147 - The Shutdown Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Description
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
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
AWS outage turns off a big chunk of the internet briefly
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
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