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"It’s been another terrible week for the Washington Post. The newsroom is bracing for a devastating round of layoffs, with rumors flying that some desks may be shuttered entirely.

Sportswriters were stunned to learn they would no longer be attending the Winter Olympics in Italy (management later reversed course, saying a small contingent would cover the event), while the Post’s foreign correspondents have been pleading with owner Jeff Bezos to spare their department in desperate posts on X, noting the groundbreaking work they’ve done in Ukraine, the Middle East, Venezuela, and elsewhere at a time when Donald Trump’s foreign policy activity has been frenetic. For the time being, no one knows how deep the cuts will actually be, but staffers are anticipating around 100 job losses in the roughly 800-person newsroom alone. One staffer told me that “every desk is allegedly losing jobs.” The expectation is they’ll hit next week.

The ostensible reason for the layoffs is that the Post, like many other newspapers, is losing money. But unlike other newspapers, the Post is also in the midst of a demoralizing destruction of its brand that has alienated hundreds of thousands of subscribers and left even its staff unsure what the paper is trying to do, both journalistically and business-wise. “I’m increasingly finding it hard to justify the cuts from a journalistic perspective,” said one staffer. “Of course, financially, the Post is in a deep hole and I understand that. But some of that hole, if not a lot of it, is because of Jeff Bezos.”"

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-washington-posts-existential-meltdown.html

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@max @fediverso @_elena Sempre su serverplan... Dagli pure il mio talk del WordCamp Pisa sul fediverso e digli che è un talk di una loro cliente quella di plusbrothers.net ... Così almeno si accorgono che i loro clienti ne sanno più di loro, LOL!
Il talk sta su WordPress.tv

@max @fediverso @_elena Serverplan! Li conosco benissimo, sono loro cliente col sito plusbrothers.net (il sito in produzione, il cantiere sta su hostinger). E confermo che il supporto tecnico, quando li ho contattati perché activitypub non pubblicava e rallentava WordPress, non sapevano cosa dirmi. Senonché gli ho chiesto: mettete le mani sui log, controllate se c'è qualcosa di bloccato... Bloccavano il dns o come si chiama, di poliverso. Una roba chiamata ermes.poliverso.org o affini, da cui non partiva niente. Adesso me l'hanno risolto e... Mi dispiace anche, l'idea di andarmene. Per un altro anno infatti credo che tengo il servizio, fin che non passo tutto di qua. Ma mi piacerebbe lasciargli anche qualcosa di scritto, sul fediverso!

@mro @liaizon ❤️

Hi @liaizon @pfefferle,
#lol, the quality is IN the picture.

@liaizon thanks 😍

@sturmsucht @_elena no hurry! Thank you both!

@_elena @pfefferle 🫡 just returned home after FOSDEM, but will take a look tomorrow.