Tag: should’ve
At Virgin Orbit, it never should’ve come to a staff furlough
Last night, CNBC broke the bombshell news that Virgin Orbit was pausing operations for at least a week while it looked for funding to support the business. As part of that pause, company executives reportedly told staff in an all-hands meeting that they were being furloughed — and that it would be unpaid. The news […]
At Virgin Orbit, it never should’ve come to a staff furlough by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
I tried the ‘glowy blush’ hack with Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty – I should’ve done it sooner, people say I look flawless
SELENA Gomez’s makeup line may be wildly popular but the brand creator also has a few tricks up her sleeves as well.
Selena took to social media to share a personal makeup trick, adding highlighter to blush for a dewy look, that went viral.
Yazmin, a beauty influencer, tried Selena Gomez’s trick for dewy blush[/caption]
She layered the Rare Beauty highlighter and blush on top of each other[/caption]
Yazmin (@yazdior), a beauty influencer, put the trick to the test.
To start, she acquired the two main products she needed — the RareBeauty highlighter and blush.
She showed off the blush in the shade Happy and the highlighter in the shade Enchant: “Trying the RareBeauty glowy blush hack,” she said.
Uncapping the blush, she used the doe-foot applicator to place two dots of blush on each side of her cheekbones, then did the same with the highlighter.
Taking a fluffy brush, she blended the products out and immediately gasped in shock when she saw the glowy results.
“I should’ve tried this sooner,” she said.
People took to the comments to share their thoughts.
Others were initially worried about how much blush she applied, knowing that a little bit of the RareBeauty blush goes a long way.
“THAT WAS SO MUCH BLUSH BYE,” said one commenter.
“That was a dangerous amount,” agreed another.
Others were worried she had leaked a hidden makeup trick.
“DON’T TELL MY SECRET,” joked one makeup enthusiast.
“But for real it’s the best blush highlight combo, I was always doing this when I was working at Sephora.”
“So flawless, I love,” said another.
She blended out the product with a brush[/caption]
12 quality-of-life mods for Hogwarts Legacy that should’ve been there from the start
Jack Dorsey thinks Twitter should’ve been allowed to be a hellscape
Twitter’s founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey is reflecting on how things turned out with the social media platform he was integral in creating, which now belongs to Elon Musk.
In both a tweet thread and newsletter post (on Twitter’s now-defunct Revue newsletter platform), Dorsey addressed the Twitter Files, the internal company documents being reported on by Musk’s handpicked writers Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. Dorsey’s name and emails have come up a few times in what has already been released.
So far, the Twitter Files have mainly shown internal communications between employees at the company, in which they debate about specific pieces of content, whether that content violated Twitter’s rules, and what punitive action to take on those tweets or users.
In his post about the active direction in which Twitter carried out its content moderation policies, Dorsey sounds regretful. Basically, it seems as though he wishes he’d just let Twitter become an anything-goes hellscape.
“This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets),” Dorsey wrote. “I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account.”
Dorsey’s proposed solution lies in these three principles:
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Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
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Only the original author may remove content they produce.
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Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.
At first glance, some of these principles sound reasonable, but the reality is that they’re not that easy to carry out in practice because you’re dealing with human beings. For example, how would Dorsey deal with death threats, publishing of a user’s private data, or child sex abuse material if only the original poster could remove it? His beliefs stem from the idea that everyone on the internet is acting in good faith, which is clearly not the case.
Dorsey somewhat addressed these concerns by saying takedowns and suspensions “[complicate] important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity.” But this conflates a multitude of issues. If there is some broader context or lesson, then surely moderation policies should take that into consideration on a case-by-case basis. Not everything has to be publicly visible for social media platforms to alert law enforcement of potential illegal activity.
Obviously, as a for-profit entity Twitter made choices so that advertisers wouldn’t stop spending money on the platform. However, many of those decisions were also driven by users of the platform themselves who did not want to interact with racism or harassment.
Dorsey even brings up one such instance of harassment in his piece: Elon Musk’s recent targeting of Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth.
“The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything,” Dorsey wrote. “If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.”
Roth recently had to flee his home after the Twitter Files narrative painted him as its major villain and Musk not-so-subtly insinuated that Roth was a pedophile due to a disingenuous read of his college thesis.
So how would Dorsey’s principles help someone like Roth? “Algorithmic choice,” an ideal solution proposed by Dorsey, would just enable Roth to stick his head in the sand and avoid seeing the threats and harassment on his feed. It wouldn’t stop other social media users from upending his life because they could still choose to view content about Roth.
“The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves,” Dorsey said in his post.
Really, Twitter should have done both. Users should have more control over what they see on social media and how they use a particular platform. But platforms have a responsibility, too. Twitter was correct in putting filters on certain accounts that still enabled users to share posts to their followers but not, say, promote those posts in the trends feed. But Twitter should’ve also let users know if their accounts had been hit with such filters, as well as why and what they could do to fix the issue.
Going strictly by Dorsey’s stated principles, it appears he wishes Twitter had a system in place which simply shifted culpability from the corporation and onto its users. And that, Mr. Dorsey, is the opposite of taking responsibility.
Open Channel: What Marvel Show Should’ve Been a Film, or Vice Versa?
Earlier in the week, Marvel up and surprised everyone with the announcement that its Don Cheadle-led miniseries Armor Wars was transitioning into a full blown movie. The apparent reasoning for this was that the studio realized in order to get the story right, it could better be realized as a theatrical release. Given…