155 - Liberation Day is Canceled
The Mind Killer
AI & Privilege: Your AI Is Not A Lawyer
Wesley reviews a SDNY ruling: user chats with Claude were discoverable and not protected by privilege.
Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News links:
But he’s going to lead the National Science Foundation?
feds leaving Minnesota for real
Former SK President sentenced to life in prison
News
Trump is definitely going to reinstate the tariffs claiming fake authority under some other statute
Originally IEEPA had a legislative veto, but SCOTUS killed it in the 80’s
No Republican Senate candidate in NM
Update: Trump intervened and now the review is back on!
EPA overturned finding allowing them to regulate greenhouse emissions
Trump is trying to cancel bridge project between US & Canada
The Snow Mexicans double-touched the stone!
They also lost to the US in the closest thing they have to a source of national pride
SeeDance is making full-ass multi-minute films.
Anthropic says they’ll pay for 100% of the grid upgrades needed to interconnect our data centers
CENTCOM continues to collect American military hardware like its pokemon
Trump announced a 10-day deadline for Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or “bad things happen”
Big military buildup near Iran
In 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 gains
They’ve actually been doing this for almost a decade, in an even stupider way
Happy News!
Singapore is successfully eliminating mosquitos
San Francisco is working on eliminating zombies!
Chinese researchers have created injectable “bone glue”
In ten years, Israel almost got rid of cystic fibrosis among newborns
Aella 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 on
Troop Deployment
David - The Mind Killer Podcast’s long overdue Land Acknowledgement
Eneasz - Is your life better or worse due to your use of social media?
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