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[Barefoot Student @BarefootStudent]

America's best colleges 2026-2027, per TIME.

1. Stanford University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Harvey Mudd College
4. Princeton University
5. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
6. California Institute of Technology
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. Columbia University in the City of New York
9. Claremont McKenna College
10. Harvard University
11. Yale University
12. Babson College
13. Cornell University
14. University of Virginia-Main Campus
15. University of California-Berkeley
16. University of Florida
17. Carnegie Mellon University
18. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
19. University of Notre Dame
20. Georgetown University
21. Lehigh University
22. Vanderbilt University
23. Dartmouth College
24. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
25. Brown University
26. Williams College
27. University of Chicago
28. Bentley University
29. Santa Clara University
30. Stevens Institute of Technology
31. Rice University
32. University of Southern California
33. Villanova University
34. University of California-Los Angeles
35. University of California-San Diego
36. CUNY Lehman College
37. Davidson College
38. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
39. Northwestern University
40. Duke University
41. Johns Hopkins University
42. Berea College
43. University of California-Santa Barbara
44. University of Wisconsin-Madison
45. College of the Holy Cross
46. Washington University in St Louis
47. CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
48. Boston College
49. Washington and Lee University
50. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
51. Fashion Institute of Technology
52. William & Mary
53. Florida State University
54. Brigham Young University
55. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
56. Bucknell University
57. University of Connecticut
58. Binghamton University
59. Colorado School of Mines
60. Swarthmore College
61. University of Delaware
62. Florida International University
63. University of Maryland-College Park
64. Bowdoin College
65. Colgate University
66. Amherst College
67. CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
68. Lafayette College
69. Wellesley College
70. University of La Verne
71. Citadel Military College of South Carolina
72. The University of Texas at Austin
73. Virginia Military Institute
74. North Carolina State University at Raleigh
75. Massachusetts Maritime Academy
76. Pomona College
77. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
78. SUNY Maritime College
79. Texas A & M University-College Station
80. Colby College
81. Fairfield University
82. Clemson University
83. Emory University
84. Purdue University-Main Campus
85. Molloy University
86. University of San Diego
87. University of Georgia
88. New York University
89. Middlebury College
90. University of California-Davis
91. George Washington University
92. Hamilton College
93. Maine Maritime Academy
94. Barnard College
95. New Jersey Institute of Technology
96. Trinity College
97. University of Richmond
98. Yeshiva University
99. The College of New Jersey
100. Wake Forest University

[America First Tech @AmericaFirst316]

Big H-1B changes are scheduled for this month. This could be one of the biggest H-1B reforms of the year.

• Tighten H-1B cap exemptions
• Increase scrutiny of employers with prior violations
• Crack down on third-party/client-site placements
• Add additional H-1B restrictions not yet disclosed

Impact: fewer cap-exempt H-1Bs, tougher compliance reviews, and significantly more pressure on IT staffing/consulting firms.

https://t.co/Oe5kEdaZc5

[Murthy Law Firm @murthylawfirm]

NewsFlash! USCIS Revises Initial Evidence Requirements and RFE/NOID Guidance

On August 5, 2026, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Policy Alert revising its guidance regarding the evidence required with initial benefit requests and the circumstances under which officers may issue, or decline to issue, Requests for Evidence (RFEs), and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOIDs). The new guidance is effective immediately and applies to immigration benefit requests pending or filed on or after August 5, 2026, unless a regulation or other USCIS policy provides otherwise.

Read more: https://t.co/dNYfE7HESq

[rosey🌹 @thechosenberg]

The HOSPITALS don’t have A/C????

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Please, please read this news thoroughly, for your own sake. I experienced chest discomfort only when I started to run at higher speeds, and it subsided when I just walked or was at rest. That's called 'stable angina' (or stress angina). Unhealthy cholesterol levels, high(er) blood pressure, diabetes are some of the causes for this - in my case, it was unhealthy cholesterol levels, long undetected, while my blood pressure, conversely, continues to be on the lower side because of my running... which my doctor confirmed as healthy since I wasn't experiencing associated fatigue. And I'm prediabetic too, as I discovered during the blood tests for my procedure.

Rana seems to have carried his 'chest discomfort' for 3 days, after which it was too late for any intervention. This is a thin line for most people because it is very easy to mistake a 'discomfort' for stomach acidity, physical symptoms like muscle strain, or even 'heartburn' (which is quite literal!). In a way, I obsess over my daily run more so for this - to include a reasonably stress-inducing activity every day (since there is none) to see if I feel completely alright with it. This helped me identify that I did experience something unusual and it needed medical intervention. And since I felt normal if I stopped the source of stress (running at a faster speed), I ignored it for about a week. But since it persisted exactly only when I stressed, I realized that I was going through something predictably unusual and that needed a check. This 'discomfort' was not a pain at all, ironically. It felt, at best, as a steady tingling sensation on my shoulders and neck - nothing close to my heart! All the more reason to ignore it. But it occurred every single time I stressed myself by increasing the speed of my run, and subsided if I just walked at a slower pace.

Related reading - Two blocks and a second chance https://t.co/cgHCxGoqlB

[KumaoniRoots @Damruwalebaba]

@FIREDUpWealth I applied 10 and got 10

[🇺🇸 Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter]

DHS JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF AIRPORTS THEY WILL SHUT DOWN IF SANCTUARY CITIES REFUSE TO COOPERATE

Not vague threats. Not "we'll look into it." NAMED FACILITIES. SPECIFIC AIRPORTS. City by city.

🇺🇸 JFK — New York City's primary international gateway → customs processing ENDED
🇺🇸 LaGuardia — New York → international arrivals rerouted
🇺🇸 Newark — New Jersey → 5th busiest cargo hub in the US → SHUT for customs
🇺🇸 LAX — Los Angeles → 2nd busiest international airport in America → OFFLINE
🇺🇸 O'Hare — Chicago → one of the largest cargo airports on Earth → GONE
🇺🇸 SFO — San Francisco → Silicon Valley's global gateway → customs ENDED
🇺🇸 SEA — Seattle → Pacific Rim trade hub → SHUT
🇺🇸 Logan — Boston → New England's only major international port → OFFLINE
🇺🇸 PHL — Philadelphia → GONE
🇺🇸 PDX — Portland → GONE
🇺🇸 DEN — Denver → the hub connecting the entire Mountain West to international routes → SHUT

💀 10+ named airports
💀 10 sanctuary jurisdictions
💀 ZERO of these cities have agreed to cooperate with ICE detainers
💀 100% of the consequence falls on international travelers, cargo operators, and connecting passengers — not on the politicians who made the policy

Every airport on this list processes the international arrivals that feed the entire domestic flight network. Not just international travelers. Every connecting passenger. Every cargo shipment. Every tourist dollar.

Mullin's exact words: "They don't want us to enforce immigration, but they want us to process immigration at their facilities."

That is not a political slogan. That is the operational rationale already being briefed to airline executives.

Mullin's plans are still being drawn up. These are the airports at the center of it right now.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[KumaoniRoots @Damruwalebaba]

@MicrosoftLearn Thanks MS learn team. Do you have anything similar for high schoolers as well? Juniors or Seniors.

[Networking Academy @CiscoNetAcad]

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[Free IT Practice Exams @CertExam2010]

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[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨RESEARCHERS JUST MATHEMATICALLY PROVED THAT AI LAYOFFS WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY.. AND EVERY CEO ALREADY KNOWS IT.. BUT NONE OF THEM CAN STOP..

Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap"..

They proved something terrifying..

Every company replacing workers with AI is also firing its own customers.. Every laid-off employee is someone who used to spend money.. When enough people lose their jobs.. Nobody can afford to buy anything.. And the companies that fired everyone go bankrupt selling products to an economy with no purchasing power..

Every CEO can see this coming.. The math is obvious.. Fire workers.. Lose customers.. Lose revenue.. Collapse..

But here's the trap..

No company can afford to stop..

If you don't automate.. Your competitor will.. They cut costs.. Undercut your prices.. Steal your market share.. And you die anyway..

So every company automates.. Knowing it's collectively suicidal.. Because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives..

It's a Prisoner's Dilemma.. And the researchers proved it mathematically..

The numbers are already stacking up..

Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year.. CEO 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 an AI coder that lets one senior engineer do the work of a five-person team..

Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 alone.. AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half the cases..

80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation..

And here's what should scare policymakers..

The researchers tested every proposed solution..

Universal Basic Income.. Doesn't fix it.. It raises living standards but doesn't change a single company's incentive to automate..

Capital income taxes.. Don't fix it.. They change profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human..

Worker equity and profit sharing.. Narrows the gap but can't close it..

Collective bargaining.. Can't fix it.. Because automating is a dominant strategy.. No voluntary agreement between companies is self-enforcing..

Only one thing works.. A Pigouvian automation tax.. A per-task charge that forces every company to pay for the demand it destroys when it fires a worker..

The researchers call it a "Red Queen effect".. Better AI doesn't solve the problem.. It makes it worse.. Because every company sees a bigger market share gain from automating faster than rivals.. But at the end.. Everyone automates equally.. The gains cancel out.. And the only thing left is more destroyed demand..

The paper's conclusion is devastating..

This isn't a transfer from workers to company owners.. Both sides lose.. Workers lose their income.. Companies lose their customers.. It's a deadweight loss that harms everyone..

And no market force can break the cycle..

The AI layoff trap isn't a prediction.. It's already happening.. And the math says it won't stop on its own.

[Patrick Sullivan Jr. @realPatrickJr]

This is extremely concerning!

A new study found that the sweetener used in millions of Americans' daily snacks can damage human brain cells within hours of a single serving.

The FDA approved it decades ago, but the new data is worrying: (1/15)

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails.

Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day.

Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair.

Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential."

96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail.

But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical.

Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it.

Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own.

Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path."

The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way."

It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway.

When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack.

And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it.

Anthropic published this about their own product.

[Microsoft Learn @MicrosoftLearn]

If you want to get Microsoft AI certified, start here:
• Level 1: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
• Level 2: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)
• Level 3: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) (not AI‑specific, but useful for architecting AI solutions)

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

Computer science professor at a major state university just finished the worst faculty meeting in 32 years of academia

Department head dropped the placement statistics like a bomb at 2:47 PM on a Wednesday

2023: 89% placement rate within 6 months of graduation
2024: 67% placement rate
2025: 34% placement rate
2026 projections: 12% placement rate

312 CS majors graduating this spring. Industry contacts saying maybe 40 will find work.

The dean wants to know why enrollment is still climbing while job prospects crater

Faculty sitting there like deer in headlights because what the fuck do you tell 19-year-olds taking out $40k per year in loans

Half the curriculum is already obsolete. Teaching data structures while companies replace entire engineering teams with Claude and Cursor.

One professor suggested pivoting to "AI collaboration skills" and got laughed out of the room

Another said we should warn students. Department head said that would "damage program reputation and university revenue"

So they keep taking tuition money from kids who will graduate into a wasteland

Career services still posts those bullshit salary averages from 2022 when new grads were getting $140k offers

Now the same companies are hiring 2 senior engineers with AI tools instead of 12 junior developers

Every CS professor knows their students are walking into a meat grinder

But the university needs those enrollment numbers to hit budget targets

They're literally selling degrees that lead to DoorDash driving

[The Lallantop @TheLallantop]

एवरेस्ट के 4 मसाले क्वालिटी टेस्ट में फेल हो गए हैं. इनके नाम हैं एवरेस्ट गरम मसाला. एवरेस्ट किचन किंग मसाला. एवरेस्ट कश्मीरीलाल और एवरेस्ट मीट मसाला. एवरेस्ट गरम मसाला, एवरेस्ट किचन किंग मसाला, एवरेस्ट कश्मीरीलाल और एवरेस्ट मीट मसाला में एंटेरोबैक्टीरियेसी बैक्टीरिया मिला है. कई पेस्टिसाइड्स भी पाए गए हैं.

पूरी खबर: https://t.co/FkQJOvbroT

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[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Introducing Perplexity Computer.

Computer unifies every current AI capability into one system.

It can research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project end-to-end.

[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

🚨 A 22-year-old Indian student from Karnataka is missing in the United States.

Saketh Sreenivasaiah, a student at UC Berkeley, was last seen near Lake Anza in the Berkeley hills on February 9.

The Indian Consulate in San Francisco is in touch with his family and local authorities.

Pray for his safety and swift return. 🙏

If you are in the Bay Area and have any information, please contact local authorities immediately.

@FBI @FBIDirectorKash @FBISanFrancisco

[Neo Kim @systemdesignone]

If you want to become good at system design, then learn these 12 case studies (not kidding):

1 How ChatGPT Apps Work:
↳ https://t.co/BJTYYnAwO1

2 How YouTube Works:
↳ https://t.co/kHk3g6jz6t

3 How Google Docs Works:
↳ https://t.co/W57IkAjXpT

4 How Kafka Works:
↳ https://t.co/8rOy9KgCMo

5 How WhatsApp Works:
↳ https://t.co/VScq8QwHMr

6 How Airbnb Works:
↳ https://t.co/Bi5SAjfv5S

7 How Spotify Works:
↳ https://t.co/BxrH3oHIFS

8 How Slack Works:
↳ https://t.co/eIo29uOQOJ

9 How Reddit Works:
↳ https://t.co/o6Pw2hhj3T

10 How Bluesky Works:
↳ https://t.co/2rLYlRlky0

11 How Twitter Timeline Works:
↳ https://t.co/pF2RYmPaIG

12 How Uber Computes ETA:
↳ https://t.co/hw1hYJqQmj

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[X Freeze @XFreeze]

🚨 WARNING TO PARENTS:

They are trying to feed woke poison to your children without you knowing it

Who would guess that simple cartoons like Peppa Pig were being used for indoctrination? You couldn't even spot it unless you were watching closely

The indoctrination is everywhere and in every-form. Don't wait until it's too late

They are coming for your kids' innocence. Wake up and check what they are consuming