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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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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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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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