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November 10, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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"Joyless and demoralizing:" Microsoft workers share damning open letter criticising internal AI mandate
"Joyless and demoralizing:" Microsoft workers share damning open letter criticising internal AI mandate
"Enforced adoption of AI tools is making our morale, work, and products worse."
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November 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
"Joyless and demoralizing:" Microsoft workers share damning open letter criticising internal AI mandate
Devoting your entire career and personality to hating everything sounds like an absolutely exhausting and joyless experience.
People do know that they can enjoy things, right?
People do know that they can enjoy things, right?
November 11, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Devoting your entire career and personality to hating everything sounds like an absolutely exhausting and joyless experience.
People do know that they can enjoy things, right?
People do know that they can enjoy things, right?
"get to the point" "simplify your sentence structure" "never say in a hundred words what you can say in ten" ok well what about the sentence equivalent of a sick harmonica solo. hmm. what about that. something your joyless heart will never experience
November 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
"get to the point" "simplify your sentence structure" "never say in a hundred words what you can say in ten" ok well what about the sentence equivalent of a sick harmonica solo. hmm. what about that. something your joyless heart will never experience
Joe Walsh announced he's no longer a Democrat
Joyless Ann Reid announced she's no longer a Democrat.
And so, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce I am longer the frontman of U2.
Joyless Ann Reid announced she's no longer a Democrat.
And so, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce I am longer the frontman of U2.
November 10, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Joe Walsh announced he's no longer a Democrat
Joyless Ann Reid announced she's no longer a Democrat.
And so, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce I am longer the frontman of U2.
Joyless Ann Reid announced she's no longer a Democrat.
And so, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce I am longer the frontman of U2.
It doesn't upset me at all that a bunch of know-nothing joyless software development scolds are no longer involved in gaming.
Sounds great, actually.
Sounds great, actually.
Your terms are acceptable, it does not, and I am not.
Also, calling anything except the Transatlantic Slave Trade "the greatest labor theft in human history" is insulting.
Also, calling anything except the Transatlantic Slave Trade "the greatest labor theft in human history" is insulting.
November 11, 2026 at 5:00 AM
It doesn't upset me at all that a bunch of know-nothing joyless software development scolds are no longer involved in gaming.
Sounds great, actually.
Sounds great, actually.
every single person I know would be deliriously happy with one single million and would just fuck off into the sunset to make art and grow tomatoes and play with their kids, forever relieved of the anxiety of student loans and their mortgage. being a billionaire seems pretty joyless tbh!
November 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
every single person I know would be deliriously happy with one single million and would just fuck off into the sunset to make art and grow tomatoes and play with their kids, forever relieved of the anxiety of student loans and their mortgage. being a billionaire seems pretty joyless tbh!
Tech is promoting yet another joyless trend, Ariana Bindman writes.
San Francisco youth culture died at a peptide party in Fisherman's Wharf
Tech is promoting yet another joyless trend, Ariana Bindman writes.
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November 11, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Tech is promoting yet another joyless trend, Ariana Bindman writes.
This joyless, contentious cycle of films cast a shadow over me for 10 goddamn years, and created a generational split between how people saw these characters.
November 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
This joyless, contentious cycle of films cast a shadow over me for 10 goddamn years, and created a generational split between how people saw these characters.
Some joyless people think Starship's "We Built This City" is the worst song ever written, to which I say: did you know there was a LadBaby version?
November 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Some joyless people think Starship's "We Built This City" is the worst song ever written, to which I say: did you know there was a LadBaby version?
In addition to being fake fans, joyless weirdos, and culture war tourists, YouTube chuds are also vile people with no moral compass. They have no creative bones in their bodies and they only pleasure they can get is by trying to tear better people down.
What a miserable existence.
What a miserable existence.
I just want to point out that the photo of James Gunn in the thumbnail in context is him grieving over the loss of his late father.
What in the actual fuck!?
What in the actual fuck!?
November 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
In addition to being fake fans, joyless weirdos, and culture war tourists, YouTube chuds are also vile people with no moral compass. They have no creative bones in their bodies and they only pleasure they can get is by trying to tear better people down.
What a miserable existence.
What a miserable existence.
Basically I need a T-shirt saying “Stop using Gen AI you lazy joyless phux”
November 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Basically I need a T-shirt saying “Stop using Gen AI you lazy joyless phux”
When every character is burdened with the terrible, joyless weight of being a hero, none of them are.
November 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When every character is burdened with the terrible, joyless weight of being a hero, none of them are.
Get in loser, we're going joyless murderballing.
November 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Get in loser, we're going joyless murderballing.
i've been watching rage compilations of a certain streamer lately for some reason (don't ask) and i just have to wonder how some people get so joyless that everything negative is an action inflicted *on* them instead of a simple skill issue
November 11, 2026 at 3:34 PM
i've been watching rage compilations of a certain streamer lately for some reason (don't ask) and i just have to wonder how some people get so joyless that everything negative is an action inflicted *on* them instead of a simple skill issue
Effing Joyless Ann Reid. Of course. Didn't she announce she's not a Democrat anymore?
November 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Effing Joyless Ann Reid. Of course. Didn't she announce she's not a Democrat anymore?
There are a lot of people who want you to be joyless and miserable forever no matter what the circumstances are. These people will just move the goalposts if Trump is defeated as well. Their goal is to destroy, not to build.
For all the oh-so-inspiring “I can’t believe people are celebrating the midterm victory, it’s not like Trump has been defeated forever yet” types:
Celebrating when you win a major battle is an ESSENTIAL part of keeping people encouraged enough and motivated enough to keep fighting to win the war.
Celebrating when you win a major battle is an ESSENTIAL part of keeping people encouraged enough and motivated enough to keep fighting to win the war.
November 9, 2026 at 7:38 PM
There are a lot of people who want you to be joyless and miserable forever no matter what the circumstances are. These people will just move the goalposts if Trump is defeated as well. Their goal is to destroy, not to build.
Me neither because fishing in WoW sucks.
Also this guy is joyless
Also this guy is joyless
November 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Me neither because fishing in WoW sucks.
Also this guy is joyless
Also this guy is joyless
"For many, working at Microsoft has become joyless and demoralizing, with job satisfaction declining around the same time the company accelerated its AI investments.”
That’s pretty bleak. I was at MSFT in 2008–09, when it was a joyless and demoralizing place for different reasons.
That’s pretty bleak. I was at MSFT in 2008–09, when it was a joyless and demoralizing place for different reasons.
A group of "concerned Microsoft workers" have published an open letter criticising their employer's "speed-at-all-costs" approach to generative AI. https://bit.ly/48dvjjs
November 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"For many, working at Microsoft has become joyless and demoralizing, with job satisfaction declining around the same time the company accelerated its AI investments.”
That’s pretty bleak. I was at MSFT in 2008–09, when it was a joyless and demoralizing place for different reasons.
That’s pretty bleak. I was at MSFT in 2008–09, when it was a joyless and demoralizing place for different reasons.
Just the most soulless, joyless, incurious assholes you would ever have the misfortune of meeting. Not a single mote of light or whimsy in their hearts and souls.
November 11, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Just the most soulless, joyless, incurious assholes you would ever have the misfortune of meeting. Not a single mote of light or whimsy in their hearts and souls.
Mastodon is a joyless mansplaining hub. Don’t tell them I said this lol
November 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Mastodon is a joyless mansplaining hub. Don’t tell them I said this lol
I get the impression that the people who try to start moral panics are joyless and bigoted losers who nobody else besides other joyless and bigoted losers want to be around.
They want to make everyone else as miserable as they are.
They want to make everyone else as miserable as they are.
November 7, 2026 at 12:35 AM
I get the impression that the people who try to start moral panics are joyless and bigoted losers who nobody else besides other joyless and bigoted losers want to be around.
They want to make everyone else as miserable as they are.
They want to make everyone else as miserable as they are.
It’s truly wild. We’re doing the Phi Beta Kappa induction without a reception for initiates and families, and I hate it. So many things are now joyless and snackless.
Everywhere I look in academia there is a war on food. I cannot fathom that food at gatherings and ceremonies was SO EXPENSIVE that we must turn every moment of professional life into bland power point rituals without even a cheese plate.
November 9, 2026 at 1:48 AM
It’s truly wild. We’re doing the Phi Beta Kappa induction without a reception for initiates and families, and I hate it. So many things are now joyless and snackless.
then they'll go online and make posts about how leftists are joyless
November 8, 2026 at 6:19 PM
then they'll go online and make posts about how leftists are joyless
sorry, we can’t all make our entire time online being joyless bitches who perseverate on the politics of countries we don’t live in
November 10, 2026 at 7:11 AM
sorry, we can’t all make our entire time online being joyless bitches who perseverate on the politics of countries we don’t live in