Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News discussed:
Kelsey Piper and friends dug deep into PEPFAR effectiveness
The astronauts stranded on the ISS are back safe. And they were greeted back to Earth by a pod of dolphins!
Federal government awards contract for our angry triangle to Boeing
ICE rounded up a bunch of Venezuelans and flew them to prison in Venezuela
Roberts responds in a public statement
Vance is explicitly promoting defiance of the courts
Chief Justice Roberts's 2024 year-end report calls it out directly.
Green Card Holder Who Has Been in US for 50 Years Detained for weeks.
Canadian held for two weeks in prison for document snafu
RFK is trying to remove cell phones from schools
Bombed the s**t out of the Houthis, Iran disavows, Trump doesn’t buy it
SecDef was discussing the plan on Signal with a reporter
Russia & Ukraine agreed not to damage energy infrastructure
Russia immediately attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Subscriber request: NYU was hacked
Education Department investigating more than 50 colleges and universities over racial preferences
Columbia University has agreed to a list of demands in return for negotiations to reinstate its $400m Columbia said it expelled, suspended, or temporarily revoked degrees from some students who seized a building during campus protests last spring
Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million in damages
Happy News!
Prisoners in solitary confinement given VR
Taiwan signed a deal to invest $44 billion in Alaskan LNG infrastructure
MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy
Mexican government found a swarm of giraffes in the state bordering El Paso
BYD (china) unveiled a new battery and charging system that it says can provide 249 miles of range with a five-minute charge
Idaho cuts regulations by 25% in four years by implementing Zero-Based Regulation
Utah just passed a permitting reform law
Troop Deployment
David - If you liked The Dragon’s Banker, you should read Oathbreakers Anonymous
Eneasz - How To Believe False Things
Wes - Men and women are different, but not that different
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