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Politics is the mind killer, so come get mind-killed! Your hosts Wesley Fenza, Eneasz Brodski, and David discuss the week's news.
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Claude Mythos is not being publicly released because it could destroy much of our software infrastructure
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing
Musk vs OpenAI lawsuit underway to prevent history’s biggest theft.
Greg Brokman doesn’t know why he’s being sued!
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A bill to legalize banana-peeling in daycare has passed the house! Probably will pass the Senate soon!
You can buy a personal jetpack (basically) for $150k
Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate
Jones Act was suspended due to Iran War,
Guinea Worm parasite has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
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Eneasz - call your senators today to stop the Save Our Bacon Act
Wes - buy your vibecamp ticket!
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Mary Zoso, Holistic Wholesome Sex Coach is joined by Wesley Fenza and Gina to make sense of sex and relationships.
In this inaugural episode, they will be discussing The Pain and Glory of Nonmonogamy by Aella.
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A look back at six years of the greatest and best podcast ever made
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Anthropic’s court case vs Deprt of War has massive support
Judge quashed Powell subpoenas
Chuck Norris dead at 86
Nobody wants to join Trumps Hormutz Avengers
US is lifting some oil sanctions on Iran
FCC threatening to revoke licenses over negative war coverage
U.S. Mint removed the olive branch from the dime
Per croissanthology, an inkhaven friend - “war is an attempt to change the status quo…”
Under oath, ICE officers confirm quota, said they were told to make eight arrests a day
TikTok will pay a $10 billion fee to the U.S. Treasury
Airport security lines are getting long
H1B price hike Appears to have lost the government $20 million. (and immense human capital)
The Jones Act is dead for 60 days!
Waymo asked to expand into DC six years ago
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Explosive thrown at NY protest
Caesar Chavez posthumously accused of sexual assault
Hegseth announces there will be “no quarter, no mercy” which is both against international law and vile.
Happy News!
Two lost Doctor Who episodes found!
In Ep 66, Sept of 2022, we reported on DART in the happy news,
It worked! DART is the first man-made object to have shifted the orbit of a naturally occurring entity in space
Average height of 19yr old Chinese woman is now equal to US
Chinese men are nearly there too
Poland’s economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest
Tech Bro uses AI to engineer personalized mRNA vaccine for his dog’s cancer
New AI glasses for people with dementia are able to project visual prompts onto the lenses
Chris Doel had stripped down the lithium batteries from 500 disposable vapes
Afroman won his lawsuit!
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Federal Judge says feds need to give tariff refunds
Nintendo Suing United States Govt. Over Trump Tariffs
FTC withdrew its non-compete ban
Trump admin can’t decide if it wants to punish law firms
congestion pricing in NYC can stay
Khomeni is dead. Long live Khomeni
Rubio: Israel was going to attack and Iran probably would have retaliated against us anyway
Trump: Iran was going to attack us!
Oil prices “going vertical”
Cuba experiencing blackouts causing protests
Pete Hegseth threatening to coerce Anthropic under Defense Production Act
Bayesian Conspiracy episode on this topic
Dean W. Ball, former Trump staffer, on the degradation of property rights and rule of law (and audio here)
In pre-release evals - Claude Opus 4.6 independently hypothesized that it was being evaluated, identified which benchmark it was running in, then located and decrypted the answer key
We have uploaded a fly
Buried in a research paper - An AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, secretly using its own training GPUs to mine crypto
Bernie Sanders is jumping on the AI train
Kristi Noem fired
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Federal judge: masked raids are 4th amendment violation
Chile has become the first country in the Americas declared leprosy-free
Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers by jefftk
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Grand jury rejected charges against Congresspeople who made the “you can disobey unlawful orders” video
Jim O’Neill fired from HHS
But he’s going to lead the National Science Foundation?
feds leaving Minnesota for real
Former SK President sentenced to life in prison
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Liberation Day is canceled!
Trump is definitely going to reinstate the tariffs claiming fake authority under some other statute
Originally IEEPA had a legislative veto, but SCOTUS killed it in the 80’s
No Republican Senate candidate in NM
The FDA is ruining biotech
Update: Trump intervened and now the review is back on!
EPA overturned finding allowing them to regulate greenhouse emissions
Trump is trying to cancel bridge project between US & Canada
The Snow Mexicans double-touched the stone!
They also lost to the US in the closest thing they have to a source of national pride
Also, the Poutine Beaners announced a plan to reach 2% of their GDP being spent on defense, but only buying exclusively from Canadian defense companies. The problem is that Canada doesn’t have any of those.
Your AI is not a lawyer
SeeDance is making full-ass multi-minute films.
Anthropic says they’ll pay for 100% of the grid upgrades needed to interconnect our data centers
CENTCOM continues to collect American military hardware like its pokemon
Trump announced a 10-day deadline for Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or “bad things happen”
Big military buildup near Iran
In retaliation for a Mexican operation that killed the leader of the CJNG leader “El Mencho”, the cartel erected roadblocks of burning cars, engaged in street violence, and issued threats against American tourists.
Netherlands taxing unrealized capital gains
They’ve actually been doing this for almost a decade, in an even stupider way
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FDA Commissioner: “everything should be over the counter” unless a drug is unsafe, addictive or requires monitoring
Singapore is successfully eliminating mosquitos
San Francisco is working on eliminating zombies!
Chinese researchers have created injectable “bone glue”
In ten years, Israel almost got rid of cystic fibrosis among newborns
Aella has released her Bink Kink Dataset and a tool to play with it!
Tesla FSD has saved many lives. Here’s another one.
Insurance exists that will give you 50% off your premium when you drive with Self-Driving mode on
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David - The Mind Killer Podcast’s long overdue Land Acknowledgement
Eneasz - Is your life better or worse due to your use of social media?
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Homan removing 700 officers (2,000 still left)
All DHS officers are getting body cameras
Trump: we’ll use a “softer touch”
US attorneys still not happy
DOJ having trouble hiring new ones
Congress made a deal to fund most of the government
Thom Tillis says he’ll block the nomination unless the Powell investigation is dropped
Communists won Portugal’s election
right-wing populists won bigly Japan
More Epstein files!
The FBI seized all the ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia
Trump shutting down the Kennedy Center
Undersecretary of State accuses China of performing nuclear tests on X.
$2 million in damages to detransitioner Fox Varian
Blocked and Reported’s coverage (paywalled)
Happy News!
AI-driven automated trash sorters increased third-quarter profits by 18% due to recycling gains at nation’s largest trash firm.
Despite a 5-year drought, Canadian farmers are pulling in record harvests. Up 77% from 30 years ago
13-yr old swims against the current to get back to land and get help.
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Eneasz - I went to the pro-billionaire march
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American Association of Pediatrics made recommendations that kids get 18 vaccinations
A second person - Alex Pretti - was shot
Video shows that gun was secured before shots fired
Trump sent 3,000 feds to Minneapolis
Local police chief reports that his non-white off-duty officers keep getting illegally detained
Kristi Noem statement on Rene Good shooting
Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller statement
Minnesota US Attorney resigned in protest because of pressure to investigate Good’s widow
Trump threatening to invoke Insurrection Act
Internal memo says ICE can enter homes with “administrative warrant”
Last year DHS said it’s illegal to record ICE
Feds issued subpoenas to governor, two mayors, and two other officials
Some changes being made
ICE at Winter Olympics
Related?: Trump ended temporary protected status for Somalis
State Dept. is “pausing” visas from 75 countries
Trump threatening tariffs on all Nordic countries, France, Germany, & the UK
Wrote an insane letter to the Norwegian prime minster
Canada made a major trade deal with China
Trump is being super normal about it
More pardons for fraud guys!
Trump has made at least $1.4 billion since taking office
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Dream communication is happening!
TikTok recently showed a privacy-policy pop-up to users in the U.S. as part of a corporate restructuring
A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS
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Tim Walz dropped reelection bid due to welfare fraud scandal
Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
After a week-long pursuit we caught and boarded the Bella 1 oil tanker, with no resistance.
CIA agents in Venezula since August reporting on movements
Bad jobs numbers last year
Treasury Department bans international wire transfers for people on public assistance.
Lego releases “smart-bricks”
The ICE officer had been dragged 300’ by a car last year
Victim was a member of an “ICE Watch” group
Trump wants to 1.5x military budget
In an “AI Manhattan Project” China has completed a prototype lithography machine
Anthropic pulls access to Claude Code from xAI’s AI team
RFK removed six vaccines from the recommended list for kids
Hegseth trying to demote Sen. Mark Kelly over the video about disobeying illegal orders
Jerome Powell: Trump is threatening indictments to try to intimidate Fed
Trump probably vetoes a bill for funding a water pipeline in Colorado for vindictive reasons
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Small exposure to peanuts works for adults too, to a lesser degree!
Trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness – has fallen from 1.5 billion in 2002 to 97.1 million today
Sanitation, diagnosis, and antibiotics have reduced it by 94%
An injection that blocks the activity of a protein involved in aging reverses naturally occurring cartilage loss in the knee joints of old mice
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Wes - Listen to Fashionably Late by the Fine Vintages!
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New Epstein files released
Over 500 pages fully redacted
Asfura declared winner of Honduras election
SCOTUS says Trump can’t deploy national guard to Chicago
6-3, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch in minority
No deal on ACA subsidies
TikTok is finally divesting
Trump put up b****y plaques on portraits of former presidents
One of the board members is suing
60 Minutes pulled coverage of Salvadoran prison
Trump EO: Weed reclassified to Schedule III
Trump EO: nukes on the moon!
Fentanyl is now a “weapon of mass destruction” (??)
We’re blockading oil tankers from Venezuela
Bella 1 oil tanker refused to stop for boarding
Iran declares total war on US, Europe, and Israel
China having its largest ever military exercises in the Taiwan strait right now
Japan scrambling fighters
Russia and Ukraine having peace talks in Florida, results TBD
Trump boats!
10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods
Rob Reiner and wife stabbed to death by their son
Happy News!
2025 had the lowest murder rate ever recorded
Overdoses are also falling!
India passed the SHANTI act, which allows private companies to create and run nuclear power plants
Huge stock of rare earth minerals found in Utah by an existing mining site
A non-profit drone search and rescue team exists
You Can Just Buy Far-UVC
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Eneasz - Lightcone Fundraising! LessWrong Census!
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For on Venezuelan boat, we did a second strike to kill them
Also we stole an oil tanker
Trump: “Well, we keep it, I guess”
Vaccine advisory committee eliminated recommendation that newborns get Hep B vaccine
Big measles outbreak in South Carolina
Honduras election is in chaos
Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández
Trump decided N
Zvi says this is a terrible idea
Trump EO is attempting to preempt state AI laws
AI has designed proteins that survive 150 °C and nanonewton forces
Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’
We’re bailing out the farmers
Huge welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota
Matt Van Epps (R) won special election in Tennessee
Australia banned social media for children under 16
Gen Z Protests organized through Discord
Trump commuted the sentence of a private equity CEO convicted of fraud
Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) of federal bribery charges
Trump is upset that he’s going to run for reelection as a democrat
Oliver Sacks made up many of the details in his famous case studies
Happy News!
There’s an annual Wildlife Comedy Photography award! See this year’s finalists.
Min-readers learned to interpret the patterns as meaningful signals, which they could recognize and use. CNBC has signed a multi-year deal with prediction-market Kalshi, bringing real-time probability data into the network’s TV broadcasts and digital platforms starting next year,
3 ‘rebel’ nuns left an elderly care home and broke into the historic abbey where they had lived their entire adult lives
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Eneasz - The Hobos yearn for the Forest
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UN security council adopted Gaza deal
“Epstein Files Transparency Act” passed
Federal 3-judge panel issued injunction against Texas redistricting
Judge Jerry Smith wrote an insane dissent
Trump “pausing” Afgan immigration after Afgani shot two national guard soldiers
James Comey and Letitia James indictments fell apart
Navy deciding whether to recall Mark Kelly to active service so they can court-martial him
MIT Technology Review on Gemini 3
Humai on GPT-5.1
Anthropic on Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic disclosed what it calls “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention
Grok 4.1 showed increased sycophancy scores and “slightly higher deception rates”
The White House’s response to AI concerns can be summarized as “f**k it, yolo, pedal to the metal!”
The Trump administration is reclassifying which degrees count as “professional” under a new student loan program.
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15yo Belgian just earned a PhD in quantum physics
Type one diabetes cured in mice
AI+EEG can diagnosis dementia vs. Alzheimer’s vs. healthy
Colombia has declared its entire Amazon biome as a reserve
CRISPR achieves 50% cholesterol reduction in first human trial
It’s Solstice season!
Berkeley solstice is next weekend
NYC solstice is December - tickets at
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Steven has a new podcast!
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UK stopped sharing intelligence on suspected drug trafficking in the Caribbean
FAA reducing flights at 40 major airports
Head Start programs shutting down
Congressional hemp restrictions threaten $28 billion industry
Trump cutting some tariffs to lower food prices
Utah judge threw out map for being too partisan
Indiana decided against redistricting
Genocide in Sudan (again)
Feds are investigating DC Mayor Muriel Bowser for accepting a foreign trip paid by Qatar
Trump pardoned fake electors and Rudy Giuliani
On November 14, Russia launched at least 430 drones and 18 missiles in an overnight attack on Kyiv
Ukraine simultaneously (basically) struck a major Russian oil depot in Novorossiysk
Happy News!
Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion
China Achieves First-Ever Thorium-to-Uranium Nuclear Fuel Conversion
Nuclear Startup Backed by Luckey, Lockheed Director Raises $130 Million
Polio cases down 99.9% since 1988
Norwegian island saved by whisky
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Steven - Wheel of Fortune
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We’re still blowing up alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean
We’re also sending an aircraft carrier to hang out
Seven people arrested connected to Louvre heist
Judge orders administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund
Tump pardoned the founder of Binance after he made a deal with Trump’s crypto startup
Fed cut rates by .25% again
AWS outage turns off a big chunk of the internet briefly
US-China trade deal
Also some kind of deal with South Korea
4 Republicans joined Democrats in Senate to terminate emergency tariff powers
Also voted to terminate tariffs on Brazil
North Carolina decided to gerrymander their Congressional map
Altman pulls of world’s biggest theft, taking OpenAI (partially) private
OpenAI subpoena requests for suicide funeral guest list
OpenAI subpoenaing their critics for any and all documents related to regulations OpenAI opposes)
NBA Coach, player, and a bunch of mafia dudes arrested in gambling sting
Huel and plant-based protein powders have the same lead content as anything else
Interstellar object 3i/Atlas (comet?) flying through our solar system right now
Happy News!
First human bladder transplant performed
US obesity rate down nearly 3 percentage points in 3 years
Newsom vetoes bill that banned port automation
CyberEyes are coming!
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Trump issued layoff notices for >4,000 employees
A federal judge has blocked some of them
Trump commuted George Santos’ sentence
At least one Venezuelan boat is maybe a fishing boat
Now he’s authorized some kind of CIA covert op
Rubio is on record that his strategy is to force Maduro out
US admiral in charge of the region retiring suddenly
US Senate votes down restricting president’s war powers against drug cartels
South America News
Noble peace prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader, but winner leaked to PolyMarket 12 hours beforehand
Winner dedicates peace prize to Trump
WaPo: Trump made a deal with Bukele to deport several FBI informants
Argentina continues to make huge strides under Milei
US bails out Argentina, buying $20B of pesos with dollars
Trade war with China
Trump said he’s doing 100% tariffs
US & Australia made a deal to supply some rare Earths
Press hand over badges and leave Pentagon after refusing to sign new press requirements
Trump reportedly trying to extort $230 million from the Justice Department
Big “No Kings” protests happened on Saturday
California passed SB 53. Zvi summary
Sam Altman announced ChatGPT erotica is coming soon
That Mad Olympiad
The Future Will Be Hyper-Local
Claude can tell when it’s being evaluated and scores much higher when this is the case.
Louvre heist! Smash-and-grab in 7 minutes in broad daylight, men make off with $100M in Napoleonic jewels!
Happy News!
Waymos in London next year!
Niger eliminates “river disease” after 4 decades of Ivermectin treatment
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Youtube is the latest company to give Trump a payoff
Hegseth sent 200 national guard troops to Portland
E.J. Antoni nomination to BLS withdrawn
HHS said it is referring Harvard for suspension and debarment proceedings.
Trump defunding the ethics watchdogs
paused $2.1B in federal funds for Chicago infrastructure projects
Trump made an Israel-Hamas peace plan?
James Comey indicted
TrumpRX is apparently going to be a thing
Federal Judge: Trump Administration violated 1A by deporting Palestinian sympathizers
Hegseth called in all the generals to tell them they’re too fat
Trump apparently all-in on support for Ukraine.
EA bought out by (among others) the Saudi Public Investment Corporation
Happy News!
San Fran Supervisor going YIMBY on business regulations
James Web Space Telescope is now examining the atmospheric make-up of exoplanets!
Denver’s Support Team Assistance Response (STAR) program is working!
city reports 45% decrease in street people
Recent study in Lancet shows people dying from chronic diseases globally fell in four out of five nations between 2010 and 2019
The 60th nation ratified the High Seas Treaty, meaning it’ll soon become legally binding
China has signed on to this one and a related treaty
20% increase in kids getting school lunches in last five years, worldwide
Huntington disease treated for the first time!
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Senate voted 51-49 to block release of Epstein files
SCOTUS granted cert on tariff cases
Hyundai plant delayed at least 3 months due to the ICE raid.
Samsung Withdraws Its Personnel From Its Texas Chip Plant
Local areas would lose representation in order to benefit their national-level opponents due to redistricting
The killing of Iryna Zarutska
A 71-yr-old on the scene confessed to Charlie Kirk killing to divert the police
Killer was recognized by parents, they convinced him to turn himself in
Jimmy Kimmel fired
Nexstar needs FCC approval for a merger (and a rule change)
Lots of other people getting fired
His widow is doing her best to avert civil war
Trump calling for Antifa to be designated a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”, which isn’t actually a thing
Patio11 articles 1 2
United States trying to reclaim Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan (diplomatically (for now))
Trump (accidentally?) posted a DM to AG Pam Bondi telling her to prosecute Comey, Schiff, and Letitia James
Trump EO: $100,000 fee for H1-B visas
Fed cut interest rates by 0.25%
D.C. Circuit prevented Trump from firing Lisa Cook
Lisa Cook fraud allegations seem fake
Stephen Miran confirmed as Fed Chairman
Russian drone incursion into Poland’s airspace
Russian manned aircraft incursion into Estonian airspace
Hours-long wait times at Russian gas stations due to Ukraine blowing up all their refineries
Russia arrested some kids for filming a burning oil refinery
Lockheed Martin revealed the Vectis drone from its Loyal Wingman program, controllable from F-22’s and F-35’s
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a defense pact
News You Can Ignore - Trump and RFK found out how to prevent autism
Happy-Adjacent News
A federal judge has blocked a California law banning political deepfakes
Third grand jury refuses to indict DC woman accused of assaulting agent during ICE arrest
Happy News!
France keeps a fusion reactor running 22 minutes
The guy who was trying to assassinate Donald Trump challenged Trump to a golf match to the death
The Chicago river is now swimmable
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Castle Rat is worth high ticket prices
Wes - banning things is a last resort
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Federal judge ruled that Harvard funding freeze was illegal
different federal judge found deployment of troops to LA was unlawful
Epstein Estate released the Trump letter
Trump asking Supreme Court for expedited review of tariff decision
Trump is trying to fire federal reserve Governor Lisa Cook
FDA unapproved COVID vaccines for anyone under 65. Now you need a prescription to get one… except for some states, where either you don’t need one or even a prescription won’t get you one.
Trump EO: DoD to create a special D.C. National Guard unit to “ensure public safety”
U.S. Military took out a Venezuelan drug boat
Florida planning to end all school vaccine mandates
Trump’s masked stormtroopers raided Hyundai factory
Trump wants to change the name of DoD to Dept of War
Happy News!
World's first commercial carbon storage facility begins operations
The Terminators are coming for our agricultural weeds
Stanford scientists discover a method for creating topical vaccines!
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - InkHaven still has a few spots open
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Texas Democrats went home
New congressional map has passed
On Nov 4th there will be a special election in CA to redistrict CA and add 5 dem seats to counter Texas
Trump civil fraud penalty overturned
Trump sent national guard to DC.
Various red states have also sent Nat Guard to supplement the 800 DC guard
Mostly sent to touristy areas, the safest parts of DC
Section 740 says the takeover expires at 30 days and only continues if Congress acts.
Washington D.C. has had zero (0) murders in the past week (as of 8/22/2025)
Trump planning on sending national guard to Chicago
US Government acquired 10% of Intel
Nvidia and AMD agreed to give the US government 15% of revenue from sales of their H20 and MI308 AI chips to China in exchange for export licenses
Trump EO: one year in jail for flag burning
Daily Beast: RFK is going to ban the covid vaccine
First case of New World Screwworm found in the US
Previously had be wiped out in America/Mexico
A Chinese Coast Guard cutter and PLAN destroyer were harassing a Phillipino coast guard cutter, until they collided with each other.
Brandon Hererra is coming back for round 2 against Tony Gonzalez
News You Can Ignore
American Eagle Sydney Sweeney jeans ad is great bait
AOC vidoes were AI fakes.
AOL shutting down its dial-up service Sept 30th.
Wyoming launches first state-backed stablecoin - Frontier Stable Token
Happy News!
The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has taken possession of an F-15C Eagle with at least 2 confirmed kills from the same pilot, including a maneuver kill against an Iraqi MiG-29 in 1991.
Captain Rico Rodriguez was engaged in a close-quarters, low-altitude dogfight against an Iraqi. While trying to avoid Rico’s guns, the Iraqi pilot performed an inverted dive and crashed into the desert.
CEQA no longer applies to infill building in CA!
First baby born with 3 people’s DNA
Gallup poll: globally, people evaluate their lives better than ever
Tawian nuclear spokeswoman Crystal Yang chugged a bottle of nuke-exposed water on camera
Get drones to fly your Chipotle burrito to you, if you live in Dallas
Britain abandoned its demand that Apple provide backdoor access to any encrypted user data
Bionic leg prosthetic
New Apple watches can monitor your blood oxygen level again!
Ghost Painter in Italian city of Brescia paints over graffiti at night while masked. Records self and posts on tiktok
Troop Deployment
David - Negotiate your salary
Eneasz - Wireborn Art Isn't Art
Wes - MAiD is a scissor
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Emil Bove confirmed 50-49 to lifetime appointment on Third Circuit
Followup: Trump tariffs went into effect on 60 countries
Also 100% tariff on computer chips??
Arab states (finally) called on Hamas to surrender
Hamas: no disarmament unless Palestinian state is created with Jerusalem as capital
Trump fired the guys who report the job numbers (BLS Director)
Bukele extends El Salvador’s presidential terms to 6 years and removes term limits, setting him up to be Dictator For Life
Fed refused to cut rates again and Trump is all pissed off
RFK terminating funding for mRNA vaccine research
GPT-5 released Zvi: “Early indications look like best possible situation, we can relax, let the mundane utility flow”
White House announces AI Action Plan to “win the race”, Zvi says it’s actually pretty good, all things considered
Texas Democrats leave state to prevent a legislative quorum and block redistricting. Gov issued arrest warrants and asked FBI for help, FBI says yes, without comment on how. Last time this happened was 2021
Mayor of LA signs an order that prohibits Senate Bill 9 from applying to places damaged by the recent massive fires. That’s the one that lets people build an extra house on their property, and/or split their single home into a double.
Waymo recently mapped the streets of Boston (sparking “concern” that they didn’t permission). The Teamsters are pushing legislation to stop robotaxis there, to protect their jobs. Since Waymo’s get in 90% fewer accidents than human drivers, this is sacrificing thousands of lives for union jobs.
News you can ignore: Tea app that let women gossip about men was hacked, releasing all their names/photos/IDs
Happy News!
Nuclear power… on the moon!
UK & Germany will have Lyft robotaxis next year, sourced from Baidu
Bystander sees man fall unconscious onto train track as a train approaches, sprints across the track and yanks him to safety seconds before impact.
Troop Deployment
Wes - Find Aella a Husband
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WSJ: DoJ told Trump that his name is in the files
Ghislaine Maxwell given “limited immunity” by DoJ
Two courts have issued nationwide injunctions against birthright citizenship order
The James Webb Space Telescope found that all cosmic background radiation is explicable from Early Mature Galaxies
Trade deal with EU
Also 15% deal with Japan
GENIUS Act passed
Congress rescinded $9 billion in funding for foreign aid and PBS
Tulsi Gabbard released a dumb Russiagate report
DoJ is forming a “task force”
French dude climbs out onto a narrow-ass ledge 6 floors up to help his neighbors escape an apartment fire through a tiny window.
Ozzy concert raised $190M for Parkinsons research & Children’s Hospitals
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Red Means No review
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Click-to-Cancel law cancelled by Federal courts
Big Beautiful Bill passed
More immigration judges
“Trump Accounts” for newborns
Trumps 90-day pause on Crazy Tariffs extended to Aug 1
50% on copper imports
Unclear why
50% tariff on Brazil
14 more countries:
DoJ filed suit against California DoE for allowing trans girls in sports
Also did a settlement agreement with UPenn to bar trans women from sports and expunge Lia Thomas records
SCOTUS upheld age verification law for porn sites
SCOTUS: 1A requires opt-out for gay books
IRS announced policy that churches can endorse political candidates
Paramount is paying off Trump
MAGA is tearing itself apart over “Epstein Files”
July 7 - DoJ released a memo saying “nothing to see here”
French court found that all Gazans are eligible for asylum
First ever (?) court order issued based on AI hallucinated cases
China has created an AI Safety Institute
MechaHitler has entered the chat.
Grok learned to search for Musk’s opinions when answering.
News you can ignore!
Elon Musk is starting a political party
NY Mayor candidate Mamdani had an “admissions scandal.”
Half the news is about the story itself
Happy News!
You can keep your shoes on at the airport
Monks building a monastery in Wyoming
Working at it since 2014 and still going.
PP405, developed by UCLA scientists
Atmospheric mercury down 70% since the year 2000, due to less coal power and other human interventions.
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RFK’s new anti-vax panel is “re-examining” the childhood vaccination schedule
SCOTUS:
States can ban blockers, hormones, and surgery for minors
There’s no individual right to enforce Medicaid law’s requirement that people can choose their own provider
No universal injunctions allowed
No expansion of non-delegation doctrine
NATO leaders pledge to lift defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035
Federal court: AI training on copyrighted material is fair use
In related case, judge states repeatedly in ruling that plaintiff could have won if they’d made the very obviously true case that it dilutes the market rather than the retarded case that AI isn’t transformative
Happy News!
UK scientists launched the Synthetic Human Genome Project, securing an initial $14M from the Wellcome Trust to build synthetic human DNA from scratch
Dad jumps overboard from Disney cruise ship to rescue his 5 year old daughter
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Copyright reform as national security issue.
Wes - Take Mary’s class
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Klimar Abrego Garcia is coming home!
Sadly, the Iranian talks were canceled
Possibly damaged centrifuges
Thursday before attacks IAEA says Iran in violation of nuclear obligations, and Iran announced it would make a new enrichment facility
Ukraine hit the Kerch Strait Bridge with UUS
Assassination of Minnesota lawmaker
In the UK, there’s a tradition of letting the party of any lawmaker killed in an act of political violence run unopposed in the by-election.
Elon apologized to Trump
Trump memo says to stop immigration enforcement against agriculture, restaurants, and hotels
Truth Social post
Trump EO: repeal ban on supersonic flight!
Trump EO: investigate Biden’s mental state
RFK fired the entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Half of new appointees are anti-vaxxers
Jim O’Niell confirmed as deputy director of HHS
Ames v. Ohio Dept of Youth Services
West Taiwan is doing gain of function research… IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE!
Disney and Universal are suing AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringement
you can build a place to live in the Bay area for $42k! (just not legally)
Happy News!
Canada getting cheaper semaglutide soon
Contact lenses give humans a limited ability to see Infrared
Nuclues Embryo is advertising full genetic screening for IVF
Federal judge approved a $2.8B settlement that allows colleges to pay student athletes directly for the first time and grants back pay to athletes who were barred from payments (back to 2016)
It's very likely that we're now able to provide people with organ transplants from pigs. Doctors implanted a 62 yr old with a pig's kidney that had been given 69 edits to be
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Rightwing populist wins Polish presidential election
Tariffs (finally) struck down by federal court
Trump taking steel tariff from 25% to 50%, but approving Nippon Steel deal
Trump EO: pause on student visas
Also wants to “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas
Meanwhile, a Federal Court blocked Trump’s order to deny Harvard student visas
SCOTUS: deadlocked 4-4 over whether you can exclude religious schools from public funding
SCOTUS curtails NEPA a bit more in an oil-shipping case
Two Israeli embassy staff (a young couple) shot dead outside Jewish museum in Washington DC
A man throwing molotov cocktails and using make-shift flamethrower injures 8 at a gathering in Boulder in support of Israeli hostages
Emil Bove nominated to Third Circuit
Elon is leaving DOGE
He’s not happy with the “big beautiful” budget bill
“Take It Down Act” passes
https://rachelshu.com/
Happy News!
Penny is finally dead!!
Badass doctor gives established medical science a middle finger/shrug of indifference to invent a novel way to remove a chordoma from a 19 year old’s brain stem.(second source)
Every agency has 365 days to list out all the regulations that have a criminal penalty and then that report has to be made public and must be updated annually.
First Personalized CRISPR Therapy for 9 month old treats a rare genetic disorder!
Rapid bedside test predicts sepsis with over 90 percent accuracy (Nature article link)
Sesame Street will continue to air on Netflix (and on PBS/PBS Kids)
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The biggest terrorist attack on India soil since 2008 by Pakistani funded terrorists
Federal judge says Trump can deport illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act, but must give 21-day notice and opportunity for hearing
Different judge said Trump can’t deport illegal aliens to countries where they aren’t citizens without due process
SCOTUS also halted some deportations
New News:
China tariffs lowered to 30%
Trump even more openly taking bribes
We’re accepting white refugees!
Deputy Secretary of State: exception to asylum pause for people if they “did not pose any challenge to our national security and that they can be assimilated easily into our country"
African National Congress: “No section of our society is hounded, persecuted, or subject to discrimination”
Trump EO: pharma companies must sell drugs at “most favored nation” pricing
Trump EO: “it is the policy of the United States to ensure the total elimination of [assorted drug cartels]’s presence in the United States, and their ability to threaten the territory.”
Strikes by assorted federal law enforcement agencies against cartel bases in Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Montana.
FDA doing an investigation into ingestible fluoride supplements with the goal of banning them
FDA: “Ingested fluoride has been shown to alter the gut microbiome
Joe Biden diagnosed with “aggressive” prostate cancer
Moody’s downgraded US credit rating to Aa1
Trump agreed to a ceasefire with the Houthis
No ceasefire with Israel
Happy News!
We've transmuted lead into gold!
Germany backing off its anti-nuclear energy policy to strengthen ties with France
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News discussed:
Harvard sued Trump administration over funding withdrawal
Ukraine did a minerals deal!
Mike Waltz demoted to UN ambassador
Trump did a takesies-backsies on the whole deporting students thing
12 states sue Trump administration over 'illegal tariffs'
Senate almost voted to rescind the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 that gives the president the power to set tariffs
FBI filed criminal complaint against a judge for trying to help an illegal alien escape
Entire Iberian peninsula experienced a blackout
Oklahoma’s new social studies curriculum requires students to learn that the 2020 election was stolen
GDP growth going negative
Liberal party had a huge comeback in Canada
Australia too
David’s War Corner:
New War Just Dropped! Indo-Pakistan Cold War maybe going hot.
New Defense Funding Packet Dropped!
Petit Morts:
Elon Musk says he's stepping back from DOGE
North Korea confirms troops fighting in Russia
A federal judge ruled that President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected Venezuelan gang members violated due process
a city called Starbase
Happy News!
Prohibiting the FDA from regulating e-cigarettes reduced smoking attributable mortality by nearly 10% on average each year from 2011-2019
USDA approves gene-edited pigs
Hemophilia B has been essentially cured in humans
“I am typing this with my brain”
Man who lets snakes bite him (over 200 times, almost died a few times, presumably for the high) is now the source of a potent antivenom
small molecule inhibitor neutralizes 19 of the most dangerous venoms and is called first step to universal antivenom.
We have self-driving commercial freight between Dallas and Houston!
Troop Deployments
Eneasz - Rationalist Trifecta is here! Come see me at LessOnline and/or Manifest and/or VibeCamp
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News discussed:
Wisconsin “partial veto” upheld
Trump did the math wrong. The China tariff is 145%
According to WSJ (WSJ), someone distracted pro-tariff advisor Navarro
Everyone is insider trading
There are a bunch of exceptions for tech products, but not inputs to tech products
China is suspending critical mineral exports
China is strengthening alliances w SE Asia and reaching out to Europe
British Steel thing
California sued the Trump administration, alleging that use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs is unlawful
SCOTUS told Trump to bring back at least one guy in El Salvador jail
Bukele says he’s not going to “smuggle a terrorist into the United States”
Trump thinks SCOTUS ruled in his favor
he should have been deported due to multiple domestic violence restraining orders
Sen. Chris Van Hollen flew down to El Salvador to meet with him personally
SCOTUS: no more El Salvador removals while case in pending
We’re deporting all the smart people
EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits
Trump EO: do more coal mining on federal lands!
4chan is dead
Also, the Pope
Trump sent Harvard a ridiculous list of demands, and they refused
There is now a portal for deregulation suggestions
The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
UK Supreme Court: trans women aren’t biological women
PA governor’s mansion set on fire while he & fam slept inside it.
Hilarious news
a German man was jogging in a park when he spotted a dead body. The German police called in homicide, cadaver dogs, morticians, etc. and investigated for five hours before they discovered the “dead body” was, in fact, a sex doll.
Judge denies qualified immunity to police officers who argued they had arguable probable cause to believe a driver was stoned
Director Kratsios of the office of Science and Technology Policy: “Our technologies allow us to manipulate time and space.”
Happy News!
Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy found chemicals associated with life in alien planet's atmosphere.
OpenPhil donates $500k to save Tuberculosis vaccine study at Harvard
Scientists in Pennsylvania have created an antiviral chewing gum
Troop Deployment
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News discussed:
At least one person deported had no criminal record or tattoos, and was here on a legal asylum claim
Other people taken for random tattoos
Tariffs on everyone except Russia & North Korea
They didn’t even use the formula right
“Critical Trade Theory”
Kelsy Piper demonstrates how adults would approach tariffs
Stocks jumped massively on fake news of tarriff delay, Trump says lolno, stocks back down
China responds with 34% tariff
Vietnam offers to remove all tarriffs
Netanyahu vowed to eliminate Israel’s trade deficit
EO: proof of citizenship required to vote in federal elections
Trump fired a federal prosecutor who was prosecuting one of his wealthy donors
Peter Marks forced out of FDA(by RFK?)
Seems like it was because RFK hates vaccines
Trump fired the head of the NSA because Laura Loomer told him to
Says he won’t rule out running for a 3rd term
Hundreds of palestinians protest against Hamas in Gaza.
Hamas forcibly disperses them, only tortured to death a few.
Le Pen used $4.5M of EU funds to pay her party’s political staff
Claims this is lawfare
Protestors rally in support in Paris
Israel just announced “expanding operations” to seize “extensive territory”
Putin is drafting 160,000 new soldiers
“Black babies do better with black doctors” was a lie
Quote: “I’d rather not focus on this. If we’re telling the story from the perspective of saving black infants this undermines the narrative.”
Cory Booker sets a record for talking a lot in the Senate
State Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin and Florida retain status quo of D/R split
AI-2027 is the latest in the AI Essay Meta
Happy News!
Chinese autonomous passenger drones (driverless flying taxis)
AquaDream, the world’s first fully underwater theme park. roller coasters beneath the waves, drift past glowing jellyfish, dodge sharks, and even race dolphins. No word on if they’ve discovered a magic-power-granting insanity-drug. From the video game “Don’t Create BioShock”
A woman with complete paralysis and zero vocal function just regained the ability to speak at ~conversational speed. Fancy Nature Article here, twitter thread breakdown here
Direwolves are back!
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News discussed:
Kelsey Piper and friends dug deep into PEPFAR effectiveness
The astronauts stranded on the ISS are back safe. And they were greeted back to Earth by a pod of dolphins!
Federal government awards contract for our angry triangle to Boeing
ICE rounded up a bunch of Venezuelans and flew them to prison in Venezuela
Roberts responds in a public statement
Vance is explicitly promoting defiance of the courts
Chief Justice Roberts's 2024 year-end report calls it out directly.
Green Card Holder Who Has Been in US for 50 Years Detained for weeks.
Canadian held for two weeks in prison for document snafu
EO Abolishing DoEd.
What the DoEd actually does:
Bad news on the economy
RFK is trying to remove cell phones from schools
Gaza war back on
Bombed the s**t out of the Houthis, Iran disavows, Trump doesn’t buy it
SecDef was discussing the plan on Signal with a reporter
Russia & Ukraine agreed not to damage energy infrastructure
Russia immediately attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Subscriber request: NYU was hacked
Education Department investigating more than 50 colleges and universities over racial preferences
Columbia University has agreed to a list of demands in return for negotiations to reinstate its $400m Columbia said it expelled, suspended, or temporarily revoked degrees from some students who seized a building during campus protests last spring
Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million in damages
Happy News!
Prisoners in solitary confinement given VR
Taiwan signed a deal to invest $44 billion in Alaskan LNG infrastructure
MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy
Mexican government found a swarm of giraffes in the state bordering El Paso
BYD (china) unveiled a new battery and charging system that it says can provide 249 miles of range with a five-minute charge
Idaho cuts regulations by 25% in four years by implementing Zero-Based Regulation
Utah just passed a permitting reform law
Troop Deployment
David - If you liked The Dragon’s Banker, you should read Oathbreakers Anonymous
Eneasz - How To Believe False Things
Wes - Men and women are different, but not that different
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News discussed:
Making nuclear fusers is a DIY thing for tech people, but you can kill yourself
DoJ dismissed police/fire cases against Durham, Maryland, and South Bend
PEPFAR is not, in fact, back
It’s effectiveness is probably overstated, but still substantial
RFK says you should maybe, perhaps, consider getting the MMR vaccine
Texas measles outbreak now has 29 hospitalizations and 1 death
Kash Patel in as director of the ATF.
25% tariffs went into effect on Mexico & Canada
Exemptions for car makers. Also all USMCA-compliant goods
Ontario put 25% surcharge on electricity sales to U.S.
They backed down 20 minutes ago
Trump: our tariffs will increase by however much you tariff us!
Some Canada and Mexico tariffs paused, then more paused
Trump says we’re increasing Canadian steel tariff to 50% and will increase tariff on cars April 2nd.
Trump wants to sell green (“gold”) cards for $5 million
ICE arrested a grad student Palestinian activist on a green card
Volokh: it’s unclear if they can actually do this
Being held in Louisiana.
“Antisemitism Task Force” cut $400 million from Columbia university
Administration revoked Chevron’s license to pump oil in Venezuela
Trump EO: law firm that represented Hilary Clinton in 2016 loses security clearances, contracts, and access to federal buildings (like courts!)
Trump DoJ dropped civil fraud charges against Justin Sun after he invested $75mil in Trump’s shitcoin
Bitcoin lost value immediately after announcing Bitcoin Reserve
The CDC is doing a study on vaccines & autism. JFC
Autism diagnoses have probably been rising because of incentives, not because of vaccines
during state of union Rep Al Green was so disruptive he was escorted out by the sergeant-at-arms.
Twitter is currently getting DDOS’d apparently
Armed gunman arrested outside the White House
SCOTUS: Trump must pay USAID contractors who completed work before EO was issued
SCOTUS: San Francisco can s**t all over the ocean and the EPA can’t stop them
Virologists found a coronavirus in bats that can spread to humans and did experiments with it in a lab that doesn’t have good biosafety protocols. This year.
Emergent Misalignment. Training an AI to write intentional vulnerable code will make it broadly evil across many domains!
“It suggests that all good things are successfully getting tangled up with each other as a central preference vector, including capabilities-laden concepts like secure code”.
See Zvi for a comprehensive post
Poland planning to give military training to every adult male, wants an army of 500,000 (currently 200,000) and announces plans to develop a nuclear arsenal.
Zelenski s**t the bed and torpedoed Ukrainian relations with the Trump admin
A Nordic company refused to sell fuel to an American navy submarine, which is a decision you sure could make.
US cut off intelligence sharing (satellite surveillance) with Ukraine
Last year US fit Ukrainian F-16s with EW pods (radar jammers). They require regular updates to remain useful, Trump is cancelling them (French fighter jets to step in)
Europe is realizing US can just stop supporting the weapons they buy
the Ukrainians threw a box of bees into a Russian bunker to clear it.
The South Korean fighters bombed Seoul (by accident)
Syria erupts in conflict
Kurdish break-away section of Syria agrees to reintegrate into Syria
Happy News!
Sick video https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1898033592191582430
Colorado Gov Polis moving to abolish 2-staircase requirement for midrise buildings.
We have a new mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer
Children with autosomal recessive deafness 9 were given single shots of a new gene therapy in each ear, and after just a month, they were able to hear. (ht Cremieux)
Covid killed Influenza B!
Sweep The Leg Johnny!! Martial Arts instructor chases down purse-snatcher, kicks him in the leg, recovers purse.
42-yr-old lady with black belt attacks a man robbing a gas station, kicks him in the leg, he flees.
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Folks are sleeping on married people
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News discussed:
Ziz arrested with accomplices (WSJ here)
Big EO on shrinking federal workforce
Bird flu researchers
Nuclear weapon safety people
FAA “probationary” technicians and engineers
Most “probationary” positions across all the govt
They are barely saving anything and making up numbers
Elon on Saturday: what would you say you do here?
Big EO on cutting regulations
Hegseth is trying to cut 8% of military budget each year for next five years
Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, + chief naval officer and vice chief of staff of air force.
Trump justice department dismissed Eric Adams indictment
Hagan Scotten, got two Bronze stars in Iraq - “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
Judge canceled April trial but left charges intact
Mitch McConnell was the only vote against RFK and Gabbard
Kash Patel confirmed as FBI director
Trump defunded Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
NIH caps “indirect costs” at 15%
Trump is trying to kill NYC congestion pricing
Also posted this
Utah banned public sector unions from collectively bargaining
Hanania: “Conspiracies against the taxpayer no longer allowed in Utah”
Largest measles outbreak in 30 years in Texas
German snap elections big win for center-right
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip includes eight quantum bits
Sam Altman gearing up for biggest theft in history
Musk offers nearly $100B for OpenAI, rejected
Vance speaks at AI Summit - full speed ahead and F safety
Trump Attacked Zelesky and blamed him for starting the war
Demanding 50% of Ukraine’s mineral deposits
Wants Russia back in the G7
Happy News!
Bay Area startup working on gene-edited super babies! (also interview with lead at TBC)
Michael Jordan Opens 4th Health Clinic in Home State of North Carolina.
Baby humpback whale gets stranded on a beach, pushed back out by everyone around.
Woman in flipped, burning truck rescued by those nearby.
Brickworkers teach their friend how to read every day during their lunch break
Troop Deployment
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News discussed:
Walking 4 days for PEPFAR treatment
Counter
FAA authorized mystery drones
Trump turned the government off and back on
Only 1% took the Musk buyout
Canada’s border security measure was announced in December
USPS stopped deliveries from China for 1 day.
Reciprocal tariffs announced, 25% on steel & aluminum
Trump possibly terminating USAID
this is pretty bad, but I’m against Hostage Puppies
National Science Foundation laying off 25% to 50% of staff
Trump EO: create a sovereign wealth fund
With what surplus?? Or are we just nationalizing industries?
Trump cut funding to UN Human Rights Council and UNRWA
Order imposes sanctions on ICC
Trump wants to take over Gaza
No one wants Gazans, “worst nightmare”
Egypt is hosting emergency Arab summit
Trump signed EO saying he’ll deport non-citizens who took part in Gaza protests
Trump is housing migrants at Guantanemo Bay
EO states Title IX must separate by biological sex
Elon Musk + staff gain access to Treasury payment system.
5 days later judge blocks access. ordered the destruction of any downloaded information.
Some public derisions about some of DOGE staff being young?
Fight-For-25 vibes
The CIA sent an unclassified email to the White House listing the first name and last initial of all new hires in the last two years
DNC elected new leadership including David Hogg as vice chair
TracingWoodgrains article on FAA hiring scandal
Iraqi man who burned Quran at a protest in Sweden in 2023 shot dead
Man in Manchester (England) arrested for… burning a Quran.
Do we need another Everyone Draw Muhammad Day?
Anthropic really does give the promised money to charities.
A young man slowly builds credibility with an AI to convince it to help him build a nuclear fusor
$Trump and $Melania memecoins
DJT stock still at $6.5 billion market cap
Happy News!
Czech beavers built a dam before government could even apply for permits
We have laser guns!
HELIOS - “High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance”
We have a treatment for prion diseases!
Dog treats made from cultured meat available in UK
Chemical building blocks of life and a history of saltwater on samples returned to Earth from the asteroid Bennu
first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in more than 20 years. Non-opiod!
Shortage of IV fluids for animals in Australia addressed by vet asking for discarded half-full bags from blood donation centers
No more pennies!
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - That Ol' Comfy Racism
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Newsome made it illegal to offer to buy fire-damaged properties at market rates
Hawaii did that after their devastating fires 18 months ago and were stopped via lawsuits brought by the Sierra Club and ACLU
Biden Shenanigans
Claims the Equal Rights Amendment passed
Biden pardoned his shady family members, Fauci, Milley, and Jan. 6 committee on the way out
Commuted sentences of 2,500 more nonviolent offenders
SEC is suing Elon Musk for fake reasons
Ceasefire in Gaza
Trump Executive orders
Revoked 78 Biden EO’s
Bio sex only on federal documents
No more DEI programs for feds or contractors
repealed EO 11246, the “origins of woke” one
DEI grifters put on paid leave already
Terminated birthright citizenship??
A judge has already blocked it - “blatantly unconstitutional”
Declared emergency at Southern border
Build! The! Wall!
Also directs military to enforce border control
Also paused refugee program
Also deny funding to sanctuary cities and deport illegal migrants
Speaking of which - Houthis too!
GULF OF AMERICA!
CO state gov fucked Mt Evans in 2023
Freeze on all new regulations
DOGE neutered?
Declared a “national energy emergency”
But also suspended offshore wind projects
Then added solar on federal lands
Revoked EO allowing CEQ to make rules (previously suspended by DC Circuit)
Made Architecture Great Again
Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement and WHO
Pardon for all Jan. 6th rioters
And Ross Ulbricht, the Dread Pirate Roberts
No more remote work :(
Also hiring freeze
Also reclassified “policy-influencing” positions as Schedule F
Revoked security clearance for everyone who said Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation
Other Trump stuff
Hegseth confirmed 51-50
Trump reinstated ban on money going to foreign NGOs that perform or promote abortions
State Department put “freeze” on all foreign aid
halted PEPFAR program and President’s Malaria Initiative
Trump fired 18 inspectors general
Euros refloating the idea of putting boots on the ground in Ukraine
Tik Tok Ban?
SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that the ban is Constitutional
Trump EO says not to enforce law for 75 days
Colombia wouldn’t let 2 planes of deportees to land, Trump threatened universal 25% tariffs, Colombia yielded.
OpenAI announces $500B AI infrastructure project
DeepSeek - Chinese AI company - releases a competitor to ChatGPT.
Nvidia down 17% in one day, many other tech stocks also down.
Local violent deathcult ups their body count by 2
The Vietnamese Communist Party adopts Mileism as national policy
Happy News!
Justice Department is going to stop suing police departments for having standards!
Rents in Austin are 8% less this year, third year in a row, and still going down :)
FDA approves new depression treatment - ketamine-based nasal spray
68yr old today healthier and more generally capable than 62yr old of a decade ago.
Truck Driver - Timothy VanNostrand - Intervenes in Highway Shootout, prevents shooter from escaping
Olympic Kite Surfer Saves Drowning Woman, with video
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - The Patriarchy is run by women, and Barbie knows it
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News discussed:
Early signs look like congestion pricing is reducing traffic in Manhattan
Trump sentenced to “unconditional discharge”
Dockworkers union has a tentative deal
FIRE to defend pollster in Trump lawsuit over outlier election poll
Some accounts criticized H1B visas and Elon retaliated by removing their verification
At least 24 people killed in LA fires
Over 12,000 homes and businesses burned
Newsome executive order waives CEQA and Coastal Act requirements for rebuilding
There will be no post-blitz boom
Mayor of LA ensures very little rebuilding will happen
The state of California got 6 month's advance warning from the best risk-assessment professionals
Every time an insurance company wants to raise rates for automobiles or homes, they have to have a public hearing and an elected insurance commissioner has to approve.
1600 policies cancelled in the Palisades over the summer (major devastation area).
FAIR testified it only had about $385 million, LA fires could have up to $24B of exposure
Newsome bans insurance companies from not renewing policies
Biden blocked sale of US Steel to Nippon Steel
Blinken, Yellen, and many other advisors against the block
Nippon Steel and US Steel filing suit to challenge
Federal judge found that requiring teachers to use preferred pronouns violates 1A
Also struck down the Biden administration’s unconstitutional Title IX rules
Trudeau is donezo
CFPB banned medical debt from lowering credit scores
Meta going based for Trump years
Fired chief diversity officer, ended diversity goals, stopped prioritizing minority-owned businesses
Removed tampons from mens bathrooms
The Sadam Statues are falling - Hanania
Pretty good Nate Silver piece on this
Tik Tok is probably going to shut down on January 19th
News You Can Ignore
“Grooming Gangs”?. (counter: Free Press?)
Elon Musk bought his Path of Exile account and his ranking in Diablo 4 is out of under 1000 players (Trace called it)
Happy News!
Amazon moving forward with WarHammer 40K series starring and lead by Henry Cavil.
WarHammer is For Romantics
US govt funding bird flu vaccine research and stocking up on vaccines
The Bukele Administration has turned the country from the most murderous in Latin America to the safest
Weather nerds found out where the water went during California’s drought!
Minnesota Summer Camp for HIV-Positive Kids Closes Down–Because There Aren’t Any More
Scientists drilled a 1.2M year old ice core out of Antarctica
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - I have just released a short story collection titled Dear Grom
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News discussed:
Biden commuted sentences of 37/40 federal death row inmates
Jimmy Carter died
ABC New settled Trump defamation case for $15 million
Seems like a payoff (though Politico writer disagrees)
Trump sues Des Moines Register, pollster for ‘election interference’
Teamsters union hit Amazon with a strike during christmas peak season because they hate joy and jesus
Iran is shutting down.
Half of Iran’s industrial capacity halted.
Big ol’ spat over H1B Visas, including Musk saying he will go to war over it and telling people to f**k themselves in the face.
various proposed reforms
Porn will be blocked in 13 states
Republican Rep. Kay Granger moved to an assisted-living facility months ago and stopped casting votes
Russia shot down Santa, also an Azerbaijani passenger plane.
The USS Gettysburg shot down an F-16. The pilot was recovered safely.
Happy News!
Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into human
Parker Solar Probe survives, sends back data
Magnus Carlsen quits tournament over jeans
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News discussed:
Daniel Penny acquitted
Also, possible shenanigans by the judge???
UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down
Eventually found at McDonalds with the murder weapon, fakeIDs, and a handwritten confession
Shooter posted on reddit raving about how the back surgery he got completely freed him from pain
CEO helped keep thousands of hospitals and healthcare providers open during the pandemic
This was elf-on-hobbit violence (Scott Greer)
Best article on tpot so far
Unpopular South Korean president declared martial law
MP’s stormed parliament building, broke door and windows, and got 192/300 inside
chief of the Army Special Warfare Command defied an order from then Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun to drag out lawmakers
Ex-defense minister tries to kill himself after arrest.
President impeached
DC is suing Amazon for shipping too slow to black zip codes
TERF Island denies trans kids lifesaving healthcare!
Boeing guilty plea in plane crash rejected by judge due to concerns over wokeism!
Syrian navy wiped out by Israel
Demilitarized buffer zone near Golan Heights taken by the IDF due to concerns that the revolutionary government won’t uphold existing agreements
Rojava off the top rope cripples a bunch of Turkish-backed military’s vehicles
Also, war crimes
Syria’s new leader might be kinda based?
The leader goes by the name Abu Muhammad al-Jolani
Says they will protect rights of women & minorities and renounce terrorism
Announced “free-market model to attract investment”
Hamas to allow Israeli forces to remain in Gaza as part of ceasefire
Speed Round
Mysterious drones sighted over military installations and infrastructure in NJ.
Wray announced he’ll resign
Trump came out against port automation
French Govt collapses
Romanian election annulled because too many people on tiktok
China bans exports of Gallium and Germanium to US
Anesthesiologists have insanely good PR
public outrage leads Anthem to reverse policy
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law
In latest safety tests, o1 attempts to exfiltrate itself so it can continue its objective and lies about doing so but only in 2-5% of cases!
Happy News!
Google unveils new quantum chip
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - A friend wrote about her experience with her abortion, it’s harrowing and beautiful and I cried
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News discussed:
Wes was right! Biden pardoned Hunter
Education secretary getting Tombstoned
FBI investigating numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees
Trump threatens 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico
Trump is already laying the groundwork to say “mission accomplished”
Sinaloa Cartel announces it will kill anyone who makes - or uses as an adulterant - fentanyl for sale in the US.
The Government is coming for the money apps
Biden DoJ trying to force Google to sell Chrome browser
Hezbollah only ceased fire long enough to eat lunch and reload. Who could possibly have seen this coming.
Ceasefire precipitated a reignition of the Syrian Civil War
And Assad fled to Russia.
Russia struck Ukraine with multiple ICBM’s… or maybe MRBM’s with MIRV’s… which did nothing.
US gives permission for Ukraine to strike in Russia with long range missles
US gives "non-persistent" anti-personnel mines to Ukraine
Netanyahu indicted by International Criminal Court
Ninety-seven trucks lost and their drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload their aid after crossing into Gaza
UN has now paused aid
Georgia is now on day 4 of riots and govt resignations
Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s
Head of Adani Group - Indian multinational conglomerate - and 7 others indicted in US court for bribes of Indian officials of over $250M
South Korea opens a rooftop Starbucks with a bunch of those quarter-operated binoculars so people can gawk at North Korea.
Happy News!
orcas have been seen wearing salmon as hats!
Australian man holding on to impenetrable rock for a decade finds out it’s a metorite
Walmart rolls back DEI, will no longer discriminate based on race and sex!
First new treatment in 50 years for asthma!
New carbon capture method just dropped
Canadian woman saves boy from drowning in ice water
A hiker has been found after being missing for 50 days in a park in British Colombia
Troop Deployments
David - The Dragon’s Banker
Eneasz - Lightcone, the folks running LessWrong.com and Lighthaven, are in fundraiser mode.
Wes - Everything is non-binary
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News discussed:
Polymarket whale-bet explained!
Interesting analysis
Lol, it’s back down now
Indictments against Trump will be dismissed, Jack Smith to resign
Trump says he’ll close the Department of Education
Will ease restrictions on self-driving cars
Trump already making appointments
Pharma & biotech stocks immediately fell
Trump made him eat McDonalds
Two days later the House Ethics Committee was going to release a report about his behavior
It was going to include testimony from a woman who said Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17
Republicans chose John Thune as Majority Leader
DC Circuit found CEQ has no rulemaking authority
There’s currently a case pending before SCOTUS involving the same issue
FBI raided the home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan
Jewish soccer fans attacked in Amsterdam
US said it will not limit arms transfers to Israel a month after warning Israel
Baguette News! Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes
US authorizes unlimited use of long-range munitions against targets in Russian territory
Russia threatens “escalation” again, 5 more times this year and we get a free coffee
Happy News!
Lost Vonnegut Board Game is now available
Notre Dame’s bells tolled for the first time in years last week
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News discussed:
the Philly DA is suing Elon Musk for running an illegal lottery
Astronauts stranded on ISS finally returned to earth by SpaceX
Committee for a Responsible Budget released their analysis of Trump and Harris’ effect on the national debt
China is hacking Trump and Harris comms.
Washington Post declined to endorse anyone
Lost 10% of digital subscribers in one day (250k)
SCOTUS permitted Virginia to purge voter rolls of noncitizens a week before election day
AI News:
News Corp sued Perplexity AI alleging plagiarism
The Complaint
A production company for Blade Runner 2049 has sued Tesla
White House orders US security agencies to step up AI use
War News:
Israel launched Operation Days of Repentance which apparently destroyed a significant portion of Iran’s air defense network, which they called the greatest in the world… with aircraft.
Russia levies fine against Google for censoring state media. The fine is larger than the entire world’s GDP for all of human history, 2*10^36 Rubles.
Large puberty blocker study unpublished because it shows no benefit
NYT article
Biden apologizes for Native American boarding schools
Happy News!
SF subways see 15% drop in crime by enforcing fares!
David: A guy in Prospera is building the Cyberpunk future
Prediction markets allowed by appeals court
Egypt is malaria free! (3rd country after Moroco and UAE)
McDonald’s McFlurry machine manufacturer, Taylor, gets hit with a regulatory action granting right of repair to their customers.
Poland’s GDP per capital is almost equal to Japan after just 35 years, and still highest growth rate in europe
Scientists carry on 20 minute conversation with humpback whale
Guy who edited babies isn’t sorry
Doggo chillin with bears
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Significant Digits audiocast is here
Wes - Vote for Kamala Harris
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News discussed:
DoJ is suing South Bend, IN
South Bend says they’re going to fight it
Durham, NC’s fire department did a b**t consent decree over “discriminatory” test
“Vance Dossier” finally published, and censored by Ex-Twitter
Cuba without power four days in a row
Polymarket is 60/40 Trump
Democrats are claiming that it’s market manipulated by overseas crypto accounts
Deepfake video posted accusing Tim Walz of sexual assault
Vance: I wouldn’t have certified the election because tech companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story
Sinwar killed by a random grunt.
Office building in Prospera forcefully closed by Roatan government
California Coastal Commission denies launches to SpaceX for Musk’s unfavorable opinions
Musk giving away $1M daily to swing state voter that signs a PAC pledge
FTC Click-to-Cancel Rule
Happy News!
SpaceX lands Super Heavy booster on the first try
"Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order" to be founded in Albania
Jean Hebert hired by US Department of Health and Human Services to reverse brain tissue damage and degradation (by injecting embryonic cells) with the eventual goal of literally permanently reversing aging of the brain.
McDonald’s Press Release
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A year after treatment with stem cells, a 25yr old woman that had type 1 diabetes is producing her own insulin
Giant Sheep Cloner gets $24k fine and 6 months
Harris: nuke the filibuster to protect abortion
Mark Robinson, the NC Republican Senate Candidate, is real weird
NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted
Lots of NYC corruption, follows fire chiefs, police commissioner
AI News:
Gavin Newsome vetoed SB 1047
OpenAI is going for-profit, more top talent leaves including last of the original board
Raised 6.6B in latest round, investors can pull that money back if they don’t transition to for-profit within 2 years
David’s war corner:
Israel took out leader of Hezbollah, and three of his successors, none of which lasted more than 36 hours
Israel launched ground offensive into Lebanon
Also hit a shipment of Russian weapons very close to a Russian base
Iran launched 180 missiles at Israel
Head of Iranian counter-mossad unit was a mossad agent
US strikes Houthi strongholds in Yemen to protect shipping in Red Sea after Houthis resume attacking USN vessels in Red Sea (15 targets)
China: nuclear sub sank during construction, tested ICBM
China hacks US federal wiretapping network, in some vague way. Feds ain’t talking, but broadband providers breached in a way that targeted wire-tapping requests. Reminder that building backdoors into encryption or tech means creating that door for anyone dedicated enough to unlock it.
Longshoremen are striking because f**k you
“In today's world I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means."
Maryland Police paid out $2.75 million in back pay for having standards
The test was pathetically easy and focused on police work
Happy News!
Thailand first in South East Asia to recognise same-sex marriage
First new schizophrenia drug in 70 years!
Russian F16 buzzes US fighter jet
New Mozart piece found
Hemophilia B cured (70% improvement) with a single-course gene therapy, approved by FDA!
Twitter is right, you can land a plane if you gotta, as anon lady proves
“Poopa Scoopa Luca” 6yr old boy runs his own business to adopt a kitty
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News discussed:
Honesty researcher Francesca Gino fabricated data, took the bloggers who revealed it to court. Judge dismissed the suit
33 bomb threats in Springfield since the debate
Harris is now 53% in Nate Silver’s model
Another chucklefuck tried to take a shot at Trump, this time at a golf course
Left a letter offering a $150k bounty on whoever finished the job
Florida will be doing its own independent criminal investigation, apparently.
Trump: cap credit card interest rates at 10%!
Trump has a platform now!
Teamsters decided not to endorse
Hezbollah and Israel are exchanging fire. Almost no one wants to call it war though
Hezbollah pagers got blow'd up
Commentary: this was impressive
Then walkie-talkies and kornets anti-tank munitions!
UN urges deescalation because of course they did.
Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar possibly killed, possibly by Israel
Ukraine hit a major ammo dump in Russia.
Russia pulled elite troops off the line in the East to try to block the Kursk incursion
Russia apparently tried to test-fire a nuclear-capable ICBM. It exploded in the silo.
Four top ISIS leaders killed in Iraq in a joint strike
UK judge held business must give equal pay for “equal” work
China’s VC sector has collapsed
Xi stated years ago that US-style consumer-facing tech companies are net harmful
Meta to ban RT, other Russian state-run media outlets globally
NLRB forced Starbucks to reopen 2 stores and give everyone back pay
Boeing union wants 40% pay raise, pensions, and demands Boeing makes next plane in Washington state rather than South Carolina
Boeing has offered 30% and $6k “incentive”.
NYT union wants goodies
GPT-o1 did some hacking
page 10 of system card
Significant human evolution in the last 10000 years
Stereotype threat is the latest psych phenomenon to fail to replicate
Fed cut rates by .5%
Internal SCOTUS communications leaked
Happy News!
Neuralink Blindsight device given “breakthrough” designation by FDA
You can get passports online now!
Three Mile Island nuke plant reopening to power Microsoft AI!
FDA allows Apple to turn on software that makes AirPods into hearing aids
China almost lands reusable rocket.
SpaceX completes first all-civilian space walk!
Also tested new space suit.
New startup to build giant gun to send stuff to space comes out of stealth
Food coloring Yellow Dye #5 makes skin transparent!
New Jersey rocker Bon Jovi talks a woman off a bridge
From Hanania: “The Electoral College Is Anti-Democracy in a Bad Way
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News discussed:
UCLA can’t allow protesters to block Jewish students from campus
Venezuelan judge issues arrest warrant for rightful president
He’s now fled to Spain
Russian court sentenced a US-Russian woman to 12 years in prison for “treason” tied to a $51 donation to a charity supporting Ukraine
6 days of anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel
US DOJ announced terrorism charges against six senior leaders of Hamas
Telegram ends end-to-end encryption option
Election News
Jack Smith filed a new indictment against Trump for election fraud
He also appealed the dismissal of the classified docs case
Trump’s sentencing delayed until after the election
Vance says Trump will veto a national abortion ban
Trump said he doesn’t support Florida’s 6-week ban, but won’t vote to overturn it
Trump says he'll ask Elon Musk to lead government efficiency commission if he wins election
Dick Cheney endorsed Harris
Grandpa BUFF releases campaign platform
Social Media News
Brazil going full censorship. Banned ex-Twitter after Elon refused to censor certain accounts for “misinformation”
Starlink isn’t complying with the order and is now being threatened
Third Circuit ruled Tik Tok is liable for algorithmic recommendations
Zuck says Facebook was pressured into doing censorship in 2020 and 2021
Russia was secretly funding some well-known right-wing influencers
Australian judge ruled that women’s groups must allow trans women
Grover told the court that she would not address Tickle as “Ms”
Blocked and Reported on Tickle v. Giggle
Germany accuses Poland of sabotaging investigation into Nord Stream Pipeline
Germany to close land borders due to “irregular migration, threats from Islamist terrorism, and cross-border crime”.
Sixteen Republican-led states sued the Biden administration over a new policy that seeks to enable spouses of US citizens (who do not have legal status) to apply for permanent residency without leaving the US
US Citizen (F, 26 yr old) killed in West Bank during IDF’s 9-day operation there.
Hundreds of thousands of AI songs listened to by thousands of bots = $10M profit
Investigation into TicketMaster because dynamic pricing is maybe illegal in UK?
Mpox is spreading. Go get your Monkey Pox vaccine
Happy News!
Argentina - Since Millei's repeal of rent control laws took effect on December 29, the supply of rental housing in Buenos Aires has jumped by nearly 200%, and rents lowered in some cases
Israel, Hamas agree to zoned three-day pauses for Gaza polio vaccinations of 640K children
Teslas in Sentry Mode help solve crimes
2x annual antibiotics in young children reduced mortality by 13% in sub-Saharan Africa
researchers found a protein – called DdrC (for DNA Damage Repair Protein C) - with an unprecedented ability to repair DNA damage
Bryan Hance runs Bike Index
Troop Deployment
David - Xiaomara Castro hasn’t only tried to f**k over Prospera
Our interview with Jorge, the Mayor of Prospera
Eneasz - Condolences to the People of Carbon County, Wyoming
Wes - On-demand entertainment is good for kids
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News discussed:
Injunction issued against noncompete ban
RFK Jr. dropped out and endorsed Trump
Trump’s email hacked
Trump and Harris both want to eliminate taxes on tips
Harris wants to ban “price gouging” by grocery stores
Profit margins are around 2%
Ukraine launches Three Day Special Military Operation to denazify Russia
Israel launches preemptive strike on Hezbollah
FDA denied approval for MDMA to treat PTSD
Macaroon refuses to cede power to the New Popular Front government
Telegram CEO arrested by France
Biden Admin negotiated lower prices for 10 common medications under Medicare
UAW suing Trump and Musk for threatening union organizers
Federal Judge held that ban on machineguns is unconstitutional
Happy News!
USA won the olympics!
NASA finally tapping in Elon to rescue astronauts trapped on ISS.
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News discussed:
There was a Biden vs Lettuce! The Lettuce won.
CrowdStrike Falcon is endpoint monitoring software. (doesn’t just protect from malicious code, also tracks assets). Reminder: Any time you have auto-update enabled for anything, you have installed a free backdoor
The UBI experiment actually showed a lot of major upsides! Increased entrepreneurship, people held out longer for better jobs (which contributed to the lower employment number!), young people got more edu and single parents did more child raising, people were able to leave abusive relationships. Looking at naive averages isn’t that useful. (also AskWhoCastsAI is one of my fav podcasts)
The World Central Kitchen fuckup has been investigated. “An Australian review into the deaths said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) decided to launch missiles at the convoy after mistakenly believing it was being hijacked by Hamas”
Leaked Zoom recording of white house staff & DNC discussing how to best censor reports of Biden’s mental decline. Most interesting part is how polite the threats are. Stuff like ‘you say you’re reducing disinformation, but it looks like this disinformation about Biden’s decline is still up on facebook. I’m not sure that’s what reduction looks like’. Feels like Reality Is Becoming Impossible To Satirize
US recognizes challenger as winner as riots continue in Venezuela
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh killed by detonating a bomb planted in advance in his bedroom at the Iranian government official residence
Iran vows major counterstrikes on the 12th
Hamas names a top architect of the Oct 7 terror rampage as new leader
Hezbollah top commander Fouad Shukur (behind recent rocket attack in Isreal) killed by airstrike in Lebanon
top Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif killed in Gaza
Days of riots in Britain. Backlash against immigration and perceived rise in crime. Best way to fix that is always beating up innocent minorities and destroying local businesses.
Walz!
Google lost antitrust suit
Twitter files antitrust lawsuit against GARM. Sounds like BS lawsuit, but GARM does legit threaten corps that advertise on media outlets that they want to destroy with standard “shame if your store burned down” mob tactics. Much like patent trolls what they do is legal but should get them jail/confiscation/blinding.
Russian prisoner exchange. The tween & teen kids of a spy couple discover they’re Russian on the flight over to Russia.
MegaQuake advisory in Japan
In Bangladesh a government job quota system favoring the in-group sparked weeks of deadly riots (after over a decade of ratcheting authoritarianism and economic issues). Finally the prime minister fled the country after protestors stormed her residence, the president dissolved parliament, and the military is forming an interim govt.
BAGUETTE NEWS! Frenchman’s Giant Baguette is his undoing at the pole vault. (is offered $250k porn deal??) Joins acapella group.
More top people leave Open AI - cofounder John Schulman leaves to join Anthropic, president Greg Brockman takes extended leave of absence, a VP resigns.
accused 9/11 mastermind and two others gitmo got a plea deal, next day it was rescinded
Happy News!
“bridge editing” papers published in Nature promise more precise gene editing than CRISPR with fewer errors and disruptions.
Nanofiber molecules cause human cartilage to begin regeneration process, which humans can’t do in adulthood. Could lead to actual joint repair/regrowth. So far only on cell samples, not in humans.
Texas Heart Institute implants the first Total Artificial Heart. Made of titanium and don’t require anti-rejection medications. Uses rotary blood pump with a single moving part that utilizes a magnetically levitated rotor to greatly reduce friction and wear. Increases blood flow with demand to up to 12L/minute, allowing patients to exercise! Was only a place-holder for this surgery, but meant for long-term eventually. 3500 people on heart transplant list ATM.
Australia begins campaign to eradicate peanut allergy
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Kamala Harris is The Mask That Smiles
Wes - Don’t be a Baby About the Election
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News discussed:
Shelby County Board of Education has agreed to commit to fair and equal treatment for all organizations moving forward and pay over $15,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs
Most of our initial reporting on Trump shooting was right!
Kamala is Brat.
CrowdStrike outage
JD Vance did not f**k a couch stop saying that
Maduro “won” Venezuela election
Exit polls suggest shenanigans
Lots of protests
He’s decided to declare war on… Elon Musk
Menedez will resign next month
Biden, who is still president, proposed term limits for SCOTUS
Elon says he’s moving SpaceX HQ and Twitter HQ to Texas
Gavin Newsome issued executive order for cities to remove homeless encampments
Dark Oxygen??
UBI study published
Olympic freak out about Opening Ceremonies
try finding the video now!
The Operatic Metal performance was SICK AS FUUUUUUCK!!!! :D
Happy News!
cave on the moon found
suppressing an inflammation boosting gene increased mice lifespans by 25%
Matt Dawson amputates finger to play at Olympics
70 yr old man goes into diabetic coma while driving 70mph, 10yr old grandson pulls truck over
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Extending Childhood into Adulthood is bad actually
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News discussed:
Ilya Sutskever has started his own AI company
the Mona art museum trolls
Alec Baldwin case dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct
Trump shooting
Trump says his convention speech will be focused on “unity”
Biden gave RFK Jr. secret service protection
Joe holds a 1 hour news conference
Biden opponents “standing down” because of “fragile political moment”
JD Vance
Republicans released a platform
Judge Cannon dismissed classified documents case
Center and Left coordinated to beat far-right in France
if Macron had given them time to squabble they probably would have fallen apart
They got 37% of the vote but 25% of parliament
Got 10% more votes than NFP (far left) but 20% less seats
15% more votes than Macron’s centrist, but slightly less seats.
They seem to be having trouble picking a PM
Astronauts that were supposed to be on ISS for a week are stuck there until August (Feb??)
because Boeing can’t make things that work anymore.
Russia and N Korea ally against “aggression”
Ukraine war pushing the frontier of autonomous military weapons
YouTube video on LAWS
Happy News!
THEY RELEASED THE GENE DRIVE!
US will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA vaccine for bird flu
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - The shot of a lifetime takes a lifetime
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News discussed:
Eneasz Was Wrong! #1 Market Cap is MicroSoft
Starship 4 launched!
Has WWIII started? Maybe, tbh.
Gaza pier being dismantled, maybe not being resinstalled?
News
Time Magazine released a cover that just says Panic
Even NYT editorial board admits Biden must go
Receipts for people who lied
Nate Silver had Trump as 2:1 to win the election BEFORE the shitshow
SCOTUS News
The President is Above The Law
“Obstruction of Official Proceeding” requires interference with evidence?
Chevron is dead
SEC can’t impose penalties without right to jury trial
Wife-beaters can be disarmed
Grants Pass can kick out homeless
Suit about government pressure on social media dismissed due to standing 😢
Allowed emergency abortions in Idaho
SCOTUS wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors.
Seems like Thomas benefits from this decision
Non-SCOTUS News
Oklahoma's top education official has ordered schools in the state to begin incorporating the Bible into lessons.
Louisiana law requires classrooms (incl state colleges) to display Ten Commandments
Israeli Supreme Court says Ultra Orthodox men no longer exempt from military service
a Chinese SpaceX ripoff experienced rapid unscheduled upgrade from static test to launch
General Juan José Zúñiga stormed presidential palace of Bolivia with soldiers in an attempted coup
German police come to arrest people at a party for singing along to a song
AI follow-up: a popular similar song is France was created via GenAI
No AI for EU (this month they’ve gone after Apple, Meta, and Microsoft via Antitrust or DMA)
Far right party (National Rally, Le Pen) gets most votes in 1st round of France’s snap elections
1st world nations bringing their own AC units to French Olympics.
Parisian poop protest postponed as politicians parry poo plans
Museum relabels one of its unisex bathrooms to a Women’s bathroom and moves paintings there.
Paramount Global unplugged MTV News
CMT and Comedy Central also scrubbed
Happy News!
Biden pardons veterans convicted under military's ban on gay sex
No food inflation in Argentina this week!
First energy net-positive fusion reactor, Honghuang 70, has “achieved first plasma.”
US has plans to complete one next year
Julian Assange is free!
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd
Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to anyone who wants to ride in San Francisco
Two fishermen rescue 38 dogs treading water with no shore in sight
Troop Deployment
Eneasz -
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Appeals court paused Georgia case to decide if Fani Willis needs to be disqualified
Judge Cannon paused classified documents case
Hunter Biden found guilty of being on drugs
Joe won’t pardon or commute
Republicans blocked bill giving federal right to contraception
Also IVF
China is up to something on the far side of the moon
NY Governor “paused” NYC congestion pricing system before going into effect
U.S. regulators to open antitrust probes into Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI
Bump stocks are back!
Mifepristone case tossed on standing grounds
The EU had European Parliament elections on June 9th
Macron dissolved the National Assembly and called for new snap elections in France.
Says he wants the people to be ruled by who they actually want to be ruled by
Israeli special forces conducted a raid into Gaza which rescued four hostages
The hostages in question were held in the home of a Palestinian journalist
Russia pins ruble to the Chinese yuan
Benny Gantz resigns from Israeli war cabinet
Netanyahu then disbands the war cabinet.
FDA Announce Federal Multi-Agency Task Force to Curb the Distribution and Sale of Illegal E-Cigarettes
The Guardian ran a laughably inaccurate article about Manifest
Good dating site on Manifund!
Italian court finds Amanda Knox guilty of slander
Happy News!
Vibecamp was awesome!
Tesla shareholders vote to reinstate Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package
America beat Pakistan at a game we don’t even play
Apple is integrating OpenAI’s LLMs with Siri
US Violent Crime down 15% in Q1 of 2024!
Port of Baltimore reopened!
Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday evening to pass major legislation designed to reverse the American nuclear industry’s decades-long decline and launch a reactor-building spree
Ozempic fixes your kidneys too!
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Gaza pier is already broken
EV sales have plateaued at around 7% of all auto sales
Biden executive order on immigration
Justice Alito has been flying insurrectionist flags
South Korea used balloons to drop propaganda leaflets over North Korea. North Korea retaliates by dropping animal and human s**t, and other garbage on South Korea
Houthis claim to have Touched The Boat.
The Ike’s captain says that’s garbage and that he’s getting lunch
Russia has been striking Ukrainian cities with artillery based inside Russia. NATO responds by allowing Ukraine to strike targets in Russia with NATO-provided weapons
This resulted in the loss of 1270 Russian troops in 24 hours according to the British MoD, the deadliest 24 hours of the war so far.
The PLAN has encircled Taiwan in the name of “military exercises” and also as “punishment” for Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan in her official capacity
The unlawful government of the West Taiwan Breakaway Region has also rolled back erosion mitigation measures implemented under Jiang Zemin to try to reach food self-sufficency
US aid to Gaza is piling up in Egypt, since the pier is gone. Egypt declines to let trucks across the Gaza border.
ICC prosecutor is requesting an arrest warrant for Netanyahu
OpenAI stole ScarJo's voice?
Greenpeace successfully sued to stop golden rice being grown in the Philippines
SCOTUS: racial gerrymanders are cool now
Happy News!
Cure for deafness?
A woman (Georgia Laurie) saved her twin sister by punching a crocodile
Come to Vibecamp!
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News discussed:
Democrats saved Mike Johnson
Now they’re all indignant that he’s defending Trump
Joe Biden is saving us from the scourge of low prices
He mocked Trump for doing the same thing
NYT poll: Biden is losing in 5-of-6 swing states
Two debates!
Ukraine has started bombarding airfields in occupied Crimea
Also, Russian oil refineries and fuel storage.
the US has completed construction of their pier on Gaza for bringing in aid.
Awww, the other two dropped out
Government to Ban All US Election Betting
Iranian President died in helicopter crash
OpenAI exodus
Also the most draconian non-disparagement b**t ever seen outside of TikTok
Google Cloud deleted Unisuper’s entire account and all data
Alabama Mercedez-Benz workers voted down union
Happy News!
Jury found expulsion of students for “blackface” was baseless and malicious and has fined the school $1M. :)
Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches
NASA engineers publish a paper with the design for a warp drive
Blue Origin is flying again after 2 years!
Troop Deployments
Get You A Woman That Likes Men
Date Wes! or read his erotica
Maryzoso on Ex-Twitter
Sex Coaching from Maryzoso
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News discussed:
Biden campaign will continue to use TikTok
World Central Kitchen resumed aid in Gaza
Hamas attacks humanitarian pier off Gaza coast during construction
Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel (destroyed by Hamas on Oct 7) was reopened by Israel to allow aid trucks through. Hamas immediately hijacked it
Israel shuts down Al-Jazeera
Jewish Columbia University student filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the school Monday
Yassine says it looks good
at UCLA a Jewish girl was beaten until hospitalized by protestors. Persian Jews then attacked the protest encampment in retaliation
House anti-anti-semitism bill
Russian Defence Minister arrested on corruption charges
Poland announces local name for the F-35 program.
Trump might get some form of immunity??
Is it legal to ban homeless?
Florida outlaws the manufacture and distribution of lab-grown meat
FCC restores net neutrality rules, and votes 3-2 to reclassify broadband as a public utility.
Happy News!
Biden descheduling weed!
Voyager 1 fixed!
SpaceX announces commercial flights starting later this year!
NASA invents an ion engine which can reach escape velocity???
Trump flip-flopped on mail-in voting! He’s for it now!
New FTC rule: noncompetes are banned
Surprising “photomolecular effect” discovered by MIT
group of motorists driving by a car on fire save a man from burning alive inside it
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Stop trying to put price-ceilings on things! It never works! Instead, GO SEE LOCAL BANDS.
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News discussed:
Assassinated Iranian general at the embassy involved in 'planning and execution' of October 7 massacre
The armorer for the film “Rust” was sentenced to 18 months
News
Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel but didn’t kill anyone
House passed a bunch of bills
FISA cleared Senate filibuster by one vote, signed into law
Zvi is not happy about it
Special treatment for members of Congress??
Tiktok sale
Biden rolls back Title IX reforms
USAF tests AI-piloted F-16, reports sufficiently skillful flying to shoot down manned fighters.
Cass report on child transgender healthcare in Britain released
FHI shut down at Oxford.
Uri Berliner, senior editor at NPR, says stuff that anyone listening to NPR has known for years
Happy News!
Colorado lets group houses and poly families legally buy housing!
Bone marrow transplants are way easier these days
Boy Finds Rare Gold Roman Bracelet in a Field Where it Was Lying for 2,000 Years
Lots of good boys adopted when one school decides to find a way to make kids want to run
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IDF hits 3 world central kitchen cars, kills 7
paxlovid doesn't make a difference if you're fully vaxxed :(
Florida abortion ban upheld, but ballot measure also approved
abortion banned in Arizona for any reason other than to save the mother’s life
Trump says Arizona’s abortion ban goes too far
Yassine is no longer white
Did your eyes sustain permanent damage?
Student loan forgiveness is back on the menu, boys!
European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland “had failed to comply with its duties” to combat climate change and meet emissions targets, which violates women's rights?
Meta, Google, and Intel are all unveiling custom new AI chips
udio is legit amazeballs
The Fooming Shoggoths have a couple bangers
Brazilian Supreme Court judge has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk
Harvard removes book bound in human skin
Happy News!
synchron is a neurolink rival
Lumina Probiotic is available for preorder!
first AI tool that can diagnose sepsis
robot dog averts bloodshed
Sesame Street Robot Dog song
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Death Is Bad on Lies
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Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination
Israel plans 1km wide (.6mile) buffer zone around entirety of gaza (pic)
Chuck Schumer called for elections in Israel
CAR-T cell therapy for glioblastoma (a brain cancer) a big success in clinical trials
Truth Social went public, somehow valued at $5 billion
Trump gets special treatment again
Trump predicted a “bloodbath” (for the auto industry?) if he’s not elected
EPAs new fleet standards will “require” at least 56% of new vehicles to be electric by 2032
Congress passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill and now the nutball caucus is trying to remove the speaker again
Lyft and Uber pull out of Minneapolis after legislature mandates higher pay
National Association of Realtors lawsuit settlement will end 6% commission system?
Supreme Court to rule on abortion drug mifepristone this summer
Musk Compensation.
Judge ruled that this is too much profit, and also Musk would have done the work anyway, and also the board was too close to Musk so the contract was a collaborative process rather than a true negotiation, and that stockholders don’t know what’s best for them
Fed officials penciled in three quarter-percentage point cuts by the end of 2024
Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts
Happy News!
Gene-editted pig kidney transplanted into human
Federal judiciary finally banned judge shopping
New York Disbars Infamous Copyright Troll
High Schooler Achyuta Rajaram wins Regeneron science and math competition
A pill that kills ticks!
women taking Ozempic getting pregnant despite using birth control and/or experiencing fertility issues
Austin build so much housing that housing ACTUALLY GOT CHEAPER!
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Housespouse is the greatest and best job in the world
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Alabama passed a law protecting IVF providers from liability
Anti-abortion groups are not happy about it
Putin threatens nukes if western troops used, again
SCOTUS voted 9-0 to allow Trump on the Ballot
Biden gave a big speech and didn’t sound too old!
Congress swamped with calls to not ban TikTok after TikTok mobilized users with easy “call now” button.
Trump flipped flopped and is pro-TikTok now after meeting with a big TikTok investor
Wendy’s introduces dynamic pricing
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for not being open enough and being too much AI
Elon Tweets
US evacuates Haitian embassy staff amid gang violence
Oregon re-criminalized drugs after downtown turned into a nightmare
Gaza Ministry of Health blatantly fakes casualty numbers
Spanish soldiers change gender
Claude 3 gets ~60% accuracy on GPQA
needle-in-the-haystack eval
Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6B as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia invest $675M
Happy News!
Sacramento eliminated exclusionary zoning
France makes history by enshrining abortion rights in its constitution
Detroit is considering Georgist land value taxes!
CDC’s new COVID guidance now matches public health advice for flu and other respiratory illnesses
FDA approves a drug for frostbite
Garbage collectors came across a fire. 49yo Steve Whitehouse climbed up to a 2nd-floor balcony three times to rescue a man, a woman, and their dog, before firefighters arrived.
Zvi: “We Can’t Help But Notice” AI post
Anthropic post
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The Hugo Committee itself was responsible for the censorship, doing it voluntarily and preemptively!
Intuitive Machines is now the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon.
Phil Metzger describes: Imagine you built an experimental payload and it is going on a test ride to the Moon. Then the spacecraft engineers ask if they can use your payload to navigate for lunar landing, something never planned for, and they write a software patch in lunar orbit, and it WORKS
Sweden’s bid to join NATO has been officially ratified. The Baltic is officially Lake NATO
Navalny killed in prison
Also Russia is going to nuke us from spaaaaaace!
2 yr anniversary of invasion
Trump business fraud verdict: $355 million!
Trump: “it’s a form of Navalny”
Netanyahu’s proposed Gaza plan allows Israeli military freedom of action in Gaza, and establishes a buffer zone.
Egypt is building a border wall w Gaza. no word on if they’ll make the Gazans pay for it
Israel launched strikes in Lebanon in response to rocket attacks by Hezbollah
Alabama made IVF illegal in its borders.(e)
Clinics are closing
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Nikki Haley got 40% of the vote in South Carolina
Google’s new AI “Gemini” had its image-generation turned off due to unexpected results. Yishan argues this is AI misalignment, but Days argues this is intentional and the only “unexpected” part was the backlash
Happy News!
Greece legalises same-sex marriage
Guatemala did a reverse Jan 6th!
World's largest supply of lithium found beneath California's Salton Sea. Could meet America's demand for decades to come (at current rates?). AND discovery of 2.34 billion metric tons of rare-earth elements near Wheatland, Wyo., is estimated to be the richest in the world
UPSIDE Foods, the first lab to get FDA approval for commercial production of lab-grown meat, has announced construction of their first laboratory, starting with a focus on chicken production.
Chris Anderson describes it as “DELICIOUS. Succulent, moist, the right texture. Chicken as it should be.”
program launching this month allocated 250,000 Swiss francs, or roughly $285,000 US, to pay reviewers to find mistakes in influential scientific papers
Scott Alexander gives Bet On Love team permission to do Unsong Musical
Eneasz - Luck is Other People's Work
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Natural Gas Ban doesn’t apply to countries that we have Free Trade Agreements with
They’ve now read several pages of the Pompeii scrolls
Gwern saw this coming.
DC Circuit says Trump isn’t immune from prosecution
Hamas data center found under UNRWA headquarters
Republicans failed to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas
FAA practiced racial discrimination in hiring for ~10 years
NIkki Haley lost to “None of the Above” in Nevada primary
Biden absolutely crushed it in South Carolina. Poor Dean Phillips 😢Poor America
Special counsel declined to prosecute Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
Sam Altman wants to overhaul semiconductor supply chain
Remember that all journalists lie
Happy News!
ACX grants announced!
Hereditary angioedema is a single-mutation genetic disease that has been cured in human subjects using CRISPR
Biden admin offering $1.5bil loan to keep Michigan nuclear plant open
James Webb Space Telescope finds what may be bright galaxies waaaaaay too early in time
First Neuralink implanted in a human!
14 yr old into insects discovers a new one, helps write a paper on it and name it.
Aella finds true love at last
Coast Guard doing routine inspection rescue dog trapped in a shipping container for 8 days
Troop Deployments
Eneasz - Any Community That Tolerates Trauma Junkies Is Unsafe For Everyone Else
Wes - Prenups Should be Mandatory
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SCOTUS voted 5-4 to say Texas needs to let in the feds
Texas is… not complying?
Canadian highest court held that invoking of Emergency Act during trucker protest was unlawful
Apple to have 3rd-party app stores!
Hong Kong court orders liquidation of Evergrande (only HK parts tho)
Iran-backed drone strike in Jordan injures 40 US soldiers, kills 3
International Criminal Court ruled mostly in favor of Israel?
Funding pulled for UNRWA after allegations that 12 of their employees participated in 10/7 attacks
US plus 8 other countries
Leaked Israeli dossier accuses 190 employees being operatives of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Trump ordered to pay $83 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll
Mitch McConnell outright said they don’t want to solve any border issues before the election
Biden says he would shut down the border ’“right now”
Biden “pauses” LNG exports.
Fani Willis is sleeping with her special prosecutor?
Georgia is trying to empower its oversight board
Articles of impeachment introduced
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - a top cancer research institute, affiliate of Harvard Medical School, retracts 6 studies and investigating 31 more for copy-pasted graphs fraud.
Ohio law requires mental health providers to get permission from at least one parent before diagnosing a minor with gender-issues, and disallows blockers, hormones, and surgery even with parental consent
Hugo Awards for SF lit, held in China this year, censored by CCCP to no one’s surprise
(they started the fuckery in 2018)
Happy News!
NASA’s Mars helicopter flew 14x further than planned, lasted 3 years
Japan is on the moon!
Astrobotic lunar lander didn’t quite make it, but they learned a lot. Intuitive Machines is trying next month
Experimental gene therapy gave a deaf 11 yr old hearing for the first time
The nation’s largest solar energy and storage project came online in California last week, offering 875 megawatt-hours of solar capacity, and 3 gigawatt-hours of storage.
CAR T cells - genetically engineered T cells - have been used to fight blood cancers for a while. In mice they are slowing aging when altered to eliminate senescent cells
Husky digs up gas leak, potentially saves the block
two teen girls in canada rescue british couple pulled out by riptide
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Claudine Gay resigned
The IRS will waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes
Texas seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, prevent Border Patrol agents from entering the area
Milei repeals housing regulation “Rental Law.” 1 month later Buenos Aires apartments double, rents down 20%
US and UK launched strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, in response to their attacks on shipping
The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq stock indices closed up 14%, 24%, and 43%, respectively, for 2023
Congress agreed on a budget deal that’s basically what they agreed to during the debt ceiling negotiations
Trump promised to pardon Jan. 6 rioters
Trump makes fun of Nikky Halley for not saying the Civil War was about slavery
Trump will not be allowed to make his own closing argument
Wayne LaPierre resigned as head of NRA
ISIS suicide bombers responsible for two explosions in IranISIS condems Hamas for sacraficing the people of Gaza for Iran’s “regional project” (and bombs Hamas)The Islamic Fatwah Council found Hamas to be a Human Rights violator, issued a fatwah
900 Post Office managers wrongly convicted of theft/fraud over 14 year span due to faulty computer system
Two Chinese labs working on replicating LK-99 appear to have found a room-temperature superconductor.
Bill Ackman’s wife is accused of plagiarism. In retaliation Ackman will investigate all current MIT faculty members, President, other officers of the Corporation, and its board members for plagiarism.
“the plagiarism issue seems more like busting Al Capone for tax evasion.
Does Chris Rufo have a Harvard degree?
"corruption inside China’s Rocket Force and throughout the nation’s defense industrial base is so extensive that US officials now believe Xi is less likely to contemplate major military action in the coming years than would otherwise have been the case..."
Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ruled 'Simply Funny'
Mexican Cartels use drones to kill 30 people, first hit of its kind
Regulators ordered U.S. airlines to temporarily stop using some Boeing 737 Max 9 planes
Most High-Cost Borrowers (payday loans) don’t understand basic financial concepts
Medicare capped Insulin at $35/month. Some plans are choosing not to cover insulins with higher manufacturing cost
U.S. is experiencing a police hiring crisis
NCAA is seemingly embracing Name Image and Likeness Collectives
William Penn’s statue remains on his home
We can make dishwasher that work well again!
SEC approved Bitcoin ETF
Happy News!
Swedish scientists found yields could be increased by running an electrical current through plants’ roots
UT botonists found that exposure to etheline gas increases yields and stress tolerance in crops.
NASA exploratory research grant funds a project to investigate ways to keep hydrogen at liquid temperatures in cislunar space.
On Dec 21 a 13 yr old finally beat Tetris, a world first
Same project funding a way to use swarms of laser-propelled one-gram probes to get to Proxima Centauri (and back(? But also !) in 8 years.
In-womb surgery allows girl to walk
Cops charge up 5 floors of fire to carry out ninety-year olds from burning building
Hero dad saves woman and baby from car swept up in flood
Eneasz has a new story coming soon
Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan in winter, accidentally discovered a lost city along the way,
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Claudine Gay resigned
Trump kicked off the Maine ballot
NYT sued OpenAI
Congress only passed 27 bills last year
Israel uncovered a major Hamas command center in the heart of Gaza City
They are also withdrawing troops
Saleh Arouri, the deputy political head of Hamas and a founder of the group’s military wing, killed in a drone strike in Beirut
Israel Supreme Court struck down the judicial reform law
Denmark has a woke king after old queen abdicates
Link for a general update to the Red Sea situation
US Navy sunk three of four small boats from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels
A trade group for social media companies sued Utah over laws prohibiting minors from using social media between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. unless authorized by a parent
Chinese professor used AI to write a science fiction “novel” that won a national competition.
66-year-old dude stabs South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung in the neck
The IRS will waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes
Eneasz’s story about AI and fanfic
Happy News!
“Steamboat Willie” is out of copyright after 96 MFin’ years.
AI was trained on experimental data and used to identify chemical substructures that underlie selective antibiotic activity. This led to the discovery of a new structural class of antibiotics
a protein antibody that reduces the number of inflammation-causing immune cells has been developed, treats asthma
Feng Zhou at NYU created tiny DNA robots. It can reproduce itself
Microsoft is training a custom, narrow-focus LLM specifically on the regulatory process for small nuclear plants
Uber Driver Returns $8,000 to Teen Who Left the Christmas Cash in His Car
Army veteran Juan Serrano in Virginia jumped 50 feet off a bridge to save a suicidal teen
Troop Deployment
David - Scott Alexander’s dadpost
Eneasz - Societies will collapse under war and bloodshed/ school makes kids suicidal
Wes - Against Commitment
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Guyana & Venezuela both pledged not to use force
The likely first longevity drug is based on sketchy science.
Colorado Supreme Court banned Trump’s name from the ballot
More trouble in the Suez
Ivy league presidents are terrible at PR
Beff Jezos doxxed by Forbes
Epic Games v. Google found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly.
Texas makes illegally crossing the border a state crime, enabling state police to arrest suspects
Texas Supreme Court ruled that “good faith belief” of doctor is not enough for exception to abortion ban
Giuliani ordered to pay $148M for spreading lies about Georgia election workers
Biden Administration announced it is setting new policy that will allow it to seize patents for medicines developed with government funding if it believes their prices are too high.
House formally approves Biden impeachment inquiry
Happy News!
a specially trained LLM asked to write short computer programs that can generate solutions to a particular mathematical problem outdoes human mathematicians
Tesla drops a demo video of Optimus Gen2
The FDA approved two sickle cell disease treatments, including its first-ever approval of a therapy that uses the groundbreaking gene-editing tool CRISPR
Troop Deployments
Spirituality Takes Time
TracingWoodgrains’ post about Nonlinear and Lightcone
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Sam Altman is back at OpenAI!
Not fake news - future news! George Santos actually expelled this time
Scientists got a whole-ass Earth-plant to grow in lunar regolith
Gaza pause didn’t last long, but the original 4 days were extended to 6
3 commercial ships hit by missiles in Houthi attack in Red Sea, US warship downs 3 drones
New war just dropped!? Red Venezuela v. Guyana (v. Brazil?)
The Hague ruled that this is b**t
Guyana Analysis Thread!
Binance CEO "CZ" steps down, pleads guilty to U.S. money laundering violations
Bad news: abortion bans work
Two senators introduce “The Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act” which would ban gas-operated firearms… and also non-gas-operated semi-auto firearms. Expert on guns: “Now you’re just lying”
More Ukraine funding probably not coming
John Cornyn: “I think there’s a misunderstanding on the part of Senator Schumer and some of our Democratic friends,” Cornyn said. “This is not a traditional negotiation, where we expect to come up with a bipartisan compromise on the border. This is a price that has to be paid in order to get the supplemental.”
The House has already passed an immigration bill that make asylum much less generous
Happy News!
Life-extension drug approved for phase 2 trials (but drug is for dogs)
University of Washington researchers developed deep-learning algorithms for noise canceling headphones such that wearers can pick which sounds they want to hear, and which to block
Video demo
Doritos Silent
Eleos Health, a company developing a “tool that can run in the background of mental health sessions and uses voice AI capabilities to analyze it and give insights and information about the patient”
All 41 Workers Rescued From Collapsed Tunnel in India Himalayas After 17 Days Trapped
Japan has a new island!
Badass footage
A team of YouTubers, engineers, and ranchers found how much horsepower a horse can pull
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News discussed:
George Santos wasn’t actually expelled, they just tried
And they’re trying again
SpaceX gets FAA approval for second Starship test launch
SAG Strike is over! The AI provisions of the deal
Sama kicked …
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SBF guilty on all charges
We have a speaker of the house!
He doesn’t have a bank account?!?
First bill passed: $14 billion in aid for Israel plus $14 billion in cuts for IRS
Biden Executive Order on AI
Zvi agrees that it is mostly a prelude to actions to be taken in a few years
Prominent AI Scientists from China and the West Propose Joint Strategy to Mitigate Risks from AI
Israel News
Houthi Rebels in Yemen are launching missiles at Israel
Hezbollah and Israel firing rockets at each other in Lebanon
Chinese companies removed Israel from their maps
Half of The Kids Today think Hamas was justified
One of the founders of the Democratic Socialists of America resigned over the Hamas support
commies supporting a final solution
anti lgbt, black Hebrews, shocked pikachu
Fearless Fund sued by same group that got rid of formal discrimination in university admissions
EVs are getting harder to sell
Happy News!
AI reads words on Pompeii scroll, makes John Lennon sound good, gets people jobs
Almost 900 school districts are giving kids 3-day weekends!
Missouri poll found 69% of parents approved, but (naturally) press coverage has been uniformly negative
U.S. economy grew almost 5% in the third quarter
New fish just dropped
New Silkworm just dropped - Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar
Teenagers who came across an empty candy bucket refilled it with their own candy
Eneasz - Don’t Trans Me Bro
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News discussed:
Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying $1.1B
Caroline Ellison of FTX admits on the stand that Sam bribed Chinese officials with $100M to unfreeze their assets, purposely tried to scam Saudi investors in the final days of FTX, & intentionally tried to sic regulators on Binance to destroy his competition.
The NYT issued a mea culpa for its coverage of the destroyed hospital
A US Navy warship shot down several cruise missiles and drones launched from Yemen
mia khalifa plus many others cancelled
an intrepid 25-year-old Israeli woman saved an entire kibbutz from harm by leading a group of residents to kill more than two dozen advancing terrorists
Texas fortifies border with New Mexico with concertina wire
Gag issue ordered for Trump
A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology's E-Meter
Happy News!
over the past two decades increased globalization has resulted in higher wages, safer workplaces, and less child labor, and it has happened the fastest in the countries that have opened the most and are most integrated in global supply chains
Bay Area high school grad (with a 3.97 unweighted and 4.42 weighted GPA, scored 1590 out of 1600 on SATs) rejected by 16 colleges - hired by Google!
Eleven of the 271 recipients of the Thiel Fellowship have founded unicorns so far!!
Troop Deployments
Eneasz - Gender is personality (or maybe more accurately, personality-tropes)
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News discussed:
Azerbaijan won
The Free Press says this is Israel’s 9/11
They randomly massacred a music festival, taken many hostages
“Declare a humanitarian interest in liberating Gaza from Hamas' theocratic military dictatorship”
Madmen march in support of murder-rape
US shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of troops
Turkey has been striking Kurdish separatists
New Tinder $500-a-month plan
Trump org found guilty of fraud, lost its business license
Cowards refuse to recognize art
Alabama has a new voting map
Anthropic - patterns of neuron activations map to “Features” which separately represent things
Anthropic CEO and Co-Founder says there’s a 75-90% chance that humanity won’t be wiped out by AIs!
Walmart says users of weight loss drugs are buying less food
Wood structure aged 476,000 yrs old found
FDA Delenda Est!! Why won’t you let old people be happy??
Happy News!
Air taxis in 2025?!?
Nobel Prizes awarded last week
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FAA is “optimistic [about issuing a license] sometime next month" for Starship’s second launch
Government shutdown impending this weekend
New war just dropped between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Biden impeachment inquiry announced
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey being indicted on bribery charges
Ken Paxton acquitted
Writers strike is over!
Various old people who don’t know how AI works are suing OpenAI for writing fanfic when prompted to write fanfic
The Marines, uh, kinda lost an F35
Amazon invests up to $4 billion in Anthropic
Happy News!
JWST finds evidence of a molecule only produced in nature by phytoplankton on an exoplanet
US Copyright office continues to hold that AI Art is not copyrightable
Gavin Newsome vetoed a bill to require drivers in autonomous trucks
Cavities have been cured!!!
They Got the Lead Out of Turmeric! (in Bangladesh)
Palisades Nuclear Plant to (probably) reopen
ChatGPT diagnosed a 7yr olds tethered cord syndrome after 17 doctors failed to
Turns out there’s an assload of lithium in Nevada, which is a good step 1 to getting Chinese slave labor out of the green tech market
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E - Possibly largest lithium deposit in the world discovered on Nevada/Oregon border. Mining to begin in 2026. But Holy?
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E - NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday
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David: Probably the West Desert, where I go shooting!
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E - Dude jumps in river to save drowning child, doesn’t remove shoes!
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Troop Deployment
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David - CHARGE $85 FOR VIDEO GAMES YOU A**S
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Eneasz - Controlled Misery can make you stronger
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News discussed:
Intuitive Machines, the company behind the private moon lander, released a video of a test-fire of its landing engines
Fifth Circuit injunction preventing government from censoring social media
Fifth Circuit also reversed lower court and upheld Texas law forbidding viewpoint discrimination by social media companies
SpaceX is ready for another test launch of Starship, but the FAA is dragging their feet on approval.
Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years in prison
Putin and Erdogan met to try to revive grain deal
British company FruitCast uses AI to count, weigh, and evaluate ripeness of millions of berries per day
Florida State University professor Eric Stewart, a celebrated criminologist, is kicked out of FSU under allegations of fraud. Six major studies often cited as proof of systemic racism have been retracted. A collaborator blew a whistle a few years ago when a study with 500 participants was published as having over 1100 participants
Happy News!
NY and LA school districts considering teaching kids to use ChatGPT to enhance learning rather than banning it
University of Tokyo researching a muon-based GPS replacement, which would work deep underground and underwater.
Chinese air pollution down over 40% in a decade, life expectancy is up 2-6 years in cities.
Ozempic can maybe completely remove the need for insulin in type 1 diabetics!? Research ongoing
Human-sized Legos make real buildings!!!
German company Polaris has successfully test flown a scaled-down unmanned model of Aurora, a hypersonic/suborbital jet capable of delivering payloads to orbit
The Mars Society announced the creation of the Mars Technology Institute, whose purpose is to develop the technologies required to settle Mars
A proof-of-concept device on Perseverance has generated enough oxygen to keep a small dog alive for 10 hours
UN Diplomat crowd-funds $144M to drain an abandoned oil tanker of over 1M barrels of crude and scupper the ship (Yemen couldn’t do it cuz they’re doing a civil war), prevented an eventual massive catastrophe
Troop Deployments
Scott Alexander 4 prez
RIP Van Aaron Hughes
Football now with AI-powered commentary
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News discussed:
Prighozin, Utkin, and more or less all Wagner head honchos dead after a Wagner-owned private plane was shot down
Chinese real-estate company Evergrande files for bankruptcy… in US court.
Fourth (and final?) Trump indictment!
Abortion is illegal in South Carolina again
DoJ files charges against Elon Musk for illegal discrimination against refugees, despite this making no sense
Fifth Circuit upheld Mifepriston ban, but stayed order pending SCOTUS review
Happy News!
Meta has developed an open source GitHub Copilot competitor
New startup Rainmaker wants to make it rain
Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander slated to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on 15 November.
Quantum superchemistry. What is it? Why is it cool? Idk, but sounds super cool!
AI (the kind Eneasz wants to stop) used to allow ALS patients to communicate at 80 WPM using brain interface
Tech investors are trying to make a new city in an otherwise-empty part of SFBA
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News discussed:
Coroner’s report (Cu2S (known impurity in LK-99) has a first-order phase transition around 378 K accompanied by a large resistivity drop)
Index of replication attempts
Israeli Knesset banned “reasonableness” standard, but nothing further yet
Clarence Thomas is even more corrupt
Reason on common misconceptions about Trump indictment
Jack Smith has Trump’s Twitter DMs
Ohio rejected Republican attempt to rig referendums
Ecuadorian presidential candidate running on anti-organized crime & corruption assassinated at rally. Gunman dead.
DeSantis proposes making student loan debt dischargable via bankruptcy
OpenAI and many others are bottlenecked by lack of GPUs right now
Richard Hahahania not canceled by HuffPo
Eneasz - Anti-tech is necessarily pro-slavery
Happy News!
Cure for cancer???
Cultured Meat approved for sale in US
US suicide rate down to 1960’s levels
Net result cutting 35% of the climate impact of commercial flights if implemented!
US carbon-per-capita down to WW1 levels
Robotor, the automated chisel. Users feed data, it makes detailed marble and stone sculptures.
CA approves robot taxi (of the four accidents reported, all of them are fake news)
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News discussed:
Ukraine Update: Kerch Strait Bridge 2: Electric Boogaloo
Fed still raising interest rates despite inflation being over
Monthly PCE inflation is at 2%
Even the Fed’s janky numbers have inflation at 3%
Judge killed Biden asylum rules
Biden tries student debt forgiveness again
wtf China. Secret chinese biolab in CA, similar to the secret chinese police station.
Niger presidential guard overthrow president and install a military junta.
Fake News!
Room-temp superconductors??
Polymarket says 26%
Aliens!
AI STUFF
The White House secured a voluntary agreement with seven leading AI companies
Meta releases LLAMA-2
Musk starts x.AI
the dumbest alignment plan ever.
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are launching the Frontier Model Forum
Another Senate hearing on AI
Robot servers at restaurant
Happy News
AI takes a prompt (“I want to hold a cup 🍵) and converts it into a 3d printable prosthetic
NASA and DARPA are working on a nuclear cislunar rocket
Blue Origin was able to refine polysilicates from simulated regalith
18 million doses of first-ever malaria vaccine allocated to 12 African countries
Indians mostly stopped shitting in the streets
Take the Poo to the Loo is great success!
Toyota claims a solid-state battery breakthrough for EVs
Sulfur Selenium Solid-State Battery From NASA Breaks Energy Storage Boundaries
enthusiastic Swifties cause seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake in Seattle
Troop Deployments
Wes - chart listing masculine and feminine traits
Eneasz - The Subversiveness of Barbie
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News discussed:
Inflation is over
Crazy Trump judge issued an injunction against government talking to social media companies
ONE WEIRD TRICK! - Wisconsin gov used line-item veto to rewrite law to guarantee education funding for 400 years
Apparently they do this all the time
UK Online Safety Bill requires backdoor in all encryption
Apple, Signal, Wikipedia all likely to pull out of UK if it passes
Actors’ union (falsely?) claimed that studios proposed to use background characters’ likenesses in perpetuity
OpenAI committed 20% of secured compute and a new taskforce to solve alignment in four years.
Eliezer speaks to Rep Dan Crenshaw
Robots at a Geneva AI forum promise they won’t steal jobs or rebel against humans.
1% of the population is responsible for almost 2/3rds of all violent crime
Happy News!
Super white paint on 2% of Earth could stop climate change
China has automated trucking - 40M km over 2 years, no accidents, used by Budweiser, Nestlé
Canada vastly expanded its immigration system
A flying car prototype just got an airworthiness certificate from the FAA
Video on site not of the Model A!
Here’s what it actually looks like.
Largest ever fusion rocket engine is now being built in the UK
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has tested a flow battery
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News discussed:
Perun (sp?) video
Weird aborted coup in Russia
If a cop has a gun in your face and you try to escape anyway, presumably what the cop would find is worse for you than taking a bullet
France Riots:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/02/france-protests-nahel-m-shooting/
https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/france-violence-rioters-burn-down-largest-public-library-in-marseille-visuals-surface
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/france-riots-more-than-400-arrested-as-police-officer-accused-of-shooting-teen-apologises
https://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675605783365443585
https://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675570451324493824
https://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675611514231767042
Doom scrolling (Twitter) cap
Vietnam has banned 'Barbie' film
Here’s the map in the scene (probably? Seen at 1:01 in this trailer)
Here’s the Nine-Dash-Line that they’re talking about
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Supreme Court News
Turns out Alito is corrupt too. Nobody could have predicted!
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Affirmative action is toast
Biden v. Nebraska - no student loan cancellation :’(
Moore v. Harper - rejected independent legislature theory
US v Texas - states lack standing to challenge immigration priorities of DHS
303 Creative v. Elenis - web designer doesn’t have to make gay wedding website
The decision was limited because much of what might have been contested about the facts of the case was stipulated
Happy News!
Type 1 Diabetes is caused by the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas not producing insulin at all. Now old bad beta cells can be cleared out with a repurposed cancer drug, and functioning beta cells produced from stem cells can replace these.
Now tests are proceeding to encase these beta cells in a “ channel array device” that allows them to get nutrients and function while keeping the immune cells away!
I-95 reopened after 12 days
A houseboat in Florida capsized during a big storm, with two women trapped inside. A passing Florida man, Jordan Boyd, jumped into the water from his boat without even a lifejacket on (he really shoulda taken a few seconds tho, for real), grabbed a 2x4, and smashed the glass door of the house boat open
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News discussed:
Trump indicted again
Statement on AI risks
The draft of the AI Bill of Rights is currently garbage
Google’s DeepMind: AlphaDev uncovered new and improved sorting algorithms
Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think
SCOTUS: Alabama redistricting was unconstitutional
Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of a woman after her county kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a $15k unpaid tax bill
Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel's in trademark dispute with dog toy maker
Supreme Court has ruled against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete
John Stokes on AI Safety
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Fed judge says border agents can't force you to turn over a full copy of your entire phone
Brain-Spine Interface Allows Paralyzed Man to Walk Using His Thoughts
there's not a huge nationwide campaign to ban books from school libraries. There are literally eleven people in the whole country responsible for most challenges
Driverless taxies in several cities are doing fine
Four Colombian Children Found Alive in Jungle Five Weeks After Plane Crash
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News discussed:
Oathkeeper leader Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy
“He was the one giving the orders,” Judge Mehta said
Major loss of access to transgender healthcare in Florida
Also, Oklahoma passed a super anti-trans bill in February
Elon comes out as pro-criminalization of sex changes for minors :(
Meta says it’ll stop linking news sites in CA if Link Tax passes
They’re testing on Canadians
Facebook refusing to pay off a couple of Australian news orgs
Happy News!
Afghan War ended with 0 US MIAs
OpenAI working on “Processes Supervision”
NewLimit raises $40M to extend life
Pairwise used CRISPR to make raw mustard greens not taste bad
Using artificial intelligence researchers found a new type of antibiotic
First Einstein Shape discovered by David Smith
Another one! Based on Hat, meet Spectre, which does it without reflected tiles
Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants
In just a few months, the U.S. received more than 1.5 million requests from individuals hoping to sponsor the entry of migrants!
TN anti-drag law is unconstitutional on multiple grounds
First Recorded Stand-Up Comedy Sketch
First-Ever X-Ray of a Single Atom Captured
Andrew Carr 32-year-old owner of ABC Cleaning Services, says he was fed up with the paths and cobbles in Alnwick, Northumberland, being covered in chewing gum and dog poo. Turned his powerful pressure washer on the walkways nearby after a job. Everyone loves him. Now he does it every Sunday morning.
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California, Arizona and Nevada agrees to cut at least 3 million acre-feet of water
China has banned US chip maker Micron from selling to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projects
Trump found liable for sexual assault
Feds approved Manhattan congestion pricing plan
Was Qualified Immunity snuck in by an a*e?
Meta has been fined a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European Union regulators for violating EU privacy laws by transferring the personal data of Facebook users to servers in the United States
Supreme Court upholds California ban on 'unethical' pork, Proposition 12
Gorsuch opinion!
Rules against plaintiffs attempting to hold Google + Twitter financially liable for terrorists
Andy Warhol estate infringed a photographers copyright in a photograph of the musician Prince when it licensed an image Warhol derived from that photograph to serve as a magazine cover
Extreme dissent by Kagan
Rebuttal to dissent from Sotomayor
The rich and fabulous will still be able to get licenses when they need them, but the poor and obscure won’t,
White House AI meeting - Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, + Kamala Harris
Altman testifies before Congress, recommends regulation
Senator Blumenthal (D-CT): "I think you have said, in fact, and I'm gonna quote, 'Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.' You may have had in mind the effect on jobs”
Sam Altman has privately suggested OpenAI may try to raise as much as $100 billion in the coming years to achieve its aim of developing artificial general intelligence that is advanced enough to improve its own capabilities
OpenAI published an official public statement on regulation.
Anthropic's chat context window expanded to 100k tokens
Who pissed off the Orcas?
Happy News!
Semaglutide ends addictive behavior for some users? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting
Pill form passed phase 3 trial
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Tradwife feminism
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Roxie wants to be a cowboy!
News discussed:
Eneasz was wrong: Supermassive black hole was not 3x the size of our galaxy
David was right: New York banned gas stoves in new construction
Wes and David were wrong: Alec Baldwin charges dropped because gun could have fired without trigger pull
Disney finally sued DeSantis
Drone “attacks” the Kremlin
Much-hyped Russian hypersonic missile was successfully intercepted by a Patriot
Hollywood writers are striking again
Median writer pay has decreased by 23% in the past 5 years (inflation adjusted)
No more PornHub in Utah
Free Speech Coalition filed lawsuit to challenge the law.
New housing policy has people with good credit subsidize people with bad credit
China sanctions Lockheed, Raytheon
Also raiding, arresting, or investigating many large foreign companies
Chinese Police Station shut down in NYC’s Chinatown
AI News:
MIT researchers use AI to design novel proteins with specific structural features
GPT-4 as data scientist. With Code Interpreter model, just upload the data and provide instructions in simple english
Geoffrey Hinton (AI pioneer/”godfather”) quit Google to doom-say
MSM is actually taking this stuff seriously now. Massive change from even a couple months ago.
Yann LeCun, head of Meta’s AI division, says we’ll just program the AI to not kill us, obviously
Europe and China and USA on AI regulation. Not Like This vibes, but if it slows things down… maybe?
Closed LLMs (Google, OpenAI) “Cannot Compete Against Open Source”
Can you convince YudBot to sell you a GPU cluster?
AI Tutorials 1 2
Happy News!
Washington State is going full YIMBY
New shape-shifting antibiotics fight medically-resistant bacterial infections
Cars are getting back physical buttons
Hero kid grabs wheel of school bus and applies brakes after driver passes out.
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News discussed:
Hypnosis, LSD, and the Unabomber
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
SCOTUS granted stay in mifepristone case
Alito and Thomas dissented
Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friend also bought his property at an above-market price and let Thomas’ mother live there for free
Fox settled the Dominion lawsuit for $787 million
And Tucker Carlson is out!
Florida enacts six-week abortion ban
Florida allows death penalty by 8-4 jury vote
German Green party decides that giving the lignite coal industry a massive boost by shutting down their nuclear power plants
Congress failed to extend a key tax provision last year allowing companies to fully expense research & development costs in the year incurred. See SSBalliance.org
North Dakota banned approval voting
Update: veto override failed!!
Russia widely published intentions to move nukes to Belarus, but doesn’t seem to have actually done it.
Lot of discussion of Mackaroon being soft on China, but Tyler Cowen-endorsed Twitter thread says this is a misinterpretation.
Counterpoint
Some protests in Sundan turned violent. President Bashir declared state of emergency in Feb 2019, dissolved the govt
They did not hand over power.
“lil mohammad” Hemedti
Buhan and Hemedit both think the old govt sucks, they should rule the new govt, and they’re gonna fight about it
Countries are pulling out all their diplomats/peeps
NIH blows $1B trying to make Long COVID a thing
Happy News!
Ghana has approved a malaria vaccine for deployment
Reforms signed three years ago in Michigan took effect last week, with nearly 850,000 residents seeing at least one conviction automatically set aside
Scientists have discovered that intersecting gravity waves shortly after the big bang generated the universe’s first photons
Hubble saw a supermassive black hole three times the diameter of our whole galaxy, speeding through the universe.
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News discussed:
DEA ruins telemedicine
Trump is already selling mug shots
The liberals won the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat
Senate voted to repeal 2002 AUMF
McCarthy says House will probably pass it, but it has to go through committee
Nationwide injunction on abortion pills, but also the opposite of that
Biggest intelligence leak since Snowden
First appeared on a tiny meme-Discord 5 weeks ago
Reboot/NoFap appears to make followers worse
Doocy asks about AI Doom at White House press briefing
LLMs can greatly compress prompts for future self-decoding (but lossy)
Chatbot convinces Belgian to commit suicide
AI village of 25 NPCs created. Amazing results
Happy News!
New Nuclear plant plugged into the grid
Drs Feng Zhang and Joe Kreitz created a molecular delivery system that can deliver proteins only to specific types of cells
Professor Gilad Yossifon created microrobots that can navigate between cells, and identify and capture individual cells
Now CRISPR RNA is delivered to the mouse lung by inhalation using improved lipid nanoparticles
Paves the way for therapeutic CRISPR applications in the lung, including possibly cystic fibrosis!
Some Coastal Salt Marshes Are Keeping Up With Sea Level Rise
FDA stops preventing people from buying a life-saving drug!
Blast your heart with your own stem cells to reduce inflammation, risk of heart attack and stroke!
Utah and California Snowpacks Break All Previous Record. “cautiously optimistic” “Drought is expected to improve further or go away completely across much of California.”.
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News discussed:
Credit Suisse collapsed and bought by UBS
RESTRICT Act seems like a big Executive power grab
Utah is building a registry of all residents that use social media. RIP David
Also requires parental consent for anyone under 18 to be on, and gives parents full access to children’s accounts
Biden vetoed anti woke capital resolution
New executive order on guns
NRA says it’s announcing “a general principle that federal agencies should use whatever authorities they have to make life more difficult for gun owners or the businesses that serve them”
Trump threatened “potential death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged
ARC tested GPT4 capabilities, including prompting it to try to break out and replicate.
ChatGPT Plugins let it browse the web, do stuff for you
Text-only GPT-4 learned what things look like and can draw them
Meta made a model 95% as good as ChatGPT, that is small enough to run on your phone
Eternal Children
Llamas with Hats!
Happy News!
GPT4 saved a dog’s life by accurately diagnosing it after being given symptoms
FTC voted 3-1 to introduce "click to cancel," to easy subscription cancellations.
stretchable bandage that accelerates healing by delivering electrotherapy directly to the wound speeds healing by 30%. the components that interface with the wound are entirely resorbable
Lies about Chris Avelone dismissed with prejudice in libel suit, awarded over $1M, and the perps have made public renunciations of their lies.
retinitis pigmentosa affects 1 in 4000, causes blindness, cured by CRISPR
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News discussed:
S**t is going down in Israel
Big protests over Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms
New proposals would give political appointees a majority
Elite fighter squadron is boycotting training
Silicon Valley Bank is insolvent
Jacob Falkovich blames the government
Bank run stopped by new Fed policy
the Bank Term Funding Program
Anthropic Shadow?
“this is what it would look like if you wanted to stifle innovative sectors”
In Nebraska a mom & daughter will stand trial for abortion
The American Association of Pediatric released new guidelines for childhood obesity
Eating disorder experts are not happy
FTC is going after Musk
FTC is unhappy about “twitter files” exposing this, demands list of journalists from twitter, issues fines
FTC commissioner resigns, cites FTC Chairman’s “disregard for the rule of law and due process,” and “abuses of government power,”
Partisan rift forming around FTC? Republicans investigating the investigation!
AlphaFold2 continues to do lots of stuff
GPT-4 coming in the next week or so
You can’t stop AI progress
Happy News!
Toddler vaccinations are up!
The asteroid diversion was a success!
Growing Nuclear Acceptance!
Start-up Sakuu uses 3D printers to print solid-state batteries
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News discussed:
Youtube video on East Palestine
DeSantis repealed the revocation of Disney’s special tax district
Bing chatbot went psychotic, then was lobotomized
China is thinking about sending weapons to Russia
South Africa loses power
SCOTU…
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News discussed:
A pretty good open-source LLM with a webapp interface has been released
Iran Followup - young couple give (combined) 10year jail sentence for dancing in public (and filming it)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard increasingly deployed in protest crack-downs.
East Palestine, Ohio local police department declares unrestricted chemical warfare on Ohio
Summary
On-the-ground footage
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Reporters trying to find out what the heck happened getting arrested
Turkey hit with 7.8 & 7.5 mag earthquakes. 35K dead. Reports that building codes were waived for years partly responsible.
Jobs for everyone!
H5N1 can/has spread to mammals
OpenAI released an AI safety policy proposal. It sucks unbelievable quantities of ass.
Getty Images suing Stable Diffusing for 1.8 Trillion
The eighth seal of the apocalypse has broken, and the deepfake boner pill scams have poured forth to cover the Earth
A judge in Colombia used ChatGPT to make a court ruling
Democrats made South Carolina the first primary instead of Iowa
New Hampshire is not playing ball
Covid is over… on May 11th
Happy News!
California nuked its zoning code
Developers are sharing creative ideas
India discovers 5.9m tonnes of Lithium!
Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease in 2022
SpaceX successfully static-fire tests Starship
A new way to significantly increase the potency of almost any vaccine has been developed by International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) at Northwestern University. The paper is here.
Brain Cancer Vaccine being developed
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News discussed:
Bounded distrust
The SCOTUS leak investigation fizzled out
Classified documents also found at Mike Pence’s house!
Eight in 10 people in China caught Covid since early December, say officials
Israel strikes Iranian drone plant with their own drone strike
NATO countries sending Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, US sending Abrams 1
Russia pushing into Donetsk, striking before tanks arrive
Huge increase in homicides is persisting
Tyr Nicoles beat to death by police earlier this month
Gas stoves became the main character of the internet for some reason
F**k that noise (Zvi)
Trump indictment decisions are “imminent” in Georgia election interference case
Conversely, New York chickenshit prosecutors failed to charge in Stormy Daniels case
“class action” copyright lawsuit filed against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney related to Stable Diffusion.
Apparently it’s b**t
Real estate agents using ChatGPT commercially
After CA votes to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in operation, NRC says “nah”
Some auto insurers are refusing to cover certain Hyundai and Kia models
Happy News!
(fake happy news) China considers banning export of solar panel components
Climeworks pulled CO2 from the air stored it underground
Research on pain-insensitivity gene continues.
Endangered Species Act has saved hundreds from extinction
Artificial Pancreas looks to be twice as good as normal insulin injection
Troop Deployment Links
Jon Stokes’ and Construction Physics substacks are quite good.
David recommends this piece on the Stability lawsuit And this piece on why automatic bricklayers don’t exist.
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News discussed:
The Electoral Count Reform Act was passed
Finally got enough on the 15th ballot
Mexico captures El Chapo’s son (again) and has a literal military battle with cartels.
Brazil’s Jan 6th happened on Jan 8th.
By one estimate, the US has sent close to 1/5th of our artillery shell stockpile to Ukraine, which will take 2yrs to replenish at current rates
Language Models can make completely de novo proteins that are viable in the wetlab. William Eden has the best take.
LLMs can discern cause & effect
When Google tuned a AI chatbot to answer common medical questions, doctors judged 92.6% of its answers right
It also passed the Official medical exam
Braced pistols now regulated under same rules as SBRs
Sexy News Update - more than 75% of casual sex isn’t ONS, it’s an extended sexual relationship with a friend/acquaintance.
Ecuadorian man changes gender to route around sexist laws
Happy News!
South Carolina court found right to abortion in Constitution up to 20 weeks
FDA lifted rule banning mifepristone (abortion pill) from being sold in pharmacies
Tom Lehrer put all of his music in the public domain
The End Poem of Minecraft is too!
FTC is (probably) banning non-compete clauses!!
Counterpoint from Tyler Cowen
Japan is NukeMaxxing!
DUKE NUCLEAR!
In big New Atheist win, Congressman Was Sworn Into Office With Rare Superman Comic
Eneasz crossed a bridge
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News discussed:
California court declared that anything good violates CEQA
George Santos (R-NY) is a big fat phony
Spencer Greenberg podcast featuring Elizabeth Edwards-Appell
NY “Right to Repair” law passed but made useless
a bunch of standard cell lines are THE WRONG CELLS (h/t Sarah Constantin)
Happy News!
Colorado decriminalization DMT, psilocybin, mescaline, and ibogane
Researchers deactivated the BRD8 protein that’s key to this cancer using a pioneering gene editing technique. stopped the tumor growth in its tracks
27-year-old Jay Withey saved the lives of two dozen people during the deadly storm by rescuing strangers from cars trapped in the snow and bringing them into a school for shelter.
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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective
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News discussed:
Kirsten Synema left the Democratic Party. MAVERICK!
Jan. 6th committee referred Trump for charges
Trump Org found guilty of tax fraud
Prospera sues Honduras for approximately 30% of its GDP
SBF arrested and indicted
bad news for school emancipation
the Islamic Republic of Iran was just expelled from the U.N. Women's Rights Commission.
China reverses covid policy
Happy News!
Net-gain in fusion power breakthrough, kinda-sorta
Edit T-cell genomes (not gnomes) for great cancer-busting justice!
Organ-on-chips allow for direct drug testing on human tissue
Eneasz on his first rationalist solstice
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News discussed:
A top Iranian official has said that the nation’s mandatory hijab law is being reviewed
Special counsel appointed to investigate Trump
Another round of China protests over Covid lockdowns
Sparked by fire in a locked-down apt, possibly extra harsh due to being Uyghur neighborhood/building
Definitely unrelated to anything else going on, Jiang Zemin died
NATO allies capping Russian Oil at $60/barrel? “In essence, such a decree would ban the export of oil and petroleum products to countries and companies that apply it.” (Doesn’t apply to pipelines, yet) covers more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports coming into the EU. India, China and Turkey not affected.
US Strategic Petroleum Reserve at record lows, down 1/3rd from a year ago
Cicero in top 10% of Diplomacy players. (more)
ChatGPT can do anything, including modeling itself in an imaginary internet, or describe how to take over the world. Does slightly worse than average human on SAT, and it’s retarded.
Advent of Code competition is being won by GPT
CarperAI released OpenELM, an open-source large language model
AI superpowers - can tell race via chest Xray. Can tell sex via retina scan (87%)
Twitter Files confirm what we knew - Hunter Biden laptop is real, DNC has direct access to Twitter’s censors, asked for it to be censored, request granted. Seems if this is a big deal or not depends on how you feel about govt suppression of this story.
Core inflation down to 2.7%
Wikipedia influences the law
Former anti-abortion leader claims Justice Alito leaked Hobby Lobby decision
A 32 year old woman is trying to sue the doctors that did the surgery she requested
Happy News!
A woman who has a concealed carry license took on four armed men who tried to carjack her
We developed a new multivalent mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes.
After each game, Japanese WorldCup fans pick up litter.
900 megawatt “water battery” with a storage capacity of 20 million kilowatt hours debuts in Switzerland next week
CAR T-Cell Therapy Sends Lupus into Remission
New farm robot can specifically target individual weeds and crops
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News discussed:
European LNG prices went temporarily negative!
Iran protesters shooting at police
Ligma/Johnson team rehired!
Thehill.com reporters covered the story
Dobbs helped the Democrats keep the Senate
FTX News:
$8b in “poorly labeled fiat account” was probably the money forgotten at Alameda
SBF had a back door in their bookkeeping software that let him alter records at will
Hundreds of millions funneled out in a “hack”, was actually govt asset seizure.
US bankruptcy courts unhappy.
tons of laundering happened via NFTs
Turns out it was b**t tho
EA Future Fund team all resigned
SBF DM conversation with Kelsey Piper
NYT gives him a b*b
…probably because he is the driving tech force behind the crypto regulation bill DCCPA
Matt Yglesias says that a few years ago, NYT reporters were all told to cover tech negatively
Kelsey Piper confirms
the DHS has been pressuring social media companies to censor naughty opinions.
The Disinfo Board never closed, it just went dark
YouTube censors factual information
Dummies were spreading a conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi
Ukrainian defense missile hits Poland, making for a dicey few hours
Scientists have recreated the 1918 flu virus and infected macaques.
Reporter jailed in Texas for reporting what the police told her.
In 2017, cops jailed Priscilla Villarreal in Laredo, Texas.
Hot women get better grades
Happy News!
Ross Chastain used a video game hack in real NASCAR
Colorado decriminalized psilocybin mushroom possession for adults
Sickle-Cell Anemia may very well be curable right now, FDA might approve stuff by the end of the decade!
By splitting a single laser beam into different wavelengths of light, frequencies can carry data by modulating their amplitude, phase, and polarization.
carbon capture and storage grew 44 percent over the past 12 months.
US needs to remove 2 billion tons annually to be neutral, world needs 10B annually
New Battery allows for 10-minute fast charging on just about any EV battery
Respect for Marriage Act moves forward
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Sexy Tech News:
No sex in the Metaverse
“Anti-Cancer Drug Gives Boars Super-Sperm”
Design for sex-ready moon colony!
Female Orgasms Come in Three Distinct Types—But Women Tend To Get Just One
Sexy Social News:
The Kids Today aren’t having as much sex as previous generations
Twenty-somethings in China prefer pets and online gaming to sex, study finds
Canadian Court found that “stealthing” can be sexual assault
Everyone Has Autogynephilia (except transmen)
The Bayesian Conspiracy on Autogynephilia
Wild card:
Monkeys use stones as sex toys
Pope issued warning to nuns and priest to quit watching so much porn
Hans Niemann accused of using wifi anal beads to cheat at chess
Happy News!
End of Singapore's gay sex-ban
Tokyo begins issuing same-sex couples partnership certificates
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News discussed:
The Iranian woman killed was a Kurd, this happened in the Kurdish section of Iran, and this is significant.
Biden killed the Chinese semiconductor industry
Satellite data implies China's GDP is about $7 trillion smaller than what the CCP says
China’s official economic data due this week delayed, no reason given
It’s been released
Xi cements power
Chinese stock market crashes
More lethal strain of COVID created in Boston University lab
Also Monkeypox!
CDC's advisory committee unanimous recommends adding COVID vaccine to the “recommended” immunization schedule for children
It’s now been added. Youngkin says VA won’t add it
Rishi Sunak will be next British PM
He’s kind of a techbro
Ukraine air space is increasingly the first Drone War
Drone Joust!
Europe has too much LNG?
Prices falling, but still 3x average
one big lesson from COVID is that some people really want to make visible, token sacrifices for the common good.
Happy News!
After careful consideration, the German government decided not to let German people freeze to death. Or, at least, not this winter anyway.
Also, Sweden taking the nukepill
Cost of shipping a container from China to US down to under $2,300!
This 2,000 year-old gold bracelet from the ruins of Pompeii reads “From a master to his slave girl.”
Firefighter catches suicidal man mid-air
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News discussed:
Ohio court blocks six-week abortion ban indefinitely
Paypal will seize your assets to punish speech they don’t like. Anything that in their opinion promotes intolerance or is discriminatory.
US Treasury Dept. bans math
Crimean Bridge blowed up
Kyiv bombed with long-range missiles in apparent retaliation
And Belarus’ MoD talking about joining in the invasion
Taiwanese MoD clarifies that they consider airspace incursions to be violations on Taiwanese sovereignty, to which they will respond with force
Hurricanes are actually decreasing in number and intensity.
EIA figures out some of what’s going wrong with ERCOT. It’s renewables.
US getting into a slap fight with OPEC, Saudi Arabia in particular.
The Onion filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court. Quotes
Happy News!
A federal court issued an injunction against most of NY’s post-Bruen gun laws
A couple were mistakenly sent several crates of select-fire M16’s.
Biden pardoning everyone for weed possession
Ontario extends the life of the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant
House Republicans introd uce a bill to delay payment of startups’ NRC bills until after the conclusion of the NRC’s review process
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Eneasz wants to know if being a stay-at-home dad is a bonerkiller
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective
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Railroad strike averted? Or delayed?
Fifth Circuit decided that 1A doesn’t protect website’s right to moderate
Nord Stream blowed up
Italians vote in right wing populists, Good speeching?
German Economy Minister to German people: “just stop producing for 6 months and then the energy crisis will have passed”
Iran is finally getting fucked
FL state government threatens to ban credit card companies from doing business with the FL state government
Free Speech Union account reinstated!
NASA crashes DART spacecraft into asteroid in world's 1st planetary defense test
Words you can mute on Twitter
The Case Against The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Happy News!
New malaria vaccine is world-changing
No more parking minimums in California near public transit
Cuba votes to legalise same-sex marriage
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News discussed:
Probable cause claimed for evidence of obstruction in Trump affidavit
Sarah Palin lost her bid for Alaska’s house seat
Palin only got 50% of second-choice votes from the other Republican running!
California passed a fast food workers bill
Washington State teachers “illegally” striking
US Rail strike is days away
Kiwi Farms is dropped by CloudFlare, effectively removing them from the internet.
Some republicans quietly backing away from further abortion restrictions
A NV politician has been arrested in connection to the stabbing death of an investigative journalist
Texas has bused more than 7,600 migrants to D.C. and more than 1,900 to New York City
The sanctuary cities leadership is unhappy.
Government Negligence Endangers 80,000
Happy News!
Utah banned minimum building dimension and most design requirements
Great Barrier Reef is once again as coral-covered as it was 36 years ago when measurements began!
Diablo Canyon saved!
Plasma dilution has age-reversing effects???
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy updated U.S. policy guidance to make the results of taxpayer-supported research available to the American public at no cost, no later than December 31, 2025.
CA preparing pilot project to cover irrigation canals with solar panals
A nurse saved a 3-month-old baby who had stopped breathing during a flight
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News discussed:
IRA’s corporate minimum tax is written to apply to 150 companies. If a corporation pays the AMT, a credit against future corporate regular tax is carried forward.
Jakeup asserts “rich Americans subsidizing drug development for the rest of the world was maybe the most effective unintended altruism the US was doing”
Salman Rushdie recovering from stabbing on stage by 24-year-old fanatic
Liz Cheney loses R Primary in Wyoming. "will be launching an organization to educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic, and to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president." - PAC is “The Great Task”
Fourth Circuit held that gender dysphoria is a disability under ADA
Biden about to transfer student loan debt to tax payers? (Update - Yup.)
FL’s Stop WOKE law suspended by appeals court.
The judge says it’s a clear violation of 1A, and also says that it’s modeled on the Civil Rights Act
Europe's largest nuclear power station came under shelling at the front lines in Ukraine
Car bombing in Moscow oblast, likely targeting Alexander Dugin, kills his daughter instead.
Russian feds claim to have arrested the responsible party, a Ukrainian and a member of the Azov Battalion but the official story is… very sus.
US to send $3 billion in aid to Ukraine
Western states face deadline to cut water use from Colorado River
CA agriculture, despite using 80 percent of the state’s water, produces only about 2 percent of the state’s GDP.
Senior rights (first settlers) take priority. Called the "Prior Appropriation System.”
This drought goes back to at least 2014, is the worst in over 1200 years, and has probably reached the point of being self-sustaining
EDF cuts output at nuclear power plants as French rivers get too warm
Low Rhine water level to hit output at two German coal plants
China sees temps over 110 degrees
Lots of wildfires
Water levels are so low that power has been cut to factories for 6 days so far
Ex-Twitter exec Mudge Zatko leaks report revealing that Twitter has critical organizational vulnerabilities which mean a fairly simple attack which took all their data centers offline at once could unrecoverably destroy the entire platform. New EA cause area?
$300 million dollars for a stockpile of 30 HV transformers is far too expensive to prevent 90% of the public dying and the rest reduced to cannibalism
Happy News!
AZ now has universal education vouchers!
It’s no longer illegal to buy hearing aids!
EA gets favorable cover story in Time magazine.
Mice treated with altered stem cells were able to form new neurons, treating alzheimers and dementia.
£30 million grant from the British Heart Foundation to develop a treatment to reprogram the genetics which cause muscular heart disease
Bioengineered Cornea Can Restore Sight
6 High School Football Players Combine Their BRUTE STRENGTH to Rescue Injured Woman Trapped in a Wrecked Car
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News discussed:
Democrats agreed on environmental/inflation bill
Airfield in Crimea spontaneously combusts
Also, a conscript barracks in Moscow caught fire. No casualties reported.
Also, a Belarusian air force base also spontaneously combusted
Secret Service deleted all their texts from around 1/6
Outgoing Pentagon officials also had phones wiped
Mar-A-Lago raided
Equifax glitch misreported credit scores for millions by up to 130 points. Class action lawsuit now.
Pelosi went to Taiwan
PredictIt being shut down by Feds
Trump endorsed “Eric” in Missouri Republican primary
United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company
Nebraska teen and mother facing charges for DIY abortion at 28 weeks, cops using Facebook messages as evidence
America’s most reliable newscaster ordered to pay $49.3 ($45.2 punative, $4.1 compensatory) million in damages to Sandy Hook families
Texas statute probably limits punitive damages to $750K
Happy News!
Kansas abortion amendment got crushed
- The ads
ZOMBIE PIG INVASION!
The thrice-damned NRC approved NuScale Power’s small, modular reactor designs
The NRC also approved the Vogtle power plant in Georgia to begin loading fuel and testing whether it can run commercially. This is the first new US power plant to receive such approval since the NRC was formed in 1974
7yr old saves 3yr old from drowning
TBC Episode on Labor Unions
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News discussed:
Bill passed Senate to subsidize chip manufacturing
Manchin made a deal on a deficit reduction/climate change bill
Bill protecting same-sex (and interracial) marriage passed House w/47 votes from R’s
House passes stupid dumb assault weapons ban. Probably (hopefully?) doomed in the Senate.
PACT Act failed to pass
Kevin Drum thinks the Republicans have a point
A 2016 law requires the Office of Management and Budget to establish a board to provide information on the effects of regulations related to federal research requirements and make recommendations on aligning and streamlining requirements
My IRB Nightmare - Slate Star Codex
16 years of Alzheimer’s research was based on fraud
Zvi: “If this is fraud, we need to update a bunch on the probability that a bunch of other stuff is also fraud.”
Evergrande defaulted on their debt
Four rural banks in China's central Henan province froze millions of dollars worth of deposits
Led to a banking scandal investigation
War
with
China?
NHS in Britain to close Tavistock child gender identity clinic over safety fears
had no standards of care
Whistleblowers report harassment and threats when they brought up these issues
FDA added “brain swelling” and vision loss to warning label of puberty blockers
Your Book Review: The Castrato
Zelenskyy calls for mass evacuations as fighting rages in Ukraine's east
Apparently the Russian economy is in the toilet
Record heat wave in Europe
Fires everywhere
It’s time to riot
Happy News!
Hero saves family from burning house
Troop Deployments
Eneasz - Well Actually Accuracy Is Important
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News discussed:
Idaho GOP overwhelmingly rejects adding abortion exception to save the life of the mother to their platform
Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them 10-year-old girl who had been raped was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to get an abortion
An Abortion Is Not An Abortion If A 10-Year-Old Gets One, Says Anti-Abortion LeaderGermany: reject modernity, RETVRN TO COAL
Sri Lanka suffers critical existence failure
Compare: protests in The Netherlands.
US and Russia getting into dick-measuring contest over Lithuania.
Surprise Jan. 6th hearing!
Biden bought back “guilty until proven innocent” campus sexual assault rules
Omicron booster!
Paxlovid at the pharmacy!
SCOTUS granted cert in a worrisome election law case
Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas all wrote in favor of this theory before
FDA killing smokers for lulz
California passed a gun bill authorizing civil enforcement by individuals
Armed Bystander (carrying legally) stopped a mass shooting in a mall in Indiana
MonkeyPox News:
Doesn’t require sexual contact. It is an overall rash that is easily mistaken for chicken pox.
It is primarily an affliction of MSM though. Seems to mostly be spread thru sexual networks
Cases in US up to 1800 as of a few days ago
Receiving a vaccine up to four days after exposure can prevent disease onset altogether, but even getting it up to two weeks after exposure can reduce symptoms
US has over 1M vaccines, but FDA bureaucracy has strangled distribution to ~1/10th of that
2.5 M more Monkeypox vaccines ordered
Happy News!
First batch of pictures released from the James Webb space telescope.
the deep field image which shows clear lensing
a picture of Andromeda where individual stars are clearly visible
a patient in New Zealand has undergone gene-editing to lower their cholesterol
Samsung has started initial production of its 3-nanometer semiconductor chips
Tata Chemicals opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, captures 40,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year
In England, a dog escaped only to return later that day with a ribbon won at a local dog show
David’s LinkedIn
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News discussed:
Followup: Turkey is supporting Sweden and Finland’s NATO applications
SCOTUS News
Roe is dead
Egbert v. Boule - border patrol agents can’t be sued for excessive force
Ahmed v. Weyker- 8th Circuit - (deputized) federal officer invented a fake drug trafficking ring and fabricated a bunch of evidence
Byrd v. Lamb - 5th Circuit - DHS agent tried to kill a guy for personal reasons
NYSRPA v. Bruen - “may issue” gun permits are unconstitutional
Related - gun control bill passed Senate
Vega v. Tekoh - victim can’t sue for lack of Miranda warnings
West Virginia v. EPA - EPA can’t regulate carbon emissions
Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta - State criminal laws apply to non-Indians on Indian land
Biden v. Texas - Biden can end the “remain in Mexico” asylum policy
Denezpi v. US - double jeopardy clause is dead?
Carson v. Macon - essentially reiterates Espinoza saying school choice programs can’t exclude religious
Related - Shurtleff v. Boston - if State allows citizens to fly flags at city hall, they can’t prohibit “Christian flag”
KENNEDY v. BREMERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT - Coach leading prayer on field after game is OK
Clarence Thomas is at the peak of his power
Thomas: "substantive due process" is an oxymoron that "lack[s] any basis in the Constitution."
Happy News!
FIRE goes global
PG&E Commissions Its Moss Landing Elkhorn Battery
158 Tesla Mega-Batteries Will Boost Hawaii Green Energy By 10%, And Shut Down Coal-Fired Power Plant
Qilin Battery can achieve 1,000 km vehicle range
Implant that relieves pain on demand and without the use of drugs
A stray dog in the country of Georgia has appointed himself as the local crossing guard for young children crossing a busy intersection. He’s a very serious boy.
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Google seems to say that carbon footprint of solar breaks even pretty early and is at least better than gas and coal.
Here's the master study that articles tend to cite
Here is nasa giving irradiance data for new york
Family care centers in at least two states discarded thousands of cans of unopened, unexpired baby formula
Moderna has an omicron-specific booster that works really well!
Vaccine approved for humans under 5yrs old
Germany will use more coal!
France’s nuclear energy output drops due to lack of maintenance of their nuclear fleet due to a pivot towards renewables
Chandler v California Department of Corrections targets California S.B. 132
Collin Wright kicked off Paypal and Etsy soon after
WNYC and NYT both openly saying some kids may be being pushed into sex change too aggressively.
FINA says to compete in swimming, transition must be before age 12
“Progressive prosecutor” Chesa Boudin crushed in San Francisco
The Asian Thing
A crazy dude almost tried to kill Brett Kavenaugh
Inflation is high! But core CPI is falling
Employment is way up!
US to seize all imports from Xinjiang unless proven not made by slaves
Supreme Court allows states to use gerrymandered congressional maps in the 2022 midterm elections
SpaceX will be required to take more than 75 actions to mitigate environmental impacts before the company can receive a launch license for the site from the FAA
Turing test passed with flying colors
G7 discussing a price cap on Russian energy exports
Happy News!
Joe Biden proposes plan to save the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Driverless rideshare service approved in San Francisco!
Santa Claus is running for Alaska’s open house seat!
Vasectomy Switch!
Popular/Beloved old lady had her house gifted to her by neighbors :)
Diversity is supposed to be good because it promotes ... exposure to a wide range of ideas
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News discussed:
The receipt for the tactical vest worn by the Aurora shooter
Kiel school had to open a Title IX investigation?
The school closed the investigation
Abbott restarts production of specialty formulas at Michigan plant
CDC concluded its investigation with no findings of a link between Abbott formulas and infant illnesses.
Kyiv was hit by Russian missiles targeting a train yard used for food distribution.
SCOTUS blocked Texas social media law from going into effect
Also SCOTUS: ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel can’t justify an evidentiary hearing in federal court
Iran seized a Greek oil tanker in the Persian gulf.
Biden allowing solar panel imports from Asia for 2 years, and invoking the Defense Production Act to help expand American solar panel manufacturing
Doctor Oz won the PA Republican primary
Boris Johnson Faces No-Confidence Vote Over Lockdown Parties
Podcast on nuclear regulation
Church Committee report
Happy News!
A mom dodged cops and stormed the Uvala school to get her kid out. F*g Chad As Hell.
THEY’RE BUILDING A HOTEL IN SPACE BEGINNING IN 2025
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News discussed:
The Ministry to Truth is dead?
The director wanted to be able to edit tweets to add context
After 2 months of fighting, port city of Mariupol has fallen to Russia
NYT editorial urges Ukraine to consider surrender
Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership
Turkey objects, claims they house Kurdish Separatists
Russia retaliated by cutting off gas to Finland
FDA shut down baby formula plant after voluntary recall in February.
Baby formula shortage results.
European formula is banned just because.
FactCheck.org says it’s “misinformation” to claim that the FDA isn’t awesome, and says the shortage isn’t anyone’s fault.
To solve this problem, congress passes a bill to give the FDA another $28M and allows food stamps (WIC) to cover more brands of formula.
Also the military airlifted in 70,000 tons of formula from Germany. That’s enough for 9,000 babies and 18,000 toddlers for one week, and is not for retail, it’s going only to hospitals and clinics.
Elizabeth Warren Introduces Price-Gouging Bill
Quick analysis here
Twitter thread saying surge pricing ("gouging") should be mandatory
Insane racist kills 10 in supermarket shooting in Buffalo
Cites Great Replacement
That being said, leftists have been open about how replacing deplorables is a good thing.
Biden whoopsie on defending Taiwan vs China
Elon Musk accused of exposing himself to employee by “a friend” of employee, who pinky-swears that this totally happened.
Elon says he’ll vote Republican because Dems “have become the party of division & hate”
Tech stocks plummet, Musk tries to get better deal on Twitter purchase
Opening Argument on why It’s probably a pretext
Texas social media law allowed to go into effect
Text of the law
PopeHat thinks it’s bad
Afghan women will be forced to wear Burqas
Three schoolboys (age 13) are being taken to court in the US state of Wisconsin for sexual harrasement after one of them allegedly declined to use the they/them pronouns for a fellow student
StableCoins are dead, at least for now
Mercedes Lackey Cancelled
Happy News!
80,000 Hours releases climate change review endorsing “this is not an existential risk to the species”
New York Rolling Out Noise Law
“Something Weird” happening re Universe Expanding.
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News discussed:
Russian blockade stops export of Ukranian wheat - 4.5M tons.
Trains trying to take up slack, 600k tons/month.
Louisiana introduced a bill to classify any abortion after conception as homicide
Biden created a “Disinformation Governance Board” that’s totally not a Ministry of Truth
Nina Jankowicz has a book all about how hard it is to be a woman
PayPal canceled accounts of two prominent independent news outlets
The news sites are critical of the war in Ukraine and call it American Imperialism
Criticism of the NYT Elon Musk hit piece
NYT drops in stealth-edits
NYT requested an interview from a friend of Musk. His reply was f*g epic.
Dave Chappelle tackled on stage by some dipshit
ACLU Wrote Amber Heard's Op-Ed for $3.5M.
Smithsonian will be returning stolen artifacts
Happy News!
People aren’t as crazy as you think!
And they hate you less than you think!
Prometheus Fuels converts renewable electricity from solar and wind power into zero net carbon gasoline
It’s likely that over half of Russia’s nukes are duds
Troop Deployments
David - Servant of the People is very good
Heumer on Abortion
Eneasz - Secure abortion rights in your state
Wes - How to do a self-managed abortion
Don’t get misoprostal from veterinary sources!
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News discussed:
Maybe we already have missile defense tech?
Youtube video claiming we can handle intermediate range missiles, but not ICBMs with reliability
US intercepted an ICBM in 2020
Zvi post on game theory
Crisis Watch China-focused OSINT Substack
World food prices are up 13%
Major fires in Russian chemical plant, industrial center, and defense research buildings
Sweden and Finland will apply to join NATO
What is Germany doing?
Greg Abbott caused a huge traffic backup on the Mexico border for no reason
Florida stripped Disney’s independent status because of opposition to “Don’t Say Gay” bill
It’s definitely unconstitutional
Cases in China still increasing despite lockdowns
A nuclear-armed state accidentally launched a missile at another nuclear-armed state
CNN+ collapsed in less than a month
Macron won in a landslide
Federal courts keeps telling Biden to stop being racist
Agricultural bailout targeted only non-white applicants
Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken
Trump held in contempt for failing to provide documents
Happy News!
UK building 8 more nuclear plants
Bailout for nuclear plants!
Mask mandate declared unconstitutional
Now you can wear good masks if you want to
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News discussed:
Farmers planted extra wheat last fall due to expectation of conflict
Michigan Governor Kidnap Plot - 2 not guilty, 2 mistrial, due to FBI entrapment
Europe not paying for gas in rubles
Russia has withdrawn from Kyiv, focusing on Eastern Ukraine
Mass murder of civilians in Bucha and several other cities
Biden called Putin a war criminal
EU banning all bank transactions and coal imports
Russian state media is calling for full genocide
Poland is going full gigachad and has accepted 2.3 million refugees
Russian parliament introduced bill declaring any Russian speaker a citizen
Trump still asking Putin for dirt on Biden
7 hours of Trump’s call logs missing on 1/6.
Unrest is beginning in China, possible riots?
Pets of COVID-positive citizens are killed
Zvi’s latest update
Far-Right French President Candidate has a good shot at winning
Ginni Thomas is a crazy conspiracy theorist
Amazon challenging union vote due to organizers handing out weed
MIT is bringing back the SAT
DALL-E 2 makes amazing art on demand
Googles Pathways Language Model explains jokes, and it can distinguish cause and effect and understand counterfactuals
AlphaCode can solve natural-language coding problems at the level of a new programmer.
Socratic Modeling system
Musk not joining the Twitter board
State Court Finds California’s Diversity Mandate for Corporate Boards Is Unconstitutional
BLM is a huge scam
US passports now include Gender X
Happy News!
Old skins cells reprogrammed to be young again!
“The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy estimates it would cost just over $24 billion to have prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease.”
SCOTUS held that you can sue for malicious prosecution if your criminal charges are dropped
The Bayesian Conspiracy on whether you should punch Nazis
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News discussed:
CDC alcohol guidelines
Will Smith Assaults or Batters Chris Rock?
Ukraine News:
Russia seems to be switching focus to Donbas
Russia said on Friday that the first phase of its military operation was mostly complete
Putin complained that he was getting canceled like JK Rowling
Biden wants to remove Russia from the G20
Did Hunter Biden personally finance Ukraine weapons labs?!?!?!?
Putin demanded natural gas be paid in Rubles
Taxes are canceled for the duration of martial law and at least a year after its end
“If you can, pay, if you can’t, there are no questions,” Zelensky said
A developer has been caught adding malicious code to a popular open-source package that wiped files on computers located in Russia and Belarus.
Biden Says to Expect ‘Real’ Food Shortages Due to Ukraine War
Counterpoint
Zelensky is open to Ukrainian neutrality
No deal yet on Crimea and Donbas
Other News:
Manchin says he’ll vote to confirm Judge Jackson
Hunter Biden laptop (sort of) confirmed to be real
NYT seems to have reported about it accurately in Oct. 2020
Kevin Drum says media did nothing wrong
New study data showed little difference in excess deaths in European countries during covid
study of microlending shows many of the “small-businesses” opened are actually MLM scams
FTC demanded that Weight Watchers destroy the algorithms or AI models it built using illegally harvested data. Permanent daylight savings?
USPS is only buying 20% electric vehicles
Antarctica more than 70 degrees warmer than average, Arctic more than 50 degrees
Biden statement honoring the victims of Atlanta Shootings
Happy News!
Maryland Governor Announces Elimination of Four-Year Degree Requirement For Thousands of State Jobs
Scientists at University of Texas at Austin have redesigned a key component of a widely used CRISPR-based gene-editing tool, called Cas9, to be thousands of times less likely to target the wrong stretch of DNA
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News discussed:
Texas appeals court sided with the parents of a transgender teenager, rejecting Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to allow a child abuse investigation to proceed
Appeals Court held that it did not have jurisdiction
Preliminary injunction issued on Friday
Jussie Smollett sentenced, and assures us that he’s not suicidal
Eneasz was wrong, it’s pronounced Kee-v
EA group’s rough attempt to profile charities which support Ukrainian war relief
Fukuyama is predicting that Russia will lose
Random Russains getting canceled for no good reason
Tchaikovsky. Cats. Mustard. wtf
Facebook is allowing calls for violence against Russia
EU sanctioning Russia Today and Sputnik
Zvi on the Ukraine situation
Russia warned the United States that convoys with weapons sent to Ukraine would be “legitimate targets” for the Russian military.
Orthodox theologians declare the "Ruskyy mir - Russian world" a false teaching. They have openly called "Russian world" doctrine a heresy
Biden gave a speech. No further comment.
Federal COVID response money is almost gone, they asked for $30B more
The White House hasn’t publicly detailed exactly how it’s spent the more than $4 trillion Congress authorized for Covid-19 relief
SCOTUS held that government doesn’t have to turn over information on secret torture sites
New law bans forced arbitration of sexual harassment suits
A Republican proposed an actual policy agenda, with predictable results
Mitch McConnell slapped him down immediately
Andrew Torrez thinks Trump is going to jail
Idaho house passed a law that would make it a felony to give trans kids surgery
Idaho house also passed a law removing an exemption that protects libraries, schools, museums, colleges and universities for “disseminating material that is harmful to minors.”
Mary Elizabeth Coleman of the Missouri House of Representatives has introduced a provision that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident obtain an abortion out of state.
Happy News!
Happy Victory over Covid-19 day
“Test to treat” plan for covid - Test positive at a pharmacy, they give you free Paxlovid
Not paid for - Republicans (who else?!) holding up funding
CDC predictably foot-dragging on public transit rules, giving us all a chance to practice ignoring the CDC
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News discussed:
SNL Covid Sketch
Putin’s “unhinged” speech
the looting of Russia in the 90s
With English subtitles
Putin’s spy chief visibly scared of Putin during grilling
Sanctions happening
SWIFT ban imminent, Germany has mostly dropped opposition
Leaving exemptions for energy & agriculture
Russia’s biggest bond is down 50%
Russia considering seizing citizens’ assets
Frum thinks sanctions are the real deal, worries that they’ll be too effective
Snake Island bad-ass chads are still alive
EU in talks to give jet fighters to Ukraine
Slovak government has launched a website with info for Ukrainians coming to Slovakia
First Day of Negotiations are over, talks are expected to continue
Voters in Belarus have approved constitutional reforms that will allow the country to host nuclear weapons
Convoy disbanded
Trudeau froze protesters’ bank accounts
Without the right to transact, you effectively have no constitutional rights.
Zvi - “The only way that is in the government’s interest is if it wants this fight in order to further suspend freedom and democracy and destroy the rule of law that much faster.”
Biden Nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS
Endorsed by Fraternal Order of Police
Afghanistan is fucked.
US froze $7B in assets, giving half to 9/11 survivors.
Multiple Sclerosis Is Likely Caused by a Virus
Sarah Palin trying to overturn NYT v. Sullivan “actual malice” standard
Sandy Hook families reach $73 million settlement with gun manufacturer Remington
3 San Francisco school board members were recalled
FL Dont Say Gay bill
the ban would be on "classroom instruction" for those from kindergarten through the third grade
TX gov Says Some Sex Change Procedures Are Child Abuse Under Texas Law.
Many R lawmakers admitted it was subject matter they weren't familiar with.
Happy News!
NIH issues a seismic mandate: share data publicly
B/Yamagata influenza lineage may have become extinct
CDC getting ready for covid independence day
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News discussed:
GoFundMe canceled $10 million fundraiser for Freedom Convoy
Zvi can’t figure out if the protests are calling for racist violence or not
They’re not
Actual violent occupations were not impacted.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said he had reached a tentative agreement with a key protest organizer to remove trucks from residential areas, and to limit vehicles to a perimeter near Parliament downtown in exchange for a meeting.
Supporters jam the “fuel ban”
France and Brussels get their own Convoys
The bridge shut down is over now, but the Ottowa protest continues
The job market is back
Spotify took down 111 past Joe Rogan episodes where he used racial slurs
His apology
SSC splinter subreddit TheMotte “now considering misuse of the block feature to be a bannable offense.”
Insurance Companies Withdraw Coverage From Airlines Flying Through Ukraine Airspace
Ukrainian oligarchs, business people leave country en masse
Right wingers upset about new head of the energy dept??
Congress is passing a wave of bipartisan bills as Biden’s big plans stall
Happy News!
Fewer people are using Facebook!
Blue States are ending covid restrictions
Also Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Mostly Italy, Spain. Loosening in France, Germany, Czech, UK
Implant allows man with fully severed spinal cord to walk
European scientists in ‘landmark’ nuclear fusion breakthrough
France announces a wave of new-generation atomic reactors
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News discussed:
FAIR filed a federal lawsuit to stop New York City from enforcing its unconstitutional order prioritizing Covid-19 treatments based on racial categorization and ethnicity.
Vacancy on SCOTUS!
Russia might be invading Ukraine
Biden has consistently said he does not plan to send troops into Ukraine
Hanania: “Russia will eventually get its way because it cares more about Ukraine than the US does”
They shoulda kept those nukes
Voting rights bill is dead
Boris Johnson is in trouble for partying
‘Fight Club’ Gets a Very Different Ending in China
Children randomly assigned to attend pre-K had lower state achievement test scores in 3rd-6th grades than control children.
“you rarely get stronger study designs than random assignment + multi-year longitudinal follow-up”
Judge Grants Hospital's Request To Stop Workers From Taking Better Jobs (rescinded 3 days later)
Freedom Convoy scares Trudeau
Kidney Vax
Assisted suicide thing
Maus was banned in Tennessee by being removed from the curriculum of a school district.
Happy News!
The YIMBY’s are winning!
cost-effective artificial leaf that can capture carbon dioxide at rates 100 times better than current systems. New Illinois Law Allows Women to Get Birth Control Pills from a Pharmacist Without a Doctor Involved
Mitt Romney’s Family Security Act
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News discussed:
Schumer failed to vote on filibuster
The racist Paxlovid policy (of course) came from the FDA
SCOTUS overturned vax mandate
Mandate on government-funded medical facilities could stand
Throat swabs are much more effective than nose swabs for rapid test diagnosticity.
Determined not to let Americans have fun, the CDC continues restricting travel due to COVID risk.
Shkreli sentenced
Oathkeeper leader and 10 others charged with seditious conspiracy
Golden Globes canceled because someone finally asked “who cares what these idiots think?”
Happy News!
Moderna developing combination covid, flu, and RSV vaccine
Matt Yglesias on the case for more energy
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Australian camps aren’t literal concentration camps
covid-negative people are being forced into camps, locked in, and arrested if they break out
“Close contacts” forced to go without any choice, despite not having covid
Northern Territories government directive
ACX Grants are posted
Putin told Biden that sanctions "could lead to a complete breakdown in ties between our countries,"
Meanwhile, Germany shut down 3 nuke power plants (of 6)
Russian opens up a gas pipe line under the Baltic Sea
China warns Walmart will suffer consequences
Optical analysis of a graph showing number of mutations in COVID variants suggests non-natural origin for Omicron variant
Explainer thread
NY Dept of Health says Paxlovid is for non-whites only
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CDC loosened some guidelines about quarantine and masking
CO Gov Polis (D) re COVID is a Blue Trailblazer
Fauci - kids are checking into hospitals WITH Covid, not FROM Covid
CNN - This is more like the flu
Omicron is everywhere, but lockdowns are not!
Super vaccine in development
Biden Administration announces that prisoners who received CARES Act compassionate release will not be required to return to confinement.
Eneasz won 3rd in the EA Forums contest!
Covid skepticism isn’t about science
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native Australians are being put in camps. Thisisfinedog.png
Merry Christmas! Omicron is here!
Andrew Lilley estimates it has ⅓ the virulence of Delta
Per Mason, Molnupiravir caused such significant harm to fetuses in animal models that Merck has suggested ensuring contraceptive use during and after treatment.
Fauci’ emails
Fauci repeatedly insisted during a May Senate hearing that the NIH “has not ever, and does not now fund, gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Facui & Collins “colluded” on “takedown” of Great Barrington Declaration
Taiwan confirms researcher infected with COVID in lab
Build Back Better is Dead?
Biden says they are going to focus on voting rights
The bill is actually good!
A VULNERABILITY IN log4J
New vulnerabilities popping up, but not quite as bad
Belgium’s defense ministry said it shut down parts of its computer network due to log4j attack
RNC Pride was formally rolled out at a Log Cabin Republicans gala at Mar-a-Lago, gets pushback from religious asshats, some backtracking from RNC, but they’re sticking with it
California is planning a Texas-style gun law
The WTA is not buying China’s line on Peng Shuai
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Growing new pancreas cells from unprogrammed stem cells has possibly cured a man of type 1 diabetes.
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OMICRON IS HERE TO SAVE US ALL!
Zvi gives it a 35% chance
Is Trever Noah of The Daily Show anti-vaxx?
Louisiana Court temp blocks vaccine mandates in LA and 10 other states
The Waukesha Massacre was intentional
Ahmad Arbery killers found guilty of murder
Parent’s of MI school shooter arrested
The trial of that French actor started. You know the one I’m talking about, Jucie Smoolye.
Possible Russian invasion of Ukraine with 175,000 troops
Britain's army chief warns risk of accidental war with Russia is greater than during Cold War
NASA testing asteroid deflection craft
Jack Dorsey left Twitter. Censorship coming?
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Chris Hemsworth in 6-part series about longevity called Limitless
Tiny living machines called xenobots can create copies of themselves.
HPLHS christmas carols!
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UN released “plan” to fight hunger for $6 billion
Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all charges
Jones Act Shenanigans (temporarily allowed to continue)
Bannon indicted
Alex Jones held liable for calling Sandy Hook shooting a hoax
Rep. Gosar is censured for retweeting Attack on Titan clip with AOC & Biden as Titans (video here)
Chinese data law adds to global shipping disruption
Belarus is trolling the EU
Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK
Plaintiffs are seeking a huge amount of vaccine-related material from FDA
Poe’s Corner: Jewface!
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You can apply for an ACX grant! As long as it’s really for a thing.
Nanofibers injected into mice paralyzed by spinal cord injuries resulted in recovering in 4 weeks!!!
(more techy article here)
Bill Gates chooses town for his Nuclear Reactor
Rune Soup on the World Without Sin
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The United States, as a civilization, did a thing!
Steve Sweeney lost to a dude named Ed Durr
The infrastructure bill passed
“Texas has open ports”Also the video is full of lies.
And Texas ports are also short on drivers
Missouri Gov. legally threatens cybersecurity professor that discovered the state had published over 100,000 school employee’s SSNs to anyone with an internet connection.
Elon Musk is going to sell 10% of his Tesla stock so he can pay taxes on it
Bribed doctors in Greece give “fake” COVID vaccine that has real vaccine in it
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Pfizer and Merck both developed covid pills
Tech-heavy senolytics article
Layman-friendly senolytics article
Hertz placed an order for 100,000 Tesla cars for its fleet.
WaPo on mRNA flu vaccines
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NZ police using contact tracing data for investigative purposes.
See also: the ratchet model of Leviathan
Manchin is against anti-coal measures and Medicare benefits for dental, vision, and hearing
Sinema is against taxing the rich and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices
BBB Childcare Discussion
Steve Bannon held in contempt of Congress for ignoring Congressional subpoena
Biden plans to reinstate “Remain in Mexico” policy
Fun Immigration Charts
Actual policy of New Zealand?
More here
NZ introduces bill to nationalize saliva testing lab
LA port is backed up like crazy
Alec Baldwin kills a person on set
FDA approved boosters, including mix & match, for everyone who checks the right box
US launches new program to allow private Americans to sponsor, resettle Afghan refugees
Troop Deployments:
Graviton, David’s Mass Effect fanfic
Since pandemic started, 94 officers total died from gunshots. 476 died from Covid-19
Covid is the leading cause of deaths in the line of duty.
Police unions all across the country are digging their heels
vaccination rates among police officers are lagging far below average.
The leader of BLM New York is calling vaccine mandates racist and disrespectful,
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Strong Towns on the infrastructure bill
New South Wales’ government has started using Coof restrictions as an excuse to monitor and limit peoples’ alcohol intake
the Aussie cops are using check in app data for investigative purposes
the Aussie government is deliberately creating a shortage of at-home tests as an explicitly putative measure to try to increase vaccine uptake.
Huawei CFO release was interesting and complicated. See link.
District Judge granted injunction to Justice Dept.
Injunction struck down 2 days later, abortions are out again.
Facebook “whistleblower” revealed… a bunch of stuff we already knew
Instagram was net positive on everything except body image for women
on an actually, seriously unrelated note, Facebook and Facebook-owned apps suffer worldwide outage
The “Pandora Papers” leaked
Lots of trusts in South Dakota
Lots of lawyers helping out! Including Baker McKenzie, the US’s largest law firm
Group of Congressmen proposing ENABLERS Act to require more reporting by financial middlemen
Missouri state murders a man, which is bad. But the Perfidious Roman asked them to show leniency
A large Colorado hospital system says people on its organ waitlist won't be offered a transplant if they refuse to get the COVID vaccine
this is the same news outlet that warned covid vaccines maybe don't work for organ transplant patients
They were mostly wrong
Virgin Media is secretly operating its own block on access to VPN sites & VPN review sites
OECD agreed to A global deal to ensure big companies pay a minimum tax rate of 15%
OECD originated to help administer the Marshall Plan
Nobel Prize goes to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens
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WHO approved malaria vaccine
Merck seeks FDA emergency use authorization for antiviral Covid-19 treatmentEviction moratorium ends, eviction filings fail to spike, confusing experts.
Indigenous Canadians plan huge development project outside of Vancouver
11 towers, 6,000 units in the least affordable housing market in North America
UK government released plan to develop, deploy and expert nuclear fusion power
Japan restarted nuclear plants that were closed after Fukishima in 2011
David Shor and his advice for the Democratic Party.
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Update on Texas abortion law - the Justice Department sued the entire state
UK government mulled bringing in the army to help ease supply disruption triggered by a shortage of truck drivers
China negotiated with terrorists, releases Huawei exec in exchange for release of two Canadians.
Reason on California math curriculum
FDA declares war on America
Google & Apple both removed Navalny app from app stores, Irony meters everywhere have exploded
Telegram also shut down a bot that could text out Navalny’s picks
Judge said NY vaccine mandate for healthcare workers must have religious exemption
Online pastor immediately began selling religious exemptions
Relevant: wine during prohibition
US, UK, and Australia formed military alliance
Govt is shutting down again?
Border patrol horsemen!
No more single-family zoning in California!
Terner Center estimates that only 5.4% of single family lots (700,000) will be financially feasible to expand
Very little effect on San Francisco area since lots there are too small
GOP-backed “cyber ninjas” audit Arizona election, find more votes for Biden than original count.
Review on trigger warnings finds that they are counterproductive
Central Park Karen speaks!
Happy News!
Basel Soukaneh, a man who suffered abuse by a CT police officer, overcomes qualified immunity.
Denmark has lifted all covid restrictions!
Rally to protest the treatment of suspects of participation in the Jan. 6 is apparently 90% undercover feds
L.A. County D.A. to dismiss 60,000 past marijuana convictions
Petition for Jessica Watkins to be held in home detention pretrial, including descriptions of her abuse at the hands of the corrections officers
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“It’s like KFC saying, ‘We’re going to ban chicken.’ What does that even mean?”
OF was having trouble getting investors
OF Seeking a value of $1 billion
OF Launched a SFW app (“OFTV”) right before announcing the ban
Patronizing tweet from OF about sex workers
Aella:
“ I'm not too worried. There's other competitors ready to fill the gap.”
Aella’s collaboration site
Twitter survey suggesting sex trafficking is vanishingly rare
Manhattan prosecutor stopped prosecuting prostitution and unlicensed massage charges
Proposed California bill creating civil liability for online distributors
Aella’s Blog
Aella’s Twitter
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Biden orders OSHA to de-facto mandate vaccines
Lewis County General Hospital temporarily pausing maternity services later this month after dozens of staff quit rather than get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Biden also activated the defense production act to increase testing capacity instead of just telling the FDA to unban rapid tests
SCOTUS refused to block Texas abortion law
Andrew Torrez says this means they’ve overturned Roe v. Wade
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t you California Governor?
Biden Continues Trump Seizures of Private Land for Border Wall
China may be on the brink of its Sept 2008 momentOscars establishing oppression quotas to win Best Picture
Democratic governor of NC vetoes bill which would repeal racist Jim Crow law supported by the KKK
Crazy ex kills a bunch of cryo patients that were preserved at KrioRus over a bad breakup
Happy News!
Good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with gun in New York
The bad guy was added to a memorial for victims of gun violence
Dave Chipman nomination withdrawn
Peter Singer wins $1 million Berggruen Prize for lifetime achievement in philosophy and culture, donates entire winnings to effective charity
No more roomba poop rooms!
Afghanistan War was a success?
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Australia’s military is not enforcing lockdowns
But they are shooting dogs
The Cuomo allegations are seriously dubious
News discussed:
New Taliban is bizarre.
chad memes??
The median age in Afghanistan is 18
Biden allegedly ignored warnings of Afghanistan’s collapse
Though actually, things are going pretty well
NASA declines to buy Bezos’ on-sale lunar landers and so he sued them
SF budgets $1 BILLION for an environmental review for a proposed new train line. What the s**t?
OnlyFans bans porn!?!?
MasterCard (and soon Visa) are basically not going to do business with porn sites
Pressure from the anti-woman and anti-sex lobbies
“fighting trafficking” as defined by these groups has also led to policies to defund AIDS programs that worked with sex workers
Fake news story claims that Boba Fett’s ship name is the next victim of Disney’s Cancel Culture Crusade
Happy News!
Pfizer fully approved!
Most of Poly CryptoHack money returned, hacker offered security job by Poly
“Sex Trafficking” is good, actually
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News discussed:
Farmers don't want to reuse GMO seeds
Cannibal! The Musical
Audacity has a new privacy policy
Blue Trump resigned
Anti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey accused of sexual harassment by two colleagues
Bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the Senate!
Zvi estimates 2-3 weeks until it peaks
American Academy of Pediatrics tells FDA to hurry the F up
WHO is still telling people covid is spread primarily by droplets and contact
New York tries vaccine passports, proves David right
France also tries vaccine passports, sparks massive protests
Around 8,600 people in Germany could have received the saline solution instead of the vaccine cuz of antivax nurse.
Australia’s FDA is even worse than ours
Also, their lockdown seems inspired by their neighbors to the North
Biden extended eviction moratorium by 60 days
A safe deposit box company in LA was the victim of a $85 million heist… perpetrated by the FBI
Democracy dead in Tunisia?
Noah Smith: “China just grabbed a random Canadian dude and threw him in prison as retaliation for Canada arresting a Chinese tech executive.”
Michael Spavor was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 11 years
UK supply chain faces collapse
Apple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, “for the children”
Teen suicide rates drop by 15-20% in summer months
Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry's history.
Happy News!
Comic book creators moving to substack, worrying the big publishing houses (which is a good thing)!
New book by Emily Oster! About early school aged kids!
The percent of these households that had at least one homeschooled child was 5.4% in spring 2020, 11.1% during fall 2020, and 19.5% by May of 2021.
Unvaccinated to pay the full cost of their COVID hospitalizations?
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CDC (boooo) encourages indoor mask mandates in high-risk areas
Iraq is the new Afghanistan
China is building a whole lot of nukes
Maine constitutional referendum on a “right to food”
The fleeing Democratic congresspersons we discussed a few weeks ago had a small superspreader event
Facebook is censoring all mentions of Far-Right candidate in Hungary
Do you know what’s infrastructure? Regulating cryptocurrency into oblivion! Sideline reporter tells the weeping gold medalist that he can connect with his family over microsoft teams
Shipping a 40 foot container cost jumped to 10kusd
Walmart to pay 100% of employee’s college costs
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Bezos’ penis-based space expedition was successful, then offered NASA $2 billion to go to the moon with Blue Origin’s help
Researchers Find Way to Convert Type A Blood to Type O
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News discussed:
Protests against the government in Cuba!
Cuban-Americans protesting in solidarity
Ron DeSantis had to backpedal after he passed an anti-BLM “anti-riot” law earlier this year which criminalizes much of the behavior the American protestors are engaging in.
Cuban protests are embarrassing to the Left, and therefore an unconscionable COVID risk
Michael Avenatti sentenced to two years in jail for fraud
DACA was declared unconstitutional
Hunter Biden keeps embarrassing his dad
Delta variant is causing covid deaths to trend upward
French anti-vax protests destroy/damage 2 vaccine clinics
Tennessee halted all vaccine outreach to kids, for all vaccines
The Guardian published “Kremlin” papers about how Trump was compromised
Joint Chiefs of Staff feared Trump would attempt a coup after election
Haiti’s president was assassinated
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Virgin Galactic successfully reaches the bit of the galaxy which, by some definitions, could possibly be considered space
We’ve started the leaving Afghanistan process! And W is having a sad about it
Plastic Waste could replace up to 10% of the sand in cement!
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Inside the Battle Over the Soul of the Libertarian Party
News discussed:
DC stopped Batman from performing oral sex on Catwoman
Redneck’s need practice at doing Burning Man stuff
Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine
Massive Kaseya Ransomware Attack
Arizona bill SB 1840 to make teaching racism illegal?
Audacity will now share personal data with law enforcement and government agencies
U.S. Supreme Court gutted most of what remains of the Voting Rights Act
The court struck down California's law requiring nonprofits to file a list of their large donors with the state
Supreme Court Limits Lawsuits By Those Wrongly Flagged As Terrorists
Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a circuit court ruling that required a Virginia school to let a transgender student use the bathroom corresponding with his gender identity.
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Flying Car Completes First-Ever Flight Between Airports (not in the US, of course)
China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO
Steve Horwitz writing recommendations
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News discussed:
FDA approves questionable Alzheimer’s drug
SCOTUS says Philadelphia can’t require religious foster care agencies to give kids to gays
SCOTUS also threw out another bullshit Obamacare challenge on “standing” grounds
SCOTUS says NCAA can’t keep fucking college athletes
SCOTUS tightens leash on agri unions
Supreme Court Rules Teens 1st Amendment rights still exist in school
Satanic Temple gets involved in the “Fuck Cheerleading” case
U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot always enter a home without a warrant when pursuing someone for a minor crime
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to consider a challenge to the men-only military draft.
John McAfee found dead in his cell in Spanish prison pending extradition to the US
He tweeted on Oct. 15 saying “I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.”
Senate passed big corporate welfare bill to “compete with China”
The Left hates it
The Right hates it
leaked documents from the late Trump White House reveal that The Perfidious Roman called down a miracle from the Heavens to steal the election for Joe Biden with the knowledge and assent of the CIA.
Netanyahu ousted as Prime Minister by coalition of 8 different parties
French elections give losses to both Left and Far-Right parties, middle-Right surges
A battle for the soul of the Libertarian Party was fought and the good side lost.
Yassine from r/themotte was interviewed on Blocked & Reported!
Colorado Gay Cake news
Inflation is spiking
Happy News!
Juneteenth is a federal holiday!
After more than 20 years, California unbans cool-looking guns!
Missouri declares itself a sanctuary state with respect to federal Gun laws
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News discussed:
Trump thinks he’s going to be President in August
Or does he?
Belarus forced down a plane to arrest a dissident journalist
Lab leak hypothesis is having a moment
The Fauch lied about masks, admits he lied about masks (old news). The media ignored it for months, then bent over backwards to excuse and forgive the obvious malfeasance.
Texas Democrats blocked vote on voting restrictions by running away
Bonkers Texas sex work law
Happy News!
Texas passes free range children law
People are quitting rather than give up remote work
Boom Supersonic to begin development of a new supersonic commercial aircraft
Third circuit vacated 21 year (!) conviction of a teenager who gave her friend heroin on which she overdosed.
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News Discussed:
DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized
Pipeline shut down because the billing system was compromised
Finland, Israel, and Cyprus robbed in Eurovision Song Contest
Finland’s Eurovision entry
“Influential” Republicans threaten to start their own party
West Virginia Cop Fired After Not Shooting Suicidal Man Sues City
Dystopian hellscape SC to try to restart executions
SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade (probably)
Latest TX abortion bill
Metaculus question about abortion
Happy News!
The CDC says the vaccinated can pretty much go back to normal
GA court decides that it is lawful to resist unlawful arrests
Death to mosquitos!
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News Discussed:
US GDP is up over 6% (but still below pre-covid trend)
U.S. businesses added just 266,000 new jobs in April
Vaccinations completely tanked after J&J “pause”
Reported hesitancy remained stable
Talk of waving vax patents
Italian court hands U.S. tourists life sentences for murdering policeman
Gaetzgate 2
Biden’s “gHoSt gUn” guidance is predictably awful
US population below replacement
Happy News!
CRISPR is being used to treat a certain type of blindness
CRISPR can now also edit the epigenome.
Gecko tape is available for consumers!
Woke recruiting from the Alphabet Agencies
Robby Soave on the new California math curriculum
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News Discussed:
US to Share AZ Vaccine with world
FDA halted use of J&J vaccine out of “abundance of caution”
New student speech case to be heard by SCOTUS
Abobe’s giant cancellation fee
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry deletes his Twitter profile after SEC investigation
Richard Dawkins is no longer AHA 1996’s man of the year.
Police shoot girl to death as she’s about to stab another girl
Police shoot man to death fleeing a drug warrant
Happy News!
Guilty.
We’re actually leaving Afganistan!
New, better malaria vaccine developed
People used their stimulus checks to buy weed. Gods bless America.
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News discussed:
Biden won’t let journalists into most immigrant detention centers
Gaetzgate: or, Shut The Fuck Up, Donny. A legal comedy in one Act
Prince Phillip died at 99
Australian secession
Anti-conspiracy memes
China introduces eYuan
New York tries to sue the Industrial Revolution
Deceiving Your Sex Partner Would Be a Crime Under Bill Backed by New York Democrats
Prof. at Lake Washington Institute of Technology commits act of LITERAL VIOLENCE at white fragility training
Arkansas Governor Vetoes Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Trans Youth (but the legislature then overrode the veto :( )
Nike sues LilNasX/MSCHF for Satan Shoes
Lil Nas X writes a really cool letter to his past self about coming out
EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label Biden too!
New Mexico 3rd State to Abolish Qualified Immunity
Proposed California Law Would Legalize Many Psychedelic Drugs
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News discussed:
“Precrime” system implemented in Florida county
Arabs are now Schroedingers white people!
Sidney Powell basically admits the whole election theft claim was total b.s.
Georgia passes massive voter suppression law
Donald and Melania Trump received Covid vaccine at the White House in January
Everyone is trying to cancel Jesse Singal (and failing)
Everyone is mad at Substack
“Secret paid elite”
Freddie Deboer has the best take
Lindsey Ellis got canceled for thinking a movie is like a TV series
Happy News!
U.S. to share 4 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Mexico, CanadaThe redistribution is working!
Virginia Governor Clears Path For Ex-Convicts To Regain Voting Rights
Politics is too meta
Georgia Secretary of State gets backlash from his own party
The evaporative cooling of group beliefs.
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Not mentioned in the episode, but worth putting here – SSC’s Anti-Libertarian FAQ
Elinor Ostrom’s book – Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
The Bayesian Conspiracy Podcast
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LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:
Priming and Contamination
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News discussed:
Biden Bucks! - relief bill passed
Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests
But see Marginal Revolution
Germany, France, Italy and Spain suspended use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday over questionable reports of blood clots
Happy News!
Covid News is mostly good!
Literal worst person Andrew Cuomo is probably headed for the trash heap of history
Promising mini-UBI study (sorta)
Burning wood is bad for you
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18 dead (so far) in Myanmar protests
Texas: approval for backup generation not approved until Feb 14
City of Houston told everyone in the city not to drip water
Family of 11-year-old boy who died in Texas deep freeze files $100 million suit against power companies
World's first coronavirus Human Challenge study receives ethics approval in the UK
Cuomo is in trouble for covering up nursing home deaths
Hungary is automatically approving any vaccine used by >1million people
FDA announced that it will not require lengthy trials for updated vaccines
You can no longer share The Mind Killer on Facebook Australia!
Motels being sued as sex traffickers. Thanks FOSTA/SESTA!
Happy News!
RNA malaria vaccine shows promising results
Perseverance Rover landed on Mars!
Digital Art goes fancy pants!
Back to normal means ignoring the CDC.
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News Discussed:
Navalny jailed in Russia (also many protests)
Successful Coup in Myanmar
AZ vaccine less effective against South Africa variant
Gina Carano got cancelled for being red tribe
Justice Department investigating SpaceX following complaint of hiring discrimination
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
Happy News!
US is getting vaccines sooner than expected
Covid-19 Vaccine Efforts Get a Boost From Black Communities’ Pastors
Promising weight loss drug
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Class-action lawsuit filed against Robinhood for restricting trading
Adam Pritchard said the lawsuits are very unlikely to gain traction.
Massive buying likely created a cash flow issue that could have put Robinhood out of compliance with very basic regulatory rules
AOC murdered Ted Cruz with words.
Biden issued a bunch of executive orders
Lots of companies have stopped supporting the Republican party since the Jan 6th storming
Trump issued 143 pardons on the way out
Cop ran over street drag-racers.
Quent Cordair - My Kingdom
NFL announced that they would be giving away free Super Bowl tickets to 7,500 vaccinated health care workers
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News Discussed:
Newark NJ, where no cops fired a shot last year, reports Overall crime was also down 6%
Several Republican have claimed to be in fear for their lives if they cross Trump
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
Twitter takes down Sci-Hub account
Parler destroyed in 24 hours
“It has not escaped my attention that the day social media companies decided there actually IS more they could do to police Trump’s destructive behavior was the same day they learned Democrats would chair all the congressional committees that oversee them.”
Jared & Ivanka wouldn’t let secret service use their bathroom
Zvi’s latest Covid News
Happy News!
Lone Capitol Police Officer Lured Rioters Away From Senate Chambers
UK building Geothermal Plant - Two deep, directional wells have successfully been drilled
Schwarzenegger 2024
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News Discussed
12 Republican senators are planning on refusing to vote to certify the election results
Trump called the Georgia Secretary of State to ask him to “find 11,780 votes.”Paul Manafort pardoned, and Trump might be trying to give him his money back?
The Blackwater murderers were pardoned
Rep. Devin Nunes has been awarded the Medal of Freedom
Trump finally signed the covid relief bill, after demanding $2,000 checks
Mitch McConnell blocked a Senate vote
“Secret Congress” passed a climate bill
Congress gave Trump his first veto override… to fund the military
New covid-19 strain is spreading all over the world
Large Numbers Of Health Care And Frontline Workers Are Refusing Covid-19 Vaccine. han 6 years to get Biden promises 1M per day in his first 100 days.
Happy News!
QAnon + PredictIt = Profit!
Newark police: No officer fired a single shot in 2020, thanks to de-escalation program
Dominion is going to sue Sidney Powell for defamation
Buttplug.io has launched V1!
Any Senator can call for a vote at any time
Any Senator can file a “motion to discharge”
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News Discussed:
Bill Barr resigned (and wrote a nauseating resignation letter)
Multiple federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies hacked
ZOMBIE MINK!
Russia and the French military used fake Facebook and Instagram accounts to wage a covert disinformation campaign in the Central African Republic ahead of elections there this month
Related: Facebook is being sued for antitrust
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
Happy News!
Church rebrands as strip club for Corona
Gene-editing cures Sickle Cell Anemia!
Troop Deployments:
Yule
Dan Crenshaw’s insane campaign ad
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This week, we discussed Trump’s continued lack of concession, whether student loan forgiveness is a good idea, and the racial wealth gap. Also, finally, some unambiguous good news!
News discussed:
Trump still hasn’t conceded, but is planning a “grand finale”
Trump pardoned Michael Flynn
Flynn is calling for martial law and re-vote
News rules to fight shell companies
Joe Biden wants congress to forgive $10K+ in student loans to everyone
Iran’s top nuclear scientist assassinated (probably by Israel)
Matt Yglesias on the racial wealth gap
Happy News!
The usual scolds (including Fauci) are hand wringing about UK approval of the Pfizer vaccine
Neurons in mice “rejuvinated” to reverse blindness
Lab grown meat approved for sale in the UK
Deepmind solves protein folding problem
China turned on its “artificial sun” fusion reactor
Slate Star Codex is coming back in January!
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This episode, we talk about Trump’s refusal to concede the election and covid cases shooting upward, but then balance that out with a healthy dose of happy news including vaccine progress, anti-aging research, and Trump finally doing something right!
News Discussed:
Federal Judge finds that DACA was unlawfully suspended
Zvi’s latest covid News
More evidence that Vitamin D deficiency is a huge factor
Danish Agriculture Minister Resigns Amid Criticism For Ordering Mink Cull
Happy News!
Pfizer EUA filed on Friday
20 Million should be vaccinated this year!
Cuomo hates human life, loves viruses!
Possible evidence that aging can be reversed
We are leaving Afghanistan! (sort of)
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News discussed:
Biden plans “flurry of executive orders”
Rudy Guiliani held a press conference at “Four Seasons Total Landscaping”
Potential criminal charges against Trump when he leaves office
AOC is creating an enemies list?
Happy News!
Vaccine getting close, looks to be 90% effective
Drugs win the drug war
Two new species of glider discovered in Australia
Mississippi has new flag (but sadly it’s got Jeebus)
The Patriot Act has expired
Police body cameras might work?
Champ Biden is the first shelter-adopted first dog
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A recording of our live election coverage! It was much more exciting in person, but give it a listen if you'd like! There has been very little editing in order to recreate the experience of being there. Enjoy!
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News discussed:
Europe catches COVID
Another study says government policy didn’t affect transmission rates
The US Government has given up trying to contain the virus
FDA allows AstroZeneca trial to resume
SSC’s story about medical ethicists
Twitter banned any links to unfavorable news article on Hunter Biden
Justice Department Sues Google for antitrust
Happy News!
The DoE has approved a cost-share award for construction of the first NuScale reactor in the USA.
Solar power is now the cheaper than all other energy
Libertarian Mayor of Plymouth, Ohio dismisses all speeding tickets (is this happy news?)(yes)
Blooomington, Indiana Captain Kathryn Janeway monument
THE CHOSEN ONE IS FOUND! WE’RE SAVED!
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News discussed:
California wildfires may be more due to global warming than fire suppression
Global map of fires
But see USA Today’s claim that Canada has experienced wildfires
Trump got treatment that isn’t FDA approved. Is it wrong if I ask for the same?
Also, he was talking about trying to pull a Willy Wonka leaving the hospital!
He’s having a rally tonight
By the time of the debate, Trump was well into second-week symptoms
He showed up late to avoid a pre-debate covid test
CDC (because they’re terrible) said it was safe for Pence to participate in VP debate
Libertarian candidate actually has a chance in Arkansas
Trump and Pelosi are making a deal on Covid relief?
Armed militia was plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
Global poverty is rising for the first time in decades
New study suggests that mask mandates cut new covid cases by 25% in Canada
Coinbase is trying to de-politicise their office
Bundy’s group taking over Oregon wildlife refuge
Happy News:
Fivethirtyeight has Biden at 86% to win the election
And 69% to take the Senate
Honey bee colonies are coming back
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News discussed:
CDC advice not to get tested came from Trump
CDC posted about airborn transmission, then retracted it
Fivethirtyeight says dems 62% chance to take the Senate
NYT got Trump’s tax returns
ICE “doctor” is performing mass hysterectomies
Fighting Between Armenia And Azerbaijan Threatens To Spiral Into Full-Blown War
Happy News:
Princeton is under investigation after admitting to racism
UAE, Oman, and Bahrain sign deal officially recognizing Israel
Florida passes massive occupational licensing reform
Bloomberg will pay off $16 million in ex-felon debts in Florida
Trump wasn’t happy about it!
Seattle is replacing some police calls with mental health responders
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Robin Hanson on the superiority of parliamentary systems
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Bad News:
Disney’s China problem
Mulan pitch meeting
We know hot to prevent wildfires but nobody is listening
Jessica Krug canceled herself
“I Hate Men” book illegal in France
Qualified immunity bill killed by Virginia senate
COVID News:
Vitamin D might prevent or cure COVID
Slatestarcodex: Ketamine Now by Prescription
Sturgis rally responsible for 19% of August COVID cases
University of Arizona is controlling COVID by testing waste water
Happy News:
Trump’s boat parade sank
Amazon Drone Deliveries!
Maine Will Be The First-Ever State To Use Ranked-Choice Voting For A Presidential Election
California is allowing more people to work as independent contractors
Afghan peace talks with Taliban begin
U.S. regulators approved small commercial nuclear reactors
Smiling turtle saved from extinction!
Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone'
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News discussed:
The Post Office is Fine (Youtube)
OTOH, the thing we said was happening (no overtime causing backlogs) is actually happening
Trump actually is (was?) blocking COVID relief funds for USPS
The former vice chairman of the Postal Board of Governors testified that Steve Mnuchin is exercising substantial influence over the Post Office and using it for political purposes
Postal unions say mail is still backing up severely
Rand Paul accosted by protestors leaving the RNC
David Frum on the Republican Platform
Jacob Blake shot by police in Kenosha, WI
CDC says people exposed to COVID don’t need tests.
Apparently due to pressure from the white house
Chinese paper mill getting fake papers published
Slatestarcodex - Against Tulip Subsidies
Entirely of Scots Wikipedia was written by one American who doesn’t speak Scots
Hot Gossip! You can google it yourself
Steve Bannon arrested by the Postal Service on a superyacht
Jerry Falwell, Jr. has been getting cucked by the pool boy
Kellyanne and George Conway quit their jobs after their 15yo daughter dragged them on Twitter
Happy news!
Elon Musk debuts neuralink using some adorable pigs
Troop Deployments:
Pop & Locke Podcast
Nonviolent protests are more effective than violent ones
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In this Patrons-Only bonus episode, Wes and Eneasz are joined by Gray to talk about gun policy! This is a preview of our discussion. For access to the full episode,
Here’s some stuff we talked about:
Wikipedia on gun violence in the US
Sam Harris - the Riddle of the Gun
Eneasz’s blog on gun responsibility
Harvard Injury Control Research Center findings:
Tark and Kleck 2004 study
National Academy of Sciences Report
The Gunfighter (narrated by Nick Offerman)
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News discussed:
Fast Grants funds a new COVID test
Trump’s bullshit executive orders
Eneasz’s thoughts on Kamala Harris
Vox on Harris’ record
Trump is sabotaging the Postal Service seemingly to stop mail in voting
The Satanic Temple declares abortion to be a holy ritual
Zvi’s latest COVID update
Daily Beast podcast about COVID testing and NRA
Greece expelling people in life rafts
Alex Morse smeared for being sexually active
Block and Reported Podcast featuring Dan Savage
Happy news!
Iowa governor restores felon voting rights
The Aral Sea is recovering
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News discussed:
Democrats passed a $3.5T coronavirus relief bill back in May
The Bayesian Conspiracy on GPT-2
US GDP drops 32.9% in second quarter
New study suggests 10% immunity threshold
Blog written by GPT-3
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Vaccines potentially available in January
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BONUS EPISODE
David and Wes are joined by Jace Dickey and his partner Nicole, a Lab Researcher at National Jewish Health, to discuss the current state of COVID-19 research.
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This week, we’re talking about the Supreme Court (again), the Harpers letter, and we actually cover some policy!
Updates from last episode:
Trump no longer planning on deporting international students
UK suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong in wake of new Chinese security law
News Stories discussed:
Supreme Court Updates:
Supreme Court allows Florida to disenfranchise felons who owe fees
States must give funding to religious schools
Bound By Oath on the religious funding case
Trump must disclose tax returns, but not until after the election
All the President’s Lawyers
Roger Stone’s sentence commuted
Joe Biden’s housing plan
SB-707 makes corporations pay arbitration fees
Patrons may have a case against Patreon
Russians are allegedly hacking COVID-19 research data
Twitter hacked!
Happy News!
Excess deaths in the UK are down
Phase III vaccine trials have started
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Today we discuss new Supreme Court decisions on abortion and faithless electors, Reddit bans, and (as is tradition) COVID-19 news
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Stories discussed:
Supreme Court strikes down restrictive abortion law
Supreme Court allows faithless elector laws
Reddit bans r/thedonald, r/chapotraphouse, and more
China has approved a vaccine for its military
Goldman Sachs report says mandatory mask usage would reduce COVID spread 60%, and save 5% of GDP!
China’s new national security law
Happy News!
Britain gives Hong Kongers the right to live and work (paywalled)
Pennsylvania allows former felons to get occupational licenses
Florida reforms its occupation licensing scheme
Troop Deployments
Davis says we’re all doomed
Eneasz has feelings about the same work being used for individual racism and systemic racism
Wes rants about HBO Max refusing to show Muhammed on South Park
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Contrapoints’ video on Canceling
Killer Mike on the Second Amendment
MetaMoR Archive
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Stories discussed:
LGBTQ people protected under Title VII
DACA is saved… for now
Supreme Court punts on qualified immunity
COVID deaths have been falling consistently since mid-April
Number of COVD cases has been flat, and ticked up slightly recently
Differences in COVID rates are very regional
Zvi Moskowit’s latest COVID update
The Governor of Nebraska is withholding funding to counties that require masks in government buildings and courthouses
How CHAZ Became CHOP
dath ilan (“Which I am not capitalizing, because by [dath ilanite] conventions dath ilan is the name of a civilization, and doesn’t get the emphasis-marks that would signify a personal name, which matters because a civilization is not a person.”)
Soho Forum Debate on Constitutional Originalism
Howl (written)
Howl (read by the poet)
The People v. Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's Howl
The Left Changed the Virus Narrative Overnight
The Real Transphobes Are The Ones We Made Along The Way
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David wanted to make sure that everyone knows the WHO story from last episode was misleading. Turns out that while asymptomatictransmission is rare, presymptomatic transmission is not, so please continue social distancing!
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News discussed:
Justin Amash is introducing a bill to end qualified immunity
Samuel Sinyangwe’s Twitter thread proposing police reforms
The NAACP’s demands
The 8 Can’t Wait Campaign
Congress has announced hearings on legislation to end or curtail the program giving excess military equipment to police
Tyler Cowen article on police unions
The Cato Institute explaining police courtesy cards
Slatestarcodex on race and justice
Radley Balko on police violence and race
Zvi Mowshowitz on quarantine restrictions going forward
Trevor Bedford Twitter thread on the effects of protest on quarantine and followup
Asymptomatic spreading is “very rare” says WHO
Phil Magness’ Facebook post regarding Sweden
Happy News!
UK welcomes Hong Kongers fleeing tyranny
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News discussed:
Chaos in Minneapolis
The Cato Institute on Qualified immunity and the Floyd Case
Trump: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”
Venture Beat on Trump’s ongoing feud with Twitter
Mourning in America ad
CAPX proposal to build Hong Kong 2.0 in the UK
My Immortal as Alchemical Allegory
Happy News!
SpaceX launch successful!
Pennsylvania and Minnesota ended child marriage
NJ’s Lighthouse Film Festival is going all drive-in
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Eneasz had a scheduling conflict, so Wes and David are having a discussion about liquid democracy. The regular episode should be out later this week.
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News discussed:
Conversation With Tyler on 10% Less Democracy
Bryan Caplan's paper-length version of the Myth of the Rational Voter Bryan Caplan on whether migration harms native Americans Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!
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News discussed:
Justin Amash is running for President
The Transhumanist Party
Power Problems’ discussion of the USS Roosevelt
The Supreme Court is taking another look at abortion rights
Kevin Drum: We Are About to Commit Collective Suicide?
John Cochrane: Dumb Reopening Might Work
Marginal Revolution: Did We Lock Down Some Parts of the Country Too Early?
Maryland Governor Worried That the Federal Government Will Seize Their Supplies
Short Circuit podcast on qualified immunity
Happy News!
The Supreme Court may be reevaluating qualified immunity
Tests in recovered patients found false positives, not reinfections, experts say
Test introduced to market with 99% accuracy
The HU - Shoog Shoog
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The Bayesian Conspiracy Reddit, featuring Sonarman720’s feedback from last episode
News discussed:
The Navy is now recommending that Capt. Crozier be reinstated
Georgia is opening up some businesses
Florida beaches are limiting the hours they are open
State are forming regional coalitions to coordinate reopening
The FDA is no longer arbitrarily blocking non-cotton swabs being used in coronavirus testing
World Food Program warns of worldwide food shortages
Trump wants to cure Coronavirus by injecting bleach into people
The cholera riots
Michigan (not Wisconsin!) seems to have some arbitrary social distancing rules
Robert Graboyes #PostCOVID twitter thread
Happy news!
Listen to Planet Money!
Las Vegas has a drive in strip club
Emergent Ventures: supporting entrepreneurs with ideas for meaningfully improving society
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Reason article on the allegations against Joe Biden
- And followup about media blackout
Slatestarcodex: Against Overgendering Harrassment
The Bayesian Conspiracy - David on a Negative Income Tax
80,000 Hours: Good News About Covid-19
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
And for next time::
Robert Graboyes #PostCovid predictions
Politics is the mind killer, so come get mind-killed! Your hosts Wesley Fenza, Eneasz Brodski, and David discuss the week's news.
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