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I just came across this and realized that the knowledge I have might not be super common. If you are applying for a job, and they say that you need a company phone or tablet, and that if you buy it they'll reimburse you on your first paycheck, they are lying.

That is a scam.

They'll also have you send the devices to a tertiary location for "reformatting" and never return them.

If you applied for a job like this and gave them your personal information during the application process, your next steps are the following if you live in America;

Go to FTC.gov and file an ID theft report, because now they have your information and a picture of your ID and will not hesitate to use it.

Contact all major Credit Bureaus and lock your shit down.

Check your credit once a month for the rest of your life.

Take any calls from an unknown source with a grain of salt.

Once you fall for one scam, they'll try others on you. You will receive calls claiming to be anyone and everyone, and some of them will come through with your area code.

This is called Spoofing; when you use a third party program to hide behind someone elses number. When I was in car sales, we used this to harass people into coming onto the lot. Super easy and very difficult to do anything legally against. No, your phone company cannot stop those calls.

Side note; if you meet someone online and u vibe with them, and they tell you they're in a dangerous situation and need you to send a phone to them so they can get out of it, they're lying.

They are always lying.

Do not give a gift to someone unless you've shaken their hand, in person.

Bruce Munro: ‘Waterlilies’ (2012) Location: Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania

100 shining colorful waterlilies made of 65,000 recycled CDs float at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania creating a light installation.

hidden messages in electronic boards

Watching AI types say we need generative AI-written dialogue to create a game where NPCs can remember and react to things and thinking of when the Call of Duty devs declared that they had finally pioneered the tech to have fish move away from the player, only for someone to post a video of fish moving away in Super Mario 64 a few minutes after the press conference ended

1993

wichita public library has the most delightful short story dispenser at the airport!