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Wes and David are joined by Jamiel to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: 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 indictmen...

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: 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...

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: 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 Bide...

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: 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 the...

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: 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/...

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: 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...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindkiller.substack.com Wes and Eneasz report live from Vibecamp! Featuring Twitter personalities @vraiqx , @catascopic , @embryosophy , @AgotaDubi , and @LexerLux

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: 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 Febru...

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: 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 a...

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! Extra stuff for subscribers this episode: * 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:...

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! We had a number of digressions this week that were edited out. Become an MK Ultra to get access to over 4 minutes of additional content! News discussed: Hypnosis, LSD, and the Unabomber Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber SCOTUS granted stay in mifepristone case Alito and Thom...

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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: 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 injunct...

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! 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...

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: S**t is going down in Israel Big protests over Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms New proposals would give political appointees a majority Elite fighter squadron is boycotting training Silicon Valley Bank is insolvent Jacob Falkovich blames the government Bank r...

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: A pretty good open-source LLM with a webapp interface has been released Iran Followup - young couple give (combined) 10year jail sentence for dancing in public (and filming it) Iran’s Revolutionary Guard increasingly deployed in protest crack-downs. East Palestine,...

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about things going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Bounded distrust The SCOTUS leak investigation fizzled out Classified documents also found at Mike Pence’s house! Eight in 10 people in China caught Covid since early December, say officials Israel strikes Iranian drone plant with their o...

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective, with special guests appearances by Charlie and Gray! Support us on Substack! News discussed: The Electoral Count Reform Act was passed Finally got enough on the 15th ballot Mexico captures El Chapo’s son (again) and has a literal military battle with cartels.   Brazil’s Jan 6th happened on Jan 8th . By...

Wes and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective WITHOUT Eneasz for once Support us on Substack! News discussed: California court declared that anything good violates CEQA George Santos (R-NY) is a big fat phony Spencer Greenberg podcast featuring Elizabeth Edwards-Appell NY “Right to Repair” law passed but made useless a bunch of standard cell lines are THE WR...

Show notes: Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Kirsten Synema left the Democratic Party . MAVERICK! Jan. 6th committee referred Trump for charges Trump Org found guilty of tax fraud Prospera sues Honduras for approximately 30% of its GDP SBF arrested and indicted  bad news for school emancipation  t...

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: A top Iranian official has said that the nation’s mandatory hijab law is being reviewed Special counsel appointed to investigate Trump Another round of China protests over Covid lockdowns Sparked by fire in a locked-down apt, possibly extra harsh due to being Uyghu...

Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: European LNG prices went temporarily negative! Iran protesters shooting at police  Ligma/Johnson team rehired! Thehill.com reporters covered the story Dobbs helped the Democrats keep the Senate FTX News: $8b in “poorly labeled fiat account” was probably the money f...

Wes, Eneasz, and David are joined this week by Aella to discuss THE SEXY NEWS Support us on Substack! Sexy Tech News: No sex in the Metaverse “Anti-Cancer Drug Gives Boars Super-Sperm” Design for sex-ready moon colony! Female Orgasms Come in Three Distinct Types—But Women Tend To Get Just One   Sexy Social News: The Kids Today aren’t having as much sex as previous generations Twenty-somethings in...

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Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: The Iranian woman killed was a Kurd, this happened in the Kurdish section of Iran , and this is significant . Biden killed the Chinese semiconductor industry Satellite data implies China's GDP is about $7 trillion smaller than what the CCP says China’s official eco...