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> "I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected," climate scientist Zack Labe wrote on X. He said that he had worked on strengthening the agency's machine learning and AI tools.

https://xcancel.com/ZLabe/status/1895244032923836498#m

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> LeArN tO cOdE

Hope everything works out, because if it doesn't, it's going to be really hard for me to have any empathy for Trump supporters if bad things happen to them.

https://github.com/zmlabe

What a negative conspirasist (if that is even a word) platform X has become. Really something to be proud on. Every sound you make on that platform, a truckload of sh*t you get dumped on you - especially if you have something like “scientist” or government employee in your profile.

I agree it’s a horrible experience, so I left. I see no reason to add to user and engagement counts that might help with their ad sales.

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