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Casual War Crimes · Stuff Keeps Happening

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Hello. I defeated the rival form of Typhon. But
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stuff still happens. So what's up? I'll tell
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you what's up. The guy who wants us to call him
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the Secretary of War... Seems to really want
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to do war which like shouldn't be surprising
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So for months now the US has been bombing ships
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in I would say off the coast of Venezuela But
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it's like on both sides of Central America side
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note. Are we still calling it Central America?
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Is that is there a better name for it? Probably
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is anyway, so we've now bombed over 20 vessels
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killing nearly 90 people at least last I checked
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I don't know if it's happened again since I started
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recording and while none of these strikes have
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been Okay, because we're not at war and these
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aren't military targets, and none of this is
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how anything works, it's actually happening.
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Like, it's still just happening. Pete Hegseth
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has recently come under fire because, well, he
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put people under fire who shouldn't have been
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put under fire. We essentially learned that with
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one of their earlier strikes, they hit it twice.
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Once to try to blow it up, and then again to
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kill any survivor. That's a war crime. That's
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a war crime already. And so politicians from
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both sides of the aisle are like, okay, well,
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there's only so much that we can just kind of
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hand wave. Unless you're Tom Cotton, in which
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case you can hand wave anything. Because Tom
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Cotton actually went on to defend that the people
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that were bombed the second time, they weren't
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shipwrecked. They were on top of their wrecked
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ship. Standing on top of the wreckage of their
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ship. They're perfectly fine. And a direct threat.
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to the U .S. military. So there's a whole bunch
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of stuff going on here. There's essentially a
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report that Hegseth said kill everyone, which
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is also a war crime. There's an admiral that
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they're trying to pin this on saying like he
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made the decision to do it. Hegseth never said
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that, but also Hegseth is like I would do that
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though. All the while Trump is trying to like
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not be a part of this, but he's very much a part
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of this because he is the commander in chief.
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It's just all him. The US government's attempt
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to justify this is that these boats are full
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of drugs. They're claiming that everyone that
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we've killed is a narco terrorist. But we don't
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know that because they provided exactly no evidence
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for any of them. As I was trying to find a shred
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of anything, I found an article that the White
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House posted in which they're basically saying
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If you don't believe us, you're the problem.
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They just state as if it's a fact that these
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are narco -terrorists and that we are doing good.
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And that this is justified. There's no links,
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there's no link to any law, there's no citations
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to anything. It's just an article published by
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the White House that says, we are right. It's
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insultingly dumb. And I'm very, very tired. of
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being told that the sky is yellow. So look, the
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gotcha that they're trying to go with for this
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is that if you are against these strikes on vessels
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against civilians of a nation that we're not
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at war with, then you must support narco -terrorism.
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This is because that's just the way that all
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political discussion has devolved at this point.
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To be very, very, very clear, this isn't a thing
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we have to do. We have... a Coast Guard, so even
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if 100 % of them were funneling drugs that were
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going to be injected directly into all of the
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children of America, we still don't need to use
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missile strikes against tiny boats full of civilians.
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Like I know that you or I are probably not in
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danger of our boat being struck in the waters
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off of Venezuela, but hey, people sail sometimes.
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And boats exist in places. Maybe we shouldn't
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set a precedent of saying, there's a boat. Let's
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bomb it. I gotta warn you, bro. Netflix is buying
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Warner Bros. Yeah, this was a big one. Last week
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it came out that Netflix is going to be purchasing
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Warner Bros. Or at least they're going to try.
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They are moving towards that purchase now for
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72 billion dollars. Can I please have one of
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those? Now, WB was not in a great place. They
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had a lot of debt. They were not doing well,
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but they weren't. actively seeking to be purchased.
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But then Paramount came in and gave an unsolicited
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offer to purchase all of WB, that includes their
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studios, streaming services, and networks. Those
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networks being CNN, TNT, Discovery, etc. So that
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was like, whoa! Whoa! And suddenly a bunch of
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other companies that are really interested in
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not letting Paramount have that jumped in. And
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so we saw Comcast and Netflix also make offers.
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Now, I want to call out that Paramount... was
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recently taken over by the Ellison family. Larry
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Ellison of Oracle ownership. His son is at the
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head of Paramount. That is why CBS has recently
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been fucked up because CBS is under Paramount
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and they installed Barry fucking Weiss at the
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head of CBS, which I'm still wrapping my mind
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around. All the while, Oracle is angling to own
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TikTok in the US, and the Ellison family is extremely
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closely tied to the current US administration,
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and specifically the Trump family. So, like,
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this is essentially the Ellison family trying
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to buy all of WB. All of it. That is HBO. That's
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Game of Thrones. Harry Potter. The DC universe.
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AND CNN, TNT, Discovery, all their serial networks.
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But instead of that, they went with Netflix's
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offer, which was actually only going after the
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streaming services and studios. They did not
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want the live TV. There was already a plan to
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spin off those live networks into their own entities,
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separate from WB to begin with, so they're gonna
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let that happen and then just take what's left.
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Now, um... That sucks. It sucks because Netflix
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is notoriously bad about doing good to the people
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in the industry. They don't want theatrical releases,
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they don't want a writer's room, they don't want
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quality, they want profit. So they do whatever
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is the cheapest way to get something made that
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will make a profit. And like just generally Netflix
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is not well known for treating people in the
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industry pretty well. At all. And so a lot of
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people who work in the entertainment industry,
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especially writers, are freaking out about this.
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And rightfully so. But I genuinely do not know
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what a better outcome would be here. Because
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if it wasn't gonna be Netflix, it was gonna be
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Larry Ellison. I mean, his son. But come on.
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That doesn't make it better? Uh, it doesn't make
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it better at all. But hey, maybe now is the time
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to start getting more into supporting independent
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media. At all. Moving on. Sorry about check marks.
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The European Commission recently hit Twitter,
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I'm not calling it X, with a 120 million euro
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fine for check marks. Alright, that's the headline.
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Let's talk about what it actually is. So I want
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to start by saying a year and a half ago, in
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July of 2024, the EU warned Twitter, hey, you're
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not doing things right per our laws and we're
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gonna fine you if you don't fix it. So this didn't
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happen out of nowhere. But what is actually happening?
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Essentially, the EU has non zero amounts of tech
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policy that requires tech firms to actually adhere.
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To some laws. Sometimes. It's wild. The EU has
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essentially found that when Musk took over Twitter
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and changed the way that verification checkmarks
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work, he created a situation that was rife with
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fraud and scams and general distrust from users.
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If you are a person who lives a normal life and
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doesn't follow the intricacies of how verification
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processes on niche social media websites work,
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let me give you some quick context. Back in the
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day, Twitter had a problem with people making
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accounts that were impersonating some public
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figure. So they made a veri - system where they
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could go in and put a blue check mark next to
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your name if you were who you said you were and
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were a public figure in danger of being impersonated.
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The big ones that got this were like companies,
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politicians, journalists, celebrities, stuff
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like that, right? Now this process was not perfect.
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It did not evenly distribute check marks to people
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who deserved it and it definitely wasn't always
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going to the people who should have a check mark.
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But it did mean that Twitter validated that the
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person who says that they own this account is
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that person. That is not what blue checkmarks
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do anymore. When Musk took over, he made it so
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you could just pay a fee to get a blue checkmark.
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So people would make an account, like Disney
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real, and then get a blue checkmark and start
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posting bullshit. And so this was just chaos
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for a bit and they had to like undo that and
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pause it and fix it. It's dumb. It was completely
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avoidable. They could have just retired the blue
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checkmark. Say like, hey everyone, we're going
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to phase out the blue check over the course of
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the next year or so. We're replacing it with
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the green dildo of you are cool. That's pretty
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Musk coded, right? But look, it's not actually
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just the checkmark stuff. It's more than that,
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right? Yes, that was dumb. But also Twitter is
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supposed to keep a repository of information
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about who's paying for advertisements so there
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can be transparency there. And they're not doing
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that. And also, also, they shut out all public
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researchers from being able to access data on
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Twitter and do research for things like hate
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and extremism online, stuff like that. That was
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just crushed the moment that Musk took over.
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And so the EU was like, hey, because of these
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things, these violate our policy. If you want
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to operate here, you got to adhere to our policy,
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to which Musk didn't do anything and now is being
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fined and now is calling for the EU to be dissolved.
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That is his response. That is his response to
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a 120 million euro fine to the richest man in
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the world who recently got a pay package that
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could go up to a trillion dollars. A minor fine
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to adhere to local rules. too much dissolve the
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EU look I'm not a fan of the EU myself as in
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as in the legal entity that the state entity
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I'm not a huge fan of state entity that's what
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I'm getting at I don't hate you Europeans I very
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much love you and Europe is wonderful and y 'all
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are great clarified that cool I am NOT a huge
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stan of the EU and and legal entities and shit
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don't be a fucking baby All of the Muskelline
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people are trying to paint this as if the EU
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is attacking American freedom of speech, which
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is just ridiculous. It is a company operating
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overseas, not adhering to local policy and being
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fined for it. Yeah, that local policy is not
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the same as our policy. You're going to come
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across that when you look around the world. Sometimes
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people do things a little different. Now, I want
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to say, like, it doesn't even really matter if
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they pay or not. Like, at the end of the day,
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what we need is a strong restructuring of how
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social media works. Especially for people who
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are not US -based. A bunch of people around the
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world are using foreign social networks all the
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time because they're based in the US. All that
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bullshit about, oh, China's stealing your data.
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Like, that happens. just as much, if not more,
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with U .S. tech companies. And it's becoming
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a major problem overseas. So what should we replace
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them with? Tech companies that are overseas?
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No! We shouldn't do that. That's not better.
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I mean, kind of. But in my humble opinion, decentralized,
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small, community -based social network systems
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is the way we gotta go. Right now, we have all
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these social networks that are these big, centralized,
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massive tech platforms. Twitter, Meta, what's
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another one? It's basically just all meta at
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this point. With these systems, if you wanna
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use them, you gotta be on these specific platforms.
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You wanna talk to anybody who's on Instagram,
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you gotta be on Instagram. That's not a thing
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that needs to happen. The internet is an open
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system. Right? Like, we don't need new technologies.
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We certainly don't need crypto to have a decentralized
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internet. The internet is decentralized by default.
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What these tech companies have done is make everyone
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collectively forget that while centralizing all
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of these interactions into one place. Their websites.
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They've slowly conditioned people to be afraid
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of the internet. You leave an app, you click
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on a link in Instagram, you're going to get a
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thing that says, like, whoa, buddy! You're leaving
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Instagram. You could be going anywhere on the
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internet. You have no idea what they're gonna
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do. They could kill you. There are alternatives.
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I'm not gonna sit here and claim that, like,
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all this stuff is ready to just one -to -one
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replace everything we've got. But federated systems
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like Macedon or, to a lesser extent, Blue Sky
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allow for communities to self -host and maintain
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their own social networks while still being able
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to talk to everyone else on the internet. Think
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of it like this. Right now, we have these giant
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skyscrapers. That's Twitter, that's Meta. If
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you want to be on their platforms, you have to
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have space in their building. Now, their building
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is pretty big, and they're trying to build a
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lot more to house more people, but ultimately,
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it's a lot easier for them to just put in cameras
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and watch everything you do and sell that for
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money, all the while shrinking the room that
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you have in their limited space. every year until
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there's basically no room to move. But damn,
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it's just so convenient because you can hop on
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that elevator and head up a few floors to see
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Joseph. Hi, Joseph. What I'm arguing for is a
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city instead of a singular building. Everything
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in the city is interconnected. All the people
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living there can still go talk to all the other
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people who are living in that city, but they're
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not all congregated in one building. It's a bunch
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of smaller buildings and coalitions and groups
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that are all communicating with each other, but
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are setting their own rules for their specific
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domicile. That's essentially what a federated
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social network is. It is a community managed
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server that can communicate with every other
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server out there, but this one's ours. We choose
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what content can be posted. We choose who can
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communicate with us. If they're going to be evil,
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we can just cut them out. Anyway, I'm gonna make
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like a whole video on federated social networks
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later. Let's move on. Give me your face, Canada.
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If you live in Edmonton, I'm sorry. Your local
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police service is doing a pilot program testing
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AI -powered facial scans to detect potentially
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dangerous people. So this just started like last
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week, but the Edmonton police service is using
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their Axon body cameras with facial recognition
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that is tied back to a database to identify potentially
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dangerous people. Here's a quote from the Edmonton
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Police Service Acting Superintendent, Kurt Martin.
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Kurt, I'm going to need you to shorten that title.
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So the Edmonton police go on to clarify that
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the data that they're training this with are
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mugshots that they've taken. Which is cool, it's
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cool, it's cool. It's cool when any state is
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like, hey, so you know when we deemed that you
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did a crime and we took you in and we forced
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you to let us take a picture of you, and now
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we're feeding that into a robot to find you better.
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And nothing bad can ever happen when you trust
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a robot. Now, Axon, the company that's doing
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the cameras with the AI facial scan, they've
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been doing police body cameras for quite a while.
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And if you're not familiar with Axon, you might
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know them by their former name, Taser. Same company.
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But back in 2019, Axon published this little
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ditty about AI ethics. Quote, Their post goes
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on to talk about how it's really dangerous to
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do facial recognition scanning and that that's
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not what they're doing. They're just doing face
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detection to see if there is or is not a face,
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not whose face it is. But, but, but now they
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are. Anyway, hey, maybe if this does roll out
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further, cops would finally have their body cameras
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on. But also maybe we don't roll this out further.
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Lightning round. In a totally not embarrassing
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move, FIFA invented their own Peace Prize and
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gave it to Donald Trump. California's energy
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grid is no longer dependent on coal. It is still
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dependent on gas. Bitcoin, and crypto at large,
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but Bitcoin specifically, saw a 33 % drop in
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value over the past few months. And finally for
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today, there's been a record -setting number
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of bear attacks in Japan, just north of Tokyo.
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And this includes a guy that was attacked by
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a bear in a public bathroom. He's okay. Very,
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very thankfully. But my god! Nightmare! Thank
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you so much for listening to today's episode
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of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to SKH .News for
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sources, bonus content, and the location of every
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bear around Tokyo. My name is Endeavor, and we'll
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talk again soon. Take care and be well.