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Well that's new.

Not gonna get more paying customers by blocking real ones NYT.

A lot of people make posts and then delete the post and/or their entire account, nuking large threads leaving them with the title "Permanently Deleted."

To be fair, Joshua R. Simmons has since changed their name to Robin Riley and now goes by they/them pronouns which I did not notice noted anywhere on the matrix.org website. They're still the same person who has been running the foundation for a long time, so I hope I can be forgiven for not realizing their updated pronoun status. So, you're correct that they are no longer going by he/him pronouns, but I really don't know much past that.

I mentioned in the original post that I found a reddit thread where they talked about their pay and the breakdown of finances. They pull in roughly a million a year for the whole foundation, and 50% roughly goes to staffing, which means with 8 other people in the organization, everyone else is making about $60k a year if we're going to talk about underpaying people for their jobs. That's all the other executives and the entire trust and safety team.

Once again, if they're failing at their job to keep the project funded, that's when you make sacrifices to make it work.

Does that matter if he is failing to secure enough funding to run the non-profit? If they're risking shutting down major portions of what they do as the guiding foundation for the Matrix protocol, isn't that literally his fault since he's in charge? If the non-profit fails are all the people who donated their fucking money in hopes of it succeeding going to be happy that instead of being willing to take a haircut on pay to save the damn organization he was instead using their donated funds to fund his fucking lifestyle instead of, I don't know, living in a more modest area and doing more of the foundation business remotely?

Maybe someone shouldn't be taking on this kind of major risk and asking people for donations for the project if his kids are so fucking expensive. Nobody forced them to have those kids or live in a high cost of living area. Christ.

Not trying to be rude but they are not meeting their funding goals, which is his job. That's the entire point of the foundation existing, is to meet funding goals so they can continue to develop the protocol. If they aren't making enough money, should he take a paycut, or should they shut the whole thing down? It seems to me like they want to save the project he could take a modest pay cut, but that's just me.

If they have to pay their Executive Director that much as a non-profit and are failing to meet their funding goals as a non-profit the amount he gets paid has fuck-all to do with where he lives, and has everything to do with him failing at his job to secure funding.

So we're supposed to fund this guys lifestyle as people who donate to the project while the project itself twists in the wind? Give me a fucking break, dude. This is how you set your organization up for failure.

It's not like a bunch of his work couldn't be done remotely. Maybe he should move to bumfuck Idaho so he can afford to run this god damned foundation. But nooooo, he needs to live in some obscenely expensive area, right? Bull. Shit.

Not trying to be a dick but the Executive Director can take a fucking pay cut.

I found a reddit thread from 4 months ago where he said his salary was $170k/year. I'm not saying he is making obscene money, but if that's nearly 15% of all operating costs he can shave that down to $80k-$100k and still live comfortably if he's willing to accept a more austere standard of living.

I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to be paid well, but he's getting a damn sight better pay than moderators and community managers who seem to make up 50% of the budget for multiple people: the trust and safety team as well as the other employees at the foundation.

Netanyahu is a god damned maniac who doesn't care what horrors he inflicts on the world.

And take a burner phone if you must absolutely bring one.

Tucker it's not like you helped this chump get to this position or anything you fucking nonce.

Words from different countries? That's cute. Kawaii, even.

https://github.com/christianjuth/blorp

It's GPL-3.0 licensed, so it is FOSS. They're just trying to get it on the Google Play Store.

My front-line guess is "Erotic Role Play" but I am not familiar with character.ai

Fucking fascists that are going to bitch about being called fascists for this.

McCarthyism, it's back and it's bad.

Sorry to hear that, you got an upvote from me at least. (Downvotes don't federate to blahaj and you can't downvote from blahaj)

This is a much fairer and more well reasoned take than what the other fellow said.

It’s like cloud strike again

When The Cloud goes on Strike. Damn it they're just asking for more power, Scotty! Don't let those scabs cross the picket line!

What about Michael Winslow?

I think what a lot of people are missing here it's that it's a dialectic. It can be true that reading is important and it can also be true that reading isn't always the best medium for understanding certain concepts. It's not an either-or situation, rather it's both, at the same time. I'm glad someone else recognizes that as well.

McCarthyism is back baybee.

Or maybe the more accurate reality is that it never left, it was just hibernating.