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[Anne Ryman @anneryman]

ALSO NEW TONIGHT: Scottsdale City Court responds to my public-records request for the video that resulted in the Scottsdale Mayor's traffic citation. The citation was later dismissed when the mayor couldn't be served by the process server. @abc15

[Hany Girgis @SanDiegoKnight]

🚨 New Department of Labor data just dropped.

Through FY2026 Q3, employers received certification for 830,710 foreign-worker positions under the H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA program.

And look where they’re going:

• 241,846 Software Developers
• 62,170 Electronics Engineers
• 30,973 Data Scientists
• 28,058 IT Project Managers
• 24,743 Software QA Analysts & Testers

Software developers alone account for 29.1% of every certified position.

Top employers?

Cognizant: 79,121
Qualcomm: 71,203
Amazon: 45,025

Meanwhile, American tech workers keep being told there aren’t enough jobs.

At what point do we stop calling this a “skills shortage” and start asking why hundreds of thousands of foreign-worker positions are being certified while Americans are looking for work?

@RepRileyMoore @RepGregSteube @RepBrandonGill @realDonaldTrump @SecScottBessent

[Cinefilia Cult @cinefiliacult]

HBO brilla más por sus series, pero es que tiene películas MUY buenas.
Les dejo 6 para este fin de semana, que espero les gusten❤️���� Al hilo🧵:

1/6 - Stuart: A life backwards (2007): Es un verdadero peliculón y con Tom Hardy y Benedict Cumberbatch. Triste, sí, pero una joyaza👌

[Beaver 🦁 @beaverd]

i have an entire portfolio of biotech/industrial companies whose leadership is comprised entirely of white people

Currently its up 200% YOY and I don't think its close to finished

Financial markets have never been easier.

Bet on stereotypes, they will be reinforced.

[YE99 🇪🇺🍊 @YeHzkl99]

Teeth before and after consistent use of nano hydroxyapatite toothpaste

[Nick Plumb @PlumbNick]

Here’s how it works…

Apply for F-1, graduate and get hired by Amazon on OPT and hope you’re selected for H-1B.

If you don’t win the lotto, they’ll “park” you in Canada, let you promote to a high enough level to re-enter as a L-1 and then try the H-1B loop again.

Remember, this is all for an entry level corporate role, not rocket science.

And if all this fails, they put him on administrative leave to give him time to find a new role/enroll in a Day1 CPT program.

It’s all so broken. Hit pause, let the visas expire, don’t issue new ones and let’s level-set for the future. If we don’t; American companies will soon optimize all Americans out for a more complacent workforce.

[Strace @straceX]

There's a physical limit hiding inside every modern CPU.
A lithography scanner can only expose about 26×33 mm in one shot (~858 mm²).
Make the chip bigger than that, and you can't print it as a single die anymore.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

They used AI to run mock interviews, identify weaknesses in their answers, and rehearse until the real interview felt familiar. They ended up landing the job.

[🐍 Ƥşץ𝕔𝔥𝕠pomp_Đ𝔦o̷͝ηуรǗ丂 ඏ @Read_Acted]

Facial chirality, a term used by former FBI agent and body-language specialist Joe Navarro, is emotional asymmetry in which the two halves of a face appear to express conflicting states. A broad, ingratiating grin on one side and a cold or hostile expression on the other may suggest competing emotions, suppressed anger or contempt, or an effort to manage how one is perceived. Navarro stresses that this is a clue to emotional incongruence—not proof of deception—but it can signal that the displayed emotion is not the whole story.

[Matthew Harbaugh @themattharbaugh]

Michael Mauboussin's book recommendations

[Ravinder Reddy @MRavinderReddi]

Indra owns nearly a quarter of the Rigveda. Iran ended up listing him among the demons. The Purāṇas made his kingship a temporary post. The Pali canon has him climbing down from his chariot to bow to a man while his own driver watches.
Three religions demoted the same god, and the reason was cattle.

New essay: Link in comments. 👇
Read and subscribe for free.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The Destruction of Sikh Art

Of all South Asia's religions, Sikhism has perhaps the worst-preserved art history. Its heritage was destroyed in three great waves.

[Ray Peat HubblyBubbly Emporium ✝️ @RayPeatHeadShop]

The husband-wife relationship is (supposed to be) a mirror of the parent-child relationship, which is a mirror of the God-human relationship.

People get too caught up in the Freudian subversion of these concepts, but really when you fall in love, you inevitably feel a paternal/maternal affection and protectiveness towards your lover.

It’s an important milestone to reach in order to feel safe existentially; the realization that that two unrelated people can love each other unconditionally.

Without the fulfillment of this experience you are not fit to start a family.

[Prometheus @CaribbeanRythms]

Everything with you is so forced.

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

This study showed that teeth were remineralized and hardness was restored from the saliva of people taking 1,000 IU vitamin D/day after being dipped in ACID.

Teeth aren't just stones, they're active tissue that respond to nutrition and metabolism!

PMID: 35761922

[Michael Burry Stock Tracker ♟ @burrytracker]

Breaking: Michael Burry has disclosed his updated positions

He:
• Added to Micron $MU short at $880
• Added to Nvidia $NVDA shorts
• Added to Semiconductor ETF $SOXX short at $506.0
• Added to Lululemon $LULU long at $118.0
• Added to Flutter $FLUT long
• Added to DraftKings $DKNG long at $23.40
• Added to Zoetis $ZTS long at $76.0

Burry left his Tesla and Palantir untouched

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Friends — we're about to start our most exciting read-along yet.

The Brothers Karamazov.

If you've been on the fence about joining the book club, now's the time. You do not want to miss this.

We are reading it over the next 6-7 weeks. First discussion is on August 4, covering Books 1-4.

We read Crime and Punishment in May, and followed the harrowing yet illuminating journey of Raskolnikov. But The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's final and greatest work, takes his moral and spiritual ideas to their utmost height. Many consider it the greatest psychological novel ever written.

For those who want to join our "inner circle" and participate in the discussions directly, we are running a discount for 24 hours only...

25% off full membership!!

You'll get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next

https://t.co/t3TPBQCcgV

Of course, you may also read along for free and tune into the live broadcasts. Let's make this our biggest read-along ever!

See you inside.

[John Fadule @fadule_]

-get jacked
-crush it at work
-marry an honest woman (with a good body)
-keep things fresh so you smash like it’s the hooking up phase
-travel the world
-watch good movies
-eat healthy (90% of the time)
-call your friends for no reason
-host banger dinner parties
-overpay for good concert tickets
-have monthly movie nights with people who make you belly laugh
-and if you’re ever feeling down remember you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle - you’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)