Everything is a "literal act of violence" to these people.
Google is run by naive idealists who hire activists in droves and are then surprised to realize that those people are a bunch of unemployables.
Google is run by naive idealists who hire activists in droves and are then surprised to realize that those people are a bunch of unemployables.
So fuck them. Watching the toxic crops they've planted and tended to go for their own creator's throats is nothing short of delightful.
[1] Certainly, since before 1998. The recent past was not some apolitical paradise.
ML and AI are just calculations, always will be. You need sound, rational arguments and evidences, to get the breakthroughs.
The quote on "literal act of violence" is a cultural reference to an article in NYT in 2017 that is now used as a way to call someone a certain kind of leftist. The entire comment is about "these people", the "activists". So these words are also not "random words in quotes".
No NYT article is in the top 20 Google results for that phrase. And it's a straw man in the context of Google firing Margaret Mitchell.