What did she expect she was sleeping on the job? Slacker.
There’s an old Dilbert cartoon where the pointy-haired boss basically makes the argument that if you cut all the staff costs profits will go up, but damned if I’m going to go look for it.
Ironic, though.
“It’s ok to be a white whale!”
Twitter Outages Are On The Rise (NY Times Gift Link)
The social media service remains operational today. But its outages, bugs and other glitches are increasingly piling up.
In February alone, Twitter experienced at least four widespread outages, compared with nine such incidents in all of 2022, according to NetBlocks, an organization that tracks internet outages. That suggests the frequency of service failures is on the rise, NetBlocks said. And bugs that have made Twitter less usable — by preventing people from posting tweets, for instance — have been more noticeable, researchers and users said.
Twitter’s reliability has deteriorated as Mr. Musk has repeatedly slashed the company’s work force. After another round of layoffs on Saturday, Twitter had fewer than 2,000 employees, down from 7,500 when Mr. Musk took over in October. The latest cuts affected dozens of engineers responsible for keeping the site online, three current and former employees said.
Twitter is unlikely to go kaput, but its technology operations have become more precarious since November, seven current and former employees said. Mr. Musk has ended operations at one of Twitter’s three main data centers, further slashed the teams that work on the company’s back-end technology such as servers and cloud storage, and gotten rid of leaders overseeing that area.
The moves have exacerbated fears that there are not enough people or institutional knowledge to triage Twitter’s problems, especially if the service one day encounters a problem its remaining workers do not know how to fix, two people with knowledge of the company’s internal operations said.
Lean and mean (literally)!
Elmo defends Scott Adams’ racist rant (is anyone surprised?):
There is something comical about Musk bootlickers being spurned by their beloved.
Makes perfect sense to me. You are breaking the first rule of Fight Club by explaining the first rule of Fight Club.
That’s why I only explain the second rule.
What’s the second rule? 
Nobody knows, because the third rule is that the rules must be explained in order.
The fourth rule is you only have to obey the rules that have been explained to you.
The fifth rule is “There are no rules, including this one.”
You may regret that when I date your teenage daughter.
Only if she’s in fight club.
She doesn’t talk about it.
Apparently, you haven’t seen her right hook.
The recent exchanges of messages are hilarious. 
For anyone else, like me, who didn’t understand this tweet, @WholeMarsBlog is the guy who tested out Tesla’s self driving mode by seeing if it would stop for his son standing in the road.
I spent a few minutes Googling to get this much, but didn’t feel like going any further. If there’s any additional information that explains this exchange better, please feel free to let us in on it.
I love Danny Kaye, and especially his movie “The Inspector General”.