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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

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

• SpaceElements: We need trials if the Dems win in the mid-terms. There needs to be accountability for these human rights abuses and violation of our citizen’s constitution rights. This cannot be allowed to stand
• ClaroStar: American citizens are not required to carry proof of citizenship on them just to be in public spaces. This smells like something from 1940s central Europe.
• Blanketsburg: Every single person involved in this woman’s ordeal deserves to go to prison.

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

• Ayarkay: People were subway surfing long before social media. I’m trying to find clear/reliable stats, but from what I can tell the number of subway surfer deaths in NYC in the 80s-90s was higher than in recent years.
• dballing: People have been doing dumb shit with subways long before social media came along
• Well_Spoken_Mute: 14 years old? Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Coinbase lays off 14% (Blind)

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

I say 3 years before SWEs have NO JOB lol (Blind)

• NYXa24: If SWEs have no job, then someone nontechnical can 1 shot prompt software. If that happens, AGI has already been achieved and nobody will have a job. Before AGI is achieved, and while AI gets better, plenty of SWEs will be needed. Much less than before, yes, but plenty because you can’t 1 shot prompt software. If you’re at a point where you think all you’re doing is pressing enter and agreeing with every Claude Code prompt, then unfortunately you’re one of the SWEs the market is trying to phase out - you’re not needed.
• oFdS82 (Google): OP is correct. I’m a non swe and I’ve had SWEs say to me “wait wtf you built THAT??!” Like they are seriously impressed lol. I can just do shit that takes teams of 20 engineers weeks. Is it production grade? No idea, probably not. Doesn’t matter. Speed is king. There are people who say “oh, AI will create an abundance of jobs. One engineer does the job of ten so instead of laying off the 9 let’s just assign them to other projects” 😂 this is false. They will 💯 get laid off in the guise of AI.
• lkgukg (Rubrik): Y’all are paranoid. Short term the total number of jobs will go down. Long term it will come back to normal. Cost of software will go down. Companies will make more products, more engineers will be needed to make more products. 5 engineers making V1 of a product goes down to 1 engineer. Scale the math. Multiply total number of products. Things will get more competitive making our lives painful.

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

• mechy84: Boo this man!
• your_catfish_friend: This headline is very confusingly-worded. The graduates are getting booed, which shapes AI’s future? Or the graduates are booing themselves?
• 71-HourAhmed: “I have bet the entire company on this technology. My career, reputation, and history’s view of my tenure as CEO are inextricably linked to AI. You should embrace it. You’re making me look bad!”

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

• skccsk: Interesting that the CEO role continues to be unreplaceable by AI according to CEOs.
• According_Jeweler404: 99% of CEOs Expect to Use AI as Smokescreen for Layoffs in the Next Two Years
• Belyal: 9 out of 10 CEOs also admit that AI driven efforts have yielded no added gains to productivity…

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

• Even_Scheme_3080: so Chrome is basically proposing we do less JavaScript to update the DOM — and somehow this is controversial
• sojuz151: A really clear explanation and a demo that shows why would we even need this. Anything that can be used to replace Javascript is a win for me
• Lachee: I hate google just comes up with new standards and now it’s up to everyone to catch up. It’s IE all over again

Jira IS Turing-complete (r/programming)

• Popular-Awareness262: jira workflows can simulate a turing machine but god forbid you need to transition an issue back one step lmao
• gimmeslack12: Wait, this isn’t the right epic. You need to put this in a story and then clone it into the current sprint. Make sure you set velocity points and to use the appropriate team so that it doesn’t go to the backlog. Also make sure that the infra members are added as watchers and assign the ticket to on-call. Make sure they’re tasks and not bugs.
• ChemTechGuy: I always like these posts, well done. Knowing the community, someone will get Doom to run on jira in a couple weeks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• HutSutRawlson: I’m a musician… the two biggest hazards are either drug use or driving home tired after a late gig.
• Drascio1773: Alcoholism is the widowmaker of the alcohol industry. From producers to salespeople, distributors to retail/bar sales. 20%+ alcoholism rate that I’ve seen many people ruin their lives in this career. It can be lucrative and a lot of fun but it can also take hold and be tough to shake.
• Crazyboutdogs: Veterinary works here- suicide. We have one of the highest rates of any profession. Compassion fatigue, abuse by clients, low wages/super high stress all play a big part. It’s so bad we have entire foundations battling it.

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

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

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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.
• LRWPT21 (Microsoft): Rewards portal has been open for managers since 5/21. Adding screenshot of instructions received. What a joke.

Meta is dead. Morale is dead. (Blind)

• aint shit (Amazon): It is a gross company. Why would you expect anything different?
• avgbeing (Apple): They fired and saved what? 3-4B annually?
• 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.

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

• swollennode: Yeah we know there are a lot of research being done with this. This require the WiFi router to have the firmware necessary for mass adoption. This is probably why the FCC was banning routers and allowing others to go through.
• Bainik: This is super unsurprising. There have been proof of concept level papers about using wifi hotspots for keystroke detection on nearby keyboards for a decade or so. The jump from there to here seems extremely small.
• SoggyFist: With all the shit on my desk? Nah

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

• not_right: Needs to be the law that if you want to build a data centre you also have to build the (sustainable) power supply for it.
• Alternative_Swan_497: But just think about how much wealthier the ultra-rich will be!
• Yakety_Sax: Can someone please explain to me why we are subsidizing the increased strain on the grid instead if just having the Data centers pay more?

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

• Silicon_Knight: Don’t look at the spaceX IPO then. lol. Their whole plan is 90% of revenue coming from Grok with something like 70T in value lol.
• inotocracy: I’d say its ability to analyse social media content (twitter) in real time, whether it be text, images or video is pretty impressive.
• Doomu5: It’s quite funny when people use it to fact check Musk.

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

• Eliarece: As a developer from a third world country, it has been very depressing to see American compagnies spend the equivalent of my yearly salary on one month of token for one dev
• aitchnyu: But the companies got a time window when people generated Rube Goldberg machines they cant understand nor update by hand.
• SinbadBusoni: Well, it wasn’t fun while it lasted.

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Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Director of National Intelligence (r/news)

• Stock-Pattern-8635: I wonder if that whistleblower report shes been trying to block will come out soon now
• WatchmanVimes: “Whelp my job is done here! I have removed all intelligence!”
• Alt_Restorer: How many women do we have left now?

All charges against Chicago protesters dropped in latest ICE case to unravel | Chicago (r/news)

• BrofessorFarnsworth: Start disbarring the prosecutors. This shit needs consequences.
• Neilpuck: Meanwhile, how much have those protesters had to spend on legal fees etc, and how many have lost their jobs?
• AugustOfChaos: Every single person who was falsely arrested should sue the living shit out of ICE and the government.

Ukraine liberated 590 square kilometers of territory this year, ‘forcing Russia toward diplomacy,’ Zelensky says (r/worldnews)

• brainrotxx: putin gonna say “Ukraine is invading russia!! pls stop them!!”
• Morgandoto: Putin still wants to fight to the last russian. He will throw a mass mobilization soon, and when every mobilized soldier dies, he will use a nuke.
• buttplugpeddler: This man is everything I wish my president was.

Bank boss sorry after describing workers as ’lower value human capital’ (r/worldnews)

• WasteBinStuff: “I’m truly sorry ^that ^I ^got ^caught ^saying ^it.”
• CrackerBarrelGrandma: This is what many business elites think
• AloneChapter: Sorry he was caught . Not sorry about the disrespect though

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

• KellyAnn3106: Talking about your high school accomplishments.
• FunctionAfter6683: 18 year olds
• mtconnol: Being a high school senior

TIL physicist Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s field equations while dying of disease on the WWI Eastern Front. His solution predicted black holes. He wrote to Einstein: “the war treated me kindly enough to allow me to take this walk in the land of your ideas.” He died months later. (r/todayilearned)

• ArgentineBeauty: The quote absolutely broke me. Imagine being that close to death and still finding wonder in someone else’s ideas. This is why I love history.
• FlammenwerferIV: Heartbreaking that such a brilliant mind had to fight a war
• keajohns: Physicist and poet

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Meta execs can opt out of AI surveillance. Everyone else can’t. (Blind)

• MedusaJ (Microsoft): Cancer eating itself
• AWildWorld (Apple): No leadership does not care about employee petitions
• MSatyta (Microsoft): Time to unionize MetaMates or just keep having layoffs

Meta pulled Thanos on Managers (Blind)

• Reqarded (Robinhood): Good, managers are useless
• rkigxvwkfi (Netflix): No more human bloat, thats good
• chitumbigu (Snap): So if they’re not technical they’re cooked? Lmao

Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees (r/technology)

• sunnyshorescreative: Which probably explains the layoffs in these companies investing heavily into using AI
• Shiningc00: In the end these are all LLMs where they’ve hyped it into thinking we’ll get AGIs.
• NoScallion2856: Imagine firing thousands of actual people just to end up losing money on a chatbot.

Reddit stock drops 6% after Meta launches standalone app for online forums / Reddit’s stock is now down almost 40% this year despite a strengthening online ad business (r/technology)

• polkadanceparty: lol. I can’t wait for every facebook person to stay on facebook and leave reddit
• lockwolf: Ahh, the Reddit killer from Meta. Like Threads was supposed to be the Twitter killer from Meta
• darw1nf1sh: Reddit’s downfall isn’t directly related to a FB app. It is related to their own mismanagement.

Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool after nine months (r/technology)

• surfnfish1972: The worst part of all this, AI does not even fookin work!
• NoScallion2856: Imagine spending billions on AI just to lose a fight against a bottle of milk.
• vortexmak: What are you talking about,  it correctly identified “Not a hotdog”

If you use the “Get Shit Done” (GSD) AI tool, you need to migrate immediately (Original creator rug-pulled) (r/ClaudeAI)

• martin1744: gsd: get shit deleted
• Firm_Meeting6350: thanks for sharing, seriously!
• terraslate: he definitely got shit done.