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No billionaires at FOSDEM (drewdevault.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev

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Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM.

Dorsey and his colleagues want to get us up to speed on what Block is working on these days. Allow me to give you a preview: in addition to posting $5B in revenue and a 21% increase in YoY profit in 2024, Jack Dorsey laid off 1,000 employees, ordering them not to publicly discuss board member Jay-Z’s contemporary sexual assault allegations on their way out, and announced a new bitcoin mining ASIC in collaboration with Core Scientific, who presumably installed them into their new 100MW Muskogee, OK bitcoin mining installation, proudly served by the Muskogee Generating Station fossil fuel power plant and its 11 million tons of annual CO2 emissions and an estimated 62 excess deaths in the local area due to pollution associated with the power plant. Nice.

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[–] Thelie@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Appearantly it's been going in this direction for a while. There's a reason Offdem exists...

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That website is terrible on mobile. Goddamn. They also immediately go into the history of why they exist. Nobody new will care. I just want to see what's happening, where, and how (online, offline). The why should be I'm the "about us" section or something, not the front-page.

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