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pantsforbirds 2 days ago [-]
So 2 engineers are named, both had pretty splashy blog posts, and Liguori appears to have timed her resignation with the release of two big interviews as well.
Neither Liguori, nor Kirsch are American citizens. From what I can tell, neither even worked in America.
I guess I don't see how this is news worthy? Would anyone care at all if two American engineers quit their tech jobs because the Canadian or Japanese militaries were contracting their product?
janalsncm 2 days ago [-]
> I guess I don't see how this is news worthy?
At the risk of being overly reductive, a story is newsworthy if the editor decides it is. So one question you could ask is, why did the BBC editor think this was newsworthy?
lioeters 2 days ago [-]
Exactly. The purpose of news is not to inform you. It's to present you with a view of the world carefully curated to shape your beliefs. The BBC is notorious for their biases, but all major media channels serve the same purpose.
When they use the word "killed" (actively, by whom) or "died" (passively as if by chance), when they choose to highlight an event, downplay it, or ignore it altogether - the deeper question is not about the event itself, but the motivation behind its presentation. What do they want you to believe?
jasomill 1 days ago [-]
That, or to sell newspapers.
And it's untrue that "all major media channels serve the same purpose". Fox News serves very different purposes than Russia Today or Al Jazeera or NPR or …
What is true is that all media channels serve their own purposes.
pantsforbirds 2 days ago [-]
I mean I'm just some dev so I'm far from a media expert, but wouldn't a story focused on the AI in warfare itself be vastly more interesting than 2 Non-American dev's who quit over it?
DroneBetter 2 days ago [-]
well the Canadian and Japanese militaries are not engaged in imperialistic wars of terror currently
bad_username 2 days ago [-]
> I guess I don't see how this is news worthy?
BBC hasn't been "news" for quite some time now.
utternerd 2 days ago [-]
So 2 people are referenced in the article by name and Google has what, almost 200k employees?
rekttrader 2 days ago [-]
At least 2 less with morals and spines
readthenotes1 2 days ago [-]
If they had morals and spines they never would have worked there to begin with. Google has been doing evil for quite a while.
I suspect that they now have morals and spines and wealth.
thepryz 2 days ago [-]
Be honest. There aren’t a lot of companies with a moral compass these days. If you want a job, and you’re not working for yourself,’the odds are likely you’re working for an evil company.
So, apparently the bbc has started charging Americans.
IncreasePosts 2 days ago [-]
You must not read much BBC if you're just noticing this(not that there's anything wrong with that). It's been this way for over a year at this point.
lenerdenator 2 days ago [-]
Are you saying that the BBC, which is an institution of His Majesty's Government, is issuing taxation upon Americans without representation?
cheschire 2 days ago [-]
Representation was one of the sliders defaulted to “off” in the cookie banner.
lenerdenator 2 days ago [-]
Hmmmm.
It's pretty late, but I think I'll be able to find an open grocery store that sells Yorkshire Tea so that I can dump it into a body of water.
esseph 2 days ago [-]
Tally, ho!
stickfigure 2 days ago [-]
This kind of extreme pacifism is exactly what Putin and Xi are hoping for.
janalsncm 2 days ago [-]
The workers don’t seem to be pacifists. They seem to be opposed to some combination of genocide, autonomous weapons, privacy, or the military industrial complex.
Checks and balances on the ability to wage war are not a bad thing, and given the popularity of the US’ most recent entanglement I’d imagine most Americans would prefer more checks, not fewer.
mieses 2 days ago [-]
"the workers" lol
IX-103 2 days ago [-]
Probably not, for all that America seems to be taking their side.
Supermancho 2 days ago [-]
The resignations do not translate to pacifism. In regards to the worker-workplace relationship, it's a confrontational maxim.
oxcartctl 2 days ago [-]
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150g2 2 days ago [-]
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readthenotes1 2 days ago [-]
I'm surprised that they did not resign in backlash from how behind Google has become in the AI domain
Neither Liguori, nor Kirsch are American citizens. From what I can tell, neither even worked in America.
I guess I don't see how this is news worthy? Would anyone care at all if two American engineers quit their tech jobs because the Canadian or Japanese militaries were contracting their product?
At the risk of being overly reductive, a story is newsworthy if the editor decides it is. So one question you could ask is, why did the BBC editor think this was newsworthy?
When they use the word "killed" (actively, by whom) or "died" (passively as if by chance), when they choose to highlight an event, downplay it, or ignore it altogether - the deeper question is not about the event itself, but the motivation behind its presentation. What do they want you to believe?
And it's untrue that "all major media channels serve the same purpose". Fox News serves very different purposes than Russia Today or Al Jazeera or NPR or …
What is true is that all media channels serve their own purposes.
BBC hasn't been "news" for quite some time now.
I suspect that they now have morals and spines and wealth.
https://wallhop.io/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmreyve...
It's pretty late, but I think I'll be able to find an open grocery store that sells Yorkshire Tea so that I can dump it into a body of water.
Checks and balances on the ability to wage war are not a bad thing, and given the popularity of the US’ most recent entanglement I’d imagine most Americans would prefer more checks, not fewer.