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So let's see, in the past few years we've had the Boar's head listeria recalls, Taylor farms lettuce contamination, the McDonalds e.coli recalls in 14 states, now chicken wings...

Defunding the FDA and forcing out 4500 staff via DOGE cuts caused this. Right now we have 400 safety inspectors covering 36,000 facilities vs the FDA's own estimates they need at least 1,500 inspectors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/health/food-safety-trump-...

I noticed he requested to hide his house street view on google maps.

This is just a drop in the bucket. There have been at least 50 cops charged with using flock data to stalk ex partners and women they are interested in!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-pol...

This reminds me of the new United seating layout, where about 2/3 of the plane is now devoted to business/first class. Truly a K-shaped economy.

Here is a pic of the layout: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1vuhho8/new...

> Earlier in August, Meta Platforms announced a $1 billion “Future Is For Everyone” fund to pour money into the communities where Meta has data centers. In an interview, Lindsay Elin, a vice president of public policy at Meta, said the company’s investment from the $1 billion fund will look different in each community. She said Meta plans to sit down with school superintendents and police chiefs to see what might be financially beneficial to them.

Like building a hyped up school for the underprivileged with lots of fanfare and promise but then suddenly shutting it down leaving 500 low income students stranded because you want to pivot your philanthropy towards AI and biotech?

> Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan closed The Primary School—a tuition-free institution serving low-income families in East Palo Alto in 2026. CZI cited shifting its philanthropic focus away from local social and educational programs toward biomedical science and artificial intelligence.

https://futurism.com/future-society/mark-zuckerberg-wife-shu...

I think it's trust. If you worked with someone and you know they are awesome and you are running a team you want to hire people who are known entities that you know will hit their deliverables, do a great job and won't be weird or cause friction with cross functional teams. Also of course there's always politics to navigate. I had a candidate I loved for my team who made it through 8 rounds and panel interview with strong hiring recommendations but we got overruled by our skip level who wanted to hire her friend.

The interesting thing is people recommend "networking" and people think it's like... meeting people at industry events or reaching out to linkedin connections but that's not really how I see networking working in real life. The networking that actually gets people jobs is networks from people you've already worked with before, or your professor is on the board of the company or like.. your parents know the exec team really well etc. So new grads truly are disadvantaged.

Right now my company seems to be only hiring people they already know or have worked with before. Every single hire in the last 4 months I've seen get on-boarded has been back-channeled. I've had 4 direct referrals and none of them have gotten in but all made it to the final round just to be surpassed by someone the hiring manager already knew and liked from their previous teams. Even with a strong referral it's hard!

> In their legal complaint, PCRM argues that HHS and USDA assembled a "secret panel" that was "rife with conflicts of interest" and did not follow the long-established process for updating the guidelines.

> "The government allowed the meat and dairy industries to ghostwrite the Dietary Guidelines," PCRM President Neal Barnard, MD, said in a press release. "They put money in industry's pocket and cholesterol in Americans' arteries."

They had AI investment networking sessions scheduled for the wedding, but after his fund crashed they pivoted the itinerary to sessions about life and philosophy:

> Guests had been invited to networking sessions meant to spark conversations about investment ideas and AI trends. But in what can only be described as peak Bay Area tech culture, these sessions were quietly reworked from bullish market discussions, to sessions about life and philosophy.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/05/us-news/ai-prodigy-leopold-asc...

Poor Leo Aschenbrenner, his $30 billion losses ruined his honeymoon! https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/24yearold-billionair...

To be clear, the issue is the altitude exposure and high ionizing cosmic radiation levels, not UV exposure. This risk is a function of the altitude, latitude, and most importantly overall time in the air.

This is interesting. Diabetes is a well-known risk factor for dementia.

> For its three days of existence, CorgiGirls.com displayed photos of Corgi’s female employees in side-by-side comparisons, letting visitors vote on who they thought was more attractive. The website now shows a domain name error.

> The website appears to have been set up by Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco-based startup startup founder who describes himself on LinkedIn as a college dropout and a professional Minecraft player. On Monday evening, Mandal said in a now-deleted tweet that he had purchased the CorgiGirls.com domain, asking his 279 followers, “what should i do with it? have an idea, but it may not be politically correct.”

> He then tagged Mark Zuckerberg to ask for his input, presumably as a nod to Facemash, a similar “hot-or-not”-style website that the Meta chief built in 2003 during his sophomore year at Harvard.

Phia's investor list includes a lot of celebs: Sidney Sweeney, Ice Spice, Halsey, the Chainsmokers, Khloe Kardashian, Jessica Alba, Alix Earle, Shaboozey, Jessica Alba, Paris Hilton, Mindy Kaling, Wendi Murdoch, Karlie Kloss, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, etc.

Edit- also here are the screenshots with the damning slack message receipts - interesting how the engineer initially said no and cited compliance concerns but was overruled: https://www.reddit.com/r/womenintech/comments/1vm3yhq/phia_e...

Hims & Hers continues to have consumer complaints and litigation for deceptive practices, sneak billing, undisclosed automatic renewals, difficult cancelations, unapproved unlicensed compounding and now an FTC lawsuit for sharing private health data with facebook and snapchat.

Yes, robbery of the US citizens via sophisticated tax avoidance strategies.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

> Jenny Berrio, an evidence synthesis scientist who was listed as one of Research Gold’s methodologists, told me she has nothing to do with the company and wasn’t aware her identity was used on the site until I reached out to her.

> “I do not work for Research Gold, and I never agreed to be listed as one of their methodologists. I have no relationship with this company,” Berrio told me. “They are using my name, photo, and bio without my permission. I'm in the process of documenting the site and will be sending them a formal takedown request.”

> When I tried calling the company, an AI agent that refused to concede it was AI answered and kept trying to sell me Research Gold’s services. Email and chat communication with the company were also AI generated.

Wow.

Here's the full FTC complaint: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/07/...

I think also because everyone has constant access porn on their phones and computers at home it's no longer titillating or exciting for audiences to see steamy scenes in movies, just awkward to be sitting with your family or people you don't know in a theatre and have a sex scene come on.

> a new survey of 2,000 Americans found that 33% of all those polled have stopped watching a movie during a sex scene.

> Forty-three percent of those polled believe that sex scenes are either always or mostly unnecessary and don’t add enjoyment or story enhancement — Gen Z was the most likely generation to agree with this sentiment.

> 'if I want to see nudity I will watch porn. It has no business in regular films.'

Interesting directors are getting this data now and responding to it in their films.

> Recent studies have found that Gen Z and Gen Alpha don’t want to see sex on screen. Was that a concern while making this movie?

> The answer is 100% yes. I went through this on two movies. I have long pages of empirical data about it. The only thing is I don’t think it’s just Gen Z and Gen Alpha. I believe it’s been a societal shift from taking nudity in adult situations and putting them on your phones at home for everybody. Now it’s more of a private, intimate thing that people don’t want to see when they’re in a shared experience. Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.

Incredibly stupid this is allowed and will become an avenue for rampant insider trading by biotech employees.

Look at the recent ChemoCentryx fraud where they settled for $35 million over misleading data and overstating results. This is going to encourage even more data manipulation.

Scammers are getting more sophisticated. In this case sounds like the scammer posed as a potential renter, found out the open house details, then set up their own fake ad on an alternative platform, directing would-be renters to the actual open house. Then they took the application fee, first and last month's rent and deposit from potential renters by posing as the landlord.

Normally people can avoid rental scams by ensuring they see the property in person but this scam allows for that. Now people are going to have to be even more vigilant to ensure they give a cashiers check in person to the actual property manager.

Viewership is probably falling due to pricing. Netflix used to be $6.99/mo and now it starts at $19.99 for 1080p and $29.99/mo for 4k. Prices rose and show content quality fell.

Hopefully they get regulated a bit, I know at least in my industry it is rife with insider trading.

> You really see this in spades with Uber/Lyft though. I've often compared Uber prices with friends of mine and there can be a big difference for the same trip at the same time with two different people.

This even happens with your own Uber accounts- when I'm logged into my work Uber account the prices are always $5-$25 more expensive but if I toggle to my personal Uber account they drop immediately for the same ride. I asked our work accounting team (with screenshots!) if I could just use the cheaper ride via my personal account and expense it to save the company money and they said no lol.

Their bagged salads are so convenient. It's literally the only thing that got me eating salads again, easy to dump them out and whip it up for a fast healthy wfh lunch. There aren't really other brands at least at my grocery stores. Maybe there will be alternatives now with all of this fallout.

OB/Gyns already have an intense malpractice climate... this is not going to bode well for future MDs going into the specialty.

This verdict sucks... the resident saved the baby's life after it was stuck in the birth canal. Brachial plexus injury and fracturing the clavicle are complications of shoulder dystocia. The only other option was the baby would have died in the birth canal. Idiotic jury.

> They infused into her spinal fluid trillions of viruses that carried instructions to assemble a so-called base editor customized to fix the faulty gene in her brain cells. Her condition was not likely to be fatal, but it could bring lifelong disability and serious medical issues. So her parents turned to an academic team, who developed the base editor and showed them evidence that it worked in the brains of mice and monkeys. The parents were told the risks were modest and decided treating their daughter was worth the gamble.

> The trial went tragically wrong, however, according to a Science and Retraction Watch investigation written by Brendan Borell. The child, whose parents asked that she be called Mei (Chinese for “beautiful”), developed a fever and then signs of kidney damage. She died within a week after being treated.

> The most likely reason, a hospital report would conclude, was an immune reaction to the viruses used to deliver the base editor. Mei’s death last year was never made public, and her parents—who paid for the development of the treatment themselves—now want accountability. “We did not realize how unusual and dangerous many of the arrangements were,” they say.

Here is the screenshot of the original rental ad, with an also dubious $500 move-in fee: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1v3n4kw/...