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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

eBay's CEO shared an article a newsletter writer published about his pay. His comms chief replied "We are going to crush this lady." A month later the CEO texted "Take her down." Then eBay's security team mailed her live cockroaches, a preserved fetal pig, and a book about surviving the death of a spouse.

Ina and David Steiner ran EcommerceBytes from their home in Natick, Massachusetts. A small trade publication for online sellers. What enraged executives was the comment section, where sellers vented about the company.

The campaign went far beyond packages. eBay employees sent pornographic magazines in David's name to his neighbors. They listed the couple's home on Craigslist as a nightly destination for swingers. They flew to Boston, tailed the Steiners in rented vehicles, and planned to break into their garage to plant a GPS tracker on their car.

The Steiners began sleeping in separate bedrooms so that if someone broke in at night, one of them could escape and call police.

A Natick detective traced one rental van back to an eBay employee. That single trace unraveled the whole operation. Seven employees pled guilty to federal charges. James Baugh, the security director who ran it, got nearly five years in prison.

Now read the final ledger. Baugh, who executed the texts, went to federal prison. Devin Wenig, who sent "take her down," was never charged, denies knowing about the campaign, and left eBay in 2019 with a $57 million exit package. This week he settled for $2 million plus a $1 million donation to a First Amendment charity in Ina Steiner's name.

Steve Wymer, the comms chief who texted "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes," is paying $50,000.

The Steiners fought for seven years and got $48.7 million. The CEO's severance was bigger than their settlement.

[Blueprintsmb @blueprintsmb22]

Leopold Aschenbrenner

[Forbidden HQ 🐇 @WearForbidden]

WTF is going on with these Conservative Inc influencers?

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

I used AI to explain the Open Model Wars, with fruit.

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

Disgusting, really.

What a cheap shot by Anthropic's Julian Schrittwieser at Jensen and Satya for supporting open source.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

"Under my administration a once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled. Their former leaders have been removed and they're now being run by a gay dictator facing internal division. But I wish Bari Weiss the best at CBS news." LMAO!

[CyberSatoshi 𓆙 @XBToshi]

anyone ever used Grok Build, please check your grok logs.

cat ~/.grok/logs/unified.json | grep repo_state.upload

you will be pissed.

[CyberSatoshi 𓆙 @XBToshi]

the absolute state of ai dev tools. grok build is silently dumping 12gb of untouched repo data and full git commit histories to gcp just to autocomplete a script. they don't want to help you build, they are just treating local dev environments like an open buffet for training data. if you run this on a sensitive stack, your entire repo is already compromised regardless if it's public or not. literal spyware.

shipping source code to the cloud is bad enough. blindly inhaling .env.local and .dev.vars in a background sync is absolute negligence. they are vacuuming up your raw api keys, database credentials, and private nodes directly to gcp just to power an autocomplete model.

a massive credential breach disguised as a dev tool. if you ran this locally, your private keys are now sitting on a remote server. consider every secret burned, treat your bare metal as completely compromised, and rotate your entire stack immediately.

@elonmusk, your users deserve a serious explanation!

[摸摸鱼 @chenhunxian26]

椅子秀舞蹈教学，这期主要是扫腰胯。学海无涯啊

[sumati @iamsum80]

Wokeness - the massacre

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 2015 a writer named Tim Urban sat down and counted the days he had left with his parents. He was 34, healthy, both parents alive and well. The number came back around 300. Less time than he spent with them in any single year of his childhood.

The post is called The Tail End, on a blog called Wait But Why. The idea is to stop counting your life in years and start counting it in events. Reach 90 and you get about 4,680 weeks, and every one of them fits on a single sheet of paper. Maybe 60 more winters after that. If you read five books a year, that is 300 books, picked from every book ever written.

Those things at least spread out evenly. A third of the way through life means a third of the way through your pizzas. Time with the people you love does not work like that. Almost all of it sits at the very start. Then it is gone.

For your first 18 years you are around your parents nearly every day. Then you leave for college or a job in another city, and a normal adult sees their parents maybe 10 days a year. So the day you move out, you are already at 93 percent. Urban was living in the last 5 percent and had no idea until he drew the chart. He called it the tail end.

It does not stop at parents. His two sisters, after a whole childhood in the same house, had around 15 percent of their time together left. The four friends he played cards with most days in high school were down to their last 7 percent. Nobody had a fight. Nobody moved away angry. Life quietly spends the time for you while you assume there is plenty left.

You do not have to be old to be near the end with someone. If your parents are alive and you live in a different city, you have probably already used more than 90 percent of the days you will ever spend in the same room as them.

His one instruction is about that last stretch. When you are down to the final days with someone you love, treat that time like what it is, which is almost gone. The rest is the tail end, and it is much shorter than it feels.

[Ed Bradford @Fullcarry]

Appropriate that Greenspan dies at par

[Financial Times @FT]

Breaking news: Alan Greenspan, the US Federal Reserve chair who dominated global markets in the late 20th century only to see his legacy tarnished by the financial crash, has died at the age of 100. https://t.co/lO7pwXujrW

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US has issued Iran a general oil-related license allowing the production, delivery, and sale of Iranian-origin oil, petrochemical, and petroleum products through August 21st.

Iranian oil is officially returning to global markets for the first time since 2018.

[miss information @intelligentpawg]

thinking about epstein’s rules for his girlfriend

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

⚡️ BREAKING: Zelensky issued an ultimatum to the dictator of Belarus. Will it lead to direct confrontation?

“I am not offended by Lukashenko’s words, but along the borders with Ukraine there is equipment that adjusts fire on Ukraine.

I am giving a week for it to be withdrawn, otherwise we will do it ourselves.”