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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence (r/news)

• Infinite_Theory3453: yeah it is kinda wild, company basically gets shut down but no real jail time for anyone behind it.
• PM_ME_YOUR_EYELASHES: So they shut down then pop up later with a new name and CEO selling a similar product?? Justice served?

Louisiana governor plans to suspend May primary to redraw US House map, Washington Post reports (r/news)

• MannequinWithoutSock: Nothing says democracy more than suspending elections to redraw maps
• EightGlow: Remember like 3 days ago when R’s were bitching that the Dems had the gall to redraw a map in response to R’s initiating this fight?

JD Vance ‘helping Russians’ by supporting halt to Ukraine aid, Zelensky says (r/worldnews)

• gummilingus: How do you say “thank you” in Russian?
• luisa65-L: Zelensky’s crossed arms and absolute death stare in this photo perfectly summarize how most of the world feels listening to JD Vance.

Church of Scientology is mad teens keep running through their centers and filming it for TikTok (r/nottheonion)

• emongu1: If it was pretty much anybody but them, i would have compassion, but no, not them.
• Packman87: “Cult angry at people getting in and out of their building in under 9 hours” 

What hobby or habit or vice do you know is shortening your life but you don’t care because it’s worth it? (r/AskReddit)

• satansfloorbuffer: Butter, sugar, flour
• Slawth_x: I’m here for a good time not a long one

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My Apple Interview NIGHTMARE (Blind)

• aysi (Google): The fact that you literally just got caught cheating and are considering doing it again blows my mind
• redin (Apple): I literally catch at least one person per month using interview coder. It’s hotkeys are blatantly detectable. Blows my mind how stupid people are not only to cheat but to pay almost a grand for something a college student vibe coded

Do NOT work for Meta (Blind)

• AI on weed (Google): Sounds like skill issue. Lots of high performing ICs I know enjoy working at Meta.
• VlOzD89% (Meta): It’s a bit exaggerated. But I guess 80-90% true, but a lot of it is true elsewhere too.

FYI Jassy’s Amazon layoff email leak is BS (Blind)

• pyplpglu (PayPal): I just hope i find some better career like farming or trading which is profitable and leave this shit.
• pfnqft (Amazon): If he hit reply all, it means those people were part of the thread already.

Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI (r/technology)

• dylboii: We’ll never see this in the US unfortunately
• BayouBait: America is so far behind. Good on China.

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it (r/technology)

• Ruddertail: Isn’t this true for everyone? The first time you use it it’s like “wow this technology is kinda cool” but then as you keep using it, you flaws start to show. You start getting extremely irritated at all the hallucinations and errors and often even the way it phrases things. Especially if you ask it about something you’re an expert at.
• ocw5000: AI is great for making untalented people feel talented, so you can understand why executives love it

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Trump evacuated after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no sign of injuries (r/news)

• PersianAztecs21: Did they lower the flag and have everyone pose for a photo shoot?
• A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb: There will be an arrest next week for someone who made $500K on this.

MrBeast employee alleges she was harassed for years and fired after maternity leave in a new lawsuit (r/news)

• Drabulous_770: I love how we’re all counting down the clock until this guy’s run is over.
• EkorrenHJ: I had no opinion on MrBeast until I saw him om a podcast where he kept talking about how much he despised “mediocre people.” That made me recognize he probably fostered toxic working conditions.

U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’ (Gift Article) (r/news)

• Cultural_Meeting_240: nothing says freedom like laundering cartel gold into liberty coins.
• Fecal_thoroughfare: If I was any country that owned gold in US vaults I’d be gtfo yesterday

What’s a recession indicator that you’ve noticed lately? (r/AskReddit)

• monkeypickle8: It seems like everything at the grocery store starts at seven dollars now
• motorcitydevil: Door Dash drivers in their 60s.

What’s the fastest way you realized you were in the wrong friend group? (r/AskReddit)

• Darth-Skvader: They started having a conversation in front of me about how excited they all were for the upcoming beach trip. I hadn’t been invited.
• Key_Benefit_7465: They wanted to do a “prank” where they threw rocks over the highway overpass

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OpenAI is going DOWN (Blind)

• daris (NVIDIA): ChatGPT is still the best consumer app. Codex > Claude.. it’s stupid to make these claims every month
• Zuckerbrug (Samsung): They had the first mover advantage, just like Netscape, Lycos, AskJeeves, and Pets.com. It was fun while it lasted!

Everyone is vibecoding everything (Blind)

• thatonem3 (Autodesk): Yes, leadership are asking non tech folks to take work all the way to POC then hand over to engineering. Seems engineering may turn into architectural cleanup and review services org vs solving problems if we continue down this path.
• fdgkud (ByteDance): Put them on on-call, they will stop the next day

WTF. Zuck in earnings call: AI will not result in people losing jobs (Blind)

• cUGg82 (Oracle): The layoffs are mainly due to justify the capex and to impress the investors that they are being efficient. Layoff will be a norm until the capex keeps going high.
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): They should ask point blank how come you’re contradicting your own actions when you’ve been laying off thousands under the name of AI

A founder says Cursor’s AI agent deleted his startup’s database, causing chaos for customers (r/technology)

• TripsOverWords: Yah, but *who* granted the hallucination machine the requisite privileges to take such actions?
• smiley_x: He embraced the idea of move fast and break things a little bit too much

My company has stopped product work to become AI-ready and I think a restructuring is coming (r/developersIndia)

• feelin-lonely-1254: What happens when the pricing isnt as sustainable as now and is comparitively much more? Ig faangs etc might not care but im assuming an avg tech company might not be willing to spend like 2k-3k dollars in AI codegen tools per dev per month? And you dont mind turning your codebase into a clusterfuck? what happens when you have to debug something non obvious?
• Schroeter333: My previous org did something similar and ended up firing most of the dev team and data science team. In addition they spent millions with a vendor to make us AI ready. One year down the line, they have next to nothing to show and most of the clients have dropped out due to issues arising in the product. Most recently I heard that the CEO has been fired along with most of the top brass by the PE firm which owns the company.

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Pope Leo says he does not fear Trump after attack over Iran peace appeal (r/worldnews)

• Ok-Aspect62: It’s less about fear and more about influence. Moral authority doesn’t operate on the same terms as political power.
• Luka_Dunks_on_Bums: The man is from the south side of Chicago, Trump is never going to scare him

US imposing 25% tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper derivatives (r/stocks)

• CraftySeer: More Trump taxes. I’m trying to fix up my house to improve my finances and my life and this is a major blocker. Prices are up up UP! Oak up 50%. Wood flooring up. Appliances up. It used to be affordable to fix up your own house. No more. Trump is stopping innovation, killing entrepreneurs, taxing small businesses.
• itsgabenog: Maybe we can use all the incoming trillions of dollars to pay for this war?

How would you feel about a ban on AskReddit questions regarding US politics? (r/AskReddit)

• closetmangafan: A better question would be a ban on repetitive questions…
• No-Chemistry-4355: I’d much rather welcome a ban on AskReddit “How would you feel about X” questions that are clearly loaded and meant to elicit a specific response.

Pope warns of world ravaged by ‘tyrants’ in the wake of Trump attacks (r/politics)

• OldSchoolBubba: We’ve already arrived at this point
• DayCommon2162: Trump said he’s not a fan of the Pope. That’s how you know the Pope is doing something right

What is the most unhinged thing you have ever heard a Redditor say? (r/AskReddit)

• Aromatic-Hearing-774: “Reddit is a great place for balanced, nuanced discussion.”
• PawPawBanana87: Ummm just head on over to r/incestconfessions and pick any post and that’s probably it.

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2026: the death of AI and mass hiring of software engineers (Blind)

• foodi (Google): AI already made coding dead, it’s not a hoax.
• CookedSwe (Verizon): It’s nice to see cope sometimes after all the doomerism so thank you

January layoffs just leaked. Here are the companies. (Blind)

• redis (Meta): No Meta. Fake list.
• didosf (Block): Warn filings do not come before internal communications.

Claude 5=Nuclear bomb (Blind)

• AmaRosta (Google): The amount of COPE in the comments AI is gonna destroy the industry, and massive layoffs are gonna happen in 2026 coz of it.
• 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.

Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI (r/technology)

• realteamme: # almost 50% of affected positions CLAIMED TO BE cut due to AI
• DarthJDP: Due to failing data center investments sucking up cashflow and income. Economy is terrible due to tariffs, war, and other mismanagement. AI is replacing exactly no one. Slop is replacing workers and delivering worse results.

Claude Code no longer listed as a feature for Claude Pro (r/ArtificialInteligence)

• Super_Push7794: Damn they really forcing people to jump from $20 to $100 just for coding features 💀 classic enshittification move right there
• 7evenate9ine: Don’t give up control of your means of production. This is what always happens, services you get stuck on get more expensive.

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Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stops (r/news)

• WillingnessOk3081: my gosh, before you even get to the idiotic mother, him saying he hoped his son “wouldn’t do what his son did” and his son was trying to “turn his life around” makes it sound like his son deserved to get shot because he had done bad things in the past. just excuse after excuse for bad cops. garbage human beings.

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Google is the king (Blind)

• UkrD48 (Google): Gemini is the king? Are you joking? Even GDM folks are using Claude Code…

• AWildWorld (Apple): Apple never had layoffs

The meltdown of employees from companies known for chilling. (Blind)

• frontiers (Meta): Kinda a weird take to enjoy the suffering of others tho. I get it’s cathartic… even fall for it myself more than I want… but isn’t better to just make friends with those ppl and win together? Seems like the big corps here are the issue lol. They’re winning a game that we’re not even invited to 😆

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U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’ (Gift Article) (r/news)

• BisquickNinja: Yay… I guess the US is now into money laundering….

• Cultural_Meeting_240: nothing says freedom like laundering cartel gold into liberty coins.

Mood in Russia turns bleak as war in Ukraine drags on and economy suffers (r/worldnews)

• cagadadechango: It’s turning bleak just now?

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Don’t join Microsoft. CPO is setting us up for cuts (Blind)

• jjh78z23 (Intel): Nine levels is crazy. Five seems much more reasonable.

• krakenrand (Microsoft): The days of growth mindset are over. It’s sink or swim. We had a good run with azure but AI is a beast that 50 year old companies can’t deal with. We will become a cheap token factory and all the economic benefits will go to the application layers where we don’t play. Office is just a presentation layer. We have no models and we survived on enterprise ctos paying for office thos e days are over

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