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SBF guilty on all charges

We have a speaker of the house!

He doesn’t have a bank account?!?

First bill passed: $14 billion in aid for Israel plus $14 billion in cuts for IRS

Biden Executive Order on AI

Zvi agrees that it is mostly a prelude to actions to be taken in a few years

Prominent AI Scientists from China and the West Propose Joint Strategy to Mitigate Risks from AI 

Israel News

Houthi Rebels in Yemen are launching missiles at Israel

Hezbollah and Israel firing rockets at each other in Lebanon

Chinese companies removed Israel from their maps

Half of The Kids Today think Hamas was justified

One of the founders of the Democratic Socialists of America resigned over the Hamas support

commies supporting a final solution

anti lgbt, black Hebrews, shocked pikachu

Fearless Fund sued by same group that got rid of formal discrimination in university admissions

EVs are getting harder to sell

Happy News!

AI reads words on Pompeii scroll, makes John Lennon sound good, gets people jobs

Almost 900 school districts are giving kids 3-day weekends!

Missouri poll found 69% of parents approved, but (naturally) press coverage has been uniformly negative

U.S. economy grew almost 5% in the third quarter

New fish just dropped

New Silkworm just dropped - Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar

Teenagers who came across an empty candy bucket refilled it with their own candy

Eneasz -  Don’t Trans Me Bro

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Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying $1.1B

Caroline Ellison of FTX admits on the stand that Sam bribed Chinese officials with $100M to unfreeze their assets, purposely tried to scam Saudi investors in the final days of FTX, & intentionally tried to sic regulators on Binance to destroy his competition.

The NYT issued a mea culpa for its coverage of the destroyed hospital

A US Navy warship shot down several cruise missiles and drones launched from Yemen

mia khalifa plus many others cancelled

an intrepid 25-year-old Israeli woman saved an entire kibbutz from harm by leading a group of residents to kill more than two dozen advancing terrorists

Texas fortifies border with New Mexico with concertina wire

Gag issue ordered for Trump

A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology's E-Meter

Happy News!

over the past two decades increased globalization has resulted in higher wages, safer workplaces, and less child labor, and it has happened the fastest in the countries that have opened the most and are most integrated in global supply chains

Bay Area high school grad (with  a 3.97 unweighted and 4.42 weighted GPA, scored 1590 out of 1600 on SATs) rejected by 16 colleges - hired by Google! 

Eleven of the 271 recipients of the Thiel Fellowship have founded unicorns so far!!

Troop Deployments

Eneasz -  Gender is personality (or maybe more accurately, personality-tropes)

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Azerbaijan won

The Free Press says this is Israel’s 9/11

They randomly massacred a music festival, taken many hostages

“Declare a humanitarian interest in liberating Gaza from Hamas' theocratic military dictatorship”

Madmen march in support of murder-rape

US shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of troops 

Turkey has been striking Kurdish separatists

New Tinder $500-a-month plan

 Trump org found guilty of fraud, lost its business license

Cowards refuse to recognize art

Alabama has a new voting map

Anthropic - patterns of neuron activations map to “Features” which separately represent things

Anthropic CEO and Co-Founder says there’s a 75-90% chance that humanity won’t be wiped out by AIs!

Walmart says users of weight loss drugs are buying less food

Wood structure aged 476,000 yrs old found

FDA Delenda Est!! Why won’t you let old people be happy??

Happy News!

Air taxis in 2025?!?

Nobel Prizes awarded last week

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FAA is “optimistic [about issuing a license] sometime next month" for Starship’s second launch

Government shutdown impending this weekend

New war just dropped between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Biden impeachment inquiry announced

Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey being indicted on bribery charges

Ken Paxton acquitted 

Writers strike is over!

Various old people who don’t know how AI works are suing OpenAI for writing fanfic when prompted to write fanfic

The Marines, uh, kinda lost an F35

Amazon invests up to $4 billion in Anthropic

Happy News!

JWST finds evidence of a molecule only produced in nature by phytoplankton on an exoplanet

US Copyright office continues to hold that AI Art is not copyrightable

Gavin Newsome vetoed a bill to require drivers in autonomous trucks

Cavities have been cured!!!

They Got the Lead Out of Turmeric! (in Bangladesh)

Palisades Nuclear Plant to (probably) reopen

ChatGPT diagnosed a 7yr olds tethered cord syndrome after 17 doctors failed to

Turns out there’s an assload of lithium in Nevada, which is a good step 1 to getting Chinese slave labor out of the green tech market

* E - Possibly largest lithium deposit in the world discovered on Nevada/Oregon border. Mining to begin in 2026. But Holy?

* E - NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday

* David: Probably the West Desert, where I go shooting!

* E - Dude jumps in river to save drowning child, doesn’t remove shoes!

* Troop Deployment

* David - CHARGE $85 FOR VIDEO GAMES YOU A******S

* Eneasz - Controlled Misery can make you stronger

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News discussed:

Intuitive Machines, the company behind the private moon lander, released a video of a test-fire of its landing engines

Fifth Circuit injunction preventing government from censoring social media

Fifth Circuit also reversed lower court and upheld Texas law forbidding viewpoint discrimination by social media companies

SpaceX is ready for another test launch of Starship, but the FAA is dragging their feet on approval.

Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years in prison

Putin and Erdogan met to try to revive grain deal

British company FruitCast uses AI to count, weigh, and evaluate ripeness of millions of berries per day

Florida State University professor Eric Stewart, a celebrated criminologist, is kicked out of FSU under allegations of fraud. Six major studies often cited as proof of systemic racism have been retracted. A collaborator blew a whistle a few years ago when a study with 500 participants was published as having over 1100 participants

Happy News!

NY and LA school districts considering teaching kids to use ChatGPT to enhance learning rather than banning it

University of Tokyo researching a muon-based GPS replacement, which would work deep underground and underwater.

Chinese air pollution down over 40% in a decade, life expectancy is up 2-6 years in cities.

Ozempic can maybe completely remove the need for insulin in type 1 diabetics!? Research ongoing

Human-sized Legos make real buildings!!! 

German company Polaris has successfully test flown a scaled-down unmanned model of Aurora, a hypersonic/suborbital jet capable of delivering payloads to orbit

The Mars Society announced the creation of the Mars Technology Institute, whose purpose is to develop the technologies required to settle Mars

A proof-of-concept device on Perseverance has generated enough oxygen to keep a small dog alive for 10 hours

UN Diplomat crowd-funds $144M to drain an abandoned oil tanker of over 1M barrels of crude and scupper the ship (Yemen couldn’t do it cuz they’re doing a civil war), prevented an eventual massive catastrophe

Troop Deployments

Scott Alexander 4 prez

RIP Van Aaron Hughes

Football now with AI-powered commentary

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Prighozin, Utkin, and more or less all Wagner head honchos dead after a Wagner-owned private plane was shot down

Chinese real-estate company Evergrande files for bankruptcy… in US court.

Fourth (and final?) Trump indictment!

Abortion is illegal in South Carolina again

DoJ files charges against Elon Musk for illegal discrimination against refugees, despite this making no sense

Fifth Circuit upheld Mifepriston ban, but stayed order pending SCOTUS review

Happy News!

Meta has developed an open source GitHub Copilot competitor

New startup Rainmaker wants to make it rain

Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander slated to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on 15 November.

Quantum superchemistry. What is it? Why is it cool? Idk, but sounds super cool!

AI (the kind Eneasz wants to stop) used to allow ALS patients to communicate at 80 WPM using brain interface

Tech investors are trying to make a new city in an otherwise-empty part of SFBA

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News discussed:

Coroner’s report (Cu2S (known impurity in LK-99) has a first-order phase transition around 378 K accompanied by a large resistivity drop)

Index of replication attempts

Israeli Knesset banned “reasonableness” standard, but nothing further yet

Clarence Thomas is even more corrupt

Reason on common misconceptions about Trump indictment

Jack Smith has Trump’s Twitter DMs

Ohio rejected Republican attempt to rig referendums

Ecuadorian presidential candidate running on anti-organized crime & corruption assassinated at rally. Gunman dead.

DeSantis proposes making student loan debt dischargable via bankruptcy

OpenAI and many others are bottlenecked by lack of GPUs right now

Richard Hahahania not canceled by HuffPo

Eneasz - Anti-tech is necessarily pro-slavery

Happy News!

Cure for cancer???

Cultured Meat approved for sale in US 

US suicide rate down to 1960’s levels

Net result cutting 35% of the climate impact of commercial flights if implemented!

US carbon-per-capita down to WW1 levels

Robotor, the automated chisel. Users feed data, it makes detailed marble and stone sculptures. 

CA approves robot taxi (of the four accidents reported, all of them are fake news)

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News discussed:

Ukraine Update: Kerch Strait Bridge 2: Electric Boogaloo 

Fed still raising interest rates despite inflation being over

Monthly PCE inflation is at 2%

Even the Fed’s janky numbers have inflation at 3%

Judge killed Biden asylum rules

Biden tries student debt forgiveness again

wtf China. Secret chinese biolab in CA, similar to the secret chinese police station.

Niger presidential guard overthrow president and install a military junta. 

Fake News!

Room-temp superconductors??

Polymarket says 26%

Aliens!

AI STUFF

The White House secured a voluntary agreement with seven leading AI companies

Meta releases LLAMA-2

Musk starts x.AI 

the dumbest alignment plan ever.

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are launching the Frontier Model Forum

Another Senate hearing on AI

Robot servers at restaurant

Happy News

AI takes a prompt (“I want to hold a cup 🍵) and converts it into a 3d printable prosthetic

NASA and DARPA are working on a nuclear cislunar rocket

Blue Origin was able to refine polysilicates from simulated regalith

18 million doses of first-ever malaria vaccine allocated to 12 African countries

Indians mostly stopped shitting in the streets

Take the Poo to the Loo is great success!

Toyota claims a solid-state battery breakthrough for EVs

Sulfur Selenium Solid-State Battery From NASA Breaks Energy Storage Boundaries

enthusiastic Swifties cause seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake in Seattle

Troop Deployments

Wes - chart listing masculine and feminine traits

Eneasz -  The Subversiveness of Barbie

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News discussed:

Inflation is over

Crazy Trump judge issued an injunction against government talking to social media companies

ONE WEIRD TRICK! - Wisconsin gov used line-item veto to rewrite law to guarantee education funding for 400 years 

Apparently they do this all the time

UK Online Safety Bill requires backdoor in all encryption

Apple, Signal, Wikipedia all likely to pull out of UK if it passes

Actors’ union (falsely?) claimed that studios proposed to use background characters’ likenesses in perpetuity

OpenAI committed 20% of secured compute and a new taskforce to solve alignment in four years. 

Eliezer speaks to Rep Dan Crenshaw

Robots at a Geneva AI forum promise they won’t steal jobs or rebel against humans. 

1% of the population is responsible for almost 2/3rds of all violent crime

Happy News!

Super white paint on 2% of Earth could stop climate change

China has automated trucking - 40M km over 2 years, no accidents, used by Budweiser, Nestlé

Canada vastly expanded its immigration system

A flying car prototype just got an airworthiness certificate from the FAA

Video on site not of the Model A! 

Here’s what it actually looks like.

Largest ever fusion rocket engine is now being built in the UK

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has tested a flow battery

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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

Take our non-biased scientific poll!

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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