Wes, Eneasz, and (eventually) David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News discussed:
A year after treatment with stem cells, a 25yr old woman that had type 1 diabetes is producing her own insulin
Giant Sheep Cloner gets $24k fine and 6 months
Harris: nuke the filibuster to protect abortion
Mark Robinson, the NC Republican Senate Candidate, is real weird
Lots of NYC corruption, follows fire chiefs, police commissioner
AI News:
OpenAI is going for-profit, more top talent leaves including last of the original board
Raised 6.6B in latest round, investors can pull that money back if they don’t transition to for-profit within 2 years
David’s war corner:
Israel took out leader of Hezbollah, and three of his successors, none of which lasted more than 36 hours
Israel launched ground offensive into Lebanon
Also hit a shipment of Russian weapons very close to a Russian base
Iran launched 180 missiles at Israel
Head of Iranian counter-mossad unit was a mossad agent
US strikes Houthi strongholds in Yemen to protect shipping in Red Sea after Houthis resume attacking USN vessels in Red Sea (15 targets)
China: nuclear sub sank during construction, tested ICBM
China hacks US federal wiretapping network, in some vague way. Feds ain’t talking, but broadband providers breached in a way that targeted wire-tapping requests. Reminder that building backdoors into encryption or tech means creating that door for anyone dedicated enough to unlock it.
Longshoremen are striking because fuck you
“In today's world I'll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means."
Maryland Police paid out $2.75 million in back pay for having standards
The test was pathetically easy and focused on police work
Happy News!
Thailand first in South East Asia to recognise same-sex marriage
First new schizophrenia drug in 70 years!
Russian F16 buzzes US fighter jet
Hemophilia B cured (70% improvement) with a single-course gene therapy, approved by FDA!
Twitter is right, you can land a plane if you gotta, as anon lady proves
“Poopa Scoopa Luca” 6yr old boy runs his own business to adopt a kitty
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