These memos are always basically admissions of their own incompetence. If you distrust your employees this much and have created a culture where people aren't getting their work done without it being noticed, that's on you.

> I don't think RTO or fewer meetings is going to reverse or even slow Instagram's slide down the enshittification chute.

In my view it's been well down that chute since shortly after its acquisition by Facebook. Facebook bought them as a hedge as young people left the FB platform and, for a time, it's worked to keep users under the Meta umbrella, but as with everything Zucc touches, the end-user experience has been in a state of steady degradation.

It's also impressive how fast Zuckerberg ruined Threads, does anyone still uses this? Does it still keep reverting to the algorithmic timeline?

Ha, I completely forgot about it already- that's how quickly it became irrelevant.

The only reason I don't forget it is because they advertise on Instagram.

I’d like a retrospective on “if you don’t like what Twitter is doing, you can build your own”… because it seems network effects are real, despite Facebook money.

It seems they did like what Twitter was doing, because it's the same thing with the same problems. No wonder nobody uses it, why use a knockoff when the real thing is free?

It‘s still being pushed via… "ads“ in between stories or posts where you see a sneak peek of a Threads post you might like.

I wish I could search in Gitlab like I could in Jira's SQL-esque query syntax, but otherwise its interface is a step-up, if still pretty "busy" for my taste.

I think it would almost need to be some sort of genetic modifier, which may not be that far off.

It'd be nice if there was some way to "acclimate" your gut prior to a trip like that.

> St. Giles Cripplegate

I'm convinced the British have a monopoly on unintentionally hilarious/ironic place names.

Nonsense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartown,_Huddersfield

So much so that one of the first things I do in fresh 10 and 11 installs is turn off all the transitions/whiz-bang visual effects to try to get back to the pure snappy functionality of that era of Windows.

It's more likely than you think!

needs a little more Rust spam but otherwise, completely

As someone who grew up before cell phones even existed, kids have always been awkward as fuck. (I don't disagree with the general subtext of your comment re: the negative impact of isolation, though)