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News discussed:

Perun (sp?) video

Weird aborted coup in Russia

If a cop has a gun in your face and you try to escape anyway, presumably what the cop would find is worse for you than taking a bullet

France Riots:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/02/france-protests-nahel-m-shooting/

https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/france-violence-rioters-burn-down-largest-public-library-in-marseille-visuals-surface

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/france-riots-more-than-400-arrested-as-police-officer-accused-of-shooting-teen-apologises

https://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675605783365443585

https://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675570451324493824

https://twitter.com/NowVideoNetwork/status/1675611514231767042

Doom scrolling (Twitter) cap

Vietnam has banned 'Barbie' film 

Here’s the map in the scene (probably? Seen at 1:01 in this trailer) 

Here’s the Nine-Dash-Line that they’re talking about

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Supreme Court News

Turns out Alito is corrupt too. Nobody could have predicted!

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Affirmative action is toast

Biden v. Nebraska - no student loan cancellation :’(

Moore v. Harper - rejected independent legislature theory

US v Texas - states lack standing to challenge immigration priorities of DHS

303 Creative v. Elenis - web designer doesn’t have to make gay wedding website

The decision was limited because much of what might have been contested about the facts of the case was stipulated

Happy News!

Type 1 Diabetes is caused by the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas not producing insulin at all. Now old bad beta cells can be cleared out with a repurposed cancer drug, and functioning beta cells produced from stem cells can replace these.

Now tests are proceeding to encase these beta cells in a “ channel array device” that allows them to get nutrients and function while keeping the immune cells away!

I-95 reopened after 12 days

A houseboat in Florida capsized during a big storm, with two women trapped inside. A passing Florida man, Jordan Boyd, jumped into the water from his boat without even a lifejacket on (he really shoulda taken a few seconds tho, for real), grabbed a 2x4, and smashed the glass door of the house boat open

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News discussed:

Trump indicted again

Statement on AI risks

The draft of the AI Bill of Rights is currently garbage 

Google’s DeepMind: AlphaDev uncovered new and improved sorting algorithms

Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think

SCOTUS: Alabama redistricting was unconstitutional

Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of a woman after her county kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a $15k unpaid tax bill 

Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel's in trademark dispute with dog toy maker 

Supreme Court has ruled against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete 

John Stokes on AI Safety

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Fed judge says border agents can't force you to turn over a full copy of your entire phone 

Brain-Spine Interface Allows Paralyzed Man to Walk Using His Thoughts 

there's not a huge nationwide campaign to ban books from school libraries. There are literally eleven people in the whole country responsible for most challenges 

Driverless taxies in several cities are doing fine

Four Colombian Children Found Alive in Jungle Five Weeks After Plane Crash 

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News discussed:

Oathkeeper leader Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy

“He was the one giving the orders,” Judge Mehta said

Major loss of access to transgender healthcare in Florida

Also, Oklahoma passed a super anti-trans bill in February

Elon comes out as pro-criminalization of sex changes for minors :( 

Meta says it’ll stop linking news sites in CA if Link Tax passes

They’re testing on Canadians 

Facebook refusing to pay off a couple of Australian news orgs

Happy News!

Afghan War ended with 0 US MIAs

OpenAI working on “Processes Supervision”

NewLimit raises $40M to extend life 

Pairwise used CRISPR to make raw mustard greens not taste bad

Using artificial intelligence researchers found a new type of antibiotic

First Einstein Shape discovered by David Smith

Another one! Based on Hat, meet Spectre, which does it without reflected tiles

Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants

In just a few months, the U.S. received more than 1.5 million requests from individuals hoping to sponsor the entry of migrants! 

TN anti-drag law is unconstitutional on multiple grounds 

First Recorded Stand-Up Comedy Sketch

First-Ever X-Ray of a Single Atom Captured

Andrew Carr 32-year-old owner of ABC Cleaning Services, says he was fed up with the paths and cobbles in Alnwick, Northumberland, being covered in chewing gum and dog poo. Turned his powerful pressure washer on the walkways nearby after a job. Everyone loves him. Now he does it every Sunday morning.

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California, Arizona and Nevada agrees to cut at least 3 million acre-feet of water

China has banned US chip maker Micron from selling to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projects

Trump found liable for sexual assault

Feds approved Manhattan congestion pricing plan

Was Qualified Immunity snuck in by an a*****e?

Meta has been fined a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European Union regulators for violating EU privacy laws by transferring the personal data of Facebook users to servers in the United States

Supreme Court upholds California ban on 'unethical' pork, Proposition 12

Gorsuch opinion!

Rules against plaintiffs attempting to hold Google + Twitter financially liable for terrorists

Andy Warhol estate infringed a photographers copyright in a photograph of the musician Prince when it licensed an image Warhol derived from that photograph to serve as a magazine cover

Extreme dissent by Kagan

Rebuttal to dissent from Sotomayor 

The rich and fabulous will still be able to get licenses when they need them, but the poor and obscure won’t, 

White House AI meeting - Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, + Kamala Harris

Altman testifies before Congress, recommends regulation

Senator Blumenthal (D-CT): "I think you have said, in fact, and I'm gonna quote, 'Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.' You may have had in mind the effect on jobs”

Sam Altman has privately suggested OpenAI may try to raise as much as $100 billion in the coming years to achieve its aim of developing artificial general intelligence that is advanced enough to improve its own capabilities

OpenAI published an official public statement on regulation.

Anthropic's chat context window expanded to 100k tokens

Who pissed off the Orcas? 

Happy News!

Semaglutide ends addictive behavior for some users? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting

Pill form passed phase 3 trial

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* Is Disney actually popular?

* What is the Kremlin?

* Tradwife feminism

* Roxie wants to be a cowboy!

News discussed:

Eneasz was wrong: Supermassive black hole was not 3x the size of our galaxy

David was right: New York banned gas stoves in new construction

Wes and David were wrong: Alec Baldwin charges dropped because gun could have fired without trigger pull

 Disney finally sued DeSantis

Drone “attacks” the Kremlin

Much-hyped Russian hypersonic missile was successfully intercepted by a Patriot

Hollywood writers are striking again

Median writer pay has decreased by 23% in the past 5 years (inflation adjusted)

No more PornHub in Utah

Free Speech Coalition filed lawsuit to challenge the law.

New housing policy has people with good credit subsidize people with bad credit

China sanctions Lockheed, Raytheon

Also raiding, arresting, or investigating many large foreign companies

Chinese Police Station shut down in NYC’s Chinatown

AI News:

MIT researchers use AI to design novel proteins with specific structural features

GPT-4 as data scientist. With Code Interpreter model, just upload the data and provide instructions in simple english

Geoffrey Hinton (AI pioneer/”godfather”) quit Google to doom-say

MSM is actually taking this stuff seriously now. Massive change from even a couple months ago.

Yann LeCun, head of Meta’s AI division, says we’ll just program the AI to not kill us, obviously

Europe and China and USA on AI regulation. Not Like This vibes, but if it slows things down… maybe?

Closed LLMs (Google, OpenAI) “Cannot Compete Against Open Source” 

Can you convince YudBot to sell you a GPU cluster?

AI Tutorials 1 2

Happy News!

Washington State is going full YIMBY

New shape-shifting antibiotics fight medically-resistant bacterial infections

Cars are getting back physical buttons

Hero kid grabs wheel of school bus and applies brakes after driver passes out.

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News discussed:

Hypnosis, LSD, and the Unabomber

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

SCOTUS granted stay in mifepristone case

Alito and Thomas dissented

Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friend also bought his property at an above-market price and let Thomas’ mother live there for free

Fox settled the Dominion lawsuit for $787 million

And Tucker Carlson is out!

Florida enacts six-week abortion ban

Florida allows death penalty by 8-4 jury vote

German Green party decides that giving the lignite coal industry a massive boost by shutting down their nuclear power plants

Congress failed to extend a key tax provision last year allowing companies to fully expense research & development costs in the year incurred. See SSBalliance.org

North Dakota banned approval voting

Update: veto override failed!!

Russia widely published intentions to move nukes to Belarus, but doesn’t seem to have actually done it. 

Lot of discussion of Mackaroon being soft on China, but Tyler Cowen-endorsed Twitter thread says this is a misinterpretation.

Counterpoint

Some protests in Sundan turned violent. President Bashir declared state of emergency in Feb 2019, dissolved the govt

They did not hand over power. 

“lil mohammad” Hemedti

Buhan and Hemedit both think the old govt sucks, they should rule the new govt, and they’re gonna fight about it

Countries are pulling out all their diplomats/peeps

NIH blows $1B trying to make Long COVID a thing

Happy News!

Ghana has approved a malaria vaccine for deployment

Reforms signed three years ago in Michigan took effect last week, with nearly 850,000 residents seeing at least one conviction automatically set aside

Scientists have discovered that intersecting gravity waves shortly after the big bang generated the universe’s first photons

Hubble saw a supermassive black hole three times the diameter of our whole galaxy, speeding through the universe. 

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News discussed:

DEA ruins telemedicine

Trump is already selling mug shots

The liberals won the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat

Senate voted to repeal 2002 AUMF

McCarthy says House will probably pass it, but it has to go through committee

Nationwide injunction on abortion pills, but also the opposite of that

Biggest intelligence leak since Snowden

First appeared on a tiny meme-Discord 5 weeks ago

Reboot/NoFap appears to make followers *worse*

Doocy asks about AI Doom at White House press briefing

LLMs can greatly compress prompts for future self-decoding (but lossy)

Chatbot convinces Belgian to commit suicide

AI village of 25 NPCs created. Amazing results

Happy News!

New Nuclear plant plugged into the grid

Drs Feng Zhang and Joe Kreitz created a molecular delivery system that can deliver proteins only to specific types of cells

Professor Gilad Yossifon created microrobots that can navigate between cells, and identify and capture individual cells

Now CRISPR RNA is delivered to the mouse lung by inhalation using improved lipid nanoparticles

Paves the way for therapeutic CRISPR applications in the lung, including possibly cystic fibrosis!

Some Coastal Salt Marshes Are Keeping Up With Sea Level Rise

FDA stops preventing people from buying a life-saving drug!

Blast your heart with your own stem cells to reduce inflammation, risk of heart attack and stroke!

Utah and California Snowpacks Break All Previous Record. “cautiously optimistic” “Drought is expected to improve further or go away completely across much of California.”.

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News discussed:

Credit Suisse collapsed and bought by UBS

RESTRICT Act seems like a big Executive power grab

Utah is building a registry of all residents that use social media. RIP David

Also requires parental consent for anyone under 18 to be on, and gives parents full access to children’s accounts 

Biden vetoed anti woke capital resolution

New executive order on guns

NRA says it’s announcing “a general principle that federal agencies should use whatever authorities they have to make life more difficult for gun owners or the businesses that serve them”

Trump threatened “potential death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged

ARC tested GPT4 capabilities, including prompting it to try to break out and replicate.

ChatGPT Plugins let it browse the web, do stuff for you

Text-only GPT-4 learned what things look like and can draw them 

Meta made a model 95% as good as ChatGPT, that is small enough to run on your phone

Eternal Children

Llamas with Hats!

Happy News!

GPT4 saved a dog’s life by accurately diagnosing it after being given symptoms

FTC voted 3-1 to introduce "click to cancel," to easy subscription cancellations.

stretchable bandage that accelerates healing by delivering electrotherapy directly to the wound speeds healing by 30%. the components that interface with the wound are entirely resorbable

Lies about Chris Avelone dismissed with prejudice in libel suit, awarded over $1M, and the perps have made public renunciations of their lies.

retinitis pigmentosa affects 1 in 4000, causes blindness, cured by CRISPR

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