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

• whiskyspacecadet: The merch she is selling is a direct rip off of the Patagonia logo. Its got less to do with her name and more to do with her using a well established brand’s image to make her own money.
• ElderBerry2020: I love when people post who know nothing about trademark law.
• TomTomXD1234: He’s literally trying to sell clothing with the name pattie gonia…..this is 100% legit lawsuit

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)

• fsactual: The most likely and simplest response is just to give more weapons to Ukraine.
• Aluzionz: We’re ready to defend EVERY INCH! - Just not, that particular few inches.
• olight77: So what did they do when the drone hit then?

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

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Is being L5 SWE at age 35+ damaged goods? (Blind)

• 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

VP at Google. AMA. (Blind)

• 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)

• BentoMan: It’s like evaluating workers by how many commits they have. Then you end up with people committing one file at a time and jacking things up. Completely foreseeable.
• 4everLost82: So it sounds like, once again, the C-Suite suits have no fucking clue what they are doing…as always.
• JDGumby: Except, of course, that Amazon execs were the ones demanding the use of AI just for the sake of using AI in the first place…

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: The point critics are missing is that if this works then LLM coding cannot be trusted. This is an entirely ynsophistocaged prompt injection. If the LLM doesn’t know to flag it, it should. That’s the whole issue. This could easily be added to any project.

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

• Alwayssunnyinarizona: I don’t know the officer; but I was the OP for this article and it had been tied up in moderator limbo for a week awaiting a SS.
• mastermidget23: Recently, an ICE agent “carjacked” my sisters best friend. She was park on the side of the road with her tow truck, when an ICE agent opened the door, pointed his gun at her, and told her to get out and leave immediately. They said they “needed it” and she got a call 3 hrs later they had abandoned it in a Home Depot parking lot.
• OhNoIBoffedIt: People who claim God talks to them directly tend to have significant mental issues. Or it’s a scam.

Earworm Kars4Kids jingle yanked from California radio over charity’s violations of state laws (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.

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)

• Drone314: What no one seems to ask is where are the lone ‘survivors’ that get reported on? Like did they get picked up or just left for dead? It’s barbaric on every level. The fact they don’t capture these boats and display the drugs for all to see is damning in an of itself. We’re the baddies….
• AbbyRitter: Anyone still trying to argue these killings are justified have to be bots at this point. Or they’re so devoid of humanity they might as well be.
• DomitiusAhenobarbus_: Most Americans have just completely accepted this as a thing we do now

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

• Smgt90: All my friends with kids are livid. I don’t have kids and it doesn’t affect me, so I don’t really care. But it is a stupid idea. Only 3 cities are hosting matches why does it have to affect the rest of the cities? And even in the ones who are hosting, it could be limited to the days when matches will happen.
• Luccfi: It has nothing to do with the sport but rather about reducing the number of public transit services users to avoid its collapse during the World Cup as the cities will be flooded with tourists.
• Beginning_One_4393: The official reason is to help with city congestion and overcrowding, also classrooms here don’t have AC, and we are expected to be hit with record heat waves. This being said, some say there is an ulterior motive. The unofficial version is that they are trying to keep a teacher’s union from protesting during the World Cup. According to the union’s guidelines, they are forbidden from protesting during school breaks, so if the school year ends early, they will not get the opportunity to cause chaos.

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Meta is dead. Morale is dead. (Blind)

• aint shit (Amazon): It is a gross company. Why would you expect anything different?
• rQmp05 (SpaceX): Stop being an idiot, there is no overarching mission at Meta , there hasn’t been for decades it’s been dog eat dog TC maxxing nonsense. Name one internally developed product in the last 5 years that yall have successfully scaled.
• googfather (Google): Facebook has always been a scummy company. First they put profit over society, now profit over employees.

Meta Layoffs July 22?? (Blind)

• 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

Please don’t interview at Google if you want to do 996. (Blind)

• 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?

Applied to 180+ PM roles. Got 3 interviews scheduled💔 (Blind)

• 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

Golden Handcuffs vs. Generational Wealth (Blind)

• 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.

What’s the next big thing after AI? (Blind)

• 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

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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)

• OneNormalBloke: Oh what a surprise……..not
• UnstableMabel: The whole thing was a money laundering set up. Nobody involved didn’t just obscenely line their pockets with the money of their own citizens. Again.
• peidinho31: I am baffled that any country (besides the shitholes of course) would ask to join this…

Sun visor on outside of car (r/mildlyinteresting)

• 9009RPM: It’s actually more effective this way but most people put it inside to keep it clean/not stolen
• Dinevir: Way easier to use and to keep glass inside clean. Maybe also better temperature control as sun rays are reflected outside the car, not inside. Some sun visors are designed to be used on outside, but not this one. Still, it will do it’s job.
• Fl4t3ric: In germany we use it so the winshield doesnt freeze in winter, outside is completely normal for me, would never have guessed that someone puts it on the inside😅

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)

• Ironsight85: I’m too dumb to read the article, but I’m assuming fraudsters like to claim a lot of big numbers with 9’s when real figures use more 1’s?
• Nouseriously: A polling firm got busted making up numbers because of the way they were distributed
• iamsy: It’s called Benfords Law

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Microsoft basically told employees you all suck this year (Blind)

• hkhgtf (Amazon): Billionaires are weaponizing AI against the middle class.We need to elect a govt that would standup for the greedy billionaires. Vote socialist democrats.
• ohanal (Salesforce): They know the job market sucks, they could easily get away without any increase at all, which seems what they actually did.
• Amorapea (Microsoft): We are now in the era of “you should feel lucky to be employed.” Employers hold 100% of the cards and employees have zero say.

Rejected from OpenAI (Blind)

• 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)

• colojason: My company just got bought by another company and I literally lost count of how many times the phrase “AI” was said during the welcome message.
• Vizreki: Hah, my CEO had psychosis before 2024
• Fragrant-Vehicle-479: Just what a group of people already known for their firm grasp of reality, emotional maturity, and straight edge sobriety need.

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

• Rivent: I don’t love DDG, but Google has become absolute dog shit, so it is my default for the time being. Would love more competition in the search space, but I’m not holding my breath.
• mrzurch: Google is damn near unusable. I can search using the exact phrase of a YouTube video (a video so unique that it’s the only one) and Google will bury it on like Page 3 of results.
• Haunterblademoi: It’s better to use private and decentralized alternatives rather than Google.

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

• troll__away: Let’s start with making sure the data centers aren’t given tax breaks and are solely responsible for their own power and water.
• DogsAreOurFriends: Well, if it is working my job why not?
• Then_Piglet1744: conversation around taxing AI is probably less about “punishing technology” and more about what happens when automation replaces large amounts of human labour faster than new jobs are created

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

• Smintjes: The lights were red and the barriers were closed, still the bus was on the tracks. A lot of unknowns for the moment.
• Melazie_: That’s fucking horrible, how does that even happen?
• _thewildwest: This is absolutely horrific and devastating. The children on the bus were students attending a special needs school….oh my god. My heart goes out to the victims and their families

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

• random_agency: So were the other 2 sneak attack by the US during negotiation.
• gitrjoda: I’m no expert, but I would think one of the foundations of a ceasefire is to cease firing.
• CPOx: Yes. I would assume that the act of firing violates a ceasefire.

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

• gunzgoboom: I wonder what kind of goods are even manufactured in those West bank settlements. It doesn’t seem like there is meaningful infrastructure there. What are we talking about here, canned pickles and cookie trays?
• Kharenis: That’s reasonable. The settlements should absolutely be denounced and ostracised by the international community.
• rulingthewake243: What are the most popular things ireland is importing from the west bank?

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?

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My manager is now super supportive after I quit. (Blind)

• 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

SWE Salaries are about to collapse (Blind)

• 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)

• trudyik: It’s the classic corporate playbook: privatize the massive profits of AI while socializing the infrastructure and resource costs onto local taxpayers. Tech companies build these multi-billion dollar complexes, secure massive state-level tax incentives that drain local public coffers, and then demand millions of gallons of public drinking water to cool their chips. If AI is as immensely profitable as Silicon Valley claims it is, they should be paying a premium tax rate to the communities they are occupying, rather than relying on residents to blow the whistle on the local damage.
• t-g-l-h-: Look at all those red state datacenters
• PhazePyre: Shit, we about to get Erin Brockovich 2 in like 5-10 years?

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

• Memitim: I see that the betrayers are already getting that loaded language ready to use as an excuse to betray more Americans.
• BarelyAirborne: Funny how we never hear about anti-working class extremism.
• kebabsoup: There you go, if you threaten their bottom line and refuse to be subjugated by the tech billionaires you will be branded an extremist and you will be hunted down.

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

• TT5i0: Sounds like they will be doing layoffs soon so they can allocate more to the AI budget
• Haunterblademoi: They miscalculated their expenses, and then realized that AI is too expensive.
• marvinfuture: Just wait until AI isn’t subsidized and it’s astronomically more expensive when required by investors to turn a profit

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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)

• NietzscheIsMyDog: Imagine the insane pretext one would need to deny THE GOVERNOR from entering a building, much less the real reason they’re not allowed to enter.
• Mendican: There’s got to be some serious shit going on in that detention center.
• zorionek0: You’re the governor, use the national guard and force your way in.

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

• Suns_Funs: Statistically speaking he would have saved a lot more Russians, if he would have stopped “saving” Russians.
• Callabrantus: Check out the flabby arms in that flex.
• mca1169: just legalizing any justification for a future war or strike he launches.

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)

• dak7: Knicks are winning the final game in each series so far by an AVERAGE of 39.33 points. This 37 point victory actually pulled their average down slightly.
• wendellbaker: Love this for the knicks players. Hate it for Dolan
• ttop34: If Brunson gets a ring before Luka, we’re gonna have to have an uncomfortable conversation

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Stop thanking tech companies on LinkedIn for laying off you (Blind)

• 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

Token maxing will die (Blind)

• 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)

• Feather_Sigil: A world created by narcissistic sociopaths finds ways to turn people into narcissistic sociopaths.
• JPMoney81: Well surely we should blame the kids for this and not do anything at all to regulate the AI companies or their billionaire owners!
• Inside-Yak-8815: I don’t care what the internet says, kids that young shouldn’t even be able to use AI chatbots for this whole scenario to even be a possibility…

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)

• McGarnacIe: What bothers me most these days, especially this past month is just how damn slow it is to load every single bloody page.
• Saueso: Fuck power apps
• Such_Field_3294: Every time they “unify” something it just adds another portal that’s slightly different from the rest. At this point I think the inconsistency is load-bearing and theyre afraid to touch it