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quarantine 'em‏ @qntm 10 Oct 2019

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(I say that because it looks like a lot of these senior folks just quit tech entirely right after and don't show up again)

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I mean you've got to have an office in Greenland you can transfer people to, figuratively speaking, right? I'm just kidding Greenland owns. Anyway I'm just hypothesising

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the current director (yes there is one) did not respond to direct emails which I suspect may just be due to me being marked as spam (I am not internal to Google, meh

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however! I do have a friend in Google (helped me with the employee data) and I got them to email my questions anonymised [drum roll]

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and the response was TETCHY. dismissive. I would say crabby almost to the point of being unprofessional and unfortunately that's it

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"go away" in almost as many words. (or possibly "get away", I mean it depends how you interpret it) also very poor typography for a higher-up. rushed

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apologies for the extremely poor navigability of this nonsense, I am doing my best.

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okay that's basically one research result so here's a second one, apparently they support animated GIFs for profile pics now, AMAZING

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quarantine 'em Retweeted The Axolotl

yeah it 100% does *not* workhttps://twitter.com/calxolotl/status/1182515427785658368 …

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ugh the animated pics are some style transfer bullshit that isn't ready for prime-time, if you ask me they look like one person's face texture-mapped onto someone else's skull. or like something's crawling under the skin. like it doesn't fit right

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quarantine 'em Retweeted rose

I've seen this a couple of times, those were both when the Google Person was based on someone who died IRL thoughhttps://twitter.com/holomancy/status/1182699852821483520 …

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I wanted to see the gif they interpolated for me but my profile pic's static, just smiling and greyed-out? My posts stopped a while back too after the predictive text apparently went haywire for a few hours, posting nonsense. Maybe their model just gave up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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quarantine 'em Retweeted Chloe Alison Escott

well that's just Twitter, am I right? zooshhttps://twitter.com/vesselskirt/status/1182753757496365056 …

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this thread and the others inside it are so wild! I gave in & set up a Google People account a few months after it launched, when I was stuck at home with the flu. I was delirious and all I remember for sure is telling multiple people that being on there was “making me sicker”?? https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1182443390429995009 …

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  finally finding time to get back into this! so I put a manual update in my old Google People account saying just, "test" the bot which has been autogenerating updates for me for the past 10+ years apparently found this intensely confusing https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1182443390429995009 …
  
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