Microsoft Finally Finds a Use Case for Slop?
Create low-quality chaff to shift the media's attention?
A few days ago we saw people calling Microsoft a "graveyard" (it was about the mass layoffs). Those people were not random people, they were Microsoft staff. Then the US administration blasted Microsoft (it was also about the mass layoffs). Then this happened:
What Microsoft is trying to distract from [1]:
What some say about Microsoft [2]:
Did Satya Nadella use slop to distract from what happened only a day earlier? Even if it was not slop (perhaps Waggener Edstrom), it's still very curious timing. Why did he wait so long? It's like the time he spoke out to all staff because many called for a boycott of Microsoft over its I.C.E. work. He misused his immigrant status as an excuse and distraction from the company's nationalism and greed. █
Related/contextual items from the news:
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House Judiciary Chairman backs VP’s claim that Microsoft is prioritizing overseas hires amid layoffs
While Microsoft is in the process of laying off approximately 9,100 employees, Vice President J.D. Vance alleged that the company quickly followed its decision with an increase in H-1B applications.
Vance took to a town meeting to suggest several large companies are laying off Americans to then apply to hire people from overseas. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan believes Vance is on to something, according to “The Jason Rantz Show.”
“J.D. is onto something here if, in fact, they’re doing it as just a purely economic decision. You’ve got good employees who are Americans, and you’re saying, ‘We’re paying them X, and we can get foreign individuals to come in and do the same job. We can pay them X minus something else. Some lower salary,’ — that’s just wrong and that’s what I think troubles Americans,” Jordan said on “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH.
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Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, please prove that an AI didn’t write your insulting, vacuous blog about why you're laying off thousands during a time of huge profits
Microsoft have published a memo recently sent to staff by CEO Sayta Nadella, which addresses the strange fact of Microsoft reporting net income in the ultrabillions while laying off thousands of supposedly "treasured colleagues". Most of the blog is a gusty, jargony paean to generative AI technology, in which Microsoft have made vast investments, and how it is going to "empower everyone to create their own tools" and create a "local surplus" of Ability To Do Stuff in Microsoft dominions worldwide.