The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #829

Biggest tech story was Elon firing 80% of twitter and nothing changing - Washington Post  

Twitch firing 35% of staff - Bloomberg - Archive 

Google lays off 1,000 workers - The Guardian  

Turns out the whole industry is cutting people - Forbes 

Google perks are gone - Ha Phan - X  

Remember day in my life getting laid off? - Nikki Noms - X  

Everyone made videos about this girl bec she documented how she literally did fuck all - - Matt Walsh - Youtube  

Remember Linked in girl? - Cold - X 

The surprise layoff - Unusual Whales - X  

Discord girl gets laid off - Chloe Shih - X 

Cloudflare girl getting laid off sparked interest - What Layoff - X 

The CEO comes in to say they were firing 40/1,500 sales people over the holiday season. - Matthew Prince - X  

Just to happen to notice all the tech girly stuff is old videos now - TikTok 

Protesters at Times Square chanting - Visegrad 24 - X 

‘We run the whole of London’ - Radio Genoa - X 

“It looks like Pakistan but it's UK.” - Radio Genoa - X 

“Full sword fight happened yesterday in a chicken shop in London.” - Crazy Society - X 

Milan - The Random Guy - X  

THE NEW NORMAL IN FRANCE - The Random Guy - X 

Ireland - Radio Genoa - X 

What is happening in Roscrea? - The independent 

Helen MacEntee: Irish minister of justice does not know how to define the far-right. - Dave Atherton - X

Brits don’t understand the scale of immigration - Matt goodwin - X  

Shoreditch demographics - Office for National Statistics 

London is 3.3% gay - Statista - X 

England and Wales is 18.3% non-white - Office for National Statistics 

2020 screen data for bame - Creative Diversity Network - 31.6% of scripted roles - Page 7 - Diamond 

Half of people think minorities overrepresented - The Times - Archive 

Industry report also agrees they are overrepresented - Feb 2023 - The Telegraph - Archive