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🦇 Mercedes’ New Concept Car Looks Straight Out of ’90s Batman Cartoons
https://www.thedrive.com/news/mercedes-new-concept-car-looks-straight-out-of-90s-batman-cartoons

Mercedes’ New Concept Car Looks Straight Out of ’90s Batman Cartoons
Mercedes' new concept car can drive itself and even has solar paint—but the coolest thing about it is that it looks like an old-school Batmobile.

I think it’s worth reiterating how good this article about #AI and AGI is
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1127057/agi-conspiracy-th…

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

Trump's Pardons Cover Every Conceivable Form of Corruption (Robert Tracinski/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-pardons-cover-every-conceivable
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p140#a251204p140

"What about the developers who start their careers during the 2020s? How will they deal with the ever-present issue of comparing floating-point values in a world that prefers TikTok to books? Well, they will probably ask an LLM how to do that, and not even bother about this issue anymore. Welcome to the future!"
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The Smartest Concept In Computer Science
Every decade, programmers new to the industry must ingest a non-negligible amount of information in order to be proficient in their jobs. For the past five decades, however, this basic set of information has changed substantially, generating as a result a quite varied set of priorities in the minds of age-diverse programming teams.

Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao,
Donald Trump has offered a curious defense:
he doesn’t even know the guy.
Why Trump thinks this would somehow assuage fears that the pardon is improper is anyone’s guess.
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-bi…

Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.

Two Virginia Men Arrested for Conspiring to Destroy Government Databases (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-virginia-men-arrested-conspiring-destroy-government-databases
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p76#a251204p76

A senior national security prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia
said in a farewell note taped to his door to colleagues on Friday
that he was apparently fired this week because a January 6 conspiracy theorist denounced him on social media
for having worked for the deputy attorney general in the Biden administration.
The veteran federal prosecutor, Michael Ben’Ary,
was fired on Wednesday,
the same day that Julie Kelly,
a pro-Trump commentato…

Broadview conspiracy defendants want to see if White House played a role in their case (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/04/broadview-conspiracy-defendants-want-to-see-if-white-house-played-a-role-in-their-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p130#a251204p130

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pipe-bomb-suspect-told-fbi-believed-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-rcna247544
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p35#a251205p35

Jamie Raskin, a House judiciary committee member and congressman from Maryland,
has accused the justice department of a
“shameful and gigantic cover-up”.
He demands to know why the Trump administration
“inexplicably killed” a criminal investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged
co-conspirators
despite the fact that nearly 50 women had provided information to prosecutors and the FBI
as part of the years-long investigat…