I was amused to find Margaret Mitchell’s firing landing in this week’s Harper’s Weekly Review when it landed in my inbox this morning.
Why it’s interesting
Making The Economist and Harper’s covering my industry in the same week makes the world of an AI designer and researcher feel very small indeed!
Why we care
When the reporting of a comparatively conservative and staid politico-economic outlet as well as a sardonic feature of a relatively progressive one is fairly identical, it says something to me about the nature of reality.
Large technology companies firing people they hired to maintain a critical perspective on the company and its technology is an interesting mirror to hold up to the industry. If the facts aren’t up for debate in the partisam press, it suggests a narrative arc, an intentional one.
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