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Yeah me too. There are reports that the workplace has gotten so bad most of them want to get out with severance, but it must be hard especially if had previously liked working there. There are also reports of people trying to be the ones laid off so their colleagues on work visas don't get extra shafted. That's the thing, it's easy to mock the billionaire setting his money on fire (and I'll confess to not being above schadenfreude for people like him) but in the end he isn't going to be as badly hurt as the employees. And as bad as Twitter could be sometimes, for Academia and some other communities it could actually be a net positive - it even effectively started some cool communities. So this is pretty sad. As you say maybe someone can absorb these folks and maybe a competitor can mostly replicate what was lost (people seem to be talking about something called Mastadon?) but still ...  what a jerk he is.