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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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News discussed:

Eneasz Was Wrong! #1 Market Cap is MicroSoft

Starship 4 launched!

Has WWIII started? Maybe, tbh.

Gaza pier being dismantled, maybe not being resinstalled?

News

Time Magazine released a cover that just says Panic 

Even NYT editorial board admits Biden must go

Receipts for people who lied

Nate Silver had Trump as 2:1 to win the election BEFORE the shitshow

SCOTUS News

The President is Above The Law

“Obstruction of Official Proceeding” requires interference with evidence?

Chevron is dead

SEC can’t impose penalties without right to jury trial

Wife-beaters can be disarmed

Grants Pass can kick out homeless

Suit about government pressure on social media dismissed due to standing 😢

Allowed emergency abortions in Idaho

SCOTUS wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors. 

Seems like Thomas benefits from this decision

Non-SCOTUS News

Oklahoma's top education official has ordered schools in the state to begin incorporating the Bible into lessons. 

Louisiana law requires classrooms (incl state colleges) to display Ten Commandments

Israeli Supreme Court says Ultra Orthodox men no longer exempt from military service

a Chinese SpaceX ripoff experienced rapid unscheduled upgrade from static test to launch

General Juan José Zúñiga stormed presidential palace of Bolivia with soldiers in an attempted coup

German police come to arrest people at a party for singing along to a song

AI follow-up: a popular similar song is France was created via GenAI

No AI for EU (this month they’ve gone after Apple, Meta, and Microsoft via Antitrust or DMA)

Far right party (National Rally, Le Pen) gets most votes in 1st round of France’s snap elections

1st world nations bringing their own AC units to French Olympics.

Parisian poop protest postponed as politicians parry poo plans

Museum relabels one of its unisex bathrooms to a Women’s bathroom and moves paintings there.

Paramount Global unplugged MTV News

CMT and Comedy Central also scrubbed

Happy News!

Biden pardons veterans convicted under military's ban on gay sex

No food inflation in Argentina this week!

First energy net-positive fusion reactor, Honghuang 70, has “achieved first plasma.”

US has plans to complete one next year

Julian Assange is free!

AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd

Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to anyone who wants to ride in San Francisco

 Two fishermen rescue 38 dogs treading water with no shore in sight

Troop Deployment

Eneasz - 

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News discussed:

Appeals court paused Georgia case to decide if Fani Willis needs to be disqualified

Judge Cannon paused classified documents case

Hunter Biden found guilty of being on drugs

Joe won’t pardon or commute

Republicans blocked bill giving federal right to contraception

Also IVF

China is up to something on the far side of the moon

NY Governor “paused” NYC congestion pricing system before going into effect

U.S. regulators to open antitrust probes into Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

Bump stocks are back!

Mifepristone case tossed on standing grounds

The EU had European Parliament elections on June 9th

Macron dissolved the National Assembly and called for new snap elections in France. 

Says he wants the people to be ruled by who they actually want to be ruled by

Israeli special forces conducted a raid into Gaza which rescued four hostages

The hostages in question were held in the home of a Palestinian journalist

Russia pins ruble to the Chinese yuan

Benny Gantz resigns from Israeli war cabinet 

Netanyahu then disbands the war cabinet.

FDA Announce Federal Multi-Agency Task Force to Curb the Distribution and Sale of Illegal E-Cigarettes

The Guardian ran a laughably inaccurate article about Manifest

Good dating site on Manifund! 

Italian court finds Amanda Knox guilty of slander

Happy News!

Vibecamp was awesome!

Tesla shareholders vote to reinstate Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package

America beat Pakistan at a game we don’t even play

Apple is integrating OpenAI’s LLMs with Siri

US Violent Crime down 15% in Q1 of 2024!

Port of Baltimore reopened!

Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday evening to pass major legislation designed to reverse the American nuclear industry’s decades-long decline and launch a reactor-building spree

Ozempic fixes your kidneys too!

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News discussed:

Gaza pier is already broken 

EV sales have plateaued at around 7% of all auto sales

Biden executive order on immigration

Justice Alito has been flying insurrectionist flags

South Korea used balloons to drop propaganda leaflets over North Korea. North Korea retaliates by dropping animal and human s**t, and other garbage on South Korea

Houthis claim to have Touched The Boat. 

The Ike’s captain says that’s garbage and that he’s getting lunch

Russia has been striking Ukrainian cities with artillery based inside Russia. NATO responds by allowing Ukraine to strike targets in Russia with NATO-provided weapons

This resulted in the loss of 1270 Russian troops in 24 hours according to the British MoD, the deadliest 24 hours of the war so far. 

The PLAN has encircled Taiwan in the name of “military exercises” and also as “punishment” for Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan in her official capacity

The unlawful government of the West Taiwan Breakaway Region has also rolled back erosion mitigation measures implemented under Jiang Zemin to try to reach food self-sufficency

US aid to Gaza is piling up in Egypt, since the pier is gone. Egypt declines to let trucks across the Gaza border.

ICC prosecutor is requesting an arrest warrant for Netanyahu

OpenAI stole ScarJo's voice?

Greenpeace successfully sued to stop golden rice being grown in the Philippines

 SCOTUS: racial gerrymanders are cool now

Happy News!

Cure for deafness?

A woman (Georgia Laurie) saved her twin sister by punching a crocodile

Come to Vibecamp!

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News discussed:

Democrats saved Mike Johnson

Now they’re all indignant that he’s defending Trump

Joe Biden is saving us from the scourge of low prices

He mocked Trump for doing the same thing 

NYT poll: Biden is losing in 5-of-6 swing states

Two debates!

Ukraine has started bombarding airfields in occupied Crimea

Also, Russian oil refineries and fuel storage.

the US has completed construction of their pier on Gaza for bringing in aid.

Awww, the other two dropped out

Government to Ban All US Election Betting

Iranian President died in helicopter crash

OpenAI exodus

Also the most draconian non-disparagement b******t ever seen outside of TikTok

Google Cloud deleted Unisuper’s entire account and all data

Alabama Mercedez-Benz workers voted down union

Happy News!

Jury found expulsion of students for “blackface” was baseless and malicious and has fined the school $1M. :)

Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches

NASA engineers publish a paper with the design for a warp drive

Blue Origin is flying again after 2 years!

Troop Deployments

Get You A Woman That Likes Men

Date Wes! or read his erotica

Maryzoso on Ex-Twitter

Sex Coaching from Maryzoso

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News discussed:

Biden campaign will continue to use TikTok

World Central Kitchen resumed aid in Gaza

Hamas attacks humanitarian pier off Gaza coast during construction

Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel (destroyed by Hamas on Oct 7) was reopened by Israel to allow aid trucks through. Hamas immediately hijacked it

Israel shuts down Al-Jazeera

Jewish Columbia University student filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the school Monday

Yassine says it looks good

at UCLA a Jewish girl was beaten until hospitalized by protestors. Persian Jews then attacked the protest encampment in retaliation

House anti-anti-semitism bill

Russian Defence Minister arrested on corruption charges

Poland announces local name for the F-35 program. 

Trump might get some form of immunity??

Is it legal to ban homeless?

Florida outlaws the manufacture and distribution of lab-grown meat

FCC restores net neutrality rules, and votes 3-2 to reclassify broadband as a public utility. 

Happy News!

Biden descheduling weed!

Voyager 1 fixed! 

SpaceX announces commercial flights starting later this year!

NASA invents an ion engine which can reach escape velocity???

Trump flip-flopped on mail-in voting! He’s for it now!

New FTC rule: noncompetes are banned

Surprising “photomolecular effect” discovered by MIT

group of motorists driving by a car on fire save a man from burning alive inside it

Troop Deployment

Eneasz - Stop trying to put price-ceilings on things! It never works! Instead, GO SEE LOCAL BANDS.

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News discussed:

Assassinated Iranian general at the embassy involved in 'planning and execution' of October 7 massacre

The armorer for the film “Rust” was sentenced to 18 months

News

Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel but didn’t kill anyone 

House passed a bunch of bills

FISA cleared Senate filibuster by one vote, signed into law

Zvi is not happy about it

Special treatment for members of Congress??

Tiktok sale

Biden rolls back Title IX reforms

USAF tests AI-piloted F-16, reports sufficiently skillful flying to shoot down manned fighters.

Cass report on child transgender healthcare in Britain released

FHI shut down at Oxford.

Uri Berliner, senior editor at NPR, says stuff that anyone listening to NPR has known for years

Happy News!

Colorado lets group houses and poly families legally buy housing!

Bone marrow transplants are way easier these days

Boy Finds Rare Gold Roman Bracelet in a Field Where it Was Lying for 2,000 Years

Lots of good boys adopted when one school decides to find a way to make kids want to run 

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News discussed:

IDF hits 3 world central kitchen cars, kills 7

paxlovid doesn't make a difference if you're fully vaxxed :(

Florida abortion ban upheld, but ballot measure also approved

abortion banned in Arizona for any reason other than to save the mother’s life

Trump says Arizona’s abortion ban goes too far

Yassine is no longer white

Did your eyes sustain permanent damage?

Student loan forgiveness is back on the menu, boys!

European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland “had failed to comply with its duties” to combat climate change and meet emissions targets, which violates women's rights?

Meta, Google, and Intel are all unveiling custom new AI chips

udio is legit amazeballs

The Fooming Shoggoths have a couple bangers

Brazilian Supreme Court judge has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk

Harvard removes book bound in human skin

Happy News!

synchron is a neurolink rival

Lumina Probiotic is available for preorder!

first AI tool that can diagnose sepsis

robot dog averts bloodshed

Sesame Street Robot Dog song

Troop Deployment

Eneasz -  Death Is Bad on Lies

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News discussed:

Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination

Israel plans 1km wide (.6mile) buffer zone around entirety of gaza (pic)

Chuck Schumer called for elections in Israel

CAR-T cell therapy for glioblastoma (a brain cancer) a big success in clinical trials

Truth Social went public, somehow valued at $5 billion

Trump gets special treatment again

Trump predicted a “bloodbath” (for the auto industry?) if he’s not elected

EPAs new fleet standards will “require” at least 56% of new vehicles to be electric by 2032

Congress passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill and now the nutball caucus is trying to remove the speaker again

Lyft and Uber pull out of Minneapolis after legislature mandates higher pay

National Association of Realtors lawsuit settlement will end 6% commission system?

Supreme Court to rule on abortion drug mifepristone this summer

Musk Compensation. 

Judge ruled that this is too much profit, and also Musk would have done the work anyway, and also the board was too close to Musk so the contract was a collaborative process rather than a true negotiation, and that stockholders don’t know what’s best for them

Fed officials penciled in three quarter-percentage point cuts by the end of 2024

Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts

Happy News!

Gene-editted pig kidney transplanted into human

Federal judiciary finally banned judge shopping

New York Disbars Infamous Copyright Troll

High Schooler Achyuta Rajaram wins Regeneron science and math competition 

A pill that kills ticks!

women taking Ozempic getting pregnant despite using birth control and/or experiencing fertility issues

Austin build so much housing that housing ACTUALLY GOT CHEAPER!

Troop Deployment

Eneasz -  Housespouse is the greatest and best job in the world

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News discussed:

Alabama passed a law protecting IVF providers from liability

Anti-abortion groups are not happy about it

Putin threatens nukes if western troops used, again

SCOTUS voted 9-0 to allow Trump on the Ballot

Biden gave a big speech and didn’t sound too old!

Congress swamped with calls to not ban TikTok after TikTok mobilized users with easy “call now” button. 

Trump flipped flopped and is pro-TikTok now after meeting with a big TikTok investor

Wendy’s introduces dynamic pricing

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for not being open enough and being too much AI

Elon Tweets

US evacuates Haitian embassy staff amid gang violence

Oregon re-criminalized drugs after downtown turned into a nightmare

Gaza Ministry of Health blatantly fakes casualty numbers

Spanish soldiers change gender

Claude 3 gets ~60% accuracy on GPQA

needle-in-the-haystack eval

Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6B as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia invest $675M

Happy News!

Sacramento eliminated exclusionary zoning

France makes history by enshrining abortion rights in its constitution

Detroit is considering Georgist land value taxes!

CDC’s new COVID guidance now matches public health advice for flu and other respiratory illnesses

FDA approves a drug for frostbite

Garbage collectors came across a fire. 49yo Steve Whitehouse climbed up to a 2nd-floor balcony three times to rescue a man, a woman, and their dog, before firefighters arrived.

Zvi: “We Can’t Help But Notice” AI post

Anthropic post

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