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Apple's Botched AI · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  hello i betrayed my friends at the house on the
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  hill but stuff still happened so what's up it's
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  apple's turn to do the artificial artificial
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  intelligence thing so all the way back 10 years
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  ago when it was last year apple announced the
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  iphone 16 and they were like this is built from
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  the ground up for Apple intelligence. They then
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  went on to showcase a whole bunch of features
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  about how it could reach into apps on your phone
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  and like learn stuff about you, but still be
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  private and do all this cool stuff and how Siri
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  wouldn't suck anymore. And that was all lies.
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  I mean, lies, lies -ish. It was lies adjacent.
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  Apple has rolled out some of their Apple intelligence
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  features. I turn them off on my devices because
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  they're bad, but they've rolled out some, just
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  not most. And they just keep delaying these features
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  because it turns out the developers learned about
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  these features basically when we did. See, Apple
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  has a long history of not jumping onto a new
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  feature or product first. They'll wait and then
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  do it the Apple way, which frankly does usually
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  work out for them. They've got multiple trillions
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  of dollars in market value. I have. like a crisp
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  $20 bill by comparison. But this time it kind
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  of fucked them over. They didn't have any plan
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  for AI before ChatGPT became a thing. And even
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  when that happened, they were like, shit, okay,
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  like how do we make something? just so that we
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  can put it out there. So apparently they tried
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  just like updating Siri to allow Siri to reach
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  out to an AI and like answer some questions,
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  but that just created more bugs than it was worth.
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  So they gave up on that, which is why we now
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  have that like middle ground thing where sometimes
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  Siri gets a query and it's like, ah, I don't
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  fucking know. Want me to ask chat GPT? Or at
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  least I think that's how that works. Again, I
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  turn it off because I don't want this. I'm not
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  complaining that this isn't a thing. I don't
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  want it in the first place, but it's still very
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  funny. So they tried the one thing. They then
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  did the whole like just, send it off to chat
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  GPT. They apparently were announcing features
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  on stage that were just like not communicated
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  internally. Something that was more like a concept
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  became marketing materials. And they were like,
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  yeah, we're, you know, it's not quite ready yet,
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  but it'll be out in a couple months. It's been,
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  it's been several of those months and it's really
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  just been nothing. But hey, you can, you can
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  have them generate a custom emoji. or an image,
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  sort of, with like the worst of all of the image
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  generators. And, oh great, you can have it rewrite
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  some text. Truly the next level of personal assistant.
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  Anyway, we're now fast approaching the actually
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  hysterical concept that the iPhone 17 might come
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  out before the 16 gets the features that they
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  said it would have. So policy. OK, egg on my
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  face. Last time I said that the bill, the big,
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  beautiful tax bill was unlikely to pass. Is it
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  going to pass? Probably not. It passed. It passed
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  the House. It's now going on to the Senate, where
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  I will give exactly no insight into what I think
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  is going to happen to the bill. Can't get me
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  on that one, losers. But anyway, here comes the
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  insight I said I wouldn't give. It's probably
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  still going to have a hard time in the Senate.
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  The Senate has a lot to lose on this one. Going
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  into 2026, they want to not piss everybody off.
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  And this bill has a lot of things. They're going
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  to piss a lot of people off and only a few crowd
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  pleasers. So they're going to work real hard
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  to make sure that it's going to be passable without
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  ruining their midterm chances. That said, still
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  could very well pass, but just because it passed
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  the House does not make it the law of the land,
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  so it passed does not mean it actually is now
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  law. And here's something of note. Let's highlight
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  this. It passed the House with a vote of 215
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  to 214, a margin of one vote. Three Democrat
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  representatives over the age of 70 have died
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  in office, leaving voting vacancies that allowed
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  that to happen. Now, If they were alive, would
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  this have potentially eventually passed? Yes.
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  But the vote that it actually passed on was made
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  possible because Democrats don't step down and
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  just. Age until they die in office. Cool, cool,
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  cool. Very cool. Very cool. Anyway, after it
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  passed the House, the bond market went tumbling
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  because it's a bad bill and solar company stocks
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  just plummeted because the bill targets renewable
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  energy pretty severely. In fact, that was one
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  of the main things the Republicans were cheering
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  on was the removal of any investment, really
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  the stopping of investment in renewable energy
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  and the increase in investment back in coal and
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  fossil fuels because it's 2025. And that makes
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  sense. All right. Signal. Okay. So several high
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  -ranking government officials were caught using
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  Signal to talk about very private stuff that
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  they shouldn't be using Signal for. And now we're
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  getting a headline that Signal was hacked and
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  a bunch of data was stolen. Let's clear up some
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  stuff. The app that most people in the government
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  use, and some are actually just literally using
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  Signal, but the app that most people in the government
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  are using is actually called TeleMessage Signal,
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  which is a recreation of Signal that also archives
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  all of your messages. They do that for compliance
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  reasons. The government has to keep records of
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  stuff, which is why it's actually really, really
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  bad if they use normal signal, which explicitly
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  does not keep records for government activity.
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  So telemessage is the thing that was hacked,
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  not signal. Their records that they keep were
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  leaked. Journalists have been going through the
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  leaked data, trying to find anything that would
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  be. of significant note. And so far, it seems
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  like there's not like war plans in there, but
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  there are things like the locations and travel
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  plans of high ranking officials. So this service
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  that's supposed to archive sensitive conversations
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  between government officials was just straight
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  up hacked. And that's just that's just a thing.
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  That's just a thing. Anyway, this is not a reflection
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  on signal and signal security. This is, again,
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  a recreation of signal that explicitly undermines
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  signal security. All right, I'm going to I can't
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  I can't not do it. Maha! Yeah, Maha. M -A -H
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  -A. It's the health skeptic version of MAGA that's
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  kind of like led by RFK Jr. So RFK Jr., a conspiracy
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  theorist and anti -vaxxer, is like the head of
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  health in the U .S. now, which it tracks. And
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  among the MAGA crowd, there's been like a sub
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  -initiative of MAGA called Maha. which is like
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  the crunchy anti -vax sort of like subsect. RFK
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  recently put out the Maha report, which is just
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  sort of like, you know, his take on why things
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  are bad, like why Americans are unhealthy. You
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  know, let's not, let's ignore the whole like
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  lack of time off and no social safety net and
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  the inability to raise children or have any kind
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  of childcare for anyone and the lack of access
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  to quality fresh food. It's probably not bad.
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  It's um... What could it be? The vaccines. It's
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  the vaccines, everyone. Oh, how didn't we notice
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  it before? Yeah, the report basically says all
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  the things you would expect it to say. It's like,
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  oh, vaccines are bad. Food additives are bad.
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  Processed food is bad. Phone usage is bad. And
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  it originally was going to say that pesticides
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  are bad, but that was edited out by the White
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  House. Monsanto was a reference in the report,
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  but they were like, ah, pesticides? No, we don't
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  need to investigate that. So the report does
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  call to look into some of these pesticides in
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  2026, but it doesn't go as far as to say these
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  are bad. They also removed a part of the report
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  that talked about lobbyists who lobby the government
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  for these chemical companies to prevent the government
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  from regulating these cancer -causing chemicals.
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  They removed that part from the report too. But
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  it's probably the vaccines. Hello, if you like
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  Thank you very much. Let's move on. World stuff.
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  World stuff. Israel is still doing their thing.
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  And Netanyahu is still talking about taking over
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  the rest of Gaza now. He's very loudly saying
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  that they're going to take over Gaza. They're
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  going to get rid of everyone that's there. They've
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  been blockading food and medicine. They've been
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  letting it at a trickle in. They're literally
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  quoted in saying that they don't want to have.
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  pictures of starving babies coming out of Gaza
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  because that would be bad for international relations,
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  not because it would be immoral. And so world
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  leaders from Canada and the UK and France, they're
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  saying, hey, what the fuck? Like, this is not
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  okay. You are straight up doing genocide. To
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  which Netanyahu was like, you're on the wrong
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  side of history. You're empowering Hamas. Ignore
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  everything that we're doing. and let us keep
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  doing it. On top of that, a delegation of European,
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  Asian, and Arab diplomats were visiting the West
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  Bank to get a sense of what's going on there,
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  what with all the killing people that the Israeli
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  army is doing. And wouldn't you know it, while
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  they were there, the Israeli army shot at them.
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  They shot at international diplomats. What blows
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  my mind is in any other timeline, this would
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  be like a year -long story. This would be the
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  biggest thing of the year. But this is just like
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  Tuesday instead. When asked, what the fuck? Why
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  are you shooting at these diplomats? Israel was
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  like, oh, those were warning shots because the
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  diplomats went off the predetermined course that
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  we would allow them to walk. Just firing some
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  warning shots at these international representatives
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  who are investigating whether or not we're, you
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  know, doing war crimes to people. I also want
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  to acknowledge that there were two Israeli staffers
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  who were murdered in D .C. I don't know what
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  to say about this. I don't really feel anything
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  about it. I think it. It makes sense that something
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  like this would happen. And these people were
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  directly involved in a genocidal regime. They
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  weren't just like, they weren't innocent bystanders.
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  The main thing that gets me about all of this
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  is, one, it wasn't a great move. Like right now,
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  we are under the most propaganda we've seen in
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  decades. And this is just so much gasoline on
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  the fire. But two, a lot of outlets are spinning
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  this as an attack. on them because they were
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  Jewish, aside from only one of them actually
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  being Jewish and ignoring the whole Zionist being
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  a part of the whole Israeli government genociding
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  a people thing. The guy didn't kill them and
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  then say, I hate Jews. He killed them and shouted
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  free Palestine. And whether or not he was a Fed
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  or whatever, it was not because they were Jewish.
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  Conflating Jews. And Israel is very dangerous,
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  especially because not all Jews are Zionists
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  and not all Jews support Israel. To lump them
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  all together as one is doing a massive disservice,
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  and that in itself is anti -Semitic. Anyway,
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  on a completely different note, Kim Jong -un
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  is upset. Because his ship didn't work. Kim Jong
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  -un of North Korea has been working to try to
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  upgrade their navy. You know, they're playing
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  civilization, and they're like, oh shit, we gotta
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  get some destroyers out here. So he had this
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  big, beautiful warship that they built, and they
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  were gonna launch it, and he was there for the
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  launch. And when it launched, it capsized and
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  crashed. It is apparently still partially submerged.
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  He wasn't thrilled about this. It didn't reflect
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  great. on him and his plans and so he lashed
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  out a little bit let's see let's get this quote
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  it's a good one all right kimbo said that the
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  officials who were involved in the launch showed
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  quote absolute carelessness irresponsibility
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  and unscientific empiricism he went on to say
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  and this is true I cannot suppress my emotions.
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  We love an emotional king. Anyway, he arrested
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  those officials because it's North Korea or America.
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  Could have been either. Technology. Private messaging
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  app Telegram is not actually all that private.
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  And so far this year, they've already turned
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  over over 20 ,000 user records to authorities.
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  So last year, the CEO of Telegram got arrested
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  in part of an investigation about child exploitation
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  material on Telegram. And ever since then. they've
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  been a bit more cordial with the police. Now,
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  I want to say most social platforms have a pretty
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  significant issue with really bad shit festering
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  somewhere on their platform. Telegram is not
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  unique in that. The platforms just kind of have
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  like varying degrees of keeping it under wraps.
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  But in Telegram's case, they were flaunting that
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  they were not giving a shit if authorities wanted
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  any information. But then turns out when you
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  get arrested and you're reminded of your mortality,
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  Even if you're a tech bro, sometimes you just
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  roll over and show your belly. And so now they
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  are routinely working with requests from cops
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  to get information about users. There's a pretty
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  interesting website. I've linked it in today's
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  newsletter that will show you a breakdown of
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  requests from authorities by nation and how many
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  users were affected by those requests. Google
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  Video, but not like that. Do you remember Google
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  Video? Do you remember that? It was like pre
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  -YouTube and it was like Google's YouTube competitor
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  before they just bought YouTube. It was actually
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  kind of nice, but that's not what... this is
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  google recently had their io event which is like
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  their developer convention where they make a
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  bunch of big announcements and a lot of their
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  announcements or basically all of their announcements
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  this time was ai ai ai everything ai pants among
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  the ai stuff they announced was a video generator
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  ai called vo3 and um it definitely is creepy
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  it can generate pretty realistic looking clips
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  with dialogue and like sound and shit it's it's
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  impressive I guess, but it also seems to just
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  generate a lot of slop. I've seen people saying
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  like, oh my God, this is the end of reality.
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  This looks so real. And I get why people are
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  concerned. And I get the direction we're going
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  is this is making massive leaps. It still looks
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  like AI to me, but it's also just like, why?
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  Like, why? Why do we have this? Do we really
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  need the ability to generate like five second
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  clips of like a pink dinosaur stomping around
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  town? Is humanity better off? with the ability
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  to just generate stock imagery and stuff? Or
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  why? Because all of this really, really feels
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  like tech demos and concepts that were being
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  sold as full products. And I'm very tired of
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  being told that we need these things, especially
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  when they also announced that the top tier subscription
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  for their AI is $250 a month. No, I don't think
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  I will. And speaking of AI, they are still trying
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  to build. You might remember a while back, OpenAI
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  had new voices for ChatGPT, one of which sounded
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  suspiciously like Scarlett Johansson from the
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  movie Her. I want to be very clear, Sam Altman
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  has also made it clear that he's a big fan of
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  that movie. And now OpenAI purchased a startup
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  by Johnny Ive, the guy who designed a lot of
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  earlier Apple products. They bought a startup
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  of his that's working on like AI hardware for
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  $6 .5 billion. The announcement video was deeply...
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  creepy it's like the two of them being like oh
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  we're best friends let's just like have an announcement
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  about this acquisition where we're sitting at
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  a coffee shop talking about how great each other
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  is uh it's genuinely genuinely unnerving but
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  they seem to be working on a new product that
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  is essentially like the ai pin kind of thing
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  or that rabbit r1 those ai hardware things that
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  just failed it is i don't know specifics but
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  it's apparently some kind of like box with no
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  screen And it's like always listening. And it's
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  an AI assistant thing. I don't know. Sam Altman
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  was like, living with this has been life changing.
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  You're going to love it. And I'm pretty sure
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  that's not true for anyone. except for Sam Altman.
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  Lightning round. There's a new ultra rapid test
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  for brain tumors that's looking to reduce the
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  time to diagnosis by like an order of magnitude,
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  talking weeks to days. Sesame Street is saved.
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  Netflix is jumping in and cut a deal with Sesame
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  Street. It will be available on PBS and around
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  the world on Netflix as well. There is a competition
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  called the Enhanced Games. It's planned for 2026
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  in Vegas, and it's like the Olympics, but you
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  can explicitly take performance -enhancing drugs.
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  A cargo ship ran aground into the garden of a
• 15:54
  random Norwegian man's home. He woke up and found
• 15:57
  a cargo ship in his lawn. Hey, Kentucky. I'm
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  very sorry to inform you that the Bourbon Brood
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  of Cicadas, a 17 -year brood, is due this year.
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  It's gonna get loud. A USPS truck that was found
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  with 5 ,000 abandoned chicks. The birds, not
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  women. Those birds are now adopted. They've almost
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  all found a home now. But Gawk? Marvel has announced
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  a delay for the next two Avengers films, Doomsday
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  and Secret Wars. That's what it was. Turns out
• 16:31
  that there was footage from the mothership of
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  the Titan submersible, the submersible that went
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  down to the Titanic and got blipped. So there
• 16:39
  was footage from the mothership in which they
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  heard the implosion. They didn't know it at the
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  time, but there was just kind of like a boop.
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  Gone. And finally for today, an Australian politician
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  in his exit speech from his political career
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  shotgunned a beer out of a shoe. Fuck yeah. I
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  know nothing about your politics. That's rad.
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