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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Leaders article listed in the contents under Chinese biotech and published under the headline Wrong prescription.

The article argues that America is in danger of mistaking medical innovation for another battlefield in its technology contest with China. Chinese biotechnology has moved from imitation to genuine discovery, and American drug companies are increasingly licensing Chinese-developed molecules. Some politicians now want to treat that trend as a national-security threat, extending investment restrictions to biotech deals and even asking the Food and Drug Administration to disregard Chinese clinical-trial data.

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400 Masked White Nationalist March on Through Washington D.C. chanting “Reclaim America” (r/news)

• MacrotonicWave: look it’s the folks maga told me didn’t exist
• nd_annajones: Reclaim America from whom? You all seem to be in charge of everything
• WallyMcBeetus: They took socialist transit to get there.

Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in California, car left with major damage, authorities say (r/news)

• StuffonBookshelfs: …just another old person that should have had their license revoked a long time ago.
• kna5041: Time to hand the keys over if you can’t drive around a parked car without hitting it.
• insertnamehere57: Wait is this a new story? This happened again? why is he still driving?!?

Over 842,000 without power across the country as US is blanketed by heatwave (r/news)

• xXxSovietxXx: In Michigan, where we already pay ridiculous rates to DTE (who also haven’t paid taxes in a decade), say they won’t have it fixed by Monday at 11:30pm by the latest
• altmannnn3: Wish we had funds for better infrastructure… I don’t think I’ve heard that word once from the president…
• bluehawk232: Well the important thing is the oil execs made a lot of money

Ukraine hits major oil terminal in Russia’s St Petersburg (r/news)

• Dwayla: Never forget, Ukraine goes after military targets, Russia goes after hospitals, schools, and kindergartens. They are terrorists.
• D00bage: Interesting how far they have come now that they stopped talking to the White House
• Knightrider319: Never too early to start the 4th fireworks!

What movie is a perfect 10/10, but you never want to watch it again? (r/AskReddit)

• newmaninlaca: Dear Zachary
• Effstop1: Trainspotting. It’s great. But I’m a recovering addict (luckily not H) and the downward spiral of watching addiction ruin lives is a bit too much nowadays.
• Queasy-Cap1666: Schindler’s List. One of the greatest films ever made, but it’s emotionally exhausting

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Nvidia can’t even afford free coffee for its employees. Why? (Blind)

• dddpj (Palo Alto Networks): Is this true? The richest company in history doesn’t give free coffee and snacks?
• coh26 (ex-Honeywell): Meta can’t afford to keep its employees. Why?
• h7k-6gjL (NVIDIA): Yeah I’ll take no layoff fears over free coffee. Especially since I’m fully remote. RTO? Never heard of it

Lost hope after layoffs and failed interviews (Blind)

• dnxuli (Meta): Hang in there bud! Market is brutal!
• fiiope (eBay): But you made lots of money off coinbase already
• Melly00 (ByteDance): Invest more in your interview prep. You already converted well with screens & onsites, you just aren’t capitalizing on them. The markets tough, 2.5 is nothing

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content (r/technology)

• Yung_zu: This is a pretty concise example of the reality of having these people be our “job creators”
• Starship_Taru: I feel like if I did half the shit meta did I’d be in jail
• -ghostinthemachine-: This is a normal part of testing model guardrails (red teaming), not just for your own safety evaluations but to compare the safety profile of competing models to your own. In fact, it is almost always done in coordination with the model providers to let them know ahead of time so you don’t get banned.

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium (r/technology)

• 404PUNK: Crazy to think we’re building a ton of these things on purpose. Its almost like someone in charge thought we weren’t killing the planet fast enough.
• Daimakku1: The fact that politicians were/are giving tax and other incentives for these data centers to be built in their areas tells you everything you need to know about who they really work for.. and it ain’t us. There is nothing but downsides to people who live near these data centers.
• mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw: Tell me again how people opposing data centers are just irrational Luddites.

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country (r/technology)

• Annonnymist: Trump wants to pardon 250 people today then this Air Force gentleman should also be pardoned
• shocontinental: It couldn’t have been him, he was with me the whole time . . . at church
• binding_swamp: Rise up! Flock surveillance rollout is a bad development and will only get worse if people don’t push back.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Number of Provinces
• Topics: Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Union-Find, Graph Theory

Problem gist

There are n cities, and isConnected[i][j] tells whether city i is directly connected to city j. A province is a full connected component: if city 0 is connected to city 1, and city 1 is connected to city 2, then all three cities belong to the same province even if 0 and 2 are not directly connected.

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Scientific American’s November 2025 article by Elizabeth Svoboda treats morality less as a fixed character trait than as a direction of travel. The piece argues that people can become accustomed to dishonesty, cruelty or courage in much the same way they become accustomed to other repeated experiences. A small first step matters because the brain learns from it. It can make the next compromise easier, or it can make the next act of integrity feel more possible.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 4, 2026 item in its Mechanical Turk maintenance cluster, linking to Simon Sharwood’s July 3 Register article, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers - and not even AI can save it. The story tracks AWS placing Mechanical Turk into maintenance and closing it to new customers on July 30, 2026, a small product notice with unusually long historical reach.

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What happened

Engineering at Meta’s official engineering blog published Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale, a July 1, 2026 post by Sidharth Bajaj and Venkatraghavan Srinivasan about how Meta changed its BLOB-storage stack for AI training workloads.

The post is interesting because it treats AI storage as part of the training system rather than as a passive backing store. At frontier-training scale, the expensive resource is not storage media; it is stalled GPU time. A storage path that was good enough for consumer products and data lakes can become too slow once hundreds of thousands of GPUs synchronize in lockstep and wait on the slowest dataloader. Meta’s central engineering move is to redesign BLOB storage around bounded tail latency, local data availability, and research iteration speed.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 4, 2026 item in its top-news cluster on ByteDance’s Seedance video generator, linking to Nilesh Christopher’s Los Angeles Times story, China-backed AI tool behind fake Brad Pitt fight making Hollywood inroads. The piece is dated July 3, 2026, and it reports that ByteDance is pushing Seedance into Hollywood through pricing, filmmaker outreach, model quality, and production-oriented controls such as timeline-based prompting.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 By Invitation article by Judith Dada, listed in the contents as Judith Dada on the stakes for Europe in AI and published under the headline How Europe must respond to America's AI warning shot.

The essay argues that Donald Trump’s order forcing Anthropic to block non-Americans from its newest frontier models should jolt Europe out of complacency. For the first time, a government had compelled the withdrawal of publicly released advanced AI from foreign users. Whether the ban lasts is less important than what it revealed: Europe depends on American firms, American infrastructure and American political tolerance for access to the most powerful AI systems.

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Autopsy released of Mississippi baby killed by police (r/news)

• MaidoftheBrins: Why is it taking so long for any video to be released? Walmart, dashcam and body cam all need to be given to Crump and the ME.
• mustardmeated: The cop’s gonna get off on qualified immunity, without a doubt.
• PorQuepin3: The US is a third world country

More people than thought may be at risk for red meat allergy caused by ticks (r/news)

• whowhodillybar: It’s crazy to think of how life changing it would be to just become allergic to meat and potentially dairy.
• dskot: My MAGA neighbor just put a sign out front of his house about how Billy Gates is behind this one and they want us all to eat lab meat. Wonderful.
• FireRotor: I met a guy in French lick Indiana, who would smoke meat for veterans and I asked him what he smoked and he said just chicken because everyone has the damn allergy.

Vatican excommunicates all members of ultra-conservative rebel group SSPX (r/news)

• CoalCrackerKid: Chicago Pope doesn’t play around
• rhino910: This was a good move by the Pope. A radical right-wing group in the Church that refuses to acknowledge the Pope or the Church’s teachings is bad for the church
• GearhedMG: SSPX Excommunicado 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time.

‘Moscow will fall’ — 13 Russian power stations shut down across occupied Ukraine, military says (r/worldnews)

• Scribble_Box: What an absolute, colossal fuck up this has been for Putin. You love to see it. Slava Ukraini!
• BKinBC: SOMEBODY has to be thinking, ‘maybe I can get him near the window…’
• MustardEnema007: Have they hit the distilleries?

What’s a movie that was clearly meant to start a franchise but failed? (r/AskReddit)

• wish1977: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• MidnightPrevious4473: Eragon
• Tels315: Jumper