[alt text: a text post by @netcapgirl. The post says: "The coldplay incident confirms what most of us already knew: you can never trust HR". Above the post is a screenshot of the aforementioned coldplay incident involving CEO Andy Byron.]
truuuuue. we love to see fascists fucking around and finding out why the Sith had a Rule of Two.
I am always honored to get your extremely thoughtful replies. I think you're right, it's kind of a case of the lies catching up to them. They built up the files as this white whale and then Trump punted on the chance to release them. I guess I'm just surprised to see allies like MTG turn on Trump. I kind of wonder what is happening behind the scenes to fuel that break in rank, because so far they have been pretty eager to lockstep with Trump for political gain. Is something happening in the realpolitik space that we don't yet know about?
Half-assed Google search suggests he’s worth somewhere between 20 and 70 million.
Sounds believeable, but I will point out that a google search alone is not a reliable source, so we still truly do not know and we shouldn't be making statements like this without reliable sources. Page one of a google search is just all the publications that paid google the most money to be on page one. IME, most of those are trash-tier AI-gen articles.
You're absolutely right, there are consequences for people other than the cheating couple, and that is something to consider. It just sucks that you can't even go to a concert anymore without thinking deeply about how you might be observed.
That he is a billionaire and doing something deeply unethical is what makes the story go viral all over social media.
Is there a reliable source that he is a billionaire? I haven't seen that in any reporting. "Billionaire" is a four letter word around these parts, I would be careful about throwing the label around without solid evidence.
Perhaps the problems this exposes are not just our grim and omnipresent surveillance apparatus, but the attached system of gig-economy content creators all racing to the lowest common denominator for scraps of engagement and ad revenue
This I think is the real story. This isn't necessarily about our surveillance state, but more that we are constantly observed by the world and it is a specific type of hell that we cannot escape. The fact that this makes adultery more difficult is a bittersweet benefit, I guess, but there are no guardrails on this sort of thing. If this was in any other context besides a cheating CEO this would all be supremely fucked up, and that's why I think this is an article worth talking about.
I always worry about that with From, and Japanese studios in general. They are often black boxes, and the only reason we don't talk about them as much is because they do a good job of "keeping it in the family". Maybe From is way bigger than we realize, or maybe they are just grinding entry level devs into dust. We truly just do not know.
It is worth briefly considering the dystopia of this situation and its aftermath. It is not clear exactly how the Astronomer CEO was initially identified, but we have seen numerous cases where TikTok commenters and creators use Pimeyes and other readily available, often free facial recognition and social media research tools to identify a person. The Astronomer CEO’s name, his wife’s name, the head of HR’s name, and the third company executive’s name and social media profiles are all over the TikTok comments and Reddit comments. His latest LinkedIn post was full of comments about the incident, left before he disabled comments and ultimately deleted the post. Commenters have pointed out that his wife has removed his last name from several of her social media profiles.
Today Polymarket opened two new Byron-related bets. The first asks the question: “Andy Byron out as Astronomer CEO by next Friday?” As of this writing, the site is giving him a 40 percent chance of leaving. Polymarket doesn’t care if he resigns or gets fired, the bet pays out to its “yes” voters so long as he leaves.
The crueler bet, and the one with more activity, is the “Astronomer Divorce Parlay.” A parlay is a series or combination of bets, and this Polymarket listing requires both Byron and Cabot to get divorced. An announcement will satisfy the bet, it doesn’t have to be an official filing. But it can come from Byron and Cabot themselves or their spouses. The image attached to the bet is a screenshot from the moment the Jumbotron filmed the couple embracing.
Brands are using Byron and Cabot’s face to build hype. The NEON film studio posted a picture of the couple on X to promote its upcoming horror movie Together. Chipotle commented on the story with a picture of its billboard that reads “It’s OK to Cheat.” Most chilling, the NYC Department of Sanitation used the viral moment to remind everyone that it has cameras everywhere.
But one does not have to have sympathy or empathy for a CEO to see how this sort of thing could and often does go off the rails. This example is emblematic of the problem specifically because it’s easy to laugh at these people and because they’re doing something distasteful, but not illegal. The same technologies used to dox and research this CEO are routinely deployed against the partners of random people who have had messy breakups, attractive security guards, people who look “suspicious” and are caught on Ring cameras by people on Nextdoor, people who dance funny in public, and so on. There has been endless debate about the ethics of doxing cops and ICE agents and Nazis, and there are many times where it makes sense to research people doing harm on behalf of the state or who are doing violent, scary things in to innocent people. It is another to deploy these technologies against random people you saw on an airplane or who had a messy breakup with an influencer. And of course, these same technologies are regularly deployed by police and the feds against undocumented immigrants, regular people, and people wanting to visit the United States on tourist visas.
Wild to see literally anything cause his base to lose faith in him. He's done every morally reprehensible thing imaginable, but this is what gets them foaming at the mouth? Dude was bragging about being a rapist before he was even president for a single second, and his associations with Epstein have been well-documented for years, but now this is a bridge too far? I guess we all have to draw a line somewhere, but man...Trump's refusal to disclose feels like just another Tuesday in Trumpland, for anyone who actually follows the news.
why does every thumbnail have to be his grotesque face
i like your positivity. it's true, except that the landscape for indies is also v grim rn. The kind of investors that fueled indie games of the past have dried up. Kickstarters for games still happen, but it isn't the like the glory days. And discoverability is a nightmare, releasing an indie game these days is a bit like playing the lottery. But I'll tell you, when a $20 or under indie game catches my attention, i'm pretty inclined to impulse buy. They are more enticing than the $80 games, for sure.
sweet summer child