**Previous Episode: [[BDE334]]** **Next Episode: [[BDE336]]** %%Post image thumbnail below.%%  > [!abstract|no-i] **Episode Overview** **Date Aired:** [[06-25-2024]] **Title:** On the Nature of Daylight **Episode:** 335 **Description:** The high stakes of information stewardship and implications for the future. **Link:** https://rumble.com/v53ricq-big-dig-energy-335-on-the-nature-of-daylight.html **Tags:** %%<https://historydraft.com/happened/what-happened/1-January/world>%% ## Replay %% Get embed URL then highlight and hit ALT + I%% <iframe src="https://rumble.com/embed/v51f9mt/?pub=6eeyh" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; "></iframe> <br> ## Greetings & Announcements 1. I'll be on American Journal this Friday to talk about Organoid Intelligence — more on what we covered on Sunday night: Scientists are growing human brain organoids to replicate molecular and cellular aspects of learning and memory (and likely cognition) to make biological computers. It is said to be worthwhile because it's highly energy efficient, but there are virtually zero efforts to question whether human sentience in a computer chip is ethically sound. A literal Matrix situation is already happening and it's just gotten started. 2. I'll be on Simpcast on Sunday night. 3. Gamer Words will start back up next week. ## Segments ### Julian Assange [The Assange Plea and Press Freedom](https://www.justsecurity.org/97128/assange-plea-press-freedom/) Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has agreed to plead guilty to a single felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing U.S. defense secrets. According to news reports, the Justice Department will recommend to a U.S. district court for the Northern Mariana Islands that Assange be released to Australia, his country of citizenship, given the more-than five years he has already served at Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom. A video circulating on social media shows Assange boarding a plane after his release from Belmarsh yesterday, and a Justice Department letter indicates that the district court has scheduled a hearing regarding the plea for Wednesday morning. ---  --- [Report: Hillary Clinton considered drone attack on Julian Assange](https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/report-hillary-clinton-considered-drone-attack-on-julian-assange)  > Julian Assange canceled a dramatic London balcony address on Tuesday in favor of a video presentation in Berlin after WikiLeaks developed "specific information" regarding Assange's safety, the leaked emails clearinghouse tweeted on Monday afternoon. > > Some believe the video announcement by the WikiLeaks founder could be an "October surprise" geared towards the U.S. presidential election. Supporters of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump have said they believe the announcement will be damaging to the candidacy of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. > > Assange has already played a key role in the presidential race, with the release of 20,000 internal emails that indicated the Democratic National Committee appeared to conspire to prevent Bernie Sanders from winning the nomination. Those revelations surfaced in August, just before the party's convention, proving embarrassing to Clinton's campaign. They also led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. > > Though no recent public revelations directly tie to Assange's security fears, various U.S. officials and pundits have made threatening statements directed at him in the past. WikiLeaks on Monday tweeted an alleged quote from a 2010 State Department meeting at which then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked if Assange could be killed in a drone strike. > > That same year, former Democrat strategist Bob Beckel said on Fox News Channel that "a dead man can't leak stuff." > > Assange also has hinted that deceased DNC staffer Seth Rich may have been a source for WikiLeaks. Rich, 27, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the back at a Washington, D.C., intersection in July. He died soon thereafter. Authorities believe Rich was the target of a botched robbery, but his death has inspired conspiracy theories.  ### Crisis Fatigue [Anti-Trump Burnout: The Resistance Says It’s Exhausted](https://archive.ph/nlPD2)  > In 2017 they donned pink hats to march on Washington, registering their fury with Donald J. Trump by the hundreds of thousands. > > Then they flipped the House from Republican control, won the presidency and secured a surprisingly strong showing in the 2022 midterm elections, galvanized by their conviction that Mr. Trump and his allies constituted a national emergency. > > This year, anti-Trump voters are grappling with another powerful sentiment: exhaustion. > > "Some folks are burned out on outrage," said Rebecca Lee Funk, the Washington-based founder of the Outrage, a progressive activism group and a purveyor of resistance-era apparel. "People are tired. I think last election we were desperate to get Trump out of office, and folks were willing to rally around that singular call to action. And this election feels different." > > But for Democrats, the mission is similar: Now defending the White House, President Biden is trying to reassemble that sprawling anti-Trump coalition, casting the 2024 contest as another battle to save American democracy as Mr. Trump moves toward the Republican nomination. ### Canary in the Coal Mine [Can Families of Mass Shooting Victims Hold Social Media Companies Responsible for Violence?](https://www.justsecurity.org/96932/social-media-companies-mass-shootings/)  %%Footer Starts Here%% --- <center><img src="https://archive.is/do5ay/df25cfff93575f174c387ac9f4c64744da0fadb9.png" alt="Keep digging!" height="100px"></center> --- ## Tags ### Linked Pages & Footnotes