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Your hosts Wesley Fenza, Eneasz Brodski, and David Spearman discuss the week's news.

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Your hosts Wesley Fenza, Eneasz Brodski, and David Spearman discuss the week's news.

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    Episode 109 - RFK Gets Mind-Killed!

    Episode 109 - RFK Gets Mind-Killed!

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
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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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    Episode 108 - Why Didn't He Take the Sword?

    Episode 108 - Why Didn't He Take the Sword?

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
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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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    Episode 107 - Congress is Doing Things for Once

    Episode 107 - Congress is Doing Things for Once

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
    Note: Eneasz recorded himself on the wrong mic this episode, so his audio quality is terrible. Everyone yell at him!
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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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    Episode 106 - Total Eclipse of TMK

    Episode 106 - Total Eclipse of TMK

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
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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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    Episode 105 - Arbitrage a Baconator OR An Odor of Mendacity

    Episode 105 - Arbitrage a Baconator OR An Odor of Mendacity

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
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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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    Episode 104 - Meet the New Candidates. Same as the Old Candidates

    Episode 104 - Meet the New Candidates. Same as the Old Candidates

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
    Support us on Substack!
    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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