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Sneed S. McSneedensen said:
I wonder if Null will begin more election-centered rants as the elections progress.
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He doesn't even vote. I can't imagine he is even that interested in discussing American Oligarchy considering how stupid our political situation has gotten in the last 20+ years. Listen to a political podcast if you want that content. I prefer when he talks about his pet retards not the ones in office.
 
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Josh is entirely devoted to Realpolitik, not beta male idealism
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GreenTips said:
He doesn't even vote. I can't imagine he is even that interested in discussing American Oligarchy considering how stupid our political situation has gotten in the last 20+ years. Listen to a political podcast if you want that content. I prefer when he talks about his pet retards not the ones in office.
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I listen to the MATI podcast so I can hear him talk about general retardation. I prefer when he talks about retards in office, not his pet retards.
 
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Mozilla lays off 60 people and is now planning on integrating AI into Firefox

Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox​

Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI.​

RON AMADEO - 2/15/2024, 12:59 AM


Mozilla got a new "interim" CEO just a few days ago, and the first order of business appears to be layoffs. Bloomberg was the first to report that the company is cutting about 60 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce. A TechCrunch report has a company memo that followed these layoffs, detailing one product shutdown and a "scaling back" of a few others.

Mozilla started as the open source browser/email company that rose from the ashes of Netscape. Firefox and Thunderbird have kept on trucking since then, but the mozilla.org/products page is a great example of what the strategy has been lately: "Firefox is just the beginning!" reads the very top of the page; it then goes on to detail a lot of projects that aren't in line with Mozilla's core work of making a browser. There's Mozilla Monitor (a data breach checker), Mozilla VPN, Pocket (a news reader app), Firefox Relay (for making burner email accounts), and Firefox Focus, a fork of Firefox with a privacy focus.

That's not even a comprehensive list of recent Mozilla products. From 2017–2020, there was "Firefox Send," an encrypted file transfer service, and a VR-focused "Firefox Reality" browser that lasted from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, Mozilla launched a $35 million venture capital fund called Mozilla Ventures. Not all Mozilla side-projects are losers—the memory-safe Rust programming language was spun out of Mozilla in 2020 and has seen rapid adoption in the Linux kernel and Android.

Mozilla is a tiny company that competes with some of the biggest tech companies in the world—Apple, Google, and Microsoft. It's also very important to the web as a whole, as Firefox is the only browser that can't trace its lineage back to Apple and WebKit (Chrome's Blink engine is a WebKit fork. Microsoft Edge is a Chromium fork). So you would think focusing on Firefox would be a priority, but the company continually struggles with focus.

The Mozilla Corporation gets about 80 percent of its revenue from Google—also its primary browser competitor—via a search deal, so Mozilla isn't exactly a healthy company. These non-browser projects could be seen as a search for a less vulnerable revenue stream, but none have put a huge dent in the bottom line.

TechCrunch managed to get an internal company memo that details a few "strategic corrections" for the myriad Mozilla products. Mozilla has a "mozilla.social" Mastodon instance that the memo says originally intended to "effectively shape the future of social media," but the company now says the social group will get a "much smaller team." Mozilla says it will also "reduce our investments" in Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay, and something the memo calls "Online Footprint Scrubber" (that sounds like Mozilla Monitor?). It's also shutting down "Mozilla Hubs," which was a 3D virtual world it launched in 2018—that's right, there was also a metaverse project! The memo says that "demand has moved away from 3D virtual worlds" and that "this is impacting all industry players." The company is also cutting jobs at "MozProd," its infrastructure team.

While chasing the trends of VR and metaverse didn't work out, Mozilla now wants to chase another hot new trend: AI! The memo says: "In 2023, generative AI began rapidly shifting the industry landscape. Mozilla seized an opportunity to bring trustworthy AI into Firefox, largely driven by the Fakespot acquisition and the product integration work that followed. Additionally, finding great content is still a critical use case for the Internet. Therefore, as part of the changes today, we will be bringing together Pocket, Content, and the AI/ML teams supporting content with the Firefox Organization. More details on the specific organizational changes will follow shortly." Mozilla paid an undisclosed sum in 2023 to buy a company called Fakespot, which uses AI to identify fake product reviews. Specifically citing "generative AI" leads us to believe the company wants to build a chatbot or webpage summarizer.

The TechCrunch report interprets the memo, saying, "It now looks like Mozilla may refocus on Firefox once more," but the memo does not give an affirmative statement on "Firefox the browser" being important or seeing additional investments. In 2020, the company had another round of layoffs and said it wanted to "refocus the Firefox organization on core browser growth," but nothing seems to have come of that. Firefox's market share is about 3 percent of all browsers, and that number goes down every year.
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More Bongland insanity.
A pensioner has been threatened by her local council with a $3000 fine and prosecution for displaying 'transphobic' posters on her own front door.
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The 68 year old lady displayed posters advertising gender critical films and books, and pictures of zippertits, which seem to be the real bone of contention.
A spokesperson for Hammersmith and Fulham Council said: “We have received eight complaints about these provocative and graphic posters featuring nudity prominently displayed on a very busy public section of walkway in plain view".

In its notice letter to Winfield, the Council stated: “Your behaviour: Your actions towards sexual orientation and displaying pictures that do not belong to you is a breach of freedom of speech and hate speech".
The police investigated twice and deemed it to be a non issue, but the council still pursued the matter. Interestingly, the council is Stonewall affiliated. How coincidental!

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Here's some extra news to laugh at Br*tish people. A local council ordered people who restored a boundary wall to return the exact stones they used, because they belong to the council and you have to obey them. How dare you being independent from us and not giving us a good excuse to pocket your tax money.
And yes this is how I learned about it. Dank loves to talk smack about his government on the second channel.
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Slav Power said:
Here's some extra news to laugh at Br*tish people. A local council ordered people who restored a boundary wall to return the exact stones they used, because they belong to the council and you have to obey them. How dare you being independent from us and not giving us a good excuse to pocket your tax money.
And yes this is how I learned about it. Dank loves to talk smack about his government on the second channel.
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Dankula is actually a great place to find horror stories from the UK. I was surprised he didn't talk so much about that mom lady who got arrested for laughing at trannies that josh interviewed.

Also Null said he was taking a two week vacation, did he mean from the website in general or specifically the podcast or all of it? Will I get to hear his dulcet autism voice to tomorrow?
 
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KateHikes14 said:
"Remember goyim, do not exert influence on political power! It's all over." Informative. I dunno how a grown man throwing a fit over bipartisan overt American last policies is useful, even if his frustration is reasonable.
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You've got to look at the bright side, at least he might radicalize someone to go do "something." One less zogbot is a good thing, especially when they say things like this openly...
 
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GreenTips said:
He doesn't even vote. I can't imagine he is even that interested in discussing American Oligarchy considering how stupid our political situation has gotten in the last 20+ years. Listen to a political podcast if you want that content. I prefer when he talks about his pet retards not the ones in office.
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Not voting is a vote. It's hilarious when he brings up things like Trump potentially going to jail and then winning the presidency from jail, and then pardoning himself.
 
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MayoBlaze said:
I was surprised he didn't talk so much about that mom lady who got arrested for laughing at trannies that josh interviewed.
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Because he sucks the tranny cock

He'll at most have some criticisms about trannies in women's sports, but always in the softest, most "ur still valid" way possible
 
Nick Obre said:
Because he sucks the tranny cock

He'll at most have some criticisms about trannies in women's sports, but always in the softest, most "ur still valid" way possible
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I think he's not like that so much anymore. He's very open that he won't let his kid be involved in any of that stuff and that he thinks it's crazy. But he's a libertarian, the entire point of their ideology is "people should make their own decisions regardless of outcome for them" I know he doesn't like the sexualization and gay agenda when applied to children.

Hell I think he even talks about how much he likes Hoppian libertarianism.
 
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MayoBlaze said:
I think he's not like that so much anymore. He's very open that he won't let his kid be involved in any of that stuff and that he thinks it's crazy. But he's a libertarian, the entire point of their ideology is "people should make their own decisions regardless of outcome for them" I know he doesn't like the sexualization and gay agenda when applied to children.

Hell I think he even talks about how much he likes Hoppian libertarianism.
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Plenty of times he says "do whatever you want as long as you don't do something to others", so chopping your dick off is fine, it's you who's deciding to do it to yourself, but forcing kids to do HRT is bad because that's your will, not theirs, and the kids can't consent to it.

He's said plenty of shit that would get him cancelled with the troon crowd, you can find plenty of videos on his second channel where he drew strong borders such as not letting MtF's into women's bathrooms or kids being off-limits.

But because Null said on MATI some time ago that Dankula sucks the troon cock? Now half of the site believes that Dank wants to force HRT on kids, even though before they didn't care about him. Even though ever since he got kids he's getting more and more conservative about this topic by the day.

But it doesn't matter because the consensus is formed and Kiwis tend to be as dense and retarded as the people they laugh at.
 
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Slav Power said:
But because Null said on MATI some time ago that Dankula sucks the troon cock? Now half of the site believes that Dank wants to force HRT on kids, even though before they didn't care about him. Even though ever since he got kids he's getting more and more conservative about this topic by the day.
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It's probably more to do with him having pictures like this taken after he's already had kids.

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You can't unsuck the troon cock.
 
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