152 - Nuts in the Air
The Mind Killer
Minneapolis ICE Shooting: What Happened
Hosts review video, contested facts, and immediate circumstances of the ICE officer shooting a protester.
Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News links:
Tim Walz dropped reelection bid due to welfare fraud scandal
Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
After a week-long pursuit we caught and boarded the Bella 1 oil tanker, with no resistance.
CIA agents in Venezula since August reporting on movements
Treasury Department bans international wire transfers for people on public assistance.
The ICE officer had been dragged 300’ by a car last year
Victim was a member of an “ICE Watch” group
Trump wants to 1.5x military budget
In an “AI Manhattan Project” China has completed a prototype lithography machine
Anthropic pulls access to Claude Code from xAI’s AI team
RFK removed six vaccines from the recommended list for kids
Hegseth trying to demote Sen. Mark Kelly over the video about disobeying illegal orders
Jerome Powell: Trump is threatening indictments to try to intimidate Fed
Trump probably vetoes a bill for funding a water pipeline in Colorado for vindictive reasons
Happy 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 today
Sanitation, diagnosis, and antibiotics have reduced it by 94%
Troop Deployment
Wes - Listen to Fashionably Late by the Fine Vintages!
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