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2026-07-06 Social General Briefing Summary

2026-07-06 279 words 2 minutes #social

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Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr. (r/news)

handDrawnEevee: I am honestly surprised that something as risky as stem cell injection is the goto for ‘treating’ autism among antivaxxers. Like it’s so much more complicated than just a getting a vaccine, you can’t be anti-vax and pro-unregulated stem cell treatments, that’s nuts.
avid-shrug: Medical experimentation on the disabled is honestly the natural conclusion of the anti-vax movement.
imoftendisgruntled: Don’t the conspiracy theorists think that stem cells are from abducted children?

Judge orders Justin Baldoni to cover Blake Lively’s legal fees for Wayfarer lawsuit (r/news)

SquareSecond: Don’t pay expensive lawyers to file meritless lawsuits.
shanghaisnaggle: Let us never speak of this again.
rThundrbolt: Counterpoint: can everyone just stop talking about these people?

Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape charge, inspiring outrage from his daughter (r/news)

SpaceForceAwakens: Would almost be more acceptable if they just let him go free and stated they don’t care.
BaronGreywatch: Rapist gets 90 days.
BiteMeHomie: That’s it, we are officially beyond parody.

Active shooter barricaded in building in Midland County, Michigan; police officer, civilian wounded (r/news)

comfortably_nuumb: I work in the building across the street from that hospital. Yesterday was extremely surreal.
Expensive_Plastic186: I love my country so much, but holy shit America do you have a gun violence problem. I can’t even imagine
Only-Newspaper-8593: This shit is exhausting

Gene Shalit, ‘Today’ show movie critic, dies at 100 (r/news)

AudibleNod: I love this quote from Roger Ebert “Gene Shalit has a merry way with words, and a mustache to match.”
skarekroh: Gene Shalit was still alive?
ThePiggySlasher: 100 years old. Just a kid.

2026-07-06 Social Tech Briefing Summary

2026-07-06 333 words 2 minutes #social

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placement (Amazon): This is not definition of non bubble
Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): Result depends on who paid for the study.
Gotrvffgbv (Microsoft): You can find a study for almost everything your heart desires.

cQfh64 (Intuit): It is all luck my friend. Accept it and move on..
VLSy66 (Apple): Maybe this person was hired for your position.
fjvueje (Amazon): I hate such a 0/1 interview outcome while the process is so thorough

Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware through anime girl wallpapers (r/technology)

M39FG9SFGQ: That’s hilarious
xangbar: Glad I stuck to my Genshin wallpapers instead. Been using the same ones for 5+ years.
BiBoFieTo: They attacked at our weakest moment.

AMD silently removes memory encryption from GPUs without explanation (r/technology)

JackSpyder: Forced by the US gov and cant legally say why? My bet.
Super_flywhiteguy: If it sounds like a backdoor being cracked open, its because its a backdoor being cracked open.
lazyhustlermusic: They sure get more douchebaggy as their market cap increases.

ICE appears to be buying immigrants’ tax data from LexisNexis (r/technology)

2026-07-05 Social General Briefing Summary

2026-07-05 304 words 2 minutes #social

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400 Masked White Nationalist March on Through Washington D.C. chanting “Reclaim America” (r/news)

MacrotonicWave: look it’s the folks maga told me didn’t exist
nd_annajones: Reclaim America from whom? You all seem to be in charge of everything
WallyMcBeetus: They took socialist transit to get there.

Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in California, car left with major damage, authorities say (r/news)

StuffonBookshelfs: …just another old person that should have had their license revoked a long time ago.
kna5041: Time to hand the keys over if you can’t drive around a parked car without hitting it.
insertnamehere57: Wait is this a new story? This happened again? why is he still driving?!?

Over 842,000 without power across the country as US is blanketed by heatwave (r/news)

Ukraine hits major oil terminal in Russia’s St Petersburg (r/news)

What movie is a perfect 10/10, but you never want to watch it again? (r/AskReddit)

2026-07-05 Social Tech Briefing Summary

2026-07-05 413 words 2 minutes #social

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dddpj (Palo Alto Networks): Is this true? The richest company in history doesn’t give free coffee and snacks?
coh26 (ex-Honeywell): Meta can’t afford to keep its employees. Why?
h7k-6gjL (NVIDIA): Yeah I’ll take no layoff fears over free coffee. Especially since I’m fully remote. RTO? Never heard of it

dnxuli (Meta): Hang in there bud! Market is brutal!
fiiope (eBay): But you made lots of money off coinbase already
Melly00 (ByteDance): Invest more in your interview prep. You already converted well with screens & onsites, you just aren’t capitalizing on them. The markets tough, 2.5 is nothing

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content (r/technology)

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium (r/technology)

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country (r/technology)

2026-07-03 Social General Briefing Summary

2026-07-03 296 words 2 minutes #social

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Autopsy released of Mississippi baby killed by police (r/news)

MaidoftheBrins: Why is it taking so long for any video to be released? Walmart, dashcam and body cam all need to be given to Crump and the ME.
mustardmeated: The cop’s gonna get off on qualified immunity, without a doubt.
PorQuepin3: The US is a third world country

More people than thought may be at risk for red meat allergy caused by ticks (r/news)

Vatican excommunicates all members of ultra-conservative rebel group SSPX (r/news)

‘Moscow will fall’ — 13 Russian power stations shut down across occupied Ukraine, military says (r/worldnews)

Scribble_Box: What an absolute, colossal fuck up this has been for Putin. You love to see it. Slava Ukraini!
BKinBC: SOMEBODY has to be thinking, ‘maybe I can get him near the window…’
MustardEnema007: Have they hit the distilleries?

What’s a movie that was clearly meant to start a franchise but failed? (r/AskReddit)

wish1977: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
MidnightPrevious4473: Eragon
Tels315: Jumper

2026-07-03 Social Tech Briefing Summary

2026-07-03 241 words 2 minutes #social

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6️⃣7️⃣: You can say no
scHR67 (Uber): they starting to low ball now hahah
BLaA58 (Google): Lol no

iqbdh (Meta): Scam Altman
dfgjbvv (Meta): Corrupt mfers
46cahdY (DoorDash): Bribe.

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI (r/technology)

Sufficient-Skill9530: Says the guy that always talks about the antichrist and looks like a demon.
Tessa7: Another person that ran out of people to tell him ’no’ a long time ago and now thinks he has some sort of special insights
Silicon_Knight: I never thought anyone could make Elon Musk look sane.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!” (r/technology)

ottwebdev: Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers from saying what he really thinks during live interview…..
williamgman: Is ketamine the new CEO breakfast of champions?
jobrien80: Congratulations to Drugs. Clear winner of the war on drugs.

Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them (r/technology)

BoppinMonkey: Welcome to Little Tikes Democracy. You may be holding a wheel, but Big Brother is pushing you wherever he wants.
Hi_Im_Dadbot: Someone should call the police about that.
sad_cosmic_joke: It’s almost as if “fighting crime” isn’t the actual purpose of these systems??

2026-07-02 Social General Briefing Summary

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Egg producers will pay \$3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price fixing claims (r/news)

Imnotsureanymore8: Fines are worthless. These folks should see jail time.
thirtytwoutside: And the average consumer who paid the higher prices will see none of that.
aschesklave: The people who shouted “the price of eggs is Biden’s fault” must feel really dumb right now.

U.S. beats Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to round of 16 and keep its World Cup dreams alive (r/news)

DieHardNole: Okay Seattle we need your stadium to do your thing Monday
halfredowl: does this effect lebron james legacy?
Adventurous-Fact-523: USA, Canada, and Mexico are still alive. USA are gonna be slight favorites vs belgium

Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico (r/worldnews)

noidontwantto: A trade deal that he negotiated himself, fucking guy
CountOnBeingAwesome: The fart of the deal
Rsantana02: Canada and Mexico are leaving the US behind and looking for other trade partners and allies. It is a loss to the US.

What was the shortest lived fad? (r/AskReddit)

willieyobslayer: Backwards pants a-la Kriss Kross.
silently_fluid: 3D TV
SpeedBlitzX: NFTs

People who are highly observant: what is a tiny, almost invisible psychological ’tell’ that instantly reveals someone’s true intentions or character? [Serious] (r/AskReddit)

tretschinken: How they treat people they don’t need anything from. It’s surprisingly hard to fake consistently.
dinkinflicka02: The assumptions they make about other people’s intentions tells you more about a person than almost anything else.
GordonGartrellShirt: doing something good when they think no one is watching

2026-07-02 Social Tech Briefing Summary

2026-07-02 222 words 2 minutes #social

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❓Vain❓ (Microsoft): Bunch of word salad
dNrMySDE (Microsoft): Cool story
nbfigure (Meta): Ok Rajesh.

texF34 (Meta): Needs “nothing” option
vVoT00 (Amazon): none of it sometimes
Dumped (Robinhood): Every character

Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI” (r/technology)

Winter_Particular904: Yankovic is a national treasure
Quenz: He’s a good dude. He’s turned down advertising for alcohol because it would put him at odds with his demographic.
the_astro_cat: We need more Al, and less AI

New California study finds highly educated workers most harmed by AI (r/technology)

‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution. (r/technology)

Haunterblademoi: And as long as data centers continue to be built, that will increase.
MisterSanitation: Whoa the paid supporters got in here FAST
supercali45: These Datacenters are going to be raided for parts soon

2026-06-30 Social General Briefing Summary

2026-06-30 349 words 2 minutes #social

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Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing postponed until January (r/news)

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to appeal E. Jean Carroll \$5 million verdict (r/news)

Venezuela earthquake: father and son found alive in rubble after four days as death toll nears 1,500 (r/news)

Which fast food restaurant do you think will go out of business soon? (r/AskReddit)

What has gradually disappeared over the last 10 years so subtly that most people didn’t even realize it? (r/AskReddit)

lencastre: right to privacy
Extra_Ad_5451: Cocoa content in chocolate.
QueenOfSplitEnds: SkyMall on flights

2026-06-30 Social Tech Briefing Summary

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Alexandr Wang will go down in history as the guy who destroyed Meta (Blind)

HideousKoj (Thomson Reuters): Let the man cook, he’s doing God’s work destroying Zuck’s empire.
microcheat (Meta): Who hired that clown?
PhillyBats (Western Digital): Zuck is surrounded by YES men who are multi-millionaires. They are all milking the company and feeding nonsense to Zuck. RL has lost \$80 billion so far but CTO is a hero for Zuck. The Chief product officer keeps singing praises for Threads which nobody uses. They are spending billions to no where

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Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr. (r/news)

Judge orders Justin Baldoni to cover Blake Lively’s legal fees for Wayfarer lawsuit (r/news)

Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape charge, inspiring outrage from his daughter (r/news)

Active shooter barricaded in building in Midland County, Michigan; police officer, civilian wounded (r/news)

Gene Shalit, ‘Today’ show movie critic, dies at 100 (r/news)

New Harvard study proves AI isn’t a bubble? (Blind)

Made it to the final round at OpenAI and got rejected by someone who had been at the company less than a week (Blind)

Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware through anime girl wallpapers (r/technology)

AMD silently removes memory encryption from GPUs without explanation (r/technology)

ICE appears to be buying immigrants’ tax data from LexisNexis (r/technology)

400 Masked White Nationalist March on Through Washington D.C. chanting “Reclaim America” (r/news)

Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in California, car left with major damage, authorities say (r/news)

Over 842,000 without power across the country as US is blanketed by heatwave (r/news)

Ukraine hits major oil terminal in Russia’s St Petersburg (r/news)

What movie is a perfect 10/10, but you never want to watch it again? (r/AskReddit)

Nvidia can’t even afford free coffee for its employees. Why? (Blind)

Lost hope after layoffs and failed interviews (Blind)

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content (r/technology)

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium (r/technology)

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country (r/technology)

Autopsy released of Mississippi baby killed by police (r/news)

More people than thought may be at risk for red meat allergy caused by ticks (r/news)

Vatican excommunicates all members of ultra-conservative rebel group SSPX (r/news)

‘Moscow will fall’ — 13 Russian power stations shut down across occupied Ukraine, military says (r/worldnews)

What’s a movie that was clearly meant to start a franchise but failed? (r/AskReddit)

Google L7 to Anthropic T6 (Blind)

OpenAI Proposes 5% US Gov Stake: A New Precedent for Tech Regulation? (Blind)

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI (r/technology)

Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!” (r/technology)

Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them (r/technology)

Egg producers will pay \$3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price fixing claims (r/news)

U.S. beats Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to round of 16 and keep its World Cup dreams alive (r/news)

Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico (r/worldnews)

What was the shortest lived fad? (r/AskReddit)

People who are highly observant: what is a tiny, almost invisible psychological ’tell’ that instantly reveals someone’s true intentions or character? [Serious] (r/AskReddit)

Microsoft Layoffs are Only just getting started (Blind)

How much of your AI code do you actually understand? (Blind)

Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI” (r/technology)

New California study finds highly educated workers most harmed by AI (r/technology)

‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution. (r/technology)

Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing postponed until January (r/news)

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to appeal E. Jean Carroll \$5 million verdict (r/news)

Venezuela earthquake: father and son found alive in rubble after four days as death toll nears 1,500 (r/news)

Which fast food restaurant do you think will go out of business soon? (r/AskReddit)

What has gradually disappeared over the last 10 years so subtly that most people didn’t even realize it? (r/AskReddit)

Alexandr Wang will go down in history as the guy who destroyed Meta (Blind)

FAANG is dead now there is MANGOS (Blind)

Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning (r/technology)

T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills (r/technology)

TIDAL to automatically tag AI-generated music and block it from earning royalties (r/technology)