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Adolescence is often described as a neurological waiting room: emotions run hot, self-control is unfinished, and sound judgment will arrive only when the prefrontal cortex matures. Neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang argues for a more constructive view. Teenagers’ sensitivity and intensity are not merely problems to contain. They help power a new capacity to connect immediate experience with identity, ethics, history and imagined futures. When adolescents practice this kind of reflection, the article suggests, they may actively shape the developing brain.

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Techmeme surfaced this piece in its July 16, 2026 item on the Oversight Board’s first evaluation of large language models. The original report, Are LLMs Stifling Political Speech? An Assessment of How AI Models Protect Free Expression, asks whether models apply the speech restrictions of repressive governments even when the user is somewhere those restrictions do not apply.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Science & technology article listed as Ancient plagues and published under the headline Biology's plague journal.

Plague left more than mass graves and historical fear. It also left genetic evidence inside human teeth. The article explains how scientists are using that ancient DNA to reconstruct the disease’s evolution, identify outbreaks that written history never recorded and challenge the idea that plague needed crowded cities to become catastrophic.

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US issues \$81,000,000,000 in refunds after Supreme Court ruled President Trump’s tariffs illegal. (r/news)

• mtb443: Ok but like i paid the tariff fee. Its literally on my receipt
• Opposite-Werewolf-34: No refund for the American public who actually paid the tariffs🤬
• VerminSC: This was one big fucking scam and the average American payed for it

Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot, reveals Alzheimer’s diagnosis (r/news)

• bmwlocoAirCooled: Steady on sir. You’ve done your work.
• Senior_Fig7845: Wouldn’t wish Alzheimer’s on my worst enemy. I lost my great-grandma (who I’m named after) to it. By the end she no longer recognized any of us and screamed at my mom to get out when she went to visit her at the hospital. My childhood librarian, who I adored, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and took herself out instead of dying to the disease. It’sa terrible way to go.
• Therealdickdangler: Fuckkkkk. I wish him and his family the best of memories while they have them and I hope they all have peace as the disease progresses. 

Russia accuses Ukraine of terrorism in Sea of Azov as Kyiv opens new front in war (r/worldnews)

• kill_joii: You know it hurts when Russia suddenly starts remembering international law.
• beave32: Crimean bridge is still open for those who wish to move home.
• AdOne5089: Of course one of the biggest terrorism sponsors in world history, that starts wars with its neighbors for legacy reasons, is going to victim blame. Fuck Russia. The Kremlin deserves far worse

People in your 35s, what price have you paid for being lazy in your 25s? (r/AskReddit)

• Zestyclose-Log6389: Teeth. Floss your teeth.
• Darth_Bunghole: I should have been lazier because all the hard work added up to nothing
• Otherwise-Current-62: Ignoring sleep because “I’ll catch up this weekend.” Turns out sleep debt charges interest.

ER workers of Reddit, what stories do you have involving chiropractic patients? (r/AskReddit)

• Dramallama07: Work in ortho. Saw a 16 month old with a limp and pain. Mom took him to a chiropractor first, she said the chiro ‘put his ankle back in place’ but kid still limped and had pain. Because the kid had a fracture in his ankle. But yeah, chiro def reduced the ankle….
• Green-Palpitation901: I do anesthesia. I’ve done 3 emergent vertebral artery dissections from chiropractors. Look up where your vertebral artery is as in snakes it’s way to your head via your cervical vertebrae. You’ll think twice.
• ashxc18: My grandparent’s neighbor has been in a wheelchair for many years due to being paralyzed after a chiropractor visit. The risks greatly outweigh the rewards in my opinion.

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I know a guy who joined DeepMind for 350k and after a year, lost most of his social life and in 3 years became fat (Blind)

• geffler (ex-Microsoft): Bro is coping cause he’s not in DeepMind
• ngzI43 (ByteDance): Someone’s living rent free in Google’s mind.
• Oblocknqqa (Amazon): Are you not attracted to him anymore? You’ll find someone else bro. I believe in you.

Anthropic or OpenAi (Blind)

• gottagetm (Cruise): It’s a shit post like many others
• Spieg (ex-Netflix): OAI — you don’t know if these valuations will hold so I would play for learning experience and having a good foundation. L7 with 390 base is good enough to learn a ton and live comfortably. If the IPO goes well then great and if not then you’ll not feel that you wasted time.
• lHanfgb (LinkedIn): OAI remote honestly sounds like a living hell

Your position has been eliminated (Blind)

• tin-goy-l (Google): So sounds like you will still have a job. What’s the problem?
• amazonone (Amazon): Unions have turned into state sponsored welfare programs
• contigoch (Navistar): Good. Time for tech workers to unionize

The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends. Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world. (r/technology)

• Spiritual-Nail-2641: ‘Her’ (2013), but significantly worse.
• MogarRage: As the younger generation would say “chat im cooked”
• ParadoxPerson02: Are we surprised? Futurama warned us about this over 20 year ago, and we’re surprised?

A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry (r/technology)

• throwawaybsme: Because the AI industry dredge the Internet to train the AI models only to sell us back our own information.
• MannToots: According to every economic look at it… what wealth? Everyone says they are insolvent. Which is it?
• Gloomy-Tank9295: The majority of Americans want them shut down and an investigation as to why they were able to pop-up so quickly and steal our information and resources

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Subdomain Visit Count
• Topics: Array, Hash Table, String, Counting

Problem gist

Each input string pairs a visit count with a domain, such as "9001 discuss.leetcode.com". A visit to that domain also counts as a visit to every parent domain: leetcode.com and com in this example. The task is to total the visits for every full domain and parent subdomain that appears implicitly or explicitly in the input. The output order does not matter.

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Schizophrenia is usually treated as a single disorder with a familiar set of symptoms and a standard biochemical explanation. Diana Kwon’s April 2025 Scientific American article argues that this picture is giving way to something more complicated and potentially more useful. Hallucinations, delusions and disordered thought may be the visible endpoints of several different biological processes. The future of treatment may therefore depend less on finding one universal cause than on identifying which form of illness each person has.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Britain article listed as The AI opportunity and published under the headline A player or a spectator?.

Britain has many of the ingredients for a successful artificial-intelligence industry: strong research, experienced founders, abundant venture capital and a government more willing than the European Union to let firms experiment. Yet the article’s central warning is that potential is not the same as power. Unless Britain turns its scientific strengths into infrastructure, companies and widespread adoption, it may watch the AI revolution from the sidelines.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece in its July 15, 2026 podcast episode, Context engineering with Dex Horthy. Gergely Orosz’s conversation with the HumanLayer cofounder is nominally about giving language models better context, but its deeper subject is how software teams can use coding agents without losing control of the systems those agents modify.

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US outbreak of parasite causing ‘watery diarrhea’ rises to more than 2,800 cases (r/news)

• luminousrobot: 2800 REPORTED CASES. The real number has to be much higher
• Violet_Paradox: A parasite that was on the CDC watchlist until RFK specifically took it off.
• ArguesWithFrogs: Oh no. If only we had some sort of government organization responsible for tracking & containing outbreaks of diseases.

U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline (r/news)

• JimDemintRecession: Some of you may be disbarred, but that is a price I am willing to pay
• AverageJoe-707: Trump and his entire family should be audited EVERY YEAR including past years.
• nevermindthebolox: Great to hear about this pushback. As others have said it might not get too far, but at least it’s being fought against, it will hopefully make others think about their actions in future.

Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing ‘dead power pool,’ experts say (r/news)

• YodaForceGhost: Went to Lake Powell about a decade ago and there was concern from some tourism workers that the lake may not exist by 2030 or beyond. Looks like we’re at that point a few years early
• Responsible-Grand-57: Sure seems to me like it’s time to revisit those “water rights” contracts? Every user of this waterway is screwed if entities keep using their “rights” to the fullest extent possible.
• 71351: Until they adopt “same in same out” at the very least, dry winters like was just had will make the dead pool a sure thing. Data centers anywhere in the greater Colorado river drainage should be DOA. Citizens can never offset industrial/agricultural demands. It’s not complicated math really

What is a hidden gem YouTube channel that is so high quality you are shocked it’s completely free to watch? (r/AskReddit)

• CMMH93: I love Tasting History, such good and interesting content.
• zebra0312: TechnologyConnections. Especially reasonable since he is from the US.
• NakedScrub: The Taskmaster channel. Hundreds of free episodes of full series on there.

What everyday thing from 20 years ago disappeared so gradually nobody noticed? (r/AskReddit)

• _-Samsara: Family photo albums instead of thousands of photos sitting unseen on a phone
• Superb_Algae5308: Web forums for niche interests. Reddit is the dumbing down of that concept.
• TheCoop1986: Insects. Populations have crashed worldwide.