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Hello. I explained the meaning of a half -A press,
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but stuff still happened. So what's up? Amazon
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for organs. That's my pitch today. Who's in?
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Hopefully not you, dear listener. I don't want
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to be a part of that. Pigs, right? This will
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make sense, I swear. Scientists have reported
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that they successfully took a frozen pig kidney
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and restored it back to working order. Like,
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like... literally what you're thinking. The cryogenically
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frozen tissue being brought back to life. With
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a lot of caveats. Don't jump to conclusions.
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I want to say upfront part of what I'm discussing
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has been shared only in pre -print, which means
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it hasn't been fully peer -reviewed, but there
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is other prior stuff that's in the same vein.
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Let's talk about this. The idea is kind of science
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fiction -y, right? What if we could take organs
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or maybe even like entire beings and freeze them?
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and then revive them later. Right now we're working
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on organs. The whole people might be a while.
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In the past, researchers have been working with
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mice and rat organs, including mice brains, which
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they have successfully been able to revive to
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some degree. They're able to, like, take it,
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get it cold, revive it, and see that it's, like,
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trying. This time around, researchers dug way
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back into the freezer, where all the icy buildup
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is and that bag of peas that you've been ignoring,
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but sometimes that you use it as an ice pack
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when you hurt your leg. They found a pig kidney
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back there, and they microwaved it. That's not
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what they did. They took a donor kidney from
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a pig and froze it down to a state that's almost
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glass -like, and they were able to sustain it
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at that state for over a year. and then bring
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it back to life. They tested this with multiple
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kidneys. Some were put into a machine that flushes
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it with nutrients, and they were able to see
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that it was coming back to life, getting some
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color and producing urine. And another one was
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transplanted into a pig, where they monitored
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it for two hours, where it did the same thing.
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Came back to life, got its color back, started
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making urine. The big three, really. Now, that's
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not to say that it came back in perfect working
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condition, and also, who knows how long it's
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gonna continue to last, but it did... come back
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from a frozen state using some honestly wild
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technology. Consider the core problem. How do
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you reheat organ tissue without destroying it,
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let alone freezing it without forming like ice
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crystals that would destroy it? Lots of options
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for destruction here. So you got to handle the
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ice buildup, right? Well, okay, cool. Fill the
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organ with antifreeze. Typically, that's not
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good for organs, but the science people didn't
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let that... take the wind out of their sails.
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They're pirate science people now. They found
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a solution that they can flush organs with that
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has a similar effect. But lo, how does one reheat
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evenly? If you ever microwave something, you
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know exactly what I'm talking about. Got the
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piping hot section, got the still frozen section.
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How do you not do that to an organ? Nanoparticles.
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Duh. And electromagnetic radio frequencies, you
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fucking idiot. I'm just projecting. Sorry. In
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addition to the antifreeze stuff, they also put
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iron oxide nanoparticles into the tissue. This
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doesn't do anything at first, but when they want
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to reheat the organ, they can use an electromagnetic
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field to fuck with the iron and make it warm,
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taking like a big magnet. You can change the
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frequencies and that changes the rate of heating.
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It's pigs. So yeah, just harvest an organ, flush
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it with antifreeze, throw some nanoparticles
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into it, and then Use an electromagnetic field
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to resuscitate it. Easy. Soon enough, you'll
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be ordering boutique kidneys off of Amazon, but
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for now, we're just hopeful that we'll be able
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to maybe someday reach a point where we can have,
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like, organs on hand, rather than needing them
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from someone who just died. Thanks, science!
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Okay, let's do a pretty sharp turn and talk about
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the ongoing civil war in Yemen. Yemen has a tumultuous
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history, but this current stint of civil war
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started back largely in 2014. We'll start with
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the basics. Who is at play here? What's going
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on? Back in 2014, the Houthis, which are a sort
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of religious political entity, took over the
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capital city of Yemen. That began a long and
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brutal war that has seen hundreds of thousands
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of deaths and millions of people displaced. There
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are a lot of factions spread across the country,
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and so it's not as simple as there's two sides
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to this war. But there's generally two sides
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to this war, the Houthis and not the Houthis.
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There is a globally recognized government for
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Yemen that is the Presidential Leadership Council,
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the PLC. The Houthis oversee the Supreme Political
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Council, SPC, which is not a recognized government
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internationally. But according to current reports,
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the Houthis are controlling basically 70 % of
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the population right now, despite having much
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less of the actual land. But at this point, it's
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important to note that this is not just a thing
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happening inside of Yemen. It extends well outside
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of its borders. It is a combination civil war
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and proxy war, and it's also sort of a proxy
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proxy war. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are both
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anti -Houthi, but they disagree on what they
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want the end state of this civil war to be. So
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while they've both been involved in this civil
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war, they've also been not fully aligned on the
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one goal of get rid of the Houthis. Then throw
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in Iran, who is supporting the Houthis, because
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they're like, hey, we want to establish power
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in this region. Iran has their axis of resistance
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and they want to have Yemen be a strong part
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of that So they've been supplying weapons and
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support to the Houthi The reason I bring this
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up is because after the US and Israel decided
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to start a fucking war with Iran Fighting broke
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out much worse again in Yemen So with the region
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in just chaos right now with Iran making moves
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and attacking different people and now the Houthis
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are also joining in on that and they're also
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threatening yet another shipping strait Saudi
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Arabia and the UAE are trying to figure out how
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to move forward on the Yemen civil war. This
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isn't new, and it's not going to stop anytime
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soon. And it's genuinely a humanitarian crisis
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that has been sustained for years now. I don't
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have any further good words to say. I'm just
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going to say that my heart is with the people
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of Yemen. And holy fucking shit, I would love
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if we could all stop the imperialism. But now
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we're going to turn our cameras back. to the
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United States, but more specifically, to Kyle.
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That's right, Kyle, I see you. I know what you
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did, Kyle. The United States v. Kyle is what
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we're talking about today. Hilarious name, interesting
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case. Melissa Susan Kyle is at the center of
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all of this. It's actually a woman, not a dude
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named Kyle. It's just her last name. And this
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whole story involves her getting pulled over
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and caught with a bunch of drugs. But now the
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government has to reconsider its position on
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surveillance cameras. Let me explain. You may
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have heard of flock cameras or automated license
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plate readers, ALPRs. Flock isn't the only company
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that makes them. I know Motorola and Axon also
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do. But if you're not familiar, very quick overview.
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Flock cameras slash ALPRs are AI powered cameras
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that track and monitor everything that they can.
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Primarily, they are tracking traffic. They're
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tracking cars to see where the cars have been
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seen over time. There's a big database of location
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history for every car that's been seen by a flock
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camera. Doesn't matter if they're looking for
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you or not. If you pass by one, you're in their
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database. Some of these cameras also track pedestrian
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activity. It's not great. Now, Kyle, what happened?
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A lot. An officer in Oklahoma was tailing a car
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and was suspicious because the car had California
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license plates. He pulled up his handy -dandy
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national surveillance network and ran a search
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on the plates, getting 30 days of location history,
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more than 50 hits, based solely on, why do you
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have California plates? And also all from his
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squad car. He didn't have to get out of his fucking
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car to do it. So anyway, he's tailing this car,
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and eventually he decides to pull them over because
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they didn't signal before changing lanes, and
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also were following another car too closely.
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If that's the new bar, every single person in
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the state that I live in should be in jail. So
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he pulls her over, he asks her some questions,
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he gives her a warning, and he steps away. And
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that should have been the end of the encounter,
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legally speaking. But he came back and was like,
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I want to ask a few more questions. And the driver
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agreed to. Hey, quick aside, don't do that. Don't
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talk to cops. Ever. If you do not have a lawyer
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present, just say, I will not answer questions
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without a lawyer present. Or just say you won't
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answer questions. Remember, cops are legally
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allowed to lie to you to get you to incriminate
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yourself. It's fucked up, stay frosty. Anyway,
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this cop is like asking her more questions. Her
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story is a little messy, but it's nothing ridiculous,
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right? Like, for example, she had three bags
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of luggage in her car, despite being one person,
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and her reason for that was that despite having
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a short trip, she bought a lot of clothes and
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also wanted to get luggage so she wasn't just
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carrying the clothes around. in a Walmart bag.
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Little bit strange, but not incriminating. Here's
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the thing, she did have meth, or at least it's
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reported that they found a lot of meth in her
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car. She was smuggling drugs, reportedly, allegedly.
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But it turns out that doesn't really matter,
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because the second that the officer decided to
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look up her license plates, he fucked up. lawyers
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for Kyle decided to submit a motion to dismiss
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all evidence downstream of the flock camera lookup
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and the additional questions from the stop. And
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they won. The location history and the reported
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91 pounds of meth are thrown out, as far as evidence
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goes, because they are invalid. Now, the implications
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of what the judge said are the really interesting
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part. For one, the flock camera situation, it's
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the first time that we've seen a court judge
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really say We need to take a look at this. The
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court holds that although there have been cases
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that have already sided with the use of these
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flock cameras, not being a violation of the U
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.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment that protects
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us from search and seizure, we should probably
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take another look at things. A common case that's
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cited in discussions about flock cameras that's
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quite on flock's side is the United States versus
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nots. In that case, it was established that there
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is no reasonable expectation of privacy when
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a person goes from point A to point B over public
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roads. Seems cut and dry, right? Seems like Flock
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got a big W from that one. But that was back
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in the 80s, and it really only was about a single
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person with a targeted operation. In fact, more
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than 40 years ago, when the opinion was written,
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the U .S. Supreme Court wrote these words, quote,
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Basically, the court was like, yeah, there is
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not currently a dragnet -type mass surveillance
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system tracking where every single person is
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all the time, but if that was a thing, we should
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probably take a look at that. That plus the fact
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that the cop was just going off of California
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plates as his reason to look up someone's 30
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-day location history, it was enough for the
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court to throw out the evidence. And it's a federal
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judge saying, hey, this is a violation of the
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Fourth Amendment. So that opens up a lot of doors.
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At time of recording, it's just kind of on hold
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now. The court case is delayed, and I would expect
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an appeal from the prosecutors, but we haven't
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seen anything for sure yet. Now, I've seen a
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lot of headlines and social media posts about
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how a federal court has declared that Flock is
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unconstitutional. That is not what happened.
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Flock is still very much enjoying the favor of
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the courts, especially under this conservative
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administration. But this is a pretty big wedge
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in that. and it is at the very least getting
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some attention on the very real intrusion of
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our privacy that is a private company having
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privately held cameras everywhere, just recording
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us. The court ruling itself got kind of sassy
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and was like, look, it's normal if your friend
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was like, hey, I saw you at the grocery store
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yesterday. That's a normal type of tracking someone's
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location. What's not normal is your friend being
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like, hey, I tracked your location for the last
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30 days and then sent that information to every
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precinct in the country. That's a bit much. That's
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a bit much. Anyway, don't smuggle drugs. And
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if you do, don't get caught. And if you do, don't
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talk to the cops. And if you do, see my original
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Let's move on. Hey, if you work in cybersecurity,
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I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. The internet is a blaze
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right now and there are actually two unrelated
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huge problems. I'm gonna talk about one of them
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because the other one I haven't really been able
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to do a lot of research on. Let's talk about
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the number four. Background information and then
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I'll get to the good stuff. But first we got
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to do a little mini technology boy. The internet.
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It's a bunch of devices making a bunch of connections
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to each other and those connections need to be
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secure. If I am doing a bank transfer, I need
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to know that I am connecting to the bank, and
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that there's no one else in between, and that
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the data that I'm sending to the bank is encrypted
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in such a way that only the bank can decrypt
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it. This encryption and decryption is managed
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by the device that you are on when you're connecting
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to a website or something. It's all just happening
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in the background. Normally, you don't have to
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think about this, and honestly, for the vast
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majority of people, you still don't really have
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to think about this. But the system that encrypts
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that data... just had a bit of an explosion.
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The encryption is done using certificates and
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keys, and there are organizations called certificate
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authorities, which are basically trusted organizations
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that can vouch that says, like, hey, this certificate
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and this website are good. It's like you got
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your friend Jeremy, and Jeremy knows everyone,
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right? And you think that you know who this person
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over here is, but you're like, hey, Jeremy, who
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is that? And he's like, oh, that's Melissa. She
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just got busted for a lot of drugs. That's the
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certificate authority. They are the ones that
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say, yeah, that is who you think it is. And so
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a certificate authority in India recently found
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that eight of their private keys were compromised.
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If a key is compromised, it means that someone
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can start using it to fake being that certificate
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authority, and they can start impersonating websites.
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In theory, they could make your device think
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that it's connected to the right website, when
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in reality, you're going through a hacker. Don't
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panic. I'm gonna get some more technical explanation,
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but I want to say don't panic. A lot of this
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has already been patched for the majority of
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average use cases. If you don't specifically
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work in IT, it's a very low probability that
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this affects you at all. But I want to talk about
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how this happened, because the key, right? I
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said key. A digital key in cryptography is just
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a file with a bunch of random data in it, and
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it's important that that data is unguessably
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random. Typically, it's a big long number, or
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a bunch of random letters and numbers and stuff.
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In the case of these specific keys, they were
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supposed to be a number of around 116 digits.
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Having such a big number makes it very hard to
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guess what that number is, and therefore you
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wouldn't be able to impersonate their certificate.
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One of their certificates number was four. Like,
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that's what happened. They were alerted to the
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fact that someone was able to essentially guess.
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their private key, and they found out because
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they received information that was encrypted
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using that private key. You don't want that to
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happen. So here we have a certificate authority
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with compromised keys. Every device that's connecting
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to the internet and needs to do secure connections
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has essentially a database of approved certificate
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authorities. And so if your device saw a approved
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key from that certificate authority, you now
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can't trust that, at least for the subset of
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keys that were affected. It's getting a little
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technical, but long story short, they should
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not have had the private secret number before.
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Hey, this is mid -edit endeavourance. I just
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want to clarify, they didn't choose the number
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four. It was an accident. It was a glitch in
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their systems that resulted in them using a key
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whose number was four. Still very bad. Ultimately,
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this is gonna take a while to remediate. Like
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I said, a lot of consumer devices have already
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been updated automatically so that you're really
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not in that much danger, but for like embedded
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systems and servers and old software, it's all
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gonna have to be audited, updated, and redeployed.
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So if you are working in an IT department, my
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heart is with you. At time of recording, there's
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no evidence of the bad keys having been used
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to make malicious stuff, and there's not really
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much of a threat. Like I said, the keys have
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already been marked as bad by most of the big
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providers, but still, the danger is out there
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for the older stuff. So that's fun. Lightning
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round. A woman from El Salvador threw herself
17:42
overboard off of a cruise ship, and then was
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found by Greek authorities the next day. She
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reportedly wanted to disembark. Two rival gas
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stations at a street corner in Georgia got into
17:54
a pricing war, dropping their prices so low that
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it went under a dollar. It created a bit of a
18:00
panic, and the cops had to get involved. An Xbox
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business strategy manager took to Twitter to
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basically tell everyone that they need to suck
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it up and accept that AI is in video games, and
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then today he's no longer on that social platform.
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A preliminary study showed that microdosing LSD
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improved focus in women, but not men. That makes
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me sad. Elon Musk is now trying to merge SpaceX
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and Tesla to have one giant company that is a
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space social media... AI car company that makes
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child images that are bad. A brain's falling
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apart. And finally for today, Republicans and
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a bunch of business boys are real mad at the
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CEO of United Airlines for endorsing the idea
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of a national wealth tax. I want to be clear
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that this does not absolve the CEO of United
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Airlines from the sin of being the CEO of United
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Airlines. Thank you so much for listening to
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today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head
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to skh .news for sources, bonus content, And
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my proposal for a wealth tax, it's just to tax
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the wealthy. My name is Endeavorance. We'll talk
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again soon. Take care and be well.