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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

News

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

Happy News!

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)

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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

Happy News!

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

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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

https://rationalistmegameetup.com/

Steven has a new podcast!

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