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OpenAI's head of safety, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving as OpenAI integrates its research and safety teams; Mia Glaese will become VP of research and safety (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-head-of-safety-leaving/

OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company
Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.

livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…

I'm leaving #Google: https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
While I believe that I have been able to do some good with my continuing (part-time) engagement in the And…

Top Jon Husted Senate Aide Kept Working for Ohio Lobbying Firm (Tyler Spence/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/ohio/jon-husted-sean-dunn-lobbying-firm
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p13#a260611p13

I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource

POL-SZ: Pressemeldung der Polizeiinspektion Salzgitter/Peine/Wolfenbüttel vom 10.05.2026 für den Bereich Salzgitter-Lebenstedt und Salzgitter-Thiede Salzgitter-Lebenstedt und Salzgitter-Thiede (ots) - Einbruch in eine Sport- und Freizeiteinrichtung Salzgitter, Lebenstedt, Gewerbestraße, 09.05.2026, gegen 03:00 Uhr Durch eine bislang unbekannte Täterschaft wurde am frühen Samstagmorgen eine ...

Alisa Bowen, president of Disney since late 2022, is leaving to become CEO of Disney-controlled Fubo, succeeding David Gandler, who led Fubo for over a decade (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alisa-bowen-ceo-fubo-disney-plus-1236806015/

Alisa Bowen Exits Disney+ to Become CEO of Disney-Controlled Fubo
Alisa Bowen, who has served as president of Disney+ since 2022, is leaving that role to become CEO of Fubo, the internet TV streaming service that is majority owned by Disney.

POL-SZ: Pressemeldung der Polizeiinspektion Salzgitter/Peine/Wolfenbüttel für den Bereich Salzgitter-Lebenstedt und Salzgitter-Thiede Salzgitter-Lebenstedt und Salzgitter-Thiede (ots) - Fahren unter Einfluss von Betäubungsmitteln Salzgitter, Lebenstedt, Theodor-Heuss-Straße, 10.04.2026, 22:11 Uhr Am Samstagabend wurde durch Zeugen gemeldet, dass ein 19-jähriger männlicher ...

OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-futurist-joshua-achiam-is-leaving-the-company/

OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.