The discourse · 13 September 2026
AMC CEO Adam Aron publicly condemned the tokenization of AMC stock as 'contemptable, outrageous, disgusting, despicable' and 'vile.'
“I find this practice to be contemptable, outrageous, disgusting, despicable. It's vile. How can this possibly be legal?”
A single security change made in an AI app-building platform like Lovable propagates to tens of millions of apps, giving platform-level builders outsized leverage over internet security.
“when we make one change locally in our builder it's amplified to like 40 million apps for example.”
Anton ChuvakinA mitigation rule produced within 30 minutes of a vulnerability becoming known is operationally useful; the same rule produced two days later is essentially useless for exploitation response.
“if we can generate them within 30 minutes of a vulnerability becoming you know known before exploitation begins if someone else can produce that same rule 2 days later it's fairly useless at that point from an exploitation perspective”
Benjamin HarrisA national-security insider who credits post-9/11 CT authorities and Section 702 with saving lives, including his own, now favors rescinding those very authorities because they are no longer needed as much.
“there are people alive because of the CT authorities, because of the 702 authorities. People alive, including I think myself, because of the authorities and capabilities that we were able to use in a war-fighting context. And by now, I'm in favor of effectively rescinding those very things. And that times change, wars wrap up, and we should be able to revisit even justified authorities and capabilities when they're no longer needed as much.”
Michael FeinbergModern scams are sophisticated criminal exercises designed to exploit human emotions like loneliness, grief, fear, and trust, not a product of victim gullibility.
“Modern scams aren't about gullibility. They're sophisticated criminal exercises and they're designed to exploit the fact that we're human.”
Dave BittnerAlex Honnold does feel fear; however, after 20 years of practice, his brain does not light up the same way in response to fear stimuli, which is why he would not show a fear response inside an MRI, contradicting the popular Free Solo brain-scan narrative.
“The real takeaway is that if you practice something enough, your brain just doesn't light up the same way for it. So like with the fear response thing, it's not that I don't feel fear. It's that, you know, with 20 years of getting scared all the time, you're just not going to feel fear while you're inside an MRI”
ORC-related violence has resulted in injuries and deaths inside Home Depot stores.
“And they will do violent things. And they have done violent things. And not only has it happened in retail, it's happened specifically to us. And we've actually had people injured. We've had people killed in our stores in these types of incidents”
Scott GlennIn C. elegans, there is now clear proof of inheritance of acquired traits, and this is widely accepted in the epigenetics field.
“In the worm, we now have very obvious and clearcut proof that there is inheritance of acquired traits. So much so that I don't think that anyone pretty much in the epigenetic field argues against it.”
Oded RechaviThe National Guard is not deployed in the census tracts where 82% of DC murders occur.
“the census tracks where they were not is where 82% of the DC murders happen, right?”
Benjamin WittesThe US does not have a problem with energy generation for AI; it has a problem with speed to power, driven by permitting, transmission, and regulatory bottlenecks.
“the US doesn't have a problem with energy generation. It has a problem with speed to power.”
David George