In December 1993, U.S. Army Sgt. Stephen Schap discovered his estranged wife Diane was pregnant by his best friend, Spc. Gregory Glover. Schap sta*bed and decap*tated Glover, then carried the s*vered head in a gym bag to the hospital where his wife was being treated. He already had a vasectomy. He knew the baby could not be his. He walked out of the hospital and within thirty minutes had figured out who it was. He found Glover at a payphone on the base, mid-call with Diane. With Diane still on the line, Schap confronted him. He stabbed Glover fifteen times, then dec*pitated him. He carried out the k*lling in front of witnesses who saw him flee with the head. He placed the head in a gym bag, returned to the hospital, walked into Diane's room, unzipped the bag, placed the head on her bedside tray table and physically forced her to look at it. He told her: "Look Diane, Glover's here. He'll sleep with you every night now." Schap was court-martialled for the m*rder of Gregory Glover in April 1994 and found guilty of premeditated m*rder. The mandatory life sentence was reduced by the convening authority to 45 years. Diane Schap testified against her husband at trial, confirming the affair and that Glover was the father of her child.

This woman is so brilliant. So articulate. So educated. She’s a joy to follow. This post about how silence isn’t consensus is spot on. I loved it.

The last 36 hours have been beautiful. Indians haven’t been this furious since being taught about using silverware to eat and using a toilet.

🚨 Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang in California has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China in the United States. Mayor Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022 - promoting PRC propaganda in the U.S. and acting at PRC’s direction to promote their interests. She has agreed to resign from office and plead guilty. @FBI and our federal partners continue to move aggressively to root out this kind of influence in American institutions all over the country. nypost.com/2026/05/11/us-new…

5. The "Quick Favor" Illusion Situation: A colleague sends a message asking if you can "just take a quick look" at a broken script, a messy file, or a failing pipeline. You do it because you want to be helpful and it seems like it will only take five minutes. It takes two hours. System: Add it to the backlog and assign it a ticket. "Happy to look. Please drop it in the queue with the error logs and I will review it during my triage block on Thursday." Why it works: Quick favors destroy deep work through context switching. By introducing a tiny amount of friction, you filter out the lazy requests and protect your deep cognitive focus. People will solve their own problems if you stop handing them free answers.

Zsolt Hegedus, the leading candidate for health minister in Hungary's new government, recreated his viral dance complete with air guitar moves on parliament steps as tens of thousands gathered in Budapest for Peter Magyar's inauguration as prime minister reut.rs/4dgB4PC

ShinyHunters has successfully hit the big leagues. ShinyHunters successfully disrupting exams, schooling, grading, government funded research projects, dissertation work, graduations, financial aid, financial loss, potentially immigration complications, and more, has elevated this from "a silly shenanigan" to "major national security incident" and being labeled as an attack on United States critical infrastructure. If I had to guess, the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, CISA, ICE, and DOE are all involved due to the disruption of this. This isn't the largest extortion campaign I've seen, but this is definitely in the top ten. This is what the kids call a "Certified Hood Classic".

EMPLOYEE FIRED AFTER COMPANY DISCOVERS SHE WAS USING A “THINKING FACE” FILTER DURING MEETINGS FOR OVER A YEAR “I wasn’t distracted — I was consistently reflective,” she claims. ⸻ ATLANTA, GA — Mariah Ellis, 29, was let go Tuesday after her company’s IT department uncovered that she had been attending virtual meetings using a looping “thoughtful listening” filter for 13 months straight. The filter featured Ellis occasionally tilting her head, softly pursing her lips, and nodding every few seconds — creating what HR described as “elite-level engagement.” The illusion held strong. The promotions followed. According to internal findings: * Ellis recorded the original clip during onboarding week * The file was saved as: “active_listener_MASTER_final2.mp4” * The loop included a subtle eyebrow raise every 6 seconds * She upgraded the clip once to add “natural lighting and deeper focus energy” * She attended over 1,600 meetings without speaking once * She received a leadership award for “exceptional attentiveness” * Her manager described her as “quiet, but deeply present” The situation unraveled when a senior director asked Ellis a direct question during a strategy call — and her loop responded with a slow nod. The director repeated the question. The loop nodded again. IT was contacted within minutes. A deeper investigation revealed Ellis had been simultaneously freelancing, running an online boutique, and completing certification courses — all while “attending” meetings. “I optimized my presence,” Ellis told reporters. “They didn’t need my voice — they needed my vibe.” The company has since removed its “camera-on equals productivity” policy. An internal memo now reads: “Presence will no longer be measured by nodding frequency.” Meanwhile, somewhere in Atlanta… a loop is still listening. 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

44% of Gen Z employees are secretly destroying their company's AI systems from the inside. They're literally poisoning the data, faking the results, and making AI look like it doesn't work. This new survey of 2,400 workers by Writer and Workplace Intelligence is genuinely unbelievable... 29% of ALL employees admit to actively sabotaging their company's AI strategy. Among Gen Z workers? 44%. Nearly HALF. What they're doing: - Feeding proprietary company data into public AI tools on purpose - Tampering with performance reviews to make AI look like it's underperforming - Deliberately generating garbage output so leadership thinks the technology is broken - Refusing training - Refusing to log in - Some are even manipulating analytics dashboards to HIDE any productivity gains AI actually delivers They have a name for it too: FOBO. Fear Of Becoming Obsolete. And it honestly makes complete sense when you look at what their CEOs are telling them. Palantir's CEO stood on a stage at Davos in January and said "AI will destroy humanities jobs." Direct quote. Then added "You're effed." Anthropic's CEO said AI could eliminate HALF of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Microsoft's AI chief said ALL white-collar work could be automated within 18 months. These aren't random Twitter predictions. These are the CEOs of the companies BUILDING the AI. Telling the workforce directly that they're about to be replaced. Then those same companies turn around and say "please adopt this tool that's going to take your job." And they're genuinely confused when employees fight back. The data gets even worse though: 60% of executives say they're considering FIRING employees who refuse to adopt AI. 77% say they'll block promotions for anyone who resists. Accenture is literally monitoring weekly AI login data to decide who gets promoted. Meanwhile the job market for the people being told to "adapt or die" looks like this: - Entry-level software postings dropped from 43% to 28% since 2023 - 43% of US graduates aged 22 to 27 are underemployed - 60% of entry-level jobs now require 3 years of experience - 80,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026 alone AI was the LEADING cause of job cuts in March 2026 for the first time in recorded history. So the math is simple: CEOs are telling workers AI will replace them. Then demanding they use it. Then threatening to fire them if they don't. All while the job market outside is collapsing. And they wonder why 44% of Gen Z is burning it from the inside. But here's the part that surprised me the most: 75% of the executives in the same survey admitted their company's AI strategy is "more for show than a meaningful guide to outcomes." 3 out of 4 companies don't even HAVE a real AI strategy. They're forcing adoption of tools they don't understand. For strategies they haven't built. While threatening the livelihoods of people who see through the entire charade. 54% of executives also said AI is "tearing their company apart." Well... no shit. This is the first organized sabotage campaign against a technology in modern corporate history. The last time workers systematically destroyed the machines threatening their jobs was the Luddite movement in 1811. Factory workers smashing textile looms across England. History books treated them like idiots. Turns out they were 200 years early. The only difference is that today's sabotage is invisible. Corrupted data, faked metrics, and an entire generation quietly making sure the robots don't work. And the craziest part is that the executives threatening to fire them are the same ones who can't tell the AI is being sabotaged. Because they don't understand the technology either.

Sweden is committing more than €100 million to a sweeping classroom overhaul: replacing tablets and screens with traditional printed textbooks to help reverse falling student performance and sharpen focus. After more than a decade of embracing digital-first education, Swedish authorities are now pivoting back to paper-based learning. Official data and recent studies cited by the Ministry of Education show that prolonged screen use in class has been linked to shorter attention spans, weaker reading comprehension, and reduced critical-thinking abilities. Research consistently finds that reading on illuminated screens requires greater mental effort and invites more distractions compared to the calm, linear experience of physical books—factors believed to have contributed to declining academic outcomes in recent years. Under the new plan, every student will receive printed textbooks for all core subjects, restoring books as the central learning tool. Digital devices and online resources will remain available as supportive tools, but they will no longer dominate daily instruction. This bold €100 million investment signals Sweden’s leadership in rethinking the role of technology in education. It underscores a broader, growing recognition worldwide: while screens provide speed and access, the hands-on, distraction-free engagement of physical books supports deeper concentration, stronger memory retention, and more effective long-term learning. By choosing paper over pixels, Sweden is charting a path toward a more balanced, evidence-informed classroom future—one that puts proven pedagogical principles ahead of unchecked digital trends.

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.