Episode 118 - An Iron Dome for your Dick

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News discussed:

Honesty researcher Francesca Gino fabricated data, took the bloggers who revealed it to court. Judge dismissed the suit

33 bomb threats in Springfield since the debate

Harris is now 53% in Nate Silver’s model

Another chucklefuck tried to take a shot at Trump, this time at a golf course

Left a letter offering a $150k bounty on whoever finished the job

Florida will be doing its own independent criminal investigation, apparently.

Trump: cap credit card interest rates at 10%!

Trump has a platform now!

Teamsters decided not to endorse

Hezbollah and Israel are exchanging fire. Almost no one wants to call it war though

Hezbollah pagers got blow'd up

Commentary: this was impressive

Then walkie-talkies and kornets anti-tank munitions!

UN urges deescalation because of course they did.

Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar possibly killed, possibly by Israel

Ukraine hit a major ammo dump in Russia.

Russia pulled elite troops off the line in the East to try to block the Kursk incursion

Russia apparently tried to test-fire a nuclear-capable ICBM. It exploded in the silo.

Four top ISIS leaders killed in Iraq in a joint strike

UK judge held business must give equal pay for “equal” work

China’s VC sector has collapsed

Xi stated years ago that US-style consumer-facing tech companies are net harmful

Meta to ban RT, other Russian state-run media outlets globally

NLRB forced Starbucks to reopen 2 stores and give everyone back pay

Boeing union wants 40% pay raise, pensions, and demands Boeing makes next plane in Washington state rather than South Carolina

Boeing has offered 30% and $6k “incentive”.

NYT union wants goodies

GPT-o1 did some hacking

page 10 of system card

Significant human evolution in the last 10000 years

Stereotype threat is the latest psych phenomenon to fail to replicate

Fed cut rates by .5%

Internal SCOTUS communications leaked

Happy News!

Neuralink Blindsight device given “breakthrough” designation by FDA

You can get passports online now!

Three Mile Island nuke plant reopening to power Microsoft AI!

FDA allows Apple to turn on software that makes AirPods into hearing aids

China almost lands reusable rocket.

SpaceX completes first all-civilian space walk!

Also tested new space suit.

New startup to build giant gun to send stuff to space comes out of stealth

Food coloring Yellow Dye #5 makes skin transparent!

New Jersey rocker Bon Jovi talks a woman off a bridge

From Hanania: “The Electoral College Is Anti-Democracy in a Bad Way

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