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News discussed:

 

Trump thinks he’s going to be President in August

Or does he?

Belarus forced down a plane to arrest a dissident journalist

Lab leak hypothesis is having a moment 

The Fauch lied about masks, admits he lied about masks (old news). The media ignored it for months, then bent over backwards to excuse and forgive the obvious malfeasance. 

Texas Democrats blocked vote on voting restrictions by running away

Bonkers Texas sex work law

 

Happy News!

 

Texas passes free range children law

People are quitting rather than give up remote work

Boom Supersonic to begin development of a new supersonic commercial aircraft 

Third circuit vacated 21 year (!) conviction of a teenager who gave her friend heroin on which she overdosed. 

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News Discussed:

 

DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized 

Pipeline shut down because the billing system was compromised

Finland, Israel, and Cyprus robbed in Eurovision Song Contest

Finland’s Eurovision entry

“Influential” Republicans threaten to start their own party

West Virginia Cop Fired After Not Shooting Suicidal Man Sues City

Dystopian hellscape SC to try to restart executions

SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade (probably)

Latest TX abortion bill

Metaculus question about abortion 

 

Happy News!

The CDC says the vaccinated can pretty much go back to normal

GA court decides that it is lawful to resist unlawful arrests

Death to mosquitos!

 

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News Discussed:

 

US GDP is up over 6% (but still below pre-covid trend)

U.S. businesses added just 266,000 new jobs in April 

Vaccinations completely tanked after J&J “pause”

Reported hesitancy remained stable

Talk of waving vax patents 

Italian court hands U.S. tourists life sentences for murdering policeman

Gaetzgate 2

Biden’s “gHoSt gUn” guidance is predictably awful 

US population below replacement 

 

Happy News!

CRISPR is being used to treat a certain type of blindness

CRISPR can now also edit the epigenome. 

Gecko tape is available for consumers! 

 

Woke recruiting from the Alphabet Agencies

Robby Soave on the new California math curriculum

 

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News Discussed:

US to Share AZ Vaccine with world

FDA halted use of J&J vaccine out of “abundance of caution”

New student speech case to be heard by SCOTUS

Abobe’s giant cancellation fee

'Big Short' investor Michael Burry deletes his Twitter profile after SEC investigation

Richard Dawkins is no longer AHA 1996’s man of the year. 

Police shoot girl to death as she’s about to stab another girl 

Police shoot man to death fleeing a drug warrant

 

Happy News!

Guilty.

We’re actually leaving Afganistan!

New, better malaria vaccine developed

People used their stimulus checks to buy weed. Gods bless America. 

 

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News discussed:

Biden won’t let journalists into most immigrant detention centers

Gaetzgate: or, Shut The F**k Up, Donny. A legal comedy in one Act

Prince Phillip died at 99

Australian secession

Anti-conspiracy memes

China introduces eYuan

New York tries to sue the Industrial Revolution

Deceiving Your Sex Partner Would Be a Crime Under Bill Backed by New York Democrats

Prof. at Lake Washington Institute of Technology commits act of LITERAL VIOLENCE at white fragility training

Arkansas Governor Vetoes Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Trans Youth  (but the legislature then overrode the veto :( )

Nike sues LilNasX/MSCHF for Satan Shoes

Lil Nas X writes a really cool letter to his past self about coming out

EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label
Biden too!

New Mexico 3rd State to Abolish Qualified Immunity

Proposed California Law Would Legalize Many Psychedelic Drugs

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News discussed:

 

“Precrime” system implemented in Florida county

Arabs are now Schroedingers white people!

Sidney Powell basically admits the whole election theft claim was total b.s. 

Georgia passes massive voter suppression law

Donald and Melania Trump received Covid vaccine at the White House in January 

Everyone is trying to cancel Jesse Singal (and failing)

Everyone is mad at Substack

“Secret paid elite”

Freddie Deboer has the best take

Lindsey Ellis got canceled for thinking a movie is like a TV series 

 

Happy News!

U.S. to share 4 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Mexico, Canada
The redistribution is working!

Virginia Governor Clears Path For Ex-Convicts To Regain Voting Rights

 

Politics is too meta

Georgia Secretary of State gets backlash from his own party 

The evaporative cooling of group beliefs.

 

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The trio unites with the Bayesian Conspiracy to get mind killed on Libertarianism!

Not mentioned in the episode, but worth putting here – SSC’s Anti-Libertarian FAQ

Elinor Ostrom’s book –  Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

The Bayesian Conspiracy Podcast

Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Also merch!

Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Priming and Contamination

Do We Believe Everything We’re Told?

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News discussed:

 

Biden Bucks! - relief bill passed

Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests 

But see Marginal Revolution 

Germany, France, Italy and Spain suspended use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday over questionable reports of blood clots

 

Happy News!

 

Covid News is mostly good!

Literal worst person Andrew Cuomo is probably headed for the trash heap of history

Promising mini-UBI study (sorta) 

 

Burning wood is bad for you

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18 dead (so far) in Myanmar protests 

 

Texas: approval for backup generation not approved until Feb 14

City of Houston told everyone in the city not to drip water

Family of 11-year-old boy who died in Texas deep freeze files $100 million suit against power companies

World's first coronavirus Human Challenge study receives ethics approval in the UK

Cuomo is in trouble for covering up nursing home deaths

Hungary is automatically approving any vaccine used by >1million people

FDA announced that it will not require lengthy trials for updated vaccines

You can no longer share The Mind Killer on Facebook Australia!

Motels being sued as sex traffickers. Thanks FOSTA/SESTA!

 

Happy News!

RNA malaria vaccine shows promising results

Perseverance Rover landed on Mars!

Digital Art goes fancy pants! 

 

Back to normal means ignoring the CDC.

 

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News Discussed:

Navalny jailed in Russia (also many protests)

Successful Coup in Myanmar

AZ vaccine less effective against South Africa variant

Gina Carano got cancelled for being red tribe 

Justice Department investigating SpaceX following complaint of hiring discrimination 

The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) 

 

Happy News!

US is getting vaccines sooner than expected

Covid-19 Vaccine Efforts Get a Boost From Black Communities’ Pastors

Promising weight loss drug

 

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