I've seen people saying that about Meta/Facebook for a decade, but I still don't see any tangible damage to former employee's ability to get jobs. The OpenAI situation seems much closer to FB-scale politics than X though.

I think Amazon is a better example. It's a thing that some companies prefer not to hire engineers from Amazon because of the culture they bring. Whether you agree with it or not, Amazon has a reputation for a toxic culture and that sort of thing can ruin a smaller or medium size company if it seeps in.

OP wasn't talking about culture, he was talking about discriminating due to differences in political opinions, very different.

*ethical opinions

I mostly agree with you re: Meta/Facebook except that things are becoming a lot more politically volatile than they have been in the past. Generally, I think that most people believe that the more intelligent you are, the more empathetic you are, so at some point if your evil company is doing big destructive evils, the smartest engineers will probably bail.

Depending on jurisdiction, it’s maybe not that smart to hop on the internet and write “if I see it on a resume beyond a certain date, I'm not considering them” and “things are becoming a lot more politically volatile” either.

"Generally, I think that most people believe that the more intelligent you are, the more empathetic you are..."

Okay, you might need to re-evaluate the life lessons you seem to have selectively taught yourself. This is base line culture war 'You must be mentally deficient if you don't align with what I deem to be empathetic right now or I don't think you're nice enough' type stuff.

High school type shit.

> but I still don't see any tangible damage to former employee's ability to get jobs

I have. I've also seen it happen for Uber, for someone who worked on the god mode project that went viral for being used at holiday parties.

"The terrorists hate our freedoms."

This seems like a perfect opportunity for a revival of David Cross's standup career.

> Think about it. If someone actually bombed or invaded the continental US you'd have woke libs cheering for Donald Trump.

Huh? If anything, he'd try to put blame on "Antifa" and "the radical left."

Aiding Hegseth / The Heritage Foundation is not aiding the US. If anything, it's the exact opposite.

"Defending one's nation" and "capitulating to the people in charge like Hegseth" are very much not the same thing.

Best Buy price matches Amazon...

RenovateBot supports a ton of languages, and ime works much better for the npm ecosystem than Dependabot. Especially true if you use an alternative package manager like yarn/pnpm.

> First, he published at least three hit pieces on the agent

Hit piece... On an agent? Would it be a "hit piece" if I wrote a blog post about the accuracy of my bathroom scale?

Do you argue with your bathroom scale?

Daily. It always tells me I'm heavier than I am

> They explained their motivations, saying they set up the AI agent as social experiment

Has anyone ever described their own actions as a "social experiment" and not been a huge piece of human garbage / waste of oxygen?

Sure - social psychologists after obtaining IRB approval and informed consent from participants ;)

> some for speech recognized as protected by international organizations.

Can you share some concrete examples from reputable sources that show these? Every examples I've seen have been clear-cut calls for violence, or unambiguous harassment.

Absolutely. There are several examples that are not calls for violence or unambiguous harassment that were documented by The Telegraph.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/15/hundreds-charged...

The only semi-concrete example that article gives:

> After the Southport stabbings, several people were questioned by police over false communications for spreading claims the attacker was a Muslim immigrant. In one instance, a man pleaded guilty to the offence for a livestreamed video on TikTok where he falsely claimed he was “running for his life” from rioters in Derby.

That very much seems like an attempt to harass or invite harassment against a group of people...