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Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Director of National Intelligence (r/news)

• Stock-Pattern-8635: I wonder if that whistleblower report shes been trying to block will come out soon now
• WatchmanVimes: “Whelp my job is done here! I have removed all intelligence!”
• Alt_Restorer: How many women do we have left now?

All charges against Chicago protesters dropped in latest ICE case to unravel | Chicago (r/news)

• BrofessorFarnsworth: Start disbarring the prosecutors. This shit needs consequences.
• Neilpuck: Meanwhile, how much have those protesters had to spend on legal fees etc, and how many have lost their jobs?
• AugustOfChaos: Every single person who was falsely arrested should sue the living shit out of ICE and the government.

Ukraine liberated 590 square kilometers of territory this year, ‘forcing Russia toward diplomacy,’ Zelensky says (r/worldnews)

• brainrotxx: putin gonna say “Ukraine is invading russia!! pls stop them!!”
• Morgandoto: Putin still wants to fight to the last russian. He will throw a mass mobilization soon, and when every mobilized soldier dies, he will use a nuke.
• buttplugpeddler: This man is everything I wish my president was.

Bank boss sorry after describing workers as ’lower value human capital’ (r/worldnews)

• WasteBinStuff: “I’m truly sorry ^that ^I ^got ^caught ^saying ^it.”
• CrackerBarrelGrandma: This is what many business elites think
• AloneChapter: Sorry he was caught . Not sorry about the disrespect though

What’s something attractive at 18 but embarrassing at 30? (r/AskReddit)

• KellyAnn3106: Talking about your high school accomplishments.
• FunctionAfter6683: 18 year olds
• mtconnol: Being a high school senior

TIL physicist Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s field equations while dying of disease on the WWI Eastern Front. His solution predicted black holes. He wrote to Einstein: “the war treated me kindly enough to allow me to take this walk in the land of your ideas.” He died months later. (r/todayilearned)

• ArgentineBeauty: The quote absolutely broke me. Imagine being that close to death and still finding wonder in someone else’s ideas. This is why I love history.
• FlammenwerferIV: Heartbreaking that such a brilliant mind had to fight a war
• keajohns: Physicist and poet

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Meta execs can opt out of AI surveillance. Everyone else can’t. (Blind)

• MedusaJ (Microsoft): Cancer eating itself
• AWildWorld (Apple): No leadership does not care about employee petitions
• MSatyta (Microsoft): Time to unionize MetaMates or just keep having layoffs

Meta pulled Thanos on Managers (Blind)

• Reqarded (Robinhood): Good, managers are useless
• rkigxvwkfi (Netflix): No more human bloat, thats good
• chitumbigu (Snap): So if they’re not technical they’re cooked? Lmao

Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees (r/technology)

• sunnyshorescreative: Which probably explains the layoffs in these companies investing heavily into using AI
• Shiningc00: In the end these are all LLMs where they’ve hyped it into thinking we’ll get AGIs.
• NoScallion2856: Imagine firing thousands of actual people just to end up losing money on a chatbot.

Reddit stock drops 6% after Meta launches standalone app for online forums / Reddit’s stock is now down almost 40% this year despite a strengthening online ad business (r/technology)

• polkadanceparty: lol. I can’t wait for every facebook person to stay on facebook and leave reddit
• lockwolf: Ahh, the Reddit killer from Meta. Like Threads was supposed to be the Twitter killer from Meta
• darw1nf1sh: Reddit’s downfall isn’t directly related to a FB app. It is related to their own mismanagement.

Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool after nine months (r/technology)

• surfnfish1972: The worst part of all this, AI does not even fookin work!
• NoScallion2856: Imagine spending billions on AI just to lose a fight against a bottle of milk.
• vortexmak: What are you talking about,  it correctly identified “Not a hotdog”

If you use the “Get Shit Done” (GSD) AI tool, you need to migrate immediately (Original creator rug-pulled) (r/ClaudeAI)

• martin1744: gsd: get shit deleted
• Firm_Meeting6350: thanks for sharing, seriously!
• terraslate: he definitely got shit done.

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What happened

Microsoft’s official Security Blog published Introducing RAMPART and Clarity: Open source tools to bring safety into Agent development workflow, a May 20, 2026 post about turning agent safety from an occasional review into a set of engineering artifacts that can live in a repository, run in CI, and evolve with the system.

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A Provocation from Inside Physics

Lee Billings’s interview with Gerard ’t Hooft turns a deceptively simple complaint into a broad argument about the future of fundamental physics. ’t Hooft is not an outsider taking shots at quantum mechanics. He is a Nobel-winning theorist whose work helped make the Standard Model mathematically coherent and who later proposed the holographic principle, one of the ideas that shaped modern quantum-gravity research. That background makes his impatience with quantum mystery harder to dismiss.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 22, 2026 story in its green-card process cluster. The direct source used here is USCIS’s May 22 announcement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Grant “Adjustment of Status” Only in Extraordinary Circumstances.

Immigration policy as technical infrastructure

USCIS says it has issued a new policy memo directing officers to treat adjustment of status as an extraordinary form of relief. In plain terms, the agency is saying that many people who are in the United States temporarily and want a green card should pursue consular processing through the Department of State outside the country instead of shifting to permanent-residence processing from inside the United States.

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The article argues that American corporate profits have become the strongest rebuttal to the gloom around the United States. Investors have spent weeks trying to price war in the Gulf, tariffs, erratic presidential threats and fears about American decline. Yet the earnings data tell a different story: big American companies are still producing striking profit growth, and Wall Street is treating that strength as more important than the political noise.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Find K Closest Elements
• Topics: Array, Two Pointers, Binary Search, Sliding Window, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue)

What the problem is asking

The input is already sorted. Given a target value x, the task is to return the k values that are closest to it, still in sorted order.

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What happened

Microsoft Research’s official blog published MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experience optimized for small models, a May 21, 2026 post about codesigning small specialized models, an execution harness, and a user-facing agent application for workflows that cross the browser and a local file system.

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A moon that grows only in the mind

Phil Plait opens with a familiar astronomical surprise: a full moon climbing over the horizon can look enormous, almost near enough to touch. The effect is powerful even for someone who knows the moon has not swollen in the sky. That is the point of the column. The moon illusion is not a subtle measurement error or a trick caused by a rare viewing condition. It is a durable mismatch between what the eye receives and what the brain decides it means.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 22, 2026 story, and the original source is NIST’s May 21 announcement, Department of Commerce Announces Letters of Intent With 9 Companies for \$2 Billion to Accelerate U.S. Leadership in Quantum Computing.

Quantum policy is turning into industrial policy

The announcement is less about one quantum-computing winner than about how the United States wants to buy time and technical depth in a field that still has major engineering unknowns. Commerce says it signed letters of intent for 2.013 billion in CHIPS and Science Act incentives across nine companies. The money is aimed at domestic manufacturing capacity, research acceleration, and the path toward utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers.