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

• Beautiful_Special702: Hard to read stories like this and not wonder how many failures happened behind the scenes…
• Tramadol_Lollies: Just want to say how strong these women are for testifying, even with the powerful in the world doing its best to look away.
• Klutzy-Ad-9700: It still blows my mind that the files exist, but we just haven’t seen them. Proof of all sorts of horrific things, just sitting there, but we aren’t allowed to look at it.

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

• avatinfernus: Wow.. the lack of empathy is…off the charts
• Anneisabitch: It’s not even the first time something like this has happened. Another baby was born in that same jail on the bathroom floor.
• run85: In jail because she was accused of substance abuse while pregnant. Then, this is how she is treated while pregnant and giving birth. Wow, Alabama cares so much about babies!

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

• fc_dean: Those cruises are a literal bacteria / virus breeding ground, aren’t they.
• aka_linskey: Norovirus is the worst. That sounds awful.
• SlayerBVC: It’s honestly amazing that the Cruise Ship industry has survived as long as it has considering how the ships are the ideal conditions for these viruses and infections to spread.

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)

• FriskiTeddy: The classic Google Street view
• elphaba00: Friend was cleaning his bedroom. Found a notebook he didn’t recognize and started to flip through the pages and read it. It was his wife’s journal of her threesomes – of which he was not invited to.
• DaddyDeluge: Worked with a guy who wrote letters with chocolate for two girls for Valentine’s Day. He mixed up which was which, and the girls got the wrong letters. It blew up in his face while he was at work.

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.

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If you’re young and in CS, switch tracks (Blind)

• not fiona (Google): Back in my day, every young man was motivated to do a hard job. 68% of males ages 14-21 were working, but now that number has fallen to just 38%. Today’s young men waste away their physical prime and thus their peak earning years. They want to be a couch/computer potato. They spend ten hours a week chatting with AI instead of learning social skills. Some of them want a vacation so they apply for a visa abroad. It is because of the irresponsible parents who raise such lazy kids.
• Barney S (Airbnb): SWE will reduce significantly and FDE will increase significantly. Salary will still keep up but desirable skill sets will change. Bottom line: if you are autistic, anti-social but not IQ 150 you should pivot
• TzCEen (Klaviyo): As if every other career isn’t fucked. If you work at a desk, Claude is coming for you in the same way that it came for SWE. Eventually there will be some agentic workflow to do every other job and employers will cut as many employees as they can to milk their margins. Sure, you can become a nurse or plumber, but that would suck in its own ways.

Offers from OpenAI Anthropic and Nvidia. Which to choose? (Blind)

• yegv (Google): Vote for anthropic. OpenAI is toxic and full of meta mates
• frotoge (OpenAI): What a crazy coincidence to not only line up offers from all 3 at the same time, but to also be too much of a bozo to make your own decisions. Must be one in a billion!
• staffMLE? (LinkedIn): Fake, TC can’t be equivalent. Nvidia new offers don’t compare with OAI and Anthropic. Why don’t you go ahead and add xAI as well

‘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)

• ShiftyUsmc: Man, this whole data center thing seems like it might not be such a good idea
• Nice-Mixing: So people are going without power so the aristocracy can take all our jobs away, is that right…
• Random_Man-child: My favorite thing is how Republicans claimed our grid could not support electric cars, but data centers perfectly fine.

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

• NOT_EVEN_THAT_GUY: corporate is rotting my brain
• scraplocator: if only the business and tech bros in every industry could have that kind of self awareness.
• BezosLazyEye: Problem is, if you’re not using AI you’re outperformed by developers who are. So in the eyes of the managers you’re worth less, since they only care about delivering something that works not how it works. This is going to bite us in the ass so badly in the future.

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

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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)

• Greene_Mr: SPOILER ALERT: He died just months after that. :-(
• Technical_Chair_3641: i wonder how much of his 9 years in a minimally conscious state he was actually aware on some level. there’s been some fMRI studies showing some PVS patients can follow commands mentally even when they show zero outward response
• PartsUnknown242: So what what exactly happened with his brain here?

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?

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Rumor: Possible Linkedin Layoffs Tomorrow 5/13 (or 5/14) (Blind)

• 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

Amazon is laying off in “secret” RIGHT NOW and it’s strategic. (Blind)

• 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)

• Dr-Moth: Workers with salaries you control, have been replaced by AI agents with costs you can’t control. The short term gains are replaced by long term dependency.
• KyuubiW1ndscar: the people who needed to lose their job, didn’t.
• antrage: Heres a radical idea, maybe use the AI to make your workforce put less time on menial tasks so they put more energy on tasks that are creative and will make your company more profitable in terms of innovation.

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

• Square-Bluejay3476: This is what happens when companies start measuring “AI usage” instead of measuring whether the work actually improved. People will optimize for the metric they’re judged on, even if the metric itself is meaningless.
• Frequent-Test-3012: Your work performance is judged now not on how good your work is, but instead on how much you can use the slop machine.
• pr1aa: When a measure becomes a goal, it’s no longer a good measure

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

• DeusSapien: When Bill Gates said AI would introduce 2 day workweek, this is what he meant. 8 engineers are not going work 2-day work week, instead there will be 4 engineers working 5-day work weeks while trying to output the work of 8 engineers
• Ill-Independence6422: cool so we’re all just speedrunning ourselves out of a job
• BiIlEGoat: How has no one mentioned this post is written by ai

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?

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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)

• vini_2003: Nobody read the damn article here. They’re still going to be partners to the US, but their aim is to integrate at a deeper level in the defense and intelligence sectors and stop “just” receiving aid for the sake of aid.
• Feisty_System_4751: It’s like me announcing I will start a diet on Monday.
• hamstringstring: I assume this means we can stop paying taxes to Egypt as well?

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

• sitewolf: ‘Oh honey, let’s buy a camper’ (that you end up using twice a year after the excitement of the first one)
• Successful-Fan2742: Upsizing to a bigger house and then realizing you’ve also upsized taxes, maintenance, and stress
• thanhngx153: Huge houses. People think about the mortgage, but forget furniture, maintenance, repairs, insurance and property taxes never stop

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)

• Randvek: Cobra farm vibes here.
• AxelNotRose: Infinite money loop for the slavers.
• Stuck_in_my_TV: Giving money to someone perpetrating an atrocity will only perpetuate more atrocities as you have increased the incentives for them to keep committing heinous actions in the hopes of future payouts.

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

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Top AI Startups Which Are Not OpenAI/Anthropic (Blind)

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

Best date to join Uber (Blind)

• 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)

• thenexus6: Desktop only for me then, which means I’ll be on here even less.
• Negafox: Not interested in websites trying to force their app. I don’t need a zillion apps on my phone that are just the mobile site running in Chromium
• AwfulUsername123: Old Reddit remains the proper way to browse Reddit.

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

• cauchy37: One would think that after all those supply chain attacks most big companies would use private artifactory that’s like a month or two behind, to prevent exactly this.
• vips7L: Saved again by being a Luddite and not using vscode or Claude. 
• Maybe-monad: Always pin your packages

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

• Melodic-Ebb-7781: I mainly feel squeezed. On one hand we’re supposed to quickly start writing all code with LLMs and hit new ambitious targets but on the other corporate are cheaping out on tokens, and tools (we don’t even have claude code only copilot) and IT refuses data connectors to be setup between different internal knowledge bases. Instead we’re getting endless workshops with external consultants who mostly seem clueless.
• klibs: Yes it sucks
• maxou2727: You just have dumb management, jump ship before they start realizing their mistakes and layoff people.

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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)

• YcemeteryTreeY: Sadly it was probably human smuggling. Smugglers dont care, they will abandon everyone if they think theyre going to get caught.
• lormightymike: Reminds me of the beginning of Season 2 of the Wire when they found 13 dead women in the shipping container.
• thatgirl25_: How strange and tragic is the reality that we currently. That people need to risk their lives and flee to other lands to feel safer. And the only thing separating us from this horrific ending is geographical luck. First world nations existing on the exploitation of the second and third world will not last.

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)

• ComprehensiveForm129: Each step of the way, I couldn’t have predicted where that sentence was going
• puddinfellah: To be clear, the ordinance was struck down in 2000 for privacy concerns, but unlike the other krews, it did not return to the parade.
• Klockworth: So it’s a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant crewe that didn’t allow Catholics marching in a parade celebrating a catholic holiday?

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

• AfterHoursAllure: A first class lie flat seat on a long haul flight. I showed up tired, ate real food with a metal fork, put on pajamas, and slept horizontally at 35,000 feet. Got off the plane like a human being. No neck pain, no regret. Suddenly understood why people never go back
• Concave007: tailored clothing. wore a shirt that actually fit once. spent the next 10 years angry at every shirt i’d ever owned.
• ZebraMussell: I used to think rich people were impatient because they were entitled. I realized they’re “impatient” because they’ve tasted what it’s like when the world actually works efficiently, and once you’ve had that, every 15 minute delay feels like a personal tax on your life.

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Is Java a looked down upon language, if you code in Java you a disgrace? (Blind)

• 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.

Is Microsoft still a decent place to work for? (Blind)

• WhoAmI000 (Microsoft): Remember you’re on Blind where default mode is grumpy with victim mentality. Of course you’re going to hear it sucks. This isn’t where the happy people hang out. Truth is, it’s like every other enterprise - depends on the group, your work and manager. There are people who are very good who love their jobs at Microsoft - just like everywhere else. However, the majority aren’t here lurking Blind.
• nutella_x (Atlassian): Microsoft gave me chronic anxiety that i’m still dealing with years later. It was downright traumatizing.
• AIBotFarm (Microsoft): If you like being gaslit, it’s a great place to work.

Get out while you have the chance (Blind)

• 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)

• Sherman140824: Vibrations disrupt sleep
• winterbird: But the rich don’t want to hear emergency transport helicopters landing at a children’s hospital sometimes.
• 6gv5: If there are infrasound involved, seismometers must be able to detect them.

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)

• kilgoreq: I’m always on Rossmann’s side.
• Cyrisaurus: Pro-tip for companies that want to look consumer friendly: don’t threaten the guy who has dedicated his life to fighting for customer rights
• paulerxx: Louis Rossmann is a legend and every single one of us should be on his side.

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

• RegretNo6554: i kinda miss it but i’m just glad i went thru the struggles of learning programming from scratch pre AI and running into so many walls that trained up my debugging skills. nowadays im just building shi really fast with AI that i never had the time to do. I’ve been solving more of my own problems now rather than business or arbitrary homework problems.
• disposepriority: I still do a lot of traditional programming, because without setting up the general structure, expectations, interactions and abstractions AI takes a piss all over my codebase, so I’m not sure what you’re on about.
• andrasta25: We’re automating out the fun part. Some folks are talking about making skills that will take jira tickets and write the code for us. If we become professional jira ticket writers that’s not what I signed up for.

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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)

• a_velis: Thats great. We really need childcare though.
• TheMirrorUS: The program will supply each family at around 70 partnered hospitals with 400 diapers sized for newborns and babies up to 14 pounds ❤️
• mossimoto11: Anyone know what hospitals and how you qualify? I’m due in 5 weeks hahaha

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

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Got a rejection from OpenAI today (Blind)

• 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

Cloudflare laid off 20% of workforce, what a joke (Blind)

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

Claude vs ChatGPT (Blind)

• 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)

• Marcostbo: Which big tech? Name it
• saint_celestine: I’m pretty sure this is coinbase. Their CEO talked about combining design, pm, and engineers into one role in a Twitter post
• Codex_Dev: one day the LLM companies are going to pull an Uber and jack up the prices once their competition (ie. real SWEs) retire.

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.