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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.

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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