The Mind Killer

Episode 130 - There's a New Tariff in Town


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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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