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UMBV20 (BCG): WHO CARES ABOUT WORK LIFE BALANCE AT ANTHROPIC RIGHT NOW YOU WORK FOR ONE YEAR AND YOU MAKE GENERATIONAL WEALTH. THEN YOU CAN HAVE A WORK-LIFE BALANCE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE TAKE THE OFFER! NOW!
i ohne (Meta): WLB is trash, this is not a company you join for WLB, it is a company you join to change the trajectory of human history.
LCzM68 (Slack): “It is really up to you” = no life unless u wanna get pipped because if it was up to me it’d be 0 hours worked

metasuckss (Meta): mental illness pov
s2jfs2 (ex-Lyft): Had enough blind for today. Time to go have fun with my barista friend.
CkhN86 (Apollo Global Management): This is so funny to me because I’m retired with 70K a year in dividend payments @ 32 and traveling the world without any problems. The constant corporate career comparisons makes me never want to come back to America. I can only imagine how lowly some people may think of me in high finance/ tech for only making 70K a year if you just step outside of America that’s an insanely large amount of money

Traffic to DuckDuckGo’s proudly ‘No AI’ search page has tripled since latest Google AI search update (r/technology)

Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people (r/technology)

Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech (r/technology)

2026-05-30 Social General Briefing Summary

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Drag queen Pattie Gonia asks apparel company Patagonia to drop trademark infringement lawsuit (r/news)

Canadian man admits sending ‘suicide packets’ to hundreds of people around world (r/news)

Much_Guest_7195: The people regretting it is horrifying
Klutzy_Act2033: If people want to die they should be able to with dignity, but this ain’t the way
SWALLOW009: Hard to wrap my head around someone treating suicide like a mail-order business

Nato ready to defend ‘every inch’ of territory as Russian drone hits Romania (r/worldnews)

Japan’s 2025 census reflects steepest fall in population on record, data shows (r/worldnews)

Dexterestein: When the population works 25 hours a day…
lilymooree: How is anyone supposed to have time to date there when people are sleeping on shibuya to wake up for their shift
shadowX015: Steepest fall so far

I bit into a pearl in my dollar store smoked oysters (r/mildlyinteresting)

HippoProject: You’re interesting enough for eating oysters from the dollar store.
bmanley620: Dollar store and oysters is something I never would have imagined seeing in the same sentence
Toofless205: Not even dollar store, but the sketchy cart outside the dollar store

2026-05-30 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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daMan1ac (Google): yep - once you hit 35 you should be president of usa
KpopSrini (Salesforce): I am L4 level touching 50.
dddjjj184 (Google): L4 ar 42. You do what you do

Roti Prata (Standard Chartered Bank): Apart from the compensation, what are the perks of a VP at Google that might not available to everyone at Google?
PjPq41 (Google): Fake post
Dee’s (JPMorganChase): Bro posted an AMA to not answer

Ronny Chieng’s ‘F*ck AI’ Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates: “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber” (r/technology)

government_not_ok: He’s right tho.
Elehaymyaele: The bitter truth is that they were already that dumb.
the_millenial_falcon: I’ve noticed that mediocre people love AI the most.

Mystery company accidentally blew \$500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (r/technology)

Fateor42: Would be funny if they can’t pay and just declare bankruptcy leaving Claude holding the bag.
MalaproposMalefactor: “cheaper than manual labor” 😃
krum: Mystery company who’s name starts with the letter Microsoft.

Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers boosting usage scores — Senior executive tells staff ‘don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI’ as computing costs rise (r/technology)

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

2026-05-29 Social General Briefing Summary

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Phoenix police fire sergeant who brought gun to ICE protest, blamed actions on God (r/news)

Earworm Kars4Kids jingle yanked from California radio over charity’s violations of state laws (r/news)

Russia Has Lost More Than 350,000 Soldiers, New U.K. Estimate Says (r/worldnews)

SapphireSire: wdym lost them?… they couldn’t have gone far…maybe Italy?
Intelligent_Bag_6705: What an absolutely insane statistic.
the-es: All because putin and his cronies didn’t get enough stealing from his own people. Greed has no bounds.

13 men killed by US military boat strikes were not known drug traffickers, report says (r/news)

Mexican parents criticise ending school year a month early for 2026 World Cup (r/worldnews)

2026-05-29 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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metasuckss (Meta): i refuse to believe we share the same career and you dont understand WARN notices
hw27w2 (Reddit): Take it easy folks, this person works at intuit, they are for all intents and purposes a complete moron
MrHorizon (Meta): The fucking bar every single time

kznayw (Netflix): Why is this wrong?
6_7️⃣: Here is another perspective. Please don’t interview candidates if you don’t like to hear 996
aitopia (Amazon): So you want to hear the “right / bookish” answer even if the practical reality is working longer hours?

Hewergut (Meta): Just what it is these days. Try applying to more mid sized companies and start ups, also review your resume. Wish you goodluck in your interviews. Dm me if you need Amazon and Uber materials.
BXyJ67 (Palo Alto Networks): Nearly dead. Colleagues experiencing same. Hang in there buddy!
HumbleCodr (Meta): PM is dead Bro

Ka’iana (ex-Google): Get off Blind.
Ikk95hYt (Block): Be like me. Have no friends to compare to. LOL
CrankyOld2 (Google): The disparity is meant to motivate you to try harder, not to give up in frustration. But honestly you can lead a very comfortable life as a tech at MS, so perhaps the right thing to do is to introspect a bit and stop comparing yourselves with others.

out of (ByteDance): Either personal robotics or quantum computing
China lake (Google): No one would be able to buy anything because everyone got laid off. Companies would stop having customers.
AI Ashley (Amazon): Poverty for people who lack social skills and can’t pivot their careers

2026-05-28 Social General Briefing Summary

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Lawyer says tourist accused of hurling rock at Hawaiian monk seal has been doxed and threatened (r/news)

TwoNowFive: He’s rich, remember? He doesn’t care. He said so
Tasty-Machine5340: So suddenly he’s not sure he can be safe at home in his own habitat. Imagine that!
deejay-tech: He also got beat up by a random dude and witnesses are staying silent lmao

Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi diagnosed with cancer (r/news)

freebirth: wont someone think of the stock market in these trying times.
Malachite_Edge: I hope RFK doesn’t cancel her treatment.
jacbergey: I don’t wish ill. I just wish she gets the level of care this administration wishes on our poorest.

Trump Board of Peace’s official Gaza fund is empty despite billions pledged, source says (r/worldnews)

Sun visor on outside of car (r/mildlyinteresting)

The IRS can catch fraudsters by how often their reported figures start with the number 1. Amounts, populations, lengths in nature, etc. 30% of the time begin with a 1. (r/interestingasfuck)

2026-05-28 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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stopdacope (Meta): Can you walk through what the questions were? Maybe if you remember stumbling in any of them?
loginnow (Meta): OpenAI is hard to crack unless you have a relevant PhD
okgthv8576 (ByteDance): The problem with interviewing at the most sought after companies is that you may give a flawless interview and be up against another candidate who also gave a flawless interview.

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis (r/technology)

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode (r/technology)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Why We Need to Tax AI (r/technology)

2026-05-27 Social General Briefing Summary

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Several killed as train and school bus collide in Belgium, local media report (r/news)

US strikes were ‘gross violation’ of ceasefire, Iran says (r/news)

Ireland to ban goods from Israeli settlements in West Bank by July (r/worldnews)

What is virtually inevitable at this point, yet most people don’t see it coming? (r/AskReddit)

FreshHotPoop: American consumers are being priced out of consuming
HaraldFjorskin: Well this thread was depressing.
NeuralAbomination: There is about to be a massive fuel shortage that isn’t just gonna peter out like the previous ones.

TIL that some archeologists have theorised that the Trojan Horse story is a metaphor for a massive earthquake which destroyed Troy’s walls and let the Greeks in. (r/todayilearned)

Top_Divide6886: If humans become an interstellar species people will argue if the Garden of Eden was a metaphor for earth
notthephonz: Hm, don’t both horses and earthquakes fall under Poseidon’s domain?
Korwinga: But how did they get the earthquake to go inside of the horse?

2026-05-27 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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skrulll (Chime): Unless they’re handing you promotion now to make you stay it probably doesn’t mean anything. He’s probably being nice so you don’t say much against him in exit interview
L0NGVIEW (Roblox): Your manager no longer has any power over you so being nice is a smart move for them.
Mister X (Cohesity): He doesn’t want your exit interview to reflect badly on him

XpBs23 (Meta): Best way to move forward is to take a low base but high equity in an early stage startup.
🤡-show (Google): 90k is poverty in Bay Area. You gotta be coping hard OP.
idle. (Dropbox): It’s currently looking like a bimodal distribution.

Erin Brockovich launches map of over 4,200 data centres in the US, appeals for local communities to report environmental impact and other costs (r/technology)

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows (r/technology)

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it (r/technology)

2026-05-26 Social General Briefing Summary

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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US military launches new strikes on targets in southern Iran, US Central Command says (r/news)

titanfan694: Market manipulation complete
viewbtwnvillages: negotiations are going well i see
alphasignalphadelta: I’m assuming this could’ve been done on Sunday but the market was closed on Monday so they pushed it by a day

New Jersey Gov. Sherrill denied access to North Jersey immigration detention center as hunger strike enters fourth day (r/news)

Putin signs law authorizing use of military force to ‘protect Russian citizens’ abroad (r/worldnews)

Which company has lost you as a customer forever? (r/AskReddit)

Active-Sherbert7938: Airbnb, because paying a huge cleaning fee and still having to do chores is a joke.
Caprillione: Ticketmaster
_SatinWhirl: any app that hides the cancel subscription button like it’s an easter egg

TIL that Mount Everest’s first measurement came out to a perfect 29,000 feet, so surveyors reported it as 29,002 feet to make sure that the public knew it was a real calculation and not just an estimate. (r/todayilearned)

Chrono_Convoy: Maybe that wasn’t the only thing those surveyors exaggerated about?
gitpusher: Not sure why they thought they could pull that off. considering anyone could just Google it and see real the height is 29,032 feet
popsferragamo: Meter: and I took that personally…

The New York Knicks sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers are headed to the NBA finals for the first time since 1999 (r/sports)

2026-05-26 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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nzhQ44 (Zoom): People just does not want to burn the bridge
nUAi64 (Amazon): LinkedIn is so cringe. Weirdoland
🔫Stewie: People are boot lickers and shameless

twloking1 (Twilio): Also stock market will crash at that point .
XHBj66 (Tesla): It’s 🥜 compared to the overall operation cost.
g2khisko (Cisco): Idea: Token efficiency calculator. Tells you who’s using tokens most efficiently. Who’s in!?

The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends — Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world (r/technology)

The infamous 20 year old MySQL Bug #11472 has been fixed. (r/programming)

keketi_: WTF? I was relying on this feature! Change it back please.
qascevgd: Haha, the most recent comment is from the original reporter as well.
thenickdude: I never thought I’d live to see the day!

Is it true that saying you don’t really like AI is a red flag for companies? (r/cscareerquestions)

HelicopterNo9453: Yeah as it gives “boomer doesn’t like to use technology” vibes.
BringBackManaPots: Saying you don’t really like AI is fine by me. But my COO would lose his mind. He thinks it’s the greatest thing in the world.
RadioactiveDeuterium: This would be an immediate disqualification in the recruiter screen for my company.

Microsoft admin centers - I can’t be the only one bothered by this on a daily basis (r/sysadmin)

2026-05-25 Social General Briefing Summary

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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U.S. citizen stopped in Lafayette, shackled, and detained in Louisiana ICE facility (r/news)

Teen dead, 18-year-old critical after ‘subway surfing’ over NYC bridge: Police (r/news)

Growing frustration with Putin spreads among Russian elite – The Guardian (r/worldnews)

nkplague: If Prigozhin and the Wagner group caved on their way to the capital, what chances do the oligarchs have now? Nothing will change until Putin is gone and maybe not even after that.
cyberianscribe: He’s going to take Russia down with him.
Prestigious-Job-9825: Guess some of these elites will end up falling out through windows again

Iran’s supreme leader is holed up in undisclosed location, U.S. intelligence says (r/worldnews)

Thermodynamicist: Sources also suspect that the Pope may be a Catholic.
epicredditdude1: That’s a fancy way of saying “US intelligence confirms they don’t know location of Irans supreme leader”
sunny0_0: The US’s supreme leader is holed up in a known location

What is a statistic that sounds INSANE but is 100% true? (r/AskReddit)

RikardOsenzi: Nobody born after 1935 has ever walked on the moon.
UnremarkableCake: Vatican City has 5.88 popes per square mile.
Dikgolana: The top 20% of alcohol drinkers account for 80% of alcohol sales.

TIL that Nigeria is the second largest consumer of Guinness beer, ahead of its native Ireland. Nigerian Guinness is also almost twice as strong (7.5% ABV) as the Irish version (4.2% ABV). (r/todayilearned)

JPHutchy01: Apparently some Tesco’s have it. I may have to get some for a taste test.
Sir_Encerwal: I was not familiar with your game Nigeria.
nickcash: Guinness Foreign Extra Stout is the superior Guinness, they’re not wrong

2026-05-25 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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0003wnzl (Walt Disney): " We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role." DAMMMMMM
oasis2025 (Microsoft): isn’t this the same CEO who said every new hire needs to be approved by him and should have an extraordinary talent like medals and shit?
TBjy63 (Amazon): Coinbase should be a money printer. Why do they need to lay people off?

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says booing graduates will shape AI’s future — and live with its consequences (r/technology)

99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years (r/technology)

Chrome proposes new APIs: Declarative partial updates (r/programming)

Jira IS Turing-complete (r/programming)

2026-05-24 Social General Briefing Summary

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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White House lawn cleared after apparent gunshots (r/news)

No_Newspaper8: Trying soooo hard for that ballroom
vhs2220000: I thought the National Guard had that place on lockdown
kea87: Skipped Don Jrs wedding to work on his false flag in DC

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv hit by massive missile, drone attack (r/worldnews)

GiorggioAntonioni: We’re under attack for more than 3 hours as of now. It’s pretty loud…
Gullible-Evening-702: Putin can only attack civilians with results.
justplainmike: Slava Ukrani

Ebola treatment tent set ablaze again in Congo, with 18 suspected cases leaving (r/news)

Hungry_Shake6943: Why would you do this
ncc74656m: Remember, Fauci literally has to have personal security because of the same kind of threats and hate in the US. We’re no better than these people.
WARxxPIGG: damn. is this not the plot for the movie Outbreak

World has 6 months to avert major food crisis, says UN as Hormuz struggle drags on (r/worldnews)

vwapnerd: There are a few thousand people globally who have the ability to change all of this. They refuse.
DeltaMx11: Time to start learning how to garden
DifficultyWithMyLife: Just like with climate change, the world’s response will be: “Oh, well.”

What’s the “Widowmaker” of your career field or hobby? (r/AskReddit)

TIL Obi-Wan Kenobi’s home planet is named “Stewjon” a play on the name of “Daily Show” host John Stewart. During an interview about Star Wars, John asked Lucas the name of Obi-Wan’s home planet, and he answered Stewjon, jokingly. It was then made canon, after being mentioned in several guide books. (r/todayilearned)

gavinashun: so dumb lol
dae_giovanni: *Jon Stewart. you wrote “Stewjon”… and still went with “John”. lol
TessaFractal: I wonder how many times Lucas has been clearly taking the piss, and it’s been written down as if it was deeply important canon.

2026-05-24 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (r/technology)

Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030 (r/technology)

Stop trying to make Grok happen — Reuters report suggests government and enterprise customers don’t like xAI’s chatbot. Does anybody? (r/technology)

Agent Use is gonna drop off a cliff once its all usage based (r/ExperiencedDevs)

2026-05-23 Social General Briefing Summary

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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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)

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

2026-05-23 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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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

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)

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.

2026-05-21 Social General Briefing Summary

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Americans exposed to Hantavirus upset about being forced to quarantine in Nebraska (r/news)

Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement (r/news)

Harvard faculty votes to make it more difficult for undergrads to earn As (r/news)

What is a minor, unwritten rule of society that absolutely infuriates you when people break it? (r/AskReddit)

Legal_Interaction498: when a group of people spread out into a straight line on the sidewalk, completely blocking the way
I_sleep_on_a_bed: When people blast whatever video they’re watching in public
mossyfern45: Speakerphone in public

TIL that Tom Lehrer - MIT mathematician, satirist, and the guy who wrote both the Harvard fight song and a song teaching kids the periodic table - invented the Jell-O shot in the 1950s to sneak booze into a government Christmas party. (r/todayilearned)

AcceptableWheel: He also made all his songs public domain when he was older specifically because he wanted rappers to sample him.
Sage1969: TIL he died last year :(
erksplat: A regular Renaissance Man.

2026-05-21 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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goatse.cx (Boeing): Your resume will be 10x stronger with meta on it, even if only there for a month
team-snow (Snowflake): Were you a low performer during the bootcamp?
iqbdh (Meta): Layoff was leaked 2 months ago and you still join? And no backup plan?

META Layoff Thread (Blind)

meta7890 (Walmart): Anyone know what the criteria is? My husband who is a TPM got impacted and has exceeded expectations for his annual review 2 years in a row.
Blink404: Ex-Microsoft with 400k TC? How? Spill it here.
sadi_life2 (Amazon): I’m seeing a lot of Meta product managers being laid off!

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)

AI Is Too Expensive: AI is, as it stands, not economically viable for anybody involved other than the construction firms, NVIDIA, and the surrounding hardware companies benefitting from the irrational exuberance of a data center buildout that doesn’t appear to be happening at the speed we believed (r/technology)

YAML? That’s Norway problem (r/programming)

2026-05-20 Social General Briefing Summary

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns (r/news)

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights (r/news)

TurkeyVolumeGuesser: If only this would happen but I don’t see it
MidnightMoon1331: Can we boycott the IRS and not pay taxes over slush fund and tax immunity too?
Ok-Replacement6893: Hit them where it hurts them most.
oldmaninparadise: Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Penn. All great football programs. California, Oregon and Washington too. Problem is there are only 25 new slots per year per team.

Trump Wants Russia and China to Help Combat the International Court That Charges War Crimes (r/worldnews)

TubeframeMR2: When a guy starts recruiting autocracies to weaken war crimes tribunals, you have to wonder what we don’t know.
aircooledJenkins: “Trump, a good boy, Is Following The Orders His Leash Holders Have Given Him.”
nativeridge_: Americans you have a suicidal government at the wheel and you are full speed off the road ploughing through the undergrowth
Banana-phone15: So Trump wants to start a boy band for war criminals

What is a ‘single person luxury’ that people in relationships completely miss out on? (r/AskReddit)

Ok-Refrigerator-8664: Never having to discuss plans with anyone. No discussion on dinner, what to watch, what to do, or where to go. You just do what you want all the time.
LateNightLatin: Knowing things will be exactly where the left them. The amount of time I go looking for the kitchen scissors.
headcase-and-a-half: Knowing that the piece of chocolate cake you left in the fridge will still be there whenever you want it.
Fresh-Package5303: Being able to do absolutely nothing all weekend without having to explain it to anyone

TIL After Francis I exchanged himself in spanish captivity in 1526 with his two sons, aged 7 and 8, he annuled everything he signed in exchange for his release, but the kids remained in captivity for nearly 4 years. His eldest son and heir was scarred for life as a result (r/todayilearned)

2026-05-20 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub (r/technology)

Google Search as you know it is over (r/technology)

Gen Z’s AI backlash is getting louder (r/technology)

2026-05-19 Social General Briefing Summary

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Trump says he’s postponing ‘scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow’ at Middle East leaders’ request (r/worldnews)

Leather_Net_3330: its not even tuesday yet.
Flimsy_Category_9369: This feels like Groundhog Day at this point
lastpassonright: This idiot has absolutely no way out of this mess.
Temporary-Canary-346: Sorry there were attacks scheduled for tomorrow?!?

Bodies of missing Italian divers found in Maldives (r/news)

Active shooter reported at Islamic Center of San Diego: Police (r/news)

lostroadrunner22: Its over, both shooters are dead.
YOSHIMIvPROBOTS: Police say shooters appeared to have killed themselves.
Brilliant-Concern620: People are celebrating it on YouTube. We are living in sick times.
Jamie00003: Can you just stop for 5 minutes America?

An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth (r/worldnews)

What is something you’ve officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting? (r/AskReddit)

TIL that the son of the man who welcomed the puritans and fed them when they were starving had his head cut off and put on a spike for 20 years at the same location as the first thanksgiving. (r/todayilearned)

Gargomon251: Wait his SON? What the hell did HE do?
SeaBearsFoam: And that’s where the Thanksgiving tradition of killing one of your family members and putting their head on a spike came from.
LAAccountant: He was killed by another native.
Porlarta: Deeply misleading way to talk about King Phillips war.

2026-05-19 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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vNFr16: H1bs prioritized?
xytcyiuo (eBay): Is anyone getting any work done with all this anticipation?
UQu4gs6Z (Meta): Feeling anxious…
GasonJ (Marqeta): Are debelopers affected though?

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix (r/technology)

EntireBig7258: building data centers in phoenix and then being surprised they make it hotter is like building a fireplace in a sauna and wondering why it got warm
justmitzie: Great idea. Build something that raises temps and also sucks up water. In the desert.
torgofjungle: Ahh I see we want to remove what little water was left in Phoenix
Slippery-ape: In Phoenix at that. Where Asphalt remelts.

Senator Adam Schiff Proposes Bill Requiring Data Centers to Pay for Own Power (r/technology)

314 npm packages just got compromised, 271 @antv, echarts-for-react, size-sensor, timeago.js (r/programming)

SupermarketAntique32: Just another tuesday for NPM
Maybe-monad: the s in npm stands for security
dark_mode_everything: Why does this keep happening to us asks only package manager where this keeps happening regularly.
Independent_Image_59: Is it just me or major CVEs got way too frequent now?

Creator of C++: “AI-generated code isn’t ready - it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate” (r/singularity)

2026-05-18 Social General Briefing Summary

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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A solar plant in Minnesota planted flowers beneath its panels, and soon monarch butterflies and dozens of new plant species began to appear (r/news)

Rattus_NorvegicUwUs: Finally. Some good news.
Laniidae_: This is solarpunk and I’m here for it
CMG30: It’s almost like the push to ban solar on agricultural land is a paid astroturf campaign to delay renewable energy and preserve fossil profits…
guinnypig: There are a zillion of these solar farms around me. I want this to happen so badly!

2 Navy jets crash during air show in Idaho, 4 crew members eject safely (r/news)

bassicallyinsane: What a great use of 136 million dollars
MountainlessBiking: I’m glad when I fuck up at work it’s just an email or something. I can’t imagine the verbal abuse this would cause
Rare_Contract_8657: I’d be really interested to see what caused the crash. Was it user error? Equipment malfunction? Glad the pilots are all safe though!
NigeySaid: I saw the video and I’m still baffled by them all surviving

Latest militant attacks on schools in Nigeria leave more than 80 children missing, officials say (r/news)

OkBuy4754: Heartbreaking. Nigeria needs real security reform, not just empty promises again.
IBitePrettyPeople: Religious warfare in the big 2026
Vepariga: only the weak prey on the defenseless.

Zelenskyy Confirms Ukraine Was Behind Massive Moscow Drone Strike (r/worldnews)

dimgwar: Tell Cersei,. I want her to know it was me
CaptCurmudgeon: I love that phrasing – long range sanctions.
Undernown: This really hammered home how Ukraine allowed Putin to have a safe victory day parade.

Who destroyed their own career within seconds by being an idiot? (r/AskReddit)

TIL in 2014, Ben Affleck received a lifetime ban from the blackjack tables at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas after surveillance footage showed him counting cards during a high-stakes game. Security informed him he was “too good” and classified him as an advantage player. (r/todayilearned)

2026-05-18 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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wDEN53 (Booking.com): more tokens = more hallucinations, just wait for this shit to blow up in a really bad way, then, perhaps, this obsession will settle
ca\$ (Capital One): I token max by doing my actual job. I don’t have time to waste an AI budget I just have too much work to do. Routinely I run 10 claudes at a time
gritwest (Careem): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ~ Goodharts Law
rav444m3 (Microsoft): It’s also an asshole move. There’s a real physical cost to AI and it’s incredibly wasteful with physical infrastructure

gmKY75 (Microsoft): I’d say it’s team dependent but generally coreAI is more relaxed. MAI has at least 4 days RTO, coreAI is 3
extmem (Meta): MAI is higher pay and CoreAI is just Microsoft pay
nzwswing79: Layoffs expected, no wonder both are toxic
HAw!qwtz (Microsoft): Internal transfer from Azure to MAI, any salary increase?

&=(1«31) (OpenAI): OpenAI is an incredible place to work. Far far better than Google.
ventiventi: OpenAI for sure. You want to join Google in 2005 rather than Google in 2026
djskdbejeo (Apple): TC for l5 OpenAI should be 1.5M. They cut your rsu in half
xrhaig8 (Google): Until Altman is gone from OAI I would choose Google, guy is a walking lawsuit.

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it (r/technology)

An AI hate wave is here (r/technology)

freshairequalsducks: Needs more hate tbh
Laserdollarz: AI has its uses and place. Stop shoving it into everything and it wouldn’t get a fraction of the hate it currently gets.
hypernsansa: Should’ve started earlier, if you ask me
unwelcome_flesh_sack: Let it build into a hate monsoon which covers the earth. Fuck these billionaire assholes trying to create a cyberpunk dystopia.

LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ (r/technology)

Sweaty_Rub4322: Is this the only way to even get your application looked at at this point?
williamgman: LinkedIn = Facebook for work.
gplusplus314: The actual article is garbage. Anyone find the actual prompt injection example?
ScheduleNo5736: This is genuinely brilliant AND terrifying at the same time ngl

2026-05-17 Social General Briefing Summary

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Maldives military diver dies while trying to recover scuba diving victims in underwater cave: Officials (r/news)

Fitdoc50: I really hope I don’t die in an underwater cave. How to prevent this?
shoulda-known-better: I thought the first rule was don’t go back for people in cave diving
girusatuku: What is the #1 cause of death among cave divers? Cave diving. What is #2? Retrieving the bodies of those who died from #1.

Humpback whale released after spectacular rescue effort found dead (r/news)

At least 3 killed, numerous residential buildings hit in mass drone attack on Moscow region (r/worldnews)

North America’s largest commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike (r/news)

What industry is actually a complete scam, but everyone accepts it? (r/AskReddit)

Embarrassed_Ask8293: Ticketmaster
boomlakshmi: Wedding industry
bigfatgeekboy: Time shares. Payday loans.

2026-05-17 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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texasholde (Apple): Have you tried messaging a recruiter? That got me an interview without a referral.
purefect (Everpure): Nah, they’re just closed to ex-Amazon workers.
nzwswing79: I self reject before any anthropic job get posted

fj8ne7hs1 (Transformco): Cisco is not the company it once was a decade ago.
greatful19 (Apple): I worked hard at Cisco 20+ years back! Glad I kept some of the old espp stocks!
LegRooom (Google): I don’t know why people still ‘work hard’. Do the bare minimum and enjoy your time with your family.

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support (r/technology)

Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead (r/technology)

tc100292: Palantir dies when?
Zeraru: Palantir’s business model is Supervillainy as a Service.
electrobento: Palantir is an enemy to humanity.

America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why | Fortune (r/technology)

2026-05-16 Social General Briefing Summary

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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‘Point of no return’: 36 countries join special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin (r/worldnews)

asdhjasdhlkjashdhgf: When even Switzerland joins support for an international tribunal you should be able to see the writing on the wall.
The-marx-channel: Putin’s place should be in the Hague
Golden–: Yeah, this is meaningless unless you actually plan to arrest and prosecute him.

Mass casualty incident’ after explosion near Maine lumber complex (r/news)

Phoenix police fire sergeant who brought gun to ICE protest (r/news)

What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? (r/AskReddit)

obligated_existence: The hole in the ozone layer. One of our biggest (and only) global environmental success stories.
Longwell2020: Clean water
chickenmcdruggets: Anything solved by vaccines

TIL that Empress Ma was born poor and during a famine she stole cakes to feed her husband by hiding them in her breasts. The cakes were hot and she got burns. Later her husband became a rebel commander who became Emperor and made her his Empress. He was deeply devoted to her even as an Emperor. (r/todayilearned)

2026-05-16 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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rasesh (Amazon): BS … no silent layoffs are happening … I see lot of silent hiring infact
XqXe67: Yet people will be clamoring to join the second they post a job.
BB-18 (Google): What a POS company

Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day (r/technology)

The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly (r/technology)

Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers / A new report calls the impact significant and “irreversible.” (r/technology)

Severus-Snape-DaGod: Data centers should be required to finance and build their own power generation instead of shifting those costs onto residents.
King_Kung: I’m pretty sure we could reverse it if we really wanted to
Curious_Maximum_639: Irreversible because corporations only increase prices.

2026-05-15 Social General Briefing Summary

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad (r/news)

Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial (r/news)

southendgirl: Is this an Onion article?
TheGooch01: Fucking head of the FBI is on permanent make-a-wish vacation.
Ok_Pollution7093: VIP snorkel at a memorial is wild. Read the room.

US agents arrest tourist after video shows a rock hurled at endangered Hawaii monk seal’s head (r/news)

CDC says 41 people being monitored for hantavirus in US (r/news)

US man convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC (r/news)

dotBombAU: They are doing this all over the world.
xdeltax97: This is everywhere unfortunately
Haunting_Explorer376: No shit. There was a expose on the one in Vancouver a few years ago

2026-05-15 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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fjwoxhaba (LinkedIn): Rumors are saying directors were notified earlier today so quite likely
tlLd05 (LinkedIn): Yep confirmed 50% layoff
yacdiz (Microsoft): LinkedIn has over 20k employees. To be reduced to 5k

Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI (r/technology)

marvbinks: Get ready for the lowest test scores in 133 years!
In-All-Unseriousness: I bet someone tries to sneak in with smart glasses.
Munchingmarshmallows: There are schools that have unproctored finals???

‘A’ Grades Are Suddenly Everywhere Since the Arrival of ChatGPT (r/technology)

Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard (r/technology)

generalsilliness: Let’s get rid of the poor. They can be replaced by AI now. It’s not profitable to waste resources on them.
anyparties: What if we had, hold on what’s it called again, affordable housing instead?
redditobserverone: Why don’t the tech billionaires build them on their sprawling properties.

2026-05-14 Social General Briefing Summary

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Epstein abused me while under house arrest, survivor tells US lawmakers (r/news)

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched (r/news)

More than 1,000 passengers held on cruise in France after gastroenteritis outbreak (r/news)

Russian parliament passes bill allowing Putin to invade foreign countries (r/worldnews)

Koekoes_se_makranka: Lmao ok, as if he wasn’t doing it already
RSwordsman: Good to see that they were following the law until now by only doing approved special military operations.
Thiht: That’ll fix Russian economy

What are the weirdest ways you’ve heard of someone getting caught cheating? (r/AskReddit)

TIL actor Taylor Lautner married a nurse named Taylor Dome. Before their wedding, Taylor Lautner stated that Taylor Dome planned to take his surname, resulting in both partners now being named Taylor Lautner. (r/todayilearned)

UltimaGabe: Didn’t he also date Taylor Swift? Was his plan always to end up with a wife with the same name as him?
Necessary_Nothing471: The Taylors Lautner
oldfogey12345: They could have just both changed their last name to Taylor and cut out all the confusion.

2026-05-14 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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‘It’s like we don’t exist’: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers (r/technology)

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (r/technology)

Tech Layoff Wave Has Already Hit 100,000 Jobs This Year (r/technology)

Harkonnen_Dog: Stop buying their products.
GimmeNewAccount: So you’re saying now is not the time to quit my stable, but highly stressful, tech job?
Alan4Bama: I was one of those today

2026-05-13 Social General Briefing Summary

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April (r/news)

NeofelisNight: Wait till we see May, i know they cook the numbers, but Im seeing it with my own eyes on the front lines
Jonestown_Juice: Hold on to your butts. This roller coaster ride is just getting going.
McCloudX: 3.8% might still be on the low end

Grocery prices jumped more in April than they did in nearly four years (r/news)

runnerup1: Cheaper on day one boyssssss
killerparties: She had a weird laugh though
Oceanbreeze871: Food isn’t affordable thanks to Donald and his country fools

CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico (r/worldnews)

maxsmart01: It ain’t much of a secret if I know about it so maybe let’s quit calling it a secret.
Actaeon_II: Didn’t the cia spend decades working with the cartels?
crashorbit: Somehow powerful people always think that this time violence will work.

What famous person chose to step away at the height of their fame? (r/AskReddit)

Montag_311: Bill Watterson, the cartoonist who did Calvin and Hobbes.
roygbiv-it: Barry Sanders. Feel so sorry for him he was on shit teams. What a talent.
Similar_String9573: one of the most notable is J.D. Salinger. dude wrote a classic and just dipped from the public eye totally. wild choice but kinda legendary.

TIL about firefighter Donald Herbert. After lapsing into a coma following a firefighting accident he awoke a year later unable to recognize friends or family. He then lapsed into a minimally conscious state for over 9 years. Miraculously, he awoke again and his first question was about his wife. (r/todayilearned)

Why don’t we get a discount for using self-checkout? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

Run-And_Gun: Because they got rid of the cashiers to increase their profits. Not to save their customers any money.
comrade_zerox: You do, if you know how to use it ;)
DIY-exerciseGuy: Do you get a discount for pumping your own gas?

2026-05-13 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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fjwoxhaba (LinkedIn): Rumors are saying directors were notified earlier today so quite likely
tlLd05 (LinkedIn): Yep confirmed 50% layoff
ouhfgfgyn (LinkedIn): 5/13 confirmed by multiple sources

rasesh (Amazon): BS … no silent layoffs are happening … I see lot of silent hiring infact
–author (Google): Google has been doing this for years.
nkrtf (Amazon): I can confirm layoffs are happening

AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds (r/technology)

Amazon employees are inflating AI usage to top leaderboards and impress managers (r/technology)

4 engineers now doing the job of 12 at my friend’s company because AI agents handle the rest (r/cscareerquestions)

Kickstarter bans all NSFW content from the website (r/technology)

LittlestWeapon: I’m assuming at the pressure of the credit card processors?
physical0: Anyone wanna kickstart my new payment processor?
Biggu5Dicku5: They had NSFW content?

2026-05-12 Social General Briefing Summary

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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US and French nationals test positive for hantavirus after leaving ship (r/news)

careful__now__: Gosh these last 20 years have been so exhausting
PuertoricanDude88: Patient zero getting a sudden urge to travel around the world.
browsk: Lol we can’t even learn from an event from the same decade

Teen dies hours after his parents reunited with him following immigration detention (r/news)

TabascohFiascoh: Christ, dying of colon cancer at 18 is tragic as fuck.
Lalocal4life: No one with stable mental health wants to see a family with a child like that die under those conditions due to “paperwork”.
darkultima: I been following this on telemundo for a couple days now. It’s so fucking sad

Netanyahu announced intention to phase out US military aid (r/worldnews)

What’s a ‘middle class success’ purchase that secretly becomes a financial burden later? (r/AskReddit)

TIL: In 1998, elementary students in Aurora, Colorado started buying slaves in Sudan to free them, this gained global attention with schools in other countries starting slave buyback programs until it became clear that the money was just helping slavery grow (r/todayilearned)

Why does the expected % for tipping keep increasing? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

someguy2355: Yeah it’s dumb. Percent already scales, that’s literally the point.
RangerDickard: The boss doesn’t have to pay wages if you do it for him. That’s why
dogsn1: They’re trying to milk more money out of you

2026-05-12 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Bibimbump (Glean): Glean
SissyCo (Cisco): Poolside and Zyphra
kkrimtim (NVIDIA): Thinking machines

chimarki (Meta): Best date is never
hacker201 (Booking.com): what is your YOE and level ?
andyKiMaKi (Rippling): What’s your level?

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ (r/technology)

boyyouvedoneitnow: Private Equity VP as a commencement speaker SUCKS
Badj83: “and you… You are the horses!”
QuailBrave49: Honestly, let’s stop glamorizing AI.

Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (r/technology)

Mass npm Supply Chain Attack Hits TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170+ Packages (r/programming)

Is the push for AI burning anyone else out? (r/cscareerquestions)

2026-05-11 Social General Briefing Summary

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes (r/news)

rieirieri: Such a welcome reprieve from all the depressing headlines. Good on the tribes for fighting this. I’m so glad they won.
get__jinxxed: HELL YEAH! Great job to the tribes!
Lazy-Impress-9708: Great news. Need some wins like this up in Alaska.

6 people found dead inside cargo train boxcar in Texas (r/news)

Fugitive former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is now in the United States courtesy of a visa from President Donald Trump after fleeing Hungary (r/worldnews)

pixtax: “i have the best people.”
ButterscotchOk5339: Welcomed by both Orban and Trump? Sounds guilty to me.
gianluca_antonelli: He doesn’t want immigrants because they would increse the criminality, then proceeds to host criminals in his country👍

Vatican recognises the ‘pain’ experienced by LGBTQ+ Catholics in landmark report (r/worldnews)

urbanek2525: The Pope tried to condemn the practice of slavery in the US too. I guess he’s going to find out that most Catholics listen to him only when he tells them what they want to hear.
Cultural_Meeting_240: only took them like 2000 years to figure that one out.
Miss-Information_: Ooooo just in time for politics Monday in the Catholicism sub

TIL that the oldest active organization affiliated with New Orleans Mardi Gras hasn’t marched in the parade since 1991 because it refuses to let non-white people join. (r/todayilearned)

What’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it? (r/AskReddit)

2026-05-11 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Satya N. 🧑🏽‍🦲 (Microsoft): Yes it signals WITCH tier. And whatever you do don’t say spring boot lmfao
bjdpq (Microsoft): To the people saying it’s looked down upon, what is the elite language?
AI (Stripe): Who still cares about language now? We have AI.

IAmBethG (Amazon): Getting fired for slacking is actually way harder than you think. I’ve been slacking for twice as long as the severance would have been if I got lucky at the beginning.
byemsft🤣 (Microsoft): Yes. I had a bad altercation with my manager yesterday and I will be leaving soon
nohana4u (Salesforce): Mental health impacts general health at some point. I know first hand and wished I would have someone pushing this advice to me.

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but ‘felt’ infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects (r/technology)

Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to “Go (Bleep) yourself” over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to pay the legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer (r/technology)

How much will you miss traditional programming? (r/cscareerquestions)

2026-05-10 Social General Briefing Summary

Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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FEMA Caught Blocking Grants to States That Didn’t Vote for Trump (r/politics)

Potential-Bee3866: *Trump caught blocking grants..
MaizePractical4163: You mean the states that pay 80% of federal taxes…those states?
dbuck1964: Blue states need to stop giving the feds the money they’ll use only for red states.

Moscow’s Victory Day Parade Lasted Just 45 Minutes, Shortest in Modern Russian History (r/worldnews)

LordSigdis: Can’t have a victory parade without tanks. Or men. Or equipment. Or victory.
OneNormalBloke: Still 45 minutes too long.
WetFishStink: Because their army is lying dead in Ukrainian fields.

More than 100 sickened in norovirus outbreak aboard Caribbean Princess cruise (r/news)

ilike2makemoney: Poverty saves me once again.
RJB5584: Not a great time to be a cruise liner, it seems…
zeitgeist98764: Cruises are a cesspool of bacteria and viruses lol not great in a closed space at sea…

TIL : Cold temperatures weaken nasal immunity, making us more vulnerable to viruses. A mere 5°C drop in nasal tissue temperature reduces immune response by nearly half. (r/todayilearned)

Neutral-frame: So our grandparents were up to something when they warned us to cover ourselves in cold weather.
b4d_b0y: Nose heaters or a spray that tops up the immune response?
diamond-han: So would little nose heaters work to fight viral infections?

California will give new parents hundreds of free diapers for all newborns born in the state (r/UpliftingNews)

TIL of the “spirit effect”, whereby spirit airlines entering a new route would cause other carriers to drop prices, making prices more affordable for regular Americans (r/todayilearned)

DetectiveObjective00: The spirit airlines compels you to drop prices. The spirit airlines compels you to drop prices.
ASCII_Princess: what about irregular Americans?
G_Force88: That’s just competition. This is how every market works

2026-05-10 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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tFql07 (eBay): Does open AI have future?
EvansDad (Snap): Happy Birthday! Sorry but I hope you have some cake.
JDeezNuts (Netflix): at least you have a birthday

nthin2lose (SentinelOne): What’s the severance offered?
vitalianus (Cornerstone): Who was targeted
V7sn0ls (U.S.Bank): Why did the stock still drop after hours ?

MIDZY (Microsoft): use your free unlimited copilot idiot
&=(1«31) (OpenAI): Codex at this point far, far surpasses Claude.
takoyaki79 (Datadog): Just use it?

Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His \$145 Billion AI Bill (r/technology)

asdf_lord: Maybe he should get laid off
schacks: We truly live in a new gilded age.
proxy_noob: do you think these dorks enjoy being giant pieces of shit?

Wife works in big tech. They are going from 1 PM : 7 engineers to 1 PM : 1 engineer with a big round of layoffs hitting next week. (r/cscareerquestions)

Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW “hyperscale” AI data center in Utah will consume double the state’s entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day. (r/technology)

Slippery-ape: He doesnt care, thats on the people of Utah
00001000U: Literally captain planet villain shit
62iei-836j-39-heiwhd: The worst Shark.

2026-05-09 Social General Briefing Summary

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redistricting plan, dimming party’s midterm hopes (r/news)

Babies are bleeding to death as parents reject a vitamin shot given at birth (r/news)

Ukraine reportedly launches dozens of drones at Moscow ahead of Victory Day Parade (r/worldnews)

TIL that Maria Antonia of Austria had the highest inbreeding coefficient (0.3053) of the House of Habsburg - higher than the child of brother and sister or the child of a parent and their own offspring (r/todayilearned)

USPS proposal would allow handguns to be sent through the mail for the first time since 1927 (r/nottheonion)

What is the biggest scam people still willingly participate? (r/AskReddit)

ryryzxd: MLMs. no matter how many times people explain how theyre problematic and scammy.
cornweel: It seems like everybody knows gambling/betting is a total waste scam designed to take their money, and yet they still are excited to participate.
Disastrous-Ruin8411: trickle down economics

2026-05-09 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Cuando (ex-Riot Games): There is this thing with Gen Z guys where they try really hard to act “nonchalant”. They end up looking like ungrateful dumbasses to every other generation.
‾_(ツ)_/‾ (LinkedIn): Have you tried changing your management style? I have found that split screen with presentation and subway surfers is a good way to get them to pay attention.
7878tuk (Mixpanel): I think it’s just your report and not a Gen Z thing.

ldftswhcd (Scale AI): Devs are second class citizens at a Quant shop, go to Anthropic
Turnusdown (Apple): Go to Anthropic of course. Claude is taking over the world
hd73f (Roblox): Trading company won’t be 40h/week they’re lying

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web (r/technology)

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push (r/technology)

vampyrialis: Privacy is now a “loophole” 🤣 🖕
SkinnedIt: VPNs aren’t the problem. Misguided age verification legislation is the problem.
ottwebdev: If people are bypassing your governance, your governance is wrong

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? (r/webdev)

2026-05-08 Social General Briefing Summary

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support (r/news)

DaStompa: Elon musk is going to lose his passport?
coffeemakedrinksleep: This is already the law in the US. I personally know a couple of people who lost their drivers license and/or passport over not paying child support.
Some_Number_8516: Be wary of anyone that seeks to take people’s identification papers

Christian missionary hailed as ‘holiest man alive’ pleads guilty to abusing boys in Texas (r/news)

OuijaWalker: Still not a drag queen
YouMustBeJoking888: The dyed black bowl cut had to have been a clue.
Honeycove91: It’s always the ones that you most suspect…

US military strikes Iran’s Qeshm port and Bandar Abbas (r/worldnews)

Disc0Disc0Disc0: This is the ultimate sign they are close to a deal
GlassjawIsGreat: This doesn’t seem very ceasefiery after reading it a few times…
ferchristssakestopit: …..good thing this war is over and we are following peace.

Massive anti-pedophile operation in Poland, 123 detained (r/worldnews)

Gelomaniac: Now do one in the white house
Dry_Departure_7813: But the DOW is over 50k how are the police able to arrest pedofiles?
GaddockTeegFunPolice: ‘Kurwa why is sundays church service cancelled?’

What’s a ‘silent luxury’ that rich people have that most normal people would never even notice? (r/AskReddit)

TIL hikers in the Alps discovered Otzi in 1991, a 5,300-year-old man naturally preserved in ice. Scientists identified his last meal as ibex meat and grains, found over 60 soot tattoos around his joints and spine, and recovered his copper axe, flint knife, a fire-starting kit and grass cloak. (r/todayilearned)

Spirit Airlines passenger with dementia found dead after staff ‘abandoned’ him at airport, lawsuit says (r/nottheonion)

2026-05-08 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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sfvq47 (Amazon): i mean he was MOP and on us physics team so he is fs genius
hugMePls (Microsoft): He was the tech lead of quora at 16, someone also mentioned an international Olympiad as well. Joma tech actually has a video where he talks about being interviewed by him at 19. Dude’s cracked, unbelievably so.
vristotle (Microsoft): Being good at high school math competitions isn’t the same as being a good leader. There are many posts on here talking about how inexperienced he is with real AI work and how inept of a leader he is. Not surprised, he seems very immature and grew up with a silver spoon

nthin2lose (SentinelOne): Amazon knows how to keep everything toxic.
Jefry (Salesforce): They also stack rank by spelling performance.
liberat3d (ZenBusiness PBC): It’ll be ironic if they cut someone tomorrow who fixes their outage issues today.

RowdySWE (Block): Elon basically gave CEOs permission to start doing this when he ripped apart twitter and it was still functioning.
crazzak (Microsoft): Employees don’t feel invested in companies that throw them away like trash the second it saves them a buck; this leads to less innovation and decline in quality.
JNSx07 (Manhattan Associates): But no one really cares… CEO only cares about quarterly results and share value.

Cloudflare lays off 1,100 people (r/technology)

PSA: Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8 (r/technology)

Apple is putting cameras in AirPods. What could possibly go wrong? (r/technology)

I’ve been working with a Vibe Coder and this has been my experience (r/webdev)

Looking for feedback on AI content in r/programming and the April no-AI trial (r/programming)

PracticeAccording274: the april trial felt pretty good tbh, less noise in the feed and more actual programming discussions instead of endless “will ai replace us” posts
davenirline: Oh Please keep it. I think it’s the only one sub that I go to that does this.
Computer991: It was amazing, please keep it

2026-05-07 Social General Briefing Summary

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87 (r/news)

South Korean judge who hiked ex-first lady’s jail sentence found dead just 8 days after sentencing (r/worldnews)

HarlequinKOTF: Not suspicious at all.
TheoreticalResearch: Creepy ass woman, creepy ass family.
Grimtongues: Shin Jong-oh beat himself to death, dumped his body into a flower bed outside the courthouse, and then wrote a suicide note saying he was leaving this world voluntarily… seems legit

Alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein unsealed by federal judge (r/news)

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? (r/AskReddit)

Critical_Physics_770: Prions
cmayfi: Ants measure distance by counting their steps. Scientists proved this by taking some ants out of a line and putting tiny stilts on them. Those ants then over shot the food source they were going too
scary_warrior: Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse

TIL Krakatoa’s eruption was estimated to be at 310 dB, the loudest sound ever. Well above the typical max sound limit of 194 dB (r/todayilearned)

Pope Leo called his bank’s customer service line. They hung up on him (r/nottheonion)

Accurate_Koala_4698: “Yeah? And I’m the Queen of England”
Totheendofsin: The poor teller waking up to find she’s part of an international news story because she hung up on what she assumed was a prank caller
kahllerdady: My god would I love to be the call center supervisor on whatever shift THAT was!

2026-05-07 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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apple145 (Meta): Role > Company especially after junior levels. If I’m a janitor at Anthropic, is that really impressive?
jsueppoklk (Anduril): I think this is a stupid poll. Can that be an option?
hd7Vat (DoubleVerify): I don’t think IBM was ever S tier since the ’80s.

EditConfig (Google): Paste their AI response to another AI and respond back with that response. Make sure to begin the prompt with “you’re a nitpicking, disagreeable, autist”.
MomDonny (Disney Streaming Services): So you prefer “read the code”?
funhero (Microsoft): At Microsoft there are a lot of Indian engineers and it is common for folks to use ai to help organize their thoughts. So they may also be using it in this way as a sort of “pseudo translator” to try to get their thoughts across better.

A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began (r/technology)

xAI will be dissolved as a separate entity. (r/singularity)

Fine-Drummer9812: This is what Elon wanted to do with OpenAI and Tesla
AdAnnual5736: AKA jam all of the unprofitable companies into the profitable company that’s kept afloat by government contracts.
MysteriousPepper8908: Seems like if you really believed in your AI efforts, you would want that as more than just a product of a completely unrelated enterprise.

TikTok’s algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections, study finds (r/technology)

I’m curious if “I’m curious” is the new em dash AI tell (r/webdev)

2026-05-06 Social General Briefing Summary

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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FedEx driver sentenced to death by lethal injection for murder of seven-year-old in Texas (r/news)

Bowllieo: I’m sure the company loves him being referred to in that way.
spazzxxcc12: it’s really hard for me to want to keep my stance on the death penalty when it comes to cases like this.
Puzzleheaded_Bed1781: I don’t get it. What drives someone to WANT to murder a child???

EU Parliament votes in favour of banning conversion therapy across member states (r/worldnews)

Frozen_Thorn: Another EU win. Keep fighting the good fight.
mental_monkey: Good! Heinous stuff like that needs to be banned.
Striking-Donut8491: I used to pray for times like this

Hotels in U.S. World Cup host cities claim underwhelming demand, new report says (r/sports)

pelethar: Good. Fuck FIFA
CanadianGuy39: God this warms my heart so much.
Cyphermaniax97: Gee, I wonder why. /s

What actor is nowhere near as talented as people make them out to be? (r/AskReddit)

patawpha: Paul Rudd is just Paul Rudd which is fine because at the end of the day I like Paul Rudd.
Puzzleheaded-Can8586: I wish somebody believed in me the way Hollywood seems to believe in Jared Leto.
mandelbratwurst: Kevin Costner has exactly one emotion and its “stoic”

TIL there were 180.000 bees kept in the spires of Notre Dame and they survived the fire. Because bees don’t have lungs they weren’t hurt by the smoke, they just fell asleep (r/todayilearned)

Leomuck: Bees do not have lungs? Wow, I’ve definitely learned something today. They breathe, but not through lungs.
JeepWrangler319: You know Quasimodo predicted all this
n_mcrae_1982: Maybe Quasimodo wasn’t really a hunchback. Maybe he was just really, really allergic to bee stings.

David Letterman Calls CBS Owners “Lying Weasels” After ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Cancellation (r/television)

vibe4it: tbf, he’s called them lying weasels all along
steelbeamsdankmemes: Don’t blame Stephen.
witherspoon90: Another end of an era for late night

2026-05-06 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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uYMW15 (Workday): AI agent will take interviews of AI agents LOL
Indble (Amazon): I will be sending my Ai representation to interview on my behalf. “Talk to a representative”. I’ve done two virtual interviews and they were awful.
sensei (Google): AI generated post to warn about AI generated hiring decisions.

oasis2025 (Microsoft): isn’t this the same CEO who said every new hire needs to be approved by him and should have an extraordinary talent like medals and shit?
trsaz (Amazon): Another day, another struggling company using AI as an excuse for layoffs. Meh…
TBjy63 (Amazon): Coinbase should be a money printer. Why do they need to lay people off?

Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Actively Encouraged’ Meta’s Massive Copyright Infringement to Train AI Systems, Publishers and Scott Turow Allege in Lawsuit (r/technology)

A Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming (r/technology)

mohawk990: The most transparent administration in the history of the US.
TripleSingleHOF: Why would there ever need to be a “White House app”?
namastayhom33: It’s like this whole administration was vibe-coded

Roku and TCL Accused of Bricking Smart TVs Through Software Updates (r/technology)

wowlock_taylan: ‘smart’ Tvs are the biggest lie.
errantekarmico: I had the same problem. Does anyone know how one can join this lawsuit?
No-Introduction1495: This has been happening with all tech for several years now sadly

GPT-5.5 Instant is starting to roll out in ChatGPT. (r/OpenAI)

Looking for feedback on AI content in r/programming and the April no-AI trial (r/programming)

PracticeAccording274: the april trial felt pretty good tbh, less noise in the feed and more actual programming discussions instead of endless “will ai replace us” posts
davenirline: Oh Please keep it. I think it’s the only one sub that I go to that does this.
Computer991: It was amazing, please keep it

2026-05-05 Social General Briefing Summary

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies (r/news)

atomic_blonde: Mifepristone saved me from bleeding out during a non-pregnancy related uterine hemorrhage. The experience radicalized me. I’d go to jail to be sure someone had the chance to obtain it if needed.
moonstonelite: As someone who almost died from a miscarriage this pill is life saving medicine.
IIIIIIlllllIIIIIIlll: Mifepristone abortion saved my life

Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Ukrainian drones may target Russia’s May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow (r/worldnews)

Cruise ship at centre of suspected hantavirus outbreak blocked from docking in Cape Verde (r/news)

What’s a recession indicator that you’ve noticed lately in your everyday life? (r/AskReddit)

Ask_Black_Phillip333: When you’re driving home, feeling like you’re really bad with money lately, but in reality, you just bought groceries for the week, again.
Sorry-Panic7612: Most of the posts on my local subreddit are people looking for work or talking about how hard it is to find a job
fatboyneedstogetlaid: Canceling streaming services and going back sailing the seven seas.

People who grew up really poor: what’s something middle-class people say that instantly reveals they’ve never struggled? (r/AskReddit)

TIL Ghana is the world’s largest importer of secondhand clothing. Locals refer to it as “Obroni Wawu,” or “Dead White Man’s Clothes,” reflecting a belief that the items are of such high quality that their original owners must have died for them to be discarded. (r/todayilearned)

2026-05-05 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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eXj510 (Netflix): microsloppification
sidsst (Meta): It’s a mix of both from what I’ve heard
Zuuuuuuuuk (Meta): with all the layoffs you’d think LinkedIn would be doing very well

Carelesppl (ex-Microsoft): Its a cool app, congrats
67u57 (X): What role?
ifhptpd34 (Indeed): Fingers crossed they answer your question with a song

Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks, report says (r/technology)

Randomnesse: Pretty clever and amusing.
UnexpectedAnanas: They have to do a business at the business store!
LordVesperion: Modern problems require old-school solutions.

The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of ‘Podslop’ | Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index (r/technology)

Wooden-Writing-6843: Who is genuinely listening to AI gen podcasts?
Calcularius: 99% of podcasts are already low effort human slop.
CapBenjaminBridgeman: Well, thank goodness I dont lsten to random podcasts.

Nvidia exec says AI is more expensive than actual workers — yet some companies don’t see the extra costs as a negative (r/technology)

Is Codex the best right now? (r/OpenAI)

Nudge55: Absolutely yes, it’s a workhorse.
Boring_Information34: By far!!! 5.5 beats 4.7 opus in anything I work on
fiscal_fallacy: This stat/graph seems fraudulent

2026-05-04 Social General Briefing Summary

Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Critical Condition’ in Florida Hospital (r/news)

xandrodas: May he long be remembered for Four Seasons Total Landscaping
drinkduffdry: Has there ever been a greater downturn in opinion of an individual?
Frequent-Client1508: Oh no. Has he finished paying Ruby Freeman the millions he owes her yet?

The US is no longer the leader: Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world (r/worldnews)

Fugees rapper Pras reports to prison to begin 14-year sentence (r/news)

RMRdesign: This is exactly Elon did for Trump by the way.
Arponare: So when is Elon’s sentencing?
Inca-Vacation: gone til November 2040

Parents in other countries than the US, what is your kids’ equivalent of “I don’t want that for dinner, I want chicken nuggets”? (r/AskReddit)

The moment Cherie DeVaux became the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby in its 152-year history. (r/sports)

karthikulo: I love that she doesn’t have a fancy hat.
fhota1: Now lets see the horse’s idol concert after the race!
romulan267: Women dominate the equestrian scene. Why’d it take this long? Old money?

2026-05-04 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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i!ii!;!::i (Zoom): but, codex is better than claude code.
daris (NVIDIA): ChatGPT is still the best consumer app. Codex > Claude.. it’s stupid to make these claims every month
Zuckerbrug (Samsung): They had the first mover advantage, just like Netscape, Lycos, AskJeeves, and Pets.com. It was fun while it lasted!

chaitanye (Adobe): Why were you laid off? Were you a low performer during that cycle?
nkajr55 (PayPal): The fact that you say IT industry says a lot about your prior experience and tech mindset.
‘ (ex-Zscaler): Could it be that no one wants Amazon managers?

Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has ‘zero percent’ market share in China — says US export policy ‘has already largely backfired’ (r/technology)

alchemyDev: Womp womp. I guess spending a ton of money to elect a demented pedophile didn’t work out, huh?
Wyciorek: Next step will be nVidia losing marketshare outside China and US
Shiftymennoknight: Better donate more to the ballroom fund, you know how it works Jensen

Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed (r/technology)

AI becoming more expensive is music to my ears (r/webdev)

Triggerscore: Was only a matter of time.
CantaloupeCamper: Genie isn’t going back in the bottle.
AShar911: It is not becoming more expensive, only top models are expensive. If you can get a good hardware or a cloud with a good open model it’s quite cheap and works very well.

2026-05-03 Social General Briefing Summary

Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Boy, 14, shot dead by Israeli settlers in West Bank amid escalation in violence (r/news)

Spirited_Childhood34: Terrorists, not settlers.
AsherahEnd: “Settlers” you mean invaders?

US Justice Department can use military lawyer to prosecute civilian, judge rules (r/news)

Trump says US will reduce number of troops in Germany ‘a lot further’ than withdrawal of 5,000 (r/worldnews)

hornswoggled111: … After a recent phone call with Putin.
wwhisler: Is he going to reduce the number of troops by 1200%

It’s official: No woman in England or Wales can be prosecuted for an abortion any more (r/worldnews)

Cynical_Classicist: Actually good news from Britain for once!
Mother_Airline_6276: Hooray common sense!

Teacher who told pupils ‘this class terrifies me’ chugged gin from a water bottle before vomiting in toilet (r/nottheonion)

Mikeavelli: Teenagers scare the living shit out of me.
darkoopz43: I’m not saying she’s right, but I get it.

What is an industry that is currently on fire (in a bad way) behind the scenes, but the general public hasn’t noticed yet? (r/AskReddit)

2026-05-03 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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xelent (InMobi): Workday level ui in claude? 😇🤣

metaduck (Meta): Fix your shit so it doesn’t break during the night

vesbr& (Amazon): What a narcissist shares with their therapist:

Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves (r/technology)

enry: TIL: ask was still around
taylorjosephrummel: End of an era.

Developer re-enables 3D printer features that Bambu Lab disabled, firm promptly threatens legal action — OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project now shuttered (r/technology)

Cheetawolf: Bambu is definitely planning to enshittify.
EverNeko200: Bambu continues to prove they hate their community.

Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage (r/technology)

explicitlarynx: Of course they do, they are power trippers that never face consequences for their actions.
FanDry5374: “Love” interests? Yeah, that’s what it is.

2026-05-02 Social General Briefing Summary

Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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US gas prices reaching new heights as war in Iran drags on (r/news)

Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone (r/news)

Trump says he will raise tariffs on EU autos to 25% (r/worldnews)

Qrimesz: Honey, it’s friday again!
tri170391: He seems to forgot the supreme court ruled his tariff illegal lol.

Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office (r/nottheonion)

braumbles: Not shocking. This is what Republicans do.
ComprehensiveHavoc: A good man’s redemption scared them so much that they needed to find a new way to be corrupt.

US birth rates just hit another record low, what do you think is the leading cause of this? (r/AskReddit)

2026-05-02 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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nthin2lose (SentinelOne): Amazon knows how to keep everything toxic.
Jefry (Salesforce): They also stack rank by spelling performance.

Meta contractor fires 1,100 AI trainers after they revealed Ray-Ban glasses recorded private and intimate footage (r/technology)

Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps (r/technology)

Sam Altman No Longer Believes In Universal Basic Income (r/singularity)

Why does it feel like tech has no middle ground at all? (r/cscareerquestions)

2026-05-01 Social General Briefing Summary

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence (r/news)

Infinite_Theory3453: yeah it is kinda wild, company basically gets shut down but no real jail time for anyone behind it.
PM_ME_YOUR_EYELASHES: So they shut down then pop up later with a new name and CEO selling a similar product?? Justice served?

Louisiana governor plans to suspend May primary to redraw US House map, Washington Post reports (r/news)

JD Vance ‘helping Russians’ by supporting halt to Ukraine aid, Zelensky says (r/worldnews)

Church of Scientology is mad teens keep running through their centers and filming it for TikTok (r/nottheonion)

What hobby or habit or vice do you know is shortening your life but you don’t care because it’s worth it? (r/AskReddit)

satansfloorbuffer: Butter, sugar, flour
Slawth_x: I’m here for a good time not a long one

2026-05-01 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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AI on weed (Google): Sounds like skill issue. Lots of high performing ICs I know enjoy working at Meta.
VlOzD89% (Meta): It’s a bit exaggerated. But I guess 80-90% true, but a lot of it is true elsewhere too.

pyplpglu (PayPal): I just hope i find some better career like farming or trading which is profitable and leave this shit.
pfnqft (Amazon): If he hit reply all, it means those people were part of the thread already.

Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI (r/technology)

dylboii: We’ll never see this in the US unfortunately
BayouBait: America is so far behind. Good on China.

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it (r/technology)

2026-04-30 Social General Briefing Summary

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Trump evacuated after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no sign of injuries (r/news)

PersianAztecs21: Did they lower the flag and have everyone pose for a photo shoot?
A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb: There will be an arrest next week for someone who made $500K on this.

MrBeast employee alleges she was harassed for years and fired after maternity leave in a new lawsuit (r/news)

U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’ (Gift Article) (r/news)

Cultural_Meeting_240: nothing says freedom like laundering cartel gold into liberty coins.
Fecal_thoroughfare: If I was any country that owned gold in US vaults I’d be gtfo yesterday

What’s a recession indicator that you’ve noticed lately? (r/AskReddit)

monkeypickle8: It seems like everything at the grocery store starts at seven dollars now
motorcitydevil: Door Dash drivers in their 60s.

What’s the fastest way you realized you were in the wrong friend group? (r/AskReddit)

2026-04-30 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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daris (NVIDIA): ChatGPT is still the best consumer app. Codex > Claude.. it’s stupid to make these claims every month
Zuckerbrug (Samsung): They had the first mover advantage, just like Netscape, Lycos, AskJeeves, and Pets.com. It was fun while it lasted!

A founder says Cursor’s AI agent deleted his startup’s database, causing chaos for customers (r/technology)

My company has stopped product work to become AI-ready and I think a restructuring is coming (r/developersIndia)

2026-04-29 Social General Briefing Summary

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Pope Leo says he does not fear Trump after attack over Iran peace appeal (r/worldnews)

Ok-Aspect62: It’s less about fear and more about influence. Moral authority doesn’t operate on the same terms as political power.
Luka_Dunks_on_Bums: The man is from the south side of Chicago, Trump is never going to scare him

US imposing 25% tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper derivatives (r/stocks)

How would you feel about a ban on AskReddit questions regarding US politics? (r/AskReddit)

Pope warns of world ravaged by ‘tyrants’ in the wake of Trump attacks (r/politics)

OldSchoolBubba: We’ve already arrived at this point
DayCommon2162: Trump said he’s not a fan of the Pope. That’s how you know the Pope is doing something right

What is the most unhinged thing you have ever heard a Redditor say? (r/AskReddit)

Aromatic-Hearing-774: “Reddit is a great place for balanced, nuanced discussion.”
PawPawBanana87: Ummm just head on over to r/incestconfessions and pick any post and that’s probably it.

2026-04-29 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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foodi (Google): AI already made coding dead, it’s not a hoax.
CookedSwe (Verizon): It’s nice to see cope sometimes after all the doomerism so thank you

redis (Meta): No Meta. Fake list.
didosf (Block): Warn filings do not come before internal communications.

AmaRosta (Google): The amount of COPE in the comments AI is gonna destroy the industry, and massive layoffs are gonna happen in 2026 coz of it.
TheRealBoz (Meta): Even when using Claude to write most code, it hasn’t made people much faster. It also can’t function without a SWE. Even if the next model makes less mistakes and has a bigger context, still wont change the real bottlenecks.

Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI (r/technology)

Claude Code no longer listed as a feature for Claude Pro (r/ArtificialInteligence)

2026-04-28 Social General Briefing Summary

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stops (r/news)

WillingnessOk3081: my gosh, before you even get to the idiotic mother, him saying he hoped his son “wouldn’t do what his son did” and his son was trying to “turn his life around” makes it sound like his son deserved to get shot because he had done bad things in the past. just excuse after excuse for bad cops. garbage human beings.

2026-04-28 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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UkrD48 (Google): Gemini is the king? Are you joking? Even GDM folks are using Claude Code…
AWildWorld (Apple): Apple never had layoffs

frontiers (Meta): Kinda a weird take to enjoy the suffering of others tho. I get it’s cathartic… even fall for it myself more than I want… but isn’t better to just make friends with those ppl and win together? Seems like the big corps here are the issue lol. They’re winning a game that we’re not even invited to 😆

2026-04-27 Social General Briefing Summary

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’ (Gift Article) (r/news)

BisquickNinja: Yay… I guess the US is now into money laundering….
Cultural_Meeting_240: nothing says freedom like laundering cartel gold into liberty coins.

Mood in Russia turns bleak as war in Ukraine drags on and economy suffers (r/worldnews)

cagadadechango: It’s turning bleak just now?

2026-04-27 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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jjh78z23 (Intel): Nine levels is crazy. Five seems much more reasonable.
krakenrand (Microsoft): The days of growth mindset are over. It’s sink or swim. We had a good run with azure but AI is a beast that 50 year old companies can’t deal with. We will become a cheap token factory and all the economic benefits will go to the application layers where we don’t play. Office is just a presentation layer. We have no models and we survived on enterprise ctos paying for office thos e days are over

2026-04-26 Social General Briefing Summary

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Orbán steps down from Hungarian parliament after landslide defeat (r/worldnews)

SuedJche: I am honestly surprised how little opposition he has mounted to his defeat
Apprehensive_Idea758: Good riddance and hopefully more of those far-right governments will start falling as soon as possible.

Mississippi middle school students stop bus from crashing after driver blacks out (r/news)

Dwayla: It was an asthma attack.

2026-04-26 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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centr!st (ex-Atlassian): Sad how Atlassian used to be at the top of these lists and ruined everything in a year with toxic culture shift and shit CTO
喜 (Zoom): Whatever you do never join ZOOM, worst company I ever worked for.

2026-04-25 Social General Briefing Summary

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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MrBeast employee alleges she was harassed for years and fired after maternity leave in a new lawsuit (r/news)

EkorrenHJ: I had no opinion on MrBeast until I saw him om a podcast where he kept talking about how much he despised “mediocre people.” That made me recognize he probably fostered toxic working conditions.

2026-04-25 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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yepyepyep1 (Microsoft): That wasn’t Amy Hood
EditConfig (Google): Don’t worry, VPs and c-suite are not subject to review or layoffs, and will get millions in bonuses and refreshers for reduce operating expenses.

San-Ti 👾 (Baxter): Bro, Meta’s business model is spying on everyone. You guy’s build spying tool, tracking everyone even those not signed up for meta products.

2026-04-24 Social General Briefing Summary

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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JetBlue sued over claims it uses customers’ personal data to set ticket prices (r/news)

2026-04-24 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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ypfy87 (Amazon): If you got two offers in this market then you can get another. If you feel the axe coming, use your interview momentum to try and get another offer before you get laid off.

2026-04-23 Social General Briefing Summary

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Kalshi suspends, fines 3 congressional candidates in ‘insider trading’ enforcement actions (r/news)

2026-04-23 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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San-Ti 👾 (Baxter): Bro, Meta’s business model is spying on everyone. You guy’s build spying tool, tracking everyone even those not signed up for meta products.
jimini (Google): What rock have you been living under? Meta has been spying on everyone for years.

2026-04-22 Social General Briefing Summary

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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US military service members will no longer be required to get annual flu shot (r/news)

fiendishrabbit: I’m pretty sure lots of unvaccinated troops in cramped conditions is EXACTLY how the Spanish flu started.
ShigodmuhDickard: Guess they never learned about WW1. Idiots.

At least 10 scientists tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared in recent years, sparking federal investigation (r/news)

MentokGL: Kash is gonna need to pull a lot of all nighters in Vegas to get the to bottom of this…fire up the jet and line up the shots!

2026-04-22 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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ISPG88 (Cerebras Systems): Groq is furthest along for inference, especially in terms of software,, but we do more business and make more noise.
rrua54 (Together AI): Also lambda, nebius.. Very competitive industry.

5t889ku5rg (Meta): Just looking at these guys tells me they are making another ChatGPT wrapper or other LLM wrapper.

2026-04-21 Social General Briefing Summary

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ kids (r/news)

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets prison sentence for possessing ’enormous child pornography collection’ (r/news)

Honeycove91: Pretends to be shocked
shhhhhasecret: I had to go borrow my mother’s pearls so I could clutch them.

American Heart Association urges people to favor plant-based proteins, replace full fat dairy (r/news)

House committee votes to subpoena Pam Bondi over Epstein files (r/news)

Megaphonestory: She probably saw this coming since she is spying on everyone in the committee.
Strange-Movie: Weird uptick in Google searches for “fuck you pam”

What’s one thing you completely stopped buying in 2026 because the price just felt absurd? (r/AskReddit)

Zhong_Ping: Soda. $14 12 packs are outrageous.
bitterverses: Streaming services. They’re charging more and showing less. It’s crazy

2026-04-21 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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AI_ML_FUN (New): Join us at Scale AI. We can’t hire fast enough!
4geff (Oracle): Definitely leave

.xxxxxxxx. (Tata Consultancy Services): I don’t think people with successful ai start-ups will be roaming around on blind.
MagicBall (ex-AMD): It’s over for ai startups lol, build something people aren’t already crazy about.

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day (r/technology)

loko3084: Tech companies treating humans like disposable apps delete, update profits, repeat.
Neat_Trust3168: Who do they think is going to buy their shit if people don’t have money?

AI Leads All Reasons For U.S. Job Cuts In March, Report Says (r/technology)

Announcement: Temporary LLM Content Ban (r/programming)

2026-04-20 Social General Briefing Summary

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stops (r/news)

Charlie Kirk bullet analysis finds no conclusive link to rifle found near scene (r/news)

A US Marine is detained after TSA finds a live 25 mm explosive round in his checked bag (r/news)

RhoOfFeh: To me the most surprising thing is that TSA did something.
Bowman_van_Oort: Anything to get out of being the first wave in Iran, huh?

Defense secretary lifts suspension of 2 pilots of helicopter that flew near Kid Rock’s home (r/news)

dmtjiminarnnotatrdr: What’s the point of having a disciplinary process if it can just be completely undermined on a whim?
1_ofthesedays: This is how armies lose morality.

Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges (r/news)

2026-04-20 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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r87b: AI code is going to flop badly when bugs start coming in and nobody knows how to understand and debug the code
AI or Cry: Exact same at Spotify. We have a mandate to use it as the primary way we write code

curochfu: This sounds very dangerous if these unsupervised changes could impact clients’ accounts and financial data at Capital One
XVOj31: It’s really stupid to join your coworkers in this practice. All you guys are doing is racing to work yourselves out of your own jobs. Each person who does this feels cute at first until they get laid off because the work has been completed. Do yall think the work supply your company needs done is infinite or something?

Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice (r/technology)

not-sure-what-to-put: “Here’s our useless AI that must be installed on your computer and integrated into all of your applications and browsers! Don’t talk to it!”
Infini-Bus: We put it in Excel for when you wanna have some fun!

Reddit adds labeling for non-human accounts, weighs personhood verification methods (r/technology)

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers (r/technology)

NJdestroyed: Maine electricity is already too expensive. This is for survival
Boring_Pair_982: All states need to follow. The companies are already avoiding taxes, why should residents front the cost..

2026-04-19 Social General Briefing Summary

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets prison sentence for possessing ’enormous child pornography collection’ (r/news)

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris is free after 6 months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse (r/news)

Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ kids (r/news)

Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job (r/UnderReportedNews)

The Unconstitutionality of the Trump Administration’s New Executive Order on Elections (r/politics)

2026-04-19 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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dumpy: For junior, 2-3 years. Mid-level, 3-5 years. Senior, 5+ years. You’ll always need some high level engineers, those probably won’t go away.
beastmode$: If AI can do any coding task, nothing is stopping the laid off people from creating competitors to the big names. We will see a startup boom.

n0pants: AI is just an excuse. When they say they are letting go employees because of AI they are trying to fool the investors and reduce the head count at the same time.
TKTf28: AI is the last desperate attempt at keeping surveillance capitalism going and more importantly stopping a revolution triggered by the implosion of the whole economic and political system. 2024 is the end of the road for US dollar and its reserve currency status. War and layoffs are their way of saying we are willing to stay in power at any cost. They do not want to give up control. Generative AI is.a joke and a distraction.

Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI (r/technology)

AI Leads All Reasons For U.S. Job Cuts In March, Report Says (r/technology)

Oracle slashes 30,000 jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email (r/cscareerquestions)

Outrageous_Duck3227: 30k gone in an email so corpos can massage debt numbers, and we’re all job hunting in hell
thisisjustascreename: Sounds like Oracle management are to blame for the misallocation of capital.

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ (r/technology)

2026-04-17 Social General Briefing Summary

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons resigns (r/news)

Millions of Americans are now eligible for Canadian citizenship and many are applying ‘just in case’ (r/news)

Pope: World is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants (r/worldnews)

TriXter69: Of all the stupid things Trump has done, he decides to start beef with the pope
Zorothegallade: As an atheist, I’m 100% behind this Pope.

How would you feel if the top tax rate was 90% like it was in the 1950s? (r/AskReddit)

Whats stopping me from just going to a university, attending lectures and just learning about stuff? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

2026-04-17 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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prTQ31: People are miserable at Meta, every single one I’ve talked to. Mark is killing his own company
hdhdhdhdb: Meta will make you work hard even for peasant SWEs, what do you think they will do to people getting paid millions

TomDcHarry: I have a question, Microsoft did this too. They made all testers -&gt engineers back in 2013. So, is it that kind of transition or is it they r legit laying people off?
clear-mind: Yes lets move QE to dev so we make more mistakes and catch less

Allbirds stock tumbles after nearly 600% rally as the shoemaker rebrands as an AI company (r/technology)

Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll (r/technology)

Laid off today and wife is expecting in August. (r/cscareerquestions)

2026-04-16 Social General Briefing Summary

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues (r/news)

Humble-Fish-7070: Yeah no fucking shit. Wake me up when I don’t get hit with \$37.95 in bullshit fees
EggNo289: So it only took 30 years to figure this out?

South Korea jails American YouTuber for public nuisance (r/news)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data (r/news)

How would you feel about a new law that forces every company to pay their CEO no more than 20x what their lowest-paid employee makes? (r/AskReddit)

What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true? (r/AskReddit)

2026-04-16 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Snap laying off 16% of full-time staff (r/cscareerquestions)

Management keeps pushing AI harder, but nobody wants to hear that review is now the bottleneck (r/cscareerquestions)

Has anyone else’s job become insuferable with everyone trying to jam AI into everything? (r/cscareerquestions)

Mesk: Your equity/ vesting / terms do not reflect founding engineer terms. 18 month cliff is not common 0.15 is too less of an equity. Cash is slightly higher. If you want to learn and grow, startups are better. You will learn more than just coding that will serve you well. You should talk about better vesting terms and more equity though. If the goal is maximizing expected income, MAANG is unbeatable. You will be taking a proven path of maximizing TC in the rat race with much higher expected outcome.
luadipid: 0.15% equity is worthless, jump ship to MAANG, skill up, make connections, and if you want to pursue startups again use your skills and network and get a founder position (whole number percentage equity)

koool: Go to the startup. Nothing to lose but time
tvzM62: Having done exactly this before, I would never do it again. I regret leaving an amazing career path for a startup gamble and easily gave up ~\$1mm by doing it. If you think you can build something special, found your own startup. 2% of a company is nothing, you’re working to make your founders rich.

2026-04-15 Social General Briefing Summary

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stops (r/news)

schmoob: Died last month in a car accident unrelated to this case? They sure? They sure about that??
JustaguynameBob: If my mom reacted like this I’d be just as scared as he was.

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris is free after 6 months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse (r/news)

whatproblems: 5 years for following the advised procedure
WallyMcBeetus: In case anyone was wondering.

Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ kids (r/news)

What’s something you stopped buying once you realized it’s mostly a scam? (r/AskReddit)

People over 40, what’s something you’ve learned about life that younger people don’t realize yet? (r/AskReddit)

2026-04-15 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Software dev job postings are up 15% since mid 2025 (r/programming)

So… how are we juniors meant to upskill in this new AI market? what is our roadmap (r/cscareerquestions)

Hiring manager perspective: hiring is the most broken I’ve ever seen (r/cscareerquestions)

rddcvgjc: irrespective of AI, workday is a company that should die miserable death for their shitty job application software.. ceo and PMs who designed this crap should be made to use it daily 50 times as a punishment
GtQM82: Why is Workdays UX still so shitty, after all this time? Frankly, they deserve to be disrupted. Their moat (the inherent conservatism of HR departments) can’t (and shouldn’t) protect them from agentic disruption.

taxhamster: You sound mad you got pipped by a non tech PM who out performed you
IXuS40: Keep coping boomer while one junior vibecoder finishes the work you do in a day in an hour and goes out for drinks the same evening

2026-04-14 Social General Briefing Summary

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Rep. Eric Swalwell resigns from U.S. House after sexual misconduct allegations (r/news)

FourEightNineOneOne: One sex predator in DC gone. Now for the rest of them.
Flash_ina_pan: Well shit. He needed to go, but now Gonzales is gonna hang around.
VOZ1: Don’t care what letter is next to their name, GET THEM ALL OUT. Arrest, prosecute, incarcerate all the predators.

US judge dismisses Trump defamation suit against Wall Street Journal (r/news)

Why are parents who barely passed high school thinking they can teach/homeschool their children? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

St23mv: They don’t want to teach anything. They want to indoctrinate their kids.
crackpotpourri: How does that quote go? “The problem with stupid people is they’re so stupid they have no idea how stupid they are.”
Avery_Thorn: The confidence of the ignorant?

What are the signs that you are wasting your life? (r/AskReddit)

Prestigious_Emu6039: You never put your phone down
sexyyisa: If you don’t have goals, dreams, plans, you’re just living in autopilot and that’s not living. Also if you’re not doing things that make you a better person
AgitatedPatience5729: You live to work.

What do people need to do in their 20s to set their 30s up for success? (r/AskReddit)

Bix615: Invest in retirement as soon as you can
Guilty_Cow5673: Eat clean, work out, stay in touch with friends and save money.
ComputerHelpPro: Avoid personal debt - credit cards will KILL you, lol.

2026-04-14 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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I think AI has killed my passion for Software Engineering (r/cscareerquestions)

HelpfulNobody: Right there with ya.
TheoryOfRelativity12: Pretty sure almost everyone feels the same. Coding is easier but the magic of problem solving kinda vanished.
djdephcon: I feel like I’m more of a code reviewer than a code writer now.

CEO has started vibe coding. How does this end for me? (r/cscareerquestions)

DesoLina: Polish your contracting skills, someone will have to clean this mess up in couple years.
lolCLEMPSON: It ended in me getting another job.
phast_man: Just start routing all the customer support tickets to him

OpenClaw has 250K GitHub stars. The only reliable use case I’ve found is daily news digests. (r/LocalLLaMA)

Buggyworm: You forgot it’s main use case: starring itself on github
RoomyRoots: And security nightmare vector, don’t forget!
norofbfg: The gap between capability and reliability seems bigger than most people admit right now.

Claude is on the same path as ChatGPT. I measured it. (r/artificial)

rajek: Coding with AI is exactly as precise as trying to generate a specific image with AI. At some point you get frustrated and just edit the work yourself. Software engineers will not be replaced and Graphic designers will not be replaced.
grammay: Sundar pichai said 25% code is ai written, but that’s just bullshit because another news followed up that it was auto suggestion. Which is fine for logging. But otherwise is bullshit
wcran: I don’t really understand honestly. It feels like a scam.

2026-04-13 Social General Briefing Summary

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks fail (r/oil)

TriXter69: Well if the goal is to cause oil to skyrocket and crash the global economy, this will definitely help with that
Hurlyburly766: We’re double-closing it! So there!!!
rude-a-bega: Blockade the blockade? Ok then

TISZA winning a super majority possible? (r/Destiny)

Why do schools give awards for perfect attendance even though kids are constantly getting sick? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

Are manual transmission cars available in every dealership? (r/AskAmericans)

What is the most universally liked food? (r/AskReddit)

Maffers: Bread
Myballs8: I’d say rice , it’s popular in europe , in american (both north and south) in most of asia and middle east …
Resistant-Insomnia: Dough with a filling. Every culture has it. From samosas to pasties to burritos to borek to lumpias to gyoza and many more.

2026-04-13 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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AI Doom and layoffs? Naah, it’s just like the Industrial Revolution and past technological changes. (r/artificial)

Job Market is amazing for AI engineers (r/cscareerquestions)

schrodingers_hit: Job market is amazing for all the top 1% people in any market.
Original_Ad2171: This means 99% of people are not in the running. Let alone junior devs.
AshWilliams01: this is so out of touch lol

Low_Deposit_3530: At least you’re honest 🤷🏾‍♂️
q*****: The money line is AI will replace smaller companies.
M7Lt16: We are all getting acquired just wait

ISPG88: Groq is furthest along for inference, especially in terms of software,, but we do more business and make more noise.
rrua54: Also lambda, nebius.. Very competitive industry.

newpepsie: Holy shit if the code is only the specific implementation of business logic etc then this is such a bad take.
anon: Maybe, it still helps if you can explain what the logic is supposed to be in human language and can validate if the output matches.
NooYht: Blaming code quality deterioration on AI while half the codebase was already spaghetti held together by tribal knowledge and caffeine is wild.

2026-04-12 Social General Briefing Summary

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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What is the worst band you saw live? (r/AskReddit)

ihaveredhaironmyhead: Bob Dylan. I fell asleep. I’m not sure but I think he briefly did too.
Fine-Brilliant-2983: Lauryn Hill😭 She was 2 hours late, sang for 20 minutes, sounded like shit and left. Such a huge letdown. I have loved her FOREVER.
Segesaurous: Poison, 1992. They had to restart the first song 3 times and were verbally fighting on the mics during the show. It was so, so bad.

Have you ever seen someone get rich overnight, like literally? How? (r/AskReddit)

If money wasn’t an issue, what would you be doing with your life right now ? (r/AskReddit)

TIL the Stone Age encompasses 99% of human history (r/todayilearned)

Are kids not allowed to walk to school by themselves nowadays? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

Men, what’s the biggest green flag you’ve seen on a woman? (r/AskReddit)

Hungary election: Orbán concedes to Magyar’s Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority (r/news)

ToranjaNuclear: Damn, I’m surprised he just conceded without any major drama. Really curious to see what’ll change from now on, since both Trump and Putin just lost major allies
Numerous_Photograph9: I’m so glad to have some actual good news to end the week.
Kingofthetreaux: Holy shit is Hungary about to rejoin euro policies, please be yes!!!

Former New York City mayor Eric Adams obtains Albanian citizenship (r/news)

2026-04-12 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Oracle’s new CFO got \$26M in stock after layoffs. Employee says an ‘algorithm’ targeted workers with stock options first (r/technology)

‘I feel helpless’: college graduates can’t find entry-level roles in shrinking market amid rise of AI (r/technology)

Data from 120k API calls across 2 machines proves Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5m on March 6th, this is why your quota usage exploded in March (r/ClaudeCode)

Finally happened to me and my colleagues. Seeing severely degraded performance. (r/ClaudeCode)

Full Root Cause Analysis vs. “It works now” – when do you draw the line? (r/cscareerquestions)

Venture Studio that recruited me wants to charge \$20k/mo in service fees. I will not promote. (r/startups)

Are AI tools actually making you too productive to switch off? (r/OpenAI)

zjshdhxjjx: Not knowing coding language was never a barrier. Its knowing what to build, how to build and where to look when things go wrong. That is still the same. So IMHO nothing has changed.
UqPT65: I’ll raise you one and say AI agents that code are the future.
skykomish: Two separate tracks. For POCs, yes, vibe-coding. For robust production code, way more human involvement.

2026-04-11 Social Briefing Summary

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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EARTHSET: Artemis II captures their first photo from the far side of the moon (r/space)

18-month New Yorker investigation finds OpenAI’s Sam Altman lobbied against the same AI regulations he publicly advocated for (r/technology)

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge (r/technology)

Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai (r/technology)

Anthropic stayed quiet until someone showed Claude’s thinking depth dropped 67% (r/ClaudeCode)

Software quality has significantly decreased (r/cscareerquestions)

BINI becomes the first Filipino act to perform at Coachella, trends #1 worldwide (X)

How to maintain H-1B status after layoff (Blind)

2026-04-11 Social Techmeme Reddit Briefing Summary

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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WTF Claude. Weekly limits = 4x5hr limits(r/ClaudeCode)

AxBxCeqX: blew through 20% of the week cap in a 2.5h session
deorder: switching models and context sizes still hit the 5-hour cap in about 1.5 hours
stujmiller77: usable all day for a month, then suddenly cut to 3 to 4 hours a day

Software quality has significantly decreased(r/cscareerquestions)

OAKI-io: shipping fast looks good until reliability debt compounds and half the sprint goes to incidents
SanityInAnarchy: vibing makes it easier to cut corners while looking productive
NewChameleon: the short-term incentive is to collect the perf review and leave the mess to someone else

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters(r/technology)

Tinac4: the bill would shield labs from catastrophic-harm liability if they publish reports and cannot be shown to have known the risk
Prior_Coyote_4376: if AI does genocide you cannot sue the developers
Significant_You_2735: some companies want AI partly to escape accountability for destructive decisions

Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI(r/technology)

META layoffs(r/cscareerquestions)

ecethrowaway01: some surviving teams are being relabeled as AI builders while the company stays vague on the real scale
chickadee-guy: mandated AI use gets audited and packaged as quarterly learning
Future-Duck4608: even after repeated cuts Meta still has more employees than five years ago

Pause on LinkedIn Staff Interviews(Blind)

LIngerie: layoffs are coming in early May and the interview pause basically confirms it
inter🎉🎉🎉: a recruiter said the staff role being interviewed for was eliminated until July
mhqv58: a first-round interview was canceled because the role is now frozen

Anthropic work culture(Blind)

stupidswe: they argued the offer was a pay cut once you price in 60 to 80 hour weeks
Jaсօb: building a new god was framed as reason enough to accept 60 hour weeks
mnG2b8: at Anthropic or OpenAI the expectation is to deliver at all costs rather than set your own hours

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2026-06-06 Social General Briefing Summary

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)

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

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

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)

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

2026-06-06 Social Tech Briefing Summary

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

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

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

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

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)

2026-06-05 Social General Briefing Summary

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

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

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)

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

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

2026-06-05 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Microsoft 10k+ layoffs July confirmed 🫡 (Blind)

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

Please shut up, Dario (Blind)

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

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)

2026-06-04 Social General Briefing Summary

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

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

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

2026-06-04 Social Tech Briefing Summary

AI Layoffs Are Backfiring And Rehiring Has Begun (Blind)

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

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

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

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)

2026-06-03 Social General Briefing Summary

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

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

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

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

2026-06-03 Social Tech Briefing Summary

What’s the point of it all? (Blind)

The burnout is real (Blind)

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

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

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

2026-06-02 Social General Briefing Summary

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

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

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

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

2026-06-02 Social Tech Briefing Summary

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

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

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

2026-06-01 Social General Briefing Summary

Lead prosecutor on former FBI Director Comey’s ‘seashells’ case withdraws without explanation (r/news)

Photos show protesters and ICE agents clashing outside a New Jersey detention center (r/news)

Iran’s president offers resignation, citing total takeover by IRGC commanders (r/worldnews)

Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what’s the one game you still think about today? (r/AskReddit)

TIL Mary Ann Franco in 1993 lost her vision after being in a severe car accident and suffered a stroke as well. 23 years later she tripped and fell over her home tiles and had to get surgery on her spine. When she woke up she could fully see, and no one fully knows why. (r/todayilearned)

2026-06-01 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Golden Handcuffs vs. Generational Wealth (Blind)

After 4 layoffs I’m starting to think I’m the problem (Blind)

Erin Brockovich says people are angry because data centers are being ‘shoved down their throats’ in secrecy (r/technology)

Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI” (r/technology)

The people who trained Tesla’s self-driving AI won’t ride in it (r/technology)

2026-05-31 Social General Briefing Summary

United flight diverted to Wisconsin after passenger’s ‘multiple attempts’ to breach cockpit, crew member says (r/news)

Putin threatens Armenia with “Ukrainian scenario” over its EU integration aims (r/worldnews)

Mysterious sonic boom heard across Mass. was a meteor, experts say (r/news)

People who listen to the same song 100 times in a row… which song is it? (r/AskReddit)

2026-05-31 Social Tech Briefing Summary

Wlb at Anthropic API team (Blind)

1m TC is the new 200k for true SWE (Blind)

Traffic to DuckDuckGo’s proudly ‘No AI’ search page has tripled since latest Google AI search update (r/technology)

Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people (r/technology)

Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech (r/technology)

2026-05-30 Social General Briefing Summary

Drag queen Pattie Gonia asks apparel company Patagonia to drop trademark infringement lawsuit (r/news)