The Mind Killer

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

  1. 153 - ICE Storm

    JAN 28

    153 - ICE Storm

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: American Association of Pediatrics made recommendations that kids get 18 vaccinations A second person - Alex Pretti - was shot Video shows that gun was secured before shots fired Trump sent 3,000 feds to Minneapolis Local police chief reports that his non-white off-duty officers keep getting illegally detained Kristi Noem statement on Rene Good shooting Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller statement Minnesota US Attorney resigned in protest because of pressure to investigate Good’s widow Trump threatening to invoke Insurrection Act Internal memo says ICE can enter homes with “administrative warrant” Last year DHS said it’s illegal to record ICE Feds issued subpoenas to governor, two mayors, and two other officials Some changes being made ICE at Winter Olympics Related?: Trump ended temporary protected status for Somalis State Dept. is “pausing” visas from 75 countries Trump threatening tariffs on all Nordic countries, France, Germany, & the UK Wrote an insane letter to the Norwegian prime minster Canada made a major trade deal with China Trump is being super normal about it More pardons for fraud guys! Trump has made at least $1.4 billion since taking office Happy News! Dream communication is happening! TikTok recently showed a privacy-policy pop-up to users in the U.S. as part of a corporate restructuring A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! Feedburner RSS Pocket Casts Apple Podcasts Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 11m

  2. JAN 14

    152 - Nuts in the Air

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: Tim Walz dropped reelection bid due to welfare fraud scandal Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down After a week-long pursuit we caught and boarded the Bella 1 oil tanker, with no resistance. CIA agents in Venezula since August reporting on movements Bad jobs numbers last year Treasury Department bans international wire transfers for people on public assistance. Lego releases “smart-bricks” The ICE officer had been dragged 300’ by a car last year Victim was a member of an “ICE Watch” group Trump wants to 1.5x military budget In an “AI Manhattan Project” China has completed a prototype lithography machine Anthropic pulls access to Claude Code from xAI’s AI team RFK removed six vaccines from the recommended list for kids Hegseth trying to demote Sen. Mark Kelly over the video about disobeying illegal orders Jerome Powell: Trump is threatening indictments to try to intimidate Fed Trump probably vetoes a bill for funding a water pipeline in Colorado for vindictive reasons Happy News! Small exposure to peanuts works for adults too, to a lesser degree! Trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness – has fallen from 1.5 billion in 2002 to 97.1 million today Sanitation, diagnosis, and antibiotics have reduced it by 94% An injection that blocks the activity of a protein involved in aging reverses naturally occurring cartilage loss in the knee joints of old mice Troop Deployment Wes - Listen to Fashionably Late by the Fine Vintages! Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 24m

  3. 12/31/2025

    151 - B******t Trump News

    Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: New Epstein files released Over 500 pages fully redacted Asfura declared winner of Honduras election SCOTUS says Trump can’t deploy national guard to Chicago 6-3, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch in minority No deal on ACA subsidies TikTok is finally divesting Trump put up b****y plaques on portraits of former presidents One of the board members is suing 60 Minutes pulled coverage of Salvadoran prison Trump EO: Weed reclassified to Schedule III Trump EO: nukes on the moon! Fentanyl is now a “weapon of mass destruction” (??) We’re blockading oil tankers from Venezuela Bella 1 oil tanker refused to stop for boarding Iran declares total war on US, Europe, and Israel China having its largest ever military exercises in the Taiwan strait right now Japan scrambling fighters Russia and Ukraine having peace talks in Florida, results TBD Trump boats! 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods Rob Reiner and wife stabbed to death by their son Happy News! 2025 had the lowest murder rate ever recorded Overdoses are also falling! India passed the SHANTI act, which allows private companies to create and run nuclear power plants Huge stock of rare earth minerals found in Utah by an existing mining site A non-profit drone search and rescue team exists You Can Just Buy Far-UVC Troop Deployment Eneasz - Lightcone Fundraising! LessWrong Census! Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 8m

  4. 12/17/2025

    150 - Artisanally Crafted Phonemes

    Wes and Eneasz are joined by Will Eden to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: For on Venezuelan boat, we did a second strike to kill them Also we stole an oil tanker Trump: “Well, we keep it, I guess” Vaccine advisory committee eliminated recommendation that newborns get Hep B vaccine Big measles outbreak in South Carolina Honduras election is in chaos Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández Trump decided N Zvi says this is a terrible idea Trump EO is attempting to preempt state AI laws AI has designed proteins that survive 150 °C and nanonewton forces Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’ We’re bailing out the farmers Huge welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota Matt Van Epps (R) won special election in Tennessee Australia banned social media for children under 16 Gen Z Protests organized through Discord Trump commuted the sentence of a private equity CEO convicted of fraud Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) of federal bribery charges Trump is upset that he’s going to run for reelection as a democrat Oliver Sacks made up many of the details in his famous case studies Happy News! There’s an annual Wildlife Comedy Photography award! See this year’s finalists. Min-readers learned to interpret the patterns as meaningful signals, which they could recognize and use. CNBC has signed a multi-year deal with prediction-market Kalshi, bringing real-time probability data into the network’s TV broadcasts and digital platforms starting next year, 3 ‘rebel’ nuns left an elderly care home and broke into the historic abbey where they had lived their entire adult lives Troop Deployments Eneasz - The Hobos yearn for the Forest Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 10m

  5. 12/01/2025

    149 - Steven & Ross Return!

    Wes is once again joined by Ross and Steven keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: UN security council adopted Gaza deal “Epstein Files Transparency Act” passed Federal 3-judge panel issued injunction against Texas redistricting Judge Jerry Smith wrote an insane dissent Trump “pausing” Afgan immigration after Afgani shot two national guard soldiers James Comey and Letitia James indictments fell apart Navy deciding whether to recall Mark Kelly to active service so they can court-martial him MIT Technology Review on Gemini 3 Humai on GPT-5.1 Anthropic on Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic disclosed what it calls “the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention Grok 4.1 showed increased sycophancy scores and “slightly higher deception rates” The White House’s response to AI concerns can be summarized as “f**k it, yolo, pedal to the metal!” The Trump administration is reclassifying which degrees count as “professional” under a new student loan program. Happy News! 15yo Belgian just earned a PhD in quantum physics Type one diabetes cured in mice AI+EEG can diagnosis dementia vs. Alzheimer’s vs. healthy Colombia has declared its entire Amazon biome as a reserve CRISPR achieves 50% cholesterol reduction in first human trial It’s Solstice season! Berkeley solstice is next weekend NYC solstice is December - tickets at https://rationalistmegameetup.com/ Steven has a new podcast! Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 8m

  6. 11/19/2025

    148 - News You Can Fight About

    Eneasz and David are both being whiny babies, so Wes is joined by Ross and Steven to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: UK stopped sharing intelligence on suspected drug trafficking in the Caribbean FAA reducing flights at 40 major airports Head Start programs shutting down Congressional hemp restrictions threaten $28 billion industry Trump cutting some tariffs to lower food prices Utah judge threw out map for being too partisan Indiana decided against redistricting Genocide in Sudan (again) Feds are investigating DC Mayor Muriel Bowser for accepting a foreign trip paid by Qatar Trump pardoned fake electors and Rudy Giuliani On November 14, Russia launched at least 430 drones and 18 missiles in an overnight attack on Kyiv Ukraine simultaneously (basically) struck a major Russian oil depot in Novorossiysk Happy News! Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion China Achieves First-Ever Thorium-to-Uranium Nuclear Fuel Conversion Nuclear Startup Backed by Luckey, Lockheed Director Raises $130 Million Polio cases down 99.9% since 1988 Norwegian island saved by whisky Troop Deployment Steven - Wheel of Fortune Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 11m

  7. 11/06/2025

    147 - The Shutdown Will Continue Until Morale Improves

    Wes and Eneasz are once again joined by Jimmy to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: We’re still blowing up alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean We’re also sending an aircraft carrier to hang out Seven people arrested connected to Louvre heist Judge orders administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund Tump pardoned the founder of Binance after he made a deal with Trump’s crypto startup Fed cut rates by .25% again AWS outage turns off a big chunk of the internet briefly US-China trade deal Also some kind of deal with South Korea 4 Republicans joined Democrats in Senate to terminate emergency tariff powers Also voted to terminate tariffs on Brazil North Carolina decided to gerrymander their Congressional map Altman pulls of world’s biggest theft, taking OpenAI (partially) private OpenAI subpoena requests for suicide funeral guest list OpenAI subpoenaing their critics for any and all documents related to regulations OpenAI opposes) NBA Coach, player, and a bunch of mafia dudes arrested in gambling sting Huel and plant-based protein powders have the same lead content as anything else Interstellar object 3i/Atlas (comet?) flying through our solar system right now Happy News! First human bladder transplant performed US obesity rate down nearly 3 percentage points in 3 years Newsom vetoes bill that banned port automation CyberEyes are coming! Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

    59 min

  8. 10/22/2025

    146 - Jimmy Meet World

    Wes and Eneasz are joined by Jimmy to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News links: Trump issued layoff notices for >4,000 employees A federal judge has blocked some of them Trump commuted George Santos’ sentence At least one Venezuelan boat is maybe a fishing boat Now he’s authorized some kind of CIA covert op Rubio is on record that his strategy is to force Maduro out US admiral in charge of the region retiring suddenly US Senate votes down restricting president’s war powers against drug cartels South America News Noble peace prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader, but winner leaked to PolyMarket 12 hours beforehand Winner dedicates peace prize to Trump WaPo: Trump made a deal with Bukele to deport several FBI informants Argentina continues to make huge strides under Milei US bails out Argentina, buying $20B of pesos with dollars Trade war with China Trump said he’s doing 100% tariffs US & Australia made a deal to supply some rare Earths Press hand over badges and leave Pentagon after refusing to sign new press requirements Trump reportedly trying to extort $230 million from the Justice Department Big “No Kings” protests happened on Saturday California passed SB 53. Zvi summary Sam Altman announced ChatGPT erotica is coming soon That Mad Olympiad The Future Will Be Hyper-Local Claude can tell when it’s being evaluated and scores much higher when this is the case. Louvre heist! Smash-and-grab in 7 minutes in broad daylight, men make off with $100M in Napoleonic jewels! Happy News! Waymos in London next year! Niger eliminates “river disease” after 4 decades of Ivermectin treatment Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 7m
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4.6
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Your hosts Wesley Fenza, Eneasz Brodski, and David Spearman discuss the week's news. mindkiller.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Wesley Fenza
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    170
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Wesley Fenza
  • Show Website
    The Mind Killer

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