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US outbreak of parasite causing ‘watery diarrhea’ rises to more than 2,800 cases (r/news)

• luminousrobot: 2800 REPORTED CASES. The real number has to be much higher
• Violet_Paradox: A parasite that was on the CDC watchlist until RFK specifically took it off.
• ArguesWithFrogs: Oh no. If only we had some sort of government organization responsible for tracking & containing outbreaks of diseases.

U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline (r/news)

• JimDemintRecession: Some of you may be disbarred, but that is a price I am willing to pay
• AverageJoe-707: Trump and his entire family should be audited EVERY YEAR including past years.
• nevermindthebolox: Great to hear about this pushback. As others have said it might not get too far, but at least it’s being fought against, it will hopefully make others think about their actions in future.

Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing ‘dead power pool,’ experts say (r/news)

• YodaForceGhost: Went to Lake Powell about a decade ago and there was concern from some tourism workers that the lake may not exist by 2030 or beyond. Looks like we’re at that point a few years early
• Responsible-Grand-57: Sure seems to me like it’s time to revisit those “water rights” contracts? Every user of this waterway is screwed if entities keep using their “rights” to the fullest extent possible.
• 71351: Until they adopt “same in same out” at the very least, dry winters like was just had will make the dead pool a sure thing. Data centers anywhere in the greater Colorado river drainage should be DOA. Citizens can never offset industrial/agricultural demands. It’s not complicated math really

What is a hidden gem YouTube channel that is so high quality you are shocked it’s completely free to watch? (r/AskReddit)

• CMMH93: I love Tasting History, such good and interesting content.
• zebra0312: TechnologyConnections. Especially reasonable since he is from the US.
• NakedScrub: The Taskmaster channel. Hundreds of free episodes of full series on there.

What everyday thing from 20 years ago disappeared so gradually nobody noticed? (r/AskReddit)

• _-Samsara: Family photo albums instead of thousands of photos sitting unseen on a phone
• Superb_Algae5308: Web forums for niche interests. Reddit is the dumbing down of that concept.
• TheCoop1986: Insects. Populations have crashed worldwide.

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Is Fable 5 really the end of SWE? Or is it really just a transformation? (Blind)

• AlucardPen (Capital One): This is the model that was “too dangerous to release”? Fuck off. This hype marketing is getting old and annoying
• ☕. (Amazon): I don’t think what kills SWE is a smarter model. I think it would be a rearchitecture of how software is written and delivered. The current systems still assume humans are involved somewhere.
• pico_gallo (Microsoft): I really don’t understand how software engineers that create scope, define work, create strategy, design systems, being clarity and align, etc, can be replaced. Just had a peer send a PR written with Claude, the code was good, it was just not what it was supposed to do, it was an entirely different thing. And this is after several discussions and docs about what needed to be done. Coding was always the easy part.

Cloned Docusign in 48 hours (Blind)

• GoXu46 (6sense): But I trust a signature from DocuSign. I don’t from you. That takes more to change. But also. Yes, change is coming for them
• fItf61 (Thomson Reuters): Ok now use fable 5 to help you market this, get all legal affairs in order, help you setup a legal business entity, and get your first dozen paying customers. If you can pull that off in the next 2 weeks, you’re on to something.
• PIP4ME&U (Salesforce): That’s like saying I can replace Honda because I made a car with legos. The functionality is easy, what’s hard is the business: sales people to help you buy, legal to sign off so can CYA, support so there’s someone you can call when things inevitably break and of course you need eng to keep checking in useless, buggy code to perpetuate the infinite cycle of maintenance.

Is Databricks still top 5 prestigious companies (Blind)

• Srini-SVP (PayPal): The D in FAANG is for databricks
• gewgul (Google): This comment section is a massive cope. DB is outranked only by the frontier AI labs. Extraordinary talent density.
• nbyP67 (Lockheed Martin): It’s a job why do you care about prestige

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (r/technology)

• essidus: Literally the same thing that eventually killed the google glasses.
• Punch-N-Judy: It’s so interesting that humanity can’t stop mass surveillance or non-consensual wars but we’ve rejected spyware glasses 2 separate times now (Google Glass in the 2010s and now these.)
• Professional_Bat9174: Can’t even wear your pervert glasses. Literally 1984.

Almost Half Of All LinkedIn Posts Are Now AI-Written (r/technology)

• stedmangraham: LinkedIn posts were ahead of the curve by appearing AI written years before genAI was available to the public
• RationalBeliever: This is an advertisement for an AI detection tool. There are no accurate AI detection tools on the market.
• SweatyAd8914: If you count the mindless corporate human bots that make up the other 50%, I’d argue 100% is slop now.

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Sam Neill, Jurassic Park actor, dies aged 78 (r/news)

• Sportsman180: Rest in Peace, Dr. Grant! Thanks for the memories!
• _Ludovico: His expression upon seeing dinosaurs for the first time still gives me chills
• Jetman54: Devastating news. We obviously can’t know what celebrities are like behind the scenes, but everything I’ve ever seen or heard about him seemed to indicate that he was a lovely human being. He’s leaving behind an impressive legacy, to say the least. RIP

US Senator Lindsey Graham dies (r/news)

• Have_A_Jelly_Baby: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” - Lindsey Graham, 2016
• LegacyLemur: Not the one I was expecting to see in the headlines
• DazDaSpazz: Everyone is wondering if Mitch McConnell is alive and Lindsey says hold my ladybugs.

Outcry after Atlanta tosses unhoused people’s belongings near World Cup spot | Atlanta (r/news)

• Skin_Floutist: That’s a public park that people couldn’t use because of the homeless.
• leetfists: If I left a bunch of my shit on the ground in a public space, I wouldn’t expect it to be there for long. Everyone is this thread is acting like this is some sort of crime against humanity, but do you really think people should just be allowed to leave their junk lying around in a public park indefinitely without it ever being cleaned up?
• lurpeli: Standard response to the homeless. Make them appear as though they don’t exist and then ignore them.

Women of Reddit, what is your ultimate “I am an adult and no one can stop me” purchase that you are both incredibly proud of and slightly embarrassed by? (r/AskReddit)

• cherrycocktail20: Every time I buy chocolate milk my inner six year old cackles in unrestrained glee. Stop me now, mom!
• OliverTwist123: I remember the life altering moment when I realized I could have birthday cake whenever I wanted. And, for that matter, that cake does not strictly have to be a ‘birthday cake’. I could just bake a cake because I wanted to. And I did. And that’s when I knew I was an adult.
• flugualbinder: I drove 8 hours one way for a specific cheeseburger. Between the cost of the food and the gas to get there and back home, it was the most expensive burger of my life. And it wasn’t even gourmet 😂

What famous person have we suspiciously not heard from for a long time now? (r/AskReddit)

• thebanger71: Fabio. Was everywhere in the 80s and 90s. Gone since that bird and rollercoaster incident
• mugglequeen: Hillary Swank! I just looked her up yesterday to see what she’s been up to. Started a family and was (is?) caring for an ailing parent.
• EducationalStay3365: tbh gotye. he made a song about being someone that we used to know and then actually became someone that we used to know. he really committed to the bit and then just vanished.

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I don’t get it – is Alexandr Wang Actually Smart or an Idiot? (Blind)

• 撒娇🥺 (Amazon): why do you care if hes smart? he has a few billion and you’re a renter. that’s all you need to know. he won life, and you’re still a loser
• stupidswe (Apple): The guy graduated from a top-tier college and founded a 60B company before he turned 30 ofc he’s a genius. He’s not a technical savant and is probably out of his depth as the head of meta ai but you can’t deny he’s brilliant.
• igcih (Uber): He is definitely smart for gaslighting Zuck into paying him billions of dollars.

‘Life there felt simple’: Woman leaves Google after 8 years despite promotions and perks (Blind)

• MenloNarc (Meta): “After being an overpaid SWE for years at Google, I now no longer value salary, and want to chase purpose, because I have already earned enough salary to never work again, and now I am morally superior.” F*** off.
• SabaIsGod (ex-Meta): Tech workers need to realize that 99.9% of their jobs are irrelevant to society. On the other hand artists need to realize this too.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): That’s the irony with west coast hiring. On the one hand people quit due to boredom/lack of impactful work and on the other like 70+ percent of swes would love such opportunities but they won’t get hired

Interviews are insanely difficult now. (Blind)

• pipgod101 (Amazon): Getting laid off could mean being forced out of the industry. Ala 2008 banking. Brace yourselves. Pray Dario/Elon/Altman have mercy on our souls.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): I think big tech wants HC to go back to 2018/2019
• 火锅 (Microsoft): Yep. It’s a goddamn nightmare for junior engineers with 3 YOE. Most companies want senior-level engineers and above.

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich (r/technology)

• Z-Is-Last: They know it’s bad for brains, yet do it for the money.
• tc100292: Just like they and all their kids are off getting humanities degrees while telling the peons first “learn to code” and now “learn a trade.”
• transversegirl: Their children will get a 90s childhood, a classical education devoid of AI and a trust fund.

Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 — server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions (r/technology)

• Unable_Technology935: It ought to be interesting here in Indiana. They have plans here in N/W Indiana to have at least one every 20 miles.
• RedBoxSquare: Datacenters should be taxed on their electricity usage so they end up paying more.
• ayetees: We also have the highest energy prices here in Europe. Our government needs to wise up.

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New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices (r/news)

• vector_search_blue: Perhaps the first US city, but California had this ban for a while.
• Aromatic_Employ3392: Needs to be a national law ASAP
• No_Internal9345: Can we replace all of DC with clones of Mamdani?

Legal fight between Circle K and employee over $12.8 million lottery ticket (r/news)

• g—e: Its not new at all. This has always been procedure for any convenience store that sells lottery tickets where ive worked
• Jjmanks_13: I used to work at QuickChek (New Jersey) in high school and they also had the same policy.
• amateur_mistake: That’s a really evil policy.

Houston ICE shooting witnesses claim driver didn’t try to ram agents, report says (r/news)

• nerfedbeyblade: ICE rarely has actual reasoning behind their attacks.
• ailish: It comes as a shock to no one that ICE lied.
• torcsandantlers: If you told me they told the truth, I’d think you were lying to me.

LGBTQ+ cruise ship refused entry to Egypt days after Turkey turned it away (r/news)

• ClassicHando: Won’t lie, if I was going on a gay cruise I’d want to be stopping in places more friendly
• madogvelkor: Yeah, don’t go to countries that hate gays and have laws against you.
• Vibrantmender20: Did the coordinators of this cruise put in any amount of forethought?

What’s a movie cliche that happened to you in real life, even though they “never happen in real life”? (r/AskReddit)

• CoffeeExtraCream: In college I (male) lived in an apartment my sophomore year. The layout was weird and each floor had 2 apartments. The apartment across the hall from us we noticed was a bunch of girls moving in. So we joked amongst ourselves that we should go over and ask to borrow a cup of sugar to meet them. Almost immediately after we made the joke we hear a knock on our door and it was our neighbors from across the hall asking to borrow a cup of sugar.
• NotTheGreenestThumb: Inherited money from a relative none of us ever heard of before.
• Commander_Cyclops: More of a general comedy cliche, but I once slipped on a banana peel on a public sidewalk. Fell backwards and landed right on my ass, just like Curly.

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do you use claude code? (Blind)

• asdf24234 (Zillow Group): Cursor is more than enough for me for coding. Claude for automating other things.
• badaboooom (Iterable): only real baddies use Claude code
• iPNi13 (Meta): Is this a real question

I joined Microsoft because it was a Day 2 company (Blind)

• bogomip (Meta): I left Microsoft for that reason. If I’m going to work my ass off and risk getting laid off, might as well go elsewhere and make more money.
• richаrdhea (Meta): It has been about two decades since the first Microsoft layoff. Not sure what you were smoking when you decided to go there but it definitely did not keep you close to reality.
• borgen (Microsoft): You only have yourself to blame for accepting the Microsoft role over others. And again for not leaving once you realized everything you were told was all BS.

Anthropic expanding too fast? (Blind)

• estoniasux (TransferWise): You sound jealous
• gem-in-eye (Google): I take one look at their chaotic product landscape and know exactly what it must be like to work there
• ughit (Calendly): I know several people in high level positions there that have only made it to where they are because they’re in the SF bro club and have benefitted by living where they do and riding coat tails and kissing ass.

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows (r/technology)

• ino4x4: that’s less than the amount of Americans that are illiterate.
• tacticalcraptical: Considering most of the the people who own and are steering AI are the same people who gave us the predatory social media and financial systems we are seeing destroy our lives now, yeah, it’s easy to see why most of us don’t think it will have a positive impact.
• 11matt556: Yeah my issues with AI has much more to do with who is pushing it than it does with the technology itself.

Tech Workers Are Fighting Against Silicon Valley’s AI Push (r/technology)

• Melodic_Crow_3409: I feel zero sympathy for Meta employees right now.
• King_Kung: Lack of unionization is the most frustrating part of the tech world. It’s desperately needed.
• Austin1975: No they are not fighting anything. And they didn’t care until their creations actually impacted them. They were perfectly fine with automating the shit out of other roles especially non-tech. They were fine with the social impact of their products too. Go on Blind and you will see many of them still trying to get into these specific companies along with posts like “how long did it take you to reach your first million?”

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China sentences official to death for taking \$325m in bribes (r/news)

• Andy_LaVolpe: Embezzlement and bribery should be treated as treason. Public officials that accept bribes should be treated as traitors to the people.
• Quinocco: Not a fan of capital punishment, but if you’re gonna have it, I’m all for using it for rich people crimes.
• Wonderful-Process792: Three hundred and twenty-five million? If this is true, aside from this guy’s personal actions, somebody is not minding the shop. That’s a lot of money to go unnoticed for so long.

ICE agent fatally shoots motorist during traffic stop in Houston (r/news)

• 2daytrending: A loss of life should always trigger serious scrutiny, regardless of agency involved.
• limbweaver: it’s not a traffic stop, ICE can’t do traffic stops.
• TheObsidianHawk: This just in, there was no body cam footage. It went missing.

‘Buckling’ beams at Manhattan high-rise under construction trigger mass evacuations (r/news)

• Drum_Roll_Plz: FDNY confirmed the building is still actively moving and they cant get anyone inside to shore it up until it stops.
• airwalker08: The building has not moved since 12 p.m. That’s a sentence I never expected to read
• OpenMindedMajor: Surprised to hear this. The architect, Gensler, has a pretty great reputation within design/construction. Interested to know what’s happened here

IOC lifts suspension and paves way for Russia to compete at LA 2028 Olympics | International Olympic Committee (r/news)

• invyros: FIFA and IOC competing for least moral sports org.
• tanbug: Is there a secret competition among countries, organisations and companies to become the biggest assholes on the planet?
• Saint-Caligula: Trump must have called the IOC as well.

Three tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz as US revokes license authorizing sale of Iranian oil (r/news)

• Prudent_Rice7840: But the Memorandum of Understanding!
• Fallouttgrrl: On a Tuesday? kalshi bettors must be so upset right now
• Ive_seen_things_that: Good news is Trump gets another peace deal with Iran!!

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MLE - Anthropic vs Meta (Blind)

• daTing3 (Meta): Why’d you even ask this here. Humble brag?
• dnxuli (Meta): Ladies and gentleman, op is what we call “hutya” ⚡️
• apple145 (Meta): Is this some kind of sick joke

Everyone wanted to join either Facebook or Google. What went wrong? (Blind)

• !AI-native (Meta): You are kidding me if it still isn’t
• hopeonly (Google): I joined for a few reasons but prestige wasn’t one of them. Am I the only one?
• oeGp70 (ex-AT&T): swe was never prestigious to begin with. only in the minds of other swe. doctor or pe/vc is more prestigious.

Stay at Amazon or join Salesforce? (Blind)

• jaskeerat (Salesforce): If your wlb is ok, stay. I made this move, there’s no learning or career progress here. No wlb either in a lot of teams
• Grind_LC_8 (Salesforce): Stay at Amazon, I too switched from Amazon to Salesforce but regret it now. There is no learning here
• carenoone (Salesforce): Salesforce is very chaotic now

Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment (r/technology)

• buttorsomething: Surprising no one.
• sniksniksnek: “Dad, how did we win the war against the machines?” “Crackheads, son. Never forget, we owe them our lives.”
• chevalier716: Finally, meth heads everywhere have found a way to work for the benefit of their communities.

Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined (r/technology)

• neat_stuff: The guy who brought us the VR headset Metaverse might not always get things right? Impossible.
• Imaginary_Manner_556: This guy is so lucky he bought instagram. His own ideas suck.
• Crivos: AI bubble go pop?

Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up (r/technology)

• Impossible-Ad6326: Because it’s shit, forced down our throats and people generally don’t like to have shit forced down their throats.
• antaresiv: It makes search more complicated because now I gotta fact check what it gives me
• odelay321: Copilot, how do you remove copilot from my pc?

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Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits as boot camp outbreak sickens nearly 300 (r/news)

• StevieOfPhoenix: Wow it’s almost as if vaccines could have prevented this in the first place.
• OrderAdditional1791: “Nobody knew” this could happen
• TheRexRider: Ok. So what have we learned?

Camp Mystic, site of deadly Texas flooding, files for bankruptcy (r/news)

• Icouldusesomerock: And that’s what happens when you don’t prioritize saftey
• Dull-Ad8161: It should also be facing criminal charges.
• CaseyAnthonysMouth: CANNOT BELIEVE they were trying to reopen this year.

Arby’s manager accused of giving customer herpes after spitting in food, court records say (r/news)

• Similar-Wolverine-10: As if I needed any more reason to stop eating fast food.
• FlyingFlipPhone: This is why you should NEVER return food to the kitchen.
• Health_throwaway__: And this is why I don’t eat out

Millions lose food stamps under Trump cuts. Arizona is hardest hit (r/news)

• justmitzie: Poverty exists not because we can’t feed the poor, but because we can’t satisfy the rich.
• africanlivedit: Time for those who voted for him to pull themselves up from their bootstraps!
• Fit-Let8175: On the bright side, the very rich are richer still!

Powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas (r/news)

• lee7on1: Early videos are already looking very bad, this is so sad…
• Itzli: This is awful, it’s the last thing they needed. Fuerza Venezuela!
• sjhesketh: We’re in Aruba on vacation and felt an aftershock around 6PM. Very noticeable.

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Does anyone use Gemini for coding inside Google? (Blind)

• lppmsj (Google): Everybody
• fcEs35 (Google): No we like to give token money to other companies instead.
• fhfdodmk (Google): Everyone

The golden age of tech is over (Blind)

• horn dog (Meta): Elon
• slackerswe (Microsoft): ZIRP
• gh443 (Google): Chinese 996 workers and AI

Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will “Never” Go Back to Normal (r/technology)

• zooommsu: They have to say this because there are many people postponing purchases and skipping updates in the hope that things will improve in the future.
• cotd345: It’s in their best interest to say that now. Then the bubble pops and the story changes to ‘we could have never predicted that’.
• pazz: So Bitcoin fucked up the GPU market and now AI is fucking up the RAM market? This reality sucks.

AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them (r/technology)

• mokunuimoo: You thought we were getting AGI and we’d live in Star Trek but instead it’s going to be The Slopularity and Idiocracy
• Niceromancer: They ain’t learning shit.
• wesweb: this will end up being the biggest waste of capital investment in history

Windows 10 support extended to 2027 for free — Is this Microsoft admitting Windows 11 isn’t enough? (r/technology)

• View-Maximum: This is corporate customers noping out of an expensive hardware upgrade.
• SlowCrates: Windows 11 sucks.
• ZombieZookeeper: Linux only just removed the 486 code, just saying.