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The search for nature’s deepest laws usually sounds remote from ordinary politics. In this interview, Nobel Prize-winning physicist David J. Gross argues that the two cannot be separated: a final theory may take centuries to discover and confirm, while nuclear war could end the civilization capable of finding it in an afternoon. Protecting humanity’s scientific future, in his view, therefore belongs alongside the scientific work itself.

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Techmeme surfaced The New York Times investigation “Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived.” Reported from Nairobi, it documents what may be one of the clearest labor-market shocks from generative AI so far: a large, informal export industry built around writing assignments for overseas students has shrunk to almost nothing.

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America’s tariff campaign against China has produced exactly the kind of supply-chain shifts its critics predicted. The Trump administration now treats that outcome as evidence of a vast foreign conspiracy. In a White House paper called “The Great Transshipment Scam”, trade adviser Peter Navarro accuses dozens of countries of helping Chinese goods dodge American tariffs. The article argues that this diagnosis confuses genuine customs fraud with the ordinary restructuring of global supply chains.

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HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED (r/news)

• LordSlickRick: Bro culture took over the government and it sucks.
• rippit3: Gender affirming care, right…
• TheParadoxigm: Come on, we didn’t need more evidence that they don’t care about women.

6-week-old infant died of measles, Pennsylvania county coroner says (r/news)

• strolpol: End all non medical vaccination exemptions
• PigFarmer1: Trump and RFK taking us back 200 years.
• Agreeable_Meaning_96: Inb4 the CDC refuses to list it as a death because RFK told them not to

What was your gut wrenching “my life’s over” moment ? (r/AskReddit)

• paintedbarn17: Parkinson’s diagnosis when I was 31. I was wrong though. Life is different but not over.
• Funny-Comparison-187: Getting a phone call at 1:40 AM on July 11 2025. The Dr was phoning to say my husband’s organs were shutting down.
• tenner-ny: Earlier this week, when I learned my cancer has likely metastasized.

Doctors/nurses of Reddit, what’s a symptom patients brush off that actually terrifies you? (r/AskReddit)

• Ok_Battle_988: Unexplained weight loss.
• snorkel_albuquerque: “Vision went black for a few seconds” in one eye
• gabbialex: Vaginal bleeding after menopause. It’s cancer until proven otherwise

What were the warning signs before someone you know killed themselves? (r/AskReddit)

• Ladybird_StBernese: I was 17, and before I went upstairs to bed, my mom gave me the longest, tightest hug I’ve ever felt from her. She was always a hugger, tons of affection. But that hug was different. I walked upstairs that night thinking “that was weird?”. That was it.
• FilthyOmnisexual: They were happy despite usually being sad/apathetic. We thought it was good, but it was finality.
• Ydain: My dad made a big point of telling me how proud of me he was and telling me he loved me. I didn’t realize he was saying goodbye until the next day.

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tbh i’m happy I’m laid off and that i get to be on garden leave (Blind)

• oimn. (Walmart): I hear you. Enjoy the break. I’ve been dreaming of getting laid off for the last 2 years.
• kSYw92 (ex-Bloomberg): Yeah lol being laid off was the best thing to happen to me, free money, not having to deal with any toxicity anymore and endless career pivot opportunities. Been so much happier and healthier since.
• minioncito (Microsoft): I think the good thing out of all of this is getting desensitized to lay off. We compromised our health for our jobs. I haven’t been laid off but I got “Needs improvement” after working myself to death and driving cross org initiatives, all because my skip mandates his sign off for all prod changes and he takes forever to approve changes. So one project slipped.

It doesn’t matter if AI improves (Blind)

• pwdsales (Salesforce): So instead of your team learning how to use the new tools effectively you’re just not using them at all?
• Based.Dev (Microsoft): Opposite on my team, people just auto approve everything now.
• nihaowdy (Google): I hate people who say I am not sure I can trust AI output, how about you understand each step and argument while working with it instead of being a complete meatproxy? Your luddite team will get cooked anyways if they don’t change their ways.

Anthropic offer after Google offer rescinded (Blind)

• genzcovid (Deloitte): Welcome to F-U money club soon. Congrats! Just shows folks, not where you start but where you end up. Good timing.
• GayIsDaWay (NetApp): God I’m seeing what you are doing for others and I want it for me
• HfLk80 (DoorDash): Google rescinds offer? omg, sry to hear that OP

YouTube faces second class action lawsuit over ‘ad-free’ Premium claims & sponsored content (r/technology)

• coltraz: I have to use sponsorblock and ublock origin to use YouTube. 🤭
• SaintBellyache: I pay for premium and get recommended shorts that are clearly just ads
• whereismymind86: This feels…very stupid. I hate ads as much as anybody, but you are paying to remove youtube’s ads that are inserted into the videos as commercial breaks, not for youtube to go in and edit out sponsorships that are part of the video itself, and are done by the creator’s for their own purposes. Youtube already adds shortcuts to skip them too.

Why office workers are turning against AI (r/technology)

• compuwiza1: When you have to double-check everything it does, time is wasted.
• Master_Definition252: It’s making leadership even lazier, and now they think they can just ask random shit and expect us to respond at AI speed, and with no mistakes. Like, literally all I want to fucking do is my goddamn job without random metrics or other stuff being randomly added to it.
• Small_Dog_8699: Adds work, lowers wages, reduces job security, what’s no to love?

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Attention Has Stamina

Concentration is often treated as a fixed trait: some people can grind through a demanding exam, while others inevitably fade. Heather Schofield and Supreet Kaur argue for a more useful model. The ability to sustain mental effort over time, which they call cognitive endurance, behaves less like an immutable talent and more like physical stamina. Performance usually deteriorates during a long task, but practice can slow that decline.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s September 4 research note, “Formalizing Fermat’s Last Theorem”. The result is not a new proof of the theorem. It is the first complete version of the established proof that a computer can check from end to end—and Anthropic says a team of Claude agents produced it largely autonomously in 11 days.

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China’s official urban unemployment rate presents an implausibly calm picture of the world’s largest labor market. Since the measure was introduced in 2018, it has landed between 5% and 6% in 99 of 115 months. Even during the covid-19 shock it never rose above 6.2%. The article argues that this stability is not reassuring. It is a warning that the statistic may be shaped by the government’s targets and by the way China’s migrant workforce moves in and out of the survey.

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Billionaire Leon Black skips Epstein deposition and sues House committee over subpoenas (r/news)

• TheObsidianHawk: Makes you wonder what he is hiding. You dont get this upset over nothing.
• thejonslaught: I don’t know about the rest of you, but to me these actions by Leon Black pretty much just hold a microphone to the fact that LEON BLACK IS AN ALLEGED CHILD MOLESTOR ON A LIST OF ALLEGED CHILD MOLESTORS.
• MajinSkull: What a world we live in where the rich can just skip when the government calls them in for a hearing and then sue that government

Gloria Steinem, feminist who helped change lives of US women, has died (r/news)

• Dwayla: “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off” Gloria Steinem
• Bisjoux: So many people who have been part of my entire life are dying. Please would someone keep a close eye on Sir David Attenborough.
• onarainyafternoon: Oh damn. She was a pioneer. Everyone should learn about her. Fun fact: She was Christian Bale’s stepmother for a while.

What TV show got canceled on a massive cliffhanger that still frustrates you to this day? (r/AskReddit)

• Glass_Driver1707: Mindhunter
• lizlemonaid: Pushing Daisies.
• ScouserPants: Santa Clarita Diet. I will never forgive Netflix.

What profession wouldn’t you date? (r/AskReddit)

• candab14: An underrated one is Chef. You’ll have this vision in your head of them cooking you gourmet meals every night. That’s not remotely how it goes. First of all, they almost always work at night and on weekends since that’s when people go to restaurants. At home, they tend to make the most basic crap. The job is super stressful so they’re on edge a lot, and there’s a ton of drug usage and alcoholism among chefs. You want someone who can cook but doesn’t do it for a living.
• Rozelle97: I’m a paleontologist. Field work takes me away for months at a time, the museum pay is awful, we’ve had multiple cross country moves… my spouse is a trooper! But the majority of my colleagues are divorced or on their way there.
• jonnywarpspeed: Tennis players. Love means nothing to them

What’s the sickest you’ve ever been in your life? (r/AskReddit)

• BobTheSkutter: Right now. Have terminal cancer. Had my ups and downs but last week a tumour was pressing against one of my lungs and I was in unbearable pain for a few days, thankfully on good pain killers now. But had 90% of my stomach removed, most of my esophagus removed and a years worth of chemo so far. Despite that my spirits are still high and I’m enjoying time with my friends and family and getting out there doing shit.
• 1929_Sears_Crescent: Out doing errands one beautiful day and my throat starts to close up. I stop in at local urge t care on the way home and they give me a shot of Benedryl which has no effect. They then tell me I need to go to the ER. I say sure, no problem. As I think they are kindly walking with me out the door, I see an ambulance outside and it’s for me! They meant now. ER now. I vaguely remember the ride to the hospital. Woke up 5 days later in the ICU. I had been on a ventilator 5 days. I had developed an allergy to a blood pressure medication I had been on for years. Now the entire class of medication will induce anaphylaxis.
• ZephyrGale143: Lifesaving chemo. It kicked my ass but also cancer’s ass.

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My coworker keeps joining meetings from bed… (Blind)

• aaaaaaaa77 (Oracle): Mind your own business and don’t be such a Karen
• oimn. (Walmart): As long as the quality of meeting and conversation is fine, why care?
• slopHArder (Microsoft): maybe he has a medical condition. why do you care

[Megathread]: BEST company you’ve worked for in your career (Blind)

• urAfailure (Meta): Pre-meta Facebook. 2015-2021
• ngzI43 (ByteDance): Google was truly amazing prior to 2015. Even better before 2010. I wasn’t there, but I bet was fucking awesome in 2005/2000.
• anon_foo (LinkedIn): Google hands down. They took families to hawaii. Golden era in 2010+. Not. Coming back.

What career decision do you REGRET the most? (Blind)

• ws:// (Microsoft): Staying 4+ years at microsoft. Desperately trying to get out
• chilishev (ex-Snap): Installing Blind
• C@ym@n2026 (Google): Leaving two jobs (at different stages in my life) where I had incredible WLB, TC, and wonderful managers. One was at a Fortune 500 company; the other a startup that’s doing considerably well. Both times, I felt pressure for my husband to leave. Ultimately, it was my choice but I had to let go of some of the anger I had towards him for the pressure.

Sony Says It Won’t Pass Tariff Refunds Back to PlayStation Customers, and Dismisses Fan Arguments as ‘Speculative and Illogical’ (r/technology)

• DoodleDew: What American company is giving the tariff refunds back? Nobody is
• GeneralCommand4459: So tariffs were basically a wealth transfer operation to keep corporations on side?
• helpmegetoffthisapp: Nintendo said the same exact thing.

Almost 70% of voters in Missouri city vote to recall council member who said yes to AI data center tax breaks (r/technology)

• Adventure1956: Check for the kickback they got from AI data center CEOs.
• gk_instakilogram: I am just gonna drop this https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-issues-permitting-guidance-further-president-trumps-agenda-promoting-data-centers for anyone who thinks people are overreacting.
• Preeng: And then what? These people face no further consequences. They are free to screw people over until they get recalled and then they get to keep their freedom.