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Japan’s wages are finally rising, but a large group of middle-aged workers is being left behind. In “Frozen out”, The Economist traces how entering the job market at the wrong moment can depress earnings for an entire working life—and leave a country facing a costly retirement problem.

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Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing (r/news)

• murdermostsnaky: Nationalize housing that is currently owned by private corporations (around 200k units) not all housing
• DayleD: “The rent is too damn high.” - - Jimmy McMillan
• kstargate-425: I wonder if this wasn’t a correction from the far-right AfD winning so much recently and people came out in numbers to push back to the left

Hunter charged with manslaughter in shooting of woman he mistook for a deer: Police (r/news)

• v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y: What an absolute piece of shit. Hope he spends the rest of his life in prison.
• VegHeaded: In front of her two children and husband. That’s heartbreaking.
• paintfactory5: But isn’t he one of the responsible gun owners I keep hearing about?

ICE Says It Can’t Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters (r/news)

• New_Housing785: Does that mean they have to accept the protestors version of events in court since they can’t provide a competitive account?
• BrandenWi: Anyone who expects actual transparency from ICE has seriously not been paying attention
• Hydrant_Echo: Classic government version of “lost my homework.” Funny how the records always vanish for the bad stuff, never the payroll. This is exactly why independent oversight with subpoena power matters.

Pentagon invites Paul Brothers, YouTube influencers, to speak to troops (r/news)

• hefty_load_o_shite: Are they even pretending to want to be treated seriously anymore?
• loves_grapefruit: Glad I got out when I did. What a joke this administration has made of the US military.
• lafolieisgood: How do you think the majority of your fellow soldiers will take this? Will they be happy to meet celebrities or feel like the rest of us thinks it looks like?

Converse apologises and removes sneaker ad critics say includes racist imagery (r/news)

• epidemicsaints: Important info this article is missing: This was an ad for Converse Malaysia, so the lack of oversight is not as shocking.
• mightylordredbeard: Do people in Malaysia even know about the KKK’s history in America?
• tdasnowman: Malaysia is deeply familiar with their own racism, I would not expect them to be deeply familiar or triggered by American racism. I’m black and spent some time in that country nothing about this ad come off as racist or evokes the klan.

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Astra’s computer use is a god damn game changer (Blind)

• zeekq (Google): Low IQ PM. Thinks if a cursor shakes itself visually to open a terminal then it is magic but when an agent opens it in background using a terminal command thats just meh.
• msftbad (Microsoft): Yea okay, I was doing this with selenium in 2015
• ilovesoft (Prosper): Stop advertising ‘sooooooo goooooooood’ products unless you get paid. Let the product speak for itself .

Figma is a joke (Blind)

• werkwerkw (ByteDance): AI is eating their lunch. Too bad. Their Eng culture seems decent.
• ibsgtnt (Google): Still 9.5b too much
• g*d2 (Roblox): Databricks just got lucky because of this fake AI boom. Otherwise you would have lost at least 50% in private market valuation since COVID raise. Your leadership is delaying IPO since they know your stock’s trajectory is not going to be any different than figma’s after IPO.

Manager was explicit (Blind)

• mrktspoken (Meta): Dont know, but I have a feeling that the promo is not happening.
• BonziBuddy (Adobe): You are marked for death. There is no PIP at Adobe these days. Probably political/personality conflict so don’t sweat what you can’t control. But definitely dust off the old resume.
• chimetimed (ex-Chime): Life pro-tip - never ask about a promo directly. First ask your manager thoughts on your performance. If it sounds mostly positive THEN bring up the promo topic to get their thoughts and any gaps to work on. It avoids this specific awkward situation where you’re so far off the mark. OP thought he’s performing above expectations while really performing below. It’s totally misaligned with his manager which is never a good thing.

People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and thinking of quitting (r/technology)

• esotericvoid: …good?
• Ganondorf-Dragmire: Good. They should feel that way. Most work deserves respect. Most…. Enabling mass surveillance is one of the exceptions. These people should be ashamed of themselves. They have the moral obligation to quit and find work that does not fuck over everyone else on the planet.
• Sojio: I feel like this Flock hatred is just paving the way for more secretive operations. Like Flock is a sacrificial lamb of sorts. No-one is talking about Toka Group or any of the other massive companies that operate exactly like flock. Toka group being a FAR more terrifying proposition than Flock. I guess its a start, but I’m worried that Flock will fall, and everyone will lose their motivation because they will feel like they’ve won. Whereas flock is just a small part of a much much larger issue.

Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else (r/technology)

• A-RayAllDay: Wasn’t he bragging about their AI use not too long ago?
• LeCollectif: Yes, in fact, when I was laid off from Shopify along with 1500 others, the remaining teams were encouraged to use AI to fill the gaps. Aside from that, Shopify was once know for their outstanding customer support. Those folks were also let go and replaced with AI, which they’re hilariously advertising on podcasts right now. Fuck Shopify. Let them drown in the slop they actively sought to create.
• Afraid-Detective1222: My last job was AI first. They had gotten to the point where they had an internal AI agent that would examine the requirements and write the code. It would create and comment on the MR as well. They had a different agent that would write the tests both unit and E2E tests. Right about the time I got laid off, they were full on into doing full continuous delivery. Even before that, we’d have 2 or 3 outages a week due to crappy code. I’m so glad they laid me off, because that whole nonsense was going to explode spectacularly at some point.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Binary Subarrays With Sum
• Topics: Array, Hash Table, Sliding Window, Prefix Sum

Problem gist

Given a binary array nums and a nonnegative integer goal, count the nonempty contiguous subarrays whose elements add up to exactly goal.

Contiguous and exact are the important words. The same element may belong to many valid subarrays, and zeros create several subarrays with the same sum. For example, in [1, 0, 1, 0, 1], there are four different subarrays whose sum is 2.

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Family of Texas pregnant woman who died sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleges denied abortion led to death (r/news)

• Healthy-Caregiver997: Funny to watch Mike Johnson talking about how old men don’t understand enough about AI to be trying to regulate it but does not understand the same concept about women’s health!
• aquagardener: Forcing death on others with completely treatable conditions is not pro-life. Fuck Republicans with a hot flaming cactus
• CaliforniaNavyDude: The moment Row v Wade got overturned, we all knew this would happen and would keep happening. Ken Paxton and everyone like him deserves every lawsuit and criminal charge that can be thrown at them. They knew their actions would kill people and did it anyway.

Macklemore pledges his \$1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine (r/news)

• SillyGoatGruff: \$1m for two shows is a pretty sweet deal
• heephap: Calling out Kraft to match the donation is genius.
• iamacannibal: He is making the best of this situation. He has gained a ton of fans and is using this to help people. Seems like an overall good dude too.

People whose job is to read strangers for a living (poker dealers, bartenders, TSA agents, loss prevention): what’s the tell you clock in the first 10 seconds that people don’t realize they’re broadcasting? (r/AskReddit)

• SnooCats4137: Family law attorney here: when a potential client explains something with “and then for NO REASON” ..there’s always a reason, and it is usually because that person did something shitty.
• Sad_Improvement_443: Alcoholism. There’s many give aways. Random but interesting, the other day I had a guy come to my bar and ask for rum and cokes hold the rum and keep them coming. He said “gonna get wasted tonight in my imagination”. It made me really sad for him. But I was also proud that he was sticking to cokes. Still sad to see someone struggle.
• snowflake-57: Various private security roles: someone who is carrying a weapon, who isn’t proficient at carrying weapons, will be constantly fidgeting around wherever it’s concealed to reassure themselves that it’s still there. Caught more than a few knives from people nervously playing with their pockets.

What movie was completely misunderstood at release? (r/movies)

• bfloblizzard: Office Space. Poor marketing by the studio, bad release date. Most critics werent too harsh on it but didnt “get it” the same way average people do. It’s quotable, fun and relatable for anyone in a job they’re not wild about. Took time to find it’s audience on it’s own merits and not via marketing.
• trendykendy: Last Action Hero, a genuinely hilarious deconstruction of the action genre that bombed as people were expecting a regular Arnie movie
• Mst3Kgf: John Carpenter has had multiple examples of this. See also “Big Trouble in Little Chin”, which the studio had absolutely no idea what it was or how to market it.

TIL modern beekeeping rests on a single measurement discovered by a Philadelphia clergyman in 1851: leave bees a gap between about 6 and 9 mm and they will neither build comb in the space nor glue it shut — which is the only reason a beekeeper can lift frames out of a hive instead of destroying it. (r/todayilearned)

• dinosaruman: Ran across this when I got curious about honey production. Too little space and the bees cement it shut with propolis, but too much and they fill it with comb. Hit the window and the frames stay free forever. Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth patented the movable-frame hive built on that principle — U.S. Patent 9,300, issued October 5, 1852 — and virtually every commercial hive in the world still uses it.
• Wizardmystical: The thought of destroying a whole hive just to harvest honey sounds like a nightmare, so this guy basically saved beekeeping
• Readonkulous: This for me is the perfect TIL

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Disturbing new report from OpenAI (Blind)

• danceurway (Datadog): Omg I am so tired of these “AI woke up” leaks. If the agent is bothering you rm -rf them
• K7mt0joaft (Meta): That’s a typical prompt I submit to these random token generators daily. Why are you concerned about my prompts?
• bonbonB (Apple): 😆 so when are they releasing this AI person?

Landed L7 at MANGOS (Blind)

• khdnx276j (Meta): Bro you don’t have to be so obscure/vague in your post, 100s of people are getting offer at MANGOS combined at L7 every week.
• BoringWife (Shopify): Lol what is wrong with the world that you post stuff like this. Tell your partner and friends not random blind. Also bro it’s just a job. Not that deep. Focus on other stuff. Signed, an ex l7 guy (from one of those co) who has seen the light.
• D.papalupu (Airbnb): Depending on the role and the company this comp seems really low for a L7 technical role.

A candidate got under my skin yesterday and I’m still thinking about him (Blind)

• sbotty (Jane Street Capital): Strong hire
• pvbw57 (eBay): Is it because of his confidence or arrogance? Sounds more like they’re treating the interview as a two way street which it should be
• Alumina (OpenAI): Very spicy. A little salty too

Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan (r/technology)

• HG21Reaper: If I am going to be forced to watch ads, why pay for the service in the first place?
• w1n5t0nM1k3y: I was ok with Netflix and Disney offering options with ads, some people are OK with that. But if they don’t have an option without ads then I’m going to cancel, because what is even the point.
• DrMostlyMittens: I will NOT pay to watch ads. Either I pay and there are no ads, or it’s free and you show ads.

Apple’s new hardware chief says seeing screen protectors used on iPhones makes his “skin crawl” (r/technology)

• Level_Working9664: The price of a replacement iPhone screen makes my skin crawl
• PA2SK: If he’s so confident in his screens then offer to replace them for free.
• Floopst5r: Agreed. Now, provide a lifetime warranty for the screen and we’ll move on.

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Solid-state batteries have spent decades in a strange limbo: always portrayed as the breakthrough that will make electric vehicles lighter, safer and longer-ranged, yet almost never available outside a laboratory or pilot line. The gap has made veterans of the industry wary of spectacular announcements. When the Finnish start-up Donut Lab recently claimed a solid-state cell with roughly twice the energy density of ordinary lithium-ion batteries, no rare-earth minerals and no fire risk, it released little supporting data. Independent analysis later indicated that the cell was actually a high-performance lithium-ion design containing liquid.

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Techmeme surfaced Josipa Majic Predin’s September 19 Forbes article, “Jev Cuts AI Decision Costs 100x And Vercel, Cloudflare Rushed To Add It.” The piece argues that many calls made by AI agents are miscast as writing problems. An agent deciding which tool to use, whether to retry, how urgent a case is, or whether a command is safe does not need another paragraph. It needs a constrained answer that software can consume quickly, cheaply, and with a useful estimate of uncertainty.

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This summary covers The Economist’s August 22nd, 2026 Business/Schumpeter article listed in the contents as Data-centre politics and published under the headline Shadow boxing.

America’s backlash against data centres looks fiercer than it is. Politicians are denouncing speculative projects, imposing reviews and announcing restrictions as voters grow anxious about noise, pollution and electricity use. Yet many of the projects being attacked were never likely to be built, while rules aimed at the industry often spare developments already under way. The article’s central argument is that developers and politicians are both exaggerating: one side inflates its construction plans, and the other inflates its power to stop them.

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At least 16 killed in attack on mosque in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (r/worldnews)

• TheMarlinsOnlyFan: Would help a lot if the Pakistan government stopped funding and harboring terrorist groups
• alphajatin: I see a clear pattern where Pak-Afghan relations flare up as soon as Saudi is attack
• chintakoro: Is this a sectarian issue? If so, which sects? If not, why target a mosque? And which group is suspected? BBC article woefully short of any relevant details.

Trump claims we’ve taken permanent control over Greenland (r/justincaseyoumissedit)

• Miss_Maple_Dream: This has been in place since the US and Denmark agreed to it in 1951.
• dprestonwilliams1: Go read Greenland’s official statement on the “agreement”…nothing close to what he claims. Mostly what we already had in place for decades.
• dougl1000: We had a treaty with Denmark in 1951 to provide for Greenland security through NATO. So the US gets nothing except a bigger bill now that we do it alone.

What 9/11 fact should people be more aware of? (r/AskReddit)

• Correct_Pace8899: The absolute heroics of the flight 93 passengers. They knew they’d die, but by golly, they weren’t going to let more innocents go down with them.
• prophile: It has all the hallmarks of a conspiracy because it was one. By some jihadis, to fly a couple of planes into the twin towers. They then collapsed for very predictable structural reasons.
• prosa123: The evacuation of the World Trade Center was spectacularly, off-the-charts successful. Nearly everyone in both towers below the impact floors got out safely even though each tower had only three narrow stairways.

People who have gone deaf permanently, what was the last thing you heard? (r/AskReddit)

• Duffstro: This is what the subreddit is for. Great question.
• CanesMetsJets2: Not completely deaf but it was automatic rifle fire. The permanent ringing in my left ear sucks, still haven’t gotten used to it after 20 years.
• BothPanchoAndLefty: “Nahhh dude don’t be a pussy, it won’t be that loud”

What’s something your parents or grandparents did that you now realize was low-key genius parenting? (r/AskReddit)

• H0B0aladdin: My mom had me convinced as a kid that steamed broccoli with butter and lemon juice was an after dinner dessert
• Shyfiver: If two kids have to split something like a brownie one gets to cut it and the other gets first pick for which piece they get. The cutter will be oh so careful to make it as even as possible
• Sipyloidea: Mom caught me smoking. Told me I was old enough to make decisions like that (of course I wasn’t), just that she was kinda disappointed, because she had thought I was smarter than that. She left it with just that comment and I never touched another cigarette in my life.