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Just Replace Reality · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello. I accounted for traffic in my ETA, but
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  stuff still happened. So what's up? We're back.
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  And also, sorry. I mean, I don't know why I'm
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  apologizing. It's not my fault. Mostly. But I
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  feel like it's a little bit my fault because
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  I keep hoping that it'll stop. And I keep trying
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  to make it stop. And maybe I'm the problem. Maybe
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  it's because I keep trying to do things to make
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  it stop that it keeps happening. Hello, it's
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  me, the abstract concept of entropy. Anyway,
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  what's up? We're starting, it's gonna be rough
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  and then it's gonna get better. Here we go. We're
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  gonna start off with an update on the situation
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  in Iran. We're watching again as a war of information
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  is playing out because there is an internet blackout
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  in Iran after there was a bunch of protests.
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  Late last year protests began mostly around economic
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  conditions and they quickly escalated into essentially
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  anti -government protests. There was a brief
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  glimmer of hope for regime change, but that has
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  not happened, and all we know now is that some
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  number of thousands of people have been killed
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  by the Iranian regime. There's a bunch of different
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  numbers being cited from a bunch of different
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  sources, but it's really hard to get concrete
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  information right now. Again, internet blackout
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  in the region. Which is perfect for everybody
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  who wants to layer on their own veneer over what's
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  going on, but... What's going on is people in
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  Iran tried to do something about the current
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  state of their government, and the government
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  slaughtered thousands of them. The Iranian government
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  is saying that the US and Israel were involved
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  in instigating and arming the uprising. The US
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  and Israel are saying Iran bad because they killed
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  protesters. This is Israel and the US saying
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  that. So it's just all in bad faith, and it just
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  sucks because the people deserve better. Which
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  like, duh, but still true. As of right now, this
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  is basically just still going on. There's limited
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  internet access in the region and they're still
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  using live ammunition against protesters. My
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  heart is with the people and the young Iranians
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  who have lost their lives at the hands of their
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  own government for asking for something better.
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  It's no secret that the government of Iran is
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  not super well loved by its people. And it's
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  also no secret that we had a big hand in that.
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  So I guess it's time to go have a big hand and...
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  fucking up another place with Greenland. Alright,
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  we're gonna briefly go over this. If you want
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  more stuff on Greenland, I posted a video on
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  my YouTube channel yesterday. Check that out.
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  There's actually not a whole lot to say here.
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  I pretty much summed it up in that video, which
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  I can summarize. It's a five -ish minute video,
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  but I can summarize it with, uh, this is dumb,
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  no one wants it, and Trump is a fucking moron
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  whose ego is gonna get us all killed. I think
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  the only thing I want to actually say about the
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  Greenland situation is this. And if you're somehow
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  not aware, The very short version is Donald Trump
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  wants to take over Greenland because ego. And
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  no one seems to know why. The American people
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  don't want this. International leaders are literally
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  texting him saying, I don't know what you're
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  doing here. But this is what I want to say. There's
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  been a lot of people who were in support of Trump
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  because he was the trolling president, right?
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  All of the time that he's saying like, oh, we're
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  going to go after Canada, we're going to go after
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  XYZ, we're going to do all these horrific things.
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  They're like, oh, he's just trolling. Or, oh,
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  this is the art of the deal. More, it was just,
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  oh, ha ha, he's funny, crazy man, and he's shaking
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  things up. Hey. These are people's lives. Ha
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  ha funny trolling man doesn't work with international
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  negotiations. Because international negotiations
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  involve weaponry and nukes. Now, there's a lot
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  of people who have like a black -pilled nihilistic
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  view that are just accelerationists, and they
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  want Trump to just destroy everything and they're
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  fine with just everything going down in flames
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  and like... All that tells me is you're a dangerous
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  person. It tells me that you would rather do
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  nothing and let everyone suffer than try to make
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  the world better through effort. And then usually
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  they're like, oh, well, what are you doing? To
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  fix it. Trying. Trying my best. And unfortunately,
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  even with my best, my president is trying to
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  take over Greenland. Because! But hey, if we
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  can use this to take a few people, grab them
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  by the shoulders and shake them and be like,
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  hey! Do ya get it yet? Maybe that's progress.
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  Slow progress. Annoyingly slow progress. Painfully.
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  Disastrously slow in some cases. But non -zero.
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  As opposed to throwing the car in hyper reverse
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  off a cliff like we're doing right now. Moving
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  on. We're gonna shift away from politics into
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  tech and also geopolitics. Stick with me. Did
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  you forget about the Apple Vision Pro? Apple
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  probably wanted you to. The Apple Vision Pro.
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  It came out some time ago. And... oops. It's
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  Apple's mixed reality headset. You put it on,
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  you'll look like a stupid idiot, and then it
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  also makes your eyes appear through the screen.
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  In reality, it's a very fancy VR headset, right?
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  It is undeniably a top -of -the -line, impressive
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  piece of technology that costs $3 ,500 and has,
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  as Apple boasts, 3 ,000 apps designed for it.
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  Great! So no joke, Apple actually updated the
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  Vision Pro recently. Like, they put a new chip
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  in it and released a new version of it. And then
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  they cut their advertising by 95 % and halted
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  production. As of right now, I don't really know
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  what the future of the Vision Pro is, but, um,
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  god damn! Now, the Apple Vision Pro was supposed
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  to be Apple's, like, 3D spatial computing thing.
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  They wanted to really break in to the spatial
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  computing space. And, like, okay, okay. Sure,
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  I will grant that 3d mapped computing is a thing
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  that I can see having use cases totally absolutely
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  valid makes sense You could probably do some
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  really cool stuff with it. Is that really? Consumer
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  software that's like ready for the market right
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  now and sure like early adopters and stuff. It
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  was an early adopter product. Sure Okay, there's
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  also like no conceivable way that Apple's rolling
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  out an update to it. That's not this giant piece
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  of hardware strapped to your face. Is this the
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  end for the Vision Pro and for Apple? No, no,
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  no. No. I don't think this is the end of the
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  Apple Vision line, I don't think it's the end
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  of the Apple Vision Pro, and Apple's gonna be
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  just fine. I think the most likely thing that's
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  gonna happen is we will see like an Apple Vision
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  Air eventually. That's gonna be more of a glasses
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  thing rather than a headset, and they're gonna
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  go for it that way. But Apple recently just overhauled
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  all of their UIs to mimic the Vision Pro operating
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  system. That's what liquid glass is. If you have
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  an iPhone or a Mac and you updated recently and
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  you're like, what the fuck is this? That's because
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  of the Vision Pro. So Apple's really going all
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  in on this. We shall see. But until then, we'll
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  just be in this reality, where there's like homeless
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  people that we have to look at. But soon, imagine
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  the utopia when we can just put on our Apple
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  Vision Airs and walk down the street and it'll
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  just automatically block out all those gross
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  Poor people. 3 ,500 bucks, by the way. Alright,
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  let's talk about Twitter. Everyone's favorite
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  deep fake porn website, Twitter. This played
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  out over the past few weeks, and I've been wanting
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  to talk about it, but a couple of other things
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  also happened. So, I'm finally gonna talk about
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  this. On Twitter, Grok, Elon Musk's AI, got a
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  new superpower in which people could just be
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  like, hey, remix this image of another user to
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  show them in a compromising position wearing
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  a see -through bikini. This obviously led to
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  a bunch of people being like, hey, what the fuck?
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  Hey, don't do that. It's using a feature that
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  basically lets anybody take an image on Twitter
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  and run it through, like, an image modifier thing.
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  Including art, but also, of course, including
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  anyone's pictures of themselves. Of anyone. Of
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  any age. Obviously, that's a problem. But also,
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  also, obviously... It's not the only place that
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  you can do this. Like, you don't need to be on
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  Twitter to use this functionality. You can use
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  any number of other AIs. But the problem here,
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  beyond that being a thing, is that here comes
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  Twitter, a privately -owned for -profit company
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  that has essentially a service that is allowing
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  people to undress minors for profit. Uh, and,
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  uh, but don't worry, it's okay, because they
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  solved the problem. They took a crack at fixing
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  it by putting that functionality behind a paywall.
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  They made it so that only paying blue checkmark
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  accounts could use the functionality that was
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  able to do that. They didn't stop it. They just
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  said, pay us money if you want to do that. That'll
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  fix it. Eventually they turned it off and said
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  that they're gonna fix it. I have my doubts.
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  The only reason that they actually did anything
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  was because there was growing international outrage,
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  basically being like, you can't keep doing bullshit
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  like this and expects to operate in our locality.
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  And Twitter's already being fined by the EU for
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  other shit, and they're already throwing a hissy
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  fit over that, so this is just adding to that
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  fire. But there's something about having your
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  robot generate scantily clad children that makes
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  it a little harder to defend than Muffree's Peach.
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  Far be it from me to victim blame, and the people
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  who had this done to them deserve compensation,
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  frankly. And also, I really want to make this
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  clear. Get off of Twitter. I'm not exaggerating
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  when I'm saying it's a Nazi bar. It is not your
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  fault that this website that you used for a long
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  time was taken over by a crazy person who then
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  seeded it with his crazy followers who want to
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  undress children with a chat bot. But that is
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  the reality of where we are. And so if you're
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  an artist, if you're a femme -presenting person,
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  if you're a human being with a soul, it's a dangerous
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  place to have an account right now. It's been
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  years of this. Please, at least begin trying
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  to find another place to go to host your stuff
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  or post things online. It's not gonna get better.
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  One of the first things that Musk did when he
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  took over was get rid of the trust and safety
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  team. This is a quote from the former head of
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  trust and safety at Twitter after they were yeeted
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  out by Elon Musk. Quote, And that's a terrifying
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  prospect to have to come to terms with, especially
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  for many people who have spent the better part
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  of a decade building a platform and an audience
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  and a community on Twitter. Okay, but that is
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  enough about Elon Musk and his AI and all that
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  bullshit. Let's talk about Elon Musk and his
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  AI and all that bullshit. You may recall there's
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  a massive data center called Colossus in Memphis.
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  That is XAI's data center where they run Grok.
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  Or, well, among other things, it's their flagship
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  data center. This giant data center is in a former
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  Electrolux facility and it's powered with enough
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  energy to power a city. Where do they get all
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  that power? Oh, just a handful of methane turbines
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  that they're running on premises constantly.
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  Elon Musk, that guy that's gonna save us with
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  the electric cars, yeah. Methane gas turbines
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  to power his giant data center to power an AI
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  that can undress children. Now, these turbines
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  have been polluting the air and poisoning the
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  community for years, and activists have been
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  pushing back against this. This is not a news
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  story. But because we live in this country, we've
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  got a corporate entity that is flagrantly just
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  violating environmental laws, poisoning people,
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  but oh, it's okay because... economy. Now look,
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  XAI was not the first company to come in and
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  start dumping toxic waste into the Memphis area.
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  It was the 18th company to open up to be doing
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  that right now. But it's also one of the biggest
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  contributors. So what happened? Well, there was
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  actually a pretty good win for the activists.
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  The EPA has ruled that Elon Musk's XAI must have
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  permits for all of the turbines that they are
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  using. Now, they did apply for some permits for
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  temporary turbines, 15 of them, 15 temporary
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  turbine permits, with which they used to operate
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  more than 30. temporary, meant they just had
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  to move its physical location once every 364
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  days. So ultimately, like, the EPA didn't make
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  a ruling that says XAI did crimes, but the EPA
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  made a ruling specifically about the crimes that
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  XAI is doing. I'm just gonna gesture broadly
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  to the reality we live in currently. I don't
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  know how this is gonna be enforced, if at all,
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  for a while, but it's something. This was the
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  result of a bunch of non -stop work from black
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  activists in the region, and I want to read a
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  quote from Kashawn Pearson, who is one of the
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  activists that has been very loud about this.
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  Quote, We know exploitation because in this same
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  exact area, there are 17 toxic release facilities.
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  Over 90 % of particular matter in the air in
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  all of our county is in southwest Memphis. And
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  guess where there isn't an air monitor for pollution.
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  Now, here's a fun little nugget that I discovered
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  while researching this. Data center project cancellations
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  have quadrupled in 2025. with 21 of the 25 cancelled
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  projects happening in the second half of 2025.
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  Some of that is because there's an increase in
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  demand for data centers, but those cancellations
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  can't happen unless the people in those areas
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  are standing up against them. And boy howdy,
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  are they standing up. People are mad about this,
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  and things are happening. Data centers are being
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  stopped. Not everywhere, not every time, but
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  I really want to point out... that people are
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  actually pushing back on this with success. Lightning
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  round! After a failed attempt at making a Jon
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  Snow spinoff from Game of Thrones, HBO is now
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  going to do an Arya Stark spinoff from Game of
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  Thrones. This is because new ideas are boring.
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  TikTok is soon going to start trying to identify
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  users in the EU under the age of 13 by scanning
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  their profiles with an AI. OpenAI is going to
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  start rolling out ads in chat GPT responses for
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  some users. And finally for today, Meet Veronica,
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  a cow who uses tools to scratch her back. She's
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  an absolute fucking queen, and she's got scientists
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  baffled as to just how clever a clever cow could
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  be. Thank you so much for listening to today's
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  episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to SKH
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  .News for sources, bonus content, and instructions
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  on how to be a clever cow. My name is Endeavour,
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  and we'll talk again soon. Take care, and be
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  well.