The Mind Killer

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective

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News discussed:

FAIR filed a federal lawsuit to stop New York City from enforcing its unconstitutional order prioritizing Covid-19 treatments based on racial categorization and ethnicity.

Vacancy on SCOTUS!

Russia might be invading Ukraine

Biden has consistently said he does not plan to send troops into Ukraine

Hanania: “Russia will eventually get its way because it cares more about Ukraine than the US does”

They shoulda kept those nukes 

Voting rights bill is dead

Boris Johnson is in trouble for partying

‘Fight Club’ Gets a Very Different Ending in China

Children randomly assigned to attend pre-K had lower state achievement test scores in 3rd-6th grades than control children. 

“you rarely get stronger study designs than random assignment + multi-year longitudinal follow-up” 

Judge Grants Hospital's Request To Stop Workers From Taking Better Jobs (rescinded 3 days later)

Freedom Convoy scares Trudeau

Kidney Vax

Assisted suicide thing

Maus was banned in Tennessee by being removed from the curriculum of a school district.

Happy News!

The YIMBY’s are winning!

cost-effective artificial leaf that can capture carbon dioxide at rates 100 times better than current systems.  New Illinois Law Allows Women to Get Birth Control Pills from a Pharmacist Without a Doctor Involved

 Mitt Romney’s Family Security Act

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News discussed:

Schumer failed to vote on filibuster

The racist Paxlovid policy (of course) came from the FDA

SCOTUS overturned vax mandate

Mandate on government-funded medical facilities could stand

Throat swabs are much more effective than nose swabs for rapid test diagnosticity.

Determined not to let Americans have fun, the CDC continues restricting travel due to COVID risk.

Shkreli sentenced

Oathkeeper leader and 10 others charged with seditious conspiracy

Golden Globes canceled because someone finally asked “who cares what these idiots think?”

Happy News!

Moderna developing combination covid, flu, and RSV vaccine

Matt Yglesias on the case for more energy

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News discussed:

Australian camps aren’t literal concentration camps

covid-negative people are being forced into camps, locked in, and arrested if they break out

“Close contacts” forced to go without any choice, despite not having covid

Northern Territories government directive 

ACX Grants are posted

Putin told Biden that sanctions "could lead to a complete breakdown in ties between our countries," 

Meanwhile, Germany shut down 3 nuke power plants (of 6)

Russian opens up a gas pipe line under the Baltic Sea 

China warns Walmart will suffer consequences

Optical analysis of a graph showing number of mutations in COVID variants suggests non-natural origin for Omicron variant

Explainer thread

NY Dept of Health says Paxlovid is for non-whites only 

Happy News!

CDC loosened some guidelines about quarantine and masking

CO Gov Polis (D) re COVID is a Blue Trailblazer

Fauci - kids are checking into hospitals WITH Covid, not FROM Covid  

CNN - This is more like the flu

Omicron is everywhere, but lockdowns are not!

Super vaccine in development

Biden Administration announces that prisoners who received CARES Act compassionate release will not be required to return to confinement. 

Eneasz won 3rd in the EA Forums contest! 

Covid skepticism isn’t about science

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native Australians are being put in camps. Thisisfinedog.png

Merry Christmas! Omicron is here!

Andrew Lilley estimates it has ⅓ the virulence of Delta

Per Mason, Molnupiravir caused such significant harm to fetuses in animal models that Merck has suggested ensuring contraceptive use during *and* after treatment.

Fauci’ emails

Fauci repeatedly insisted during a May Senate hearing that the NIH “has not ever, and does not now fund, gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Facui & Collins “colluded” on “takedown” of Great Barrington Declaration

Taiwan confirms researcher infected with COVID in lab 

Build Back Better is Dead?

Biden says they are going to focus on voting rights

The bill is actually good!

A VULNERABILITY IN log4J

New vulnerabilities popping up, but not quite as bad

Belgium’s defense ministry said it shut down parts of its computer network due to log4j attack

RNC Pride was formally rolled out at a Log Cabin Republicans gala at Mar-a-Lago, gets pushback from religious asshats, some backtracking from RNC, but they’re sticking with it

California is planning a Texas-style gun law

The WTA is not buying China’s line on Peng Shuai

Happy News!

Growing new pancreas cells from unprogrammed stem cells has possibly cured a man of type 1 diabetes.

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News discussed:

OMICRON IS HERE TO SAVE US ALL! 

Zvi gives it a 35% chance

Is Trever Noah of The Daily Show anti-vaxx?

Louisiana Court temp blocks vaccine mandates in LA and 10 other states

The Waukesha Massacre was intentional

Ahmad Arbery killers found guilty of murder

Parent’s of MI school shooter arrested

The trial of that French actor started. You know the one I’m talking about, Jucie Smoolye. 

Possible Russian invasion of Ukraine with 175,000 troops

Britain's army chief warns risk of accidental war with Russia is greater than during Cold War

NASA testing asteroid deflection craft

Jack Dorsey left Twitter. Censorship coming?

Happy News!

Chris Hemsworth in 6-part series about longevity called Limitless

Tiny living machines called xenobots can create copies of themselves. 

HPLHS christmas carols! 

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News discussed:

UN released “plan” to fight hunger for $6 billion

Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all charges

Jones Act Shenanigans (temporarily allowed to continue)

Bannon indicted

Alex Jones held liable for calling Sandy Hook shooting a hoax

Rep. Gosar is censured for retweeting Attack on Titan clip with AOC & Biden as Titans (video here)

Chinese data law adds to global shipping disruption

Belarus is trolling the EU

Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK

Plaintiffs are seeking a huge amount of vaccine-related material from FDA 

Poe’s Corner: Jewface!

Happy News!

You can apply for an ACX grant! As long as it’s really for a thing.

Nanofibers injected into mice paralyzed by spinal cord injuries resulted in recovering in 4 weeks!!! 

(more techy article here) 

Bill Gates chooses town for his Nuclear Reactor

Rune Soup on the World Without Sin

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News discussed:

The United States, as a civilization, did a thing!

Steve Sweeney lost to a dude named Ed Durr

The infrastructure bill passed

“Texas has open ports”Also the video is full of lies. 

And Texas ports are also short on drivers

Missouri Gov. legally threatens cybersecurity professor that discovered the state had published over 100,000 school employee’s SSNs to anyone with an internet connection. 

Elon Musk is going to sell 10% of his Tesla stock so he can pay taxes on it

Bribed doctors in Greece give “fake” COVID vaccine that has real vaccine in it 

Happy News!

Pfizer and Merck both developed covid pills

Tech-heavy senolytics article

Layman-friendly senolytics article 

Hertz placed an order for 100,000 Tesla cars for its fleet. 

WaPo on mRNA flu vaccines

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News discussed:

NZ police using contact tracing data for investigative purposes. 

See also: the ratchet model of Leviathan

Manchin is against anti-coal measures and Medicare benefits for dental, vision, and hearing

Sinema is against taxing the rich and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices

BBB Childcare Discussion

Steve Bannon held in contempt of Congress for ignoring Congressional subpoena

Biden plans to reinstate “Remain in Mexico” policy

Fun Immigration Charts

Actual policy of New Zealand?

More here

NZ introduces bill to nationalize saliva testing lab

LA port is backed up like crazy 

Alec Baldwin kills a person on set 

FDA approved boosters, including mix & match, for everyone who checks the right box

US launches new program to allow private Americans to sponsor, resettle Afghan refugees

Troop Deployments:

Graviton, David’s Mass Effect fanfic

Since pandemic started, 94 officers total died from gunshots. 476 died from Covid-19

Covid is the leading cause of deaths in the line of duty. 

Police unions all across the country are digging their heels 

vaccination rates among police officers are lagging far below average. 

The leader of BLM New York is calling vaccine mandates racist and disrespectful, 

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Steven Kent from Beltway Banthas joins us to talk about Star Wars and politics, and in particular how the concept of a balance in the force relates to current events.

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News discussed:

Strong Towns on the infrastructure bill

New South Wales’ government has started using Coof restrictions as an excuse to monitor and limit peoples’ alcohol intake

the Aussie cops are using check in app data for investigative purposes

the Aussie government is deliberately creating a shortage of at-home tests as an explicitly putative measure to try to increase vaccine uptake.

Huawei CFO release was interesting and complicated. See link.

District Judge granted injunction to Justice Dept.

Injunction struck down 2 days later, abortions are out again. 

Facebook “whistleblower” revealed… a bunch of stuff we already knew

Instagram was net positive on everything except body image for women

on an actually, seriously unrelated note, Facebook and Facebook-owned apps suffer worldwide outage

The “Pandora Papers” leaked

Lots of trusts in South Dakota 

Lots of lawyers helping out! Including Baker McKenzie, the US’s largest law firm

Group of Congressmen proposing ENABLERS Act to require more reporting by financial middlemen

Missouri state murders a man, which is bad. But the Perfidious Roman asked them to show leniency

A large Colorado hospital system says people on its organ waitlist won't be offered a transplant if they refuse to get the COVID vaccine

this is the same news outlet that warned covid vaccines maybe don't work for organ transplant patients 

They were mostly wrong

Virgin Media is secretly operating its own block on access to VPN sites & VPN review sites

OECD agreed to A global deal to ensure big companies pay a minimum tax rate of 15%

OECD originated to help administer the Marshall Plan

Nobel Prize goes  to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens

Happy News!

WHO approved malaria vaccine

Merck seeks FDA emergency use authorization for antiviral Covid-19 treatmentEviction moratorium ends, eviction filings fail to spike, confusing experts.

Indigenous Canadians plan huge development project outside of Vancouver

11 towers, 6,000 units in the least affordable housing market in North America

UK government released plan to develop, deploy and expert nuclear fusion power

Japan restarted nuclear plants that were closed after Fukishima in 2011

David Shor and his advice for the Democratic Party.

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