Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! Extra stuff for subscribers this episode: * Is Disney actually popular? * What is the Kremlin? * Tradwife feminism * Roxie wants to be a cowboy! News discussed: Eneasz was wrong: Supermassive black hole was not 3x the size of our galaxy David was right: New York banned gas stoves in new construction Wes and David were wrong: Alec Baldwin charges droppe...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! We had a number of digressions this week that were edited out. Become an MK Ultra to get access to over 4 minutes of additional content! News discussed: Hypnosis, LSD, and the Unabomber Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber SCOTUS granted stay in mifepristone case Alito and Thomas dissented Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friend also bought his property at an above-market price ...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 15 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindkiller.substack.com Bonus episode featuring an interview with Jorge, the so-called “mayor of Próspera.”
Apr 13, 2023•21 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: DEA ruins telemedicine Trump is already selling mug shots The liberals won the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat Senate voted to repeal 2002 AUMF McCarthy says House will probably pass it , but it has to go through committee Nationwide injunction on abortion pills, but also the opposite of that Biggest intelligence leak since Snowden First a...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Credit Suisse collapsed and bought by UBS RESTRICT Act seems like a big Executive power grab Utah is building a registry of all residents that use social media . RIP David Also requires parental consent for anyone under 18 to be on, and gives parents full access to children’s accounts Biden vetoed anti woke capital resolution New executive order on guns NRA says ...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: S**t is going down in Israel Big protests over Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms New proposals would give political appointees a majority Elite fighter squadron is boycotting training Silicon Valley Bank is insolvent Jacob Falkovich blames the government Bank run stopped by new Fed policy the Bank Term Funding Program Anthropic Shadow ? “this is what it would...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: A pretty good open-source LLM with a webapp interface has been released Iran Followup - young couple give (combined) 10year jail sentence for dancing in public (and filming it) Iran’s Revolutionary Guard increasingly deployed in protest crack-downs. East Palestine, Ohio local police department declares unrestricted chemical warfare on Ohio Summary On-the-ground f...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about things going on outside of the rationalist community Support us on Substack! News discussed: Bounded distrust The SCOTUS leak investigation fizzled out Classified documents also found at Mike Pence’s house! Eight in 10 people in China caught Covid since early December, say officials Israel strikes Iranian drone plant with their own drone strike NATO countries sending Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, US sending Abrams 1 R...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective, with special guests appearances by Charlie and Gray! Support us on Substack! News discussed: The Electoral Count Reform Act was passed Finally got enough on the 15th ballot Mexico captures El Chapo’s son (again) and has a literal military battle with cartels. Brazil’s Jan 6th happened on Jan 8th . By one estimate, the US has sent close to 1/5th of our artillery shell stockpile to Ukraine, which will t...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Wes and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective WITHOUT Eneasz for once Support us on Substack! News discussed: California court declared that anything good violates CEQA George Santos (R-NY) is a big fat phony Spencer Greenberg podcast featuring Elizabeth Edwards-Appell NY “Right to Repair” law passed but made useless a bunch of standard cell lines are THE WRONG CELLS (h/t Sarah Constantin ) Happy News! Colorado decriminalization DMT, psilocybin, mescaline,...
Jan 04, 2023•37 min
Show notes: Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Kirsten Synema left the Democratic Party . MAVERICK! Jan. 6th committee referred Trump for charges Trump Org found guilty of tax fraud Prospera sues Honduras for approximately 30% of its GDP SBF arrested and indicted bad news for school emancipation the Islamic Republic of Iran was just expelled from the U.N. Women's Rights Commission. China reverses ...
Dec 22, 2022•56 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: A top Iranian official has said that the nation’s mandatory hijab law is being reviewed Special counsel appointed to investigate Trump Another round of China protests over Covid lockdowns Sparked by fire in a locked-down apt, possibly extra harsh due to being Uyghur neighborhood/building Definitely unrelated to anything else going on, Jiang Zemin died NATO allies...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: European LNG prices went temporarily negative! Iran protesters shooting at police Ligma/Johnson team rehired! Thehill.com reporters covered the story Dobbs helped the Democrats keep the Senate FTX News: $8b in “poorly labeled fiat account” was probably the money forgotten at Alameda SBF had a back door in their bookkeeping software that let him alter records at w...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David are joined this week by Aella to discuss THE SEXY NEWS Support us on Substack! Sexy Tech News: No sex in the Metaverse “Anti-Cancer Drug Gives Boars Super-Sperm” Design for sex-ready moon colony! Female Orgasms Come in Three Distinct Types—But Women Tend To Get Just One Sexy Social News: The Kids Today aren’t having as much sex as previous generations Twenty-somethings in China prefer pets and online gaming to sex, study finds Canadian Court found that “stealthing” can be ...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Wes and David from The Mind Killer show up for a special cross-over episode. We discuss How Stewart Made Tucker Listen to The Bayesian Conspiracy :) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: The Iranian woman killed was a Kurd, this happened in the Kurdish section of Iran , and this is significant . Biden killed the Chinese semiconductor industry Satellite data implies China's GDP is about $7 trillion smaller than what the CCP says China’s official economic data due this week delayed , no reason given It’s been released Xi cements power Chinese stock...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 5 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindkiller.substack.com Wes, Eneasz, and David invite Weer’d from Assorted Calibers on to talk all things guns! Support us on Substack! Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com . Say something smart and we’ll mention you on the next show! Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Google: …...
Oct 20, 2022•38 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Ohio court blocks six-week abortion ban indefinitely Paypal will seize your assets to punish speech they don’t like . Anything that in their opinion promotes intolerance or is discriminatory . US Treasury Dept. bans math Crimean Bridge blowed up Kyiv bombed with long-range missiles in apparent retaliation And Belarus’ MoD talking about joining in the invasion Tai...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindkiller.substack.com Subscribers didn’t get the episode early this week, so here is some bonus content! Eneasz wants to know if being a stay-at-home dad is a bonerkiller
Sep 30, 2022•57 sec
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! Railroad strike averted? Or delayed? Fifth Circuit decided that 1A doesn’t protect website’s right to moderate Nord Stream blowed up Italians vote in right wing populists , Good speeching? German Economy Minister to German people: “just stop producing for 6 months and then the energy crisis will have passed” Iran is finally getting fucked FL state government threatens to ban cre...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Note: next episode will be 24-48 hours late due to Eneasz’s travel schedule Support us on Substack! News discussed: Probable cause claimed for evidence of obstruction in Trump affidavit Sarah Palin lost her bid for Alaska’s house seat Palin only got 50% of second-choice votes from the other Republican running! California passed a fast food workers bill Washington State teachers “illegally” striking US ...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: IRA’s corporate minimum tax is written to apply to 150 companies. If a corporation pays the AMT, a credit against future corporate regular tax is carried forward. Jakeup asserts “rich Americans subsidizing drug development for the rest of the world was maybe the most effective unintended altruism the US was doing” Salman Rushdie recovering from stabbing on stage ...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr 36 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Democrats agreed on environmental/inflation bill Airfield in Crimea spontaneously combusts Also, a conscript barracks in Moscow caught fire. No casualties reported. Also, a Belarusian air force base also spontaneously combusted Secret Service deleted all their texts from around 1/6 Outgoing Pentagon officials also had phones wiped Mar-A-Lago raided Equifax glitch...
Aug 14, 2022•1 hr 22 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Bill passed Senate to subsidize chip manufacturing Manchin made a deal on a deficit reduction/climate change bill Bill protecting same-sex (and interracial) marriage passed House w/47 votes from R’s House passes stupid dumb assault weapons ban. Probably (hopefully?) doomed in the Senate. PACT Act failed to pass Kevin Drum thinks the Republicans have a point A 201...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Idaho GOP overwhelmingly rejects adding abortion exception to save the life of the mother to their platform Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them 10-year-old girl who had been raped was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to get an abortion An Abortion Is Not An Abortion If A 10-Ye...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective. This week, it’s all Supreme Court! Support us on Substack! News discussed: Followup: Turkey is supporting Sweden and Finland’s NATO applications SCOTUS News Roe is dead Egbert v. Boule - border patrol agents can’t be sued for excessive force Ahmed v. Weyker - 8th Circuit - (deputized) federal officer invented a fake drug trafficking ring and fabricated a bunch of evidence Byrd v. Lamb - 5th Circuit - ...
Jul 06, 2022•2 hr 9 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News Discussed Google seems to say that carbon footprint of solar breaks even pretty early and is at least better than gas and coal. Here's the master study that articles tend to cite Here is nasa giving irradiance data for new york Family care centers in at least two states discarded thousands of cans of unopened, unexpired baby formula Moderna has an omicron-specific booster t...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: The receipt for the tactical vest worn by the Aurora shooter Kiel school had to open a Title IX investigation? The school closed the investigation Abbott restarts production of specialty formulas at Michigan plant CDC concluded its investigation with no findings of a link between Abbott formulas and infant illnesses. Kyiv was hit by Russian missiles targeting a t...
Jun 08, 2022•58 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: The Ministry to Truth is dead ? The director wanted to be able to edit tweets to add context After 2 months of fighting, port city of Mariupol has fallen to Russia NYT editorial urges Ukraine to consider surrender Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership Turkey objects, claims they house Kurdish Separatists Russia retaliated by cutting off gas to Finland FD...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 41 min
Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspective Support us on Substack! News discussed: Russian blockade stops export of Ukranian wheat - 4.5M tons. Trains trying to take up slack , 600k tons/month. Louisiana introduced a bill to classify any abortion after conception as homicide Biden created a “ Disinformation Governance Board ” that’s totally not a Ministry of Truth Nina Jankowicz has a book all about how hard it is to be a woman PayPal canceled ...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 17 min
