Interesting Links for 28-10-2022

[andrewducker]

1. I have no idea how Meta spent this much money on VR nonsense

(tags:vr Facebook MarkZuckerberg wtf )

2. AI generated Warhammer figures of politicians is as glorious and horrifying as you'd hope!

(tags:viaMyBrotherMike Warhammer politics ai awesome )

3. What Do Blind People Dream About?

(tags:dreams blindness )

4. Coverage of the debate on the Scottish Gender Recognition Act (reforming how transgender people can get a gender recognition certificate)

(tags:Scotland transgender law politics )

5. You may have heard of Stanislav Petrov, but have you heard of the *other* Russian whose choices averted World War Three?

(tags:nuclearweapons history Russia USA epicwin viaPatrickHadfield )

Comments

[fub]

It's surprisingly easy to build up very, very large departments to do Strategic Stuff. And then nobody really knows what to do because of a lack of vision and direction, and before you know it, you piss all that money away without having anything to show for it.

[armiphlage]

If the total average cost to hire a person (office space, salary, benefits, HR overhead) is $150,000, that means they have 100,000 people sitting around making no useful product. That's more people than 3M has!

[fub]

Good point -- it is a mindblowing amount of money. Though I can't say I'm opposed to Facebook eating itself in this way and then quietly imploding.