The same thing happened for Google+ in 2010-2011. If you want to know what the most important projects at Google are, the best way to find out is to figure out which cafe(s) in Mountain View normal employees aren't allowed into, and look at who works nearby. www.wired.com/story/google... - ThreadSky

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mcmillen.dev • 6 days ago

The same thing happened for Google+ in 2010-2011. If you want to know what the most important projects at Google are, the best way to find out is to figure out which cafe(s) in Mountain View normal employees aren't allowed into, and look at who works nearby.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-openai-gemini-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence/

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kcirtsew.bsky.social•5 days ago

The funny thing is that gradient canopy is kind of awful to actually work in. Turns out there’s a reason office buildings are stacked rectangles!

shiradrenaline.bsky.social•6 days ago

It seems insane the fucking telescope ad would be okayed without anyone actually checking the fact normal-style. And yet.

mcmillen.dev•6 days ago

amazing that it tanked the stock price 9% in one day lmao

weirdobeardo.bsky.social•6 days ago

A lot of projects got this treatment. G+, Chrome, Streetview, Books, Waymo, the list is as large as the graveyard.

mcmillen.dev•6 days ago

Yeah, I understand why the article presents it as "bucking company norms" for purposes of simplicity, but the truth is that while *most* Google offices are open to *most* full-time Google employees, in practice there's almost always a few restricted floors or buildings somewhere in California.

weirdobeardo.bsky.social•6 days ago

There's no excuse at this point for tech journalism to keep up the facade. The truth isn't that much different from what they're selling.

weirdobeardo.bsky.social•6 days ago

Actually all it takes is this
"s/norms/PR"

1500wordmtu.com•6 days ago

It was surreal. Especially when we had meetings in the conference room that was also the "panic room"

swedener.bsky.social•5 days ago

they spend sooooo much money in order to get russian cryptobros to spend 1% more in advertising

swedener.bsky.social•5 days ago

all this to spend a trillion dollars to raise stock value in order to create a crappy plagiarism device for lazy college students.

not since the weed industry of the 60s/70s has soooooo much energy been spent so college students could do less work and play more bongos

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