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Wes, Eneasz, and David fail to keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community. Seriously. We’re not doing it anymore. You’ll have to get your news somewhere else. Or don’t.BUY OUR NFT! Bidding starts at $69News links:Claude Mythos is not being publicly released because it could destroy much of our software infrastructureAnthropic launched Project GlasswingMusk vs OpenAI lawsuit underway to prevent history’s biggest theft.Greg Brokman doesn’t know why he’s being sued!Happy News!A bill to legalize banana-peeling in daycare has passed the house! Probably will pass the Senate soon!You can buy a personal jetpack (basically) for $150kJapan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rateJones Act was suspended due to Iran War,Guinea Worm parasite has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.Troop DeploymentBuy Our NFT!Eneasz - call your senators today to stop the Save Our Bacon ActWes - buy your vibecamp ticket!Follow us!Feedburner RSSPocket CastsApple PodcastsIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com

Wes has a new podcast! You can subscribe at the Sex and Sensibility page. Mary Zoso, Holistic Wholesome Sex Coach is joined by Wesley Fenza and Gina to make sense of sex and relationships.In this inaugural episode, they will be discussing The Pain and Glory of Nonmonogamy by Aella.Mary Zoso is available for hire! She offers one-on-one counseling, multi-week courses, and one-day workshops, all available to attend remotely. She charges on a sliding scale, so anyone can afford her services. Click here to see her current offerings.Intro and Outro music: Spectre by The Fine Vintages This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com

A look back at six years of the greatest and best podcast ever made This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community for ONE LAST TIMESupport us on Substack!News links:Anthropic’s court case vs Deprt of War has massive supportJudge quashed Powell subpoenasChuck Norris dead at 86Nobody wants to join Trumps Hormutz AvengersUS is lifting some oil sanctions on IranFCC threatening to revoke licenses over negative war coverageU.S. Mint removed the olive branch from the dimePer croissanthology, an inkhaven friend - “war is an attempt to change the status quo…”Under oath, ICE officers confirm quota, said they were told to make eight arrests a dayTikTok will pay a $10 billion fee to the U.S. TreasuryAirport security lines are getting longH1B price hike Appears to have lost the government $20 million. (and immense human capital)The Jones Act is dead for 60 days!Waymo asked to expand into DC six years agoNews you can Ignore:Explosive thrown at NY protestCaesar Chavez posthumously accused of sexual assaultHegseth announces there will be “no quarter, no mercy” which is both against international law and vile.Happy News!Two lost Doctor Who episodes found!In Ep 66, Sept of 2022, we reported on DART in the happy news,It worked! DART is the first man-made object to have shifted the orbit of a naturally occurring entity in spaceAverage height of 19yr old Chinese woman is now equal to USChinese men are nearly there tooPoland’s economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largestTech Bro uses AI to engineer personalized mRNA vaccine for his dog’s cancerNew AI glasses for people with dementia are able to project visual prompts onto the lensesChris Doel had stripped down the lithium batteries from 500 disposable vapesAfroman won his lawsuit!Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at [email protected]. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!Feedburner RSSPocket CastsApple PodcastsIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News links:Federal Judge says feds need to give tariff refundsNintendo Suing United States Govt. Over Trump TariffsFTC withdrew its non-compete banTrump admin can’t decide if it wants to punish law firmscongestion pricing in NYC can stayKhomeni is dead. Long live KhomeniRubio: Israel was going to attack and Iran probably would have retaliated against us anywayTrump: Iran was going to attack us!Oil prices “going vertical”Cuba experiencing blackouts causing protestsPete Hegseth threatening to coerce Anthropic under Defense Production ActBayesian Conspiracy episode on this topicDean W. Ball, former Trump staffer, on the degradation of property rights and rule of law (and audio here)In pre-release evals - Claude Opus 4.6 independently hypothesized that it was being evaluated, identified which benchmark it was running in, then located and decrypted the answer keyWe have uploaded a flyBuried in a research paper - An AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, secretly using its own training GPUs to mine cryptoBernie Sanders is jumping on the AI trainKristi Noem firedHappy News!Federal judge: masked raids are 4th amendment violationChile has become the first country in the Americas declared leprosy-freeHere’s to the Polypropylene Makers by jefftkGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at [email protected]. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!Feedburner RSSPocket CastsApple PodcastsIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News links:Grand jury rejected charges against Congresspeople who made the “you can disobey unlawful orders” videoJim O’Neill fired from HHSBut he’s going to lead the National Science Foundation?feds leaving Minnesota for realFormer SK President sentenced to life in prisonNewsLiberation Day is canceled!Trump is definitely going to reinstate the tariffs claiming fake authority under some other statuteOriginally IEEPA had a legislative veto, but SCOTUS killed it in the 80’sNo Republican Senate candidate in NMThe FDA is ruining biotechUpdate: Trump intervened and now the review is back on!EPA overturned finding allowing them to regulate greenhouse emissionsTrump is trying to cancel bridge project between US & CanadaThe Snow Mexicans double-touched the stone!They also lost to the US in the closest thing they have to a source of national prideAlso, the Poutine Beaners announced a plan to reach 2% of their GDP being spent on defense, but only buying exclusively from Canadian defense companies. The problem is that Canada doesn’t have any of those.Your AI is not a lawyerSeeDance is making full-ass multi-minute films.Anthropic says they’ll pay for 100% of the grid upgrades needed to interconnect our data centersCENTCOM continues to collect American military hardware like its pokemonTrump announced a 10-day deadline for Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or “bad things happen”Big military buildup near IranIn retaliation for a Mexican operation that killed the leader of the CJNG leader “El Mencho”, the cartel erected roadblocks of burning cars, engaged in street violence, and issued threats against American tourists.Netherlands taxing unrealized capital gainsThey’ve actually been doing this for almost a decade, in an even stupider wayHappy News!FDA Commissioner: “everything should be over the counter” unless a drug is unsafe, addictive or requires monitoringSingapore is successfully eliminating mosquitosSan Francisco is working on eliminating zombies!Chinese researchers have created injectable “bone glue”In ten years, Israel almost got rid of cystic fibrosis among newbornsAella has released her Bink Kink Dataset and a tool to play with it!Tesla FSD has saved many lives. Here’s another one.Insurance exists that will give you 50% off your premium when you drive with Self-Driving mode onTroop DeploymentDavid - The Mind Killer Podcast’s long overdue Land AcknowledgementEneasz - Is your life better or worse due to your use of social media?Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at [email protected]. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!Feedburner RSSPocket CastsApple PodcastsIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News links:Homan removing 700 officers (2,000 still left)All DHS officers are getting body camerasTrump: we’ll use a “softer touch”US attorneys still not happyDOJ having trouble hiring new onesCongress made a deal to fund most of the governmentThom Tillis says he’ll block the nomination unless the Powell investigation is droppedCommunists won Portugal’s electionright-wing populists won bigly JapanMore Epstein files!The FBI seized all the ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, GeorgiaTrump shutting down the Kennedy CenterUndersecretary of State accuses China of performing nuclear tests on X.$2 million in damages to detransitioner Fox VarianBlocked and Reported’s coverage (paywalled)Happy News!AI-driven automated trash sorters increased third-quarter profits by 18% due to recycling gains at nation’s largest trash firm.Despite a 5-year drought, Canadian farmers are pulling in record harvests. Up 77% from 30 years ago13-yr old swims against the current to get back to land and get help.Troop DeploymentsEneasz - I went to the pro-billionaire marchGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at [email protected]. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!Feedburner RSSPocket CastsApple PodcastsIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News links:American Association of Pediatrics made recommendations that kids get 18 vaccinationsA second person - Alex Pretti - was shotVideo shows that gun was secured before shots firedTrump sent 3,000 feds to MinneapolisLocal police chief reports that his non-white off-duty officers keep getting illegally detainedKristi Noem statement on Rene Good shootingDeputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller statementMinnesota US Attorney resigned in protest because of pressure to investigate Good’s widowTrump threatening to invoke Insurrection ActInternal memo says ICE can enter homes with “administrative warrant”Last year DHS said it’s illegal to record ICEFeds issued subpoenas to governor, two mayors, and two other officialsSome changes being madeICE at Winter OlympicsRelated?: Trump ended temporary protected status for SomalisState Dept. is “pausing” visas from 75 countriesTrump threatening tariffs on all Nordic countries, France, Germany, & the UKWrote an insane letter to the Norwegian prime minsterCanada made a major trade deal with ChinaTrump is being super normal about itMore pardons for fraud guys!Trump has made at least $1.4 billion since taking officeHappy News!Dream communication is happening!TikTok recently showed a privacy-policy pop-up to users in the U.S. as part of a corporate restructuringA twice-yearly shot could help end AIDSGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at [email protected]. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!Feedburner RSSPocket CastsApple PodcastsIntro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com

Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News links:Tim Walz dropped reelection bid due to welfare fraud scandalCorporation for Public Broadcasting shutting downAfter a week-long pursuit we caught and boarded the Bella 1 oil tanker, with no resistance.CIA agents in Venezula since August reporting on movementsBad jobs numbers last yearTreasury 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 yearVictim was a member of an “ICE Watch” groupTrump wants to 1.5x military budgetIn an “AI Manhattan Project” China has completed a prototype lithography machineAnthropic pulls access to Claude Code from xAI’s AI teamRFK removed six vaccines from the recommended list for kidsHegseth trying to demote Sen. Mark Kelly over the video about disobeying illegal ordersJerome Powell: Trump is threatening indictments to try to intimidate FedTrump probably vetoes a bill for funding a water pipeline in Colorado for vindictive reasonsHappy 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 todaySanitation, 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 miceTroop DeploymentWes - 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 [email protected]. Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killerApple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com