The Mind Killer

Episode 112 - Welcome to Clown World


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Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community

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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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