A summary: Tim Bray was, until today, a VP at Amazon Web Services. Amazon has been in the news recently for firing people in the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group - people who were...
A summary:
Tim Bray was, until today, a VP at Amazon Web Services. Amazon has been in the news recently for firing people in the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group - people who were blowing whistles about Amazon's actions. Tim was opposed to this; here's a direct excerpt:
That done, remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned.
He makes a number of other points:
he lists the people who were fired
he points out that they were all women, people of colour, or both
he talks about the difference between warehousing and AWS, and how AWS is better
It's not a long read - about 5 minutes - and Tim is a good writer. If my tl;dr was even remotely of interest, I recommend reading it.
No, they are not exclusively (or majority) staffed by women or people of colour. The list of people is here. I took a random sample of 10 and got 7 white males. Edit: I took a random sample of 10...
No, they are not exclusively (or majority) staffed by women or people of colour. The list of people is here. I took a random sample of 10 and got 7 white males.
Edit: I took a random sample of 10 more and got 9 more white males.
There's a secondary interesting thing happening with respect to this story, which is that the Guardian ran it as an op-ed piece without contacting Tim Bray beforehand, and despite his blog being...
There's a secondary interesting thing happening with respect to this story, which is that the Guardian ran it as an op-ed piece without contacting Tim Bray beforehand, and despite his blog being licensed as Creative Commons - Non Commercial:
Wow! Very powerful story. Thank you for sharing. I'm not sure I could make the same choice were I in his shoes, but it's nice to know there are people like him doing it.
Wow! Very powerful story. Thank you for sharing. I'm not sure I could make the same choice were I in his shoes, but it's nice to know there are people like him doing it.
A summary:
Tim Bray was, until today, a VP at Amazon Web Services. Amazon has been in the news recently for firing people in the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group - people who were blowing whistles about Amazon's actions. Tim was opposed to this; here's a direct excerpt:
He makes a number of other points:
It's not a long read - about 5 minutes - and Tim is a good writer. If my tl;dr was even remotely of interest, I recommend reading it.
No, they are not exclusively (or majority) staffed by women or people of colour. The list of people is here. I took a random sample of 10 and got 7 white males.
Edit: I took a random sample of 10 more and got 9 more white males.
I believe he means that the fired people are in the mentioned categories.
There's a secondary interesting thing happening with respect to this story, which is that the Guardian ran it as an op-ed piece without contacting Tim Bray beforehand, and despite his blog being licensed as Creative Commons - Non Commercial:
https://twitter.com/timbray/status/1257345369824014337
The Guardian since apologized and took down the article.
https://twitter.com/timbray/status/1257377704506265601
Tim Bray wrote a follow-up blog post, including links to some interesting responses.
Wow! Very powerful story. Thank you for sharing. I'm not sure I could make the same choice were I in his shoes, but it's nice to know there are people like him doing it.