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I revisit a personal essay published on Vice in 2016

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Last month, I scrolled through Vice journalism peers on my Twitter feed talking about incoming layoffs. They unsurprisingly heard about the layoffs from an outside source first before any internal news. I tried to Google an article to cite here about how many people were laid off, but the results just reported on the incoming layoffs. The layoffs have since happened, which I know about through Twitter.

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