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Brent Dill has appeared on YouTube and was invited to a weekend event by a VibeCamp organizer. There is a 2 hour 39 minute twitter video about how he was supposedly wronged, and a lot of tweets back and forth about the specifics. Even his defenders say that a lot of messed up things happened in Bay Area LessWrong including lying and sexual / emotional abuse.

I posted some quotes on the Stubsack. I don't know what to do because it looks like some messed up things happened between our friends and unnamed young people, and there were coverups, but the details will only be known if someone gets access to their email and text history and interviews them. Some of the same people are probably victims and perpetrators. We don't need all the details to tell anyone curious about them "these spaces are full of abusers, grifters, and cult recruiters and use a lot of drugs, stay away."

Stories about Dill putting his arm around people and telling them that they were the only two who saw what was really going on in society / their group house remind me of stories about Michael Vassar.

Dill once lived in Idaho where Aella grew up.

Who's paying for Trump's MAGA-fied Freedom 250 festivities?

Major corporate donors include Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, and Palantir.

And YOU — the taxpayer!

If you’re not going to be glued to the big match, Kirstie and Phil can provide some distraction. Plus: an utterly lovely Paul Mescal movie

8pm, Channel 4With England playing Croatia on ITV1, it’s slim pickings across the rest of the channels, but anyone immune to football fever can always count on Kirstie and Phil. This week, they are in London to revisit two couples: in the east, Molly and Sam have finally bought in Walthamstow; down south, Alan and Rachel have spent three years doing up their Victorian terrace in Crystal Palace. Hollie Richardson

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Police torture, violent cell mates, denied lawyer meetings, overcrowded cells and little to no outdoor time are common experiences for those locked up in China’s detention centres, according to a new report out today by Safeguard Defenders.

Behind Bars: a survey on detention centre conditions in China, based on a survey of 84 former detainees, paints a grim picture with respondents reporting widespread abuses and violations of both international law and Chinese law and regulations. Its findings should be a stark reminder for foreign governments considering security agreements or extradition arrangements with Beijing that such cooperation is incompatible with fundamental human rights principles.

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The report’s primary research findings are:

1. Detention centres routinely violate domestic regulations and international standards leading to problems such as overcrowding, inadequate medical care and exposure to violence.
2. Detainees’ rights to legal counsel are routinely obstructed with lawyer meetings blocked and inmates pressured to hire a pliant duty lawyer.
3. Regulatory shortfalls and the widespread occurrence of abuses indicate structural weaknesses in oversight.
4. Of particular concern is the phenomenon of “cell bosses”, who are often authorized or tolerated by detention officers to maintain discipline among inmates through intimidation and abuse

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The report was officially released on 16 June at an event organized by Safeguard Defenders in Lisbon, Portugal on the risks of hostage diplomacy and arbitrary detention in China. Speaking at the event were Peter Humphrey from the UK, a former corporate fraud investigator who was imprisoned in China and now volunteers to help the families of foreigners arrested or sentenced in China and Canadian Grace Chen, an international human rights lawyer and former legal advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

In the days leading up to the event, China tried to cancel it by writing a letter to the venue urging them not to offer a "platform for actions that vilify China." Also, an X account that impersonates Safeguard Defenders and is likely linked to Beijing posted our event announcement but changed the date, time and location.

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A trove of internal records from a secret society for powerful figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private.

The group, called Dialog, is a private, invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by the billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. It convenes US officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats. Dialog has spent two decades declining to disclose its members.

A directory in the website's code was first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew. Known for exposing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the surveillance-camera company Verkada, crimew tells WIRED the directory surfaced via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified its contents.

The law is on your side, policy professional Kat George writes. It’s worth making spam and privacy complaints

Of course I'm not sure how effective enforcement is.

The place to report it to is ACMA

Last week, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country into law. HB 211 will make it a crime to sleep outside in Louisiana, punishing homeless people with extreme fines and draconian jail sentences, while also setting the stage for forced treatment and even forced labor.

This bill did not come out of nowhere. Across the country, we’re seeing a coordinated effort – led by the Palantir-funded, billionaire-backed Cicero Institute and taken up by the Trump administration – to arrest and jail people simply because they can’t afford the rent. Cicero has praised and supported this horrific version of its copy-paste legislation, and Gov. Landry, a supporter of the president, has cited Trump’s anti-homeless policies to justify his support for this bill.

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China is building more 𝗻𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 than any other country, Chinese SOEs like 𝗖𝗡𝗡𝗖 and 𝗖𝗚𝗡 are turning nuclear energy into a state-backed industrial platform, and Beijing is supercharging its nuclear power manufacturing capabilities - both in scale as well as with new innovation.

But why?

*For Beijing, nuclear energy is 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 about green electricity. Coal is king when it comes to energy, not nuclear. *

Yet, Beijing likes 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 different energy-generating technologies on top of each other 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 A (e.g., nuclear) with B (e.g renewables) as other countries do.

It is about industrial strength and national energy sovereignty and will continue the success stories of China's industrial growth in everything from 𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 to its manufacturing base.

*From 𝗛𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 to 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀, thorium experiments, uranium supply chains and AI power demand, China’s nuclear strategy reflects a broader belief that energy systems 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹. *

*Now, Beijing is getting ready to sell its Nuclear Reactors to other countries. Watch this in the next 5 years. *