Please see our tiny curt bitter worthless statement
For those who can still see tweets…
Maya’s statement is way better than Center for Global Development’s.
[Updating to add summary:
CGD basically just says here’s our statement, with a link.
Maya replies with “Here’s mine” with her image from the deck of cards, and text saying CGD was ordered to pay etc.
Maya’s basically saying neener neener haha; it’s quite droll.]
London – Today, The Center for Global Development (CGD) released the following statement, in relation to the Employment Tribunal judgment in the case brought by Maya Forstater against CGD:
“Following the Employment Tribunal’s remedy judgment, the case brought against CGD, its President, Masood Ahmed, and CGD Europe by Maya Forstater will come to a close.
“CGD has and will continue to strive to maintain a workplace that is welcoming, safe, and inclusive to all.
“The resolution of this case will allow us once again to focus exclusively on our mission: reducing global poverty and inequality through economic research that drives better policy and practice.”
That’s it; that’s the statement.
Too bad they didn’t manage to maintain a workplace that is welcoming, safe, and inclusive to all including women who know that men are not women.
Yeah, now that you’ve pointed it out a few times, I’m seeing statements like “CGD has and will continue to strive to maintain a workplace that is welcoming, safe, and inclusive to all”, very often mean, “not quite all”.
Tangentially, so I’m not the only one who can’t see Tweets today? Anybody know if that’s a glitch, or is it a permanent change?
This is twitter trying to squeeze more money out of the platform by requiring sign up, which means more blue checks, which means more money. The other screw tightening has been less obvious, but not allowing to click on trends without being signed in has been going on for a while, among other things. Twitter can just piss right off.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/twitter-now-requires-an-account-to-view-tweets/
The term is a touch juvenile, but all the same… CGD seem butthurt.
twiliter @ #3 —
Ah.
Well, Ophelia, if this persists, I hope you can summarize Tweets for those of us who otherwise wouldn’t know what you’re referring to!
I’ll do that. Should have done it with these; I’ll update.
We love you!
To twiliter @ #3 –
Thank you for the article! What a silly thing to do – I don’t have an account and don’t wish to, but my eyes on the site gives them potential revenue, so why shut it off like this?
But, this is great news from Ms, Forstater. I believe that Katie H***** still wonders why her countenance has not graced one of Ms. Paley’s cards.
@7 Ditto. Thanks Ophelia. I wish there were some viable alternative, like rolling back time to a place where the internet wasn’t a complete dumpster fire of greed and manipulation. Another wishful thinking failure of mine.
Peter N – Awwwww shucks.
Guess I will have to see if Twitter will actually let me have an account since they banned me several years ago and I never bothered to get back on.
I have never Twitted, and Pope Elon isn’t making it an attractive prospect. How to smother your precious baby.
“I have never Twitted, and Pope Elon isn’t making it an attractive prospect. How to smother your precious baby.”
A lot of bad (and TRA) journos like David Klion and Michael Hobbes admitted they owed their career success to their Twitter accounts. This new decision might throw a spanner in the works for them.
Don’t get me wrong, I dislike Elon Musk intensely, but it’s fun to watch the self-righteous journos whinge as Musk took their playground away.
I opened a Twitter account about fifteen years ago, on the urging of one of my sons, and barely touched it. So little did I use it that Twitter sent me an email several years ago, telling me that they’d locked my account for total lack of activity over the preceding two years; and then it took me another two years to find and read the email! The hoops I needed to jump through to reinstate the account weren’t worth it to me, so I didn’t bother.
Well, yeah, if you never use it you’ll never find out how it can be useful. That’s a pretty general rule, but Twitter is probably more like that than most things. I found it irritating and not particularly useful for a long time, but of course it was developing over that long time too. It became a useful tool for finding news items, gossip, quarrels, jokes, resistance – lots of stuff. But yes, if you never use it, it’s just an inert web address.
It was good in that it helped me to discover that I have a limited attention span for such things. I keep up with my friends via Fæcesbork and email, and with my family via Skype and Messenger, or phone calls and SMS; or even good, old-fashioned, mail. Many family members keep telling me to add yet more means of communication, but I don’t see why I should give myself more things to have to check when there are already so many more ways of getting hold of me than there were even as recently as twenty years ago. I expect that if anything important should happen, they can find a way to let me know.
I don’t have the brain capacity for extensive socialising; it’s exhausting.
Anyway, if anything relevant happens in the world via Twitter, I can count on the first site I open every morning to tell me what’s going on; B&W.
Ah yes, I see what you mean. No you definitely don’t need to add Twitter! It’s useful for a magpie like me who enjoys sharing shiny objects, but it has drastic limitations.
Although I haven’t used my personal account for years (I now have a dummy account to use to log into the platform to see anything I want to see), I will always be grateful to Twitter for the Romney death rally. I don’t know if any of you remember it. Election night, 2012. The Romney campaign held a last-minute outdoor rally, I forget where; it suddenly and unexpectedly turned cold and people, particularly those with young children, started to leave. But apparently the organisers of the rally, concerned about the optics, weren’t allowing this, and people began to tweet from inside the stadium saying they were getting cold and hungry and their kids were crying and they wanted to go home but were locked in. Other people started tweeting, using their imaginations to describe what was actually going on inside the stadium, and it soon became a worldwide hashtag, as people egged each other on to create crazier and cleverer tweets – a Lovecraftian horror novel spontaneously written by thousands of people in bursts of one or two sentences. As the election results started to come in, and Obama took a comfortable lead, the ‘rally’ started to cool down and wind up as everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It was a genuine coming together of people all over the world to spontaneously collaborate to create something amazing, and I haven’t experienced anything like it before or since.
I second tigger. I am an introvert with a noisy family that wants to pull me into their quarrels. I don’t want to interact with much of anyone after a day of identifying as an extrovert long enough to teach my classes. And I despise long pieces written in short tweets numbered 1 out of 43. or whatever. If you have that much to say, Twitter is not the place to say it,
guest @ 18, golly, no, I don’t recall even hearing about that.
I do recall some Unfolding In Real Time items though – like the Savita Halappanavar case for instance. Sharing (here) tweets from people at the massive rally in Dublin.
Maya’s statement is on her personal site here, and the employment tribunal’s monetary “Judgement on Remedies” is here (as a 17-page PDF file). I see two points:
1) The “aggravated damages” part of the judgment was for things that CGD said and did right after Maya’s precedent-setting win in the UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT, June 10, 2021). CGD needed to learn to shut up then.
2) The CGD statement probably serves a legal function to say they will not appeal the judgement, so the case is closed. Their statement is short because they know to shut up now.