Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard confirmed Mullenweg’s return to the CEO role in a Friday post on X, which the official WordPress account shared and Mullenweg reposted.
“Hope dies” doesn’t mean killed? That’s some interesting mental gymnastics
You do understand that people die in ways that don’t involve murder, right?
Everyone dies. They were just expressing their preference for the manner of death.
Ir seems to be a call back to that time a tumblr user frustrated about Automattic’s insufficient moderation of transphobic harassment stated they hoped he “dies a forever painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere”, which really doesn’t sound like a serious threat to me.
I do think there is nuance between this and hoping for a violent death, but I’m not gonna die on either hill. Personally, I just hope he (and every other parasitic dickhead) stops being a CEO.