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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Large puberty blocker study unpublished because it shows no benefit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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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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News discussed:
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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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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News discussed:
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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News discussed:
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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News discussed:
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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News discussed:
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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News discussed:
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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