Thomas

A user reported a potential scam on Facebook Marketplace involving a VA job offer. The scammer, identified as Thomas, offered immediate hiring for a Personal Assistant/Social Media Manager role to post apartment listings, requested use of the applicant's Facebook account, and avoided video communication. The user declined due to red flags like upfront fees and account compromise risks.

An 18-year-old individual named Thomas has been recognized with a Guinness World Record for becoming a professor. Thomas emphasized that the academic setting unites people with a shared goal of learning.

A user applied for a Marketing Assistant role at Ace Compliance Consulting and received a call from Thomas using a phone number matching the company's website. The company has 16 Google reviews, an Instagram account active from 2020 to 2026, and a Houston, Texas location, but the user questions if it is a 'devil corp' due to low pay ($10-$12/hr).

The Supreme Court declined to hear Florida's lawsuit against California and Washington over their commercial driver’s license (CDL) requirements, which aim to restrict CDL issuance to individuals with legal presence and English proficiency. The case follows reports of fatal crashes linked to truck drivers in the U.S.

Carlyle Group's Thomas predicts the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates in June. This forecast suggests expectations for monetary policy tightening by the BOJ in the coming months.

Semble is an open-sourced code search tool that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep and reaches 99% of the retrieval quality of a 137M-parameter code-trained transformer. It combines static Model2Vec embeddings with BM25 and code-aware signals, running on CPU without transformers. Semble is designed to solve the problem of inefficient code searching in large codebases.

The Supreme Court paused a lower court ruling, allowing abortion pills to remain available through mail. The decision halted a May 1 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. This ruling will stay in effect while a lawsuit proceeds.