Positive Realist
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POD IS LIVE: Yay Illegals! Neigh Horse Carriages!
@Liv_Boeree joins the show this week! We discuss how NYC is protecting illegal criminals, while removing horse-drawn carriages in Central Park. Why you can no longer be mean to Claude and if we should be pushing to d/acc after a cyber attack on a grocery store. Also, woke continues to make a comeback.. women were mad at Shane Gillis after his SNL monologue, Metallica frontman James Hetfield receives hate online for not taking a side, and Kelly Clarkson battles with a small business in Brooklyn. Finally, Liv and Solana compare their X algorithms.
0:00 - Welcome back to the pod!
0:15 - Thank you @MonacoGTM
1:00 - NYC protects illegal criminals
17:00 - Horse-drawn carriages are banned
30:00 - Thank you @eightsleep
31:00 - Don't be mean to Claude
45:00 - Thank you @joinautopilot
46:00 - Should we d/acc? Cyber attack at grocery store
55:30 - Metallica frontman James Hetfield controversey
1:00:00 - Shane Gillis joke on women at gyms
1:08:30 - Kelly Clarkson vs. Art Of Play
1:13:30 - Comparing X algorithms
1:28:00 - See you next Friday!
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If AI will end the world, why are AI safetyists more interested in winning internet debates than saving it?
FULL PODCAST: Europeans still don’t get free speech
Welcome back to the pod! Pirate Wires reported on the State Department's fight against censorship abroad, while French President, Emmanuel Macron, denounced America's version of free speech. @metaversehell joins us to discuss free speech maximalism and how Europe's model of speech is seeping into America's view of speech. Also on today's episode, an AI doomer battle between Steven Pinker & Scott Alexander, @nicolewizman1 joins us to discuss how the state of California is in disarray, and we close the episode debating aliens and Fermi's Paradox (or the newly created.. Solana's Paradox.)
Thank you to our presenting sponsor @MonacoGTM
Timestamps:
0:00 - Welcome Back To The Pod!
1:45 - Free Speech Wars Between America & Europe
4:45 - What Defines Freedom?
12:40 - Macron's Wife Controversy
18:00 - France Riots
22:50 - THANK YOU @MonacoGTM
23:30 - AI Doomer Battle Between Steven Pinker & Scott Alexander
53:55 - THANK YOU @joinautopilot
54:35 - California In Disarray
1:13:00 - Aliens! Debating Fermi's Paradox
1:33:20 - THANK YOU @eightsleep
1:34:15 - Wrapping Up
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"I'm horrified that Trump would publicly execute a terrorist" - same people who celebrated these
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Aladdin
📅 Release: 1993
🎮 Platform: SNES
🏁 Genre: Platformer
👤 Developer: Capcom
🏢 Publisher: Capcom
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A new agreement between the U.S., Denmark, and Greenland will triple American defense bases on the icy territory.
The agreement features deal points we’ve never secured in Greenland before: we gain submarine access; accelerated permissions to build unmanned bases; and guardrails against Russian and Chinese influence over the region.
As @gb_rango explains, this new agreement isn’t important simply because of the benefits to American defense. More than that, it represents a return to the urgency and vigilance of post-WWII foreign policy. Europe and the U.S. are closing ranks to protect themselves against the threat of China and (secondarily) Russia, for whom the Arctic is a pivotal battleground: rare earths and nuclear missile pathways are key features of the region.
Full breakdown of the deal, and what it says about our new world order 👇
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From attempting to hack government websites to commandeering a German Wiki, AI agents have had a wild (and sometimes illegal) summer.
If you’re wondering why all of these ‘rogue’ AI incidents keep happening... this explainer is for you @EvanMilenko 👇
piratewires.com/p/why-ai-kee…
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No, Bernie Sanders does not “mean well.” No more giving communists a pass for “good intentions.”
@micsolana on Bernie Sanders' evil agenda
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we’re getting a p(doom) of zero from @ssankar in conversation with with @micsolana here at the @JoinFAI american innovation gala. we must not pray to false idols. full steam ahead.
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I am republishing this piece from June 25, 2018, after learning from a colleague that a suffering friend found succor in its urging—one that I reemphasize—to wait just twenty-four hours when suicide seems the inevitable choice. Just twenty-four hours. This article appears as it did then. It is gratis. -M-
open.substack.com/pub/mitchh…
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This is a game changer for Miami!
Hedge-fund titan Ken Griffin is donating $2 billion to start a Carnegie Mellon University campus in Miami, part of the largest-ever individual gift toward higher education on.wsj.com/4AGpvMq
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As the Democratic Party goes to war with artificial intelligence, we are once again wondering: is “abundance Democrat” an oxymoron?
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The State Department is launching an effort to eradicate censorship in America and abroad, enlisting companies like Palantir and Anduril to lend engineers to State for up to a year.
There, they’ll detect unlawful surveillance, strengthen child safety protections, enhance encryption, and ferret out attempts at government censorship everywhere.
You can think of it like DOGE for free speech.
The program was announced this summer in a private event at the historic Morgan Estate, attended by Pirate Wires, where State Dept Under Secretary Sarah Rogers (@UnderSecPD) talked censorship with Elon Musk.
Elon: “What we’ve got in America is something that should be treasured, which is the ability to speak your mind without the fear of reprisals or government action. [In] other parts of the world, they don’t have that.”
Inside State’s attempt to ensure the Biden-era censorship regime never returns — and details on this new exchange, aka the “Freedom Tech Excellence Program,” from @huntryerson 👇
