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Nearly 700 dolphins killed in a single day in the Faroe Islands – just hours after Parliament removes their protection under the Animal Welfare Act (r/news)

• LividWheel9779: Why would you ever remove an animals protection law? I lose more faith in humanity with each passing day
• Pundamonium97: Is there really a consumer demand for this stuff?
• yeatsbaby: Heartbreaking. I hate people.

Putin rejects Zelenskyy’s peace overture, says Ukrainian leader’s letter proposing talks contained ‘rude remarks’ (r/worldnews)

• trisul-108: Yeah, he wants to manipulate Trump not negotiate with Zelenskyy.
• Laractinium: “How can you be so rude, just because I kill your people and want to steal your land?”
• cokentots: What’s ruder than starting an aggressive war without real pretext?

No 10 hits out at those ‘seeking to stir up division’ after JD Vance blames Henry Nowak’s murder on migration (r/news)

• Wayelder: Well, Clearly - This white house never met an immigrant it couldn’t blame for their own incompetence.
• s_dalbiac: It’s none of JD Vance’s fucking business
• Scaryclouds: “No 10” = number 10 downing st, the street address of the British prime minister’s office. This is the functional UK equivalent of saying “The White House does X”. 

TIL about “Pascal’s Wager,” the hypothetical thought experiment which asks the question if one should believe in a higher power and answers “If there is no God, one wasted their life, but if there is a God, one wasted their eternity” (r/todayilearned)

• Sislar: And if there is no god you wasted your life, and it’s the only life you have.
• GavinGT: If God exists, and he bestowed us with intellect, it’s pretty crazy that he would be mad at us for using it to question his existence.
• LordMimsyPorpington: Which god?

What question would you like to NEVER see again on Reddit because it’s been asked too many times? (r/AskReddit)

• Jazzlike_Standard416: What quality is an instant green/red flag in the opposite sex ?
• limegreentea-77: People asking what is most attractive in other people.
• No_Tomato_3563: “what’s something everyone pretends to enjoy?”

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I have no idea how to build wealth in tech anymore (Blind)

• wnzX22 (Applied Materials): Just become a decamillionaire (10M+ liquid NW) with a 3M paid off house and you won’t have to worry anymore. Work is optional.
• YXPL17 (Capital One): Get in tech, sleep in a shoebox with3 roommates and take the train/busfor a few years. Boom. But no one wants to live frugally
• rhydon1x (Capital One): Boo hoo money chasers continue being unhappy. Breaking news

Should my son go to Georgia Tech (out of state)? (Blind)

• 4599f332 (PayPal): Our son didn’t want to go to Santa Cruz “because it’s filled with pot smokers”, and chose out of state.
• ohnePixel. (Workday): Your grown ass son can’t make their own decision?
• 158fwy7 (Meta): Tech for sure, best value engineering education you can possibly get.

Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op (r/technology)

• Loud_Flatworm_4146: Build them next to your own houses. Show the American public just how great they are. 
• Leoszite: Republicans also claim race science is a legitimate science. I tend not to believe them.
• Huckleberry822: Always on the side of the billionaires. Fuck them, fuck AI, and fuck their data centers.

Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI To Be ‘Addictive’ (r/technology)

• EconomyDoctor3287: Maybe start making it useful first? And finish one product at a time? Wtf are there 80 different versions of microslop copilot?
• lppedd: Microslop can’t build anything really useful so Satya Slopella has to create artificial drugs.
• equality4everyonenow: Microsoft’s whole business model is to bundle barely passable software into their other offerings to fill a need that you have… terribly.. And the best you can hope for is that over time they fix the bugs and add the features that makes it slightly less annoying to work with. Does anyone really love any Microsoft product that isn’t DirectX?

Let us filter AI slop, you cowards - Online platforms could prove whether AI labels work by giving us a filter option, but then they’d have to face reality. (r/technology)

• dhirajsharma1173: If a platforms AI detection is not accurate enough for filtering then its also not accurate enough for labeling
• Just-Grocery-2229: Imagine logging in and only seeing stuff made by actual humans, that would be WILD!!!
• PuzzleMeDo: I feel like all that would do is prove that filtering doesn’t work because people won’t label their content as AI if it might get filtered out.

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Phoenix police fire sergeant who brought gun to ICE protest, refused to obey chief’s order (r/news)

• Alwayssunnyinarizona: I am genuinely surprised our new chief of police did the right thing here. Sure, the fired officer will get a job in Chandler or Ahwatukee or wherever, but at least the PHX PD did something right for once.
• mastermidget23: Reading the article, this pos was basically saying “if I can’t carry a weapon at these kinds of events while off duty, I will just go against your policy and claim I quit so I can’t be fired”. Fucking psychopaths shouldn’t be given guns and authority.
• Iribumkiak: He is just going to get another police job in another jurisdiction.

Earworm Kars4Kids jingle yanked from California radios (r/news)

• ap83: I change the station anytime this comes on
• IndigoRanger: One of the greatest deadpan bits in recent memory was Paul F. Tompkins complaining about how that jingle is so manipulative, because “just think of all the money they save getting kids to sing it instead of adults.”
• Macdaddy357: Sham charities are a giant problem, we need a defined standard of how much money can be wasted on paid directors and advertising.

TIL a supermarket suddenly closed in 1999 and the store was abandoned with all its products and equipment inside still in place. Since the store was sealed up everything remained preserved. (r/todayilearned)

• TGAILA: No one took full responsibility. The owners defaulted on their loans, the bank seized the building and sold the lease, and the new owner just let the contents sit until the landlord finally got a judgement to take back the premises. Abandonment by committee.
• LouSputhole94: Having read through the wiki, it honestly seems like a pretty stupid business decision. The inventory or assets they left behind could have offset the debt burden a bit. Or at the very least, had they notified the various companies they had renting floor space, those companies could have collected some things. Seems like they just went “fuck it, let the bank deal with it.”
• slice_of_pi: This is one of those things that apocalypse stories or zombie tales rarely talk about. The actual story of this supermarket is horrifying.

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

• KellyAnn3106: Talking about your high school accomplishments.
• BrainlessVeal: Beating someone older than you in a fight
• Plus_Range1430: Empty booze bottles used as decoration.

Why does New York seem so dirty compared to other world-class cities? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• TheSweetestChicx: A big part is the visible garbage. NYC has older infrastructure and limited alley space, so trash often sits on sidewalks before pickup. That alone makes streets feel dirtier, even if many other major cities handle waste very differently.
• WorldTallestEngineer: Most megacities (over 10 million people) have a lot of back alleys with dumpsters. New York has almost no back alleys, and no place to put dumpsters. So trash bags are piled on the street.
• WarderWannabe: Should’ve seen it in the 70’s. It’s Disney world now by comparison.

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Microsoft 10k+ layoffs July confirmed 🫡 (Blind)

• GasonJ (Marqeta): Are they priotizing h1bs?
• push -f (Klarna): I have heard they are laying off Claude.
• watn15 (New): Isn’t it around 20-30k.. major layoff?

The best leetcode candidates are no longer the best hires (Blind)

• eulers_fn (Genentech): AI generated slop post
• Soare (Two Sigma): ai slop man
• hwatsup (Databricks): OP why do you feed on AI slop?

Please shut up, Dario (Blind)

• chR7z55 (Microsoft): He does many things, which one are you talking about 🤣
• polsia (LinkedIn): At 1T valuation, he sounds…fake
• DarioSweee (Amazon): What did he say now?

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah (r/technology)

• r3d0c3ht: Why does this feel as hoax to me, “We’re building a \$4bn datacenter the ludicrous humongous datacenter to rule all datacenters but it will take us forever to build it, anyway, give ca\$h now!”
• Bupod: We will PRETEND to build the mother of all data centers, and the Mormons will pay for it! And when the bubble pops, we simply ride off in to the sunset!
• Standard-Square-7699: It is a hoax. The gpus alone would cost 10s of trillions. Some reditor broke it down a day or 2 ago.

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban / A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and “a total termination of all internet services." (r/technology)

• SlapThatAce: Looks like someone needs to have an audit done on their finances.
• GunBrothersGaming: Yup, someone is upset their kickbacks are gone
• FanDry5374: “If we can’t spy on our citizens, we will punish them and every business in the city!!!”

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Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that dilutes Black vote (r/news)

• Avatara93: What a shithole country.
• stilllikelypooping: Bought and paid for supreme court.
• Lonely_Noyaaa: They’re throwing out a map that actually worked just to put a “never before used” one in place that deliberately targets Black voters. They’re causing total confusion for hundreds of thousands of voters just to score a political point.

Nearly 60 Idahoans sick after drinking raw milk in past two weeks, officials say • Idaho Capital Sun (r/news)

• Chicken_Ingots: If only there were a way to process milk to eliminate harmful pathogens.
• nightnursedaytrader: If only this could have been avoided with research from the 1860s
• BiploarFurryEgirl: Shocker. Natural selection atp

House Votes to End Iran War, in a Bipartisan Rebuke to Trump (r/worldnews)

• ThisIsAmericaAnd: Congress voting to end a war they never stood a chance to approve in the first place. Baby’s already out with the bath water folks…
• Gloomy-Restaurant-42: Holy crap! If we had a functioning democracy, this might matter. 🤔
• thedavecan: “Bipartisan” being all the Democrats and 4 Republicans. Its actually impressive how they manage to misrepresent something so simple.

TIL a convenience store in Pocatello, Idaho has a video rental section called “Christina’s Corner” which was created for a woman with Down Syndrome who is mostly nonverbal, so that she could still maintain her routine of renting movies after the video store next door had closed. (r/todayilearned)

• NastyNas77: I love when humans are kind.
• Mecca_Lecca_Hi: I want to know what she rents. They should publish a list like how video stores had employee recommendations.
• myislanduniverse: These are the kinds of stories I want my algorithm to pay attention to.

TIL that some of the only survivors of the Jonestown massacre on November 18, 1978 were the People’s Temple Basketball Team, who were playing an away game in Georgetown, Guyana during the mass suicide event. Jim Jones radioed the team demanding they commit “revolutionary suicide,” but they refused. (r/todayilearned)

• mental_mentalist: Thats more if an in-person request imo
• MrCompletely345: It failed without armed guards to “convince” them.
• Acceptable-Corgi3720: You would have to be a silver tongued devil to call me up and get me to commit revolutionary suicide. I would be skeptical.

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AI Layoffs Are Backfiring And Rehiring Has Begun (Blind)

• EVxB36 (The Home Depot): We started hiring a bunch a few weeks ago, mostly ML people. Brutal layoffs not seen since 2008 just a few months prior, but yeah.
• IBYh04 (HPE): Who’s rehiring exactly?
• CfNb84 (Discover): Definitely temporary, if true in the first place. If ‘Backfire’ is due to high token costs like I’ve been reading, it means fuck all, as token is just compute and compute is bound to go down in cost as manufacturing matures.

Anthropic IPO filing shows that AI bubble is close to popping (Blind)

• Provian: Apart from coding there are no real cost or productivity gains from AI.
• OnCall4Evr (Cvent): I think so too. It’s sus that they want to cash out so soon.
• boredddddd (Microsoft): Their ARR has jumped more than 5 times in the last 5 months. How is the bubble popping?

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters (r/technology)

• wewantyoutowantus: Good for them. Texas cities need to follow this
• getajob92: At first I thought this was referring to California City, and was wondering who the fuck wants to put a data center in the Mojave desert.
• DarthJDP: at least we can count on the nimbys to kill AI

Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says (r/technology)

• alabasterskim: How about they lose all that data too? If someone steals something of mine and I just get a small portion of its worth in cash while they keep the thing, it’s not really a punishment, just a cost of doing business.
• Accurate_Koala_4698: Here’s a coupon for 37 cents off a monthly subscription to their services as compensation
• Bad-job-dad: I think all tech companies should pay us royalties on our data.

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search / Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google. (r/technology)

• dhirajsharma1173: I mean wth is going on actually these sick tech comapnies can do anything for sake of ai and now they’re targeting reddit to ruin genuine disscussions for their profit??
• elmo298: Reddit is compliant and encouraging this, it’s why they introduced hidden profiles.
• Derp2244: Companies are using ALL subreddits to manipulate ChatGPT/LLM results. Look up Generative engine optimization (GEO).

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Phoenix police fire sergeant who brought gun to airport to meet mayor after bragging about killing her (r/news)

• Sabatorius: “Things are only fair if they favor me” classic conservative mentality.
• tsrich: Hey, times are tough, we can only protect some of the amendments
• HerculesIsMyDad: Except most people do like cops. That’s why they can be such a menace. I don’t know how the same people who don’t trust the government have full confidence in the armed part of that same government but they do.

13 men killed by US military boat strikes. Who were they? (r/news)

• Drone314: What no one seems to get is that the US provides other states with the evidence they use to convict terrorists and justify pretrial detention in secret, or provides the captors with a summary of the intelligence. Here…lol, “because we said so!” So this is why there is a breakdown of law and order around the world. We’re the baddies….
• AbbyRitter: Anyone still trying to argue in defense of this is either beyond stupid, a government propagandist, or a bloodthirsty fascist.
• DomitiusAhenobarbus_: Most Americans have just completely accepted this as a thing we do now.

Kars4Kids jingle ads were false advertising, FCC says (r/news)

• ap83: I change the station anytime this comes on
• Macdaddy357: Sham charities should be punished severely, not just told to stop advertising.
• adsfew: The damage has already been done. I’ll be on my deathbed and that song will still creep into my mind.

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

• KellyAnn3106: Talking about your high school accomplishments.
• BrainlessVeal: Beating someone older than you in a fight
• FlyLess9643: Bragging about living on your own. At 18, it sounds adventurous and independent. By 30, everyone just assumes you have rent and laundry like the rest of us.

TIL that the Beatles briefly tried to buy the film rights to The Lord of the Rings, planning to star in it themselves, with Paul McCartney as Frodo, Ringo Starr as Sam, George Harrison as Gandalf, and John Lennon as Gollum. Tolkien personally disliked the idea and refused to approve the adaptation. (r/todayilearned)

• altrightobserver: It’s also important to state that, by early 1968, it wasn’t possible for anyone to buy the film rights to LOTR from Tolkien. He’d already sold the film rights to United Artists in 1967.
• farmerarmor: The 4 of them not all wanting to be the main character blows my mind. They were gonna do a whole proper ensemble.
• commandrix: He was right to refuse the rights. A LOTR feature with all Beatles music would’ve been kind of a train wreck.

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What’s the point of it all? (Blind)

• whywhyx2 (Meta): There is no meaningful work in any tech company anymore
• kuCr03 (Amazon): The point is to create the dystopian surveillance state that your descendants will eventually rise up and overthrow… it’s nice to have a hobby.
• mb121: AI writes code. I don’t even review. Don’t understand anything. I just prompt again even for a small change

The burnout is real (Blind)

• pJSL17 (Apple): I don’t understand doesn’t AI makes your day to day a lot easier ?
• blahblahra (Amazon): im 100% convinced i have stress brain. i forget things easily now and have brain fog most of the time. speaking is a chore and i can no longer handle stressful quick thinking situations. it sucks
• BayArea408 (Cisco): Based on my 30+ years of experience in tech (HW side) I definitely feel like AI and all of the related design process automation that comes from it has killed the joy of engineering. The first 15-20 years were great, then it became okay, even the pandemic years were still fine (and more productive) but the last year has sucked so hard, it’s not worth it anymore, I’m retiring before this year is over.

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem for Utah (r/technology)

• r3d0c3ht: Why does this feel as hoax to me, “We’re building a $4bn datacenter the ludicrous humongous datacenter to rule all datacenters but it will take us forever to build it, anyway, give ca$h now!”
• Bupod: We will PRETEND to build the mother of all data centers, and the Mormons will pay for it! And when the bubble pops, we simply ride off in to the sunset!
• Standard-Square-7699: It is a hoax. The gpus alone would cost 10s of trillions. Some reditor broke it down a day or 2 ago.

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI (r/technology)

• Big-Chungus-12: Im glad I havent supported this company financially, vote with your wallet people
• AvailableReporter484: Tbf this company should be obliterated from space
• williamgman: When Intuit decided to drop desktop support… That was the kiss of death. A lot of independent bookkeepers are retiring out end of this year as they are being forced onto the online app only.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year (r/technology)

• Knightforlife: Can’t read the article so … why? Does SpaceX have a bunch of data centers for rent I don’t know about?
• Resident_Window_9369: All these massive numbers are pure speculation based on unbridled optimism and full disregard of reality
• Luka77GOATic: It also is a significant boost to SpaceX, whose annual revenue is only around $18 billion per year.

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ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds (r/news)

• Brainiac5000: Everyone knows Trumps immigration actions are illegal and the conditions are deplorable. Yet still they persist and now people are dying. 🤦‍♂️
• EldenLordGodfrey: A company that operates and runs ICE detention facilities. Remember, its not just some abstract ICE bureaucrats that are responsible.
• AudibleNod: From AP: “The suicide rate inside ICE detention facilities is the highest it’s been since at least 2018 — about three times higher than the rate for the general U.S. population and up from prior years.”

Five people found alive after week trapped in flooded Laos cave (r/news)

• Artele7: Horrifying that they were down there so long but what great news!
• Long_Report5260: How did they manage to get food for a whole week and still survive!
• amateur_mistake: They should probably go buy a lottery ticket. Or five.

Image of ‘twin babies’ used by anti-abortion activist appears to show newborn possums | The Guardian Australia (r/news)

• reddfawks: I still remember when they tried to use the image of the shrivelled Voldemort under the bench and said it was an aborted fetus.
• andrewbrocklesby: Anti-abortion people lying, who would have guessed?
• Spirited_Pirate_3897: If your argument needs marsupials to work, maybe the argument sucks. Honestly, everyone should be doing a quick reverse image search before sharing this stuff, it’d kill half these fake “gotcha” photos.

What’s a moment where you realized someone was genuinely extremely intelligent? (r/AskReddit)

• VantaIim: The smartest person I know is both incredibly sharp, but is also incredibly well timed and precise with his comments. It’s clear that he has a well functioning brain; not just in the sense that he is putting difficult concepts together quickly, but also in how disciplined he is in choosing how and when to use his mind. I realised he was exceptionally smart when he had just been discussing a mathematical theorem and was able to instantly adapt as someone else entered the room without making them feel as if they had interrupted something.
• lymanra: One person explained a complex problem so simply that everyone understood him, then I realized that true intelligence is making the complex obvious.
• Dreammie-emam1528: The moment you realize someone is extremely intelligent is when they can explain a complicated idea so clearly that it feels obvious and they make you feel smarter, not smaller.

TIL a man in a unicorn pool floaty was fishing near the beach in Fort Lauderdale when he hooked a 10-foot shark that proceeded to drag him four miles offshore in his floaty. He was eventually rescued by the crew of a larger fishing vessel who were baffled at the situation when they happened upon him (r/todayilearned)

• Traditional-Meat-549: AT WHAT POINT does a person decide do let go of the rod??? Lol
• AqueductMosaic: Sea fishing equipment is expensive. This is a literal example of the sunk cost fallacy.
• Trojann2: This guy? At least 5 miles offshore.

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Microsoft Is Threatening Legal Action for Disclosing Exploits It Failed to Fix | SecurityWeek.Com (r/technology)

• oiseaua20: Microsoft’s new security strategy seems to be that if you can’t patch the vulnerability, just sue the person who found it.
• Red_Eye_Insomniac: So they want to ensure that discussions about windows exploits only happen in criminal hacker groups and dark web forums rather than out in the open? Oh yeah that makes so much sense.
• ComprehensiveHa1716: threatening legal action against a security researcher for public disclosure is just going to poison their relationship with the research community. vendors that do this end up hearing about vulnerabilities way later and through much worse channel

Mystery company accidentally blew \$500 million on Claude AI in a single month (r/technology)

• Fateor42: Would be funny if they got AI to write it for them.
• MalaproposMalefactor: “cheaper than manual labor”
• BigI404: Good luck. We spend \$1K on Opus a month. Our enterprise token output is hilariously low.

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code (r/technology)

• wiegerthefarmer: So it’s pvpve now?
• WesternBlueRanger: I see someone reads xkcd and knows about Little Bobby Tables.
• pilgermann: I don’t think that it snuck in. Whoever is using the AI without understanding the output… that’s the problem. Even more so than anyone who is ynsophistocaged enough to write such tools.