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Your Mortgage Fraud · Stuff Keeps Happening

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Hello. I briefly unraveled the fabric of reality,
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but stuff still happened. So what's up? You are
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all cordially invited to come over to my house
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so that we can all sit down at the table and
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play a rousing game of contracts and coworkers.
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Employees at Hasbro's subsidiary, Wizards of
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the Coast, have unionized with the Communication
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Workers of America, CWA. Wizards of the Coast
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makes a bunch of games like Magic the Gathering,
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Dungeons & Dragons, and other games that are
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made by Wizards of the Coast. Now you would think
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that they would be chill as hell, right? They're
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called Wizards of the Coast and like they make
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games in which you just kind of have fun chilling
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with your friends. They're not. They're really
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not. I mean they kind of maybe were one day way
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long ago, but mostly they're a subsidiary of
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Hasbro and Hasbro fucking sucks. That is my opinion,
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not market analysis. So the Wizards Union, they,
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uh, whew, that's a fun thing to say, uh, they
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are asking for Hasbro to formally recognize them
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voluntarily, which Hasbro slash Wizards has already
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said no. That's more or less to be expected.
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That's, that's kind of their MO. They've also
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said no in the past. So the first step is gonna
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be getting the Union recognized, but they are
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working with a major Union and that's, it's just
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gonna be a long fight. And so they're gonna have
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to go through that and then contract negotiation,
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and then hopefully they'll get what they're looking
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for. According to their announcement, here's
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some of the stuff that they're trying to get
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from the company. Better compensation standards,
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stronger job security mechanisms, accessible
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healthcare options, hybrid work options, AI protections,
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and more. Not a whole lot more. And that's pretty
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basic stuff. Hey, can we get like capable pay
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and like reasonable accommodations? And also,
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like, little side tangent about the AI stuff,
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Wizards is known for having beautiful artwork,
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and a huge pool of artists that they work with
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to produce that artwork. And then they've also
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had their ass caught using AI to generate artwork
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for their official material. And they're like,
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oh, we didn't mean to. Sure. So, hopefully, AI
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protections will be a thing. It's gonna be a
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fight, but I think that they are up for it, and
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I'm hoping... that they're gonna win solidarity
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with the Union, as always. It also doesn't hurt
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that a huge portion of the community, from Dungeons
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& Dragons and Magic the Gathering and all that,
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are in support of the Union. Because, shocker,
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they care about the things that they play and
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the people who make them. And so there's been
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pretty vocal support, especially from people
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who are well known in the actual play space,
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which is a type of show where people play Dungeons
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& Dragons for, like, several hours at a time.
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Roland Dice. Playing games. Committing mortgage
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fraud. That's you. That last one. You, specifically.
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Dear listener, you have committed mortgage fraud.
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Okay, maybe, maybe not you specifically. I don't
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know, but that doesn't take away from the fact
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that you have committed mortgage fraud. The Trump
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administration is no stranger to doing the exact
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things that they constantly complain were done
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to them, and for today, we're gonna take a look
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at, quote, weaponizing the Department of Justice.
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And really, we're just gonna take one Narrow
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slice because there's just a lot that you could
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use as evidence of the Trump administration weaponizing
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the Department of Justice, but we're going to
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focus on mortgage fraud accusations. For whatever
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reason, this fuck ass administration keeps trying
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to go after their loudly stated political enemies
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with specifically mortgage fraud. It has gotten
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to the point that I'm genuinely confused as to
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why they're still doing this. Try something else.
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So far in just the second term of Trump's presidency,
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the following people have been targeted or investigated
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or referred for something relating to mortgage
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fraud. New York Attorney General Letitia James,
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who brought the fraud case against Trump in the
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District of New York, he didn't like that. She
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was charged with mortgage fraud and then the
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charges were dropped because the prosecutor that
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she was charged by was illegally appointed. After
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that debacle, they tried to go to a grand jury
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to indict her again, and two different grand
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juries both refused to indict her, likely because
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there was fucking nothing. Adam Schiff, Democrat
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boy and critic of Trump online, has been another
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one that has been targeted. He's been probed
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for mortgage fraud. The probe has stalled, but
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it hasn't closed, technically. So he's still
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being probed for mortgage fraud. Eric Swalwell,
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a disgraced sex pest, allegedly, and former Democratic
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boy who also would criticize Trump online, and
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I don't want to sit here and defend him very
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much, was also targeted for mortgage fraud bullshit.
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Fonny Willis, Fulton County District Attorney
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who wanted to investigate Trump, was also referred
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for mortgage fraud investigations. Lisa Cook,
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a Federal Reserve governor who Trump has wanted
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to get rid of for reasons. It's a black woman
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that was appointed by a Democrat. He tried to
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get rid of her. The Supreme Court said you can't
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just do that without cause. And so he opened
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up an investigation into mortgage fraud for her.
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And that hasn't come up with anything. That was
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August of 2025. And just now, it still hasn't
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done anything. And he still wants to get rid
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of her. And so they are now going to open a probe
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into allegations of mortgage fraud, their own
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allegations, probing the allegations of the probe
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that were allocated from an alligator. Now, a
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reasonable person would say, okay, look, that's
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a lot of people who were charged with mortgage
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fraud that are all critical of Trump, but they're
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also all politicians. And at the end of the day,
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a lot of politicians are doing a lot of crimes.
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So like, is it really that unlikely? To which
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I would say, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's pretty
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unlikely. But I get you, right? Like, it's not
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like I want to sit here and defend politicians
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at large. So after the big spike in mortgage
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fraud investigations against Trump critics, Reuters
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was like, is this... Abnormal? And the answer
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is, yeah. They went over, like, 600 different
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cases involving mortgage fraud, and they found
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only 20 cases where people were lying about their
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primary residence, which is, like, the mode of
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how they're attacking here. And of those 20 cases,
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only one of them actually was only for lying
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about your permanent residence, so to have, like,
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five in a year is wild. One other reason to believe
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that they're weaponizing their Department of
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Justice is that Trump took to his own social
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network and posted as much. You may recall, September
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of 2025, he just kind of posted like, hey, then
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Attorney General Pam Bondi, go after my enemies.
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Just posted it on the Internet. Why do I do this?
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I'm not going to sit here and say the Biden Department
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of Justice was perfect. And like, yeah, they
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did investigate Trump, but also Trump did very
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visible crimes on live TV. We all watched that.
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And also, he's the president again, not a guy
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in a jail cell forever. So doesn't seem really
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equal. This also completely ignores, like, several
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other avenues that they're using to go after
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people at the Department of Justice, a la Ilan
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Omar, etc. The internet got real quiet. Or did
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it? Ukraine recently struck multiple Yandex data
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centers. Yandex is a Russian tech company, pretty
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analogous to Google. They do search indexing,
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they have a web infrastructure platform, it's
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basically Russian Google. So when Ukraine hit
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multiple of their data centers, taking out two
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of them and impairing one, It caused a bit of
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a spark online. It caused actually a bit of a
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spark in the data center, too, I'm sure. Right
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after the strike, people started noticing, in
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analytics charts, traffic from Russian bots plummeted.
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All around the internet, you could see graphs
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of Russian bot traffic just going to virtually
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zero after this was taken out, and people were
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talking about how, in various places around social
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media, it was clear that Russian bots were no
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longer spreading their disinformation, and we
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were all free from this menace, at least for
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now. It turns out that's... that's... That's
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not, that's not what happened. That's not what
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happened. Yes, dear listener, welcome to another
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instance of Stuff Keeps Happening presents fact
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-checking colon Endeavorance is a party pooper.
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It didn't sit well with me when I was looking
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at these charts and when I was reading about
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people saying that that these spaces were just
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no longer plagued with bots. I followed several
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people's recommendations to go check out different
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spaces online to see that bot activity had evaporated
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and it hadn't. I did a bit more digging, turns
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out, yeah, that's not really what happened. What
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actually happened is that Yandex is a tech infrastructure
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company and a search engine, and search engines
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need to have crawlers, bots that crawl along
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the internet to index all the web pages, in order
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to function. Google has this, it's called Googlebot,
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and pretty much any search engine that wants
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to index the internet has to do that. It's basically
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just a robot that goes to a webpage and then
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follows all the links on that webpage to other
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webpages, saves their content, indexes it, and
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then gives it back to you when you search for
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it. And so when a Yandex data center was taken
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out, Russian bot traffic plummeted. That statement
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is accurate, but, quote, Russian bot doesn't
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necessarily mean a active social media disinformation
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account. It just means non -human access of the
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internet. Now... Do I think that there were some
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bots that were taken out from this? Yeah. Russian,
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like the social media bots in this case. Yes.
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I do believe, like, there are an infrastructure
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company, right? There was likely some stuff that
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was hosted in their infrastructure for managing
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these bots, and perhaps some were disrupted.
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But at large, researchers who actually follow
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all of this stuff and track Russian bot networks,
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they said basically nothing happened. There may
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have been some cases where some places did see
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a drop, but at large there wasn't really an impact
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on the general posts of propaganda. I don't think
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this was like a malicious thing that people were
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spreading around. I think it's just, it's a really
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easy thing to internalize, right? Russian bot
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traffic drops after data center hit with Big
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Bomb, and everyone's constantly feeling like
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it's just oppressive to be online because it's
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just filled with crazy people who must be bots,
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and a lot of them absolutely are. So when we
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all start seeing these stories, it feels really
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validating, right? But just remember, when you
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see a story like this that feels like it just
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perfectly fits your narrative, take a step back,
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evaluate it. Way to be not usually that clear.
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This doesn't mean that Russia is not operating
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bot forms. We know they are. And it's not just
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Russia. It's a bunch of countries and us. But
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that's besides the point. Yo, teach them kids.
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France? Students across France are currently
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out in mass demonstrations demanding that their
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government better fund their school systems.
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With a backdrop of an economy that's not going
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in the right direction in France, students have
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also said, hey, my school's falling apart. It's
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too hot. There's not desks for me to use. And
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my class size is exploding. Teachers started
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this off, actually. They were banding together
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to start demanding for... better workplace environments
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and also, you know, better conditions for the
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kids. And then the students joined in. They set
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up barricades. They started to boycott classes
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and they've been demonstrating in the streets.
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And unfortunately, the response from authorities
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has been harsh. Riot gear, tear gas, rubber bullets,
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the works, stun grenades. One 15 year old recently
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lost their hand because of a stun grenade. French
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President Macron is not able to run for another
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consecutive term. And this past term has not
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been good for him, to put it mildly. Economic
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indicators in France are not strong right now,
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and after coming in as a person who is supposed
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to be able to fix the economy, it's not looking
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great for him. And unfortunately, far -right
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parties are using that against him. The centrist
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couldn't do it, so let's all just regress to
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the Dark Ages. The French government hasn't really
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given a meaningful response to the protesters
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at time of recording. They've said, we hear you
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and we'll work on it, but they've mostly just
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stopped using stun grenades on children for now.
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It's kind of as far as they've gotten. Otherwise,
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they're working towards tackling the problems.
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Hey, maybe fund your school system. Because we
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don't have that either. Like, if I can't have
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a country with a well -funded school system,
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you damn well better. Solidarity. I'm mad. Lightning
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round. Remotely controlled refrigerators at a
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French grocery chain were hacked and set to like
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50 degrees Celsius. Quite literally spoiling
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everyone's day. A Dutch eyewear retailer has
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banned Meadow's smart glasses because they're
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fucking creepy, and can record you, and can be
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modded to not have that light that's on while
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it's recording you. Anyway, Meadow's response
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was, cool, cool, cool, we get you. We'll get
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rid of the camera and just keep the microphone
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so that can record people, and we'll get rid
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of the indicator light that it's recording. Great
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job, guys. A man in California shot an off -duty
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ICE officer who was passed out drunk in his yard.
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He got up, he was belligerent, got shot. Should
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have complied. Seven coffins were found near
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the governor's residence in North Dakota. It
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apparently has to do with like an old graveyard
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that got moved a long time ago, but I think we
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should keep an open mind. Susan Collins in Maine
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is the Senate incumbent and she's running for
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re -election. A pack associated with her played
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ads in Portland, Oregon, attacking her opponent
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rather than Portland, Maine. That is on the other
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side of the country. And finally for today, a
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middle school student in Massachusetts which
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suspended after she was found with a replica
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death note that she had written several classmates'
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names in. It is on -brand, as far as Light Yagami
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goes, to be brazen like that. And also, the cops
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went to investigate it, and they're like, what
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is this? Is it dangerous? Like, yeah, I mean,
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maybe keeping even a joking kill list is a bad
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idea, but also the notion of a police department
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investigating a death note is hysterical. Thank
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you so much for listening to today's episode
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of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to skh .news for
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sources, bonus content, and a copy of my actual
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Death Note. My name is Endeavorance, we'll talk
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again soon, take care, and be well.