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Will MacAskill (@willmacaskill) on the 80k podcast talking about our new paper. It's about making AIs risk-averse as a safety strategy. Coming out soon! youtu.be/g0MikM4Bsbc?t=…

Wow. David Stancombe and Sergio Aguiar, whose daughters were killed in the Southport massacre, completed the London marathon today. They were running for charity (they did the same last year). Where do these guys find the courage and fortitude? An inspiration to us all.

They took 93 heavy drinkers. People averaging 7 drinks per day. And gave them 2x psilocybin doses and 12 psychotherapy sessions. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗶𝘁. 2x 5gram doses. 2 weeks apart. Then, after 4 weeks, they tested the group: 𝟴𝟯% 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 in heavy drinking And 8 months later: 48% stopped drinking completely. The placebo? 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟱%. But yeah...no medical value, right?

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"If the Left wants to recover from this moral catastrophe [glorifying mass murder and rape by a reactionary death cult ], it must begin a serious reckoning." @mboudry Maarten Boudry turns around the question, "What Did You Think Decolonisation Meant?" quillette.com/2026/04/20/wha…

Adobe charges $250 a year for Illustrator. Someone built the same thing for free. It runs in your browser. And it's architecturally better. It's called Graphite. Most vector editors work by storing a flat list of shapes. Change something early and you're manually fixing everything downstream. Graphite stores your entire design as a computation graph. Every shape, every filter, every effect is a node. Change one node and everything that depends on it recalculates automatically. This is how game engines and VFX pipelines work. Nobody had built a design app this way until now. → Procedural patterns that regenerate when you change any parameter → Nondestructive boolean operations that stay editable forever → Photo editing baked in alongside the vector tools → Motion graphics and VFX compositing on the roadmap → 188 contributors building it right now The people charging $250/year for destructive editing are going to have a problem. graphite.art

If schools and universities refuse to teach the great books of Western Civilization, we will do it ourselves. Athenaeum now has 500 members reading the classics alongside us!! Thank you all 🙏 We're about to start our 12th book — see you on 28 April for the next discussion...

“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.’” — Thomas Sowell

If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high: 1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists eliminated. 2. Ballistic missile program crippled. Monthly production down from 100 to near zero. Roughly half the regime’s missiles and launchers destroyed. The IRGC Aerospace Force commander who ran the missile enterprise dead. 3. Air defenses devastated. American and Israeli airpower dominating Iranian skies, with strike aircraft operating over the country with near impunity. 4. Full economic warfare. Not just OFAC sanctions anymore, but military pressure layered on top: naval blockade, near-zero oil exports, choked imports, wrecked steel and petrochemical sectors, triple-digit inflation, and a currency that is effectively worthless. 5. Regime decapitation. Khamenei dead. Larijani dead. Hundreds of senior IRGC, intelligence, military, and Basij commanders dead including the IRGC commander-in-chief, the armed forces chief of staff, and the Aerospace Force commander. Mojtaba Khamenei inheriting a hollowed-out regime with no supreme authority and a gutted command structure. 6. The region turning on Tehran. Gulf states shutting down the sanctions-busting, money-laundering, and financial escape routes the regime has relied on for years. No Arab capital willing to throw Iran a lifeline. China and Russia providing limited support. 7. Proxy network shattered. Hezbollah and Hamas heavily degraded. Houthi political leadership taking direct Israeli strikes. The “Axis of Resistance” and “ring of fire” are now more slogans than real threats. 8. Syrian corridor severed. Assad is gone. The new government in Damascus is actively blocking Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah: arresting smugglers and publicly declaring Syria will no longer serve as a transit corridor for Tehran’s terrorists. The land bridge to the Mediterranean that took decades to build is effectively closed. 9. Lebanon pivoting west. With Hezbollah battered and resupply choked, Israel and Lebanon have opened direct peace talks for the first time since 1983, aimed at a permanent agreement and Hezbollah’s disarmament. Beirut now asserting that the Lebanese armed forces alone are responsible for national defense. This is a direct repudiation of Hezbollah’s “resistance” claim. TBD. 10. Deterrence exposed as a bluff. Four direct attacks on Israel — April 2024, October 2024, June 2025, March 2026 — failed to impose strategic cost and instead triggered heavy retaliation. Iran couldn’t even use Syria as a launchpad. 11.Economy hollowed out from within. Power shortages, water crises, factory shutdowns, pension unrest, and mass protests. Nationwide demonstrations erupted in December 2025 after a year of economic freefall, with bazaaris, oil workers, and truckers, the regime’s traditional support base, joining strikes across all 31 provinces. Running out of oil storage space. Fuel shortages. The worst crisis since 1979. 12. Scientific and technical brain drain. Beyond the nuclear experts, Iran has lost a generation of irreplaceable expertise in missile design, centrifuge engineering, and weapons development. The survivors are harder to recruit and easier to deter. 13. Naval power decimated. The regular navy shattered, IRGC navy taking growing losses as CENTCOM moves to reopen Hormuz. And against all of this: the regime forced to play its Hormuz card at its weakest possible moment when the U.S. has options instead of when we didn’t: namely, Tehran with nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, hundreds of thousands of attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions of dollars to harden its economy. That’s the strategic picture. It’s extraordinary. Much more to do but I can’t comprehend how much has been achieved.

A healer in the mountains of Lesotho traces his psilocybin recipe back to his grandmother's initiation in 1955. She learned it from her teacher before that. Nobody in the Western psychedelic world had any idea this was happening. A new preprint from researchers at UC Davis, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Exeter now documents what appears to be the first confirmed case of traditional psilocybin use outside of the Americas. The team interviewed 26 Basotho healers and 8 non-healers across Lesotho and South Africa. Fifteen healers independently identified a mushroom called Psilocybe maluti — a species only formally described by science in 2024 — and reported using it for initiation rituals, treating addiction and depression, magical protection against curses, and recreation. None of them appeared to have any awareness of Western psychedelic culture or clinical research. The way they use it looks nothing like anything documented in the Americas. Instead of large ceremonial doses, Basotho healers grind P. maluti into psychoactive brews and snuffs alongside other hallucinogenic plants, primarily in small amounts. They mix it into a foamy preparation called sethoto that initiates consume over multi-day training periods to intensify their dreams and strengthen their connection to ancestral spirits. One healer uses it to treat methamphetamine addiction as a snuff, twice daily for seven days. Another treats what we'd recognize as depression through an infusion taken over a month. Adolescent herd boys snuff it recreationally while grazing cattle in the highlands. They didn't learn any of this from the internet or from outsiders. They learned it from their grandmothers and their spiritual teachers. Two unrelated individuals in their sixties recall recreational use as teenagers in the 1970s. The broader tradition of psychoactive plant use in southern Africa has archaeological evidence stretching back 60,000 years. Psilocybin mushrooms grow on six of seven continents, and new species keep getting described every year. If traditional use was hiding in plain sight in the mountains of Lesotho, where else has it been overlooked?

This is what I mean when I say that the resolution of this issue is the reversion of transgenderism to a private eccentricity that some people are free to indulge and others are free to decline to indulge. It's the only reasonable, liberal, and moderate approach to this question. Any other approach is form of totalitarian fanaticism. As a private, personal matter, we are free to refer to some by wrong sex pronouns if they desire it and if we desire to indulge them. Others are likewise free to decline to participate. It must never acquire the force of law or general social sanction behind it. Forms of make believe that can function at the level of the individual or the subculture or the neighborhood ("the urban art and fashion demimonde") cannot be scaled up to encompass to the whole of society and be enforced by state power without trampling a fundamental right we all have to say what we know to be true and not be coerced into saying what we know to be false. Rowling zealously defends this right and therefore rejects the Trans Rights Movement while also exercising her own right to indulge an individual man who pretends to be a woman in a way that pleases her to indulge. He knows he's not a woman, he's not invading women's spaces, it pleases him to be referred to in a certain way and it pleases her to indulge him. If he was invading women's spaces, Rowing I am sure would want the law she advocates ensuring that private spaces reserved for women exclude all men to be applied to him. There is no contradiction between these two exercises of her judgment and her rights.

Every aspect of this story is stomach-churning. Two of perptrators met on a small boat, and 3rd teamed up with them in Asylum hotel. Details of the rape itself are bad enough; their attitudes to rape victim, whose abuse was filmed, just so gross.

It’s no wonder young women are so angry. They have been taught to treat half of society as their enemies – as ‘toxic’, as ‘patriarchal’ and ‘privileged’. Those who claim to stand against hate have taught us to hate thy neighbour, says Patrick West buff.ly/NRO773Y

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Freeze effect with Seedance 2.0 ❄️ Prompt: Use @ Reference Image as the main character, keeping facial features and body proportions consistent throughout. She is a 30-year-old woman. Cinematic time-freeze short film, 15 seconds, ultra-realistic, shot on Arri Alexa Mini, 35mm lens, moody sports bar interior lighting with neon accents, volumetric haze, dynamic hard shadows, shallow depth of field. [0:00–0:03] A packed, dimly lit sports bar, time flowing normally. Steadicam frontal medium shot tracking her walking confidently through absolute chaos. On the blurred TVs in the background, the Yankees have just clinched the World Series. The crowd is erupting in pure euphoria. As she walks, she raises her right hand and snaps. [0:03–0:06] At the snap, a subtle spherical shockwave bursts from her fingertips with air distortion and light refraction, expanding outward. Everything freezes mid-explosion. Thick arcs of golden beer suspend in the air, with individual glistening droplets visible. Popcorn kernels float motionless. People are frozen mid-cheer and mid-air in leaping embraces. Volumetric neon light catches the suspended dust and liquid. Absolute silence. [0:06–0:09] Only she moves. Her footsteps echo slightly. The camera moves backward as she walks through the frozen celebration, observing calmly. She casually ducks under an arc of frozen, splashing beer. She notices a cluster of floating popcorn, reaches out, and plucks a single kernel from the air. [0:09–0:11] She stops in front of a frozen woman wearing a Yankees jersey, her face locked in an ecstatic, tearful scream, arms raised for a high-five. The main character tilts her head, gently adjusts the brim of the frozen woman’s Yankees cap, nods slightly, and softly says: “perfect.” [0:11–0:15] She turns, tosses the popcorn kernel into her mouth, and crunches it. She faces the camera, smirks, and snaps again. A stronger reverse shockwave restores motion. The beer completes its splash, the cheering roar instantly returns, and fans land their jumps. She walks away as the camera pushes through the wildly celebrating crowd. Fade to black. Sound: deafening bar roar/celebration → snap → deep shockwave/bass drop → absolute silence → footsteps → sharp popcorn crunch → “perfect” → snap → reverse shockwave → deafening celebration returns

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Thomas Sowell gets it: He's 94 years old and has never held political office, never had a viral moment, never begged for your attention. He just wrote 30 books, spent 50 years dismantling bad ideas with data, and let the work speak. No green room. No cable news contract. No ideology to sell you. While academics were chasing grants and politicians were chasing polls, Sowell was in the library proving them all wrong. The most dangerous intellectual in America isn't the loudest one. It's the one who doesn't need you to agree with him.