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Americans exposed to Hantavirus upset about being forced to quarantine in Nebraska (r/news)

• Negative-Solution108: Typical behavior for the time we live in. Even the smallest sacrifice is too much to ask
• Smooth-Boss-911: These are indeed the times we’re in. It’s all about “me me me” no one gives af about their community.
• Blazah: Sorry not sorry. Sit your butt in Nebraska till you can’t infect the rest of us. NOBODY trusts you to isolate in your own home. We’ve SEEN how people behave before.

Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement (r/news)

• sithelephant: ‘The meme Bushart posted that prompted his arrest read: “This seems relevant today…” and featured President Donald Trump and the words, “We have to get over it.” That quote, the meme explained, was said by Trump in 2024 after a school shooting at Iowa’s Perry High School.
• Hrekires: I’m almost certain that I’d be fired if I made a mistake that cost my company $835k in damages.
• bigredthesnorer: Can he sue the Sheriff for $2B?

Harvard faculty votes to make it more difficult for undergrads to earn As (r/news)

• lurpeli: Grade inflation is well known. Any top tier university is going to be giving largely As and Bs to all students even if they barely pass a class. Makes GPAs hardly matter.
• groglox: We had this and it made being an RA so much more stressful. The required GPA over 3.5 combined with how difficult achieving that actually was ended up creating some of the most stress-filled students I have ever seen.
• prodigaldummy: What is the purpose of a grade? Is it an objective reflection of a student’s mastery of a subject, or a reflection of a student’s mastery of a subject relative to their peers?

What is a minor, unwritten rule of society that absolutely infuriates you when people break it? (r/AskReddit)

• Legal_Interaction498: when a group of people spread out into a straight line on the sidewalk, completely blocking the way
• I_sleep_on_a_bed: When people blast whatever video they’re watching in public
• mossyfern45: Speakerphone in public

TIL that Tom Lehrer - MIT mathematician, satirist, and the guy who wrote both the Harvard fight song and a song teaching kids the periodic table - invented the Jell-O shot in the 1950s to sneak booze into a government Christmas party. (r/todayilearned)

• AcceptableWheel: He also made all his songs public domain when he was older specifically because he wanted rappers to sample him.
• Sage1969: TIL he died last year :(
• erksplat: A regular Renaissance Man.

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Meta really hired me just to fire me during bootcamp (Blind)

• goatse.cx (Boeing): Your resume will be 10x stronger with meta on it, even if only there for a month
• team-snow (Snowflake): Were you a low performer during the bootcamp?
• iqbdh (Meta): Layoff was leaked 2 months ago and you still join? And no backup plan?

META Layoff Thread (Blind)

• meta7890 (Walmart): Anyone know what the criteria is? My husband who is a TPM got impacted and has exceeded expectations for his annual review 2 years in a row.
• Blink404: Ex-Microsoft with 400k TC? How? Spill it here.
• sadi_life2 (Amazon): I’m seeing a lot of Meta product managers being laid off!

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban / A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and “a total termination of all internet services." (r/technology)

• SlapThatAce: Looks like someone needs to have an audit done on their finances.
• jamesdmc: Looks like somebody just lost out on a backroom payday.
• Choice-Ad6376: Why is buying local city/town leadership not prosecuted more. This is obviously bribery across the country. This seems like layups for state ads to prosecute. 

AI Is Too Expensive: AI is, as it stands, not economically viable for anybody involved other than the construction firms, NVIDIA, and the surrounding hardware companies benefitting from the irrational exuberance of a data center buildout that doesn’t appear to be happening at the speed we believed (r/technology)

• Glittering-Living585: nvidia gets paid whether AI works out or not. that tells you everything about who’s actually winning here
• woodpaulusgnome: Ecologically it would be an absolute disaster if the speed at which we are informed this expansion is taking place. It amazes me that plans can be made to build without the required resources in place.
• North_Penalty7947: To date, ed zitron’s claims are more accurate than those of scam altman or slop musk.

YAML? That’s Norway problem (r/programming)

• rminsk: Don’t use PyYAML. It is no longer maintained and only supports YAML 1.1. Try a different library like ruamel.yaml that supports YAML 1.2.
• jletourneau: Ontario is another one that hits this problem. The truthiest province.
• CrackerJackKittyCat: Ah, this generation’s New England ZIP codes in CSV vs Excel.

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US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns (r/news)

• Salarian_American: In a sane world, asking to be exempted from all future auditing would be a reason to audit someone immediately.
• nickkom: Corruption, plain and simple
• cointoss3: Haha the justice department can’t affect future attorneys general from reverting this. Only way to make this for real for real is a law. Guidelines can always be amended.
• soundisloud: Absolutely ruined the integrity of America

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights (r/news)

• TurkeyVolumeGuesser: If only this would happen but I don’t see it
• MidnightMoon1331: Can we boycott the IRS and not pay taxes over slush fund and tax immunity too?
• Ok-Replacement6893: Hit them where it hurts them most.
• oldmaninparadise: Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Penn. All great football programs. California, Oregon and Washington too. Problem is there are only 25 new slots per year per team.

Trump Wants Russia and China to Help Combat the International Court That Charges War Crimes (r/worldnews)

• TubeframeMR2: When a guy starts recruiting autocracies to weaken war crimes tribunals, you have to wonder what we don’t know.
• aircooledJenkins: “Trump, a good boy, Is Following The Orders His Leash Holders Have Given Him.”
• nativeridge_: Americans you have a suicidal government at the wheel and you are full speed off the road ploughing through the undergrowth
• Banana-phone15: So Trump wants to start a boy band for war criminals

What is a ‘single person luxury’ that people in relationships completely miss out on? (r/AskReddit)

• Ok-Refrigerator-8664: Never having to discuss plans with anyone. No discussion on dinner, what to watch, what to do, or where to go. You just do what you want all the time.
• LateNightLatin: Knowing things will be exactly where the left them. The amount of time I go looking for the kitchen scissors.
• headcase-and-a-half: Knowing that the piece of chocolate cake you left in the fridge will still be there whenever you want it.
• Fresh-Package5303: Being able to do absolutely nothing all weekend without having to explain it to anyone

TIL After Francis I exchanged himself in spanish captivity in 1526 with his two sons, aged 7 and 8, he annuled everything he signed in exchange for his release, but the kids remained in captivity for nearly 4 years. His eldest son and heir was scarred for life as a result (r/todayilearned)

• GarysCrispLettuce: Father of the Year 1526
• AskAskim: It’s pretty clear to me from all of history that “family” either meant something way tighter than we are familiar with now, or absolutely nothing.
• cometlin: TIL After King Francis I traded himself for his sons to escape Spanish captivity in 1526, he later annulled the agreement, leaving the boys imprisoned for years
• Exact_Touch_4794: This is similar to how Byzantine emperors also thought. Some even killed or blinded their own children. It’s all about how important you think you are and what God wants

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Claude 5=Nuclear bomb (Blind)

• TheRealBoz (Meta): Even when using Claude to write most code, it hasn’t made people much faster. It also can’t function without a SWE. Even if the next model makes less mistakes and has a bigger context, still wont change the real bottlenecks.
• nhci (Amazon): Worst part is, someone with an MBA is going to see this and believe it.
• uqwH11 (Google): Not sure what you are smoking OP. It is still a mid productivity boost for anything reasonably hard, and nowhere close to replace actual SWE. It is not 10x, not even 2x for things which are hard and actually time consuming. Nobody cares how fast it can build crappy CRUD website or another HTML-based game nobody will play.
• AeJP42 (Indeed): The last time I asked Claude 4 to write me some unit tests it wrote tests for functionality that literally didn’t exist and then mocked everything so they would pass anyway, lol

I’m about to get laid off from Meta (Blind)

• muul (JUUL): For Meta you usually get 16 weeks of salary severance and then additional 2 weeks per year based on years of service. Whatever is not vested by your termination date is gone. Both of these are pretty standard stuff for tech.
• mstrchf117 (Google): It’s sad, how long did you work at Meta?? It’s a shitty thing to do after they make you grind leetcode during interviews.
• rWIT40: Just in case, I’d suggest signing up for Blind with your current company before you get laid off. That way you can actually see what’s going on after the layoffs.
• Vh31sK (Airbnb): Your post is confusing. Are you getting laid off or are you getting fired? These are not the same thing.

‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub (r/technology)

• thegooncity: The worst leak they’ve witnessed so far.
• scamdrill: Six months of GovCloud admin credentials sitting in a public repo named Private-CISA, in a file called importantAWStokens, and the official statement is “no indication sensitive data was compromised.” I mean, technically true — nobody needed to compromise it. It was just sitting there. Like a buffet.
• SparkStormrider: I wish I could say I am shocked, but the level of ineptitude in govt. at all levels is astounding. Just like in Trumps last stint as President. Rudy Guliani (sp?) was put over cyber security and they deployed a public facing SQL server with ZERO protections. It got owned in a few minutes after deployment. And that’s just one of what we know about…
• Imoutofchips: They chased away every competent person they had. Just crooks and idiots left.

Google Search as you know it is over (r/technology)

• bitskewer: How are they paying for this? Seems like they’re cannibalizing their ad referral business while providing zero-cost AI services. Surely this isn’t sustainable?
• jmonschke: The “enshitification” of Google search is not an accident. It was an intentional decision made within Google, because when you find what you are looking for on the first page, they can’t serve you as many ads.
• willieb3: The problem is that google is scraping websites and bypassing ad revenue that should go to websites. I used to want google to reach my website, but now there is legitimately nothing in it for me so I am actively blocking Google’s bots.
• NicolasCageFan492: We really had a good thing going before algorithms.

Gen Z’s AI backlash is getting louder (r/technology)

• Samski877: Gen Z graduating into a job market where companies want “entry level candidates” with 5 years experience while simultaneously replacing half the entry level work with AI is genuinely brutal timing.
• chriskot123: I don’t think this is specific to Gen Z…as a millennial, there is a TON of backlash from us (and even Gen x) as well.
• ischickenafruit: “AI is going to replace you and make me rich” is not exactly a winning message.
• SNTCTN: I love getting emails from people who clearly didn’t read what I sent and just had AI write a response for them.

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Trump says he’s postponing ‘scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow’ at Middle East leaders’ request (r/worldnews)

• Leather_Net_3330: its not even tuesday yet.
• Flimsy_Category_9369: This feels like Groundhog Day at this point
• lastpassonright: This idiot has absolutely no way out of this mess.
• Temporary-Canary-346: Sorry there were attacks scheduled for tomorrow?!?

Bodies of missing Italian divers found in Maldives (r/news)

• ScottScanlon: Sad situation all around, but you can’t pay me enough to be going deep into caves in the ocean.
• Tyrrox: The had an improper gas mix for the depth they went. It’s a sad story but unfortunately even tenured diving professionals get complacent with the dangers.
• ThriftyMegaMan: New YouTube video from like 12 different content creators coming in 3, 2, 1,
• Hefty_Anywhere_8537: I’m a diver, and very nearly died on a 50m nitrox dive in French Polynesia. Traumatic experience, this is so sad and tragic.

Active shooter reported at Islamic Center of San Diego: Police (r/news)

• lostroadrunner22: Its over, both shooters are dead.
• YOSHIMIvPROBOTS: Police say shooters appeared to have killed themselves.
• Brilliant-Concern620: People are celebrating it on YouTube. We are living in sick times.
• Jamie00003: Can you just stop for 5 minutes America?

An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth (r/worldnews)

• Catchphrase1228: It’s the bugs again!
• orangelity: Am I to understand that our entire planet’s radar capabilities to provide us with radar information on these types of objects were dependent on only one telescope (which collapsed 6 years ago) and one antenna (which is currently down for extended maintenance)?
• TheOriginalBroCone: Why are redditors so weird about wanting people to die from asteroid strikes? 
• RandomPantsAppear: Getting hit by an asteroid feels like it would fit right in with the 2020s itinerary. 

What is something you’ve officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting? (r/AskReddit)

• xxleoxangelxx: Fast food
• myotheroneders: Fast food. The prices are so stupid that I can go to my locally owned sports bar and get much better food for a comparable price. I can’t justify spending that same amount of money for shitty food.
• garej: Food delivery. Buying a taxi for a burrito is too expensive.
• queenmellyy: Beer/wine/liquor at a restaurant. The drink shouldn’t cost as much as a meal.

TIL that the son of the man who welcomed the puritans and fed them when they were starving had his head cut off and put on a spike for 20 years at the same location as the first thanksgiving. (r/todayilearned)

• Gargomon251: Wait his SON? What the hell did HE do?
• SeaBearsFoam: And that’s where the Thanksgiving tradition of killing one of your family members and putting their head on a spike came from.
• LAAccountant: He was killed by another native.
• Porlarta: Deeply misleading way to talk about King Phillips war.

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META PLANS LAYOFFS IN 3 BATCHES GLOBALLY WEDNESDAY: RTRS (Blind)

• vNFr16: H1bs prioritized?
• xytcyiuo (eBay): Is anyone getting any work done with all this anticipation?
• UQu4gs6Z (Meta): Feeling anxious…
• GasonJ (Marqeta): Are debelopers affected though?

Is AI actually helping you ship faster? (Blind)

• rkigxvwkfi (Netflix): Only slightly in corporate setting because of review/planning/alignment/etc. much much faster for my side projects because i dont need any approval
• mXsM13: Everyone tells me how productive it has made them. I see 5000 line PRs left and right. But what is really being produced? Do any of the big tech sites have anything new and great? Are your releases bigger or better than before? I am just not seeing the end result.
• Ysbsbrb (Google): No because I just work less
• mUEm22 (eBay): coding is only a small part of software engineering. And most people don’t like AI documentation slop.

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix (r/technology)

• EntireBig7258: building data centers in phoenix and then being surprised they make it hotter is like building a fireplace in a sauna and wondering why it got warm
• justmitzie: Great idea. Build something that raises temps and also sucks up water. In the desert.
• torgofjungle: Ahh I see we want to remove what little water was left in Phoenix
• Slippery-ape: In Phoenix at that. Where Asphalt remelts.

Senator Adam Schiff Proposes Bill Requiring Data Centers to Pay for Own Power (r/technology)

• mattreyu: Sorry, what now? Why on earth would power-hungry private companies not have to pay for their own power?
• alchemyDev: How the hell isn’t this already a thing?
• Decimit-: What is this magical idea of the business paying for the things they use??!!!
• FriedWhy: This is outraging! What’s next? Making companies pay taxes? Pay workers livable wages? The left just does not know when enough is enough. /s

314 npm packages just got compromised, 271 @antv, echarts-for-react, size-sensor, timeago.js (r/programming)

• SupermarketAntique32: Just another tuesday for NPM
• Maybe-monad: the s in npm stands for security
• dark_mode_everything: Why does this keep happening to us asks only package manager where this keeps happening regularly.
• Independent_Image_59: Is it just me or major CVEs got way too frequent now?

Creator of C++: “AI-generated code isn’t ready - it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate” (r/singularity)

• OrkWithNoTeef: It would take at least two singularities for AI to understand C++ variadic template metaprogramming compiler errors
• jferments: Code that people write using AI tools is not “impossible to validate”. You validate it exactly the same way you validate code written by humans who aren’t using AI tools.
• SgtChrome: Love Bjarne, but mentioning specific problems like that will look shortsighted when, two models down the line, AI will inevitably not make those mistakes anymore.
• AddingAUsername: As someone that (for some reason) likes C++, I can definitely say that using AI is much harder for it and much more micro-intensive. It’s much harder to vibecode etc. so I understand where he is coming from.

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A solar plant in Minnesota planted flowers beneath its panels, and soon monarch butterflies and dozens of new plant species began to appear (r/news)

• Rattus_NorvegicUwUs: Finally. Some good news.
• Laniidae_: This is solarpunk and I’m here for it
• CMG30: It’s almost like the push to ban solar on agricultural land is a paid astroturf campaign to delay renewable energy and preserve fossil profits…
• guinnypig: There are a zillion of these solar farms around me. I want this to happen so badly!

2 Navy jets crash during air show in Idaho, 4 crew members eject safely (r/news)

• bassicallyinsane: What a great use of 136 million dollars
• MountainlessBiking: I’m glad when I fuck up at work it’s just an email or something. I can’t imagine the verbal abuse this would cause 
• Rare_Contract_8657: I’d be really interested to see what caused the crash. Was it user error? Equipment malfunction? Glad the pilots are all safe though!
• NigeySaid: I saw the video and I’m still baffled by them all surviving

Latest militant attacks on schools in Nigeria leave more than 80 children missing, officials say (r/news)

• OkBuy4754: Heartbreaking. Nigeria needs real security reform, not just empty promises again.
• IBitePrettyPeople: Religious warfare in the big 2026
• Vepariga: only the weak prey on the defenseless.

Zelenskyy Confirms Ukraine Was Behind Massive Moscow Drone Strike (r/worldnews)

• dimgwar: Tell Cersei,. I want her to know it was me
• CaptCurmudgeon: I love that phrasing – long range sanctions.
• Undernown: This really hammered home how Ukraine allowed Putin to have a safe victory day parade.

Who destroyed their own career within seconds by being an idiot? (r/AskReddit)

• SparkyandDolche: The people on the Coldplay “kiss cam.”
• AdeptVeterinarian541: The white lady who called the cops on a black man who was bird watching in a public park and asked her to put her dog on a leash. When she called the police she was screaming about a “black man trying to get me” and he was this nerdy looking guy who watches birds. She had a very lucrative job at Franklin Templeton Investments, she was fired.
• NOT-packers-fan2022: The FBI agent that did the back flip in a bar, dropped his gun, grabbed it, negligent discharge, someone was hit but lived, arrested, prosecuted and terminated.
• cageytalker: That woman who tweeted that she was flying to Africa and she hoped she didn’t get AIDS. She turned off her phone and when she landed, she saw that her life exploded.

TIL in 2014, Ben Affleck received a lifetime ban from the blackjack tables at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas after surveillance footage showed him counting cards during a high-stakes game. Security informed him he was “too good” and classified him as an advantage player. (r/todayilearned)

• WelshBathBoy: This is why the house always wins, making perfectly sensible game play ‘against the rules’. Counting cards is just using a bit of deduction by keeping tabs of the cards played - hardly cheating.
• wrighteghe7: This is such a hilarious rule. What kind of fucking game is it where its “cheating” if you win at it and why people play it still?
• I_Never_Use_Slash_S: Guess he wasn’t acting in The Accountant.
• SorryAboutLater: How can you tell if someone is counting cards? Can you just kick anyone out for winning and accuse them of this.

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Tokenmaxxing is a problem and it makes actual legitimate workers look bad. (Blind)

• wDEN53 (Booking.com): more tokens = more hallucinations, just wait for this shit to blow up in a really bad way, then, perhaps, this obsession will settle
• ca\$ (Capital One): I token max by doing my actual job. I don’t have time to waste an AI budget I just have too much work to do. Routinely I run 10 claudes at a time
• gritwest (Careem): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ~ Goodharts Law
• rav444m3 (Microsoft): It’s also an asshole move. There’s a real physical cost to AI and it’s incredibly wasteful with physical infrastructure

Microsoft AI vs. Microsoft CoreAI WLB (Blind)

• gmKY75 (Microsoft): I’d say it’s team dependent but generally coreAI is more relaxed. MAI has at least 4 days RTO, coreAI is 3
• extmem (Meta): MAI is higher pay and CoreAI is just Microsoft pay
• nzwswing79: Layoffs expected, no wonder both are toxic
• HAw!qwtz (Microsoft): Internal transfer from Azure to MAI, any salary increase?

Google L7 or OpenAI L5? (Blind)

• &=(1«31) (OpenAI): OpenAI is an incredible place to work. Far far better than Google.
• ventiventi: OpenAI for sure. You want to join Google in 2005 rather than Google in 2026
• djskdbejeo (Apple): TC for l5 OpenAI should be 1.5M. They cut your rsu in half
• xrhaig8 (Google): Until Altman is gone from OAI I would choose Google, guy is a walking lawsuit.

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it (r/technology)

• notanfan: The researcher explained that they “just can’t come up with an explanation beside the fact that this was intentional. Also for whatever reason, only windows 11 (+Server 2022/2025) are affect, windows 10 is not.”
• New-Ranger-8960: There has never been a better time to ditch Microsoft products and services
• asdf_lord: Operating systems are too important to be closed source.
• Mama_Office_141: Snowden leaks told us this in 2013. The whole world should be moving away from American software like France is doing

An AI hate wave is here (r/technology)

• freshairequalsducks: Needs more hate tbh
• Laserdollarz: AI has its uses and place. Stop shoving it into everything and it wouldn’t get a fraction of the hate it currently gets. 
• hypernsansa: Should’ve started earlier, if you ask me
• unwelcome_flesh_sack: Let it build into a hate monsoon which covers the earth. Fuck these billionaire assholes trying to create a cyberpunk dystopia.

LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ (r/technology)

• Sweaty_Rub4322: Is this the only way to even get your application looked at at this point?
• williamgman: LinkedIn = Facebook for work.
• gplusplus314: The actual article is garbage. Anyone find the actual prompt injection example?
• ScheduleNo5736: This is genuinely brilliant AND terrifying at the same time ngl

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Maldives military diver dies while trying to recover scuba diving victims in underwater cave: Officials (r/news)

• Fitdoc50: I really hope I don’t die in an underwater cave. How to prevent this?
• shoulda-known-better: I thought the first rule was don’t go back for people in cave diving
• girusatuku: What is the #1 cause of death among cave divers? Cave diving. What is #2? Retrieving the bodies of those who died from #1.

Humpback whale released after spectacular rescue effort found dead (r/news)

• KimJongFunk: So many marine biologists and veterinarians advised against moving this whale but the social media uproar demanded action and this is what happened. RIP Timmy :(
• FrankieTheD: Once a whale at the point it’s disoriented and beaching its pretty slim odds right? Remember a few cases in the news it rarely works out
• Masterweedo: Sadly, I didn’t expect any other outcome.

At least 3 killed, numerous residential buildings hit in mass drone attack on Moscow region (r/worldnews)

• xmuskorx: Ukrainian telegram channels are posting oil infrastructure burning in Zelenograd and Solnechnogorsk (basically a suburb of Moscow)
• BionicShenanigans: Can you imagine hearing this a couple years ago? Ukraine has the initiative
• Sonyguyus: How dare Ukraine invade the country that invaded it first!

North America’s largest commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike (r/news)

• Humble_Diner32: I, a long time union member and a third generation union worker, stand with them. Let’s unionize the American workforce.
• RoyalZeal: I stand with the workers, if they were being taken care of they wouldn’t be striking.
• paleo2002: The LIRR is the largest commuter train system in North America? That’s sad. I thought NJT or something in California would be larger.

What industry is actually a complete scam, but everyone accepts it? (r/AskReddit)

• Embarrassed_Ask8293: Ticketmaster
• boomlakshmi: Wedding industry
• bigfatgeekboy: Time shares. Payday loans.

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Anthropic hiring is basically closed to the public (Blind)

• texasholde (Apple): Have you tried messaging a recruiter? That got me an interview without a referral.
• purefect (Everpure): Nah, they’re just closed to ex-Amazon workers.
• nzwswing79: I self reject before any anthropic job get posted

Stock up 17%. Cisco still firing people… (Blind)

• fj8ne7hs1 (Transformco): Cisco is not the company it once was a decade ago.
• greatful19 (Apple): I worked hard at Cisco 20+ years back! Glad I kept some of the old espp stocks!
• LegRooom (Google): I don’t know why people still ‘work hard’. Do the bare minimum and enjoy your time with your family.

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support (r/technology)

• number1dipshit: Good! What kinda bullshit is that? You pay for a product and they just make it obsolete unless you break some rules? Fuck amazon
• CondiMesmer: If a company ends support, they should legally be required to open source and let it be flashed.
• killerrin: Just waiting for the EU to crack down on them…any day now.

Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead (r/technology)

• tc100292: Palantir dies when?
• Zeraru: Palantir’s business model is Supervillainy as a Service.
• electrobento: Palantir is an enemy to humanity.

America’s productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why | Fortune (r/technology)

• bigfuzzydog: Someone tell that to my CEO who just this year brought us back to the office full time
• Toby-Finkelstein: Seems like a complete market failure because so many companies are cutting WFH
• DontAsk0205: Yet companies keep mandating RTO. The worst part is that there’s no reasoning with the people who make these decisions.