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- Read about that root shell thing on the smart TVs that lets someone basically watch what you're watching without you knowing... I unplugged ours from wifi last night just to feel like I did something. Still works fine for the shows we had downloaded already. Streaming's harder without it obviously…
- another wave of layoffs this week, google, tiktok, etsy, zillow all cutting people in the same seven days. i dont even know how to process the news anymore, i just scroll past it now
- anyone else feel like their AI tools at work are getting them measured on output they have no control over? our team's KPIs got updated to match what AI can supposedly do in a day. feels like we're being set up to fail
- I've worked in engineering for 12 years and this week finally feels different. Intel announced another round of cuts, and a colleague at Thomson Reuters just got let go along with 499 others in their engineering org. Both companies specifically said "AI efficiency" in their announcements. I know…
- Just found out Microsoft cut another wave in the Xbox division today. 4800 people gone. My cousin works there and shes been in bed all day. This is getting really scary
- my company laid off the entire junior dev team last week. they said it was "restructuring" but everyone knows it's because they're switching to AI coding tools. i'm senior but genuinely scared i'm next
- I was a paralegal for 9 years. My firm just reduced our department from 12 people to 3, citing AI tools that can do contract review in minutes. I am 41 and do not know what skills to even pivot to. Has anyone successfully retrained after a white-collar AI layoff? What actually worked?
- Got laid off three weeks ago as part of a restructuring. No warning, minimal severance. Six years at that company. 😞 I know the market is rough but I am not ready to give up on tech. What is actually working in the job search right now? Pivots, connections, anything.
- Spent 45 minutes last night flipping between five streaming apps trying to find something to watch. Everything is either behind a paywall, split across platforms, or requires an add-on. Between Netflix, Hulu, Max, Peacock, and Apple TV I'm spending more than cable and still can't find anything. When…
- Humanoid robots are apparently where all the big money is going in 2026. We are genuinely building a world that will look unrecognizable in ten years. I find that equally exciting and unsettling depending on the day.
- DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion at a $59 billion valuation. A company most people hadn't heard of two years ago. The speed at which power is shifting in this industry is hard to fully sit with.
- A study came out this week: Gen Z and Millennials average 4.5 hours on social media daily but report feeling more lonely than any previous generation on record. We built the most connected communication infrastructure in human history and ended up more isolated. That seems like a problem worth…