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First there was Spotify Wrapped. Then came Snapchat Wrapped, YouTube Wrapped, and even Uber Eats Wrappedshortly after, SNL parodied the idea. If you thought you were officially wrapped up for the year, LinkedIn had other plans. The platform just dropped its inaugural Year in Reviewessentially, LinkedIn Wrapped. LinkedIns Year in Review recaps your activity on the platform, from how often you logged on and when you were most active to how many posts you shared. It tallies your comments, new connections, and total profile impressions, then assigns you a personality type based on how you used LinkedIn. The feature also taps into the platform nostalgia trend, which has defined 2025: It tells you the exact date you joined LinkedIn and who your very first connection was. If youre looking for either an ego boost (or a reality check) it also summarizes engagement metrics, like new followers, reactions, comments, and for Premium users, profile views. All of it is packaged into a sleek highlight reel designed for social sharing. And people have been sharing though with mixed feelings. Ah. LinkedIn reminding me that I was a top applicant for 28,388,338 jobs and landed 0 of them this year, the user wrote, with a screenshot on X showing that 865 of their connections started new jobs this year. Woohoo. Thanks, LinkedIn Wrapped. Another joked: linkedin wrapped didnt include ___ jobs applied because they knew it would be too much of a humiliation ritual. A third put it bluntly: My 2025 LinkedIn wrapped is actually the last thing in the world I need right now LinkedIns timing isnt the best: The U.S. unemployment rate recently hit a four-year high and earlier this year, the number of job seekers exceeded the number of jobs available for the first time in four years. Most jobseekers wont be looking back with fond memories on the hours/days/weeks they spent on the hiring platform this past year. You applied for 1,000 jobs and none of them were actually hiring! one X user quipped. The Linkedinfluencers, however, were slightly more enthusiastic. Where my 5% crew at??!!, one wrote. Didn’t think I would get sentimental about a LinkedIn ‘Year in Review’ but here we are! Another wrote: 344 days out of the 365 days in 2025 was spent on Linkedin! People often think I joke around when I say that Linkedin is actually the most used app on my phone. But Linkedin wrapped don’t lie! Others are simply over the wrapped of it all. Stop reviewing my life, stop wrapping it up, TikTok user @litty_city said in a video on Wednesday, pointing to the onslaught of year-end summaries. Everyone from Amazon and Apple Music to PlayStation, Discord, Duolingo, Asana, and even Partiful joined the wrapped party this year. Im tired, she concluded. Time to wrap it up.
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The Trump administration is calling on white men who believe they faced discrimination at work to file their complaints to a federal civil rights agency. The head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged white men to formally register their complaints with the government this week in a video posted to X. Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws, EEOC Commission Chair Andrea Lucas said. Lucas urged white men who qualified to contact the EEOC as soon as possible and pointed them to the agencys website and its explainer on DEI-related discrimination. The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating ALL race and sex discrimination including against white male employees and applicants, Lucas wrote. The EEOCs priorities have shifted dramatically during the second Trump administration. The EEOC, born out of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was created to protect Americans from workplace discrimination and harassment. Given its origins, the agency had a historic focus on protecting minority employees from racial discrimination, but in more recent years its mission included investigations into instances of discrimination over gender, disability, age and national origin. At the same time that the EEOC is collecting complaints from white men, the agency has dropped six of its own cases representing transgender people who alleged workplace discrimination based on their gender identities. Dismantling diversity The Trump administration has deployed the EEOC in a very specific way over the course of the year, steering the agency toward its broader goals of dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. In March, the EEOC and the DOJ released a joint press release along with new documentation warning employers against unlawful DEI-related discrimination that could be interpreted to violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Far too many employers defend certain types of race or sex preferences as good, provided they are motivated by business interests in diversity, equity, or inclusion, Lucas said. But no matter an employers motive, there is no good, or even acceptable, race or sex discrimination. While the subtext was clear from the EEOCs recent changes, Lucas said the quiet part out loud on X. The Trump administration is keen to highlight perceived examples of anti-white discrimination in the country, and its willing to pull all the levers of government in pursuit of that goal. The White Houses framing of race in America increasingly reflects the language of once-fringe white nationalist theories, including debunked claims about a genocide of white South Africans and recent calls for remigration mass deportation for non-white immigrants. Trump himself has an extensive history of racist ideology, has repeatedly aligned himself with white nationalists and continues to promote a language of grievance around anti-white sentiment while stripping away federal policies designed to promote racial diversity. The EEOC has an unusual structure, but that hasnt been enough to block Trumps efforts to weaponize it during his second term. The agency is a commission made up of five members, with no more than three allowed to be from the same political party. The president can appoint commissioners, who serve a five year term, and can designate a chair to steer the agency, but generally the EEOC is designed to be bipartisan by definition, limiting the potential influence of whoever sits in the White House and keeping the commission independent. Quickly after taking office in January, Trump fired two of the federal agencys three Democratic commissioners an unprecedented departure from the commissions traditional five year terms. After filling one of the open slots with a lawyer who served in the Department of Education during his first term, two EEOC positions sit vacant, with one Biden appointee remaining in her role and two Trump appointees setting the agenda.
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The livestream of a YouTube content creator talking about investments mysteriously appeared to take over a White House website, raising questions about whether the site was hacked. The livestream appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking. It’s unclear if the website was breached or the video was linked accidentally by someone in the government. The White House said in a statement that it was aware and looking into what happened. The video that appeared on the government-run website featured some of a more than two-hour livestream from Matt Farley, who posts as @RealMattMoney, as he answered financial questions. Farley said in an email to The Associated Press on Friday that he had no idea what happened. If I had known my stream was going to go super public like that I would be dressed a bit nicer and had a few more pointed topics! And it likely wouldnt have been about personal finance, Farley wrote. President Donald Trump‘s administration and campaign have had a series of digital security breaches and challenges over the last year. In May, government officials began investigating after elected officials, business executives, and other prominent figures received text messages and phone calls from someone impersonating Susie Wiles, the Republican president’s chief of staff. Last year, Iran hacked into Trumps campaign. Sensitive internal documents were stolen and distributed, including a dossier on Vice President JD Vance, created before he was selected as Trumps running mate. Michelle L. Price, Associated Press Associated Press writer Bill Barrow contributed to this report.
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