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If a queen gets inside a vehicle, a swarm of up to 20,000 bees can follow the car. [📍 Jackson, Tennesse]

She is not just a liar, but also supremely stupid. The very incident she is now trying to blame the BJP for took place when the Trinamool Congress was in power. Her own party controlled the administration, the police and the entire state machinery at that time. This desperate attempt exposes the panic and intellectual bankruptcy within the TMC ecosystem. If they cannot defend their record, they resort to lies. And when the lies collapse, they blame everyone else.

Hasan reads out Elon Musk's texts sent to Ashley St. Claire right before the 2024 election. "Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix..this is not something on the chess board so they will be quite surprised "lasers from space"... I have over 10,000 lasers in space right now"

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18-year-old American found a roofing company on Google Maps with 4.9 stars and no website, copied their reviews and pasted them into ChatGPT 5.5. 2 minutes later - a complete brief. Pasted it into AI and just waited while the system built a full website with all pages, reviews and a booking button. Called the owner and showed him the live preview. He said yes immediately because he'd been meaning to fix this for years and never had the time. Invoice for $1,000. 47 minutes of work from the first search to a closed deal. Then he built a machine. AI pulls 200 businesses from Google Maps in 10 minutes, writes a personalized email for each one with their real business data - 500 emails a day, 3% respond. Month one - $4,000, month six - $15,000-20,000. Five million businesses on Google Maps are still waiting for that call.

USCIS confirms 211,600 H-1B registrations in this year's H-1B lottery, which is the lowest amount of registrations since the electronic registration system was created.

This year’s H-1B season is wrapping up, and we’re seeing great results from @POTUS’ new policies that prioritize America First! Stay tuned for more updates, but here’s what we’re seeing so far: ✅More top talent: We’re approving more applicants with advanced degrees and higher salaries—especially those who studied at U.S. universities. An overwhelming 71.5% of selected aliens hold a U.S. master’s degree or higher, compared to 57% last year. ✅Stronger workforce: These skilled workers are making a real impact on our economy and we’re closing the door on the low-wage and low-skilled foreign labor pipeline approved under Biden administration policies. This year, only 17.7% of all selected registrations were in the lowest wage category. ✅Restoring integrity: The number of properly submitted registrations plummeted by 38.5%, from 343,981 in fiscal year 2026 to just 211,600 in fiscal year 2027. This data is a clear sign that the days of abusing the program with mass, low-wage registrations are over, and that the program is better serving its intended purpose of attracting highly skilled foreign workers and protecting the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities of American workers. More details coming soon!

This looks like a blast! I love my Indian brothers and sisters ❤️ Let’s go to Dallas @VinnyLingham!

Meta was easily the most toxic company I've worked for. There's a reason the Chinese call it "Squid Game". Others refer to it as "Hunger Games" or "Lord of the Flies". I think they're all accurate. The company culture is basically every man/woman for themselves. The performance review process (PSC) not only doesn't incentivize helping others, if anything it actually discourages it since everyone is stack ranked against each other. Imagine working on a team where every 6 months, one of you is going to get axed. Of course it's going to become toxic. "Bottoms up" culture is a complete farce - it's just a way for leadership to offload accountability. The Tech Leads (TLs) have all the power - owning the relationships and tribal knowledge to gatekeep projects to their buddies. Managers are "people managers" with limited technical understanding, who basically aggregate TL feedback and create performance review packets to calibrate with other managers and IC7+. The takeaway is that your destiny is in the hands of the TLs, and TLs unlike managers have no responsibility for your career. There are no repercussions for unethical behavior. I've seen managers and TLs throw others under the bus and get away with it. The only mission bonding the company together is individual self-preservation. Save your own ass to survive for another stock vesting, and throw someone else under the bus if you need to. That's why layoffs rarely impact directors/VPs or tenured IC7+ despite the fact that they're paid by far the most. Even this recent mass layoff that was supposed to "flatten" managers layers barely affected directors/VPs/IC7+, and fell predominantly on M1s - the lowest rung of the management chain. The culture is extremely performative and focused on box ticking and optics. Everything is about PSC (the performance review system) and perception. This means tons of meetings, useless AI slop posts, and top-down initiatives that don't benefit anyone but maybe help tick off the impact box of some go-getter at the top. Impact is not enough - it has to have sufficient complexity. So complexity is added for complexity's sake. The org I was in (Facebook ads) is 90% Chinese, and the entire leadership chain up to the VP level is Chinese. Mandarin is the primary language at the office, except in official meetings with non-speakers. Chinese work culture is very different from American work culture, with 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days/week), top-down nature, emphasis on saving face (eg. don't question your superiors), and toxicity being quite common. Naturally when an org is completely dominated by a single ethnicity that's notorious for not integrating, elements from their work culture seep in. Of the layoffs I witnessed in this org, 3/4 were not Chinese (just to be clear, most Chinese are very kind so don't take this as an attack. But it is a reality that I think most people outside this company are completely unaware of, and I question if leadership is even aware despite the fact that we're talking about the company HQ) I had the most toxic manager of my life here. I watched him deliberately set up a new hire to fail, driving them to needing to see a psychiatrist for anxiety + depression, and getting them fired. Then he suddenly disappeared for 8 months, before leaving the company. I could go on and on, but this is already pretty long and I think you get the point. Yes there are a lot of great, kind people here. I managed to transfer out of my first team into a new team with a great manager where everyone was very smart, supportive, and hardworking. But the company has its Squid Game reputation for a reason. Company culture comes from the top. It seems leadership is either too removed to notice, or maybe don't really care anymore because I guess they already made their billions and us plebs are expendable these days.

Feels like a fun vibe to me… someone invite me next time!

Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #1 on the APEX-Agents-AA benchmark, outperforming much larger models a whole size above it.

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NEW DETAILS ON THE META LAYOFFS FROM INSIDE THE BUILDING At least one employee who was hired within the past month was laid off today. Over 1,000 employees signed a petition against Meta's new program that tracks keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots to train AI models. Protest flyers were posted on office walls and taped to windows at the Burlingame office. The flyers featured a cartoon "Employee Data Extraction Factory" with cats in orange hard hats. Meta went ahead with the layoffs anyway. A new team led by VP of Engineering Maher Saba called "Applied AI and Engineering" is being built using the data collected from that employee tracking program. Roughly 2,000 employees have been moved onto the team so far. Those who joined were told they would be safe from layoffs. An email to managers described it as "a high priority initiative, directly from Mark." Participation was not optional. Software engineer Mack Ward wrote an internal post liked by over 2,000 employees: "AI is a freight train, but the future is not a foregone conclusion. Speaking up is never easy, but 'easy' isn't what you were hired to do." CTO Andrew Bosworth addressed concerns in a Q&A last week. His response: "It's all bad. I'm not going to try to sugarcoat that." Director-level employees were offered roughly $500,000 in additional equity to stay. Some refused and left anyway. In New York, employees gathered Tuesday night. The invite read: "Commiserate or celebrate, pick your poison." The title of the event: "Never a dull moment." Notifications went out starting at 4 AM in Singapore and rolled westward. Offices were mostly empty. On Meta's internal forums, hundreds reacted with salad emojis. Their way of saying salute. Mark now says no more layoffs are planned for this year. We will see about that.

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

LEAKED AUDIO: In an all-hands meeting on April 30, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees that he's training AI on them ahead of mass layoffs. "The AI models learn from watching really smart people do things... The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks. So if we're trying to teach the models coding, for example, then having people internally build tools or solve tasks that help teach the model how to code, we think is going to dramatically increase our model's coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousands and thousands of extremely strong engineers at their company."

Big day at #GoogleIO! Bringing together the best of a search engine + the best of AI to help you ask what's really on your mind: + New intelligent Search box + seamless AI Search + Information agents + Antigravity in Search + Universal Cart My run down on what we shared below 👇 💬 New intelligent Search box & seamless Search experience: This is our biggest upgrade to our iconic Search box since its debut 25 years ago! Now, it expands as you type, you can ask questions across modalities (with text, images, files, Chrome tabs, videos), and it offers AI-powered suggestions to help you formulate your *whole* question. We’re also making it simpler to continue the conversation with Search, bringing AI Overviews and AI Mode into a seamless AI Search experience. So you can flow from your question, to your response on the main Search Results Page, to follow-ups in AI Mode. 👀 Information agents to keep you updated on whatever you’re looking for: We’re entering the era of Search agents! To start, you can set information agents to work for you in the background, searching 24/7 to find you exactly what you’re looking for so you can get updated the moment it changes. Your information agents give you intelligent, synthesized updates and hyper-relevant links, so you can discover fresh content from websites and creators and stay on top of whatever matters to you most. 🔍 Bringing Antigravity into Search: We’re bringing Gemini 3.5 Flash’s agentic coding capabilities and Antigravity right into Search. So Search can now custom-code responses, on the fly, totally personalized to your question. You can get interactive visuals to help you understand a tough concept. And you can even ask Search to build you dynamic tools, dashboards, or planners for long-running projects you want to keep coming back to. 🛍️ Introducing the Universal Cart: We've been building the foundation for agentic shopping with the world’s most comprehensive catalog of products in our Shopping Graph, a common language for agents and systems with the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), and the payments infrastructure to make agentic checkout seamless. Now we’re introducing the Universal Cart, an intelligent shopping cart that enables you to shop across merchants and will be available across Search, Gemini app, YouTube, and Gmail. With over 1B monthly active users on AI Mode, overall Search queries in Q1 reaching an all-time high, and the new frontier capabilities we announced today, it’s clear that AI is fueling Search’s next wave of growth.

Gemini Omni is a major leap in world understanding & multimodal editing! It can take photos, video & audio and build entirely new scenes. Over time it’ll be able to handle any input & any output - starting w/ video You can even give it your own videos & iterate on your ideas:

India really needs a civic sense movement. The incident at Delhi Metro where an elderly man reportedly urinated inside a lift is severely unacceptable and deserving of penalty under public nuisance laws. Civilised societies should punish misconduct in real time!

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