. | Sep 09 14:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.onemanchester.co.uk | Complaints | One Manchester | Sep 09 14:26 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4gg1zdm | Sep 09 19:02 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 09 19:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AI is the future. | Sep 09 19:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | boomer execs think AI is magic | Sep 09 19:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | crash will be way bigger than dot.com burst in 90s. and that was Internet, actually transformative technology, not this expensive AI toy with direct dependency on the energy input which is not scalable. | Sep 09 19:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 09 19:02 |
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| *Now talking on #techbytes | Sep 09 21:08 | |
| *Topic for #techbytes is: Welcome to the official channel of the TechBytes Audiocast | Sep 09 21:08 | |
| *Topic for #techbytes set by schestowitz!~roy@haii6za73zabc.irc at Tue Jun 1 20:21:34 2021 | Sep 09 21:08 | |
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