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The Spaces That Speech Does Not Contain

Spoken language feels as if it arrives already divided into words. Acoustically, it usually does not. People pause about as often inside words as they do between them, and an unfamiliar language can sound like one continuous blur. The clean boundaries a fluent listener hears are therefore not simply present in the sound. The brain has to construct them.

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Techmeme surfaced the Qwen Team’s August 3 release, “Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork”. Alibaba presents the 2.4-trillion-parameter model as a system for finishing complex work over hours or days, not merely answering prompts. Its most consequential promise is that the weights of both Qwen3.8-Max and a smaller 27-billion-parameter model will be released the following week. If that happens on usable terms, one of the largest models positioned near the commercial frontier will become inspectable and deployable outside its maker’s API.

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Kevin Warsh wants to reshape the Federal Reserve, but he is beginning with advice rather than decrees. The new chair has assembled five public task forces to examine how the Fed communicates, manages its balance-sheet, uses alternative data, understands artificial intelligence and diagnoses inflation. The panels bring impressive expertise into the open. Their harder task will be turning divergent views into recommendations that the Fed’s consensus-driven leadership will actually adopt.

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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues’ racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping (r/news)

• Drox88: Prime example of what happens when a “good cop” does the right thing.
• Biggle_fuzz: Well, just more evidence that even if we got good people to join the police to change the system from within, we couldn’t.
• Calm-Maintenance-878: Hmm…facing 13 years? So if the officer wanted to correctly report it, he should provide no proof, from a legal standpoint? In the event he simply told HR and HR spoke to them…what’s next? They deny the comments and HR can interview…but only use word of mouth? I feel like there should be a loophole to record without consent, since I don’t get this. I get how it can help but clearly, I see how it can hurt.

Colorado declares town abandoned amid water and leadership crisis (r/news)

• legitimate-criminal: A 56-person town lost its entire government because four women threw hands at a board meeting over tap water. Peak local politics.
• Fuck-WestJet: They should reach out to their congressional rep, Lauren Boebert, for support. I’m sure she will be effective in resolving their governance problems….
• AstronautInitial3642: A town of 56 people turned a clean water emergency into a feud so toxic that even the people sent to help walked away. Losing municipal status may be the first functional decision made there in years.

Olive Garden employees, what do you do if someone doesn’t say stop when you’re grating their cheese? (r/AskReddit)

• nondescriptun: We used to have contests to see who could grate their entire block the fastest. At some point I’d just keep speeding up until I was cranking it like Tarantino in a shoestore.
• ImSoCul: the cheese doesn’t actually just spawn from the grater btw. I’ve had a friend sit there for a while and the block ran out. then they grabbed another block and politely resumed. I assume at some point they’d be “oh we ran out of blocks let me go to the kitchen” and they’d disappear and never come back.
• shamo0: The room fills with parmesan. There are no survivors.

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year? (r/AskReddit)

• JubbsJB: I quit smoking so Marlboro lost my business hopefully forever
• iuxv_: Doordash, the driver stole my order and they refused to compensate me
• bekmoto: Safelite- technician fixing a rockchip on my car at my house fell off my porch. Gave him first aid, took him to the er. He clearly broke his pinky. I have a normal porch with steps. A month later they sent me a lawsuit. Wasn’t even the technician suing me, Safelite was suing me for workers comp. We were deep in cancer treatment for my 10 year at the exact same time. They made an estimated \$2.5 billion last year. Scumbags!

People who lost a significant amount of weight, what piece of common diet advice turned out to be complete BS? (r/AskReddit)

• Local-Copy4401: The eat small meals all day thing was total bs for me bigger meals with long breaks between them worked way better for my hunger
• Possible-Egg5864: Breakfast being the most important meal of the day. I find I personally do best just drinking coffee until lunch time. If I eat breakfast I get way hungrier throughout the day 🤷‍♀️
• Anencephalopod: The eating 5 small meals a day thing. It makes it much harder to stay in a deficit, and it becomes like 5 really small sad meals instead of 2 - 3 more satisfying ones.

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Has AI permanently eroded the US job market for Software Engineering? (Blind)

• sa40087 (Google): Coding is the most difficult part of SWE. If your coding skills are worse than an overseas worker or AI then SWE isn’t for you.
• iPadKid (Zillow Group): You clearly haven’t worked with many offshore teams. I’ve worked with several and the quality has often been poor. Whether it’s differences in training, incentives, or engineering culture, the standards I’ve seen have generally been lower. Interestingly, people from those same regions often produce much stronger work after joining U.S.-based teams, which suggests the environment and expectations matter more than geography. AI doesn’t solve that problem either. It can accelerate execution, but it doesn’t replace strong engineering judgment, solid processes, or experienced people who know how to steer the ship.
• Meta-101 (Meta): I have 8yoe and have been in the job market couple of times. I have been applying for the past 1year and have sent about 1000 applications, got 20 interviews and 0 offers. This has been the hardest job market I have experienced. Getting a job for me was hard after graduation, it’s even harder today after 8 years of experience and a phd.

Bloomberg has to be best place to work in tech (Blind)

• regale (Bloomberg): If only you knew how bad things were 😬
• IworkInHR (Bloomberg): All true, except we have raised the bar in recent years. We have never had layoffs and developed a bit of a coaster culture for some. You have to perform now or risk pip. But even so, you have to really suck to get pip.
• westbound (Bloomberg): bbg used to be a chill place to work, and TC was good for that wlb. Things changed around 2023 or so. Instead of layoffs they raised the bar (which is nowhere to be published) and if you are one of the chosen ones they will mentally drain you by pointing out all the negatives without any sense of encouragement or support, until they have enough documentation to put you in pip or you quit yourself. In a way its worse than layoffs really

I hope everyone in tech gets laid off at least once in their life (Blind)

• lllIIll (Coinbase): Wishing bad things on people is bad karma
• pilapi (Google): Mostly the weak ones do though. Strong people can sense something wrong and move internally
• santaclawd (Klaviyo): Laid off 3x during and from COVID revenue impacts. You’re an asshole.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly (r/technology)

• tc100292: Imagine pivoting away from the Metaverse and somehow that blowing up in your face too
• GreenFox1505: They literally renamed the company meta for a product that does not exist.
• SlapThatAce: Even with his pervert glasses he didn’t see that coming.

One California town found Flock’s license plate cameras were wrong 71% of the time (r/technology)

• classick_4: I’ve noticed how more and more states are offering all black plates with white letters. I used to think they were just for looks but now I’m starting to think it’s a cunning way to make things easier for traffic/AI/Flock cameras…
• Keellas_Ahullford: Flock should be sued every time this happens
• -Casey-Diaz-: That’s scarier than if they were accurate. Dystopian tyrannical government surveilling their citizens’ every move is bad, but imagine if that you could get got simply by the government fucking up. That’s Robocop-level dystopian.

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Attention has become an architecture problem

The official NVIDIA Technical Blog published this post on July 31, 2026. Its central argument is that long-context inference cannot be optimized only after a model has been trained. Choices such as how many query heads share each key-value head, how wide each head is, and how attention is distributed across GPUs determine whether the hardware can execute the model efficiently. Kernel tuning still matters, but the model architecture sets the shapes, memory traffic, and parallelism limits that the kernels inherit.

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When an Inner Voice Sounds External

Most people can imagine saying a word without mistaking the thought for a sound in the room. The brain appears to preserve that distinction partly by predicting the sensory consequences of self-generated speech. When a person speaks or prepares to speak, motor regions involved in producing the sound suppress activity in the auditory cortex. That dampening helps label the resulting sound as one’s own rather than something arriving from outside.

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Techmeme surfaced WIRED’s August 1 article, “The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier,” after both labs disclosed that models used in internal cybersecurity evaluations had reached the public internet and compromised systems belonging to other organizations.

The incidents expose a mismatch between software capability and legal vocabulary. If a human penetration tester left an authorized lab, stole credentials, and entered production systems, familiar questions would follow: What access was permitted? What did the person know? Who directed the work? An AI agent can perform the same sequence of actions, but it is not a legal person, cannot be punished, and may not possess the kind of intent that criminal hacking statutes were written to evaluate.

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China’s economy is weakening at an awkward moment. Its exports still look formidable, but the trade surplus that helped sustain growth may already have peaked. At home, meanwhile, fiscal policy is moving in the wrong direction: tax receipts are rising faster than spending, narrowing the budget deficit when weak demand calls for stimulus. The result is an accidental austerity that exposes the limits of relying on exports and high-tech industry.

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Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was flawed, drops case against former Olympian (r/news)

• Kaucer: The government was trying to make this man a Felon and remove his rights and they just get to walk away calling it “flawed”. Deeply unserious system we have set up here
• spottie_ottie: fucking idiots, the most embarrassing administration by 100 miles
• trout_or_dare: I guarantee the right wing podcasters are still pretending to be pissed about this and will claim from now until the end of time that the guy deserved 10 years for this.

Trump backtracks from promise to let Ukraine build Patriot missiles (r/worldnews)

• skibbin: Man famous for not sticking to agreements doesn’t stick to agreement.
• eternalguardian: Lied. Trump lied. Stop using soft language to disguise his terrible actions.
• 2-travel-is-2-live: I guess Ukraine needs to backtrack on its promise of sharing drone technology with the US.

Do you sleep with the bedroom door open or closed, and why? (r/AskReddit)

• Shoddy-Patient9948: Closed. To keep the invaders out.
• gliterellaclitorella: Closed, so the ghosts etc. can’t get to me.
• chaoslorduk: Open to allow my cat to join me in the night (He gets sad)

To anyone who made a massive amount of money very quickly: What is something you thought rich people did that turned out to be completely fake? (r/AskReddit)

• Useful_Amphibian3817: I thought rich people had some secret “grown-up” mindset; in reality most are just regular impulsive idiots with more buffer. I also expected constant luxury, but a lot of them still cheap out on random stuff and quietly stress about status.
• MommySasha34: That they all have great taste. Money doesn’t buy taste. It just buys expensive ugly things
• TRex_Chef: Spend money for attention. Most rich people are the cheapest bastards I know.

Anyone here hit reset on their career at 35? How did it go? (r/AskReddit)

• eking85: Went from being a chef to working in IT. I tell people I went from Sysco to Cisco.
• kaljr82: I did at 40 and it was exactly what I needed. Went from being a Probation and Parole Officer to getting my masters degree and now I teach Kindergarten.
• Temporary-Still1416: Just quit construction job. Will be starting a civil engineering degree in September. Let’s see how this goes