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News discussed:
Polymarket whale-bet explained!
Interesting analysis
Lol, it’s back down now
Indictments against Trump will be dismissed, Jack Smith to resign
Trump says he’ll close the Department of Education
Will ease restrictions on self-driving cars
Trump already making appointments
Pharma & biotech stocks immediately fell
Trump made him eat McDonalds
Two days later the House Ethics Committee was going to release a report about his behavior
It was going to include testimony from a woman who said Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17
Republicans chose John Thune as Majority Leader
DC Circuit found CEQ has no rulemaking authority
There’s currently a case pending before SCOTUS involving the same issue
FBI raided the home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan
Jewish soccer fans attacked in Amsterdam
US said it will not limit arms transfers to Israel a month after warning Israel
Baguette News! Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes
US authorizes unlimited use of long-range munitions against targets in Russian territory
Russia threatens “escalation” again, 5 more times this year and we get a free coffee
Happy News!
Lost Vonnegut Board Game is now available
Notre Dame’s bells tolled for the first time in years last week
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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Large puberty blocker study unpublished because it shows no benefit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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