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PCS strike: 100,000 civil servants vote for walkout
Fired Disco Elysium devs allege fraud at Studio ZA/UM, say “civil and criminal charges are on the table”
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Just over two weeks ago I predicted the ZA/uM situation would only get messier, so slap my face and call me Mystic Meg. Disco Elysium’s game director Robert Kurvitz and art director Aleksander Rostov have, at least partially, offered up their side of the story on why they were fired from Disco dev studio ZA/UM in a Medium post titled ‘TO FANS OF DISCO ELYSIUM, CONCERNING THE SITUATION AT ZA/UM‘. Short answer is: they allege fraud.
Williamson strongly rejects telling civil servant to ‘slit your throat’
Gavin Williamson ‘told senior civil servant to slit your throat and jump out of a window’
SIR Gavin Williamson told a senior civil servant to “slit your throat” and ”jump out of a window”, it was claimed last night.
An MoD official told the Guardian Sir Gavin “deliberately demeaned and intimidated” them regularly when he was Defence Secretary between 2017 and 2019.
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The official, who has left government, said the alleged behaviour was reported to the MoD’s head of human resources but did not make a formal complaint.
They told the Guardian Sir Gavin ‘shouted and raged’ and the ‘slit your throat’ comment was made in front of other shocked civil servants during a meeting.
Sir Gavin denies bullying the official.
He said in a statement: ‘I strongly reject this allegation and have enjoyed good working relationships with the many brilliant officials I have worked with across government.’
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It came as ex-Cabinet minister George Eustice said the row over Sir Gavin’s texts to then Chief Whip Wendy Morton could be sorted “over a cup of tea”.
But PM Rishi Sunak has branded language used in the messages “unacceptable”.
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Advertisers continue to flee Twitter as civil rights groups call for a boycott
As Elon Musk looks for new ways to make money from Twitter’s he’s facing a much more urgent problem: advertisers are fleeing the platform. Musk said Friday that “Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue” due to advertisers’ concerns about content moderation and other issues raised by activists.
A number of major companies have paused ads in recent days, including GM, Audi, Pfizer, General Mills, Volkswagen and other big names who are wary of potential changes to Twitter’s policies as well as the departure of top executives. Industry groups have also expressed concern about brand safety under Musk, and The New York Times reported this week that “IPG, one of the world’s largest advertising companies, issued a recommendation … for clients to temporarily pause their spending on Twitter.”
On Friday, the NAACP joined other civil rights groups in calling for an advertiser boycott of the platform. “It is immoral, dangerous, and highly destructive to our democracy for any advertiser to fund a platform that fuels hate speech, election denialism and conspiracy theories,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
It is immoral, dangerous, and highly destructive to our democracy for any advertiser to fund a platform that fuels hate speech, election denialism and conspiracy theories. Until actions are taken to make this a safe space, we call on companies to pause all advertising on Twitter.
— Derrick Johnson (@DerrickNAACP) November 4, 2022
Advertisers’ pullback amid calls for an ad boycott show just how quickly Twitter’s ad business has deteriorated under Musk. It also comes barely a week after Musk tried to reassure the industry he didn’t want to turn the platform into a “free-for-all hellscape.” Twitter saw a significant spike in hate speech and racial slurs immediately following the news of Musk’s take over of the company. Twitter’s head of safety later blamed the activity on a coordinated trolling campaign. But the activity further fueled the concerns of civil rights groups, prompting Musk to meet with civil rights leaders this week.
On Friday he seemed to blame the drop in ad revenue on many of the same activists. “Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,” he tweeted.
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022
But a coalition of civil rights groups and activists rejected Musk’s characterization. During a call with reporters on Friday, they said that Musk’s mass layoffs of Twitter staff, including people who work in moderation and safety, undermine the commitments he made following their meeting.
“When you lay off almost 50% of your staff, including teams that are in charge of actually tracking, monitoring and enforcing content moderation rules, that necessarily means that content moderation has changed,” said Jessica González, co-CEO of Free Press.
The group also raised concerns about Musk’s amplification of far-right conspiracies regarding the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband; it also cited reports the now-CEO could chip away at current Twitter rules protecting trans users. “If Twitter does not take immediate concrete actions that illustrate a true commitment to maintaining best practices that protect users that companies then companies will not support with ad dollars and we’re seeing it happen in real time,” said GLAAD CEO Sarah Ellis.
Victoria 3 update will make the Civil War harder to avoid
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Paradox’s latest grand strategy game, Victoria 3, is out in the wild now, and while it’s ambitious, detailed, and beautiful to look at, it does have some problems. One of those is that the American Civil War, in which the southern slave states seceded in order to preserve their rights to own slaves, is fairly easy to avoid – you don’t really have to fight it at all. Paradox says this issue is one of several that it’s working on for its upcoming Victoria 3 patch.
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US commits to privacy and civil liberty safeguards concerning EU-US data transfers
The commitment from the US aims to provide US and EU companies with the legal certainty they need to transfer, analyse and use cross-border data.
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