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Thinking on starting a debate/interview series. Not quite a podcast, would be in writing, but live. Easier for anons to do.
Will add AI voices on post-editing so will end up like a podcast for those who enjoy that.
Please suggest people and topics, or propose yourself.
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BREAKING: The US Navy has completely withdrawn its warships from the blockade line around Iran after Iran’s first operational use of the advanced Qasem Basir “carrier killer” anti-ship ballistic missile, with satellite imagery showing no US carriers or destroyers in the Gulf of Oman or Arabian Sea since early September, per open-source intelligence and Sentinel-2 data.
The Qasem Basir has a declared range of roughly 1,200 kilometers — enough to cover nearly the entire Gulf of Oman and the US fleet’s previous positions — and is reportedly equipped with electro-optical and thermal imaging seekers designed to track naval targets. SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said the missile “created hell for the Americans,” while CENTCOM acknowledged US vessels came under attack by hostile missiles but said they were defeated without damage.
Satellite imagery shows the USS George Washington, USS George H.W. Bush, USS Tripoli and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are no longer visible in the designated blockade zone, with the line reportedly pushed beyond the missile’s range. The USS Gerald R. Ford has also left the Middle East after a ten-month deployment, leaving the US with two carriers in the region as CENTCOM prepares “short and strong” strike options against Iran.
The blockade remains in place on paper, but the warships enforcing it have reportedly moved beyond the range of Iran’s anti-ship missiles.
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Anthropic marketing: We built a god only we can control and gave it a “wet lab”
Muse marketing: Heyy girl I know you have dozens of unpaid parking tickets. Let’s get that cleaned up
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A beautiful and slightly risqué 1930s Chinese advertising poster for K.K. batteries
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Why would "dissent" be so important for international students. Unless you're there to recruit informants for the CIA instead of, you know, studying.
I’m one of the Americans who spent years living and studying in China. I majored in Chinese literature in college. Sadly, I cannot recommend young Americans do the same thing today. Why?
—First, the obvious. China has grown more repressive and less welcoming to foreigners in the two decades since I was a student there. There is much less space for dissent, and for freedom of speech.
—Somewhat surprisingly, this is worse for American students who are gay, or who are non-white. Chinese Americans often get expected to “know better,” while Black Americans are sometimes treated as second class citizens.
—American universities pretend that the programs they have in China ensure the same standards and the same academic freedom they have in the U.S. They don’t, and they can’t. I’d feel better about Americans studying there if universities were more honest and transparent about the sacrifices they make to stay in China, and the benefits of those sacrifices.
—if tensions worsen between the United States and China, those students could effectively function as hostages.
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Ezra Klein: “Why are young men fleeing the Democratic Party in record numbers?”
Also Ezra Klein:
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I underestimated Zuck's game.
It's a hearing aid. You can't tell me I can't wear my Meta Glasses anymore or you'll be going against the ADA.
Meta Glasses can now serve as FDA-cleared hearing aids. I'm pretty proud of this one -- they're medical grade, help with mild to moderate hearing loss, and a fraction of the cost of a normal hearing aid.
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Simple as
After losing a war in 494 BC, the ancient Chinese King Goujian of Yue rebuilt his population with new marriage laws:
- If a daughter was single at 17 or a son at 20, the parents were held guilty of a crime.
- Old men couldn't marry young women, and young men couldn't marry old ones.
- Every birth came with a state gift of two jars of wine and a dog for a boy, and two jars of wine and a pig for a girl.
Twenty years later, Yue conquered the kingdom that had beaten it.
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