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sentences that state something as happening or true
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18%
3 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Publisher signals
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It’s rare to see an executive go from fucking around to finding out so quickly.
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executive → ’ → ?
That’s what happened last week when Proton CEO Andy Yen announced he was canceling a planned re-interview process for almost all current employees that would have checked if they’re using AI enough.
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they → ’ → AI
This follows extreme backlash from Proton users and workers against the company's aggressive pivot to AI.
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This → follow → AI
It’s been a wild ride internally, several employees past and present have shared with 404 Media.
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employees → share → Media
On Friday, Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, cancelled a series of nearly company-wide ‘re-interviews’ that would have forced employees to explain how they are using AI, with the clear intention that they may be fired if not using it enough in the eyes of Proton leadership, according to six current Proton employees and audio of an around two hour all-hands meeting obtained by 404 Media.
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they → cancel → Media
The move came after 404 Media published an investigation on Thursday, which showed how Yen was aggressively pushing AI across Proton, in some cases despite security concerns from employees.
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Yen → come → employees
In one exchange, an employee in the company’s security Slack channel urged Proton to at least take a few days to pentest newly written code before pushing it live.
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employee → urge → it
“That’s bullshit and loser thinking.
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That → ’ → ?
Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure,” Yen wrote in the channel at the end of August.
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Yen → ’ → August
Yen added, “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”
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Yen → add → AI
The re-interview cancellations likely don’t address the concerns of many Proton users, who are more focused on Proton’s deprioritization of security; many Proton users have blasted the company’s leadership on social media over the last 24 hours and explicitly called for Yen to resign.
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Kinktober has come and gone.
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Kinktober → address → 404
But Archive of Our Own (AO3), a massive repository for fanfiction and creative writing, is still down, and might be down for as long as a month after going down for "maintenance" following a security incident last week.
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Archive → go → incident
The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), the non-profit organization that runs AO3, posted on its status page that the site restoration will take around two weeks, but could take up to a month.
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restoration → run → month
People are coping how they can.
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they → cop → ?
And they’re turning to anything but Wattpad to fill the void.
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they → turn → void
One writer I spoke to who posts her writing and reads others’ writing on AO3 told me that she was in the middle of racing to finish a work that was deliberately timed to Kinktober and Halloween when the outage happened.
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outage → speak → Kinktober
She was hitting “next chapter” while reading a fic on Wednesday night when she got the message that the site was down for maintenance, “which I initially took as a sign from the universe to go to bed,” she said.
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she → hit → bed
The Aporia
