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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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AI Layoffs Are Backfiring And Rehiring Has Begun (Blind)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What’s the point of it all? (Blind)

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

The burnout is real (Blind)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Zaius1968: Umm…because there is no case maybe?
• JohnnyGFX: Probably worried about being disbarred for bringing an absolutely frivolous piece of “lawfare” to court to waste everyone’s time and money on.
• strolpol: The whole DoJ is just spinning plates. Shop for a favorable judge, make up bullshit charges, drag things out until discovery

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

• onarainyafternoon: God damn, the pictures are gnarly. Good for the protesters. People should read about the conditions in this facility. Horrific.
• zzztoken: Lots of focus on the protestors and not what they’re protesting about, the conditions on the inside or the hunger strike. Know it’s not a mistake.
• nygdan: “photos show…” is another way the media distances itself from actually talking about the events happening. “ICE agents attack protesting citizens”, while being the trith, is too much for them to say. but why have the media in the first place if all they can say is what photos from other sources like social media show?

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

• Jonathan13211: Aren’t the IRGC even more hardline anti peace?
• zombiezero222: It was obvious the IRGC were running things. I doubt Mojtaba is even aware what is happening.
• Foreign_Cable_9530: This is from Iranian opposition media. It may be true but independent confirmation is lacking. This may just be the IRGC trying to gain more legitimacy.

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

• forever_backordered: Oregon trail and number munches. Or space cadet pinball
• bordomsdeadly: Where in the world is Carmen San Diego
• troetenheini: Age of Empires 2

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)

• GovernorSan: Percussive maintenance, same reason why hitting your TV or computer or car can magically get it to start working again.
• ShoutoutsWorldwide: falls down a well, her eyes go crossed. She gets kicked by a mule. They go back to normal. I don’t know.
• spark_this: Dont show this to chiropractors. They’ll start telling everyone they can cure eyesight

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Golden Handcuffs vs. Generational Wealth (Blind)

• Ka’iana (ex-Google): Get off Blind.
• vojzdz (Apple): Troll post, microsoft pay is shit. 400k is senior director’s TC at microsoft.
• Ikk95hYt (Block): Be like me. Have no friends to compare to. LOL

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

• OqsE80 (Meta): Actually pretty competent to be hired 3 times during this period.
• OLui64 (Stripe): Don’t confuse correlation with causation. Honestly, this is just the shittiest tech marked in nearly 3 decades. Don’t be too hard on yourself.
• pehu: Not your problem buddy, its just that’s how tech works now

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

• Inside-Yak-8815: Public officials shouldn’t even be allowed to sign NDAs to keep them silent about data center projects. Their jobs are to serve the people, what the hell kind of dystopian shit is this?
• rockerscott: Or the fact that a small group of people are socializing their costs while privatizing their profits.
• FunOpportunity7: NDAs in relation to public anything should be illegal. Things can be coded secret or such, but the public good outweighs ANY corporate protective measure.

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)

• arriesgado: Kind of a bs headline. Not that it is not true but not naming Cheng who is a well known comedian and calling his speech a “profanity-laden tirade” makes it sound like it was a random crazy person.
• mooncrow: And so begins the Butlerian Jihad
• BunRabbit: By Harvard Graduation Speaker you mean the Daily Show host and comedian Ronny Chieng, right?

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

• SpaceOhSpace: I’ve heard the same thing from several people who work on autonomous driving. And it’s the way they say no. It’s like an absolutely not. Yet these things are just for public use. We are the guinea pigs
• charlie2135: I also never trust a cook who won’t eat what they make.
• CPNZ: Looking at Waymo cars covered in sensors and doing just OK…Tesla’s problem is they really cannot detect enough of what is around them.

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

• Lonely_Noyaaa: Apparently he was ranting in Russian and they had to ask for a translator before takeoff. If the guy is causing issues before the wheels even leave the ground, why is he still on the plane? That feels like a massive failure by the gate agents and the crew.
• Warcraft_Fan: No specific details yet like why this man was trying to get in. He was detailed and taken in by FBI after the plane landed, no one was harmed.
• ballsmigue: There was a thread this morning on this and someone who was on the flight said it seemed like a mental breakdown.

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

• Cavthena: In other news. Russia struggles to understand why NATO and the EU continues to grow.
• vonGlick: To all the people claiming it was NATO or EU that provoked Putin’s attack on Ukraine, what is your excuse now?
• Unlikely-Complex3737: I don’t think bro can afford to open another front.

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

• Deesnuts77: IIRC we usually pass through the Taurid Meteor stream in June(ish) and November so this checks out
• Vyntarus: It’s just some meaty ore. From space.
• A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb: I’m in Needham and I was like, that can’t be thunder it’s 48 degrees out.

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

• ruloreddit: As a father of 3…Baby Shark
• valmiltonfung: I once paid \$20 for 20 consecutive plays of Shania Twain’s “Man I feel like a woman” at my local biker bar.
• Cornonthecobski: My 3 year old is obsessed with 3am by matchbox twenty. I don’t know why.

TIL in 2018 after a Swedish mother got a tattoo of the first names of her two children at the time: her daughter Nova & her son Kevin, she realized that the artist had misspelled ‘Kevin’ as ‘Kelvin’; it read ‘Nova & Kelvin’. However, instead of correcting it, they legally changed his name to Kelvin. (r/todayilearned)

• BrentusMaximus: He’s gonna grow up and get a heart and “Morm” tattoo just for her.
• JiveChicken00: Probably cheaper that way. And definitely less painful.
• Acircusclown: He was about 2 years old, so that’s the time to change it. Imagine if he was 14 or something

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Wlb at Anthropic API team (Blind)

• 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

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

• 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)

• Scoob1978: Google just sends me to Reddit all the time anyway. Switched a while back.
• ICLazeru: I’m contributing to that. Started when I noticed the Google making absolutely stupid suggestions. Not like human stupid, but like “I’m suggesting this because I don’t understand reality because I’m AI” stupid.
• FIuffyRabbit: Personally, I find ddg’s results to be lacking most of the time for technical searches.

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

• nazerall: While still laying people off with record profits.
• Significant_Fill6992: and that’s with the cost still being subsidized
• Candid_Cat_5921: This story is so off point but keeps making the rounds. Microsoft isn’t giving up on AI, it’s moving from paying standard licensing fees for Claude tools, to using the same models hosted in-house. Like why would you pay 5x when you could just use the same models with your own tool (GitHub Copilot)

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)

• zleuth: … As we all knew it would.
• cwalk: China was always going to “supercharge” their semiconductor industry regardless of export restrictions. They are just trying to poke the US.
• SmarmySmurf: Long-term planners will always win over short-term thinkers in the end.