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Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/14/amazon-layoffs-pxt-hr-andy-jassy/

Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say
Amazon's 10,000-plus employee HR division, which includes recruiters, is expected to be among the hardest hit in the job cuts.

Jake Ferguson injury update leaves Cowboys TE's Week 15 status in serious doubt https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jake-ferguson-injury-update-cowboys-week-15-status-serious-d…

Do any of y'all submit your top 10 metal things of the year to the Metal Archives for their poll? I haven't before, but now that I have an account there, I'm gonna do it this year. I guess as long as you have an account there before December 2, and it can be LPs, EPs, or splits even as long as they were released this year and were new material.. the rules are on this forum thread along with discussion, and you'd submit a DM there to the poster of the thread.

Ferguson questionable to play, but Cowboys confident in Plan BSF https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/12/cowboys-jake-ferguson-questionable-brevyn-spann-ford/87738389007/<…

Amazon laid off 14K people, and commentators rush to blame #AI. But not even Jassy claims that Amazon has replaced jobs with #LLM tools (because it is impossible).
Big tech believed that AI would lead to higher velocity, somehow. Jassy has given up on it, and instead thinks that *culture* will lead to …

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI
Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

UNC volleyball's Jackie Taylor honors late father, NFL legend Sean Taylor https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/47160408/2025-ncaa-volleyball-tournament-north-carolina-jackie-taylor-…

Jewish Life in Contemporary sub-saharan Africa
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Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more (The Substack Post)
https://post.substack.com/p/the-ai-revolution-is-here-will-the

The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition?
The man who predicted the 2008 crash, Anthropic’s co-founder, and a leading AI podcaster jump into a Google doc to debate the future of AI—and, possibly, our lives

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html

Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.